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QuinsigamondSéries

Cette série explore les bas-fonds sombres d'une société dystopique, où de nouvelles drogues deviennent des catalyseurs de déclin social et de violence. Les auteurs dépeignent sans concession des villes consumées par les conflits entre cartels rivaux et les effets altérant l'esprit de substances puissantes. Elle offre une vision sombre des limites de la nature humaine et de l'inévitabilité de la ruine, présentée avec une sensibilité noir.

Box Nine
Wireless
The Resurrectionist
The Skin Palace
Word Made Flesh

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  1. 1

    Box Nine

    • 352pages
    • 13 heures de lecture
    3,2(5)Évaluer

    A stunningly original dystopic novel about the impact of new synthetic drug Lingo on a depressed New England factory town. Besides offering a potent high, Lingo delivers a shot to the brain cells governing linguistic comprehension and verbal skill. Until murderous rages and babbling insanity take over, this mind-expanding feature makes the drug dangerously seductive. Box Nine shows a noir vision of a city that has become a virtual battlefield between warring multi-ethnic drug cartels.

    Box Nine
  2. 2

    Wireless

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    When an activist priest meets a grisly death in his own cathedral, the crime has all the hallmarks of a routine Bangok Park gang killing. The perp is a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer in search of the infamous O'Zebedee brothers who have been hijacking local radio airwaves with their subversive diatribe. Detective Hannah Shaw tracks Speer's enraged quest to Wireless, the retro-radio nightclub and epicentre of a diverse subculture. She must stop the defrocked Fed or fall prey to a campaign of censorship, violence and ultimately death.

    Wireless
  3. 3

    The Skin Palace

    • 416pages
    • 15 heures de lecture
    4,0(1)Évaluer

    Jack O'Connell's The Skin Palace is a harrowing and ecstatic descent into a breathtaking netherworld aswirl with the real, the imagined and the absolutely unforgettable. Amid the post-industrial decay of Quinsigamond glitters a fabulous jewel - Herzog's Erotic Palace - America's most lavish porn theatre and a gangland laundry for semi-sour cash. But most of all, Herzog's is the place where dreamers meet and seductive nightmares find their dazzling realisation.

    The Skin Palace
  4. 4

    Word Made Flesh

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    3,4(9)Évaluer

    Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent cab driver? That's the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have something to do with the ritual death-by-flensing of Leo Tani? Or does the answer involve Gilrein's ex-lover, now working as a librarian for a bibliomaniac gangster? Or maybe the whole thing has something to do with the Inspector, inventor of the notorious Methodology? So many questions and more in the fourth book in the Quinsigamond Quintet.

    Word Made Flesh
  5. 5

    The Resurrectionist

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    3,6(15)Évaluer

    Sweeney's son Danny was the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have resurrected other patients. Sweeney soon learns that the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son was drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue surrounding the clinic, Sweeney's search for answers leads to terrifying corners of darkness and mystery. The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a twisted territory.

    The Resurrectionist