Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning in the jungles of equatorial Africa, where one mistake could bridge the gap between man and ape.....
An anaesthetist gives a woman a normal injection during childbirth and she dies. The doctor is sued and criminally charged, but he skips bail and returns to the hospital to try and find out exactly what went wrong.
Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos.
Yuri Davidov was a former Soviet technician in the biological weapons system. Now a New York cab driver, he's poised to lash out at the country he believes has denied him the American Dream. But before he executes his plan, he experiments first.
Clay Jannon ist eigentlich Webdesigner, doch die Rezession hat ihn seinen Job gekostet. So führt ihn eine Stellenanzeige in die durchgehend geöffnete Buchhandlung von Mr. Penumbra
Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets.
We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western.
This is the untold story of one of the most lethal and successful soldiers of the Second World War - a highly decorated hero as well as a self-confessed rogue.
Roger Lancelyn Green's classic retelling of the adventures of the Greek Heroes has been in print for over 60 years and now a stunning Puffin Clothbound edition is available for readers and collectors.
Depuis 1975, date de la parution de La Vie devant soi, la profonde humanité et la truculence de Madame Rosa et de Momo ne cessent d'émouvoir les lecteurs.
Dans toute l'Amérique centrale, et aussi dans les Andes, les hommes se maintiennent en vie en se nourrissant de substances hallucinogenes. On les appelle les «mangeurs d'étoiles».