Intelligent Artificial Neuromechanoid… Ian. It’s the name of the newest recruit in Team 21 of the SRS – the ‘Special Rescue Section.’ Ian is an android, impossible to tell apart from a human being with the naked eye, and his creators claim that he’s controlled by a true artificial intelligence – capable of learning, adapting, and even of experiencing emotions. Not every member of the team is happy about their new partner, but their higher-ups aren’t giving them a choice – and the mission comes first…
This time Jazz and Teo are a long way from the chaos of the El Raval district. They’ve just arrived in Reykjavík, with its pristine natural surroundings and Viking culture. Our favorite gentleman burglar is on a mission to get his hands on the famous Golden Eye, a sacred Iranian artifact. But nothing’s ever that simple. Just when Jazz and Teo arrive, the town is hit with a wave of racist crimes, and then Jazz runs into an old acquaintance… Perhaps this is where we’ll find out a little more about the years he spend in New York about which he’s always been so elusive…
In this ninth volume of the historical saga Murena, Dufaux and Delaby show Rome in reconstruction and expose the roots of the Judeo-Christian culture. Nero fears that the people of Rome, still reeling from the trauma of the great fire, will turn against him if he doesn’t present them with the guilty party, and fast. He decides that the Christians would be the perfect scapegoats…
Matthew Montgomery’s quest to solve the mystery behind his wife and daughter’s brutal murder has led him as far as the train tracks go: Topeka. This cautious, law-abiding man has come to this hub of sex, violence and alcohol in search of a man who goes by the name of Jason Cauldry, from whom he intends to get some answers about the death of his loved ones. And find him he does. Turns out Cauldry is lord and master of the town’s brothels, enrolling all the Indian women unfortunate enough to cross his path. Desert Star was one of them. She’s dead. Wakita is another, and she decides to help Montgomery find out why an assassin would trek all the way down to Washington to kill two women he’d never laid eyes upon, leaving a strange star engraved on his victim’s body…
