Eric Van Lustbader crée des romans captivants, riches en action et en intrigue. Son œuvre, souvent inspirée par son intérêt pour la culture japonaise, aborde des thèmes tels que l'honneur, la loyauté et la lutte contre le mal. Le style de Lustbader se distingue par un rythme soutenu, des descriptions méticuleuses de combats et une exploration psychologique approfondie de ses personnages. Sa capacité à construire des intrigues complexes et des héros mémorables lui a valu une large reconnaissance internationale.
Quelques années après les événements de La mémoire dans la peau, David Webb est devenu professeur d'études asiatiques à Georgetown, Kentucky. Mais, un jour, il devient la cible d'un assassin aussi habile que lui et la CIA lui met sur le dos le meurtre de deux de ses collègues. Webb, pour sauver sa peau, doit à nouveau endosser l'identité de Jason Bourne et retrouver sa détermination de tueur.
Dans ce roman, des liens mystérieux relient des dirigeants chinois, des chefs de la pègre de Hong-Kong et des taïpans. Jake Maroc, un agent américain, navigue entre patriotisme et trahison, tandis que Nichiren, un terroriste, pourrait être manipulé par les Russes. Érotisme, crimes rituels et intrigues politiques sont au rendez-vous.
De retour d'Indonesie ou il a echappe de peu a la mort, Bourne tente de resoudre une nouvelle enigme, celle d'etranges anneaux aux inscriptions codees. Luttant avec les restes de sa memoire, traque par de mysterieux agents, il doit retrouver la verite et percer a jour une societe secrete. Son rival, Arkadine, a quant a lui une autre piece du puzzle entre les mains: un ordinateur vole, convoite par la CIA... Dans un jeu de courses-poursuites et d'enquetes, les fils de l'intrigue se tissent pour former une seule et meme toile qui rassemblera les deux agents entraines par Treadstone. Bourne et Arkadine n'ont pas suivi le meme programme, et desormais la question est de savoir qui est le plus puissant des deux...
She is a sorceress - indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual - who possesses incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power to kill Nicholas Linnear, the hero of THE NINJA.This is only the beginning of this exotic thriller, where Lustbader weaves an utterly compelling tale of the CIA, the KGB, the technological world of modern Japan, and the mystical and dangerous realms of Ninja warriors....
A novel of suspense and mystical adventure in China from the New York Times-bestselling author of Jian and the Nicholas Linnear series. A martial arts expert and former agent of the top secret US government agency known as the Quarry, Jake Maroc has experienced great betrayal and tragedy. Caught up in a game of shifting loyalties, assassins, and power hungry nations, he knows there are few he can trust. Now part of Hong Kong's yuhn-hyun, the inner circle that will someday control all of Asia, Jake is poised to lead China to fulfill its ancient destiny. On a plateau in the heart of the Burmese highlands lies Shan, the holy site where men are tested and the deepest secrets of Eastern mysticism are revealed. It is here that Jake will face his greatest challenge as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. From a master known for his continuation of Robert Ludlum's legendary Jason Bourne thrillers, as well as numerous other bestsellers, Shan is "a Far East Arthurian epic, laden with . . . dragons, mountains, fire . . . and a story line mined with mystical aphorisms" (The Wall Street Journal).
When an accident takes the life of his daughter, Emma, ATF agent Jack McClure blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from an old friend whose daughter has been kidnapped.
"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb." NEWS RECORD This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all...
The assassination of a Parachute agent in Vienna sets Evan Ryder on a world- wide hunt for answers.
The murderous search for the Prey Dauw is on--the trio of weapons so imbued with mythic power that it is said whoever possesses them can dominate Indochina and control its opium. Two men have aleady been murdered for the Pray Duaw, and now their brothers, New York lawyer, Chris Haye, and NYPD detective Steve Guarda, are ready to face the savage madman who will stop at nothing to destroy them. "Suspense that is sustained to the final page." LOS ANGELES TIMES From the Paperback edition.
A new president. A new life. Orphan Alli Carson has taken up a post at Fearington, the elite covert training school. Now she fears that the people who worked relentlessly to undermine her father – ultimately causing his death – are targeting her too. Meanwhile, Washington's top agent, Jack McClure, is being threatened by one of Russia's most fearsome assassins. But is this the work of his lover's criminal family, or an attempt to remove him before the American government can call upon him for aid? All paths collide at the feet of one man, an old legend adapting to an ever-changing landscape. A man who was lost in the records of Nazism's worst atrocities, but whose heinous cause is still very much alive. A man code-named Father Night...