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Eine zweite Familie wurde von dem furchterregenden Serienmörder massakriert, den die Presse „Die Zahnfee“ getauft hat. Special Agent Jack Crawford wendet sich an den einzigen Mann, der helfen kann, eine gescheiterte Ermittlung wieder in Gang zu bringen: Will Graham. Graham ist der beste Profiler, den das FBI je hatte, doch die körperlichen und seelischen Narben, die ihm die Festnahme von Hannibal Lecter zugefügt hat, haben ihn dazu veranlasst, vorzeitig in den Ruhestand zu gehen. Nun muss Graham Lecter um Hilfe bitten.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.

Der 1942 vom französischen Autor Albert Camus veröffentlichte Roman Der Fremde gilt seit Langem als Klassiker der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Le Monde führt ihn auf Platz eins seiner Liste der „100 Bücher des Jahrhunderts“. Anhand dieser Geschichte eines gewöhnlichen Mannes, der unwissentlich in einen sinnlosen Mord an einem sonnenüberfluteten algerischen Strand hineingezogen wird, erforscht Camus, was er „die Nacktheit des Menschen angesichts des Absurden“ nannte.

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. But Zhu isn’t the only one with imperial ambitions. Her neighbor in the south, the courtesan Madam Zhang, wants the throne for her husband―and she’s strong enough to wipe Zhu off the map. To stay in the game, Zhu will have to gamble everything on a risky alliance with an old enemy: the talented but unstable eunuch general Ouyang, who has already sacrificed everything for a chance at revenge on his father’s killer, the Great Khan. Unbeknownst to the southerners, a new contender is even closer to the throne. The scorned scholar Wang Baoxiang has maneuvered his way into the capital, and his lethal court games threaten to bring the empire to its knees. For Baoxiang also desires revenge: to become the most degenerate Great Khan in history―and in so doing, make a mockery of every value his Mongol warrior family loved more than him. All the contenders are determined to do whatever it takes to win. But when desire is the size of the world, the price could be too much for even the most ruthless heart to bear…