Caleb Carr Livres

"New York, 1896... Un meurtrier auprès duquel Jack l'Éventreur fait piètre figure sème aux quatre coins du Lower East Side les cadavres d'adolescents mutilés sans provoquer la moindre réaction des pourvoirs publics... Révolté par tant d'indifférence, Theodore Roosevelt, alors préfet, fait appel à ses amis John Schuyler Moore, chroniqueur criminel, et Laszlo Kreizler, aliéniste – spécialiste des maladies mentales –, pour élucider cette énigme terrifiante. Leurs procédés sont révolutionnaires ! En étudiant les crimes, ils pensent pouvoir brosser le portrait psychologique de l'assassin, l'identifier et l'arrêter. Ils ont peu de temps. Le meurtrier continue à frapper. Les obstacles se multiplient mais rien ne pourra les arrêter..." [Source : 4e de couv.]

A New York en 1897, une enfant est kidnappée. L'équipe de L'Aliéniste se reconstitue pour mener l'enquête et retrouver l'enfant avant qu'il ne soit trop tard. Une année s'est écoulée depuis que le brillant psychiatre Laszlo Kreizler a réussi avec l'aide de ses fidèles compagnons à mettre un terme aux exactions du tueur en série John Beecham. Un jour, l'épouse éplorée d'un diplomate espagnol voit sa petite fille kidnappée. L'affaire est délicate et la piste politique semble la plus vraisemblable. Immédiatement, l'équipe de l'aliéniste se reconstitue pour soutenir Sara, devenue détective, dans son enquête. Des bas-fonds du Lower East Side aux quartiers bourgeois de Manhattan, les fins limiers vont bientôt recueillir de précieux indices. La psychologie du kidnappeur apparaît peu à peu : une personnalité en proie à une étrange perversion, un tueur d'enfants ayant toutes les apparences de la normalité. Comment réunir toutes les preuves qui feront du suspect un coupable avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.

The ground-breaking historical whodunnit, in which 1890s New York is as much a character as the investigators.

In "Masha and Her Daddy," Caleb Carr shares his lifelong bond with cats, particularly highlighting his relationship with Masha, a Siberian Forest cat he rescued. Their extraordinary connection blossomed over seventeen years, showcasing the deep companionship and love that can exist between humans and their feline friends.

Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, historians offer an alternative history and take a provocative look at the way our world could easily have been. For example, what if William hadn't conquered?

Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumoured to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city, Broken, where order reigns at the point of a sword - even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city's granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood. At every turn, the lives of Broken's defenders and its would-be destroyers intertwine until secretly, and under pressure from their people, four leaders unite. Together, they hope to exact a ruinous revenge on Broken, ushering in a day of reckoning when the mighty walls will be breached forever in a triumph of science over superstition. Breathtakingly profound and compulsively readable, Caleb Carr's long-awaited new book is an action-packed and enthralling masterpiece.

Caleb Carr's novel, The Alienest , was a blockbuster international bestseller and positioned its author as a modern master of the historical thriller. Now, in The Italian Secretary, Carr reaches back further, to the age of opium dens and Jack the Ripper, when fictional detective Sherlock Holmes made the science of murder as real as the gore on a killer's hands… FOUL WHISPERINGS… Mycroft Holmes's encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for Dr. Watson to decipher: a matter concerning the safety of Queen Victoria herself calls them to Edinburgh's Holyroodhouse to investigate the confounding and gruesome deaths of two young men—horrific incidents that took place with Her Highness in residence. The victims were crushed in a manner surpassing human power. And while recent attempts on Her Majesty's life raise a number of possibilities, these intrigues also seem strangely connected to an act of evil that took place centuries earlier… …UNNATURAL DEEDS For indeed, the slaying of David Rizzio, music master and friend to Mary, Queen of Scots, was an extraordinarily brutal and treacherous act—even for a time when brutality and treachery were the order of the day. Now, the ghosts of Holyroodhouse are being reawakened by someone with a diabolical agenda of greed, madness, and terror as Holmes and Watson set out to trap a killer who is eager to rewrite history in blood...

At the invitation of the Conan Doyle Estate, Caleb Carr has created a new adventure for Holmes and Watson, set in the grandeur of Holyrood Palace in the twilight of Queen Victoria's reign.

