John Katzenbach Livres

"Heureux 53e anniversaire, docteur. Bienvenue au premier jour de votre mort." Le jour où il reçoit cette mystérieuse lettre de menace, l'existence jusqu'alors si prévisible du docteur Starcks bascule dans le chaos. Ce psychanalyste renommé se trouve subitement entraîné dans un jeu morbide conçu par un homme se faisant appeler Rumplestiltskin. Les règles en sont simples : Starks dispose de deux semaines pour identifier son maître chanteur et les raisons de sa colère. S'il y parvient, il sera libre. S'il échoue, Rumplestiltskin tuera l'un après l'autre les proches du bon docteur jusqu'à ce qu'il accepte de se suicider... « Il n'y a donc aucune minute à perdre, docteur ! »

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Personne ne s'évade du Stalag Luft n°13. C'est du moins le message adressé aux prisonniers de l'US Air Force par leurs gardiens nazis. Dans ces conditions, survivre devient l'affaire de chacun - le capitaine Bedford l'a bien compris. Troc, marché noir, combines diverses : cet ancien vendeur de voitures n'a pas peur de ternir sa réputation d'officier. Il ne fait pas mystère, non plus, de ses opinions racistes. Et Lincoln Scott, lieutenant noir récemment fait prisonnier, ne tarde pas à en faire les frais. Aussi, lorsque Bedford est retrouvé assassiné, les soupçons fondent-ils naturellement sur Scott. Seul Tommy Hart, jeune avocat dans le civil, semble croire à son innocence. Dans l'urgence, une cour martiale s'improvise. Hélas, en temps de guerre, loups et agneaux ont tendance à se confondre - et la justice se tient rarement aux côtés des vaincus...

'Timothy 'Moth' Turner is a postgrad student and recovering alcoholic. Estranged from his family, Moth's only lifeline is his uncle Ed, a recovered alcoholic and Moth's AA sponsor. When Ed doesn't turn up for a meeting, Moth gets worried. And he has every right to be. Ed is found shot dead in his apartment in an apparent suicide. Moth can't believe his uncle would take his own life. And soon, after a little bit of digging, Ed is on the trail of a psychopathic killer known only as Student #5. But why would he want to kill Ed? And who is next on his list...

IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMERThey call July the 'mean season' in Miami, and this hot summer a clever, elusive killer is terrorising the entire city. The death of the first victim was just a good story for reporter Malcolm Anderson, but the killer liked his style and begins to feed him a stream of front-page exclusives. His journalism makes Anderson a national celebrity - and they could make him the next victim ...'Desperately scary and suspenseful' CosmopolitanTHE SHADOW MANIn the horror of Nazi Germany not all Jews were hunted. There were hunters, too - traitors to their race, paid by the Gestapo with the promise of survival. And among the hunters none was more feared than the Shadow Man. Now, half a century later in Florida, he has returned and for those who escaped the Shadow Man's fingers, the past is catching up with them. And for Holocaust survivors, the past means death - unless they can find the Shadow Man first ...

Scott Freeman a college professor grounded in the rational and practical, he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughter's room. But the reality of Ashley's plight far exceeds Scott's worst suspicions. One drink too many had led Ashley, a beautiful, bright art student, into what she thought was just a fling with a blue-collar bad boy. But now, no amount of pleading or reasoning can discourage his phone calls, ardent e-mails, and constant, watchful gaze. The harder Ashley tries to break free, the deeper Michael burrows into every aspect of her life, in desperation she turns to her divorced parents and her mother's new partner. Despite lingering resentment their devotion to Ashley is the common bond that will draw them together to face down a predator.

Twenty-five years ago, Jeffrey and Susan Clayton fled their tyrannical father--a man who was later suspected in the heinous murder of a young student. Though the father was never charged, he committed suicide. Or so it seemed. For someone has sent Susan a cryptic note. Once deciphered, it carries a terrifying message: I have found you. Meanwhile, a serial killer has invaded a tightly controlled community. Is Jeffrey Clayton's father the source of this latest killing spree? The authorities think so--and they present Jeffrey, now a noted expert on serial killers, with a challenge: Find the butcher responsible for the newborn spate of carnage. Find your father. . . .

Retired psychology professor Adrian Thomas has spent a lifetime delving into other people's disturbed minds. Now he's been diagnosed with degenerative dementia, and all his thoughts are of ending his own life while he still can. But his clouded mind clears when he witnesses a kidnapping: a teenage girl, snatched off the street and bundled into a white van. The police dismiss him as a confused old man. But Adrian knows what he saw. And he knows he might be this young girl's only hope for rescue. His search will lead him into the chilling world of online pornography, and the elite community who subscribe to the website What Comes Next. A website where the viewers decide what happens to their on-screen hostage. A website that is about to feature a new star: a frightened teenage girl known only as Victim Number Four...

Not all fairytales have a happy ending... Three red-headed women are stalked by a murderer calling himself the Wolf.

A noble pursuit. A deadly result.Reporter Matt Cowart has seen this before, a letter from a Death Row inmate pleading innocence. Sure, they're all innocent. Young girls are raping and killing themselves all the time. But the more Cowart digs into the case of Robert Earl Ferguson, the more he believes that, as a black man, Ferguson is a victim of hate and prejudice, and that the wrong man is going to be executed.Cowart lets fly a series of hard-hitting investigative articles that ultimately not only free Ferguson, but win Cowart a Pulitzer. He's a hero, a celebrity, a big-hearted guy -- who has unwittingly set in motion a scenario of horror and death....