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Собрание книг [7 шт.] Год выпуска: 2006 - 2021 Автор: John Hart / Джон Харт Категория: Mystery Язык курса: Английский Формат: EPUB Качество: Издательский макет или текст (eBook) Описание: Джон Харт (John Hart) - американский писатель. Родился в 1965 году в Дареме, Северная Каролина, США в семье молодого хирурга и преподавательницы французского языка, которая оставила работу ради воспитания своих детей.
Родители позже развелись, но, как рассказывает Харт, его детство было удивительно беззаботным: "Моя любимая память о детстве - ферма и пятьсот акров земли, где мои друзья и я искали приключения и могли "затеряться" на несколько дней".
После окончания средней школы он поступил в Davidson College, который называет "чудной школой", где изучал французскую литературу.
Некоторое время после окончания учёбы жил в Париже и Лондоне.
По возвращении домой в Северную Каролину поселился в Rowan County / графстве Роуэн, в которое "поместил" и действие первых двух романов, чуть изменив название - вымышленный Raven County.
Позднее он получил ещё и дипломы в области бухгалтерского учета и права. Работал по самым разным специальностям. Бывший банкир, биржевой брокер и адвокат по уголовным делам, теперь Харт пишет книги полный рабочий день. Вскоре после женитьбы и рождения первого ребенка, Джон оставил свою юридическую практику, чтобы "в погоне за мечтой" начать писать романы.
Он провел почти год в публичной библиотеке Rowan County - результатом стал его дебют - бестселлер 2006 года "The King of Lies" ( Король лжи).
Джон Харт говорит о себе, что у него три большие страсти: его семья, его писательство, а также "the protection of open spaces" (защита открытых пространств).
Писатель живет в Вирджинии со своей женой и двумя дочерьми и пишет свой шестой роман "The Hush" (планирует издать в 2018) - продолжение книги "The Last Child" (2009).
Джон Харт - единственный автор в истории, удостоенный Edgar Awards / Премии Эдгар за лучший роман за две книги подряд (Down River и The Last Child).JOHN HART is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child, Iron House and, most recently, Redemption Road. The only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels, Hart has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the North Carolina Award for Literature. With over two million copies in print, his novels have been translated into thirty language and can be found in over seventy countries. “My only real dream,” John declares, “has been to write well and to be published well.”
Титулы, награды и премии
The King of Lies
Anthony Awards Best First Novel nominee (2007)
Barry Awards Best First Novel nominee (2007)
Edgar Awards Best First Novel nominee (2007)
Macavity Awards Best First Novel nominee (2007) Down River
Awards Best Novel nominee (2008)
Edgar Awards Best Novel winner (2008) The Last Child
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner (2009)
Anthony Awards Best Novel nominee (2010)
Barry Awards Best Novel winner (2010)
Edgar Awards Best Novel winner (2010) Iron House
SIBA Book Award winner (2012)
Раздаваемые книги
2006. The King of Lies - Король Лжи
Через полтора года после загадочного исчезновения Эзры Пикенса, главы юридической империи, найдено его тело. На сына, адвоката Джексона Воркмэна, известного больше как Ворк, падает подозрение, как, впрочем, и на его сестру Джин. Поток лжи прорывает эмоциональную защиту Ворка. Он всегда находился в тени могущественного, властного отца, но жизнь Джин была полностью разрушена Эзрой. И все же - способна ли она стать убийцей? Опасаясь за жизнь сестры, Ворк начинает собственное расследование. Он сражается за спасение Джин, за свое доброе имя и любовь женщины, которой отдал сердце много лет назад.
2007. Down River
Adam hase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred thin. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood---a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he's ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears, fades into the faceless gray of New York City. Now he's back and nobody knows why, not his family or the cops, not the enemies he left behind.
But Adam has his reasons.
Within hours of his return, he is beaten and accosted, confronted by his family and the women he still holds dear. No one knows what to make of Adam's return, but when bodies start turning up, the small town rises against him and Adam again finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life, not just to prove his own innocence, but to reclaim the only life he's ever wanted. Bestselling authorJohn Hart holds nothing back as he strips his characters bare. Secrets explode, emotions tear, and more than one person crosses the brink into deadly behavior as he examines the lengths to which people will go for money, family, and revenge. A powerful, heart-pounding thriller,Down Riverwill haunt your thoughts long after the last page is turned.
2009. The Last Child - Последний ребенок
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain.
Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene.
Then a second child goes missing . . .
Undeterred by Hunt's threats or his mother's pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit.
Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith,The Last Childleaves all categories behind and establishesJohn Hartas a writer of unique power.
2011. Iron House
HE WOULD GO TO HELL At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isn't won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him.
TO KEEP HER SAFE For two decades, Michael has been an enforcer in New York's world of organized crime, a prince of the streets so widely feared he rarely has to kill anymore. But the life he's fought to build unravels when he meets Elena, a beautiful innocent who teaches him the meaning and power of love. He wants a fresh start with her, the chance to start a family like the one he and Julian never had. But someone else is holding the strings. And escape is not that easy. . . .
GO TO HELL, AND COME BACK BURNING The mob boss who gave Michael his blessing to begin anew is dying, and his son is intent on making Michael pay for his betrayal. Determined to protect the ones he loves, Michael spirits Elena—who knows nothing of his past crimes, or the peril he's laid at her door— back to North Carolina, to the place he was born and the brother he lost so long ago. There, he will encounter a whole new level of danger, a thicket of deceit and violence that leads inexorably to the one place he's been running from his whole life: Iron House.
2016. Redemption Road - Путь искупления
A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.
A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting.
After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen…
This is a town on the brink. This isRedemption Road. Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal,Redemption Roadproves again thatJohn Hartis a master of the literary thriller.
2018. The Hush - Безмолвие
Building on the world first seen inThe Last Child (“A magnificent creation” ―The Washington Post), John Hartdelivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen.
It’s been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon’s life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; the fascination remains. Living alone on six thousand acres of once-sacred land, Johnny’s only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. They’re not boys anymore, but the bonds remain. What they shared. What they lost.
But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent. Johnny will discuss none of it, but there are the things he knows, the things he can do. A lesser friend might accept such abilities as a gift, but Jack has felt what moves in the swamp: the cold of it, the unspeakable fear. More than an exploration of friendship, persistence, and forgotten power,The Hushleaves all categories behind, and cementsHart'sstatus as a writer of unique power.
2021. The Unwilling
“We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.” —Unknown Soldier Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New York Times bestselling author John Hart's singular style. Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison.
Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women.
But the day turns ugly when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road. Beautiful but drunk, one of the women taunts the prisoners, leading to a riot on the bus. The woman finds it funny in the moment, but is savagely murdered soon after.
Given his violent history, suspicion turns first to Jason; but when the second woman is kidnapped, the police suspect Gibby, too. Determined to prove Jason innocent, Gibby must avoid the cops and dive deep into his brother's hidden life, a dark world of heroin, guns and outlaw motorcycle gangs.
What he discovers there is a truth more disturbing than he could have imagined: not just the identity of the killer and the reasons for Tyra's murder, but the forces that shaped his brother in Vietnam, the reason he was framed, and why the most dangerous man alive wants him back in prison. This is crime fiction at its most raw, an exploration of family and the past, of prison and war and the indelible marks they leave.
Эта раздача является продолжением раздачи : https://rutr.life/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2512904 Cпасибо ее автору за эту и множество других раздач. К сожалению, он уже давно (в 2012) ушел с трекера.
