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Un écrivain professionnel est engagé pour rédiger les mémoires d'Adam Lang, le Premier ministre britannique resté le plus longtemps en exercice, et le plus controversé, de ces cinquante dernières années. Un projet périlleux sur lequel planent de nombreuses zones d'ombre et notamment la mort curieuse du précédent rédacteur…
A peine mis au travail, l'écrivain découvre des secrets que Lang n'a guère l'intention de révéler.
Des secrets explosifs susceptibles de bouleverser la politique mondiale… Des secrets susceptibles de tuer. Danger, oppression, panique : la tension monte.
Alexander Hoffmann, patron d'un fonds d’investissement à Genève et génie de la finance, a trouvé un algorithme qui permet de multiplier les gains à l'infini : l’indice de la peur. Mais le scénario idéal bascule, Alexander est espionné. Ou paranoïaque ?
La folie le guette et pendant ce temps l'indice de la peur s’emballe, le système devient incontrôlable, est sur le point de provoquer un krach boursier sans précédent. La panique s’empare des marchés et l'étau se referme : Alexander ne pourra peut-être plus détruire le monstre qu’il a créé, un monstre numérique et immortel.
Thriller psychologique de haute voltige, trépidant et terrifiant, prouve une fois encore l'incroyable talent de Robert Harris, son goût de l’intrigue et du complot, sa fascinante maîtrise du suspens.
Mason se ve inmerso en un caso de difamación cuando un comerciante de arte afirma que una pintura de Felipe Feteet es una falsificación. Cuando Mason va al apartamento de la principal testigo, lo único que encuentra es un cadáver.
Perry Mason fue contratado para proteger los intereses de la familia Bain, que estaban siendo chantajeados con una cinta de audio amañada. Mason logra borrar la grabación, pero Hattie Bain es acusada de asesinato, y Mason se hace cargo de su defensa. Mason logrará poner contra las cuerdas a los testigos del Ministerio Fiscal.
The ships came at dawn.
Dean’s wife is dead. Her last words: When the ships come… wear the necklace.
Then the ships arrived.
Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky.
Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth.
A trail of clues left by his dead wife guide Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond, to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.
But not everything is as it seems.
The Event is the epic first novel by Nathan Hystad, creator of the bestselling Explorations anthology series.
Deadly. Mercenary. Superhuman. Not your ordinary math geek.
Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good.
The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men
twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight. She can take any job for
the right price and shoot anyone who gets in her way.
As far as she knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower… but
then Cas discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own.
Someone who can reach directly into people’s minds and twist their brains into
Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world’s puppet master.
Someone who’s already warped Cas’s thoughts once before, with her none the
wiser.
Cas should run. Going up against a psychic with a god complex isn’t exactly a
rational move, and saving the world from a power-hungry telepath isn’t her
responsibility. But she isn’t about to let anyone get away with violating her
brain — and besides, she’s got a small arsenal and some deadly mathematics on
her side. There’s only one problem…
She doesn’t know which of her thoughts are her own anymore.
Cuando Arthur Cushing, un notorio playboy, es asesinado, Belle Adrian sospecha que su hija, Carlota, es quien lo ha asesinado, y Carlotta sospecha que su madre cometió el crimen. Mason se hará cargo de la defensa de Belle.
The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich – told for the first time ever. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world’s best footballers – and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows.
A group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism – and many of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth. Londongrad tells for the first time the true story of their journeys from Moscow and St Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Surrey – and takes you into a shimmering world of audacious multi-billion pound deals, outrageous spending and rancorous feuds.
But while London’s flashiest restaurants echoed to Russian laughter and Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, darker events also played themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London to the death – in a helicopter crash he all but predicted – of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain’s richest Russians, chilled London’s Russians and many of those who know them.
This is the story of how Russia’s wealth was harvested and brought to London – some of it spent by Roman Abramovich on his beloved Chelsea Football Club, some of it spent by Boris Berezovsky in his battles with Russia’s all-powerful Vladimir Putin. Londongrad is a must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is created, the luxury it can buy and the power and intrigue it produces.
