Résultats pour "Richard Adams" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

A quiet English bachelor falls headlong in love with and impulsively marries a stunningly beautiful young German woman and only slowly discovers the nature of the darkness and doom she carries with her...

In the wilds of Alaska, survival isn’t just about weathering the cold —it’s about choosing who you’ll become. Sixteen-year-old Adam Belgarde didn’t choose his life. But when tragedy stole his parents and his older brother left behind a dangerous legacy, he had no choice but to take his younger brother and run. With nowhere else to turn, he seeks refuge at an Alaskan horse ranch nestled in the Talkeetna Mountains. He’s hungry, desperate, and determined to prove himself —even if that means working alongside men twice his age. The one bright spot?

Mickey Haller is a Lincoln lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car, a Lincoln, taking whatever cases the system throws in his path. He's been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Moving and outrageously funny' DAWN FRENCH 'Viciously funny - I'm still laughing' IAN RANKIN 'A work of fiendishly plotted genius' LUCY FOLEY When a toxic hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody else does...

In a world of lies, one man wants the truth. Journalist Philip Mangan is trying to stay out of trouble in East Africa, his reputation and his life in tatters. But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with...

A chaotic young doctor might be the only person who can catch a killer in this "hilarious, macabre, and heartrending" (Lucy Foley) debut mystery from Adam Kay, former doctor and BAFTA-winning author of This is Going to Hurt. “A thrilling, twisting mystery. . . . Impossibly funny but also...

How wonderful it is for those who love Christmas to listen to stories that inspire the happiest of seasons. And no story is as compelling as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, penned in 1843. But what triggered Dickens' imagination to write a story so unlike anything he had written before? In Eben Kruge, author Richard Barlow Adams delivers a pause-resisting narrative that weaves fact and fiction for a penetrating look inside the life and psyche of Dickens when he and wife Catherine traveled to America in 1842 at the invitation of Washington Irving.

Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers. On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the cargo ship Lutheran. Hector Penniac had been planning to go to university, perhaps to study medicine. Roger Savage, a loner who has had to make his own way since his youth, comes under suspicion of killing Hector over a union card and a morning’s work.

The places in this book are shunned, abandoned, and forgotten. They do not exist, and yet here you will find the stories of people who have gone and survived to tell their tales. These are the postcards from the void, frightful evidence of places that should not be, and yet exist in our nightmares. Should you dare to venture into these blighted places, remember: Don't talk to strangers, don't stray far from home, and never, ever go in alone.

1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war — for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans. Adam and the doctor move to an engineering works in Scotland to build a working model of the weapon.

A coming interdimensional war. A race against time. A thrill ride like no other. Multimillion-copy bestselling authors Douglas E. Richards and Joshua T. Calvert team up for the first time to deliver an explosive, high-stakes science-fiction thriller, one that will leave you breathless. Deep in...

A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight….

To some he was Q, America's secret weapon...to others, he was a millionaire flyboy...to all who practiced evil, however...he was hell from on high!

Rod risks his life as a stowaway on a Mexican oil tanker, to flee the oppression of Cuba for the freedom of America. After bloody fights and frightening confrontations, he arrives at the border. Once in the US, he eventually finds a dream job working for NeuroVista, where they promise people health, wealth, and power. The company is able to implant computer chips in the brains of individuals that are mated to the master computer creating a truly transhuman. While on an infamous island, some struggle and others die in their attempt to escape the ultimate confrontation with good and evil.

Raised on the streets of Lower Proszawa, Largo makes his living as a cycle courier in a vast, decadent metropolis. With a dazzling girlfriend and a chance of promotion, he avoids politics and delivers without question. While Lower Proszawa’s citizens seek oblivion in sex and drugs, secret police stalk its streets, strange beasts and intelligent machines emerge from its factories, and the powerful prepare for war. Soon, as the dark forces driving the city threaten everything he loves, Largo must confront them and fight to uncover their deepest secrets.

'Sinister and hilarious. Great fun' SUN '[A] smart, funny and deftly executed page turner' GUARDIAN 'Extraordinarily fun and oh-so-gripping' i PAPER 'Dark, witty . . . had me racing for the end' JANICE HALLETT 'Funny, and so very, very clever . . . the most fun I've had reading a book in a long...

When Nick Hall wakes up in a dumpster - bloodied, without a memory, and hearing voices in his head - he knows things are bad. But they're about to get far worse. Because he's being hunted by a team of relentless assassins. Soon Hall discovers that advanced electronics have been implanted in his brain, and he now has two astonishing abilities. He can surf the web using thoughts alone. And he can read minds. But who inserted the implants? And why? And why is someone so desperate to kill him?

Smart, beautiful, and irresistible, Gwin Apollo has the best of intentions. Unfortunately, her affliction with IED - Intermittent Explosive Disorder, also makes her unpredictable and dangerous. Her pathological anger and rage manifest as chronic resentment, hostility, verbal and physical abuse, deceit, and sometimes even murder. A spouse whose partner is plagued by this disorder is often the one who pays the biggest price. In this somewhat dark thriller, Gwin cleverly tricks her husband Eddie into taking the blame for her offenses.

When Hoyt, a brilliant biochemist, goes missing, his wife suspects foul play. However, their recent history of domestic quarrels leaves the police less than convinced that he didn’t just abandon her. Criminals team up to try and steal Hoyt's astronomical discovery before the patents come through. Tim, Hoyt’s best friend joins forces with Hoyt’s wife in an all-out war to find and free Hoyt before his discovery is sold to the highest bidder.

Nick Hall is the ultimate operative, having brought tyrants, warlords, and terrorists to their knees. His unique brain implants allow him to wield the Internet with his mind and pry into the thoughts, secrets, and memories of the most despicable people alive. After a near-fatal clash with Troy Browning, a cunning psychopath and one of only three mind readers on earth, Hall faces the most daunting threat of all. Because Browning has found an ally as ruthless as he is. A genetically-engineered titan whose physical and mental abilities dwarf those of ordinary men.