Le Contrat du siècle

Prise d’otages à «La Rafale» ! Surnommé «l’ogre de la presse à scandales», Barnes est un aventurier des médias, au passé pour le moins louche… Cette fois, il a entrepris de lancer une offre publique d’achat sur «La Rafale» dans le but de manipuler ce grand quotidien français et de lui appliquer les méthodes des journaux «pourris» !

George Price’s world has been turned upside down: wanted by the police, with no memory of his past, he has the creeping suspicion that everything about his life after his recent brain surgery has been a carefully-constructed lie. With help from intrepid journalist Jennifer Lee, he tracks down the traces of his former life. Step by step, he will put all the puzzle pieces together—a tragic accident, a high-stakes foreign crisis, a national election, and a murderous religious zealot—to reveal a secret more mind-blowing than anything he or Jennifer could have imagined.

This one-shot is the story of what happens when a crime squad engages in a furious race against time in order to get to the bottom of a series of particularly sadistic crimes involving the forgery of some of the most famous paintings of Picasso, Schiele, Bacon, and Goya. Successive revelations make it clear to the investigators that it is all tied up with something that happened in 1971 in Geneva on the Swiss decorative arts scene.

With the invention of Super Mega Tofu, civilization has seen the advent of a fragile peace—between animals and humans, between carnivores and herbivores. This miracle food has the peculiar quality of being universally loved.
Jack Wolfgang, the world-renowned restaurant critic, travels the world sampling Super Mega Tofu in all of its varieties. It’s the perfect cover for his second identity: Jack Wolfgang, CIA special agent. When his friend and mentor is killed, Jack picks up the scent of a conspiracy and tracks it half way around the globe. Can society survive this collision of fine dining and espionage?

Monsters are popping up all over, wreaking wild havoc on Earth! Captain Woof, a dog from another dimension, is here to find out what’s been weakening the walls between parallel universes and letting these creatures through. Helping him are Captain Mysterioso, a teen reassembled by aliens to be invulnerable and shoot destructo-rays; Captain Bummer, a woman with the power to push anyone to suicide; and Captain Smooch, a playboy that one kiss can turn into a raging beast. Throw in Captain Megahertz, a man who can travel along any electrical frequency, and you’ve got the Captainz! A rollicking love letter to superhero comics.

This is the story of Marcel Rayman, a young Polish Jew whose face is featured on the infamous ‘Affiche Rouge’, propaganda circulated in occupied France in an attempt to discredit the Parisian resistance. The Nazi abomination drove Rayman to set aside his pacifist principles and take up arms in the ranks of Missak Manoukian’s resistance movement. For two long years, during which he saw his entire family deported, Marcel Rayman led a clandestine life, shrouded in death, fear and treachery.

Ian Mallory lives anything but a boring life. He lost his first wife to a bullet that’s now stuck in his brain, and when his second wife’s step-daughter stabbed a classmate, it was up to him to get rid of the body. This is no secret for the NSA, which has blackmailed Ian into working for them. Thrust into the midst of secret agents, dirty lawyers, mobsters, and former Navy SEALs hell-bent on attacking their homeland, Ian will stay calm, cool, and collected through it all, thanks to that 9mm slug lodged in his brain that short-circuited his emotions.

When Lt. Clegg’s wife gives him an ultimatum—quit the force in 48 hours, or else—the police detective makes it his deadline, telling the press he’ll deliver the “Playboy” killer in two days’ time. But prostitute-turned-private-eye Juanita Jones is on the murderer’s trail too: one that leads her from memories of a party gone wrong to an exclusive hospital to an apartment full of incriminating photo equipment. Viktor Scott, disoriented from trying to recover her lost memories, drifts back into Clegg’s orbit, only for Juanita’s discoveries to reveal the two cases’ hidden connections in this thrilling third installment of the series.

C’est tout naturellement auprès de ses parents que la remuante femme-flic a choisi de se remettre du stress de ses précédentes enquêtes. Ayant troqué jeans, bottes et blouson de cuir contre des robes à fleurs et des escarpins, elle a donc retrouvé sa ville natale avec l’intention de s’y reposer quelque temps au doux soleil du grand Sud. Beau Vallon est d’ordinaire, une bourgade sans histoires. Depuis peu, elle connaît pourtant les feux de l’actualité : un grand procès s’y déroule et plusieurs des amis d’enfance de Rubine font partie du jury… Bizarrement, ceux-ci se détournent d’elle ! Au tribunal, ils ont l’air nerveux et semblent avoir peur. De quoi ? De qui ? Pourquoi, la vue d’un paquet contenant des vêtements de sa fille proprement lavés et repassés, effraie-t-elle l’une de ses copines au point de lui faire perdre connaissance ?

“Brave New World” reviewed in the light of science and technological developments.

A disturbing extrapolation based on the actual data of development and globalisation.

The economic horror glimpsed with the humour of the author of “Green Manor”, foreshadowed with a worrying realism by the artist of “Berceuse assassine” and transfigured by the tonic optimism of the artist of “Soda”.