Un cliente nuevo visita a Perry Mason, es una bella mujer pero se niega a revelarle su nombre, tan sólo se identifica como «60-90-60». Todo lo que le pide es protección durante unos pocos de días. Ciertamente, la bolsa llena de dinero en efectivo que lleva no es la cesta de la compra. De hecho, su clienta testaruda, va encaminada al desastre no sólo en las garras de un chantajista, también en una trampa mortal de la que la brillante mente de Perry Mason parece incapaz de ayudarla a salir.
Una joven pareja ya comprometidos, el estudiante de leyes, ella secretaria de un bufete de abogados y que le paga los estudios, llegan a la oficina de Perry Mason para pedirle ayuda pues piensan que la tía de ella, enamorada de un hombre que conoció por correspondencia, piensa casarse con él y se ha ido con una gran cantidad de dinero. Perry pensando que es algo sin importancia los pasa a Paul Drake y la agencia de detectives pero las cosas empiezan a torcerse sobre todo cuando el supuesto embaucador, aparece muerto y las sospechas recaen en la tía enamorada…Perry tendrá que poner en marcha todo su ingenio para resolver el caso y salvar a su clienta…
There’s always a new threat.
A year after the Event, horrific memories of the vessels linger in Dean’s mind as he tries to find his way forward in his new life.
But now the Heroes of Earth face a new threat that endangers the fragile remnant of humanity.
Two rebel hybrids have escaped from their segregated encampment. Dean and his team pursue them across the galaxy, racing to catch them before they reach an unseen enemy. This new threat is looming over Earth, their name spoken softly and fearfully by anyone who knows of them.
When a line is drawn, whose side will Dean stand on?
New Threat is the second book in the Survivors series. Look for New World, the epic conclusion to the series, on May 2, 2018!
When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to grandparents, and grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.
Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.
Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.
But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.
Un gran camión, propiedad de la Skinner Hills Karakul Company, que transportaba algunas ovejas «karakul», detuvo repentinamente su marcha. El conductor no hizo señal alguna. Un automóvil conducido por Arthur Bickler, embistió la parte trasera del camión y sufrió averías de bastante importancia. Así comienza un nuevo caso de este famoso abogado.Bickler acude a Perry Mason para que, en su nombre, pida una indemnización a la compañía. Antes de poder iniciar los trámites, reciben una llamada ofreciéndoles mucho más dinero del que pensaban pedir. Esto, despierta el instinto de Mason y pone a Drake a investigar. Esta compañía esta comprando numerosas tierras para, en teoría, la cría de ovejas.Perry Mason sospecha que hay algo más y decide entrevistarse con su representante, Fred Midfield. Mientras está en su casa, hablando con su esposa, el teniente Tragg del departamento de homicidios le comunica que su marido ha sido asesinado en un barco.El caso se vuelve muy enredado, con pistas que llevan a diferentes direcciones (la posición del cuerpo, una vela torcida, el flujo de las mareas…) y que solo una mente tan brillante como Mason puede resolver.
In 1808, eighteen-year-old Anna Petrovna Bulygina is aboard the Russian ship when it runs aground off on the west coast of Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula. The crew, tasked with trading for sea otter pelts and exploring the coast, are forced to shore into Indigenous territory, where they are captured, enslaved, and then traded among three different Indigenous communities. Terrified at first, Anna soon discovers that nothing—including slavery—is what she expected. She begins to question Russian imperialist aspirations, the conduct of the crew, and her own beliefs and values as she experiences a way of life she never could have imagined.
Based on historical record, blends fact and fiction to explore the early days of contact between Indigenous people and Europeans off the west coast of North America and offers a fresh interpretation of history.
En esta ocasión, Mason es contratado para recuperar unos pagarés de juego de una nieta mimada por una rica viuda. Un asesinato a bordo de El cuerno de la abundancia, un casino flotante que está anclado más allá del límite legal de las doce millas…
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller and international phenomenon , returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.
What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
With the same insight and clarity that made an international hit and a bestseller, Harari maps out our future.
Una joven llega al despacho de Perry Mason y le pide que cobre unos boletos en el hipódromo por una fuerte suma. El abogado accede, pero se da cuenta que sucede algo. Al llegar al hipódromo, Mason cobra los boletos e inmediatamente Fremont, el jefe del hermano de la joven, le requiere para que le entregue todo el dinero, alegando que las apuestas se hicieron con las cantidades que le habían desfalcado.Cuando Fremont muere asesinado en el baño de la joven, Mason se hace cargo del caso.
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