Hedda Pänke Livres

""La ballade des adieux" est le voyage d'une vieille dame dans son passé.

Daniel Forster arrives in Venice to work in the library of a private collector. When his employer sends him to buy a violin from a petty thief, he ignites a chain of violence, intrigue and murder, and he is also drawn into a police investigation surrounding a beautiful woman, a mysterious palazzo and a lost musical masterpiece.

As the millennium approaches, the climate on Earth is getting progressively hotter, a phenomenon which makes scientists and others extremely nervous. Unease quickly turns to panic when Air Force One is successfully downed, key communications networks are disrupted, and the world's financial institutions are pushed to the brink of collapse. CIA science chief Helen Wagner and Michael Lieberman, a brilliant designer of a giant space-based solar array, must contend with techno-savvy activists who plan to use the array to cut modern society off at the knees...and start civilization over from scratch.