Jofre Homedes Livres

Pendergast - the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent - returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbour - a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private - and decidedly unorthodox - quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived...

The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home. But Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him. For in the dead man's pocket he finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general's study. He must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web. Pitt's clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in probing this masterpiece of evil, spawned by an amorality greater than they can imagine . . .

Quatre amis se retrouvent annuellement pour une partie de chasse dans une forêt du Maine. Elle fut jadis leur terrain d'aventures, en compagnie de Duddits, l'enfant mongolien qu'ils avaient adopté comme un petit frère. Et le théâtre, aussi, d'événements qu'ils se sont efforcés d'oublier. Mais les mystères ressurgissent, sous la forme de présences étranges et menaçantes que l'armée a entrepris de surveiller de près. Au point de vouloir éliminer tous ceux qui ont pu être au contact de la chose... Avec ce nouveau chef-d'œuvre, déjà porté à l'écran, Stephen King, qui est en train de conquérir une deuxième génération de lecteurs, démontre qu'il est toujours le maître absolu de l'épouvante.