Robert Vernooy Livres

Roberto ïs een moderne levenskunstenaar, Wieps hoogste goed zijn vrijheid is. Trouw is hij uitsluitend aan zichzelf; de enige moraal waaraan hij gehóorzaamt is die van zijn lichaam.. Totdat hij in Rome een vrouwontmoet die hem doorziet. 'Trouwaanjezelf,' zegt ze tegen hem, 'is alleen maar een eufemisme voor opportunisme, een mooi smoesje om anderen te laten barsten.' Met deze moderne schelmenroman over erotiek, politiek en televisie beWijst Vernooy zich als een veelzijdig schrijver, die scherts en ernst weet te verenigen totproza van klassieke allure.

A re-issue of John O'Brien's debut novel, a masterpiece of modern realism about the perils of addiction and love in a city of loneliness.

'Nog nooit waren de drugs zo soft, nog nooit was het vrijen zo veilig, het snoepen zo verstandig.' Jasper en Jessica voelen zich doodgeknuffeld door de zorgen van hun ouders en de maatschappij. Ze komen in opstand tegen de zorgzame samenleving waar geluk met harde hand wordt gehandhaafd. (Tekst achterkant)

Le Mouvement Lazare, organisation mysterieuse et presente a travers le monde entier, se rassemble devant l'Institut Teller pour protester contre la recherche sur les nanotechnologies, acclamee par les uns, mais critiquee par les autres. Soudainement, explosions et morts a l'interieur de l'Institut. Accident ou acte terroriste? Ce n'est peut-etre que la repetition d'une catastrophe sans precedent.

At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government's refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet, they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely escapes with his life. At the same time, a series of government officials around the world are coming down with a mysterious, fast-acting virus with a 100% fatality rate. These deaths are somehow related to the increasing militarism from the new Russian government, headed by the autocratic and ambitious President Victor Dudarev. With few clues and precious little time, Smith and Covert-One must unravel this mysterious plot and find the mysterious figure who stands at the center of it all...

Route 50, Nevada. Peter Jackson et sa femme Mary traversent le désert pour regagner New York. Soudain, Mary pousse un cri : là, sur un panneau de limitation de vitesse, quelqu'un a cloué un chat. Puis Peter aperçoit dans le rétroviseur une voiture de police, qui les dépasse et pile. Un immense flic en sort, les contraint à abandonner leur véhicule et les emmène à... Désolation, la ville la plus proche. Désolation ! Quel nom, même pour une cité minière ! Dès lors la vie de Peter et Mary tourne au cauchemar. Pourquoi ce policier que semble ronger un mal étrange les a-t-il arrêtés ? Et où sont passés les habitants de Désolation, où les coyotes et les busards semblent régner en maîtres ? Bientôt le couple se retrouve au poste de police, avec quelques citoyens honnêtes, prisonniers eux aussi. Et l'horreur se précise... Génial metteur en scène de nos terreurs, Stephen King n'était jamais allé aussi loin dans l'exploration des zones où s'affrontent le Bien et le Mal...

A spine-tingling psychological thriller from the bestselling author of PUPPETS Seattle-based Lucretia (Cree) Black is a parapsychologist: a professional ghost-hunter. Her company, Psi Research Associates, takes a scientific approach to investigating hauntings, applying in-depth historical research, psychological analysis and empathic techniques. Hired by Ronald Beauforte, a most reluctant client, to investigate the alleged haunting of his ancestral New Orleans home and save the sanity of his tormented sister Lila, Cree finds herself having to face up to her own haunted past. As she gets closer to the truth and the proverbial bones in the closet of the prestigious Beauforte family come crashing down around her, Cree must struggle to keep her own ghosts at bay.

For as long as she can remember, successful young physician Megan Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head--voices that bring her to the edge of madness and terror. Megan possesses psychic powers that have been dormant for years, hidden deep in the past she's tried so desperately to forget. But now everything has come to a boiling point--someone is trying to kill her, and others are trying to use her, including the deadly and seductive Neal Grady. Shocking secrets about her life and her mother's death bombard her as she fights to take control of her heritage and save herself and everything she believes in. Grady holds the key to understanding her future, a future in which Megan's life will never be the same. If she survives to have a future. Pandora's Daughter is a gripping suspense novel from bestselling author Iris Johansen.

A young man suffering from Tourette's Syndrome desperately searches for steady work before his ex-wife can claim custody of their son. He accepts a job offer from his eccentric aunt to repair her old Hudson Valley mansion, and takes his girlfriend along to help. Sifting through the rubble, he discovers that the house has been vandalized by an almost superhuman rage. And when dead teenagers are found in the area, the violent path leads directly to the mansion's door. To end the horror, he must confront his family's past, and the dark side of his own soul.

Een Amerikaanse ex-marinier belandt door een zwaard dat toebehoorde aan de Japanse soldaat met wie zijn vader in 1945 een gevecht op leven en dood had, in de maffia in Japan.