Thomas Mullen Livres

Lightning Men follows the multi-award-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut Darktown into a city on the brink of huge and violent change - and full of secrets.

The stunning third novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence

Following the awards recognition and critical praise for his unique series Darktown, Thomas Mullen once more reaches into 20th-century US history for a crime novel that reveals the soul of a nation.

Darktown is a relentlessly gripping, highly intelligent crime novel set in Atlanta in 1948, a city rife with corruption, racism and violence, perfect for readers of Attica Locke's Black Water Rising and James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential.

In present-day Washington DC, one man knows that the world is about to end. He's there to make sure of it, in a fast-paced thriller which takes the reader into the terrifying heart of today's covert wars.

Set against the dual backdrop of World War I and the devastating 1918 influenza epidemic, 'The Last Town On Earth' is a brilliantly drawn tale of morality and patriotism in a time of upheaval. Deep in the woods of Washington lies the mill town of Commonwealth, a new community founded on progressive ideals, and a refuge for workers who have fled the labor violence in the surrounding towns. When rumours spread of a mysterious illness that is killing people at an alarming rate, the people of the uninfected Commonwealth vote to block all roads into town and post armed guards to prevent any outsiders from entering. One day two guards are confronted with a moral dilemma. A starving and apparently ill soldier attempts to enter the town, begging them for food and shelter. Should the guards admit him, possibly putting their families at risk? Or should they place their lives above his and let him die in the woods? The choice they make - and the reaction it inspires in their town and beyond - sets into motion a series of events that threaten to tear Commonwealth apart. A sweeping cinematic novel, 'The Last Town on Earth' powerfully grapples with the tensions of individual safety and social responsibility, of moral obligation and duty in the face of forces larger than oneself.

The groundbreaking new crime novel by multi-award-nominated author Thomas Mullen, for fans of The Last by Hanna Jameson, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, The Last Policeman by Ben Winters and Minority Report

Herbst 1918: Die Spanische Grippe wütet allerorten – doch die Einwohner der Holzfällerstadt Commonwealth beschließen, sich zu schützen. Sie stellen die Gemeinde unter Quarantäne und riegeln die einzige Zufahrtsstraße ab. Als ein Hilfe suchender Soldat von einem Wachposten erschossen wird, um ihn am Betreten der Stadt zu hindern, breiten sich innerhalb des Ortes Angst, Argwohn und Hysterie aus. Thomas Mullen erzählt in seinem hellsichtigen und mitreißenden Roman von Moral in Zeiten der Krise, von einer Gesellschaft, der die Solidarität abhanden zu kommen droht – aber auch von Hilfsbereitschaft, Hoffnung und Mitgefühl.