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Jan Pott

    Sur tes traces
    Think twice
    La faute à pas de chance
    One shot
    The Hard Way
    The Fourth Monkey
    • Think twice

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Is evil born in us—or is it bred? That is the question at the heart of this penetrating novel from blockbuster New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes—until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie's life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche. Soon Bennie, in her determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge, must face the twisted truth that she is more like Alice than she could have ever imagined . . . and by the novel's shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win—with herself. With its blistering speed, vivid characters, and perplexing moral questions, Think Twice is a riveting emotional thriller that will keep readers breathless until the very last page.

      Think twice2024
      4,1
    • Sur tes traces

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      David et Cheryl Burroughs vivent le rêve - mariés, avec une belle maison en banlieue et un fils de trois ans nommé Matthew - lorsque la tragédie frappe une nuit de la pire des manières. David se réveille couvert de sang, mais ce n'est pas le sien - c'est celui de son fils. Bien qu'il sache qu'il n'a pas tué son fils, les preuves accablantes contre lui le condamnent à une incarcération indéfinie. Cinq ans après son emprisonnement, la sœur de Cheryl arrive avec une révélation. Elle possède une photographie prise par un ami lors de vacances dans un parc d'attractions. Le garçon en arrière-plan lui semble familier - et même s'il réalise que cela ne peut pas être possible, il sait que c'est Matthew, et qu'il est toujours en vie. David planifie une évasion périlleuse de prison, déterminé à accomplir ce qui semble impossible : sauver son fils, prouver son innocence et découvrir la véritable histoire de cette nuit dévastatrice.

      Sur tes traces2023
      4,0
    • Ne t'enfuis plus

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      À New York, Simon vit un cauchemar en retrouvant sa fille Paige, sale et amaigrie, faisant la manche à Central Park. Comment a-t-elle pu passer de petite fille sage à junkie désespérée, prête à tout pour sa dose d'héroïne ? Simon soupçonne son petit ami Aaron d'être responsable de sa chute. Déterminé à la ramener à la maison, il se heurte à Aaron et le frappe, mais Paige s'enfuit à nouveau. Trois mois plus tard, la police frappe à sa porte : Aaron a été assassiné dans un taudis du Bronx qu'il partageait avec Paige, qui est introuvable. Simon et sa femme Ingrid, prêts à tout pour retrouver leur fille, plongent dans les bas-fonds de New York. Ils croisent une détective privée, Elena Ramirez, qui recherche Henry Thorpe, un jeune homme de Chicago disparu en lien avec Paige. D'autres noms émergent, des disparus et des victimes de meurtre, tous connectés d'une manière mystérieuse. Quel lien unit ces jeunes hommes, à l'exception de Paige ? Dans quelle sombre histoire s'est-elle impliquée ?

      Ne t'enfuis plus2021
      4,0
    • The sentinel

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen. The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . . And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side.

      The sentinel2020
      3,8
    • The Fourth Monkey

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      'The Fourth Monkey has one of the most ingenious openings that I've read in years. This thriller never disappoints.'James Patterson 'Superbly constructed and immaculately paced' - The Daily Mail Brilliant. Complicated. Psychopath.

      The Fourth Monkey2019
      4,5
    • Blue Moon

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      This is a random universe, Reacher says. Once in a blue moon things turn out just right. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she's letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It's a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.

      Blue Moon2019
      3,8
    • Past Tense

      • 382pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Superb . . . [Lee] Child's spare prose continues to set a very high bar.-Publishers Weekly (boxed and starred review) Praise for Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels There's a reason Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre.-Associated Press This series [is] utterly addictive.-Janet Maslin, The New York Times Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.-Ken Follett

      Past Tense2018
      4,0
    • The Midnight Line

      • 496pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NOW A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB 2018 PICK Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. All he wants is to find the woman. He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle. If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not a he'll stop at nothing. Best advice- stay out of his way.

      The Midnight Line2017
      4,0
    • Geneticist Kate Warner and counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity – but the struggle to survive is far from over.