IT IS THE GREATEST TRUTH OF OUR AGE: INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWLEDGE Manhattan, 2023. Vera Price's husband has been murdered, and she wants criminal psychologist Dr Gideon Wolfe to investigate. On a disk she gives Gideon is the information that almost certainly cost her husband his life. For America is still in shock after the murder of its president, and the disk suggests the wrong man has been convicted... In the internet age, the world is drowning in information. And in a sea of unregulated and unverifiable facts, the truth is harder and harder to find. And as Gideon discovers, although there are those who want to put an end to this, their actions have the consequences of not only killing people, but of killing time itself...

Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe, expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York's John Jay University in the year 2023, he lives in an era that has seen plague, a global economic crash, and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forrester. In this turbulent new world order, Wolfe's life and everything he knows are turned upside down when the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard enters his office. The widow hands him a silver disc from her husband's safety deposit box, hoping that Wolfe's expertise in history and criminology will compel him to track down her husband's killers. The disc contains footage of President Forrester's assassination, the same video that has been broadcast countless times on TV and over the internet-with one crucial, shocking difference: This version shows that before the video was released, it was altered with sinister special effects. This explosive discovery will lead Gideon Wolfe on an electrifying journey from a criminal underworld of New York to the jungles of Africa and on a quest to find the truth in an age when all information can be manipulated. With this novel, Carr has boldly established a new genre-future history-combining the best elements of mystery and thrillers with unique historical insight. Breathtakingly suspenseful, Killing Time unfolds as the work of a master novelist.

Sein Name ist heute aus den meisten Geschichtsbüchern verschwunden, und doch war der Amerikaner Frederick Townsend Ward im China des letzten Mandschu-Kaisers ein Held, der schon zu Lebzeiten gottgleich verehrt wurde. Bestsellerautor Caleb Carr setzt dem Abenteurer mit diesem großen Buch ein wohlverdientes Denkmal.

Dějiny války proti civilistům Historické kořeny současného mezinárodního terorismu z hlediska vojenských dějin. Obecná charakteristika terorismu (typ války vedené proti civilnímu obyvatelstvu, metoda násilného ovlivňování politiky). Optimální formy odporu proti teroru odvozené z dějin válečných konfliktů. Stručný historický přehled od antiky po současnost. Aktuální strategie boje proti násilí a teroru. USA v čele války proti terorismu.

s/t: Historische Wurzeln und Möglichkeiten der Bekämpfung Military historian Caleb Carr’s groundbreaking work anticipated America’s current debates on preemptive military action against terrorist sponsor states, reorganization of the American intelligence system, and the treatment of terrorists as soldiers in supranational armies rather than as criminals. Carr’s authoritative exploration demonstrates that the practice of terrorism, employed by national armies as well as extremists since the days of ancient Rome, is ultimately self-defeating. Far from prompting submission, it stiffens enemy resolve and never leads to long-lasting success. Controversial on its initial publication in 2002, The Lessons of Terror has been repeatedly validated by subsequent events. Carr’s analysis of individual terrorist acts, and particularly of the history of the Middle East conflict, is fundamental to a deep understanding of the roots of terrorism as well as the steps and reforms that must be taken if the continuing threat of terrorist behavior is to be met effectively today and, finally, eradicated tomorrow.

Military historian Caleb Carr’s groundbreaking work anticipated America’s current debates on preemptive military action against terrorist sponsor states, reorganization of the American intelligence system, and the treatment of terrorists as soldiers in supranational armies rather than as criminals. Carr’s authoritative exploration demonstrates that the practice of terrorism, employed by national armies as well as extremists since the days of ancient Rome, is ultimately self-defeating. Far from prompting submission, it stiffens enemy resolve and never leads to long-lasting success. Controversial on its initial publication in 2002, The Lessons of Terror has been repeatedly validated by subsequent events. Carr’s analysis of individual terrorist acts, and particularly of the history of the Middle East conflict, is fundamental to a deep understanding of the roots of terrorism as well as the steps and reforms that must be taken if the continuing threat of terrorist behavior is to be met effectively today and, finally, eradicated tomorrow.

In het New York van honderd jaar geleden maakt een onderzoeksteam onder leiding van een psycholoog jacht op de ontvoerster van een baby.