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Agent spécial Aloysius Pendergast Séries

Cette série suit l'agent Aloysius Pendergast, inhabituel et brillant, qui se retrouve impliqué dans divers mystères et meurtres. Ses méthodes peu orthodoxes et sa brillante déduction font de lui un détective unique, n'ayant pas peur d'affronter des forces sombres et des adversaires dangereux. Les histoires combinent des éléments de thriller, d'horreur et de mystère, et le personnage de Pendergast se distingue par son charisme et son intelligence. La série est connue pour ses rebondissements surprenants et ses intrigues captivantes.

Dance of Death
Le violon du diable
Les croassements de la nuit
La chambre des curiosités
Reliquary
Relic

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  1. Relic

    • 484pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    The book that started the New York Times bestselling collaboration of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre? Special lower priced edition available for a limited time.

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  2. Reliquary

    Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare... in Reliquary, from bestselling coauthors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

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  3. La chambre des curiosités

    Manhattan. Les ouvriers d'un chantier de démolition s'affairent parmi les gravats, lorsque le bulldozer se fige soudainement devant l'horreur du spectacle qui apparaît ; des ossements humains. L'enquête menée par Pendergast, du FBI, l'archéologue Nora Kelly et le journaliste William Smithback établit qu'il s'agit des restes de trente-six adolescents, victimes d'un tueur en série, le Dr Leng, ayant sévi à New York vers 1880. Les jours suivants, plusieurs meurtres sont commis selon le mode opératoire de Leng. Se peut-il que ce dingue soit toujours vivant ? Ou aurait-il fait des émules ?

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  4. Les croassements de la nuit

    Medicine Creek, un coin paisible du Kansas. Aussi, quand le shérif Hazen découvre le cadavre dépecé d'une inconnue au milieu d'un champ de maïs, il se demande s'il ne rêve pas : le corps est entouré de flèches indiennes y sur lesquelles ont été empalés des corbeaux. Œuvre d'un fou ? Rituel satanique ? Il faut le flair de Pendergast, l'agent du FBI, pour comprendre que cette sinistre mise en scène annonce une suite. Qui sème parmi les habitants une épouvante d'autant plus vive qu'il ne fait pas l'ombre d'un doute, pour Pendergast, que le tueur est l'un d'eux...

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  5. Le violon du diable

    Qui, sinon le Malin, a tué Jeremy Grove, le critique d'art dont le corps calciné a été retrouvé dans le grenier de sa demeure... fermé de l'intérieur ? Une chaleur suffocante, une insoutenable odeur de soufre et, surtout, reconnaissable entre toutes, cette empreinte de pied fourchu... Lorsqu'un deuxième cas tout aussi mystérieux de combustion spontanée est signalé, le doute n'est plus permis. Sauf pour l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast, du FBI, qui ne peut accepter cette hypothèse effrayante.

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  6. Dance of Death

    Two brothers, one a top FBI agent, the other a brilliant, twisted criminal, have a undying hated between them. Now Special Agent Pendergast must stop his evil brother from committing the perfect crime.

    Dance of Death6
    4,2

  7. The Book of the Dead

    • 640pages
    • 23 heures de lecture

    An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori

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  8. The Wheel of Darkness

    Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world... A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet...

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  9. Cemetery Dance

    Pendergast, the world's most mysterious FBI Special Agent, investigates a murderous cult in New York City that no one has ever survived. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor--a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private--and decidedly unorthodox--quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.

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  10. Fever Dream

    • 520pages
    • 19 heures de lecture

    At a family reunion, Special Agent Pendergast is finally overcoming the loss of his wife, who was mauled to death by a lion during an African safari. However, when Pendergast discovers that his wife's rifle was intentionally loaded with blanks, he is forced to reopen old wounds in an effort to locate those responsible for the violent killing

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  11. Cold Vengeance

    • 468pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers-- a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-- he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder. Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined-- and everything he's believed, everythong he's trusted, everything he's understood . . . may be a horrific lie.

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  12. Two Graves

    After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world. But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels - perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture - NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean? When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that - rather than having been eradicated - is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences.

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  13. Tempête blanche

    Roaring Fork, station huppée du Colorado. L'inspecteur du FBI, Aloysius Pendergast, arrive juste à temps pour éviter que Corrie Swanson ne passe dix ans derrière les barreaux. Cette dernière, qui enquête sur la mort de onze mineurs prétendument dévorés par un ours en 1876, s'est mis à dos les autorités locales, dont les juteux projets immobiliers pourraient être compromis. Au moment où Pendergast arrive, la municipalité doit aussi faire face à une autre menace : un pyromane met le feu à plusieurs chalets cossus, leurs propriétaires étant enfermés à l'intérieur. Et si la résolution de ces énigmes était écrite dans cette nouvelle inédite du Dr Watson mettant en scène Sherlock Holmes ?

