On secret service
En Anglais – John Jakes is to historical American fiction what Stephen King is to horror: a one-man industry. Jakes, the author of over 60 books, including the eight-part Kent Family Chronicles, the North and South Trilogy, and innumerable short stories of the American West, returns to his well-trod Civil War stomping grounds in the engrossing On Secret Service. The story of a war within a war on various levels–the North v. the South, the Union’s Pinkerton Detective Agency v. the Confederacy’s agent provocateurs, youthful idealism v. youthful lust–On Secret Service chronicles the lives and times of four young Americans, from the war’s early tremors in January 1861, through its bloody conclusion, Lincoln’s assassination, and John Wilkes Booth’s murder in May 1865. …..
The Hostage
En Anglais – When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong, British Intelligence turn to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton, SBS operative with a lethal reputation. It’s a dangerous race against time: if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to them, his colleague is as good as dead.
Night Fall
En Anglais – Five years after the horrific crash of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island which killed 230 people, John Corey is inadvertently caught up in the now-closed case by his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, who believes the government’s findings of mechanical failure is wrong. The FBI don’t take kindly to the case being looked into again and, as John Corey’s instincts and investigations clearly show anomalies, he and Kate are sent off to the Yemen and Tanzania for a month or so each as punishment. On his return, John is not put off – he has ten days’ leave. Ten days in which to avoid the FBI and to find that elusive video tape taken by two adulterous lovers on the beach which may – or may not – show a sea-to-air missile racing up to hit the TWA Flight 800…An exciting, edge-of-the-seat thriller – Nelson DeMille’s best to date. www nelsondemille.net
The italian secretary
En Anglais – Mycroft Holmes’s encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for Dr. Watson to decipher: a matter concerning the safety of Queen Victoria herself calls them to Edinburgh’s Holyrood House to investigate the confounding and gruesome deaths of two young men–horrific incidents that took place with her highness in residence. The victims were crushed in a manner surpassing human power. And while recent attempts on her majesty’s life raise a number of possibilities, these intrigues also seem strangely connected to an act of evil that took place centuries earlier … For indeed, the slaying of David Rizzio, music master and friend to Mary Queen of Scots, was an extraordinarily brutal and treacherous act–even for a time when brutality and treachery were the order of the day. Now, the ghosts of Holyrood House are being reawakened by someone with a diabolical agenda of greed, madness, and terror as Holmes and Watson set out to trap a killer who is eager to rewrite history in blood…