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Jan Pott

    Sur tes traces
    Think twice
    La faute à pas de chance
    One shot
    The Hard Way
    The Fourth Monkey
    • Think twice

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Is evil born in us—or is it bred? That is the question at the heart of this penetrating novel from blockbuster New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes—until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie's life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche. Soon Bennie, in her determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge, must face the twisted truth that she is more like Alice than she could have ever imagined . . . and by the novel's shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win—with herself. With its blistering speed, vivid characters, and perplexing moral questions, Think Twice is a riveting emotional thriller that will keep readers breathless until the very last page.

      Think twice2024
      4,1
    • Où trouver la force de se battre quand on a tout perdu? Emprisonnée à vie pour le meurtre de son fils, Matthew, 3 ans, David Burroughs s'est résigné à son sort. Même s'il n'a aucun souvenir de l’événement et que tout l'accuse - sa consommation d'alcool, son somnambulisme, jusqu'au témoignage d'une voisine-, il continue de croire en son innocence. Cinq ans plus après le drame, la visite de sa belle-sœur Rachel, journaliste d'investigation, lui redonne enfin un semblant d'espoir. La jeune femme a en effet reconnu Matthew sur la photo de vacances d'un couple d'amis. La tache de naissance sur le visage du petit garçon laisse peu de place au doute. Matthew est vivant! Pour sauver son fils et comprendre enfin ce qu'il s'est passé ce soir-là, Davis n'a pas le choix : il doit s'échapper. Mais certains ont tout intérêt à ce qu'il soit rattrapé avant d'avoir découvert la vérité...

      Sur tes traces2023
      4,0
    • Ne t'enfuis plus

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      À New York, Simon vit un cauchemar en retrouvant sa fille Paige, sale et amaigrie, faisant la manche à Central Park. Comment a-t-elle pu passer de petite fille sage à junkie désespérée, prête à tout pour sa dose d'héroïne ? Simon soupçonne son petit ami Aaron d'être responsable de sa chute. Déterminé à la ramener à la maison, il se heurte à Aaron et le frappe, mais Paige s'enfuit à nouveau. Trois mois plus tard, la police frappe à sa porte : Aaron a été assassiné dans un taudis du Bronx qu'il partageait avec Paige, qui est introuvable. Simon et sa femme Ingrid, prêts à tout pour retrouver leur fille, plongent dans les bas-fonds de New York. Ils croisent une détective privée, Elena Ramirez, qui recherche Henry Thorpe, un jeune homme de Chicago disparu en lien avec Paige. D'autres noms émergent, des disparus et des victimes de meurtre, tous connectés d'une manière mystérieuse. Quel lien unit ces jeunes hommes, à l'exception de Paige ? Dans quelle sombre histoire s'est-elle impliquée ?

      Ne t'enfuis plus2021
      4,0
    • The sentinel

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen. The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . . And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side.

      The sentinel2020
      3,8
    • That's the Four Monkey Killer or '4MK'. A murderer with a twisted vision and absolutely no mercy. Detective Sam Porter has hunted him for five long years, the recipient of box after box of grisly trinkets carved from the bodies of 4MK's victims. But now Porter has learnt the killer's twisted history and is racing to do the seemingly impossible - find 4MK's latest victim before it's too late

      The Fourth Monkey2019
      4,5
    • Blue Moon

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      This is a random universe, Reacher says. Once in a blue moon things turn out just right. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she's letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It's a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.

      Blue Moon2019
      3,8
    • Past Tense

      • 382pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Superb . . . [Lee] Child's spare prose continues to set a very high bar.-Publishers Weekly (boxed and starred review) Praise for Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels There's a reason Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre.-Associated Press This series [is] utterly addictive.-Janet Maslin, The New York Times Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.-Ken Follett

      Past Tense2018
      4,0
    • The Midnight Line

      • 496pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NOW A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB 2018 PICK Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. All he wants is to find the woman. He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle. If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not a he'll stop at nothing. Best advice- stay out of his way.

      The Midnight Line2017
      4,0
    • Geneticist Kate Warner and counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity – but the struggle to survive is far from over.

