Por la mañana, Ned lo tenia todo: la mujer de sus sueños en la cama de una lujosa suite, y el plan para un atraco perfecto que le permitiria dejar de ser un pobre socorrista cansado de envidiar a los ricos de Palm Beach. Por la tarde, no tenia  nada. La chica, brutalmente asesinada. El golpe, un fracaso total. Sus compañeros y amigos, muertos. Y toda la policia del pais siguiendo sus pasos por unos crimenes que no ha cometido. Solo una joven agente del FBI parece creer en su inocencia, pero se enfrenta a personas muy poderosas que estan dispuestas a que Ned sea la perfecta cabeza de turco. Para demostrar su inocencia, han de descubrir que paso realmente durante el fallido robo, y donde han ido a parar las valiosas obras de arte que desaparecieron. James Patterson demuestra de nuevo por que es uno de los principales autores norteamericanos de thriller, en una novela llena de intriga, accion y ritmo trepidante. / Working as a lifeguard in a posh Florida resort, Ned Kelley finds the woman of his dreams. The only thing he needs is money. So when his friends offer to cut him into a deal that promises $1,000,000 each, how can he turn it down? The plan is simplea fast break-and-enter to grab paintings from a rich collector. But on the night of the heist, theyre double-crossed. Worse, Neds friends are brutally executed. Now hes the prime target of both the FBI and the killers. With no one to trust, Ned must dodge the authorities and the vicious killers in a desperate effort to avenge his friends and clear his name. Written with the astonishing velocity and hairs breadth plotting that only James Patterson can master, Lifeguard is the wildest thriller yet from one of Americas most influential authors (New York Times). With twenty New York Times bestsellers, over eighty million books in print and translated into nearly forty languages throughout the world, James Patterson is one of the top-selling writers of all time. He is the only novelist to have #1 bestsellers in the categories of suspense, fantasy, and romance. James Patterson has spent more than 150 straight weeks on the USA Today 150 list of overall top-selling bookslonger than Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Danielle Steel, or John Grisham....

¿Puede un hombre decente convertirse en el Presidente de los Estados Unidos? En esta provocativa novela, un candidato se enfrenta a sus enemigos politicos y a la poderosa maquinaria electoral americana. / Corey Gracea handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohiois plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War Air Force pilot known for speaking his mind, Graces reputation for voting his own conscience rather than the party linetogether with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie starhas earned him a reputation as a maverick and an iconoclast. But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past or present life is off-limits. Depicting contemporary power politics at its most ruthless, The Race takes on the most incendiary issues in American culture:  racism, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, gay rights, and the rise of media monopolies with their own agenda and lust for power. As the pressure of the campaign intensifies, Grace encounters betrayal, excruciating moral choices, and secrets that can destroy lives. Ultimately, the race leads to a deadlocked party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his romance with Lexie and his presidential ambitionsand decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice....