Jean Guiloineau Ordre des livres (chronologique)

The frozen wastes of North America are Michael Collins's heart of darkness, a territory he maps with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace. Twenty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in a remote Northern town. Now, his uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger with a dead man's name, a stranger who now lies in a coma in the local hospital. Frank heads North to dig up the past - back to the town where he never belonged, to find out why his uncle died, and why people shrink when they hear his name.

En 1955, Leonard Marnham, jeune technicien anglais, arrive dans le Berlin d'après-guerre pour participer à l'opération Gold, une vaste entreprise de services secrets anglo-américains visant à mettre sur écoutes les lignes téléphoniques des Soviétiques. Il rencontre une jeune Allemande, Maria, qui l'initie aux mystères de l'amour. Mais à mesure que Leonard s'enfonce dans la guerre froide, cet amour vibrant et sincère le plonge dans les bas-fonds de l'horreur absolue. Comment une passion, si forte soit-elle, peut-elle rester pure dans un monde d'apparences, de trahisons et de menaces ? Un grand roman d'espionnage qui bascule dans le cauchemar.

Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. Travelling with Mandia, a fellow South African and Black activist, helps Andrea put into perspective the more hedonistic elements of her new life. As the story unfolds in a landscape evoked with a breathtaking mastery, Andrea and Mandia confront the uneasy relationships which develop between themselves and their lovers. Their difficulties form an allegory for those faced by two disparate continents, as they undertake the process of reconciling Europe's past and Africa's present.