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Trilogía El Cuarto Mono
2021
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La exitosa y aclamada serie El Cuarto Mono de J.D. Barker reunida en un pack. El Cuarto Mono : El detective de la policía de Chicago Sam Porter investiga el caso de un hombre atropellado, pues los indicios en la escena del crimen apuntan a que se trata de El Cuarto Mono, un asesino en serie que ha estado aterrorizando la ciudad. Su modus operandi consistía en enviar tres cajas blancas a los padres de las víctimas que secuestra y una primera con una oreja, una segunda con los dos ojos, y otra con la lengua; para finalmente dejar abandonado el cuerpo sin vida en algún lugar. El hombre atropellado llevaba una de esas cajas blancas. Se inicia así una frenética carrera contrarreloj para averiguar dónde se encuentra encerrada la próxima víctima. La quinta víctima : El FBI ha retirado del caso Anson Bishop a Porter y su equipo, que pronto se enfrentan a una nueva serie de tras estar desaparecida durante tres semanas, el cuerpo de Ella Reynolds aparece en un estanque del Parque Jackson, aunque el agua hace meses que se heló. Además, lleva la ropa de otra joven desaparecida hace tan sólo dos días. Porter y su equipo empiezan a reconstruir las pistas de este nuevo caso y, al mismo tiempo, en secreto, Porter sigue el rastro de Anson. Cuando sus superiores lo descubren, Porter queda suspendido mientras Clair y Nash buscan al asesino del lago. La pista de Anson llevará a Porter desde Chicago hasta Nueva Orleans y a Carolina del Sur. A cada paso que da, Anson parece estar manipulando los acontecimientos, siempre un paso por delante y Porter se da cuenta de que el único lugar más oscuro que la mente de un asesino en serie es la de la madre que le dio la vida. La sexta trampa : Sam Porter, hasta ahora el detective al cargo del caso, ha sido apartado de él y es cada vez más sospechoso. El mayor hospital de la ciudad está cerrado por cuarentena por riesgo de contagio del virus SARS y entre los enfermos se encuentran los policías Clair y Klozowski, además de Upchurch, el cómplice del Cuarto Mono, que se debate entre la vida y la muerte. Su supervivencia es determinante para que el Cuarto Mono decida no liberar el virus al resto del país. Cuando empiezan a aparecer cuerpos en distintos puntos de la geografía con el mismo patrón la policía lo tiene el Cuarto Mono sigue actuando, y esta vez es imposible que lo haga solo. Empieza así una carrera contrarreloj para detener a uno de los asesinos más fascinantes e inteligentes jamás conocidos que ha conseguido aterrorizar a todo un país.
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James Douglas Barker
James Douglas Barker
Author · 18 books

J.D. Barker is the New York Times and international best-selling author of numerous novels, including DRACUL and THE FOURTH MONKEY. His latest, A CALLER'S GAME, released February 22. He is currently collaborating with James Patterson. His books have been translated into two dozen languages, sold in more than 150 countries, and optioned for both film and television. Barker resides in coastal New Hampshire with his wife, Dayna, and their daughter, Ember. A note from J.D. As a child I was always told the dark could not hurt me, that the shadows creeping in the corners of my room were nothing more than just that, shadows. The sounds nothing more than the settling of our old home, creaking as it found comfort in the earth only to move again when it became restless, if ever so slightly. I would never sleep without closing the closet door, oh no; the door had to be shut tight. The darkness lurking inside needed to be held at bay, the whispers silenced. Rest would only come after I checked under the bed at least twice and quickly wrapped myself in the safety of the sheets (which no monster could penetrate), pulling them tight over my head. I would never go down to the basement. Never. I had seen enough movies to know better, I had read enough stories to know what happens to little boys who wandered off into dark, dismal places alone. And there were stories, so many stories. Reading was my sanctuary, a place where I could disappear for hours at a time, lost in the pages of a good book. It didn’t take long before I felt the urge to create my own. I first began to write as a child, spinning tales of ghosts and gremlins, mystical places and people. For most of us, that’s where it begins—as children we have such wonderful imaginations, some of us have simply found it hard to grow up. I’ve spent countless hours trying to explain to friends and family why I enjoy it, why I would rather lock myself in a quiet little room and put pen to paper for hours at a time than throw around a baseball or simply watch television. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes I want to do just that, sometimes I wish for it, but even then the need to write is always there in the back of my mind, the characters are impatiently tapping their feet, waiting their turn, wanting to be heard. I wake in the middle of the night and reach for the pad beside my bed, sometimes scrawling page after page of their words, their lives. Then they’re quiet, if only for a little while. To stop would mean madness, or even worse—the calm, numbing sanity I see in others as they slip through the day without purpose. They don’t know what it’s like, they don’t understand. Something as simple as a pencil can open the door to a new world, can create life or experience death. Writing can take you to places you’ve never been, introduce you to people you’ve never met, take you back to when you first saw those shadows in your room, when you first heard the sounds mumbling ever so softly from your closet, and it can show you what uttered them. It can scare the hell out of you, and that’s when you know it’s good. jd

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