Michael Gruber Livres

Si le meurtre d'un richissime homme d'affaires, tombé du dixième étage d'un hôtel, semble être rapidement résolu - une femme se tient prostrée dans la chambre de la victime, l'arme du crime recouverte de ses empreintes à ses côtés -, la personnalité de la meurtrière présumée s'avère en revanche plus complexe... Emmylou se révèle en effet être une jeune femme aux multiples facettes, indomptable et fragile à la fois. Qui admet avoir eu de bonnes raisons de tuer l'homme d'affaires, mais nie avoir commis le crime. Unissant ses efforts à ceux de Lorna Wise, psychologue chargée du dossier, l'inspecteur Jimmy Paz va tenter de faire la lumière sur cette étrange affaire. Qui va conduire les protagonistes à affronter au péril de leur vie des forces maléfiques terrifiantes et à se poser des questions essentielles sur la foi, l'amour et la réalité des miracles. Après le magistral Tropique de la nuit, le retour de l'inspecteur Paz dans un suspense aux frontières du réel, d'une force rare.

Chaz Wilmot, known for creating parodies of classic art for advertisements, faces a moral dilemma when tasked with restoring a fresco in a Venetian palace. Initially doubtful about the authenticity of the artwork, he becomes captivated by the challenge and dedicates himself to the project, showcasing his artistic talent and skill. The story explores themes of authenticity, creativity, and the fine line between restoration and forgery.

"Beginning with a consideration of Nietzsche's inflammatory and critical insight that the modern world is framed by the death of God, Michael Gruber confronts contemporary disenchantment and its necessary offspring, the "universalization of terror." By making truth relative, negating the value of beauty, and rendering questions about the good dubious if not obsolete, terror permeates all aspects of our psychosocial existence with the threat of dehumanization. In response to this terror, which is the fundamental mood of our time, Gruber advocates re-imagining our destiny as a path of initiation."--Back cover

This thriller pits 32-year-old anthropologist Jane Doe against her murderous ex-husband, Malcolm DeWitt, a shaman so skilled in the art of African witchcraft that he quickly becomes Miami's most feared serial killer.

The story follows police detective Jimmy Paz as he investigates the mysterious death of a wealthy oilman in Miami. The case takes a complex turn when a woman, Emmylou Dideroff, is found praying in the victim's room and becomes the prime suspect despite her insistence on innocence regarding this crime. Her confessions reveal a tangled web of moral ambiguity, challenging Paz's perceptions of guilt and reality. The investigation leads him into a confrontation with a profound and sinister evil, blending elements of crime, psychology, and supernatural intrigue.

A mother: captured by jihadis and held in the mountain fastness of North West Pakistan. With a long-standing fatwah hanging over her, her execution is a certainty. She knows she can't out-fight her captors, but can she out-think them? The only question is how many days does she have to live? A son: once a child warrior in the mujhadeen's struggle against the Soviets, once a Delta Force soldier, now a covert operative in the USA's secret War Against Terror in Pakistan. His name is legend among the tribes of Pashtun. He will stop at nothing to protect his mother. Whatever the cost... even if it means engulfing the world in flames. But he's not the only one with a plan. From the corridors of Washington to the backstreets of Lahore, The Good Son tackles the clash of Islam and the West head on, mixing NSA, CIA and jihadi tradecraft with Islamic theology and Sufi mysticism to present a provocative take on the War on Terror.

Retired Miami Homicide Detective Jimmy Paz has put the darkness behind him. But now he, his wife, and their young daughter are being haunted by terrifying dreams. And when affluent Miami businessmen begin dying gruesomely in their fortress-like homes—with the footprints of a giant jungle cat found at the crime scenes—Paz has no choice but to get involved, because what he loves most may be the next thing devoured. From the acclaimed author of Tropic of Night, Valley of Bones, The Book of Air and Shadows, and The Forgery of Venus comes the final book in his masterful Jimmy Paz series, hailed by the Washington Post as a "miracle of intelligent fiction . . . among the essential novels of recent years."

Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare... These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the centre of a deadly chase to find the world's greatest treasure, Shakespeare's last, lost play. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shodowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move. What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game in which no one - family, friends, lovers - is to be trusted. The Book of Air and Shadows is a modern thriller that moves deftly between the twenty-first and seventeenth centuries, brilliantly re-creating the time of Shakespeare and combining an ingenious conspiracy with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery...or self-destruction.

The real Richard Marder would shock his acquaintances, if they ever met him. Even his wife didn't know the real man behind the calm and cultured mask he presents to the world. Only an old army buddy from Vietnam, Patrick Skelly, knows what Marder is capable of. Then a shattering piece of news awakens Marder's buried desire for vengeance, and with nothing left to lose, he sets off to punish the people whose actions, years earlier, changed his life. Uninvited, Skelly shows up and together the two of them raise the stakes far beyond anything Marder could have envisioned. As Marder and Skelly head toward an apocalypse of their own making, Marder learns that good motives and a sense of justice can't always protect the people a man loves.