Bøger af Tom Wood

For years, two sisters have vied for the turf of their dead crime boss father. But now one has a weapon that could finally win the war - a cold, amoral hitman known, fittingly, as 'Victor'. Acclaimed bestseller Tom Wood blows the completion away with his twisting, relentless new thriller.

AUTHOR OF THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER BETTER OFF DEADFrom hot thriller author Tom Wood comes the latest breathtaking Victor novel - The Day of the Jackal meets Jason Bourne, with a thoroughly modern twist.'Terrifically fun and explosively propulsive'Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan XEven a killer can be a heroIf the assassin known only as Victor once had a moral compass, it is long since buried, along with his many victims. Yet some men are so evil even Victor accepts they must die for reasons other than just money.One such is Milan Rados, a former commander in the Serbian army who has escaped trial at The Hague to become a formidable criminal power. Tracking down and killing this brutal man will win Victor a reprieve for his own recent crimes on British soil.But Victor isn't the only one who wants Rados dead. A woman, whose family was butchered on the tyrant's orders, will do anything to see Rados' blood spilled on the snow of Eastern Europe. Now Victor has an unlikely ally - but an army stands between them and justice.

He is darkness. She wants him dead.In a city starved of light, she might just succeed.She moves like a shadow; she kills silently: Raven. This elegant assassin has been on the run for years. This time though, she has picked the wrong target. The hitman known only as 'Victor' is as paranoid as he is merciless, and is no stranger to being hunted. He tracks his would-be killer across the globe, aiming not only to neutralise the threat, but to discover who wants him dead. The trail leads to New York...And then the lights go out.Over twelve hours of unremitting darkness, Manhattan dissolves into chaos. Amid looting, conspiracy and blackout, Victor and Raven play a vicious game of cat and mouse that the city will never forget.

Fromthe author of best seller, Ruxton: The First ModernMurder, comes another deep dive into one of the most notoriouscases in Scottish Criminal History. TomWood's TheWorld's End Murders: The Inside Story is a new look at awell-known story. Inthis book, Wood offers the detailed analysis only one of the originalinvestigators could give, and reveals how over nearly four decades, detectivesand scientists struggled to deliver justice. Thehorrific killing of two Edinburgh teenagers in October 1977 sparked anationwide manhunt that turned into one of Britain's longest and most famousmurder investigations. Thebook tells the story of two innocent young girls, Helen Scott and ChristineEadie, and of the extraordinary police investigation over almost four decadesthat eventually led to the discovery of links to their deaths with AngusSinclair, one of Scotland's most notorious murderers and sex offenders. Acquitted after a controversial trial in 2007, changes in the law and new,cutting-edge forensic evidence meant that Sinclair found himself in the courtagain, and in 2014 he was finally held to account for the notorious World's Endmurders. Butthis is not a gruesome tale of violent death - the families of Helen andChristine have suffered long enough. It is a story of heroes - of the familiesof the two girls who, with quiet dignity, have carried an unimaginable burdendown the years, and of the police officers, the support staff and thescientists who persisted in their investigations and never gave up. This is theinside story of the World's End murders."

Storytrade Book Award FinalistThree first time authors are all trying to change the world using the written word. But what they weren't expecting was for people to wind up dead. In Chicago, Davis Quigley has grown tired of his career as a beat broadcast reporter where the story rarely changes, and lands a publishing deal for his debut novel that aims to expose the lack of truth in the legal system. Meanwhile Catherine Dallas's first novel about the hidden problems her generation must overcome becomes a best seller overnight- launching her into the national spotlight. Over in Connecticut, Brady Harvey writes a self-published memoir about the meaning of love while serving a prison sentence.What do these three have in common besides a poetic sense of justice? It turns out the answer to that question is worth killing over. As Davis and Catherine begin to kindle a romance, they are forced to navigate the complicated world of publicists, book signings, tv appearances and agents vying for their next hit novel. Each with their own checkered history, the two writers share a rare, genuine connection in the midst of the superficial world of publishing. But little do they know, a dark secret from Catherine's past is threatening to destroy their budding romance-and anyone else who gets in the way. A tale filled with building suspense and mystery that ultimately connects these three writers forever, Alone Along Writers Roads explores the stories we create, and the stories we tell ourselves, to understand the good, the bad, and the unexplained parts of life. Grab your copy of this fast-paced romance thriller today!

