Ian Caldwell est un romancier américain dont l'œuvre plonge dans d'intrigants mystères historiques et des récits complexes. Il crée des histoires qui invitent le lecteur dans une quête captivante de vérités cachées. L'écriture de Caldwell se caractérise par une recherche méticuleuse et une approche structurelle sophistiquée, faisant de ses livres une expérience intellectuellement attrayante. Ses romans explorent les thèmes de la connaissance, du complot et des réalités voilées qui façonnent notre compréhension du monde.
Un livre peut-il être mortel ? Il y a 500 ans, des personnes ont péri en tentant de déchiffrer l'Hypnerotomania Poliphili. Aujourd'hui, quatre étudiants de Princeton sont captivés par ce texte mystérieux de la Renaissance, qui renferme un secret dangereux. Des meurtres surviennent sur le campus.
Depuis 1499, des savants tentent de décoder un chef-d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, Le Songe de Poliphile. Écrit en cinq langues, orné de gravures érotiques et violentes, ce texte a résisté à tous les assauts, brisé des destins, des amitiés et des vies. Pourtant, deux étudiants de Princeton osent s'y mesurer et, au fil de messages cachés, découvrent l'histoire d'un prince du Quattrocento et l'existence d'une crypte secrète qui recèle des trésors inouïs. Ils croyaient échapper à la malédiction de cette énigme. Mais pour la défendre, certains sont prêts à mourir, et à tuer. Percez les mystères du plus beau livre de tous les temps. [Source 4e de couv.]
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Ian Caldwell returns with a new intellectual thriller that confirms his place among the most ambitious popular storytellers working today, as a lost gospel, a relic, and a dying pope's final wish send two brothers - both Vatican priests - on a quest to untangle Christianity's biggest mystery. 2004. As Pope John Paul II's reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered. The same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator's research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curator's secret. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend's death, and its consequences for the future of the world's two largest Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down ...
This narrative chronicles the adventures of a contemporary young man who gets sent back two-thousand years in time to fight alongside the woman who he believes to be the greatest in the annals of "Boadicea, Queen of the Ancient Britons!"At first, the Queen believes he's a God. When she finally realizes that he is a mere mortal who possesses special powers she accepts his offer of help and a tender relationship blossoms between them.The story is rife with action as together, they fight the hated Roman Invader.Intrigue also abounds as treachery and treason fester within their own ranks.This story is of course, fiction played out against a backdrop of historical facts. Facts that are not only interesting and poignant but educational as well.What a woman she must have been! To lose everything, including her husband then to rally her people and rise up against a tyrannical and omnipotent war-machine the likes of which the world had never seen!Small wonder the British raised a statue to her!
For the dead travel fast!' English estate agent Jonathan Harker has gone to Transylvania to meet his new client, the eccentric Count Dracula. But in the Count's ruined castle, Harker uncovers an ancient deathless evil. Now that evil has followed him to England, to feed on the nation's teeming millions as they sleep... for Dracula never sleeps.
She opens her mouth to scream, but no sound comes out. She clutches at her throat as thick foam flows from her mouth. Her eyes go wide, and she falls to the floor. "Bertha's been murdered, or more correctly, assassinated." With a secret desire to become President of the United States, Senator Ralf Mudbottom calls an emergency meeting of the National Democrat Party's Election Committee, but the evening doesn't quite go to plan. A serial killer is on the loose and as the race for the White House heats up, the murders increase - killing off key people from each campaign. No one is safe. Brothers, Lewis and Shelton Ledbetter, work together to find the killer which proves more difficult than they could have ever imagined. A plot full of twists and intrigue which will keep you guessing right to the last page.
Aan de vooravond van hun afstuderen staan twee goede vrienden, Paul Harris en Tom Sullivan, op het punt het mysterie van de codex Hypnerotomachia Poliphili te ontrafelen. Dit oude Venetiaanse manuscript van Francesco Colonna, dat wetenschappers al eeuwenlang voor raadselen plaatst, beschrijft op zeer wonderbaarlijke wijze een liefdesgeschiedenis. Paul en Tom vermoeden dat er een verborgen boodschap achter schuilgaat. Voor ze de kans krijgen die boodschap te ontdekken, worden Paul en Tom en hun vrienden Charlie en Gil bedreigd. Zelfs voor moord deinzen hun tegenstanders niet terug. Als het viertal ontdekt dat het geheim met de Reformatie en verborgen kunstschatten te maken heeft, blijkt het echte onderzoek nog te moeten beginnen...
