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Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go. She turned herself in, and now Gretchen has been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kindâ??-addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days off his mind. Archie's a different person, his estranged wife says, and he knows she's right. He continues to visit Gretchen in prison once a week, saying that only he can get her to confess as to the whereabouts of more of her victims, but even he knows the truthâ??-he can't stay away. When another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the streets of Portland, Archie has to pull himself together enough to lead the new task force investigating the murders. A hungry young newspaper reporter, Susan Ward, begins profiling Archie and the investigation, which sparks a deadly game between Archie, Susan, the new killer, and even Gretchen. They need to catch a killer, and maybe somehow then Archie can free himself from Gretchen, once and for all. Either way, Heartsick makes for one of the most extraordinary suspense debuts in recent memory… (altro)
Tutto ha inizio durante l'Età dei Metalli. Una tribù di sacerdoti devoti a una divinità preistorica adora una Pietra sacra che, secondo la leggenda, Dio ha scagliato sulla Terra all'origine dei tempi. La Pietra è dotata di un terribile potere: quello di uccidere chiunque le si trovi nelle immediate vicinanze. Attorno al possesso di quella pietra si accenderanno le brame di tanti personaggi in luoghi ed epoche differenti: un giovane nobile occitano in Linguadoca, un sottufficiale tedesco delle SS nella valle dell'Ariege, un giornalista di un settimanale d'inchiesta in Brasile. Sarà una bella ricercatrice italiana, Sara Terracini, a portare avanti l'indagine, ingaggiata per effettuare alcune rilevazioni nella zona della Linguadoca da un facoltoso appassionato di archeologia. Le sue scoperte la porteranno a un passo della soluzione che tutti, nei millenni, hanno sempre rincorso. Ma, dice l'antica leggenda, chiunque si avvicini a quel segreto verrà investito da un soffio di morte che spira da sempre attorno alla Pietra sacra.
Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go. She turned herself in, and now Gretchen has been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kindâ??-addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days off his mind. Archie's a different person, his estranged wife says, and he knows she's right. He continues to visit Gretchen in prison once a week, saying that only he can get her to confess as to the whereabouts of more of her victims, but even he knows the truthâ??-he can't stay away. When another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the streets of Portland, Archie has to pull himself together enough to lead the new task force investigating the murders. A hungry young newspaper reporter, Susan Ward, begins profiling Archie and the investigation, which sparks a deadly game between Archie, Susan, the new killer, and even Gretchen. They need to catch a killer, and maybe somehow then Archie can free himself from Gretchen, once and for all. Either way, Heartsick makes for one of the most extraordinary suspense debuts in recent memory
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