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Renato Pera

    The Gate House
    Night Fall
    Mordoc
    Imperium
    • Imperium

      • 466pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      71 avant J.-C., la République romaine est déchirée, le sénat est le théâtre de tous les complots. Dans le sud, Crassus mate Spartacus et ses esclaves en révolte ; en Espagne, Pompée lutte contre les rebelles de Sertorius ; à Rome, un jeune sénateur, Marcus Tullius Cicéron, rêve d'accéder à l' imperium, le pouvoir politique suprême. Mais sans fortune ni naissance, ce brillant avocat ne peut compter que sur son éloquence pour réussir. Une affaire pourrait bien servir ses desseins : un homme lui demande d'assurer sa défense contre Gaius Verrès, le redouté gouverneur de Sicile, qui l'aurait odieusement spolié. L'irrésistible ascension de Cicéron commence...

      Imperium
      4,2
    • Mordoc

      • 322pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      A body is discovered in a Virginia landfill. The details --- expert removal of head and limbs --- mirror that of a case Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been investigating in Ireland. But for Scarpetta, the game has only just begun. The killer boldly contacts her via the Internet, signing off with the ominous screen name deadoc. As her investigation deepens, Scarpetta discovers that the victim in Virginia was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus before she was killed, and that Scarpetta herself could be infected. Now she knows she is up against a killer unlike any she has pursued before --- a relentless psychopath with access to an incredibly sophisticated arsenal of deadly force. And with a very personal interest in seeing Kay Scarpetta suffer.

      Mordoc
      4,1
    • Night Fall

      • 692pages
      • 25 heures de lecture

      A John Corey Novel On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bob Mitchell and Janet Whitney conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera, set to record each steamy moment. Suddenly a terrible explosion lights up the sky. Grabbing the camera, the couple flees as approaching police cars speed toward the scene. Five years later, the crash of TWA Flight 800 has been attributed to a mechanical malfunction. But for John Corey and Kate Mayfield, both members of the elite Anti-terrorist Task Force, the case is not closed. Suspecting a cover-up at the highest levels and disobeying orders, they set out to find the one piece of evidence that will prove the truth about what really happened to Flight 800 - the videotape that shows a couple making love on the beach and the last moments of the doomed airliner.

      Night Fall
      4,1
    • The Gate House

      • 688pages
      • 25 heures de lecture

      After John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her Mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his boat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London.Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, the stretch of Long Island's North Shore that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gate house of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan, who has also returned to Long Island.But Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has re-emerged. Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and intent on two missions: drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer - Susan Sutter.An epic masterpiece of storytelling, The Gate House is Nelson DeMille's most compelling novel yet.

      The Gate House
      3,8