Michael Marshall Smith Livres

Hap Thompson travaille pour REMintérim, une société qui débarasse les cadres surmenés de leurs cauchemars récurrents en les transférant à son personnel. Un jour, son patron lui propose une activité illégale : assumer les souvenirs gênants que les clients souhaitent momentanément oublier. L'argent coule à flots jusqu'au jour où une femme séduisante transfère à Hap le souvenir d'un meurtre et disparaît sans le récupérer. Désormais Hap est un homme traqué : par la police qui recherche le meurtrier, par six clones étranges à lunettes noires et gabardin, et par le meilleur tueur à gages de Los Angeles, qui n'est autre que son ex-femme... Pour s'en tirer, il ne lui reste plus qu'à retrouver la mystérieuse cliente et à éclaircir cette histoire de meurtre. Tout l'univers de Michael Marshall Smith : un cocktail détonnant de science-fiction, de polar noir, de satire corrosive et de... méditation philosophique !

Son frère, serial killer, s'enfuit de prison avant d'être jugé pour des crimes inexpiables. Sa compagne Nina Baynam reprend le collier au FBI pour remonter la trace d'une tueuse. Son ami John Zandt s'enfonce dans les entrailles de l'organisation responsable de la mort de sa fille. Un ex-collègue de la CIA l'avertit d'un massacre annoncé sur d'obscurs réseaux Internet. Autour de Ward Hopkins, héros des Hommes de paille et des Morts solitaires, les meurtres vont reprendre. Cesseront-ils jamais ?

Roman policier (suspense)

The story unfolds with relentless momentum, immersing readers in a gripping and imaginative narrative. It combines unsettling themes with suspenseful twists, showcasing Michael Marshall Smith's unique storytelling ability. The novel promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats from the very first page, as it explores intriguing concepts and unexpected developments.

How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric scientists has struggled to answer these questions and explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began on Earth. There are many different proposals, and each idea has attracted passionate believers who promote it with an almost religious fervour, as well as detractors who reject it with equal passion. But the quest to unravel life's genesis is not just a story of big ideas. It is also a compelling human story, rich in personalities, conflicts, and surprising twists and turns. Along the way the journey takes in some of the greatest discoveries in modern biology, from evolution and cells to DNA and life's family tree. It is also a search whose end may finally be in sight. In The Genesis Quest, Michael Marshall shows how the quest to understand life's beginning is also a journey to discover the true nature of life, and by extension our place in the universe

Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by a homicidal maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.

They were raised for one chilling purpose.... A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those who've been prisoners from birth. Now he's on the run with seven of the Farm's inmates (well, six and a half), and the people who own them will do anything to get them back. What's worse, Jack is on a head-on collision course with a cold-blooded killer with one purpose: to cancel Jack once and for all. Jack has a tough decision to make: keep running or even the score. Either way spells trouble...the kind of trouble most people run screaming from. Who are the Spares? And what is their purpose? That is the most shocking revelation of all.

Grotesquely arranged corpses are turning up in remote locations across America: is it the work of a bizarre sect or a solitary serial killer?