Leslie Arlen Livres

Louisiane, Géorgie, Nouvelle-Orléans, Caroline du Sud, immense Mississippi et frontières du Mexique, paysages de rêve et existences choyées dans de somptueuses propriétés... Tout cela nous a été montré dans le film Autan en emporte le vent. Et voici que, dans Nord et Sud, John Jakes nous offre à nouveau cette atmosphère romantique, délicieuse pour les belles en crinoline, douloureuse et parfois insupportable pour les esclaves noirs. Il nous dépeint les vicissitudes, les amours et les joies de deux familles, unies durant deux générations par l’amitié née de la rencontre de deux jeunes hommes à West Point le Saint Cyr américain, vers la moitié du siècle dernier. Et, à travers elle, il nous permet de comprendre les raisons profondes du choc brutal qui - ayant pour prétexte l'impossible esclavage - déclencha la tragédie. Rires heureux, larmes amères, fêtes brillantes et tortures atroces se mêlent pour nous expliquer, en nous surprenant, le cataclysme fratricide que fut la guerre de Sécession.

He had the noble looks of a Borodin. And the heart of a Soviet spy... With the brutal murder of the legendary Tatiana Borodin, a fabulous chapter of Russian history had come to an end. Now only her son, Gregory, remained in the homeland to wonder if his famous mother had been killed by his father's secret police. But Stalin had other plans for the young intelligence agent. Trained under the cold eye of the deadliest woman in Russia, he is sent to the United States to steal the secret of atomic power. His first task: to infiltrate the American branch of his own prominent relatives, the Haymans. And among them, the exquisite Felicity Hayman, who would arouse in Gregory a passion as dangerous to his mission as it was to her life.

SHE WAS AN AMERICAN HEIRESS WITH BORODIN BLOOD, A BEAUTIFUL PAWN IN A GAME OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE! She was the Hayman heiress, the beautiful adventuress Diana, granddaughter of Russian royalty and daughter of an American newspaper czar. Now she was missing. Only John Hayman, her uncle and a secret agent, suspected that the willful Diana had been lured to Moscow - in a trap baited for him by the KGB's infamous Anna Ragosina, pursuing her quest for revenge. Anna Ragosina wanted John Hayman at any cost. the man who had smashed her network of spies would pay, with body and soul. But no one, not even John himself, could imagine the price he would pay for his niece, his country - and justice at last.