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Après une mauvaise rencontre dans les marais d'Exmouth, Massachusetts, l'agent spécial du FBI Aloysius Pendergast est porté disparu. . . Bouleversée par la perte de son protecteur, Constance Greene s

Aloysius Pendergast est contacté par un sculpteur à qui on a volé une collection de vins rares. Il se rend à Exmouth, petit village de pêcheurs situé au nord de Salem, dans le Massachusetts. Peu aprè

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 rechappe, Smithback, lui, est tue...Le meurtrier est rapidement identifie par des temoins et des cameras de videosurveillance. Il s'agit de leur etrange et sinistre voisin, Fearing... pourtant mort et enterre depuis plusieurs jours deja !Un tel mystere ne peut laisser insensible le celebre inspecteur Pendergast, du FBI. Epaule par son acolyte, l'inspecteur Vincent d'Acosta, il fera tout pour retrouver le meurtrier de son ami.Leur enquete va les mener a une secte secrete, La Ville, cachee depuis deux siecles dans la partie boisee de Manhattan. Y a-t-il un rapport entre cette secte, qui se livre entre autres a des sacrifices d'animaux, et la resurrection en zombies tueurs de Fearing puis de... Smithback ?L'enigme va donner du fil a retordre a nos deux enqueteurs, d'autant qu'Alexander Esteban, ancien realisateur specialiste de films gore de serie Z, entre dans la valse. Forcement macabre... Quelle est la vraie raison de sa haine farouche a l'egard de La Ville ?

Led by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, a star-studded collection of writers come together to create a dazzlingly original, multi-voiced novelCompelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating' Red *One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel.With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned buckets. Gradually the tenants some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now become real neighbours.With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection.An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling An impressive achievement ObserverFourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners) Financial TimesIncludes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.

En un remoto lugar del desierto de Nuevo México, un enigmático centro de investigación lleva a cabo un ambicioso proyecto científico: un tratamiento definitivo para una enfermedad común pero molesta, y grave en algunos casos. El espectacular hallazgo representará sin duda sustanciosos beneficios para la empresa, y el Premio Nobel para el equipo de investigadores de Monte Dragón, como se llama el laboratorio. Por todo ello, cuando Guy Carson, un joven y prometedor científico, recibe la oferta de colaborar en el proyecto, no se lo piensa dos veces. Sabe que se halla ante la ocasión de su vida: trabajar con las más destacadas figuras de la medicina y la ingeniería genética, y participar en el descubrimiento del siglo. No sospecha, sin embargo, que tras la aséptica y rutilante apariencia de la más avanzada tecnología se oculta un siniestro secreto que puede poner en peligro la supervivencia de la especie humana.

VERSES FOR THE DEAD

A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCEAfter a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.A SHOCKING RETURNSick with grief, Pendergasts ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive--only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past.AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNTProctor, Pendergasts longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constances kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.BUT IN A WORLD OF BLACK AND WHITE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSAnd by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying engine has stirred-and it may already be too late...

A secret chamber.A mysterious shipwreck.A murder in the desolate salt marshes.A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated.Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled history, and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression, kept secret all these years. But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes, where they continued to practice their wicked arts.Then, a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. The only clue is a series of mysterious carvings. Could these demonic symbols bear some relation to the ancient witches'' colony, long believed to be abandoned?A terrible evil lurks beneath the surface of this sleepy seaside town-one with deep roots in Exmouth''s grim history. And it may be that Constance, with her own troubled past, is the only one who truly comprehends the awful danger that she, Pendergast, and the residents of Exmouth must face...

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori

A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A SHOCKING RETURN Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive - only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past. AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT Proctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, pursuing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown. BUT IN THIS WORLD, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS And by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying mechanism has stirred - and it may already be too late...