Chris Ryan
The hit list
En Anglais – When a tycoon apparently falls from his yacht and drowns, the two secret service operatives who have in fact murdered him are also killed. The top secret governmental organisation that had employed them needs to find new recruits. Peter Slater, a former SAS soldier, is working as a games master in a public school. When he foils an attempt by terrorists to kidnap an Arab boy, the boy is hurt and Slater is sacked. Down on his luck he is framed for the murder of his girlfriend, and blackmailed into working for MI7. The missions he is asked to undertake on behalf of the British government become so evil that he finds himself preferring to die rather than complete these missions successfully.
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En Anglais – The world’s two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped he would never have to do again—assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap—a trap from which only one of them will escape.
Zita – La dernière impératrice
Zita de Bourbon-Parme, princesse de Parme puis, par son mariage, impératrice-reine d’Autriche-Hongrie, est née le 9 mai 1892 à Camaiore, en Italie. Épouse de l’empereur Charles Ier, elle est la dernière impératrice d’Autriche, reine de Hongrie et reine de Bohême. Dix-septième enfant du duc Robert Ier de Parme, destitué du duché de Parme et de Plaisance après l’annexion de ce dernier par le Royaume de Piémont-Sardaigne, et de l'infante Maria Antónia de Portugal, sa deuxième femme, Zita se marie avec l’archiduc Charles d’Autriche en 1911. Après la Première Guerre mondiale, en 1918, les Habsbourg sont déposés tandis que l’Empire d’Autriche-Hongrie est divisé en plusieurs nations indépendantes : l’Autriche, la Tchécoslovaquie, la Hongrie et l’État des Slovènes, Croates et Serbes principalement. Charles et Zita sont alors forcés de s’exiler en Suisse puis à Madère, où Charles meurt en 1922. Pendant son veuvage et alors qu’elle n’a que 29 ans, Zita et son fils Otto deviennent des symboles d’unité pour la dynastie exilée. Fervente catholique, Zita reste fidèle à la mémoire de son mari et élève ses huit enfants dans les traditions des Habsbourg.
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We are still married
En anglais – Tales of love lost and found, satiric comments on society and the media, and letters on marriage and fatherhood–Garrison Keillor reflects on the world around him with wit, warmth, and wonder.