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2006, La Nouvelle-Orléans. Catherine, la fille du gouverneur de Louisiane, est enlevée. Confiée au FBI, l'enquête prend un tour imprévu : son kidnappeur se livre aux autorités et demande à s'entretenir avec Ray Hartmann, un obscur fonctionnaire qui travaille dans une unité de lutte contre le crime organisé. Alors qu'une course contre la montre s'engage pour retrouver Catherine, dans l'ombre, la mafia et les autorités s'inquiètent du dialogue qui s'établit entre les deux hommes.

Je suis son chaos. Il est le mien. Prisonnière d’une dette et des manipulations de Drake, Katarina s’est convaincue que la noirceur qui l’entoure était sa seule réalité. Mais lorsque Esteban, chef des Lames Rouges, l’enlève pour atteindre Drake, tout bascule. Forcée de rester...

"Vendetta" ist ein Roman des französischen Schriftstellers Honoré de Balzac. Es ist die achte der Scènes de la vie privée (Szenen des Privatlebens) in La Comédie humaine. Der Roman wurde erstmals 1830. "Vendetta" ist ein kurzes Werk über das tragische Schicksal von Ginevra Piombo, der Tochter korsischer Einwanderer, die das Unglück hat, sich in einen anderen Korsiker, Luigi Porta, zu verlieben.

Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.

No one needs to push Nikki Boyd to excel on the Tennessee Missing Person Task Force. The case of her own missing sister, still unsolved after ten years, is the driving force in her work. When a Polaroid photo of a missing girl shows up at a crime scene, Nikki quickly recognizes similarities to...

LA méthode pour devenir un vendeur performant, depuis la prospection jusqu'à l'acte de vente, en passant par la prise de contact et les négociations. Comment font les meilleurs vendeurs pour vendre plus que les autres ? Quelles techniques appliquent-ils réellement en situation de vente ? Qui sont-ils ?Michaël Aguilar s'appuie sur l'expérience et la pratique mises en œuvre par des vendeurs confirmés et reconnus pour être les meilleurs de France.

La plus corse des nouvelles du plus grand romancier français ! Ginevra di Piombo et Luigi da Porta se marient bien que leurs familles se soient livrées à une vendetta. Balzac met en garde les jeunes filles contre des unions qui se font dans la désobéissance, la passion… Dans ce récit, où passe l'ombre de Napoléon, Balzac pénètre au plus profond de la société et se livre à une véritable étude de mœurs. Il inaugure alors, dans cette œuvre de jeunesse, ce qui sera plus tard l'un des monuments de la littérature française : la Comédie humaine.

"Superbly performed by Susan Ericksen, Vendetta in Death is mesmerizing to the very end, and a "must" especially for connoisseurs of the genre...Highly recommended." — Midwest Book Review The predator becomes the prey in J. D. Robb's Vendetta in Death, the newest thriller in the #1 New York...

Someone very powerful is trying to destroy Sorren and everyone he cares about. That puts Cassidy, Teag and Trifles, and Folly in the crosshairs against an unknown enemy with strong magic and significant resources. Sorren has spent centuries shutting down the plans of powerful immortals, dark warlocks, and supernatural creatures, and now he's got to figure out which of those many enemies is out to get him before they pick off his friends one by one and come after him to finish an immortal vendetta.

Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons...

Francesca Crescentini decide di bussare alla porta del Conte di Montecristo sentendosi sin dal principio una lettrice fortunatissima - ma anche in cerca di risposte. Grazie a un'idea inesauribile di stupore che le permette di destreggiarsi tra gli spigoli di un mondo non sempre cortese, l'autrice si mette sulle tracce di Alexandre Dumas e ne prende in prestito la prodigiosa energia.

Londra, XIX secolo. La contessina Elizabeth Clarendon ha preso la sua decisione: rinuncerà agli agi del suo rango per fuggire insieme all'uomo che ama, Kenneth, anche se è solo un umile stalliere. Non ha fatto però i conti con il padre, uomo egoista e meschino, che minaccia di far uccidere l'innamorato. Per salvarlo, Elizabeth è costretta ad allontanarlo da sé con l'inganno, a costo di spezzargli il cuore.

I survived the fall. I survived the betrayal. Now, it's time for revenge. My psychotic ex should've stayed buried in my past. But I'm done being anyone's target, done being the pawn in someone else's game. St. Sebastian's Academy is mine now. The criminal empire I've built with my three deadly...

Jar Island è un posto da cartolina: negozi per turisti, spiagge incontaminate, case con vista sull'oceano... Ma anche in un posto così tranquillo possono succedere cose terribili. Lillia non si fida più dei ragazzi, non dopo quello che le è successo quest'estate, ed è disposta a tutto perché non capiti lo stesso alla sorella più piccola. Una cheerleader, la tipa alternativa e l'ultima arrivata: cosa hanno in comune tre ragazze così diverse tra loro? Lo stesso desiderio: la vendetta. Perché quando il karma si fa aspettare troppo, allora bisogna dargli una bella spinta.

Londres, 1949. Jeune homme désargenté, Dennis Knuckleyard vit et travaille dans une librairie d’occasion. Bien qu’aspirant écrivain, il mène une existence passablement ordinaire. Jusqu’au jour où sa patronne l’envoie chercher des livres rares chez un étrange bibliophile paranoïaque. Dennis comprend que l’un des livres n’existe pas : il s’agit d’un texte imaginaire figurant dans un roman, lui, bien réel. Il provient de l’autre Londres, le Grand Quand, une version de la ville située au-delà du Temps où tous les aspects de son histoire, depuis ses origines jusqu’à sa disparition, se manifestent.

In the cholera-ridden Naples of 1884, Fabio Romani is prematurely buried and awakes to find himself in a coffin. After managing to free himself, Fabio rushes home to reassure his wife and child. While he expected to find his family deep in mourning, he instead discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him and is having an affair with his best friend. Utilizing a disguise and adopting a new identity, Fabio slowly works his way back into the trust, and home, of those who betrayed him, culminating in a frightful finale of revenge.

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.  

Carl Hamilton er Sveriges svar på agent 007 James Bond. Carl Hamilton har en helt speciel militær uddannelse og er officer i den svenske militære efterretningstjeneste. Han kommer fra en fin gammel familie, og han er styrtende rig. Men agent Hamilton går sine egne veje, og det svenske...

Sun Tzu's timeless strategy, at last in plain modern English—narrated for the way we actually listen today. Written roughly 2,500 years ago, The Art of War is the most influential book on strategy ever composed. Its counsel on planning, deception, morale, terrain, and leadership has shaped generals, executives, coaches, negotiators, and thinkers for centuries. But most audiobook listeners first meet the text through a 1910 translation whose Victorian phrasing was written for silent reading, not for the ear. Listening to it can feel like decoding a puzzle instead of hearing a general speak.

Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and virtually unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organisation? As his colleagues pick up the pieces, Dreyfus must face his conscience.