Résultats pour "Red" dans Vie urbaine

Evil takes on many forms — something Rachael Daniels, an innocent care worker, is about to find out... personally. Something is roaming the streets of the city where she lives, something monstrous with a taste for sweet, red, human blood. Something that can be anything it wants to be. Soon, Rachael learns the hard way that not even the friendliest faces can be trusted. As she makes her way across that city one night on an errand of mercy, she quickly discovers the terrifying creature will definitely have no such consideration for her…

Set in a gritty, urban underbelly, Olive Green, Soaked in Red follows Joel and Daria, two young addicts scraping by in a rundown apartment, bound by shared despair and fleeting highs. Their fragile existence is disrupted by Phil, a volatile ex-con whose obsessive pursuit of his former lover, Claire, spirals into a dangerous game of vengeance. As Joel and Daria flee to a rural farm seeking refuge with a kind couple, the Saloans, they confront their demons—addiction, guilt, and the specter of Phil’s relentless stalking.

A second life in America might not be one he expects. Albert Morris has a lot to leave behind. Bitten by the one and only Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel, his wound changed his world forever as it morphed him into a Victorian vampire. Determined not to let his new cravings get the better of him, he compromises by only feeding on the criminals, the ones he feels deserve it. Even so, being considered a monster by much of society has taken its toll. When he loses all his human friends, he sets off across the great pond to America.

It's not the dead body - Jack Leightner has seen hundred of bodies in his tour with the NYPD. It's not the dank setting - the narrow banks along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. So why does the sight of the fatally stabbed young man make the detective almost faint in the canal's tangled weeds? Jack doesn't understand why he becomes obsessed with this low-priority case, why he allows it to jeopardize his career and even his life. Especially since the investigation draws him exactly where he doesn't want to go: into the heart of Red Hook.

Eldorado Red has it all—new cars, women, and plenty of money. But when you're the top dog, the sure bet is that someone—everyone—wants to take what you got.

Laura Lee and Terrence were best buds in high school. They had grown up together as kids in a gritty tough inner-city neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago.

Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious disease and flooded with trash. No sooner does he disembark than he is whisked away by quarantine officials and detained overnight. Still worse, when he finally manages to reach an old friend, he is told that his ex-wife's body was found in his apartment and that he’s the prime suspect.

William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married.

First in a series of works on the murkier side of London from 1980s through to the modern day. The story follows the awakening of a young, naive policeman to the world around him. Added to this are some rather interesting characters and story lines, including dark humor and quite gruesome violence.

En las afueras del Estambul de 1985, un maestro pocero y su joven aprendiz son contratados para encontrar agua en una llanura estéril. Mientras excavan sin suerte metro a metro, nace entre ellos un vínculo casi paterno-filial, una dependencia mutua que se verá alterada cuando el adolescente se enamore perdidamente de una misteriosa mujer de pelo rojo: un primer amor que marcará el resto de sus días.

Now that Mink has pushed her way to the front of the line to capture the Dominion family's oil billions, her life has become a luxurious whirl of easy money, fine whips, and sparkling jewels. But she'll need to come out of a whole new trick bag in order to throw shade on her sizzling swerve with Suge, her uncle-by-marriage only. Meanwhile, Suge is going toe-to-toe with the Dominion's oldest adversary, whose shameless mudslinging could cast dirt on their family name and ruin their good fortune forever.