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  14. Blue Labyrinth

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    A corpse, stiff with rigor mortis and bound in heavy ropes, has been dumped on the doorstep of FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. The murder has the hallmarks of the perfect crime – no witnesses, no motive, no evidence – save for one enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea where an ingenious killer is determined to make him pay for the long-buried sins of his forefathers. But Pendergast already knows what is at stake, for the dead man left on his doorstep wasn't just anyone, it was his son.

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  15. Mortel Sabbat

    Aloysius Pendergast est contacté par un sculpteur a qui on a volé une collection de vins rares. Il se rend a Exmouth, petit village de pecheurs situé au nord de Salem, dans le Massachusetts. Peu apres son arrivée, un historien enquetant sur le naufrage d'un navire a la fin du XIXe siecle est assassiné. Son corps mutilé, couvert de symboles sataniques, est retrouvé dans des marécages hantés par une bete humaine. Puis c'est au tour du notaire local de subir le meme sort... Au milieu des sabbats d'adorateurs de Lucifer et du démon Morax, Pendergast ne risque-t-il pas d'etre pris dans un piege mortel ?

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  16. The Obsidian Chamber

    • 403pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A SHOCKING RETURN Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive – only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past. AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT Proctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, pursuing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown. BUT IN THIS WORLD, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS And by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying mechanism has stirred – and it may already be too late...

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  17. City of Endless Night

    • 359pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A consistently exciting and never predictable series."--Associated Press When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. "I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch," Pendergast tells D'Agosta, "because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History." But neither Pendergast nor D'Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered . . . and decapitated. Worse still, there's something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer. As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-let alone survive to tell the tale.

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  18. Verses for the Dead

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is forced to accept an unthinkable conditionof continued employment: the unorthodox lone wolf must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new cohort, Special Agent Coldmoon, are dispatched to Florida to investigate a rash of ritualistic murders. A killer is carving out the hearts of his victims, and depositing the stolen organs alongside the headstones of existing graves. Accompanying each heart is a cryptic letter, signed by a 'Mr Brokenhearts'. There is one more intriguing aspect to Mr Brokenhearts' macabre modus operandi: the chosen graves all belong to women who have committed suicide. As he searches for the connection between the old suicides and the new murders, Pendergast realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: that he faces a conspiracy of death reaching back decades. 'Fast-moving, sophisticated and bursting with surprises ... There's nothing else like them' WASHINGTON POST. 'One of thrillerdom's most exciting and intriguing series leads, and it remains among the most reliable in the genre' BOOKLIST.

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  19. Rivière maudite

    « Un inspecteur aussi inclassable qu’irrésistible. Et des auteurs au sommet de leur art ! » Kirkus Reviews UNE EFFROYABLE DÉCOUVERTE, DOUBLÉE D’UNE ÉNIGME INSOLUBLE. Pourquoi des dizaines de pieds mutilés, revêtus de chaussures vertes, sont-ils venus s’échouer sur l’île paradisiaque de Sanibel, en Floride ? Ce phénomène inexplicable et les questions qui en découlent aiguisent la curiosité de l’inspecteur Pendergast, du FBI, qui décide d’interrompre ses vacances. POUR LE COMMUN DES MORTELS, PEUT-ÊTRE… PAS POUR L’INSPECTEUR ALOYSIUS X.L. PENDERGAST ! Nul ne sait d’où viennent ces pieds sectionnés. Ni même si leurs propriétaires sont toujours en vie. Débute alors une enquête qui mènera notre héros aux sources d’une rivière maudite… Confronté au complot le plus diabolique qu’il ait jamais eu à déjouer, l’agent spécial Pendergast va devoir redoubler de sagacité s’il ne veut à son tour servir de cobaye…

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  20. Bloodless

    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA. A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305--Portland to Seattle--with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night...and into history. A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence: Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins--sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire. A case like no other: As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how--or if--these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history. Together, they uncover not just the answer...but an unearthly evil beyond all imagining.

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  21. The Cabinet of Dr. Leng

    How can you stop a serial killer who has been dead for a hundred years? FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast always wants to protect his protegee Constance Greene from harm. But, against all odds, Constance has found a way to travel back in time. Heading to New York City in the late 1800s, Constance returns to the century of her birth to embark on a dangerous quest: stopping the era's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, from bringing his nefarious plans to fruition. If Constance can stop Dr. Leng, she can finally prevent the events that led to the shocking deaths of her sister and brother... but can she survive herself, when up against one of the cleverest and most evil men of his age? 'Simply brilliant!' Lisa Gardner on Preston & Child The nail-biting new thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Agent Pendergast series, perfect for fans of Clive Cussler and James Rollins.

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