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    Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 654min
    Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price. “Masterful...Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a 21st century audience.” (USA Today) “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel - and as difficult to put down.” (Miami Herald) The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between “the world’s richest man” and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. The result is an extraordinary work of popular history. Praise for Meet You in Hell “To the list of the signal relationships of American history...we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick...The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.” (Wall Street Journal) “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist...a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) “A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now.” (Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River)   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H. Mayer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000501/bk_bkot_000501_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Corrupted Memory: A Tucker Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min
    When computer hacker Tucker is told that a dead man is lying outside his Boston home, he's shocked to discover that the body looks just like his father...who died 15 years ago. Tucker soon learns the terrible truth: The dead man is a half-brother he never knew he had. Determined to find answers, Tucker tracks down his father's second family.But Tucker's first impressions of his long-lost relatives are spoiled when dark family secrets begin to emerge. Unresolved issues torment Tucker while he struggles to discover his place among his newfound kin. As he digs deeper into the murder and the family's hidden life, Tucker becomes trapped in a dangerous scheme, and there may be no way out.Praise:“Compulsively readable...Against a meticulously detailed Boston background, the likable but undisciplined Tucker lurches from one crisis to the next." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)“Crisp writing, an engaging plot, and well-drawn characters make this . . . a corker of a mystery. Fans of Boston crime writers Dennis Lehane, Jeremiah Healy, and Hank Phillippi Ryan will delight in picking up this new series.” (Library Journal, starred review)“A fast-paced crime thriller with an engaging narrator, quirky characters, and explosive secrets . . . 4 stars.” (Suspense Magazine)"Excellent and suspenseful." (Crimespree Magazine)"A taut novel of high tech and high drama played out against a backdrop of family dysfunction and government intrigue." (Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times best-selling author of Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot)"[A] soulful hero." (Kirkus Reviews) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Brogadir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126418/bk_acx0_126418_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lightning Men: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 773min
    From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a "combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you" (The New York Times). Officer Denny Rakestraw, "Negro officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It's 1950, and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. Black families - including Smith's sister and brother-in-law - are moving into Rake's formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to buy them out while others advocate a more violent solution. Rake's brother-in-law, Dale, a proud Klansman, launches a scheme to rally his fellow Kluxers to save their neighborhood. When those efforts spiral out of control and leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family and the law. He isn't the only one with family troubles. Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, and now her ex-boyfriend has been released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again. With echoes of James Ellroy and Denis Lehane, Mullen demonstrates in Lightning Men why he's celebrated for writing crime fiction "with a nimble sense of history...quick on its feet and vividly drawn" (Dallas Morning News). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008047/bk_sans_008047_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Given Day , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1427min
    Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families: one black, one white, swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife. Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era: Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover. Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time, including the Spanish Influenza pandemic and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Boatman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001761/bk_harp_001761_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hunting in Bruges: Hunters' Guild, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min
    Finalist for the 2017 Raven Award for best urban fantasy. The only thing worse than being a hunter in the fae-ridden city of Harborsmouth, is hunting vampires in Bruges. The medieval city of Bruges is quaint, but the local Hunters' Guild is understaffed, the canals are choked with dead bodies, and there's no shortage of supernatural predators as likely suspects. On second thought, maybe Bruges isn't so bad after all. With a desire to prove herself, protect the innocent, and advance within the ranks of the Hunters' Guild, Jenna Lehane hits the cobbled streets of Bruges with blades at the ready. Someone, or something, is murdering tourists and dumping their bodies in the city's scenic canals. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Jenna begins to piece together clues that are dotted throughout the city like blood spatter. Determined to stop the killings, Jenna delves into a bloody local history that only raises more questions - but some secrets are best left buried. Jenna must put her combat training to the test as she struggles to unearth the truth about an ancient enemy. "I quite enjoyed the tale." (Jana Oliver, award-winning author of The Demon Trappers series) "Hunting in Bruges is a must read." (Book Lover's Life) "I flat out loved it!" (Rabid Reads) "[Hunting in Bruges] is a well-crafted and fun urban fantasy." (The Jeep Diva) Hunting in Bruges is the first novel in the Hunters' Guild urban fantasy series set in the world of Ivy Granger. The world of Ivy Granger, including the Hunters' Guild series and the award-winning Ivy Granger Psychic Detective series, is filled with bloodsucking vampires, psychotic faeries, and snarky, kick-butt heroines. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie A. Mason, Anthony Bowling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111033/bk_acx0_111033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Darktown: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 707min
