Le Guinea Lord

Minister Munongo is onto the wily Orsini and his scheme to fence $30 million in missing diamonds to a Belgian mining executive. The pressure’s on in the Katangan capital, forcing the cunning former spy to use every last trick up his sleeve just to survive. But out in the jungle, things aren’t any better for Cantor and his mercenary crew. Their diplomatic mission—a cover to get the diamonds—takes them ever deeper into hostile tribal territory. In the crucible of violence, character is revealed. In this second volume, Nury and Vallée display a masterful understanding of the villainous psyche.

Paris, 1802. Bonaparte has just been proclaimed First Consul, provoking Fouché’s departure from the Police headquarters. The two men are now both set on finding a certain object, stolen by a beautiful prostitute, which could change their destiny. Bonaparte calls on the services of François, a petty thief otherwise known as “The Torpedo,” to recover the mysterious object.

In a not-so-distant future, mankind’s greed and short-sightedness have exhausted the planet. The vast majority of the population lives in misery among the ruins of civilization, while a small, privileged minority continues to enjoy a luxurious existence inside a few fortress-cities scattered around the globe, the Enclaves. Vivian is a member of the elite forces that protect and sustain this utopia—by any means necessary…

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We find ourselves in Ancient Rome. In the intense heat of the centre of one of the most far-reaching empires the world has ever known, gladiators struggle for survival in the arena, cunning merchants strive to outwit each other, sordid love affairs turn sour, and along side it all, the eternal game of power plays out in the shadows…

1961, Illinois. Alex Poliac buries his wife Alice, and that evening, he and his son flee their home. Not because he is a suspect in Alice’s death, but because a serial killer — The Clown — is prowling the state, and Alex knows how he picks his victims. A rough meeting with Laura, a friend of his wife, brings more questions: was Alice hiding something, with her mysterious phone calls and unexplained absences? Was her death really an accident?

The secret war of Azur is growing in ferocity. Countess Aristophania Bolt is banking on the three Francoeur children to turn the tide, notably by discovering the legendary Aurora Spring. Basile, Victor, and Calixte are determined to prove Aristophania right, but it may be too late—their allies are dwindling, and the Banished King and his minions are closer than ever.

Born in Saudi Arabia, a country that offers him no future because of his Chadian nationality, Mohammed El Gorani decides to go and study in Karachi, Pakistan at the age of 14. Two months after he arrives, he is sold to the American government by the Pakistani secret services, who claim he belongs to Al‐Qaida. He finds himself in the fast lane to a living hell. He is imprisoned and tortured in Afghanistan before being taken to Guantanamo, where he is subjected to routine torture and interrogation. Mohammed is one of the youngest prisoners at the camp, and one of the only black detainees. After an arduous battle lasting eight long years, Mohammed’s innocence is finally recognized.

Lisa Forsberg is a rookie cop who has just taken her first assignment in the small Swedish city where she was born. In her youth she was a troublemaker, part of a hard-living subculture called “raggare” who worship American rock’n’roll and vintage cars from the 1950s. Now Lisa finds herself thrown back into this world when she is sent to investigate a missing person report involving people she went to school with. She and her partner, Erik Lund, will uncover secrets that put them in harm’s way and bring them face-to-face with the unspeakable.

We’re in Rome, three days before the ides of October. The Emperor Cladius is dead, poisoned by his wife, Agrippina, who’d discovered his plans to renounce her so as to marry Lollia Paulina, Murena’s mother. Thus Nero, Agrippine’s son, becomes emperor. His mother, having bought the favor of the army and the Senate, believes that she’ll be able to govern in her son’s name. But, at 17-years-old, Nero is no longer a child, which she’ll soon learn at her own expense…