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Galardonada con el Premio Goncourt, ensalzada por los críticos y convertida en un auténtico fenómeno editorial en Francia, esta novela es un fresco y atrevido retrato de una sociedad descompuesta por uno de los mas crueles inventos del hombre: la guerra.Un emocionante canto a la capacidad de superacion del ser humano.En noviembre de 1918, tan solo unos dias antes del armisticio, el teniente d'Aulnay-Pradelle ordena una absurda ofensiva que culminara con los soldados Albert Maillard y Edouard Pericourt gravemente heridos, en un confuso y dramatico incidente que ligara sus destinos inexorablemente.Edouard, de familia adinerada y con un talento excepcional para el dibujo, ha sufrido una horrible mutilacion y se niega a reencontrarse con su padre y su hermana. Albert, de origen humilde y caracter pusilanime, concilia el sueño abrazado a una cabeza de caballo de carton y esta dispuesto a lo indecible con tal de compensar a Edouard, a quien debe la vida. Y Pradelle, aristocrata venido a menos, cinico y mujeriego, esta obsesionado con recuperar su estatus social.De regreso en Paris, los tres excombatientes se rebelaran contra una realidad que los condena a la miseria y al olvido. Asi, Edouard pergeña una ingeniosisima estafa con el fin de vengarse de su progenitor, que siempre lo repudio por su sensibilidad y sus habilidades artisticas. De paso quiere ayudar al fiel Albert, cuyo prurito es huir a las antipodas para olvidar a Cecile, su amor perdido. Aunque tal vez el mas ambicioso sea Pradelle, que sacudira la conciencia de Francia entera mediante una monumental operacion delictiva concebida para amasar una rapida fortuna. Los escollos son considerables, pero la voluntad de los tres parece infinita.En una brillante fusion de literatura popular y alta literatura, Pierre Lemaitre ha creado una trepidante historia que progresa al ritmo de una trama detectivesca. Integrando con maestria elementos de generos tan diversos como el relato de aventuras, el drama psicologico, la cronica social y politica y el alegato antibelico, la narracion es un derroche de humor, rabia y compasion.La critica ha dicho...Hay una obra maestra en esta temporada literaria. Esta firmada por un escritor apenas conocido cuyo nombre ira de boca en boca [...]. Es el libro que hay que leer este año.LireUna de las novelas mas apasionantes de este año.Pierre Assouline,La Republique des livresUn Premio Goncourt popular en el mejor sentido de la palabra.Bernard PivotEste libro, sin ninguna duda, marcara la historia de la literatura. Podria haber tenido mil paginas mas y seguiriamos adorandolo. Es magnifico.Valerie Trierweiler,Paris-MatchManteniendo el suspense hasta la ultima pagina, el autor compone con maestria un fresco de la Francia de la posguerra.Le MondeUna de las obras mas sobrecogedoras publicadas este año. [...] Un libro formidable.La CroixUna obra maestra. Un libro de tono grave y cinico, malicioso en algunos momentos, escrito con una prosa deslumbrante, de una negrura abisal y de un talento excepcional.Valeurs ActuellesUn fresco impresionante. Lo horrible, lo funesto, lo sentimental, lo grandioso, lo sordido e incluso lo burlesco se mezclan alegremente. Impacta.Le PointAbalanzaos sobre Nos vemos alla arriba. Es un triunfo. Una de esas novelas que fusionan la literatura popular y la alta literatura.Les EchosBuenas criticas, ventas aun mejores, jurados literarios seducidos: es el triptico soñado por cualquier escritor. Pierre Lemaitre lo ha conseguido.Le Figaro

« Pour le commerce, la guerre présente beaucoup d'avantages, même après. » Au lendemain du plus grand carnage du xxe siècle, deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés, prennent leur revanc

No dejes que nadie te desvele nada de esta historiaUNA OBRA MAESTRA TRADUCIDA A 22 IDIOMAS Y EN ADAPTACIÓN PARA UNA SERIE TELEVISIVA«Unthriller diabólico, que se lee del tirón, con fascinación y mied

« À la fin de décembre 1999, une surprenante série d’événements tragiques s’abattit sur Beauval, au premier rang desquels, bien sûr, la disparition du petit Rémi Desmedt. Dans cette région couverte

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she is trapped in the middle of a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-Elysees. Shot three times, she is lucky to survive - and morbidly unlucky to remember the face of her assailant. Followed home from her hospital bed, Anne is in grave danger. But one thing stands in her favour - a dangerously vengeful partner, carrying the scars of devastating loss, who will break all the rules to protect the woman he loves: Commandant Camille Verhoeven. Following the horror of Irene and the thrills of Alex, Camille is the heart-stopping final chapter of Lemaitre's multi-award-winning trilogy, soon to be the subject of a major American film. Drawn once again into a labyrinthine web with answers ever out of reach, Camille must draw on all his talent to face an enemy who threatens everything he holds dear.

For Commandant Verhven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene.But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him - his every move is headline news. When he discovers that the killer has killed before - that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname... The Novelist...With both men in the public eye, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner - whoever has the least to lose...

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verh/ven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verh/ven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.