Storytrade Book Award FinalistThree first time authors are all trying to change the world using the written word. But what they weren't expecting was for people to wind up dead.In Chicago, Davis Quigley has grown tired of his career as a beat broadcast reporter where the story rarely changes, and lands a publishing deal for his debut novel that aims to expose the lack of truth in the legal system. Meanwhile Catherine Dallas's first novel about the hidden problems her generation must overcome becomes a best seller overnight- launching her into the national spotlight. Over in Connecticut, Brady Harvey writes a self-published memoir about the meaning of love while serving a prison sentence.What do these three have in common besides a poetic sense of justice? It turns out the answer to that question is worth killing over.As Davis and Catherine begin to kindle a romance, they are forced to navigate the complicated world of publicists, book signings, tv appearances and agents vying for their next hit novel. Each with their own checkered history, the two writers share a rare, genuine connection in the midst of the superficial world of publishing. But little do they know, a dark secret from Catherine's past is threatening to destroy their budding romance-and anyone else who gets in the way.A tale filled with building suspense and mystery that ultimately connects these three writers forever, Alone Along Writers Roads explores the stories we create, and the stories we tell ourselves, to understand the good, the bad, and the unexplained parts of life.Grab your copy of this fast-paced romance thriller today!

The Church Planter Field Manual is designed to empower leaders to multiply gospel-saturated, missionally-engaged and reproducing churches in their cities or regions. In Climbing, you will interact with materials on Building a Launch Team; Designing a Worship Service in your Context; Handling Conflict in a New Church; Planting Generosity; and Missional Engagement part 2. Each chapter is filled with practical ideas and interactive adult learning methods.

The Church Planter Field Manual: Exploring, is gospel centered training for church planters by church planters. Each chapter is designed to empower leaders to multiply gospel-saturated, missionally engaged and reproducing churches in their cities or region.

Come and meet our friend Sidney Snarfgrobble the Grobbalott. An alien who lives in the moon with his dog Sharky. When an evil bully picks on him, Sidney decides to defeat him in the smartest way. Join Sidney on his newest adventure. Let's go!

Do you desire to be what God intended? Do you desire to have the life Jesus died and lives to give you? Have you given up with the traditional forms of a programmed approach to Christian growth? Jesus' call of the Gospel is to follow him and as we follow, to invite others to follow him with us. Gospelling Life Together is intentionally involving and learning the Gospel Story and one another's gospel story through focused discussions about each other's Relational, Personal, Missional, and Spiritual life, in the context of regular, ongoing friendship, for a joyful, personal revolution that leads to deeper community and a God honoring, Jesus glorifying mission in this runaway world.

The Church Planter Field Manual is designed to empower leaders to multiply gospel-saturated, missionally-engaged and reproducing churches in their cities or regions. In Fishing, you will interact with materials on Disciple Making for a New Church; Team Building For Beginners; Gospel Life of the Planter; and Developing Leaders in a New Church.

The hunter has become the huntedVictor is a freelancer, a professional, a killer---the best there is. He's ice cold, methodical, and deadly. He lives alone. He operates alone. No one knows his background, or even his name. For him, business is a straight transaction. He's given a job; he takes out the target; he gets paid.He's in Paris to perform a standard kill and collect for an anonymous client. The contract is simple, routine, and Victor completes it with trademark efficiency, only to find himself in the middle of an ambush and fighting for his life. Faced with powerful and determined enemies, and caught in the crossfire of an international conspiracy unfolding across four continents, Victor is forced to go on the run across a winter-ravaged Europe. Pursued by the authorities, hired assassins, and intelligence agencies from both sides of the Atlantic, he discovers that no place is safe for him anymore and there is no one he can trust.But Victor is no easy target, and he's every bit as ruthless as those hunting him. He will find out who wants him dead and why, one corpse at a time.Debut author Tom Hinshelwood has written a classic cat-and-mouse thriller for the twenty-first century that takes off from the very first page and never lets up. Filled with adrenaline-charged action worthy of the big screen, The Killer will have readers looking down the barrel of a gun at every turn. The Killer was previously published under the title, "The Hunter".

The action-packed, gripping, twisty new Victor thriller from bestseller Tom Wood is his best yet, and sees the mysterious assassin search for a missing mother and her child in a town full of secrets.

Two dismembered bodies discarded in the borderlands of Scotland, hideously mutilated to avoid identification. Forty-three pieces of rotten flesh and bone wrapped in rags and newspaper. A jigsaw puzzle of decomposing human remains.

