The Hollow Ones - Guillermo del Toro Chuck Hogan Kartoniert (TB)

Like a Jack Reacher crime thriller... with a Van Helsing-style demon hunter - The GuardianFrom the Oscar-winning director of Pan's Labyrinth The Shape of Water and Hellboy and the authors of The Strain comes a new paranormal thriller - X-FILES meets Ben Aaronovitch. ______________________________________A horrific crime that defies ordinary explanation.A rookie FBI agent in dangerous uncharted territory.An extraordinary hero for the ages.Odessa's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner who turns suddenly inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murder er. The shooting justified by self-defence shakes Odessa to her core and she is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation.But what most troubles her isn't the tragedy itself - it's the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent's body after his death.Questioning her future with the FBI and her sanity Odessaaccepts a low-level assignment to clear out the belongings of a retired agent in the New York office. What she finds there will put her on the trail of a mysterious figure named John Blackwood a man of enormous means who claims to have been alive for centuries. What he tells her could mean he's an unhinged lunatic. That or he's humanity's best and only defence against an unspeakable evil that could corrupt even the best of us . . .