In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday ahs never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires - devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem - his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined. Mia's instincts tell her the arsonist is making this personal. And as the infernos become more deadly, one look at the victims' tortured faces convinces her and Reed that they must work closer to catch the killer. With each new blaze, the villain ups the ante, setting firetraps for the people Reed and Mia love. The truth is almost too hot to handle: This monster's desire for death and destruction is unquenchable ... and for Mia he's started the countdown to an early grave.
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« Nous sommes en train de changer le monde, de changer l’histoire, et vous en êtes ou pas. » Elon Musk fait partie de ceux qui changent les règles du jeu. Largement considéré comme le plus grand industriel du moment, il porte l’innovation à des niveaux rarement atteints. À 44 ans, il a fondé plusieurs entreprises dans des secteurs de pointe tels que Paypal, qui a redéfini les règles du marché des paiements, SpaceX qui concurrence aujourd’hui la Nasa et Arianespace, Tesla qui révolutionne le monde de l’automobile avec plusieurs modèles de voitures électriques, sans oublier sa présidence au conseil d’administration de SolarCity qui fabrique des panneaux solaires photovoltaïques. Son objectif ultime : coloniser Mars. Ashlee Vance nous conduit au plus près d’Elon Musk. Il montre toute l’intensité de cet homme, son génie tumultueux, sa folle exigence envers lui-même et ses équipes, depuis son enfance agitée en Afrique du Sud jusqu’à ses incroyables innovations techniques et réussites entrepreneuriales. À travers ce portrait d’un des titans de la Silicon Valley, ce livre met au jour les mutations rapides et ineluctables de nos modèles industriels, ouvrant l’ère d’une nouvelle économie. Visionnaire ? Mégalomane ? Elon Musk dessine en tout ças les contours du XXIe siècle.
Beach Girl
- 316pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Same Hamptons, all new games Not-so-poor-anymore Eliza has traded babysitting for velvet-rope-sitting. And Jacqui, in an odd twist, is doing all the babysitting because Mara's up every night doing her best second-rate party girl impression at the hot club where Eliza works. At first it's annoying, but the new au pair, Philippe, is sexy and French -- but off-limits to Jacqui, who claims she's sworn off guys. Your favorite bikini-clad au pairs are back. But this summer, if it's possible, they will have more fun, more sun, and more romance than they know how to handle.
Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous than she imagined.
Sussex, 2003. When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician Dale, who shows the police photographs of Lotte Wainright. The girls met working on a cruise ship and their friendship blossomed as they sailed the seas of South America, until Lotte fell under the sinister influence of an older American couple. To her regret, Dale hasn't seen Lotte since leaving the ship months earlier ... but the girl on the beach - although badly bruised - is indeed her much missed friend. Their reunion only marks the beginning of a dangerous tidal wave of secrets, lies and nightmares. Where has Lotte been? Who is the man who seems to want to kill her? And what has become of the baby she's recently given birth to? Dale and Lotte must dig deep and find the strength to hold on against the odds if they are to rebuild their friendship and survive Lotte's stolen - and deadly - past ...