Bøker av Michael Cordy

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS JUST SAID GOODNIGHTOn the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. The world's leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to admit that the global climate crisis has reached boiling point, with targets unmet and time running out. That same day, at precisely 5:25 p.m. everyone on Manhattan Island - including all the world leaders at the UN - falls unconscious. Everyone that is, except for Samantha Rossi, a single mother reeling from devastating medical news and Nick Lockwood, a wounded NYPD detective who wakes from a coma just as the City That Never Sleeps falls into one. Rossi's first concern is her daughter. Lockwood's is his city. As night draws in, they must work together to unravel the mystery of what has happened and why. Each must decide how far they will go and what rules they will break to save Rossi's daughter, the city and, ultimately, the world.

Together they must piece together the jigsaw that is Jane's identity. To solve the murders, Fox must discard his black and white preconceptions, look beyond the spectrum of normal human experience and confront the dark truth of her past...and his own.

Ambitious geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their first child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university's mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for centuries, everything changes.

Project Conscience promises to be the solution. It is a bold attempt by a group of scientists, politicians and law-enforcement personnel to use gene therapy to treat male criminals and cure violent crime. But among their number are those with a more sinister agenda, who would go further and turn the dream of Project Conscience into the nightmare.

How can a drug that makes people fall madly in love be a bad thing? So thinks Professor Bacci when he inadvertently unlocks the biochemical key to falling in love, and develops a drug capable of creating emotions indistinguishable from the real thing. This work presents a glimpse of future where true love can be faked.

But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, Fleming wonders if he's got it all wrong. His search for the truth uncovers a terrifying religious conspiracy to stage the most ambitious experiment the world has ever seen - to prove beyond doubt the existence of a heaven or a hell.

An international bestseller and sensation: fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton will love this jaw-droppingly captivating and compelling thriller from bestselling author Michael Cordy. "Jurassic Park meets the quest for the Holy Grail meets Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- MAIL ON SUNDAY"Michael Cordy has given the British thriller a much-needed adrenalin injection..." -- MIRROR"Engrossing and intelligent" -- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"Loved every minute of this book. I couldn't put it down..." -- *****Reader review"Un-Put-Downable!" -- *****Reader review*************************************************************AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS, THE WAIT IS OVER... At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save Dr Tom Carter's dying daughter: the blood of salvation shed twenty centuries ago. In the volatile heart of the Middle East, amid the devastating secrets of an ancient brotherhood awaiting a new messiah, Tom Carter must search for answers to the mysteries that have challenged humankind since the death and resurrection of the greatest Healer who ever walked the Earth. Because suddenly Carter's life, the life of his little girl, and the fate of the world hang in the balance...