Thriller

Sa carricre, il ne la doit qu'a lui-meme. Devenu l'un des spécialistes les plus réputés de Boston, le docteur Craig Bowman est aussi surpris qu'humilié de se retrouver accusé de négligence, et traŒné en justice par la famille d'une riche patiente morteentre ses mains. Une bavure, prétend-on, qui pourrait couter trcs cher a cet homme ambitieux. Les apparences ne jouant pas en sa faveur, sa femme fait appel a Jack Stapleton, un médecin légiste new-yorkais. Et quand ce dernier demande l'exhumation etl'autopsie du cadavre, seule fa‡on de démontrer s'il y a eu faute, il ignore qu'il est en train d'ouvrir la boŒte de Pandore. Pour l'empecher de découvrir la vérité, certains sont prets a tout... Avec ce thriller médical, Robin Cook évoque la menace quinous hante tous : l'erreur médicale.

Carlo Franconi, un mafioso new-yorkais qui avait accepté de collaborer, est abattu en pleine rue alors qu'il se trouvait sous protection de la police. Son cadavre, transporté a la morgue, est volé durant la nuit. Tandis que le docteur Laurie Montgomerytente d'élucider cette énigme, son collcgue Jack Stapleton est confronté a un autre mystcre : il doit identifier un corps sans mains ni tete repeché au petit matin. Malgré la mutilation subie par le cadavre, Jack a la surprise de découvrir qu'il s'agitde Franconi. Détail troublant, celui-ci venait récemment de subir une transplantation du foie sans qu'on puisse en déterminer l'origine. Quant au code ADN des tissus greffés, il est pour le moins déstabilisant...Le docteur Laurie Montgomery et le flic Lou Soldano, héros de Vengeance aveugle sont de retour. Avec le légiste Jack Stapleton, rencontré dans Contagion, ils vont unir leur courage et leurs intelligences pour affronter la pcgre et des praticiens plussoucieux de profits que d'éthique. Leur enquete va les mener dans la jungle de l'Afrique tropicale... Un récit trcs documenté et plein de rebondissements qui fait froid dans le dos.

Cyclope, c'est la nouvelle aventure de Dirk Pitt, l'agent secret aux yeux verts... Comme d'habitude, tout y débute par hasard, quand Dirk découvre des cadavres dans un antique dirigeable. D'ou viennent-ils ? C'est une longue histoire...En vérité, Dirk lui-meme ignore que son enquete va le...

It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox.By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back.The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious meeting betweenSMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean millionaire, Jai Seong Sin.Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race uncovering a plan that could bring the West to its knees.Welcoming back familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny, international bestselling author Anthony Horowitz ticks all the boxes: speed, danger, strong women and fiendish villains, to reinvent the golden age of Bond in this brilliantly grippingadventure. Trigger Mortis is also the first James Bond novel to feature previously unseen Ian Fleming material.This is James Bond as Fleming imagined him.

Brillant étudiant en informatique, Beau se blesse au doigt en ramassant un mystérieux petit disque de métal noir. Il ressent une forte ficvre et manifeste les sympt“mes d'une grippe carabinée, puis tout rentre dans l'ordre. Rétabli, il semble plus fortqu'avant. Mais sa compagne Cassy s'inquicte. La personnalité de son ami a changé. Ce gar‡on studieux scche ses cours, ne parle plus que d'écologie ou de sexe, et dans le noir, ses yeux deviennent phosphorescents. Plus inquiétant encore, l'épidémie degrippe se répand dans la ville et bient“t dans tout le pays. Quelle est l'origine de ce virus mystérieux ? Quels sont les buts de cet Institut du Nouveau Départ que vient de fonder Beau avec l'aide de la plus grosse entreprise d'informatique du monde ?Cassy, avec un petit groupe, décide de résister pour combattre ce mal venu d'ailleurs.

Mr Mercedes es la historia de una guerra entre el Bien y el Mal. Un retrato inolvidable de la mente de un asesino obsesionado y demente.Justo antes del amanecer, en una decadente ciudad americana, cientos de parados esperan la apertura de la oficina deempleo para reclamar uno de los mil puestos de trabajo que se han anunciado. Han hecho cola durante toda la noche.De pronto, invisible hasta que lo tienen prácticamente encima, un Mercedes surge de la fría niebla de la madrugada. Su conductor atropella yaplasta a todos los que encuentra a su alcance. Acto seguido, el coche da marcha atrás y vuelve a arremeter contra ellos. El asesino huye dejando atrás ocho muertos y quince heridos.Meses después, Bill Hodges, un policía jubilado que sigue obsesionadocon este caso sin resolver, recibe una carta anónima de alguien que se declara culpable de la masacre.Brady Hartsfield vive con su madre alcohólica en la casa donde nació. Disfrutó tanto de aquella sensación de muerte debajo de los neumáticos delMercedes que ahora quiere recuperarla.?Quién es el cazador y quién la presa?Bill Hodges:policía jubilado.Brady Hartsfield:asesino multiple cuya culpabilidadBill Hodges nunca logró demostrar.Ahora vuelven a encontrarse y cientos de vidas están en juego.Un thriller sin par del gran maestro Stephen King.

