Tom Rob Smith Livres

Moscou, hiver 1953. Le corps d'un petit garçon est retrouvé nu sur une voie ferrée. Leo, agent du MGB, police d'État chargée du contre-espionnage, reste fidèle à la ligne du parti : le crime n'existe pas sous le parfait régime socialiste, il s'agit d'un accident. L'affaire est classée mais le doute s'installe... Tombé en disgrâce, Leo est contraint à l'exil avec sa femme, Raïssa. Et, dans une petite ville des montagnes de l'Oural, il va faire une troublante découverte : un autre garçonnet mort dans les mêmes conditions. Leo et Raïssa vont se lancer dans une terrible traque, qui fera d'eux des ennemis du peuple... « [Tom Rob Smith] conjugue avec maestria récit d'aventures et polar métaphysique. En un mot, crimes et châtiments. Une vraie montagne russe. » François Lestavel – Paris Match

1956. La mort du « petit père des peuples » a plongé le pays dans le chaos. Tandis que Khrouchtchev entreprend sa politique de déstalinisation, les langues se délient : le temps est venu de régler les comptes. Ex-agent zélé du MGB, Leo Demidov, aujourd'hui repenti, est à la tête d'un département de criminologie. Avec sa femme, Raïssa, il a adopté deux fillettes. Mais l'aînée, Zoya, hait ce père de substitution. Et elle n'est pas la seule... Dans l'ombre, quelqu'un attend son heure, une femme que la colère et le sentiment d'injustice ont rendue ivre de vengeance. Pour sauver les siens, Leo n'aura bientôt plus d'autre choix que de se jeter dans la gueule du loup : le terrifiant goulag de la Kolyma...

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'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer'A talented storyteller' The Times'A cinematic epic' Daily MailWhat if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist... Antarctica.Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.Praise for Tom Rob Smith 'A remarkable achievement' Jeffery Deaver'Amazing' Lee Child'Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling' Mark Billingham'Truly original and chilling' Jojo Moyes'Tom Rob Smith's mastery of suspense will make any reader's heart pound' Financial Times'A thrilling, intense piece of fiction' Observer'Ingeniously plotted... a high voltage story' New York Times'Perfectly plotted, utterly terrifying' Daily Mail'A mind-blowing, addictive plot that will have you on the edge of your seat' Stylist'A powerful page-turner' GQ'Taut and atmospheric' Irish Independent'Masterly... read this and shiver' Telegraph

Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is thrown into a foreign conflict and is forced to question and confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself.

From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's APerfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things.In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

From the bestselling author of Child 44, a virtuosic, highly-anticipated new novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors trying to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist . . . Antarctica. Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most inhospitable environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. While they cling to life on the ice, the vestiges of their past swept away, they must also confront the most urgent of challenges: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they build a new society in the cold? Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a truly masterful epic.

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From the bestselling author of Child 44 and The Farm, a gripping and emotional contemporary thriller about an unexpected romance between two people from very different worlds: one from the high-powered ranks of investment banking and the other from a hard partying world of clubbing and youthful excess. Danny—gregarious, hedonistic, and romantic—falls in love with the enigmatic and brilliant Alex. Then Alex disappears. When Danny finds Alex’s body, he is forced to pursue the truth behind his death. This volume of complete scripts is a brilliant companion to the award-winning BBC series.

Leo Stepanovich Demidov, un prometedor agente del MGB, el servicio secreto ruso, y su mujer son acusados de un delito de traición que no han cometido. La pareja se refugia en las colinas y descubre que varios niños han sido brutalmente asesinados, un terrible episodio del que el Partido Comunista se desentiende. Leo decide emprender una investigación por su cuenta para esclarecer esas muertes, a sabiendas de que arriesga su vida y la de su mujer.