Résultats pour "Enigma" dans Fiction

Une nuit de décembre, un meurtre a lieu au Palace de Verbier, dans les Alpes suisses. L'enquête de police n'aboutira jamais. Des années plus tard, au début de l'été 2018, lorsqu'un écrivain se rend dans ce même hôtel pour y passer des vacances, il est loin d'imaginer qu'il va se retrouver plongé dans cette affaire. Que s'est-il passé dans la chambre 622 du Palace de Verbier ?

Dans Le pire de nous, les architectes et nouveaux mariés Timo et Nia fuient la scène d’un meurtre, déclenchant ainsi une réaction en chaîne de mensonges et de traîtrises qui menacent d’anéantir tout ce qu’ils ont construit ensemble.

"Mon père vient de mourir." Le narrateur décide alors de revenir dans son pays natal, Haïti, dont il avait été exilé par le dictateur du moment. Et le voilà sur les traces de son passé, de ses origines. Un périple doux et grave, rêveur et plein de charme, qui lui fera voir la misère, la faim, la violence mais aussi les artistes, les jeunes filles... L'espoir, peut-être.

Una noche de diciembre, un cadáver yace en el suelo de la habitación 622 del Palace de Verbier, un hotel de lujo en los Alpes suizos. La investigación policial no llegará nunca a término y el paso del tiempo hará que muchos olviden lo sucedido. Años más tarde, el escritor Joël Dicker llega a ese mismo hotel para recuperarse de una ruptura sentimental.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Fall: The Crimson Shadow comes a compelling and suspenseful tale of politics and power set in the universe of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Elim Garak has ascended to Castellan of the Cardassian Union...but despite his soaring popularity, the...

The R-Group, with their own next-generation youth, are poised to take on one of their most complex adversaries, supercomputers run by greedy powerful technological geniuses. The training for the new members of the R-Group is live, in the form of a real world cyber-assault crisis. ICABOD, R-Group's supercomputer, is their best weapon for this battle. MAG, the consortium of global technology predators, have come together to bring their insidious plans to fruition using humans’ desire for the easy and effortless lifestyles, even as it steals their freedoms.

ICABOD is destroyed, and key members of the R-Group are declared renegades, with Quip thrown in jail. In the new digital world, there is no tolerance for privately owned supercomputers. Globally, computers are hunted and destroyed for the greater good by the new cyber police CESPOOL. The information this group receives is manipulated by subversive hidden machine learning devices, the MAG running on the dark net.

As the world's biggest powers compete for superiority, it's not larger weapons or greater numbers of soldiers that top their wish lists. Instead, it's the latest and greatest technological advances: nanotechnology, dynamic programming algorithms, and drones, working together to build the next generation of military communications. When a professor at a Texas university begins researching ways to improve animal husbandry and boost global food supplies, her results catch the eye of inquisitive engineer Keith Austin Avery, whose interests have nothing to do with solving world hunger. But as Avery works on potential new uses for this technology, his research draws the attention of a powerful terrorist group, with traumatic results for him and his subcontractor Eilla-Zan Marshall.

Enigma is few short stories about the experiences from birth to adolescent of a diagnosed schizophrenia individual who converses with God through Michael, an archangel. While being the son of intelligence operatives, he's not sure who Michael is. Could Michael be just another clandestine operative for the CIA? For as he thought God is the CIA and Washington, DC, is the church of God. "Who do you pray to and why?" But I have never really prayed. I have always conversed with God.

No vuelve con un detective chiflado, sino con nueve. No vuelve con un caso, sino con tres.Vuelve el mejor Eduardo Mendoza. Barcelona, primavera de 2022. Los miembros de una organización gubernamental secreta se enfrentan a la peligrosísima investigación de tres casos que tal vez estén relacionados entre sí, o tal vez no: la aparición de un cuerpo sin vida en un hotel de Las Ramblas, la desaparición de un millonario británico en su yate y las singulares finanzas de Conservas Fernández.

Edgar Lowell has rebuilt his life in Lilac City, trading scandal for service as a respected attorney. With a possible judgeship looming, he has every reason to stay focused. Until a quiet, steady young widow with an extraordinary memory unsettles everything he thought he wanted. Laura Stanton has made a life of staying small. She keeps her head down, raising her children and working hard at the Lucky L Ranch. But when the town prosecutor notices her mind and not just her manners, she dares to hope that perhaps she’s not destined to be invisible forever.

London 1943. The streets teem with refugees and soldiers while double agents circulate among them. Lt. Sarah Leach, code name Delilah, a British Wren officer with MI6, and Robert Johnston, an American lawyer and her OSS counterpart, team up to trade intelligence and sex. Robert is separated from his wife and Sarah has an “understanding” with a British tank commander. At a local pub where they talk shop over wine, their chemistry is unmistakable.

Como un mismo tema musical (el del erotismo, los recuerdos y el cuerpo) tocado en sus diversas variaciones, así son los vínculos de Paul con las diferentes personas que han ido dando forma a lo que él entiende por amor. Hombres y mujeres con los que se ha encontrado desde su adolescencia en Italia hasta su madurez en Estados Unidos.

"Enigma of the Shadows" unfolds on a remote island in 1902, where a series of perplexing serial murders plunge the community into fear. Summoned to investigate, a renowned detective Alex, untangles a web of cryptic symbols and dark secrets. As the narrative twists through suspenseful clues, listeners are led on a journey through duplicity and unexpected revelations, culminating in a spine-tingling resolution.

The freelancer has entered an unknown quadrant and cannot find her crew. As the universe continues to be in great peril, she must wander through a troubled realm and find her way back or else all will be lost forever.

The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another - is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

Roma 1634. Il pontefice Urbano VIII riceve una lettera misteriosa: l'autore sostiene di volergli rivelare la chiave per decifrare i geroglifici e, forse, accedere così al sapere originario che Adamo avrebbe tramandato ai suoi discendenti. Il segreto sarebbe custodito nella trascrizione di un'antica stele perduta. Per evitare che cada nelle mani sbagliate, l'uomo ha smembrato il manoscritto e ne ha celato le varie parti dietro una serie di enigmi. Il papa si rivolge così al suo uomo più geniale, il gesuita Athanasius Kircher, inventore, illusionista e studioso.

El Caso COLMENARES forma parte del imaginario colectivo. En él se puede trazar la radiografía de un país: la impunidad de la justicia, el poder del dinero, la intolerancia, el esvío de la ley, la trampa, la mentira, y sobre todo las más grandes pasiones. En la Novela El Enigma COLMENARES...

As NYPD Detective William Johnson searches for an escaped killer on the streets of New York, internal affair agents are watching his every move. Rumors that he’s having an affair with a female co-worker is threatening to destroy his career, as well as his marriage. Just when he thought things couldn’t get any worse, a triple suicide leaves three prominent men dead on the front steps of the police station.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, a passionate portrait of love’s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories. André Aciman, hailed as a writer of “fiction at its most supremely interesting” (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that...