New York, New Year's Eve, December 1991. Roger's girlfriend, Carlie Donnelly, is kidnapped from Marquee Club on Tenth Avenue along with three fellow students from Stella Maris on an early graduation trip. Paddy, Carlie's father, acting on pure paternal instinct, takes the first available flight to the city that never sleeps and brings Roger along with him. However, Dana also joins them, and the pair of young investigators puts their brains and instincts to work on their first kidnapping case. For the first time in their careers, both have a very personal stake in resolving the case as quickly as possible and bringing Carlie back home. But there is no ransom note, and as the news threatens to become media sensational and undermine the authority of the Mayor of New York City and the NYPD, an FBI team sets up a command center at the 10th Precinct not only to locate the four kidnapped Uruguayan tourists but also to uncover something much larger and much more sinister.

Verminaard, the dragon that ravages the Kingdom of Pigotry, has kidnapped Princess Loreley, daughter of King Novak. Before the princess was kidnapped in broad daylight, there were almost no cows left in the kingdom, such was the dragon's appetite. Gastón the "Ladle", a bard by profession, arrives at the main square of the palace when Novak is offering a reward for saving his daughter. Remorak, a merchant who wants the monarch's deposition tricks the unsuspecting minstrel into accepting the mission of rescuing the princess from the dragon's lair, and a mission that begins as an impossible journey, an unattainable task, ends up being a life lesson for such dissimilar characters.

On a dark road, Tom Harper receives the impact of a light wave that projects him 30 years back in the past, to his own 19-year-old body in '95, but with his knowledge intact from an entire life lived. Of course he is faced with the temptation to correct the mistakes of his life, of his first "round", as he calls it, but what worries him most is repeating his successes: waiting 8 years until he even meets his wife, conquer her again and have the children on the exact same dates that they had them the first time, and that they were really their children, and not others. Those responsible for the accident will contact Tom to offer him the compensation they deem appropriate for having caused this "mishap", but Tom may not be so satisfied with what they propose. With the challenge of rebuilding his life from scratch, a very clear obsession grows in him: the Vallestrans must be exposed, and paid for what they did, as the threat they really are. In his first foray after "Arioco-Lord of Chaos and Destruction" into the field of science fiction, the author makes the reservation that the reader may not expect laser beams, spaceships, or anything for that matter. style. Just a deviant group of people with very advanced technology with their own agenda and without moral qualms or legal consequences when applying it.

New York, New Year's Eve, December 1991. Roger's girlfriend, Carlie Donnelly, is kidnapped from Marquee Club on Tenth Avenue along with three fellow students from Stella Maris on an early graduation trip. Paddy, Carlie's father, acting on pure paternal instinct, takes the first available flight to the city that never sleeps and brings Roger along with him. However, Dana also joins them, and the pair of young investigators puts their brains and instincts to work on their first kidnapping case. For the first time in their careers, both have a very personal stake in resolving the case as quickly as possible and bringing Carlie back home. But there is no ransom note, and as the news threatens to become media sensational and undermine the authority of the Mayor of New York City and the NYPD, an FBI team sets up a command center at the 10th Precinct not only to locate the four kidnapped Uruguayan tourists but also to uncover something much larger and much more sinister.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a novel—Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga." —New York Times Book Review "Reads like a novel ... Keefe is ... a master of narrative nonfiction. . .An incredible story."—Rolling Stone A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, and more! Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.

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