Luigi Schenoni Livres

When it comes to creating unforgettable criminal characters, nobody does it better than Emmy Award winner Stephen J. Cannell, the force behind such acclaimed TV hits as "The Rockford Files," "The Commish," "Wiseguy," and "The A-Team." Now come Cannell's most engaging characters yet -- a spirited assortment of clever con artists. King Con vs. The Don Raised in a world of flimflams, come-ons and con-jobs, Beano Bates has done so well he's earned a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. But his lucky streak vanishes after a card game in which he scams a cool eighty grand from a notorious Mafia don -- who retaliates by having Beano nearly beaten to death. For the first time in his legendary career, Beano wants more than a big score -- he wants justice. Aided by a beautiful, no-nonsense female prosecutor and a legion of crafty cousins, all accomplished grifters, Beano, the king of the cons, puts together the ultimate swindle -- a well-planned sting of strategy, skill and deception. The target is America's most feared mob kingpin and his psychopathic brother. And in this game, winner takes all!

The affair is a military wedding. Whast will begin, however, with the solemnity of marriage vows will end in the echoing screams of the damned - an ungodly spectacle of spilled blood and sobbing, throat-aching terror. There is a curse that grips the Baldwins from generation to generation, from horror to bloody horror, and that climaxes in a spine-chilling nightmare of black occultism and blood vengeance.

In Breathing Lessons, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989, we meet the harum-scarum Maggie, married for 28 years to competent, infallible Ira. On a hot summer day they are driving to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, 90 miles from their home in Baltimore, to the funeral of a friend. During the course of that journey, with its several unexpected detours, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations and disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; and the way that a wife and husband can fall in love all over again.

Harry Pendel, enfant illégitime d'ascendance judéo-irlandaise, propriétaire charismatique de Pendel & Braithwaite Co., Limitada, tailleurs près la royauté sis à Panama, est contacté un jour par le mystérieux Andrew Osnard, jeune espion sans scrupules chargé de suivre l'évolution du paysage politique, en prévision de la rétrocession par les Américains du canal de Panama à midi le 31 décembre 1999. Osnard, qui sait tout du passé trouble de Pendel et de ses difficultés financières du moment, l'oblige par chantage à devenir son informateur. Qui mieux que Pendel, dans la boutique duquel défilent jour après jour tous les hommes qui comptent au Panama, pourrait en effet le renseigner sur les bruits de couloir et les rumeurs ? Mais Pendel, en vrai tailleur au boniment bien rodé, va prendre la mesure des enjeux et, plutôt que de simplement recouper ses informations, décide de se mettre à broder, ourler, rapiécer, bâtir à grands points ses rapports et finalement redessiner de pied en cap la silhouette d'une Panama interlope. Sur la foi de ces chimères, son épouse, son meilleur ami, sa fidèle employée mais aussi les diplomates britanniques, les militaires américains et les barons de la finance et de la presse internationales vont bientôt se retrouver pris dans une énorme affaire géopolitique dont aucun ne sortira indemne.

Beautiful heiress Blaize Ellington seeks revenge against the Minotaur, a deadly, savage assassin for whom killing in an orgiastic pleasure, for the brutal murder of her brothers and finds herself the target of the killer.