Tom Cain
The survivor
En anglais – Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. He's very good at his job. But nobody's perfect. And one of Carver's targets has got away. Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by religious fanaticism. In Russia, the government have admitted they no longer know the whereabouts of one hundred small-scale 'suitcase nukes'. In Afghanistan and Kosovo, ruthless terrorists plot the downfall of their hated enemies. In Texas, a dying billionaire plots his own personal Armageddon. And Carver can do nothing to stop them. He was beaten and tortured and left to die, but Samuel Carver is a hard man to kill. When he awakes in a Swiss sanatorium from weeks of torment, he discovers that the woman he loves has vanished. Somehow he must find the strength to track her down…
Vous aimerez aussi
We need to talk about Ross
En anglais – Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is many things to many people. But ten years after he lifted the Leinster Schools Senior Cup, Ireland’s most beloved rogue remains one of its most misunderstood figures. His accomplishments on the rugby field – and in the bedroom – remain the stuff of legend, but the truth about him remains hidden by the accretion of myth. Now, for the first time, the lid is lifted on the enigma that is South Dublin’s most eligible married man. In more than a hundred interviews with his family and friends – those who’ve loved him, hated him and slept with him – the first ever composite portrait of the Celtic Tiger’s most famous cub emerges. From the mother who didn’t want him to the father who wanted him too much, from the friends who shared his misadventures to the women who shared his bed – or, failing that, a back alley or bus shelter – this searingly honest biography fills in all the blanks in the life of the self-styled Cock of Foxrock.
Wisconsin
Au nord du Wisconsin, deux fermes voisines, celle des Lucas et celle des Morriseau. John Lucas est alcoolique et cruel, sa femme Claire n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Leurs deux fils James et Bill trouvent rapidement refuge dans la ferme voisine de Rose et Ernie Morriseau. Une chronique familiale qui dépeint les horreurs de la guerre du Vietnam.
Cher amour
Je suis en arrêt de jeu, sur le clos, paupières closes. Je sais que vos mains, fines, élégantes, déliées, sont une harmonie, une musique pour saisir mes lettres, les déplier et les tenir comme la plus précieuse découverte de notre vie. Cette main qui repousse une mèche de cheveux reste suspendue pendant que vous lisez, attentive, les mots sacrés de ce voyageur infatigable qui a fini par s'arrêter dans votre jardin. Je vous aime depuis si longtemps, depuis avant le début. Ces lettres qui ne pourraient jamais finir sont celles de mes mouvements géographiques et de mes voyages immobiles sur la scène. Mais probablement y verrez-vous un autre voyage plus complexe, plus hardi, plus désespéré. Voyager, dit-on, on n'en revient jamais. Le prendrez-vous ce temps de me lire pour me prolonger un peu en vous ? Avec un don irrésistible pour dire le clair-obscur des sentiments, Bernard Giraudeau embarque ses lecteurs, en compagnie de l'inconnue qu'il veut séduire, vers des ailleurs nés d'un imaginaire construit sur l'aventure, le désir de vivre et d'aimer.
The bodies left behind
En anglais – When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report ? Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit. The deputy’s disappearance spurs both her troubled son and her new husband into action, while the incident sets in motion Brynn’s loyal fellow deputies and elements from Milwaukee’s underside. These various forces race along inexorably toward the novel’s gritty and stunning conclusion.