Robert Wilson Livres

After venturing into spy fiction, Robert Wilson returns to his detective-thriller roots with a grimly captivating tale about individuals facing their darkest fears. Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón is called to investigate the murder of a prosperous Seville restaurateur, Raúl Jiménez, found bound to a chair with his eyelids removed, dying as he struggled to escape a video showing him with prostitutes. Falcón describes the case as "more extraordinary" than any he has encountered, leading him into a web of subsequent murders, including those of a hooker and an art dealer, as he engages in a deadly game with a killer fixated on the tension between illusion and reality. Simultaneously, Falcón grapples with his late father's journals, revealing the brutal past of a famous painter whose actions during the Spanish Civil War and hedonistic lifestyle in North Africa haunt Javier’s life, making him the killer's next target. While the plot hinges on the coincidence of Falcón finding a photograph of his father among Jiménez's belongings, the lengthy diary excerpts, though revealing connections among secondary characters and offering insights into wartime Europe, slow the narrative's pace. Nevertheless, Wilson's poetic prose elevates even the most tragic scenes, and Falcón emerges as a deeply flawed yet compelling protagonist, reminiscent of Wilson's previous memorable characters.

Lisbonne, 1944. Les nazis laissent entendre qu'ils sont en train de fabriquer la bombe atomique, et les Alliés mobilisent tous leurs moyens pour les en empêcher. Andrea, dix-neuf ans, anglaise, est plongée dans la bataille. Sa mission : récolter toutes sortes d'informations. Mais lorsqu'elle tombe amoureuse de Karl Voss, attaché à la légation allemande, leur liaison déstabilise l'équilibre précaire du petit monde des espions, précipitant les drames... Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, en pleine guerre froide, Andrea piste à Berlin le Léopard des neiges, espion convoité à la fois par les Russes et les Britanniques. Menteuse, tricheuse, manipulatrice, Andrea n'a été fidèle qu'à une seule vérité : son amour pour Karl. Quand elle découvre l'identité du Léopard des neiges, elle doit baisser le masque et choisir sans tricher.

Set in West Africa, this third novel in the author's Bruce Medway series finds the protagonist caught up in a savage world where a power-hungry Nigerian presidential candidate, a rich blow-loving American and a mafia capo are fighting a silent war in which pawns are badly needed.

Mario Vega is seven years old and his life is about to change forever. Across the street, his father lies dead on the kitchen floor and his mother has been suffocated under her own pillow. It appears to be a suicide pact, but Inspector Javier Falcon has his doubts when he finds a note crushed in the dead man's hand."

A sweltering Seville is recovering from the shock of a terrorist attack and Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon is struggling to fulfil his promise to its citizens: that he would find the real perpetrators of the outrage."

Charles Boxer, ex-army, ex-police, has found his niche in private security. His speciality: high-stakes kidnap resolution. But it's a rootless life that doesn't impress his teenage daughter, Amy, or her mother, Detective Sergeant Mercy Danqah. Alyshia D'Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Francisco 'Frank' D'Cruz, has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night, after a boozy evening out, she gets in the wrong cab home. When D'Cruz hires Boxer to find Alyshia, Boxer knows Frank's colourful business career has made him plenty of enemies along the way.

A daughter gone. A father hunting. Two lives at stake. From the CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD-winning author of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

This stunning, atmospheric thriller set in war-torn Europe won the CWA Gold Dagger and has now been reissued with the Javier Falcon series. A Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals. Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon. 1941. Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon and the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's war takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's blitzkrieg. Late 1990s, Lisbon. Inspector Ze Coelho is investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper he overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones. The 1974 revolution has left injustices of the old fascist regime unresolved. But there's an older, greater injustice for which this small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation, and in his final push for the truth, Ze must face the most chilling opposition.

In the space of 32 hours, the children of six billionaires are taken off the streets of London in a well-planned kidnapping. The perpetrators demand £25 million per hostage. For 'expenses'. Not ransom. And when your child goes missing, you need Charles Boxer. A man who will stop at nothing. The wealthy parents of the missing children know that Boxer will do more than the police can, but that doesn't mean the law will leave it to him. Soon the investigation goes beyond the corridors of power and into even darker corners. But still nobody knows what this mysterious kidnap gang ultimately want - and, if they have a cause, what the hell is it?

Suddenly, Javier Falcon finds himself at the centre of a full-scale terrorist alert. High-profile arrests, a series of explosions and a suspect publicly gunned down in the street rock the city to its core. But it is only when the cell goes missing that Falcon makes the most terrifying discovery of all."

From the author of the national bestseller A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers comes Wilson's compelling first novel, never before available in the United States. Bruce Medway's existence as a fixer and troubleshooter had been tough, but never life-threatening until he crossed paths with the mighty Madame Severnou. His life becomes even more complicated by his search for a missing fellow expat, Steven Kershaw. Against a backdrop of political disruption and endemic official corruption, Medway pursues the elusive phantom of Kershaw.Instruments of Darkness powerfully evokes the atmosphere, politics, and people of West Africa. With Medway's ironic voice, flashes of humor that may recall Raymond Chandler, and unforgettable characters, this compulsively readable thriller is the beginning of a remarkable series.

Iago Melo ist kein Mann, dem man sich widersetzt. Der brasilianische Multimillionär weiß, was er will und wie er es bekommt. Ohne jeden Skrupel. Als seine Tochter Sabrina entführt wird, engagiert er zwar einen Unterhändler, spielt aber sein eigenes gefährliches Spiel. Denn ein Iago Melo darf keine Schwäche zeigen. Zum Glück hat er dabei die Rechnung ohne Charles Boxer gemacht, den angeheuerten Spezialisten aus Europa. Der tut alles, um Sabrina freizubekommen. Was er nicht ahnt, ist, dass er sich dabei tief in ein dicht gesponnenes Netz aus Politik und Rache verstrickt. Und dass am Ende auch seine eigene schmerzliche Geschichte eine wichtige Rolle spielen wird ...