Wu Ming 1 Livres

1922 : un fermier du Nebraska confesse qu'il a assassiné son épouse, avec l'aide de son fils de 14 ans. Grand chauffeur : une femme écrivain, violée et laissée pour morte au bord d'une route, décide de se venger elle-même. Extension claire : un cancéreux en phase terminale passe un pacte avec un vendeur diabolique, afin d'obtenir un supplément de vie. Bon ménage : une femme découvre qu'elle vit depuis vingt ans avec un serial killer. Quatre nouvelles puissantes et dérangeantes, quatre personnages confrontés à des situations extrêmes qui vont les faire basculer du côté obscur, plus une nouvelle inédite vraiment inquiétante...Vous qui entrez ici, perdez tout espoir. Cécile Mury, Télérama..derrière le sale gosse surdoué qui livre ses cauchemars et s'amuse à nous foutre la frousse se planque un écrivain adulte, qui reprend le dessus, hanté par notre «part sombre». Gaël Golhen, Technikart.

Agli inizi degli anni Quaranta, il maggiore delle SS Hans Lichtblau viene messo alla guida di un programma di ricerca che utilizza i prigionieri dei campi di concentramento come cavie, ma anche come assistenti, inquadrati nel Kommando Gardenia. Sullo sfondo degli esperimenti, la “soluzione finale del problema ebraico”, l’avanzata nazista in Russia e la colonizzazione dei territori dell’Est, poi, inaspettata, la disfatta e la caduta di Berlino. Del Kommando fanno parte Shlomo Libowitz, nato in uno shtetl polacco e convertitosi al sionismo nel Lager, e Anton Epstein, ebreo assimilato della borghesia praghese, convinto che l’unica risposta possibile alla barbarie sia il socialismo. Shlomo e Anton sopravvivono alla guerra e al trattamento di Lichtblau, testimoni scomodi di un mondo passato, eppure ancora capace di influire sul presente. A distanza di quarant’anni, per conto di mandanti diversi e in apparenza inconciliabili, i due reduci si mettono sulle tracce di Lichtblau, il quale, in America Centrale, combatte i sandinisti per conto della CIA, razzia villaggi e smercia droga. Quella di Anton e Shlomo è una vendetta tardiva, in una corsa contro il tempo, perché la vita potrebbe essere troppo breve per saldare tutti i conti. Una spy story in bilico tra due continenti e due epoche, un romanzo corale su una civiltà al tramonto.

Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their loft just fine, thank you, working as a Victoria's Secret catalogue model and an escort, respectively. But then Chloe decides to ditch her calling in favour of a steady gig as girlfriend to 84-year-old retired lawyer Tony Paradiso, aka Mr. Paradise. Tony is a die-hard Michigan football fan, and his greatest pleasure is watching tapes of old games - with Chloe in attendance, of course, Michigan cheerleader uniform and all. One night Chloe convinces Kelly to join in the fun, along with Montez Taylor, Tony's smooth-talking right-hand man. But things go awry, and before the end of the evening there will be two corpses, two angry hit men, one switch of identity, a safe-deposit box full of loot up for grabs and, fast on the scene, recently widowed detective Frank Delsa, who now has another double homicide - and this one with a beautiful, wilful witness - to add to his already heavy caseload.

Cat Chaser est un récit captivant et rapide d'un ancien soldat devenu propriétaire d'un motel en Floride, dont l'affaire dangereuse avec la maîtresse d'un général dominicain en exil, ancien chef de commando, menace d'avoir des conséquences mortelles. Cette relation se complique encore davantage avec l'ajout de drogues, de trahisons et de gangsters meurtriers. Elmore Leonard, maître du roman noir, nous livre ici un thriller classique qui témoigne de son talent pour créer des personnages excentriques et des intrigues pleines de rebondissements. Cat Chaser illustre parfaitement pourquoi Leonard est considéré comme l'un des plus grands écrivains de crime de notre époque, se plaçant aux côtés de légendes telles que John D. MacDonald et Dashiell Hammett.

He used to be on the bomb squad, but it's not until he transfers out that Chris Mankowski really begins juggling with dynamite. Rape and revenge are just the tip of the iceberg in a twisty tale that brings Detroit's denizens to life -- and occasional death -- in all their seedy glory. Electrifying, explosive, and unexpected, this is Elmore Leonard at his suspenseful best.

Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi -- diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, was witnessing a Dixie-style mob execution while atop his diving platform. Robert Taylor saw the hit also. A blues-loving Detroit hustler touring the Southland in a black Jaguar, Taylor's got his own secret agenda re the "Cornbread Cosa Nostra," and he wants Dennis in on the game. But there's a lot more in Robert Taylor's pocket than a photo of his lynched great-grandfather. And high-diver Dennis could be about to take a long, fatal fall -- right into a mess of hoop skirts, Civil War play-acting ... and more trouble than he ever dreamed possible.