Paris, end of the 21st century. Inspector Romane Pennac is the only white woman in her station. The world has suffered devastating wars and ecological disasters, and the old powers of Europe and America are now the third world. Amidst it all, it is to this young woman, now a member of a discriminated-against minority, that a couple of devastated parents turn. A mysterious letter has just announced that the body of their daughter, recently deceased in New York, is missing from her coffin…
Fate seems to have it in for Yann Calec, unjustly sentenced and harassed by guards in a godforsaken Colombian prison camp. He is saved from execution by when Ocaña shows up, a rebel intellectual tasked with smuggling him across the country to the mysterious Professor Condé. But the harrowing, perilous journey is nothing next to what awaits: a fortuitous return to the Belle Hélène, the doomed tramp steamer Calec once captained, still bound for its fateful date with a U-boat torpedo. Will Calec manage to save the ship and his new friends with their precious archeological cargo?
Former CIA agent Floyd Whitman investigates whether someone manipulated the US presidential elections. While carrying out the investigation he meets some of his old Russian acquaintances. Acquaintances who take him back to his youth in the 60s, when together they developed an ambitious plan to bring the Russian mafia back on its feet in order to fight the communist regime from within the borders of the United States. But today, forty years later, the White House decides to get rid of all the mafia bosses left in the country… The great spy adventure continues!
1906. William is ten years old when his family leaves London for Barellito, a small Italian fishing village. The quiet of the village will not last long, however, thanks to the ripples created by the arrival of William and his family. His own life, too, is about to be upturned, in this remarkable and wondrous new land where he will find new southern landscapes, a new kind of liberty, and above all new friends: Paolo, Nino, and the charming Lisa, united forever by an extraordinary event and a strange object…
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Two families are en route to Wyoming when an ambush by Crow warriors leads to a massacre—and two little girls missing. Logan, a young man who served as a scout for the small convoy, brings the only other survivor, old Giuseppe, back to civilisation, and makes him a promise: he’ll find the girls. Meanwhile, Salmon Leap, a young Lakota warrior turned away by the father of the woman he loves, seeks a glorious death—and along the way finds Sharon, one of the two girls… In the vast, wild expanses of an America still in formation, the destinies of two men and a little girl will intertwine, uniting them beyond all of their differences. A pure western.
An apparently simple mission – apprehending a speculator-droid – turns into a race against time when the Shingouz drop in uninvited mid-arrest, begging Valerian and Laureline for protection against someone who means to kill them. To the agents’ surprise, it’s an old friend who soon pops up in hot pursuit, guns blazing. The ensuing shoot-out does little to simplify an already complicated situation: our heroes’ favourite information brokers have managed to… lose Earth in a card game!
Rob has found his father, alive and moderately well after four years of physical and mental torture. But the happy reunion is cut short when the Clown makes contact with them. Unexpectedly, it’s to offer them a deal: Alex will do one last job for him, then father and son can go free, with the assurance of never being bothered by the KGB again. A legitimate offer, or one last trap? So the last round of a deadly game begins…
Four years have passed since Rob Poliac fled the house where two FBI agents died and his father Alex was shot by the Clown—and his real boss, Laura Kensington. He now lives under an assumed name with Carl, an old friend of Alex’s. But when his guardian dies, the young man finds himself the owner of the infamous List 66. Little by little, against his better judgement, he begins to investigate the names on it…
A young Spanish priest has been sent to the New World to bring the word of God to the Natives. Accompanied by an emancipated slave and an Incan princess, he travels from Mexico into Apache territory. But hot on their trail is a ruthless bunch of miscreants intent on kidnapping the princess and returning her to her savage brute of a fiancé. A fast-paced adventure set against the backdrop of magnificent American landscapes.
Of all the terrifying warlords to wreak destruction across the empire, few can match the savagery of Ghorghor Bey. His name alone can cause even the bravest of soldiers to tremble in their boots, and noble lords and ladies throughout the land pray that he never comes knocking at their castle doors in search of gold, booze, and maidens. But few know the tragic story behind this fearsome warrior’s rise to power. From his harrowing childhood to his first love(s), his devastating heartbreaks and crushing victories, read on and discover how a naive young half-ogre would go on to become Ghorghor the Terrible.
