New Releases by Caleb Carr

Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe, expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York''s John Jay University in the year 2023, he lives in an era that has seen plague, a global economic crash, and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forrester. In this turbulent new world order, Wolfe''s life and everything he knows are turned upside down when the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard enters his office. The widow hands him a silver disc from her husband''s safety deposit box, hoping that Wolfe''s expertise in history and criminology will compel him to track down her husband''s killers. The disc contains footage of President Forrester''s assassination, the same video that has been broadcast countless times on TV and over the internet-with one crucial, shocking difference: This version shows that before the video was released, it was altered with sinister special effects. This explosive discovery will lead Gideon Wolfe on an electrifying journey from a criminal underworld of New York to the jungles of Africa and on a quest to find the truth in an age when all information can be manipulated. With this novel, Carr has boldly established a new genre-future history-combining the best elements of mystery and thrillers with unique historical insight. Breathtakingly suspenseful,Killing Time unfolds as the work of a master novelist.

"Historians and philosophers alike have pondered the crucial turning points of history--the events that forever altered the course of civilization and set the stage for the world in which we live today. In these essays, some of the most respected minds of our time as the question "What if...": Pontius Pilate hadn''t ordered Jesus Christ''s crucifixion? Abraham Lincoln hadn''t abolished slavery? A Confederate aide hadn''t accidentally lost General Robert E. Lee''s plans for invading the North? The Allied invasion of D Day had failed? Pope Pius XII had spoken out against the Holocaust? The Mongols had succeeded in conquering Europe?"--Back cover.

Nueva obra del autor de El alienista Caleb Carr ilustra en esta novela la vida de Frederick Townsend Ward, de quien un articulista del Los Angeles Times escribio: "Para hacerse una idea de quien fue Frederick Townsend Ward, hay que imaginar una empresa como la de Lawrence de Arabia en version norteamericana, la capacidad de riesgo de Indiana Jones y el sentido etico de Robin Hood."Cuando Townsend Ward llego a Sanghai en 1859, tenia veintiocho anos y los bolsillos vacios; cuando murio en el campo de batalla tres anos mas tarde, era el americano que mas honores habia recibido en la historia de China, un americano que habia sido adoptado por un imperio que le habia honrado con el titulo de mandarin. El compromiso que contrajo con el pueblo chino le llevo a defender las causas mas ventajosas para el pais en esos momentos de cambio. Entre la China medieval de la dinastia Manchu y la revolucion republicana que mas adelante invadiria el pais, hubo un periodo sangriento de colision de fuerzas que querian decidir el futuro del imperio. El pais se encontraba dividido entre las actitudes arcaizantes de los partidarios de preservar el imperio chino manteniendolo en un estado reminiscente de la epoca medieval y la codicia comercial de los occidentales, quienes abrieron vias nuevas de pensamiento social, politico y religioso. Ante esta situacion convulsa, Townsend Ward invirtio todo su pragmatismo en encontrar una via intermedia que resguardara los valores fundamentales del imperio al tiempo que lo desfosilizaba de antiguos anclajes.Caleb Carr aborda un trabajo de historiador para ofrecernos la biografia del aventurero norteamericano mas extraordinario del siglo XIX.

A Spanish diplomat''s wife has her baby snatched in 1890s New York and the case is given to psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his young assistant who narrates the tale. The probe leads them to a nurse turned serial killer of children, including her own. By the author of The Alienist.

En 1860, la longue agonie de la dynastie mandchoue, qui règne sur la Chine depuis des siècles, semble s''accélérer quand les troupes rebelles des Taiping marchent sur Shanghai. Dirigées par des officiers incapables et corrompus, les armées impériales ne peuvent faire face à la menace. Les hommes politiques chinois prennent conscience qu''il leur faut trouver de l''aide ailleurs. Or un étranger vient lui-même la leur proposer. Frederick Townsend Ward, jeune aventurier américain, débarque en Chine en 1859. Il a vingt-huit ans, pas un sou en poche. Lorsqu''il meurt au combat, trois ans plus tard, il est devenu sujet chinois et général de l''Armée-Toujours-Victorieuse. Comment expliquer ce destin fabuleux ? Ward a réussi à forger ce que ni la Chine ni le monde n''avaient encore vu : une armée hautement disciplinée, commandée par des officiers occidentaux, formée aux tactiques et aux armements modernes. Surnommés les " soldats du diable ", les hommes de Ward ont joué un rôle décisif dans l''issue de la guerre civile chinoise. Les très nombreux documents utilisés par Caleb Carr pour dresser le portrait du Diable blanc éclairent cette silhouette méconnue. Afin de cerner ce personnage hors du commun, l''auteur allie à son talent de romancier une érudition impressionnante.

In one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .

En 1897 Nueva York era una ciudad caotica y en crecimiento. Las bandas actuaban con impunidad y dominaban barrios en los que la prostitucion, las drogas y los rateros eran males menores. Los metodos de investigacion policial todavia estaban en panales y la estrechez de miras era condicion comun en todas las capas sociales. Lazslo Kreizler, el alienista que revoluciona a la policia de Nueva York con sus metodos poco ortodoxos, asume extraoficialmente la investigacion del rapto de una nina, la hija del secretario del consul espanol. Pero este caso presenta dos dificultades anadidas. En primer lugarm el conflicto politico-economico en Espana esta al rojo vivo. En segundo lugar, todo indica que el rapto ha sido cometido por una mujer, una mujer que parece ser una sofisticada asesina de ninos.

“So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is.”—Los Angeles Times With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history''s bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees. Praise for The Devil Soldier “If ever a book of history were made for the movies, Caleb Carr''s The Devil Soldier is it.”—Chicago Tribune “Good, thorough, scholarly but absorbing.”—Edward Rice, author of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

One tends to think of ``national security'''' as a modern concern but, as Chace and Carr point out in this major study, American presidents have pursued it obsessively since the early days of the Republic. The authors demonstrate that this quest has brought with it a strong disposition to respond militarily to threats that more often are perceived than actual. This has led U.S. forces to increasingly remote regions until, at last, our two-century search for perfect safety intrudes on outer space itself. In their lucid concluding chapter on the origin, development and probable difficulties and dangers of SDI, the authors warn that perfect security in an imperfect world is a deceitful dream, that meaningful progress toward world peace is unlikely as long as that dream is held up to the American public as an attainable goal. Chace was formerly managing editor of Foreign Affairs, and Carr was formerly on the staff of the Council of Foreign Relations.