    In the tradition of our most acclaimed suspense writers, the author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in Atlanta, a ripped-from-the-headlines depiction of a world on the cusp of great change involving race relations, city politics, and police corruption. 2017 Audie Award Finalist for FictionResponding to pressure from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers. It's a victory of sorts, though the newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers, and their authority is limited: They can't arrest a suspect unless a white officer is present; they can't drive squad cars; they can't even enter the station through the front door. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man with connections to the APD turns up fatally beaten, no one seems to care except for Lucius and Boggs, two black cops from vastly different backgrounds, who risk their jobs, the trust the community has put in them, and even their own safety to investigate her death. When their efforts stall, they have to work alongside fellow officers who include the old-school cop Dunlow and his partner, Rakestraw, a young progressive who may or may not be willing to make allies across color lines. Set in the postwar, pre-civil rights South, and evoking the socially resonant and morally complex crime novels of Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, and Walter Mosley, Darktown is a vivid, smart, intricately plotted crime saga that explores the issues of race, law enforcement, and the uneven scales of justice.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andre Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007589/bk_sans_007589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    All Involved: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 702min
    A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Price—a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central L.A. in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s. At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores. A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells seventeen interconnected first-person narratives that paint a portrait of modern America itself—laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities. With characters that capture the voices of gang members, firefighters, graffiti kids, and nurses caught up in these extraordinary circumstances, All Involved is a literary tour de force that catapults this edgy writer into the ranks of such legendary talents as Dennis Lehane and George V. Higgins. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Rey Perez, Marisol Ramirez, Jim Cooper, Adam Lazarre-White, James Chen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004387/bk_harp_004387_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 929min
    The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job - with deadly results.A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel - its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench - to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the audiobook - which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm - is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk - how it is calcula ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David H. Lawrence XVII. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003791/bk_rand_003791_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Goodbye Coast
    'Private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into 21st-century Los Angeles in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to the classic works of Raymond Chandler... The wisecracking dialogue, outlandish characters and vicious slapstick make The Goodbye Coast a joy to read from the very first page'The Times'A terrific read - pacy, with tension, pathos, wonderful descriptions of LA and some lovely one-liners'Guardian'Sunshine and skullduggery, movie stars and mayhem - Joe Ide brings us Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit'Ian Rankin'How the hell do you write a mystery about Philip Marlowe, set it in Los Angeles, and still make it a total gobsmacking original? That's the miracle of Joe Ide's The Goodbye Coast. Ide has created a Philip Marlowe for the 2020s'James Patterson'Not so much a reimagining of Chandler's world as a reinvigoration. By transplanting Philip Marlowe to 2021 LA, Joe Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction's icons. The Goodbye Coast is a blast from start to finish'Dennis Lehane The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los AngelesLos Angeles - a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police. Roaming the city streets is Philip Marlowe: a quiet, lonely, remarkably capable private detective, living beneath the shadow of his father - a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective now drinking his life away.Marlowe's latest client is tyrannical starlet Kendra James. Kendra's husband was fatally shot near their Malibu home, but even though that murder remains unresolved, the actress is more interested in tracking down her 17-year-old stepdaughter, who hasn't been seen for weeks. But things get complicated after Marlowe lands a second missing person search from British academic Ren Stewart, whose ex-husband has kidnapped their seven-year-old son. Steeped in the richly detailed ethnic neighborhoods of modern LA, Ide's The Goodbye Coast is a bold recreation that is viciously funny, ingeniously plotted, and surprisingly tender.
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    Caza al amanecer (eBook, ePUB)
    EL LADO MÁS OSCURO DEL SUEÑO AMERICANO «Una novela extraordinariamente inteligente, marcada por la presencia de un villano inolvidable que se desliza por sus páginas con la misma lúbrica maldad que Max Cady en El cabo del miedo. Tom Bouman es mi nuevo escritor de misterio favorito». Nickolas Butler «Sombrío, ágil, imposible abandonar su lectura. Si hay justicia en el mundo, Tom Bouman debería convertirse en una gran estrella». Joe R. Lansdale«De las novelas de Tom Bouman podríamos destacar lo elaborado de sus tramas o la riqueza de los personajes, pero al final todo se resume en lo condenadamente buena que es su prosa». Craig Johnson «Un magnífico escritor. Uno de esos a quienes, sin duda, no podemos perder de vista». Dennis Lehane En Wild Thyme, Pensilvania, el verano no ha traído más que problemas al oficial Henry Farrell. La heroína ha llegado a la zona y, con ella, un dramático incremento de la delincuencia. Sin embargo, aún le queda algo de tiempo para disfrutar de sus aficiones favoritas: cazar, beber cerveza, conducir sin rumbo fijo por los lagos y los bosques en su vieja camioneta o tocar bluegrass con su grupo de amigos. Pero cuando un vecino admite haberle disparado a un hombre y comunica la desaparición de su novia, los días apacibles del oficial parecen tocar definitivamente a su fin. Por si fuera poco, el hallazgo de un cadáver no identificado en el río Susquehanna, que apunta a la vinculación de ambos casos, terminará de complicarlo todo... Después de Huesos en el valle, Tom Bouman nos entrega otra impecable novela negra en la que el ritmo de los mejores thrillers y las magistrales pinceladas literarias alcanzan un perfecto equilibrio. Henry Farrell, su antológico protagonista, es un hombre común, tan humano, tan imperfecto y desorientado sobre el sentido de la vida como cualquiera de nosotros y, sin embargo, con la misma innegociable determinación de seguir adelante y plantarle cara, una y otra vez, al lado más oscuro y salvaje del sueño americano.
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