      The Atlantis World2017
      3,7
    • Par accident

      • 383pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      L’officier Napoleon Dumas n’obéit qu’à une seule loi, la sienne. Quand on retrouve sur la scène de meurtre d’un policier les empreintes de Maura, son amour de lycée disparue il y a quinze ans, c’est selon ses règles que Nap est décidé à enquêter. Les coïncidences semblent bien trop nombreuses dans cette affaire : peu avant la disparition de Maura, Leo, le frère jumeau de Nap, et sa petite amie Diana avaient été retrouvés morts sur la voie ferrée. Un double suicide auquel Nap n’a jamais cru. Or Rex, l’officier qui vient de mourir, était aussi un de leurs camarades de lycée. Que s’est-il passé à l’époque ? Quel lien unissait ces quatre adolescents ? Nap n’a jamais perdu l’espoir de retrouver Maura et de découvrir la vérité sur la mort de son frère. Mais est-il prêt à tout entendre ?

      Par accident2017
      4,0
    • Make Me

      • 528pages
      • 19 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people. Reacher's one-day stopover turns into an open-ended quest leading to the most hidden reaches of the internet, and right into the nightmare heart of darkness. 'Child's best for some time...with detective-story and romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels and set-piece violence' Sunday Times

      Make Me2015
      4,0
    • Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now heâe(tm)s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Childâe(tm)s number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris âe" and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, itâe(tm)s personal.

      Personal2014
      3,9
    • 61 hours

      • 528pages
      • 19 heures de lecture

      A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces--and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

      61 hours2014
      4,0
    • Never go back

      • 544pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      NOW FILMED AS THE SECOND JACK REACHER MOVIE, STARRING TOM CRUISE Drop-out military cop Jack Reacher has finally hitch-hiked his way to Virginia. His destination, the closest thing to a home he ever had: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th Military Police. Reacher has no real reason to be here, except that he spoke to the new commanding officer on the phone. He liked Major Susan Turner's voice. But now he's arrived, she's disappeared, and things are getting weird. Accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide and co-opted back into the army, Reacher says nothing. But he's sure as hell thinking of a way out. 'Reacher is a man's man, a loner, a renegade crusader for justice...on the top of his form' Sun 'Bone-crunching, joint-popping... a man of steel' Evening Standard

      Never go back2013
      4,0
    • When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and there's a police roadblock ahead. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys ... Will they get through because the three are innocent? Or because the three are now four? Is Reacher just a decoy? 'He could take out Bond, Dirty Harry, Jason Bourne and Ethan Hunt with both hands tied behind his back. And then sleep with their girlfriends two at a time before getting the last bus out of town' Sun

      A Wanted Man2012
      4,0
    • One shot

      • 512pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man claims: You got the wrong guy. After that, all he ll say is: Get Reacher for me

      One shot2012
      4,2
    • Jack Reacher - 15: Tegenspel

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher is even intrigerend als onderhoudend, even spannend als verslavend. Mannen willen hem zijn en vrouwen willen hem hebben. Reacher is op weg naar Langley, naar het hoofdkwartier van de CIA. Zijn oude afdeling daar heeft een nieuwe leider. Ze heet Susan en hij wil haar ontmoeten. Onderweg door Nebraska struikelt Reacher echter over een lokaal drama: een familie met een transportbedrijf houdt de omwonende boerengezinnen in een stalen greep van angst.

      Jack Reacher - 15: Tegenspel2010
      3,9
    • Nothing to lose

      • 560pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see ... where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later ... where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops --the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded--waits and watches ... where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return. Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair--against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him--and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that's killing Americans by the thousand.

      Nothing to lose2008
      3,9
    • Jack Reacher, ancien membre d'une unité d'élite de la police militaire américaine, reçoit un message de Frances Neagley l'appelant à la rejoindre à Hollywood. Là, il découvre que leur coéquipier Calvin Franz a été assassiné.

      La faute à pas de chance2007
      4,2
    • The Hard Way

      • 512pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth—and save two innocent lives—is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way….Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he’ll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance—because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer’s past…and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He’s beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he’s already in way too deep to stop now.From the Hardcover edition.

      The Hard Way2006
      4,2