NO APTO PARA LECTORES SENSIBLESSegunda y formidable entrega de la serie del comandante Verhoeven.La gran novela que supuso el inicio de la fulgurante carrera internacional de Lemaitre.Han pasado varios años desde el caso del asesino en serie que trastoco para siempre su vida, y el comandante Camille Verhoeven aun no se ha repuesta del todo cuando un nuevo desafio vuelve a implicarlo personal y profesionalmente: Alex, una mujer de treinta años, ha desaparecido. No es una mujer cualquiera, y Verhoeven, sin sospechosos ni pistas, debe adentrarse en la investigacion de su personalidad para poder encontrarla, mientras ella agoniza en un almacen abandonado. Cada minuto que pasa puede ser el ultimo. Y el no se lo perdonaria nunca.El autor deVestido de novia eIrene vuelve a sacudirnos con estethriller escalofriante, una trama diabolica e imprevisible que lo confirma como el rey de la novela negra.Alex catapulto a Lemaitre a la fama internacional, al ser aclamado como el sucesor de Stieg Larsson; hoy su estilo es reconocido como unico e inconfundible y cuenta con una legion de seguidores.Uno de los mejores libros del año segun elFinancial Times, en proceso de adaptacion al cine, ganador del Dagger Award y del Premio de Lectores de Novela Negra de Livre de Poche.Por el ganador del Premio Goncourt,del Premio de Novela Negra Europeay del Premio Best Novel Valencia Negra,con mas de medio millon de lectores.La critica ha dicho...Evito leer novelas traducidas, pero lei a Pierre Lemaitre: un autor de novelas de suspense realmente excelente.Stephen KingIntriga, tension medida, precision psicologica y desasosiego de la mano de otro gran autor entre la novela negra francesa.CulturamasDura y espeluznante (¡ay del que no soporte las ratas!) y con buenos (y odiosos) personajes.Lilian Neuman, Cultura/s,La VanguardiaPara quien disfrute la novela negra mas purista, de alto nivel. No importa lo entrenado que este el lector, porque cada giro de la trama es imprevisible, cruel y demoledor. La tecnica narrativa del autor, creador de otras delicias como la deNos vemos alla arriba, hacen de estethrilleruno de los libros indispensables en cualquier biblioteca.Maria Oruña,WomanLemaitre impide dormir con esta historia aclamada como una obra maestra.TiempoCincuenta por ciento suspense, cincuenta por ciento investigacion, cien por cien magnifica.Le FigaroUna capacidad original y absorbente para generar incredulidad en el lector.Jurado del Crime Writers Association International Dagger AwardLemaitre es, hoy por hoy, el mejor y mas en forma novelista noir galo, un tipo capaz de pisarle los talones al maestro (Banville) Black.Laura Fernandez,El CulturalLa trilogia "Verhoeven" se lee de un tiron y desprende una melancolia notable por un minipoli adorable y la raza humana en general. No se la pierdan.Ramon de España,El Periodico de Catalunya

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verh/ven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verh/ven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.

1919 Au sortir de la guerre, la société française peine à ménager une place aux anciens poilus devenus encombrants, et les trafics les moins glorieux vont bon train. Albert Maillard, modeste compt

The Prix-Goncourt winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irene and Camille.October 1918. The war on the Western Front is all butover for most soldiers - except the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'AulnayPradelle. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, Pradelle sends two scoutsover the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroicaction once more.When Albert Maillard realises how the two soldiersmust have died, Pradelle is ready to go to any lengths to silence him. Pushedinto a shell hole and buried alive, Albert is left to face a horrific death -or he is until another soldier, Edouard Pericourt digs him out in the nick oftime, loosing half his face to a piece of flying shrapnel for his troubles.So the fates and fortunes of this unlikely pair arebound together. Back in civilian life, both struggle to adjust to a society whosereverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those whosurvived. But Albert and Edouard conspire to enact an audaciousform of revenge against the country that abandoned them - first to the trenchesand then to penury and despair - with a scheme to swindle the whole of Franceon an epic scale.Meanwhile, believing her brother killed in action,Edouard's sister Madeleine has married Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle, who is runninga little scam of his own...

Winner of the 2015 C.W.A. International Dagger Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jewellers on the Champs- lys es. Shot three times, beaten almost beyond recognition, she is lucky to survive, but her ordeal has only just begun. Lying helpless in her hospital bed, with her assailant still at large, Anne is in grave danger. Just one thing stands in her favour - a partner who will break all the rules to protect the woman he loves: Commandant Camille Verhoven. For Verhoven it's a case of history repeating. He cannot lose Anne as he lost his wife Ir ne. But his serious breach of protocol - leading a case in which he is intimately involved - leaves him out on a limb, unable to confide in even his most trusted lieutenants. And this time he is facing an adversary whose greatest strength appears to be Verhoven's own matchless powers of intuition.

Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget. One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story is no match for the evidence piled against her. Her only hiding place is in a new identity. A new life, with a man she has met online. But Sophie is not the only one keeping secrets ...

Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out. So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking. Alain Delambre commits body and soul in this struggle to regain his dignity. But if he suddenly realised that the dice had been loaded against him from the start, his fury would be limitless. And what began as a role-play game could quickly become a bloodbath.

