Лучшие книги Мэтта Раффа

Джейн Шарлотта арестована за убийство. Она говорит, что работает на секретную организацию, в Департаменте по ликвидации безнадежных лиц, или, как его еще называют, в «Злых Обезьянах» и спасает мир, убивая настоящих злодеев. После такого признания ее отправляют в закрытую психиатрическую клинику, где местному психиатру предстоит определить безумна ли Джейн. А может, она лжет, или ведет какую-то свою игру? Доктор еще не знает, что ему придется столкнуться с самой невероятной преступницей во всей своей практике, что реальность гораздо страшнее и причудливее, чем он думает, что обыкновенный допрос скоро превратится в жуткую головоломку, а его…

2023 год. Над Манхэттеном люди и андроиды по заказу миллиардера Гарри Ганта возводят "Новый Вавилон" - самое высокое здание на планете, памятник светлой человеческой мечте, которой исполнилось пять миллионов лет. А в прогнившей насквозь канализации внизу, среди аллигаторов и крыс-мутантов затеваются гораздо более темные игры. При загадочных обстоятельствах гибнет корпоративный налетчик Янтарсон Чайнег, стремившийся захватить империю Ганта, и бывшая жена миллиардера идеалистка Джоан Файн начинает расследование. Ей помогают оживленный компьютером дух русского философа и американской писательницы Айн Рэнд, заключенный в лампу, и веселая…

Аттикус Тернер, только что вернувшийся с Корейской войны ветеран, оказывается дальним потомком некоего Тита Брейтуайта, могущественного колдуна из городка Арпхэм, и обладает силой его крови. Это вовлекает в интриги американских колдовских лож не только Аттикуса, но и все его многочисленное семейство. Им предстоит столкнуться с богохульными ритуалами, магическими гримуарами, путешествиями на край Галактики, монстрами с многочисленными щупальцами, призраками оккультистов, оборотнями, проклятиями и ожившими предметами! Добро пожаловать в страну Лавкрафта!

11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijackfour jetliners. They fly two into theTigris & Euphrates World Trade Towersin Baghdad, and a third into the ArabDefense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourthplane, believed to be bound for Mecca, isbrought down by its passengers. The UnitedArab States declares a War on Terror. Arabianand Persian troops invade the EasternSeaboard and establish a Green Zone inWashington, D.C. . . .

Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Securityagent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogatesa captured suicide bomber. The prisonerclaims that the world they are living in isa mirage—in the real world, America is asuperpower, and the Arab states are just acollection of "backward third-world countries."Other captured terrorists have beentelling the same story.

The gangster Saddam Hussein is conductinghis own investigation. And the headof the Senate Intelligence Committee—awar hero named Osama bin Laden—willstop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafaand his colleagues venture deeper into theunsettling world of terrorism, politics, andespionage, they are confronted with questionswithout any rational answers, andthe terrifying possibility that their world isnot what it seems.

"I suppose I should tell you about the house.... The house, along with the lake, the forest, and Coventry, are all in Andy Gage's head, or what would have been Andy Gage's head if he had lived. Andy Gage was horn in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather ... It was no ordinary murder.. though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it died, it broke in pieces. Then the pieces became souls in their own right, coinheritors of Andy Gage's life. . . . "

While Andy deals with the outside world, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside Andy's head, struggling to maintain an orderly coexistence: Aaron, the father figure; Adam, the mischievous teenager; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, who wants to get rid of Andy and the others and run things on his own.

Andy's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality, a fact that Penny is only partially aware of. When several of Penny's other souls ask Andy for help, Andy reluctantly agrees, setting in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the stability of the house. Now Andy and Penny must work together to uncover a terrible secret that Andy has been keeping . . . from himself.

Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University in upstate New York. An imaginative bestselling author in search of a new story, he’s seeing his life as a modern-day fairy tale, and himself as a would-be knight looking to woo a lovely maiden—or two: the bewitching Calliope and his guiding light, Aurora Borealis Smith. However, his happy ending might not be up to him.

There’s another writer who has a greater influence on campus. Unseen, yet twice as formidable, Mr. Sunshine is an eternal semi-retired deity who’s been fashioning his own narrative for centuries. He has all his characters in place—dragons, sprites, gnomes, and villains. And now, finally, his hero. As Mr. Sunshine’s world comes to fabulous and violent life, can Stephen decide his own fate if it’s already being plotted by a god?

John Chu is a “sherpa", a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse.

Chu’s new client, the pseudonymous Mr. Jones, claims to be a “wealthy, famous person” with powerful enemies, and he’s offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour of the world of virtual-reality gaming. For Chu, this is a dream assignment, but as the tour gets underway, he begins to suspect that Mr. Jones is really North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, whose interest in VR gaming has more to do with power than entertainment. As if that weren’t enough to deal with, Chu also has to worry about “Ms. Pang,” who may or may not be an agent of the People’s Republic of China, and his angry ex-girlfriend, Darla Jean Covington, who isn’t the type to let an international intrigue get in the way of her own plans for revenge.

What begins as a whirlwind online adventure soon spills over into the real world. Now Chu must use every trick and resource at his disposal to stay one step ahead—because in real life, there is no reset button.