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The devil's feather

A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil. Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra Leone in 2002. Two years later she finds him training Iraqi police in Baghdad. Connie is determined to expose his crimes, but then she is kidnapped and released after three days of unspeakable torture. Silently, she returns to England and attempts to isolate herself, but it soon becomes apparent that the horrors of the world and her own nightmarish past aren?t so easy to escape from. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "The devil's feather"@it
  • "Devil's feather"@it

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  • "Minette Waltersarbeitete lange als Redakteurin in London, bevor sie Schriftstellerin wurde. Seit ihrem Debüt " Im Eishaus", das 1994 auf Deutsch veröffentlicht wurde, zählt sie zu den Lieblingsautoren von Millionen Leserinnen und Lesern in aller Welt. Alle ihre bisher erschienenen Romane wurden mit wichtigen internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet und in über dreißig Länder verkauft. Minette Walters lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren beiden Söhnen in Dorset, England. Traumatisiert kehrt die Journalistin Connie Burns in ihre englische Heimat zurück. Nur knapp war die erfolgreiche Kriegsreporterin in Bagdad aus der Gefangenschaft entkommen. Der sadistische Frauenmörder John Howard hatte sie gekidnappt und festgehalten, als sie mit ihren Nachforschungen drohte, seine grauenvollen Morde aufzudecken. In der ländlichen Idylle von Dorset sucht Connie Zuflucht. Doch die Angst lässt sie nicht los: Wird Harwood ihre Spur aufnehmen? Connie ahnt, dass der Tag der Abrechnung bevorsteht - und gemeinsam mit ihrer Freundin Jess erwartet sie den ungebetenen Gast in ihrem einsam gelegenen Haus."
  • "Connie Burns, correspondante de guerre, se lance sur la piste d'un mercenaire psychopathe. Mais cet homme traqué se retourne contre elle et la kidnappe. Plus tard pour oublier le cauchemar de son enlèvement en Irak, elle fuit jusqu'à Barton House, près d'un petit village anglais qu'elle croit tranquille."
  • "A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil. Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra Leone in 2002. Two years later she finds him training Iraqi police in Baghdad. Connie is determined to expose his crimes, but then she is kidnapped and released after three days of unspeakable torture. Silently, she returns to England and attempts to isolate herself, but it soon becomes apparent that the horrors of the world and her own nightmarish past aren?t so easy to escape from. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? Reuters correspondent Connie Burns is no stranger to the world's troublespots, including the vicious civil unrest in Sierra Leone and the war in Iraq. But as she begins to suspect that a foreigner is using the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women, her efforts to bring him to justice leave her devastated. Degraded and terrified, she goes into hiding in England and strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire, a loner whose reclusive nature may well be masking secrets of her own. Connie draws from the other woman's strength and makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer ... Knowing he will come looking for her ..."
  • "Minette Walters may share the title of "English Queen of Crime" with Agatha Christie, but don't expect to encounter Miss Marple in any of Walter's gripping tales of terror. There is nothing quaint about the life of reporter Connie Burns; working in the most dangerous locales, she witnesses wartime violence, devastation and depravity. It's all secondhand observations until Connie sets her sights on exposing a sadistic mercenary and suspected serial killer - waging her war against him results in her being held hostage in Iraq. Tortured, degraded, and then released by the psychopath, Connie flees to the English countryside in the hopes of escaping her captor's reach and erasing her vivid memories of the terror. While she huddles in dark rooms, shaking in fear, struggling to retain her sanity, you won't be able to help yourself from riding the panic attacks with her, feeling her paranoia and remaining hopeful that she can find some sort of justice to come out of her trauma."
  • "Na haar ontvoering in Bagdad verschuilt een Britse oorlogsjournaliste zich in een Engels dorp totdat haar ontvoerder ook daar opduikt."
  • "When five women are found brutally killed in Sierra Leone, journalist Connie Burns suspects that a British mercenary is acting out his sadistic fantasies, but her efforts to expose him are complicated by her traumatic experiences as a hostage in Baghdad."
  • ""With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? Reuters correspondent Connie Burns is no stranger to the world's troublespots, including the vicious civil unrest in Sierra Leone and the war in Iraq. But as she begins to suspect that a foreigner is using the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women, her efforts to bring him to justice leave her devastated. Degraded and terrified, she goes into hiding in England and strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire, a loner whose reclusive nature may well be masking secrets of her own. Connie draws from the other woman's strength and makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer ... Knowing he will come looking for her ..."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "The devil's feather [sound recording]"
  • "Les démons de Barton House"
  • "Des Teufels Werk Roman"
  • "Paholaisen höyhen"@fi
  • "The devil's feather [a novel]"
  • "Djävulens fjäder"@sv
  • "Des Teufels Werk : Roman"
  • "Les démons de Barton house"
  • "Djævelens fjer : kriminalroman"@da
  • "La piuma del diavolo : romanzo"@it
  • "La piuma del diavolo : romanzo"
  • "The Devil's Feather"
  • "The devil's feather"@en
  • "The devil's feather"
  • "Des Teufels Werk Thriller ; gekürzte Lesung"
  • "Les démons de Barton House : roman"
  • "Devil's feather"
  • "The Devil's feather"
  • "Des teufels Werk : roman"
  • "Des Teufels Werk"
  • "Duivelsveer"

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