      The Atlantis World2017
      3,7
    • Par accident

      • 383pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      L’officier Napoleon Dumas n’obéit qu’à une seule loi, la sienne. Quand on retrouve sur la scène de meurtre d’un policier les empreintes de Maura, son amour de lycée disparue il y a quinze ans, c’est selon ses règles que Nap est décidé à enquêter. Les coïncidences semblent bien trop nombreuses dans cette affaire : peu avant la disparition de Maura, Leo, le frère jumeau de Nap, et sa petite amie Diana avaient été retrouvés morts sur la voie ferrée. Un double suicide auquel Nap n’a jamais cru. Or Rex, l’officier qui vient de mourir, était aussi un de leurs camarades de lycée. Que s’est-il passé à l’époque ? Quel lien unissait ces quatre adolescents ? Nap n’a jamais perdu l’espoir de retrouver Maura et de découvrir la vérité sur la mort de son frère. Mais est-il prêt à tout entendre ?

      Par accident2017
      4,0
    • Make Me

      • 528pages
      • 19 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people. Reacher's one-day stopover turns into an open-ended quest leading to the most hidden reaches of the internet, and right into the nightmare heart of darkness. 'Child's best for some time...with detective-story and romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels and set-piece violence' Sunday Times

      Make Me2015
      4,0
    • Personal

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.

      Personal2014
      3,9
    • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Reacher gets better and better. . . . [This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child’s electrifying Reacher books.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses. Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman he’ll risk his life to save.

      61 Hours2014
      4,0
    • Never go back : [a Jack Reacher novel]

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. Will he be sorry he went back? Or - will someone else?

      Never go back : [a Jack Reacher novel]2013
      4,0
    • Jack Reacher: A Wanted Man

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't quit. And at last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. But within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys ... Will they get through because the three are innocent?Or because the three are now four? Is Reacher just a decoy? With his signature Swiss-watch plotting and heart-thumping suspense, A Wanted Man shows Lee Child at his sublimely skilful best. 'He could take out Bond, Dirty Harry, Jason Bourne and Ethan Hunt with both hands tied behind his back,. And then sleep with their girlfriends two at a time before getting the last bus out of town' Sun

      Jack Reacher: A Wanted Man2012
      4,0
    • One shot

      • 512pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man claims: You got the wrong guy. After that, all he ll say is: Get Reacher for me

      One shot2012
      4,2
    • Les Tricheurs

      • 408pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Boucler l’enquête avec discrétion, voilà ce qu’on attend de Milo Sturgis et d’Alex Delaware. L’affaire fait froid dans le dos : un cadavre dans un bain de neige carbonique et un DVD où la victime, enseignante, accuse ses collègues de harcèlement. La réputation du lycée est en jeu, les gradés de la police jouent les chiens de garde et la morte n’était peut-être pas blanche comme neige… Qui croire ?

      Les Tricheurs2011
      3,7
    • Jack Reacher - 15: Tegenspel

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher is even intrigerend als onderhoudend, even spannend als verslavend. Mannen willen hem zijn en vrouwen willen hem hebben. Reacher is op weg naar Langley, naar het hoofdkwartier van de CIA. Zijn oude afdeling daar heeft een nieuwe leider. Ze heet Susan en hij wil haar ontmoeten. Onderweg door Nebraska struikelt Reacher echter over een lokaal drama: een familie met een transportbedrijf houdt de omwonende boerengezinnen in een stalen greep van angst.

      Jack Reacher - 15: Tegenspel2010
      3,9
    • Nothing to lose

      • 560pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see ... where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later ... where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops --the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded--waits and watches ... where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return. Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair--against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him--and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that's killing Americans by the thousand.

      Nothing to lose2008
      3,9
    • Jack Reacher, ancien membre d'une unité d'élite de la police militaire américaine, reçoit un message de Frances Neagley l'appelant à la rejoindre à Hollywood. Là, il découvre que leur coéquipier Calvin Franz a été assassiné.

      La faute à pas de chance2007
      4,2
    • The Hard Way

      • 544pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex-military cop Reacher sees more than most people would, and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth, and save two innocent lives, is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way. Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers for hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world. On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer's past, and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He's beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he's already in way too deep to stop now.

      The Hard Way2006
      4,2