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Fiction ? Réalité ? Qu’en est-il exactement de ce mystérieux manuscrit retrouvé dans la forêt tropicale du Pérou ? Son contenu est-il si redoutable que l’Eglise s’acharne à le détruire et, avec lui, ceux qui l’ont approché ? Le héros de ce roman d’aventure—et de cette recherche spirituelle—va reconstituer, au fil des rencontres, les neuf révélations que recèle ce livre, révélations qui lui ouvrent la porte d’une vie meilleure et lui apportent l’espoir d’un troisième millénaire où les hommes sauront concilier contrainte quotidienne et spiritualité.

Une nouvelle enquête de Cotton Malone. 2023 : Cotton Malone visite le château de Herrenchiemsee, près de Munich. Construit sur une île, celui-ci a été conçu sur le modèle de Versailles par Louis II de Bavière, admirateur passionné de Louis XIV. Si l'édifice est inachevé, il renferme néanmoins de nombreux mystères. Cotton l'apprend à ses dépens lorsque, au milieu de sa visite, un individu lui tire dessus avant de s'emparer d'un livre dissimulé dans le compartiment caché d'un bureau en marqueterie.

Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-Mi6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate. 

For 21 years, Elias Merrick was a ghost. The night he vanished, he made a vow to God while staring down the barrel of a gun—a vow sealed by a miracle no one could explain. When Elias disappears without a trace, the world assumes he is dead. But Elias does not age. And Elias is not finished. Two decades later, a barefoot man with glowing eyes appears on a street corner in downtown Austin. He speaks truths no stranger should know. He names hidden grief, secret guilt, and prayers whispered only in the dark. Crowds gather. Lives unravel. Hope awakens. They begin calling him the Corner Prophet.

John Barrett, anchorman for News Six at Five, has a problem. He's caught his producer skewing a story to suit her own prejudices, then lying to cover her tracks. The "accidental" death of John's father is also now in question, after the father's controversial testimony. And a young girl has been murdered, and John is the only one who can prove it.

Im ländlichen England taucht ein amerikanisches Diner auf, hell, warm, einladend – aber ohne Strom, ohne Anschluss an die echte Welt. Als in der Nähe eine Leiche gefunden wird, werden zwei ungleiche Ermittler hinzugezogen: Dem zugeknöpften Adam Rubenstein widerstrebt alles an seinem chaotischen Partner Sunil Rao. Doch im Kampf gegen eine neue, bedrohliche Realität entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden eine unentrinnbare Anziehungskraft. Ein spektakulär spannender Roman über die beängstigende Macht nostalgischer Verklärung.

Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses...

The thirty-fifth mystery in Peter Tremayne's long-standing and much-loved series, featuring 7th-century Irish super-sleuth Sister Fidelma. Autumn, AD 672. While out walking, Abbot Brocc was shocked to encounter the sinister apparition of a young woman, cloaked entirely in grey, who foretold his...

Cheshire. May Day, 1753. Tabitha De Vallory believes her life is perfect: she has an imposing home with all the comforts she has ever desired, and is expecting her first child with doting husband Nathaniel De Vallory. But Tabitha's happiness is shaken when a girl is slaughtered beneath the Mondrem Oak on the family's forest estate. Recognizing the victim from her former scandalous life, Tabitha vows to find the killer.

Meet Preach, Digit, and Maria, three lost and damaged souls trying to make it on the streets of New York City, running petty scams to stay alive. A twist of events changes their lives forever when they accidently kill a man connected to the mob and find a small fortune. Now on the run, the trio tries to escape a notorious hit man called B-Boy. Along the way, they run into more shady characters and more trouble. Seduced by the siren call of the money and struggling with their own demons, Preach, Digit, and Maria will soon discover even the closest bonds can't overcome their past traumas.

I’ve handled liars, killers, and crooks–but nothing like her. Money is my mistress. Fixing high-stakes messes, my trade. Until the tables turn and I’m the one with a mess. This time, I haven’t got a plan. Just a gut feeling someone wants me dead. Before I can hit the road, I’m blindsided by a pain-in-the-a-- stranger. Maggie. Curves, startling blue eyes, and an immediate hatred…for me. Our run-in looks to be an innocent mix-up. But my instincts say otherwise. So I flip the script. Her secret becomes my leverage–my ticket out.

I can’t save myself from the cloister, and maybe I never could. The prophet grows more dangerous by the day. His delusions are steeped in blood, and if I’m not careful, that blood will be my own. Despite the growing risk, I still continue the search for the truth, no matter if the thorny path eventually twists back to Adam, guilt in his dark eyes. I’ve seen glimpses of his soul, and I know there is more to him than the monster, but it’s so hard to reach him. I knew when I came here I’d have to fight, I just didn’t realize the war would be waged on so many fronts.

Ben Wickham, a famous meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped famers and graziers all over Australia, has died after a three-week drinking bout. The doctor certifies that his death was cause by heart failure, due to alcoholic poisoning. But Ben's neighbour and drinking partner, John Luton, is convinced his friends didn't die from too much gin.

Everybody with a spare million is lining up at the gates of Ranch Ragnarok, home to Esther Clear Seer's Church of the Absolute and Incontrovertible Truth. Here an evil yellow smoke shrouds an ancient oracle that offers glimpses into the future. But when young virgins start disappearing, CURE smells something more than a scam. Here in Wyoming, East and West are about to fulfill an ancient prophecy. For Apollo himself, Zeus's own wild boy, is set to unleash a power greater than any seen in two millennia.

World War III was just practice for what's coming. And even those who survived the original firestorm — like John Thomas Rourke — won't have a chance when the next round of carnage begins. But Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert didn't struggle to stay alive in this brutal world only to die in a final holocaust of fire and blood. 

Despite considerable press coverage and a lengthy trial, the full story of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints has remained largely untold. Only one man can reveal the whole, astounding truth: Sam Brower, the private investigator who devoted years of his life to breaking open the secret practices of the FLDS and bringing Warren Jeffs and his inner circle to justice.

Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5,800 years old, but before Paul can fully grapple with the implications of his find, the dig is violently shut down by paramilitaries.

The third and final book in The Base trilogy is a fast-paced tale with ever escalating risks, heists and payouts. There is more competition now to steal the inventions from the top-secret lab. The stakes are much higher and the villains are much bolder. Will the scientists prevail? The intense battle to keep the invention in the right hands has a major foe with Venus, she is ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what she wants in this searing conclusion to the series with new scientists, inventions, She Devil, and more villains, here and beyond!

Eine geheimnisvolle Vorhersage kündigt zwei rätselhafte Todesfälle in Berlin an. Wer steckt hinter der seltsamen Botschaft? Hauptkommissar Julius Kern beginnt zu ermitteln – und erhält kurz darauf selbst eine Todesprophezeiung. Er wird von dem Fall abgezogen, doch inoffiziell ermittelt er weiter. Denn der Prophet des Todes hat keinen Zweifel daran gelassen, dass nur eine Begegnung mit Kerns Erzrivalen Tassilo Michaelis das Rätsel lösen und die Familie des Kommissars retten kann.

In Canaan’s Rest, Alabama, the faithful don’t just go to church on Sunday. They go because their grandmothers told them to. Because their great-grandmothers bled for it. Because somewhere beneath the floorboards of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, seven seals hold back something older than scripture, older than prayer, older than the God they sing to every Sunday morning. And those seals are breaking. For over a century, seven Black founding families have carried a covenant they never asked for. Each bloodline is bound to a seal.