Sixteen-year-old Geneva Settle is running from death. She's just a bright high school student researching a paper on one of her ancestors, but someone sees her as a threat. Someone who will stop at nothing to prevent her from digging up the past. Someone on a mission to kill. Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs are called to the case. They've tracked down some of the world's most brilliant criminals, but this particular hunt is posing more questions than answers. Where will their prey strike next? What is the historic secret he's so desperate to protect? And how can anyone catch a...

How long does it take to die? TICK His victims would say forever ...TOCK At each horrific scene, he leaves a clock ticking. He calls himself the Watchmaker. And it's only a matter of time before he strikes again. Lincoln Rhyme is the best there is. Physically, he may face unimaginable challenges, but mentally, he has no limits. With model-turned-cop Amelia Sachs as his eyes and ears - and heart - Rhyme is on the Watchmaker's trail within seconds. But he's not the only one gifted with a calculating intelligence. And this time his wits must be sharper than ever, to catch a killer cold as the...

Začátek roku 2011 přinesl do řady arabských zemí změnu v podobě svržení několika dlouhověkých a zdánlivě neotřesitelných režimů. Byla to právě éra těchto autokratických režimů, která definovala podobu velké části Blízkého východu mnohdy už od padesátých let 20. století a která po sobě zanechala nefunkční politické instituce, občanskou společnost a do značné míry i ekonomiku. Přes odstup dvou let je stále příliš brzy na definitivní názory o povaze a dopadech revolučních událostí. Snahou autorů této knihy je především popsat různé...

Tato vizuálně pojatá poublikace předního českého medievisty je věnována imaginárním divým lidem v reálném středověkém světě.

Po relativně poklidném oťukávání mladého Lukáše z prvotiny Aleše Pragera se touto knihou čtenář ponoří do daleko hlubších vod. Hrdina tohoto příběhu, mladý ekonom Karel, si jednoduše vzal příklad z Jánošíka a rozhodl se bohatým brát a chudým rozdávat.

Proč jste začal krást, Karle?
Z čistě sobeckých důvodů. A když krabic od bot bylo tolik, že jsem je neměl kam dávat, začal jsem myslet i na druhé.
Proč jste vstoupil do politiky? Co jste od toho očekával?
Lidé v mé blízkosti mě přemluvili. Jsem člověk, který rád...

Lincoln Rhyme has travelled to a world-famous spinal cord injuries center in North Carolina for some risky, experimental surgery. It may make him a tiny bit better; it may kill him. But before he has a chance to undergo the operation, the local police department is drafting in Rhyme and Amelia, using their forensic skills to help find two women kidnapped by a psychotic young man known locally as the Insect Boy. After a cat-and-mouse game through the abandoned swamps of North Carolina, Lincoln and Amelia manage to find him - then Amelia, convinced of his innocence, breaks the boy out of jail....

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before...

A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York - one more devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a lethal poison which will render targets dead before they can even entertain the prospect of escape...Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs have little to go on but a series of cryptic messages left etched into the skin of the deceased. As the pair struggle...

TENSION ...An aging actor attempts to revive his career by entering a celebrity poker game for a reality TV show. Can he outwit his devious opponents, or is his fate doomed from the outset? CONSPIRACY ...A successful crime writer dies under seemingly natural circumstances, but for one cop, doubts are lingering. There's certainly motive for murder - or is there more to the case than meets the eye? MURDER ...Lincoln Rhyme is announced dead, shot by one of his suspects in cold blood. Is this the end of the line for the criminalist, or just another twist in the tale?