La Isla Maldita / The Island

Vuelve el autor del bestseller La cadena con un thriller del que no podrás huir. Mejor Thriller 2022 del New York Times "Suspenso constante." --Stephen King Heather Baxter ha logrado cambiar de vida: se ha casado con Tom, un joven y brillante médico, viudo y padre de dos hijos. Cuando su flamante marido recibe una invitación para asistir a un congreso en Australia, deciden que toda la familia lo acompañe para afianzar la relación entre Heather y los hijos adolescentes de Tom. Visitar la minúscula Isla Holandesa parece un sueño hecho realidad: koalas, canguros y aves exóticas al alcance de la mano, algo imposible de experimentar en ningún otro lugar del mundo. Sin embargo, lo que parecían unas idílicas vacaciones acabará tomando un rumbo muy distinto. "La Holandesa" es una isla privada dominada por el clan de los O'Neill, una familia que no perdonará un lamentable accidente, y convertirá las vacaciones de Tom y Heather en una auténtica pesadilla. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chain comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a family that must face their darkest fears--and deepest secrets--when they go on the run for their lives. New York Times "Best Thriller of 2022" "Unrelenting suspense." --Stephen King

IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY. After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it's up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don't trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead. Heather has been underestimated her entire life, but she knows that only she can bring her family home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive.

Adrian McKinty nació y creció en Belfast durante los conflictos de los años setenta y ochenta. Asistió a la universidad de Oxford con una beca para cursar estudios de Filosofía antes de trasladarse a Estados Unidos para convertirse en profesor de lengua en un instituto. Sus novelas han recibido varios galardones, entre los que destacan el Edgar Award, el Ned Kelly Award, el Anthony Award y el Barry Award, y han sido traducidas a más de veinte lenguas. Es colaborador y crítico literario de The Sidney Morning Herald, The Irish Times y The Guardian. Actualmente, vive en Nueva York con su mujer y sus dos hijos.

"McKinty es tan bueno que estoy empezando a odiarlo". --LEE CHILD Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to Australia and to New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including the Dagger and Edgar-award nominated debut Dead I Well May Be, the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series, and the award-winning standalone thriller The Chain, which was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller. McKinty's books have been translated into over 30 languages and he has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (3 times, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.