Lincoln Child:Vollmond Wolf: Ein Roman von Lincoln Child (englisch) Taschenbuch Buch
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He"d sworn hours before that he wouldn"t allow himself a real dinner--hot and steaming from his titanium griddle--until he"d found a decent place to tent for the night. He looked around s… More...
He"d sworn hours before that he wouldn"t allow himself a real dinner--hot and steaming from his titanium griddle--until he"d found a decent place to tent for the night. He looked around slowly as he chewed the energy bar. The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Full Wolf Moon by Lincoln Child The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Forgotten Room" and "Deep Storm" is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot existEfeaturing Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Tall Premium Edition.ooks. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller in which Jeremy Logan follows the trail of a killer unlike any he has ever seen.Jeremy Logan, the renowned "enigmologist," has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now.When Logan travels to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks to finally work on his book, he discovers the remote community has been rocked by the grisly death of a hiker on Desolation Mountain. The attack occured during the full moon and the body has been severely mauled, but the unusual savagery calls into question the initial suspicions of a bear attack. Logan's theories take a dramatic turn when he meets Laura Feverbridge, a respected scientist who is still struggling with the violent loss of her father months earlier. As Feverbridge shares her research with Logan, he begins to wonder whether he is truly up against something he cannot believe exists. Author Biography LINCOLN CHILD is the New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room, The Third Gate, Terminal Freeze, Deep Storm, Death Match, and Utopia, as well as coauthor, with Douglas Preston, of numerous New York Times bestsellers, most recently Crimson Shore. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey. Review Praise for Lincoln Child and Full Wolf Moon"Chilling. . . . Child uses cutting-edge science and the beautiful Adirondacks landscape to tell a quick and tense story." —Associated Press"Scary, atmospheric. . . . Fans of The X Files will be enthralled." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A frightening, exciting tale." —New York Journal of Books"Lincoln Child's Jeremy Logan novels just get better and better, and this latest installment really knocks it out of the park. Full Wolf Moon proves again that mysterious phenomena with a supernatural or otherworldly edge are fully in Child's wheelhouse, and the result this time around is an intense and chilling read." —Bookreporter "Child's characters are first-rate, as is his writing." —The Washington Post Book World "Child creates a perfectly creepy ambiance, and his dialogue and descriptions are yeomanlike." —Kirkus Reviews "Lincoln Child's novels are thrilling and tantalizing." —Vince Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Man "Lincoln Child is a master at mystery plots." —The Florida Times-Union Promotional The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller in which Jeremy Logan follows the trail of a killer unlike any he has ever seen. Review Quote "Scary, atmospheric . . . Fans of The X Files will be enthralled." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In Full Wolf Moon , Child uses cutting-edge science and the beautiful Adirondacks landscape to tell a quick and tense story." -- The Associated Press Promotional "Headline" The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller in which Jeremy Logan follows the trail of a killer unlike any he has ever seen. Excerpt from Book 1 At seven thirty in the evening Palmer stopped for another snack--handmade gorp and an energy bar from the lid pocket of his backpack. He''d sworn hours before that he wouldn''t allow himself a real dinner--hot and steaming from his titanium griddle--until he''d found a decent place to tent for the night. He looked around slowly as he chewed the energy bar. He''d known it would be a rough slog, and he had believed himself familiar with the surrounding region, but nothing had prepared him for the hike in that day. Guess all the stories were true, he thought a little sourly. It was the second weekend in July, the sun was just starting to slip behind the horizon to the west, but he could nevertheless make out Desolation Mountain, maybe four miles to the north. It stood there, alone, a mirror of blue-black lake at its base, its green flanks exposed as if taunting him. Four miles--but with this country, it might as well be forty. "Shit," he muttered, shoving the wrapper of the energy bar into his pocket and starting off once again. Desolation Mountain was a trailless peak of 3,250 feet, making it not high enough to be among the "true" forty-six Adirondack tall peaks. Even so, its vertical rise and distance from other summits made it worth notching his belt with. But what made the mountain most attractive to hard-core backpackers, mountain hikers, and students of the Adirondacks was its remoteness. It was situated in the Desolation Lake area, west of the Five Ponds Wilderness--perhaps the wildest, most remote section of the entire six-million-acre park. Remoteness didn''t bother David Palmer. He liked nothing better than to disappear into the wilderness and go for days without seeing another human being. It was actually getting to the mountain that was proving a real bitch. At first, it hadn''t been bad at all. He''d left his SUV hidden among the trees at the Baldwin Mountain trailhead, then hiked five miles down a private logging road until at last it petered out. This was followed by miles of virgin, old-growth timber, so tall that it was always dusk beneath and the forest floor was soft and completely free of saplings. But then he left the Five Ponds Wilderness, the forest fell away behind him, and he began the approach to Desolation Lake. And here was where his fast, easy pace suddenly slowed to a crawl. The country grew ugly, barren, and nearly impossible to traverse. The wilderness between him and the mountain became a labyrinth of outwash bogs, blowdowns, and "kettle holes," forcing him to watch every step he took. There was no trail, of course, not even a herd path, and with ravines running at crisscrosses to each other he''d had to rely frequently on his Garmin Oregon handheld GPS. More than once he''d slipped on treacherous, barely visible rocks covered with lichen. Thank God he''d decided on wearing his off trailboots--otherwise he''d have turned an ankle, or worse, long before now. After another quarter mile, he stopped again. The way ahead was blocked by an overlapping downfall too tight for him to squeeze through with the heavy pack on his back. Cursing under his breath, he shrugged out of the pack, found the widest hole in the downfall, shoved the pack through, then wiggled his way in behind it. The dry ends of branches poked at his limbs and scratched his face. On the far side of the downfall he put the pack back on, making sure that the compression straps were good and tight. This late in the day a pack began to get heavy, and he wanted to make sure its contents stayed stable. He spent a moment, shrugging his shoulders this way and that, getting the pack into position. Even though the majority of hikers used internal backpacks these days, Palmer still preferred one with an external frame--in his case, a Kelty Tioga. He tended to travel heavy, and he found externals easier not only to pack, but to carry and balance as well. The sun had disappeared, and the landscape was growing darker by the minute. The change was actually perceptible to him, as if some god of nature was slowly turning down the dimmer switch. A full moon was rising into the black sky, lending a strange, dappled, almost spectral luminescence to the landscape, but he wasn''t going to rely on the moonlight: it had the tendency to camouflage things, hiding sinkholes and gullies, and he''d learned the hard way not to trust to chance. He reached for the flashlight clipped to his belt, plucked it off, and turned it on. By now it was past nine. As he started off again, he did a mental calculation and determined his pace had slowed to something like half a mile an hour. Of course, he could keep going until he reached Desolation Lake and camp on the shore. But he wouldn''t get there until at least midnight, and by that time he''d be too whipped for an enjoyable climb the next day. No: there hadto be a spot, some spot, in this godforsaken wilderness flat and bare enough for him to pitch his three-season tent and spread out his cookware. A hot meal, a soft sleeping bag, were beginning to seem like unattainable luxuries. Not for the first time, as he made his way carefully forward, flashlight beam licking this way and that, he wished that he was back in the High Peaks region of the park. True, the trails there were often as wide as superhighways, and you were always trippin gover other hikers, but at least you had a regular, goddamn forest around you with clearings and glades, not this alien riot of-- He stopped by a cluster of witch-hobble. He''d been so absorbed in his thoughts, and in his perusal of the treacherous ground ahead of him, that he hadn''t realized there was a strange smell in the air. He sniffed. It was faint, but, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf]<