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Nelson DeMille

    23 août 1943 – 17 septembre 2024

    Nelson DeMille est un maître du thriller haletant, réputé pour ses intrigues complexes et ses dialogues vifs, souvent empreints d'un humour noir. Il tisse des récits qui explorent les complexités du pouvoir, de la tromperie et de la psyché humaine, souvent ancrés dans des décors vivides et atmosphériques. Sa voix distinctive et sa capacité à mêler action à enjeux élevés et études de personnages captivantes ont solidifié sa réputation en tant que voix importante de la fiction contemporaine.

    Nelson DeMille
    Word of honour
    Dangerous Women
    The Charm School
    L'île des fléaux
    Le deshonneur d'Ann Campbell
    La Vengeance du lion
    • La Vengeance du lion

      • 587pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      15 avril 1986 : les États-Unis lancent un raid contre une base militaire libyenne. Parmi les rares survivants, Asad Khalil, protégé du colonel Kadhafi... Depuis, celui qu'on appelle le Lion n'a plus qu'un objectif : exécuter l'implacable vengeance d'Allah en éliminant tour à tour les huit hommes qui ont pris part à ce bombardement, et celui qui en a donné l'ordre : l'ancien président de la première puissance mondiale. Le Lion ne tarde pas à mettre les États-Unis à feu et à sang. Face à lui, un ex-flic de la criminelle, fort en gueule et tête brûlée : John Corey, de la force antiterroriste. Même dans les bas-fonds de New York, qu'il a écumés pendant des années, Corey n'a jamais rencontré une telle violence, une telle sauvagerie. Pour terrasser le Lion, il va devoir inventer une stratégie très personnelle qui n'est guère du goût des têtes pensantes du FBI et de la CIA... Traduit dans 20 pays, La Vengeance du Lion a été n° 1 pendant 15 semaines sur les listes de best-sellers du New York Times et de Publishers Weekly.

      La Vengeance du lion
      4,3
    • Les meurtres de Tom et Judy Gordon viennent secouer la tranquillité de la paisible communauté de Long Island. Au Centre de recherches de Plum Island, la rumeur dit que ces deux jeunes et brillants scientifiques, si gentils, mettaient au point de terribles armes bactériologiques, et qu'ils auraient tenté de vendre une découverte capitale à un laboratoire étranger. Est-ce une raison pour les tuer, les faire taire ? En tout cas la CIA et le FBI en sont convaincus...

      L'île des fléaux
      3,9
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia.On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast and astounding KGB conspiracy that stands poised against the very heartland of America. Arrayed against this renegade power of the Soviet state are three Americans: an Air Force officer, who will fly one last covert mission into the center of a mad experiment; an embassy liaison, who will have her hopes for a saner superpower balance brutally tested; and the chief of the CIA's Moscow station, who will find his intricate dance of destiny and death reaching its devastating conclusion.

      The Charm School
      4,3
    • Dangerous Women

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Prepare to meet the most seductively female and shockingly fatal femme fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short, sizzling masterpieces filled with thrilling tales that showcase how sexy and fierce the 'gentler sex' can be. In 'Third Party', a party girl takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night, while Nelson DeMille's 'Rendezvous' plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the deadliest scourge is a woman. Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll in 'Louly and Pretty Boy', who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than robbing filling stations. Lorenzo Carcaterra's 'A Thousand Miles from Nowhere' features a smart blonde seeking slow-simmered vengeance, and Michael Connelly's 'Cielo Azul' reveals how a nameless woman found dead in Los Angeles can be the most lethal prey. Other riveting tales include a scorned lover claiming an old fling's heart, a mysterious woman offering a tempting suicide pact, and a she-demon rising from the grave. These and many other bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffrey Deaver, and more, in stories as irresistible as the anti-heroines that blaze through their pages.

      Dangerous Women
      4,2
    • Word of honour

      • 768pages
      • 27 heures de lecture

      Ben Tyson is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest handsome family man, admired by men and desired by women. But sixteen years ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There, in 1968, the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity - and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson. His family, his career and his personal sense of honour hang in the balance.

      Word of honour
      4,1
    • By the author of By the Rivers of Babylon, Word of Honour and The Charm School, this novel deals with the seductiveness of evil. It features a top lawyer and his wife, whose lives are changed forever by their new next-door neighbour Frank Bellarosa, a top Mafia don.

      Gold coast
      4,1
    • The Hammer of God

      • 223pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      A man in monk's robes, The Hammer of God, is butchering women to cleanse the world of witches. Sergeant Joe Ryker is committing every sin in the book to purge New York of killers.

      The Hammer of God
      2,0
    • In Berlin, a body is discovered, leading to a conspiracy where all sides are compromised. From bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, this gripping narrative follows Special Agents Brodie and Taylor as they investigate the murder of CID Special Agent Harry Vance, a skilled counterterrorism agent found dead in a park within the city's Arab refugee community. While authorities suspect Islamic terrorism, Brodie and Taylor sense deeper complexities at play. Unraveling Vance's motives for being in Berlin, they confront the contradictions of modern Germany, from Cold War remnants to the rise of neo-Nazi sentiments. As both German and American officials monitor their investigation, a new danger arises from American intelligence, wary that the agents might uncover sensitive information about U.S. clandestine operations linked to their past mission in Venezuela. Brodie and Taylor soon realize that Vance's murder is just the beginning of a more sinister plot, and they must race against time to solve the mystery and prevent impending disaster.

      Blood Lines
      4,1
    • Night fall

      • 592pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island. Five years later, the crash has been attributed to a mechanical malfunction. But for John Corey and his wife Kate Mayfield, both members of the elite Anti-Terrorist Task Force, the case is not closed.

      Night fall
      4,1