С. Крэйг Залер – лучшие книги

Перед вами — ​жесточайший триллер десятилетия, роман-парадокс об изнанке Америки. Леонардо Ди Каприо собирается продюсировать его экранизацию, застолбив одну из главных ролей. Впрочем, в картину явно не смогут поместить многое из того, что вы здесь прочтете. Еще одну книгу Залера планирует перенести на экран Ридли Скотт, основатель знаменитых франшиз "Чужие" и…

Нью-Мексико, 1902 год. Представительный костюм, хорошие манеры и знание испанского – только это и требуется от человека, которого нанимает в компаньоны троица южан угрожающего вида. Какая малость – к тому же ненадолго и за весьма приличную плату! Так рассуждает счастливый обладатель всего перечисленного янки Натаниэль Стромлер, остро нуждающийся в деньгах после…

Сценарий. Под прикрытием бури, банда грабит жителей небольшого городка.

A supernatural sci-fi graphic novel written and illustrated by S. Craig Zahler, the award-winning film director of Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete.

An alien spacecraft the size of a city materializes over the Pacific Ocean and the nations of the world jointly engage this enigmatic and incommunicative visitor with force. This battle results in large-scale destruction on both sides, but does not answer any of the questions that will haunt humanity: What are these utterly inhuman creatures? Where did they come from? Why did they choose to visit our planet? And—most importantly—are more forces on the way? For the bereaved billionaire Carlton Land, renowned biologist Aimee O'Donnell, and the brilliant, but blunt USAAF Chief Scientist Kenneth Yamazaki, these questions must be answered in order to safeguard the future of the human race.

Collects the original graphic novel published as an oversized hardcover with black and white art; this story is a haunting odyssey that you will not want to miss.

Darren Tasking is a slick who lives in Great Crown, Florida and considers himself an entrepreneur. Others might refer to him as a criminal or a pimp or an extortionist or all of these things, if they knew what he was doing at night. His income is derived from a number of brothels and gambling parlors that are secreted behind iron doors in what appear to be typical apartment buildings. The police—whom he refers to as “the machos”—are oblivious of his enterprises, but he was incarcerated years ago and is uncommonly careful.

When Tasking cannot convince someone to do something he wants, he alters that person’s life—elaborately and maliciously—until that person yields to his wishes. He is oblique and autonomous, and he is successful. Daily, his plots, parlors, and prostitutes bring him closer to the large dollar amount that is his ultimate career goal.

Things start to change when he walks into the Cherry Red strip club for the first time and meets the dancer, Erin Green. . . .

In Florida, 1983, two college students meet at a yard party and do not hit it off. Walter and Ruby have no reason to reprise this antagonistic encounter, but something strange and almost primordial burgeons within each of them. Their thoughts and dreams turn toward each other, and in very little time they find themselves in an intense and unique relationship. What lies at the bottom of their strange connection is unearthed when Walter joins Ruby on a holiday trip to her home in upstate New York, where a living darkness inhabits the woodlands that surround her family's mansion. This engrossing and unpredictable blend of mystery, horror, and romance subverts the idea of "fated love" while exploring strange compulsions, intense desires, and ancient mysteries that are best left buried deep in the earth.

Hug Chickenpenny is an anomalous child. Born from tragedy and unknown paternity, this asymmetrical and white-haired baby inspires both ire and pity at the orphanage, until the day that an elderly eccentric adopts him as a pet. The upbeat boy's spirit is challenged in his new home and as he is exposed to prejudiced members of society in various encounters. Will Hug and his astronautical dreams survive our cruel and judgmental world?

Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a "mannequin," that can revive, sustain and interface with a cryonically-preserved human brain. Like all new technology, it is copyrighted.

Hidden behind lawyers and a chrome facade, the inscrutable organization resurrects a variety of notable minds, pulling the deceased back from oblivion into a world of animated sculpture, foam rubber cars, dissolving waste and strange terrorism. Nobody knows how Corpus Chrome, Inc. determines which individuals should be given a second life, yet myriad people are affected. Among them are Lisanne Breutschen, the composer who invented sequentialism with her twin sister, and Champ Sappline, a garbage man who is entangled in a war between the third, fourth and fifth floors of a New York City apartment building.

In the Spring of 2058, Corpus Chrome, Inc. announces that they will revive Derek W.R. Dulande--a serial rapist and murderer who was executed thirty years ago for his crimes. The public is horrified by the decision, and before long, the company's right to control the lone revolving door between life and death will be violently challenged...

One of Oswell's old bank-robbing gang is getting married out in Montana Territory, and the rest of the boys are all invited. But someone else will be there too. Quinlan. He was part of the gang once, but betrayal turned an ally into a bitter enemy, one who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. He and his gunmen will be at the wedding out for blood and to revenge the betrayal in a final showdown. Oswell knows there's no way out of it. You can't outrun your past. All you can do is face it-- and hope to survive.

"Zahler ist ein herausragender Geschichtenerz?hler, dessen geradezu grausamer Sinn f?r Authentizit?t den Leser regelrecht in den Wilden Westen um die Jahrhundertwende hinein katapultiert." [Kurt Russel – Schauspieler, bekannt aus Bone Tomahawk, Die Klapperschlange, Hateful Eight, Dark Blue und Death Proof] &t;br/&t; "Wenn Sie nach einem Westernroman in der Art suchen, die sie schon kennen, dann liegen Sie hier falsch. Wenn Sie etwas Angenehmes und Vorhersehbares lesen wollen, liegen sie hier erst recht falsch. Aber wenn Sie eine mutige Geschichte lesen wollen, aus einem ungew?hnlichen Blickwinkel und mit einer unvergesslichen Erz?hlstimme, dann suchen Sie das Gleiche wie ich, und dann suchen Sie genau dieses Buch." [Joe R. Lansdale] &t;br/&t; Inhalt: &t;br/&t; Bei ihrem verzweifelten Versuch, zwei entf?hrte Schwestern zu befreien, die man in die Prostitution gezwungen hat, st?rmt eine Gruppe wild zusammengew?rfelter Charaktere durch das Mexiko des Jahres 1899. Ihre Reise ist dabei nicht nur ein Ritt in die H?lle, sondern auch in die tiefsten Abgr?nde menschlicher Existenzen. Diese Geschichte zerrt Sie von Anfang bis Ende erbarmungslos durch Staub, Dreck und Blut. ?hnlich wie in seinem Film «Bone Tomahawk» schuf S. Craig Zahler mit diesem Buch eine au?ergew?hnliche Western-Erfahrung, die Elemente des Horrors mit der brachialen Gewalt des Asiatischen Kinos vereint. Sagen Sie nicht, wir h?tten Sie nicht gewarnt … &t;br/&t; WIE SCHATTEN ?BER TOTEM LAND ist roh, brutal und unnachgiebig. Ein Roman, der an vielen Stellen bekannte Stoffe der gro?en Leinwand oder der Pulp-Literatur zitiert, und trotzdem ein Western ist, der seinesgleichen sucht.