Février 1927. Le Tout-Paris assiste aux obsèques de Marcel Péricourt. Sa fille, Madeleine, doit prendre la tête de l'empire financier dont elle est l'héritière, mais le destin en décide autrement. Son fils, Paul, d'un geste inattendu et tragique, va placer Madeleine sur le chemin de la ruine et du déclassement.Face a l'adversité des hommes, a la cupidité de son époque, a la corruption de son milieu et a l'ambition de son entourage, Madeleine devra déployer des trésors d'intelligence, d'énergie mais aussi de machiavélisme pour survivre et reconstruire sa vie. Tâche d'autant plus difficile dans une France qui observe, impuissante, les premières couleurs de l'incendie qui va ravager l'Europe.Couleurs de l'incendie est le deuxième volet de la trilogie inaugurée avec Au revoir la-haut, prix Goncourt 2013, où l'on retrouve l'extraordinaire talent de Pierre Lemaitre.

Avril 1940. Louise, trente ans, court, nue, sur le boulevard du Montparnasse. Pour comprendre la scène tragique qu'elle vient de vivre, elle devra plonger dans la folie d'une période sans équ

Con la fuerza arrolladora de un torbellino,Los colores del incendio trenza magistralmente la venganza implacable de una mujer a la par que ofrece un retrato soberbio de una época embarullada y vertiginosa.Ambientada entre 1927 y 1933, esta continuacion de las peripecias de la familia Pericourt se inicia con el funeral del patriarca Marcel, una ceremonia multitudinaria a la que asiste todo aquel que es, o aspira a ser, alguien en Paris. Sin embargo, las cosas no pintan demasiado bien para Madeleine, la heredera del ingente patrimonio familiar. Al suicidio de su hermano Edouard, el heroe desfigurado, el encarcelamiento de su ex marido estafador y la muerte de su padre, se añade la delicada situacion de su hijo Paul, un niño de siete años que acaba de sufrir un horrible percance.Asi, en este momento tan vulnerable de su vida, Madeleine debe ponerse al mando de una entidad financiera con la mas que dudosa ayuda de un apoderado resentido, un tio codicioso y gris con aviesas intenciones y un joven amante con infulas de periodista. Y todo ello en un ambiente de secretos, traiciones, chantajes y artimañas en el que buscadores de fortuna y politicastros sin escrupulos medran sin control, ajenos a la inminente quiebra bursatil e inconscientes de la hecatombe belica que se cierne sobre Europa.La critica ha dicho...Comico, astuto, provocativo y mordaz.LirePierre Lemaitre tiene un verdadero don para el ritmo, algo inmediatamente visual, una energia en el desarrollo de la trama, densa y profunda bajo el ropaje anodino del entretenimiento, alternando la vision panoramica y el primer plano.Pierre Assouline,La Republique des LivresEl arte de Pierre Lemaitre consigue mantener el ritmo, hace que disfrutemos de la felicidad de la escritura, de los vuelcos inesperados, de su manera de inventar, sin complejos, una trama chispeante. [...] ¡Rapido, la continuacion!L'ExpressEl heredero mas directo de los novelistas decimononicos.Le Nouveau Magazine LitteraireUna comedia humana perfectamente orquestada.Le Journal du DimancheMordaz, trepidante, vodevilesco.Le PointUna intriga que te devora.Le Figaro MagazinePalpitante. Magistral.Version FeminaUn talento rabioso.L'ObsSublime.RTL

Three days at the edge of the new millennium, one moment of madness and one young life's course altered forever. A dazzling new thriller from the master of noir.Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone's business, and nothing much ever happens. But in the last days of 1999, a series of events unfolds, culminating in the shocking vanishing without trace of a young child. The adults of the town are at a loss to explain the disappearance, but for Antoine, it all begins with the violent death of his neighbour's dog. From that one brutal act, his fate and the fate of his neighbour's six year old son are bound forever.In the years following Remi's disappearance, Antoine wrestles with the role his actions played. As a seemingly inescapable net begins to tighten, breaking free from the suffocating environs of Beauval becomes a gnawing obsession. But how far does he have to run, and how long will it take before his past catches up with him again?

WITH NOTHING ELSE TO LOSE Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller's on the Champs-Elysees. Bludgeoned beyond recognition, she is lucky to survive. But her ordeal has only just begun. HE CAN BREAK ALL THE RULES Lying helpless in her hospital bed, with her assailant still at large, Anne is in mortal danger. Only one thing gives her hope: Commandant Camille Verhoven. TO PROTECT THE WOMAN HE LOVES For Verhoven it's a case of history repeating itself. He cannot lose Anne as he lost his wife. This time he faces an adversary whose greatest strength appears to be Verhoven's matchless powers of intuition.

THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK For Commandant Camille Verhoven life is beautiful: he is happily married and soon to become a father HE'S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEAD But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When he discovers the killer has form - and each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the Parisian press are quick to coin a nickname ...HE HATES HAPPY ENDINGS With the public eye fixed on both hunter and hunted, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner - whoever has the least to lose ...