John Sandford tisse des thrillers captivants qui plongent dans les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et de la société. Son écriture se distingue par des dialogues percutants et une compréhension aiguë de la psychologie des personnages, particulièrement ceux qui évoluent en marge de la loi. Sandford excelle dans la création de suspense et l'élaboration d'atmosphères immersives qui entraînent le lecteur dans des récits palpitants. Ses œuvres se caractérisent par des intrigues méticuleusement élaborées et des personnages crédibles qui marquent durablement l'esprit.
In his fourth Lucas Davenport novel, Sandford continues the story of the brilliant, insane pathologist of Eyes of Prey. Doctor Death continues his experiments, searching the eyes of his dying victims for what they can reveal. "For three books, critics and readers have hailed John Sandford as a born storyteller." --The San Diego Union.
Anna Bartory dirige une équipe de tournage qui parcourt Los Angeles de nuit en quête d'évènements chocs à vendre aux chaînes de télévision. C'est ainsi qu'un soir, elle est amennée à filmer en direct le suicide d'un jeune homme, Commence aloes une spirale infernale dans laquelle s'abîme Anna,proie d'un inquiétant criminel qui remonte jusqu'à elle en jalonnant sa piste de cadavres atrocement mutilés. Anna devra vaincre ses angoisses et ses peurs pour plonger dans un univers de drogue, de sexe, et de sang, bien plus sombre encore que les interminables nuits de L.A...
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times- bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.
Beginning in A.D. 1000 with Leif Ericson and ending with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, John Sanford (1904-2003) presents in poetic prose a searing personal history of the United States.
Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in this nail-biting #1 New York Times-bestseller from John Sandford. Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial killer who has been operating for years without notice. His quarry is ruthless, and--as Davenport will come to find--full of surprises . . .
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford."We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as "The Five," shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored...and very rich. They target the worst of society--rapists, murderers, and thieves--and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they've killed, donating untraceable bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become the most popular figures on social media, a modern-day Batman...though their motives may not be entirely pure.After a woman is murdered in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the Five are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.
Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, join forces to locate a dangerous scientist whose latest project poses a global threat. Dr. Lionel Scott, an expert in tropical and infectious diseases, believes Gaia is dying due to humanity's reckless behavior. He sees the unsustainable population growth and societal chaos as direct contributors to Earth's decline. Scott concludes that the only way to save the planet is to eliminate the human threat, positioning himself as the solution. When he suddenly disappears, Letty is assigned to track down leads related to his whereabouts. Scott's ties to sensitive research on viruses and pathogens trigger alarms among various national and international organizations, particularly given his high-level security clearances at institutions like Los Alamos National Laboratory. As Letty delves deeper, she realizes the complexity of the situation and enlists her father, Lucas, to help lead a team of specialists in the search. As they uncover alarming connections between Scott and Gaia conspiracists, their fears escalate. It becomes a desperate race against time to find Scott before the virus he engineered can be weaponized, potentially unleashing catastrophic consequences for the world.
John Sanford opens a new door to the Gospel of John and discovers a treasure-house of psychological wisdom. The Fourth Gospel is the most mystic of all the gospels. And Mystical Christianity sheds light on its myriad meanings. It is a book that John Sanford was meant to write.
Having spent the past two years in hiding following a daring and successful heist, a big -time robber is back in Minneapolis, having spotted the opportunity for an even greater steal. It's a couple of weeks before the big Republican party convention: thousands of people spending cash, which is flowing into a relatively inadequate Brinks warehouse, protected by only three or four armed guards. The robber's plan is to distract the cops by manipulating and alerting them to a possible assassination attempt. Lucas Davenport meanwhile has problems of his own, targeted by a psychopathic pimp, who blames Davenport for the fact he's in a wheelchair. Only it's not Davenport he's going after; it's his innocent daughter, Letty.
