Then one day Lenny vanishes,his yacht discovered abandoned far out at sea.The police believe his death was no accident;that his involvement in a spectaculay financial fraud was about to be exposed to the world.But Grace can't accept the terrible allegations now coming to light,and she will learn the truth...even if that truth destroys her.
Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, etface à un petit gar?on tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si desurcro?t ce petit gar?on vous demande avec insistance de dessinerun mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! ? partir de là, vousn'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vientcet étrange petit bonhomme et conna?tre son histoire. S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique,peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petitprince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf,empli de na?veté, de fra?cheur et de gravité. Très vite, vousdécouvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, debuveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
The New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize contender that"delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" (SeattleTimes). One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is calledto a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family forover two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive andhandsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, anddaughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, aswell as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted bysomething more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr.Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story isabout to become intimately entwined with his.
Just before Jack Ryan stepped down as US President, he created a secret organization designed to operate in areas where the CIA and FBI couldn't go - able to use any and all means to neutralize terrorists who threatened America. Now his son, Jack Ryan, Jr, is part of that organization and he's on the front line when a group of Islamic terrorists backed up by Colombian drug smugglers strike at the heart of American society. With no conventional way to hit back at the shadowy ring-leaders, it's left to Jack Ryan, Jr to take on the terrorists the only way he knows how .
"Expliquer ton suicide? Personne ne s'y est risqué. Tu necraignais pas la mort. Tu l'as devancée, mais sans vraiment ladésirer : comment désirer ce que l'on ne conna?t pas? Tu n'as pasnié la vie, mais affirmé ton go?t pour l'inconnu en pariant que si,de l'autre c?té, quelque chose existait, ce serait mieux qu'ici."Dans Suicide, le narrateur s'adresse à un ami qui s'est tué d'uncoup de fusil. Appara?t peu à peu l'image d'un homme sto?que,délicat et sensible, qui ressemble à l'auteur.
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter....
Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known.Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life - hisdisillusioned merchant-banker's life - and leaves everythingbehind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor thathis search for her will take him to the beating heart of New Ageismin northern California.
For countless readers, one of life’s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside London’s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed. A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the man’s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk can’t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the woman’s somber beauty, he is impelled to try. Mary Havilla
There's a caste system even in murder.Seven years ago, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession. In this elaborate murder mystery we join Arun Advani, India's best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat; an American tourist; a stone-age tribesman; a Bollywood sex symbol; a mobile phone thief; and an ambitious politician. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger. Inspired by actual events, Vikas Swarup's eagerly awaited second novel is both a riveting page turner and an insightful peek into the heart and soul of contemporary India.
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.
Kate Morton's second novel is a rich and satisfying mystery set in England and Australia of a woman's search for her identity.
Un matin, la cantatrice Sophia Siméonidis découvre, dans sonjardin, un arbre qu'elle ne conna?t pas. Un hêtre. Qui l'a plantélà ? Pourquoi ? Pierre, son mari, n'en a que faire. Mais lacantatrice, elle, s'inquiète, en perd le sommeil, finit pardemander à ses voisins, trois jeunes types un peu déjantés, decreuser sous l'arbre, pour voir si... Quelques semaines plus tard,Sophia dispara?t tandis qu'on découvre un cadavre calciné. Est-cele sien ? La police enquête. Les voisins aussi. Sophia, ilsl'aimaient bien. L'étrange apparition du hêtre n'en devient queplus énigmatique. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuiséeou non disponible de ce titre.
