Ник Стоун — новинки

Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help defend a millionaire accused of murdering a woman in his hotel suite.
The only problem is that the accused man, Vernon James, turns out to be not only someone he knows, but someone he loathes. This case could make Terry's career, but how can he defend a former friend who betrayed him so badly?
Terry delves deeper into Vernon's life and is forced to confront secrets from their shared past with potentially devastating consequences. How can Terry be sure that Vernon is guilty? And what choices must he make to ensure that justice is done?

Meet the man with the voodoo eyes: Solomon Boukman. He'd used voodoo, black magic, and extreme violence to control his people, and to keep anyone who ever heard his name in a state of fear. He'd zombified his enemies with potions and hypnosis and used them as his very own suicide killers. Some said he was the earthly incarnation of Baron Samedi, the voodoo god of death; others said he was The Devil incarnate...Meet his nemesis: For private eye Max Mingus, Boukman has been the cause of unthinkable personal tragedy and professional torment. And when he uncovers a labyrinthine web of death and deceit stretching from the Miami jetset to sinister Cuban slums, the voodoo eyes of Boukman are never far from his mind. But how can Mingus stop him without losing his life, and the lives of those he loves? Meet a thriller that will haunt your dreams.

Опытные детективы из Майами Макс Мингус и Джон Пистон не раз сталкивались с самыми жестокими преступлениями. Однако убийство, которое им предстоит раскрыть теперь, потрясло даже их. В зоопарке обнаружен обезображенный труп мужчины с зашитым ртом, а в желудке у него найдена... карта Таро Король мечей. Очень скоро за первым убийством следует второе - аналогичное. В городе появился маньяк? Или Король мечей - "визитная карточка" неизвестного киллера?...

Десять миллионов долларов - награда, которую американский магнат Густав Карвер предлагает частному детективу Максу Мингусу, если тот найдет его маленького внука Чарли, два года назад исчезнувшего на Гаити. Похищение? Но преступники не просили выкупа... Убийство? Однако тело ребенка так и не было обнаружено... Свидетели уверены: Чарли - одна из многочисленных жертв таинственного Мистера Кларнета, согласно местной легенде, уносящего оставленных без присмотра детей в Страну мертвых... Но Максу ясно: легендами здесь и не пахнет. Под маской Мистера Кларнета скрывается человек, хитростью и жестокостью превосходящий самых безжалостных…

Max Mingus wanted to turn down the case—fifteen million bucks on the table or not. The boy was dead, Max was sure of it. Three years had passed since Haitian billionaire Allain Carver’s five-year-old son was abducted. Why bother now? The huge bounty and the resources of the most powerful white family in Haiti hadn’t turned up a lead.

Sure, Max had been the best detective in Miami once. But that was eight years back. Before he served time for killing a pair of junkie child-murderers. Before his wife, Sandra, died. Plus, he’d heard what had happened to the other PI’s sent to Haiti before him—all dead, or their lives permanently screwed up, without ever getting close to finding Charlie Carver.

But with nothing left to lose—and for all that money—Max does go down there. The talk of voodoo and black magic is nothing compared to the haunting quiet of his own empty house. What Max doesn’t count on is the depth of corruption, manipulation, and greed Haiti breeds in its inhabitants, a murky evil worse than death, which can easily swallow a man whole—especially a troubled man like Max Mingus.

When the trail to Charlie Carver points to a local myth—“Mr. Clarinet,” a spirit figure who for decades is said to have been tempting children away from their families—could the truth be even more shocking than the legend? Max’s job suddenly isn’t all about finding the boy, his killers, or the money—it’s about just staying alive…