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1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. Having been found guilty of high treason for the murder of Charles the I, they are wanted and on the run. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other.[Bokinfo].

Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cussler's The Wrecker. 1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line . . . The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He quickly discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-and-outs - who are killed afterward. The Wrecker strikes wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he an anarchist? A revolutionary? A criminal mastermind? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create havoc. And Bell is convinced he is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If the Wrecker isn't stopped in time, more than a railroad is at risk - the future of the entire country is on the line . . . Bestseller Clive Cussler - author of the Dirk Pitt novels Black Wind and Trojan Odyssey - and co-author Justin Scott pit legendary detective Isaac Bell against a mysterious murderer and railroad saboteur in the second novel of historical thriller series The Isaac Bell Adventures, The Wrecker. Praise for Clive Cussler: 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next.

TICK... A KILLER'S COUNTDOWN BEGINS. A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos. TICK... CAN MICHAEL BENNETT CATCH HIM? The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. But as his affection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationship with Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. TOCK... BEFORE HIS TIME IS UP? All too soon, another appalling crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan.

En France, en 1944, à Sainte-Cécile, se trouve le centre téléphonique principal des occupants allemands. La jeune Anglaise Flick est déterminée à détruire cette installation hautement protégée avec son groupe de femmes.

Après une lune de miel à rallonge, Becky rentre à Londres et retrouve son train-train de citadine avec un goût amer : sa meilleure amie l'a remplacée par une fille se rapprochant plus du cheval que de l'idéal féminin, son jouet préféré - sa Carte Bleue - est bloqué, son mari est débordé. Mais le meilleur reste à venir : ses parents lui apprennent qu'elle a une sœur née des amours prénuptiales de son père ! Un nouvel horizon se dessine pour Becky : vivement la folle aventure familiale faite de séances intensives de shopping et de soirées pyjamas. Car elle n'imagine pas seul un instant que Jess soit tout sauf son double... ,Loin de renoncer malgré leurs différences, Becky va prouver une fois de plus qu'elle a plus d'un tour dans ses sacs !

Robert Langdon, professeur de symbologie a Harvard, se reveille en pleine nuit a l'hopital. Desoriente, blesse a la tete, il n'a aucun souvenir des dernieres trente-six heures. Pourquoi se retrouve-t-il a Florence ? D'ou vient cet objet macabre que les medecins ont decouvert dans ses affaires ? Quand son monde vire brutalement au cauchemar, Langdon decide de s'enfuir avec une jeune femme, Sienna Brooks. Rapidement, Langdon comprend qu'il est en possession d'un message code, cree par un eminent scientifique qui a consacre sa vie a eviter la fin du monde, une obsession qui n'a d'egale que sa passion pour Inferno, le grand poeme epique de Dante. Pris dans une course contre la montre, Langdon et Sienna font tout pour retrouver l'ultime creation du scientifique, veritable bombe a retardement, dont personne ne sait si elle va ameliorer la vie sur terre ou la detruire... On est contamine et on aime ca. Madame Figaro.

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money - a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York ...and has asked her to go with him.New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she's been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Anyway, it's full of fantastic bargains.Shopaholic Abroad - because there just aren't enough shops in Britain.

From the bestselling author comes a thriller that deals with one of the most ruthlessly contested arenas of the Cold War, where each second brings destruction closer...

Selon Rebecca Bloomwood, "si l'on pouvait porter des vêtements neufs tous les jours, la dépression nerveuse n'existerait plus". Droguée au shopping, notre héroïne s'expose à un nombre de tracas aussi impressionnant que le montant du relevé de sa carte de crédit. Témoin de la riche correspondance qu'elle entretient avec son banquier... Comble de l'ironie: Beckie est journaliste à Réussir vos épargnes, où son travail consiste à expliquer à ses lecteurs comment gérer leur budget. Les dettes s'amoncellent... Un dernier shopping pour se remonter le moral ? Impossible, toutes ses cartes sont bloquées. De solutions empiriques en effroyables mensonges, c'est la panique. De quoi miner aussi son début d'histoire d'amour avec le séduisant homme d'affaires Luke Brandon. A ce stade, une issue heureuse ne tiendrait-elle pas du miracle ?