In "To Stop A Monster," former detective Marcus Williams and the sadistic Francis Ackerman Jr. are caught in a deadly conspiracy involving the government. With the help of a rogue FBI agent and Ackerman's daughter, Marcus must confront his past and expose the conspiracy while hunting a ruthless killer.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE CARR Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf H ss his most elusive target. In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full account of H ss' capture. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s, to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, Hanns and Rudolf tells the story of two German men whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.
Al Maniero delle Buone Maniere c’è un armadio molto speciale: è qui che vivono Billy, uno scheletrino dolce e sognatore, e mamma e papà Bones, i custodi dei bauli che contengono i segreti e le bugie della ricca famiglia Granserioso. Mentre i signori Bones si affaticano a gestire l’ingombrante e pericoloso bottino, Billy passa il tempo a fantasticare di pirati e tesori insieme al suo inseparabile amico Sgambetto, un maggiolino impavido e stravagante. Quando al maniero arriva Melisenda, nipote di Sir Granserioso da poco rimasta orfana, Billy diventa subito suo amico, salvandola dalla solitudine e dalla tristezza e aiutandola a difendersi dalle terrificanti incursioni della governante, Miss Superbetti. Insieme Billy e Melisenda incontrano fantasmi e altre misteriose creature, insieme vanno a caccia di avventure, scheletri e bugie, fino a quando non scoprono il più incredibile dei segreti...