検索キーワード： 著者 "Lincoln" すべてのカテゴリー

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.

À 12 ans, Gideon Crew voit son père se faire abattre sous ses yeux. À 20 ans, Gideon est au chevet de sa mère. Elle lui révèle que Melvin Crew n'était pas le traître que tout le monde croyait, et, dans un dernier souffle, supplie son fils de venger sa mémoire. À 32 ans, Gideon tient enfin sa revanche et tue l'assassin de son père. Son plan, spectaculaire et méticuleux, est couronné de succès. Mais, dans l'ombre, on l'observe.

Les fans du brillant et excentrique agent du FBI Aloysius Pendergast l'ignoraient : il avait été marié avant de perdre sa femme lors d'un safari, en Afrique - sous les crocs d'un lion. Douze ans après le drame, Pendergast découvre qu'il ne s'agissait pas d'un accident, comme il le pensait jusque-là, mais d'un meurtre... Qui pouvait en vouloir à Hélène ? Pourquoi a-t-elle été tuée ? Épaulé par son fidèle Vincent D'Agosta, de la police de New York, Pendergast n'aura de cesse de résoudre l'énigme.

Qui est le mystérieux donateur qui permet au Musée d'histoire naturelle de New York d'ouvrir le tombeau de Senef ? Pourquoi cet intérêt soudain pour les sentences maléfiques du "Livre des trépassés" ? Une folie meurtrière gagne le personnel du musée, alors que l'inspecteur Pendergast, qui seul pourrait résoudre cette affaire, est en prison pour tentative de meurtre sur son frère, l'impitoyable et pervers Diogène.

William Smithback, reporter au New York Times, et sa femme Nora Kelly, archéologue au Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, sont sauvagement agressés dans leur appartement de l'Upper West Side de Manhattan. Si Nora en réchappe, Smithback, lui, est tué... Le meurtrier est rapidement identifié par des témoins et des caméras de vidéosurveillance. Il s'agit de leur étrange et sinistre voisin, Fearing... pourtant mort et enterré depuis plusieurs jours déjà ! Un tel mystère ne peut laisser insensible le célèbre inspecteur Pendergast, du FBI.

"Mon cher Vincent, si vous lisez ces lignes, cela signifie que je n'ai pas survécu..." L'inspecteur Pendergast du FBI est donc mort ! Et c'est d'outre-tombe qu'il confie à son ami, le lieutenant D'Agosta, la mission d'empêcher un être démoniaque de commettre le forfait suprême, l'apothéose de sa carrière criminelle. Mais comment D'Agosta pourra-t-il, seul, et en sept jours, déjouer un crime dont il ignore tout ? Et comment lutter contre un adversaire supérieurement intelligent.

New York Times best seller Lincoln Child returns with a riveting new thriller featuring the charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, as he uncovers a long-lost secret experiment only rumored to have existed.

After being approached by the military with a contract he couldn't refuse, James winds up uploaded into a virtual-reality game as a beta tester. Waking up in the Great Savanna, James struggles with a less-than-useful interface before he comes across two creatures locked in battle. The shoulder-high grass allows him glimpses of a lionesque creature fending off a torrent of scales and claws. He grows to love the beauty of the Great Savanna and his adopted game brother, whose life he saved.... That is until Patrick arrives and the tranquility of the game is shattered.

The Jeffersonian Republicans examines various events between 1800 and 1823 that helped to shape the United States. The Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and important Supreme Court decisions are among the discussed events.

Former naval doctor Peter Crane is summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies far below on "Deep Storm", a stunningly advanced science-research facility built two miles beneath the surface on the ocean floor. The top-secret structure has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a recently discovered undersea site that may hold the answers to an ancient mystery.

In this riveting new thriller, Lincoln Child weaves together a stunning Arctic landscape, a terrifying mythic creature, and a pervasive mood of chaos and fear. With Terminal Freeze, Child demonstrates why he has become a major best-selling author, and why his novels electrify and enthrall so many.

The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist...featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic.

When this book was published in 1921, Elsie Lincoln Benedict's How to Analyze People on Sight was received as a serious scientific work of analytic sociology, but fast forward 90 years and the same words ring hilariously. Apparently well intended at the time, the book appears to invent the very notion of stereotyping.

We think of Lincoln as a great president, but he was also an eloquent and expressive writer and speaker. The superb performance by George Vail conveys Lincoln's depth of thought and feeling through these extraordinary pieces of literature.

William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on the Upper West side of Manhattan. Eyewitnesses claim and the security camera confirms the killer seen leaving the building was their strange, sinister neighbor--a man who, by all reports, was already dead.

Behind the gates of a fabulous Hampton estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers the carnage of a gruesome crime, a nightmare of seemingly supernatural origin. The smoldering remains of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, a melted cross branding his chest, are found in a locked, barricaded attic. The hoofprint singed into the floorboards and the smell of brimstone recall the legendary horrors that befall those who make a pact with the Devil.

Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City. Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven at the famous Fraunces Tavern. But even with the help of Sam Fraunces and her fellow worker, Horace, Willy knows that to be Black, female, and free leaves her open to danger at every turn. What will tomorrow bring?

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BIG NATE will surpass all others! But it won't be easy. He's stuck with Gina, his all-time enemy, in a class project for his least favorite teacher Mrs. Godfrey, aka Godzilla. To make matters worse, Gina ALSO ends up on his fleeceball team, right when Nate is set to win his first fleeceball championship ever. This is his moment for glory, but Gina's sure to steal his thunder, or ruin everything.