Новинки Алекса Баркли

Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk.

Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.

From the introduction by Adrian McKinty & Stuart Neville:

"Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the Troubles (1968–1998) dominated life in Ireland's second-biggest population centre, and during the darkest days of the conflict--in the 1970s and 1980s--riots, bombings, and indiscriminate shootings were tragically commonplace. The British army patrolled the streets in armoured vehicles and civilians were searched for guns and explosives before they were allowed entry into the shopping district of the city centre...Belfast is still a city divided...

You can see Belfast's bloodstains up close and personal. This is the city that gave the world its worst ever maritime disaster, and turned it into a tourist attraction; similarly, we are perversely proud of our thousands of murders, our wounds constantly on display. You want noir? How about a painting the size of a house, a portrait of a man known to have murdered at least a dozen human beings in cold blood? Or a similar house-sized gable painting of a zombie marching across a postapocalyptic wasteland with an AK-47 over the legend UVF: Prepared for Peace--Ready for War. As Lee Child has said, Belfast is still 'the most noir place on earth.'"

Респектабельные районы Нью-Йорка стали охотничьими угодьями для безжалостного маньяка... Он не разменивает свой смертоносный "талант" на убийство несчастных бездомных или ночных бабочек. Он убивает обычных людей в их собственных квартирах и располагает чудовищно изуродованные тела прямо в коридоре - поближе к входной двери. Джо Лаккези, которому поручено вести дело, обнаруживает лишь две зацепки... Ни одна из квартир не была взломана - стало быть, жертвы сами впускали преступника. И все жертвы незадолго до убийства кому-то звонили по телефону... Слишком мало информации. Никаких конкретных улик. Единственная свидетельница не в силах…

When an FBI agent is found dead on the white slopes of Quandary Peak in Colorado, a brilliant but volatile agent is drafted in from Denver to lead the investigation. Fighting personal demons, pressure from Washington and dwindling leads, the case stalls and a career falters But as summer comes, Quandary Peak has disturbing new secrets to give up. And as one agent fights failure and hopelessness, another has left behind a trail that leads to a man with a dark past and even darker intentions.

Жители тихой деревушки на юге Ирландии охвачены ужасом. Бесследно исчезла молодая девушка, и полиции не удается ни обнаружить ее, ни отыскать тело. Детектив-американец Джо Лаккези, переехавший туда с семьей, вынужден начать собственное расследование. Вскоре он приходит к шокирующим выводам. Исчезновение девушки связано с восемью нераскрытыми убийствами, совершенными десять лет назад... А маньяка явно покрывает кто-то из местных полицейских. Кто и почему?! Джо должен выяснить это - иначе он и его семья станут следующими жертвами преступника...

Dark times lie ahead for Special Agent Ren Bryce and the Rocky Mountains Safe Streets Task Force in the heart-stopping new thriller from the bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and BLOOD LOSS.

In her most shocking case yet, FBI Special Agent Ren Bryce takes on a depraved serial killer fueled by a warped sense of justice.