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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sam Beauclairs life has hit the skids. Hes late with his second novel, his marriage is on the rocks, and the bank is foreclosing on the apartment. In desperation, he flees to Melvile, a small country town where he once spent idyllic vacations with his novelist father. There he finds work as a handyman, and when a pair of siblings befriend him, he slowly begins to come out of his shell. But is it a fresh start, or just willful denial of reality? Will...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Jack Irons latest adventure finds him in the Far East, looking into a bridge that just cant seem to get built. Accidents plague its troubled construction: crumbling concrete, disappearing workers why does the Starbridge company keep pouring money into a losing proposition? Its a mess, but the kind thats right up this brilliant engineers alley. And Irons knows hes on the right track, because goons are crawling out of the woodwork to come gunning for...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman is accused of an unspeakable crime that seems completely out of step with her sweet personality. As she tells her life story to her attorney, the book delves into the psyche and past of a young girl with a cold mother, an absent father, a twin sister with whom she shared an unbreakable bond, and a horrific family secret that leads to tragedy. But beyond the wounds of the past and the pain of the present, the book ultimately...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Alex Carret is a talented young Brussels chocolatier whose life takes a drastic turn when he quits his job and agrees to partner with a friend of a friend named Ben. He's a little wary of him at first, but when Ben comes up with a business plan, a space, a brilliant branding idea, and a 100,000-euro loan, Alex can't resist the temptation of seeing his lifelong dream come true. Soon he and his team are selecting the finest chocolate from countries...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Aboard the yacht that saved them, Koralovski and his companions are en route towards an off-shore laboratory belonging to his company. In fact, this is not just any laboratory; it's the laboratory that was developing a revolutionary process allowing the extraction of an entire petrol deposit that had supposedly run out. But when they arrive at the laboratory, the place is completely deserted...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Viktor Koralovski was Russias Oil Kinga title that earned him the wrath of President Khanine and ten years in prison. An unexpected missile attack allows Koralovski to escape. However, he soon learns that while he was locked up, his friends and enemies have become almost indistinguishable, which leads to his current position at the centre of a vast conspiracy that threatens to engulf the entire oil industry!
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Bitcoin is making giant strides throughout the world. Satoshi Nakamoto, its creator, continues as an enigmatic and cryptographic figure. Nonetheless, rumors surrounding his potential wealth have not gone unnoticed by the mafia. He has also popped up on the radar of the secret services. In fact, NSA agents have been searching for him for some time now. The opportunities that this crypto-currency has opened up within the financial markets have turned...
8) The Children
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Meet the children: Airbus, with his barely contained rage, Angel, whose sweet looks belie a mercurial cruelty, and Mongol, who talks to insects and stray animals. They spend their days weaving baskets at Save the Innocents, an outreach foundation. They fantasize about the friendly blonde aid worker Anika, are wary of her blandly affable Belgian boss, and mock her short husband Recto, who speaks their language so poorly. Meanwhile, gunfire thunders...
9) Guinea Pigs
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A pharmaceutical testing center. Three human test subjects. Three pills a day for twenty-one days. And at the end, a check for 3,500 euros. Our three guinea pigs begin the test thinking theyre in it for the money. Three weeks later, they leave transformed. Have their dreams come true, or will their lives become living nightmares?
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Koralovski's long-awaited confrontation with President Khanine is cut short when the threat of a nuclear attack on Kazakhstan comes to light, targeting one of the biggest oil deposits in the world. Not knowing the extent of enemy infiltration in their national security services, Koralovski and his team have no choice but to deal with the crisis themselves, and try to prevent the worst from happening.
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Birds wasting away in a national park, refusing to migrate. Identical geometric markings on the wings of completely different insect species. A pillar of dust in the desert. A small-time hood travels to Indias shipbreaking yards in search of a giant nuclear-powered construction robot. A big-time crime boss makes a killing off the Algerian Revolution, in a world where it happened fifteen years later than in our own. A good story, insists reporter Franoise...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Mancini interrogation is finally wrapped up in this fourth and final volume Manu Larcenet's masterpiece. His immaculate plotline reaches a conclusion that will leave you wide-eyed and speechless, as it unravels the mysteries of the fascinating savagery and the captivating but deranged mind of this rare human being.Polzas story has many unusual twists, absurdities and horrors to go through before we get any closer to understanding the nature of...
16) Rain Wolf V1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Rain Wolf, a young native American, is in trouble. He just killed a white man in an act of self-defense. Justifiable in the eyes of the law... when it's a white man who does it. Bruce, the son of influential railway magnate Vincent McDell, springs his friend Rain Wolf from jail and vows to protect him. Rain Wolf has no choice but to go into hiding. Sent along to accompany him by the tribe sages is Little Moon, the woman Bruce's brother Jack is in...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When his troops come under fire from Albanian human-traffickers, the French President decides to ask the UN Security Council to step inwhich means Sisco gets a trip to the Big Apple. However, what promises to be an all-in vacation, complete with classy embassy women, soon turns into a nightmare as the Albanian mafia and their suspicious US partners turn the high-level meeting into a no-holds-barred turf war. Nothing Sisco cant take in his stride,...
18) Sisco 3 Gin Fizz
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Sisco is in hot water. His last mission didnt quite go according to plan. His punishment? Looking after the Presidents teenage daughter, Julie. Seems like a cushy numberthough hardly Siscos ideal assignmentuntil he discovers that gin fizz isnt the only cocktail young Julie is partial to. Which is particularly bad news seeing that her father is intent on bringing in a new vice law. Theres worse. Someone seems to have the girl in their sights. What...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Birds wasting away in a national park, refusing to migrate. Identical geometric markings on the wings of completely different insect species. A pillar of dust in the desert. A small-time hood travels to Indias shipbreaking yards in search of a giant nuclear-powered construction robot. A big-time crime boss makes a killing off the Algerian Revolution, in a world where it happened fifteen years later than in our own. A good story, insists reporter Franoise...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Sisco has been away from the action for a while, and his new civilian jobbabysitting a playboy tycoon who's living it up in the South of Franceis working out just fine for him, thank you very much. But all good things must come to an end. When he finds out that his ex-girlfriend Manon is in trouble, he reluctantly accepts a job for his former boss at the Palace in exchange for help rescuing her. It seems straightforward enough, except that there is...
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