Lethal assassin Victor lands in the middle of a Guatemalan cartel war in the latest nonstop thriller from the international bestselling author of The Final Hour.KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE...Victor is the killer who always delivers...for the right price. And Heloise Salvatierra, patron of Guatemala's largest cartel, is ready and willing to pay him just that to eliminate the competition: her sister. Heloise has been battling Maria for control of the cartel in an endless and bloody war. Now Victor decides who survives. An easy job if it weren't for the sudden target on his back....AND THEIR ENEMIES CLOSER.Victor's not the only one on the hunt. Someone else has Maria in the crosshairs and will do anything to get the kill. In the middle of cartel territory with enemies closing in from all sides, Victor must decide where to put the bullet before one is placed in his head....

Before moving to North Wales in 2003, the author had been photographing the people of his Liverpool neighbourhood for almost three decades. In this title, he displays edited photographs taken from his archives filled with artistic chronicles of the lives of men and women.

Claptrap is a grand satire of the colonial mentality that governs the theatre festivals of Canada.

Beginning in 1985 the Manchester-based Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) commissioned photographers to record aspects of British society in the north of England. Tom Wood's The DPA Work explores the life and demise of two major institutions near Liverpool, Rainhill Psychiatric Hospital and Cammell Laird shipyard.Opened in 1851 as a lunatic asylum for long-term patients, by 1936 Rainhill was the largest hospital complex in Europe. Wood began photographing there in the 1980s when UK government policy had shifted from institutions towards "Care in the Community." By then Rainhill had diminished in size and wards were often combined, mixing a range of patients. The DPA and the mental-health charity Mind, which described conditions at Rainhill as "wholly unacceptable," asked Wood to record the hospital's closure and the movement of its patients into the community.Cammell Laird shipyard's illustrious history dates back to the 1820s, and includes the building of many famous warships and aircraft carriers such as HMS Ark Royal. When Wood photographed the yard it was facing closure, with a demoralized workforce fighting to save their jobs while HMS Unicorn, the last Upholder-class submarine, was being completed and launched.The two main volumes of The DPA Work include archive material related to the history of Rainhill and Cammell Laird, while a third book features a series of late nineteenth-century photographs of patients at Rainhill. Together these volumes document a time of upheaval in Liverpool in the midst of industrial decline, the breakdown of communities and changes in healthcare whose consequences are still felt today.Co-published with the University of Chester

In the most unique and gasp-inducing novel yet from bestseller Tom Wood, the thriller norm is subverted as the hitman Victor is hunted . . . by the good guys, the heroes. How far will he go to survive?

These three volumes of Tom Wood's new work, Landscapes, are drawn from the artist's extensive unseen and unpublished landscape work. The first volume concentrates on Wood's photographs made in response to the West of Ireland, County Mayo, the landscape of his birthplace and childhood and an area he has returned to as an artist almost every year since 1975. Taken over decades, views of this wild and remote landscape, many of them glimpsed from the car, bus or train during his journeys there, are combined with fragile fragments of surviving family photographs, video stills, and intimate and affectionate portraits of day-to-day life within a rural community.The second volume consists of Wood's landscapes predominantly made within Merseyside, where he lived and worked for 25 years, from 1978-2003. In this more urban environment, his landscapes encompass pictures of people's homes and gardens, parks, wastelands, and the river Mersey. Wood moved to Wales in 2003 to address what he has referred to as "the matter of landscape." His open and experimental approach to photography means he is constantly pushing its formal and conceptual possibilities.Selected from the photographs he has been making in Wales, the third volume is the most formally abstract of the three books and includes many photographs taken with a panoramic camera - complex, optically rich pictures with multiple points of view and focus.

Victor, a hitman without a conscience protects a human rights lawyer in Better Off Dead, he bestselling BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club pick.A hitman must be anonymous, amoral... and aloneVictor is the face in the crowd you don't see, a perfect assassin with nothing to live for.But when an old friend turns to him for help, he finds he can't refuse. For once his objective isn't to kill, but to protect.Hunted through the streets of London by ruthless enemies, Victor needs to be more than just a bodyguard... but his every move leads danger closer to the very person he's vowed to defend.Published in the US as No Tomorrow.

Victor is the perfect killer.He has no past.He will stop at nothing.And he can find you anywhere.In sweltering Algiers, ultra-efficient hitman Victor executes a fellow assassin. But when the CIA comes calling, Victor must pose as his victim to identify the dead man's next mark, a mission that takes him across Europe to the bloody streets of Rome. Working alongside a group of vicious mercenaries, Victor faces an impossible choice: to do what's right, or to sacrifice the only thing he cares about . . . his life.Full of white-hot tension and edge-of-the-seat action, The Game will surprise you at every turn.