Un homme de vingt-huit ans, dont la jambe est fracturée

The master of the medical thriller' New York Times The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestsellingauthor and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with Coma: what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical 'incubators' against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student atMason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynnsearches for answers.

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she callsthem. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough.Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar.Now they'll see

My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer. Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, thedefendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletalremains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would. But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderouslydangerous as well...

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer.When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone.Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams.But there are two problems.She's his boss's wife.And Olav's just been hired to kill her.

From the author of The Good German (made in a film starring George Clooney) comes a sweeping novel set in post-war Berlin. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in thecrosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. But almost from the startthings go fatally wrong. Filled with intrigue and the moral ambiguity of conflicted loyalties, Leaving Berlin is a masterfu thriller and a love story that brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.

When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works he is instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: tough, razor-smart and sexier than his wildest dreams. He'd kill to have her.Soon Beck can't resist herfeelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. When a string of macabre incidents tears her world apart there is only one person she can turn to. But there's more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. The obsessiverelationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences...A chilling account of unrelenting, terrifying deceit, Caroline Kepnes' You is a thriller more perversely clever and dangerously twisted than any YOU have ever read.

In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination withsimple experiments in electricity.Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bondbecomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.

Harry Hole avait choisi de fuir la Norvcge et ses échecs. Aujourd'hui il doit revenir a Oslo pour enqueter sur le meurtre d'un dealer dont l'assassin ne serait autre qu'Oleg, son fils adoptif. Ses investigations le conduisent dans les bas-fonds d'uneville ravagée par la fioline, une nouvelle drogue terriblement addictive. La police et le pouvoir politique semblent indifférents au problcme. Ne pouvant compter que sur lui-meme pour se battre contre un systcme corrompu, Harry doit également affronterses ennemis intimes : ses propres fant“mes

Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in ashepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother and her young son, Knut. But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon toinsanity. And then he discovers that The Fisherman's men are getting closer...

She's dead but she's the only one who knows what really happened

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one rich, the other poor,step forward to claim her, sparking an investigation that will last for almost two decades. Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie?Eighteen years later, having failed to discover the truth, private detective Crédule Grand-Duc plans to take his own life, but not before placing an account of his investigation in the girl's hands. But, as he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger,he uncovers a secret that changes everything - then is killed before he can breathe a word of it to anyone . . .

Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved thateverything she knew was a lie.Now just one thing stands between Vega Jane and freedom - the Quag. In order to leave Wormwood and discover the truth about her world, Vega and her best friend Delph must find a way to make it across a terrifying land of bloodthirsty creatures andsinister magic. But the Quag is worse than Vega Jane's darkest imagining. It's a living, breathing prison designed to keep enemies out and the villagers of Wormwood in.The Quag will throw everything at Vega. It will try to break her. It will try to kill her. And survival might come at a price not even Vega is willing to pay.

A LOST GIRL FOUND472 days locked in a pine box, at the mercy of a madman.Flora Dane survived her hell with only one goal: develop all the deadly skills necessary to make sure she's never caught again.ANOTHER GIRL MISSINGDetective D.D. Warren believes that Flora may be the key to finding missing college student, Stacy Summers.But she must follow rules that Flora has no interest in.For Flora no risk is too great, no cost too high, even if it means playing into a predator's hands.Two victims. One cop.TIME IS RUNNING OUT...if you're going to FIND HER

A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity ? that she, in fact, is Lydia ? their world comes crashing down once again.As winter encroaches, Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work, Sarah is feeling isolated, and Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed. When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, Sarah finds herself torturedby the past ? what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?

Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market ofstolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of moneyconvinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable's circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets. But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there's trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministryofficials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky's brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day. His farcical posthumousshow-trial brought Putin's regime to a new low in the eyes of the international community.Red Notice is a searing exposé of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. Bill Browder - the hedge fund manager who employedMagnitsky - takes us on his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through his battles with ruthless oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin'sorders.Browder's graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer andfriend. With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking but true political roller-coaster that plays out in the highest echelons of Western power.