Authors: R.J. Ellory

Description: Après Seul le silence, R. J. Ellory nous offre un thriller au suspense exceptionnel, doublé d'une impressionnante histoire de la mafia depuis les années 50 jusqu'à nos jours. 2006, La Nouvelle-Orléans. Catherine, la fille du gouverneur de Louisiane est enlevée, son garde du corps assassiné. Confiée au FBI, l'enquête prend vite un tour imprévu : le kidnappeur, Ernesto Perez, se livre aux autorités et demande à s'entretenir avec Ray Hartmann, un obscur fonctionnaire qui travaille à Washington dans une unité de lutte contre le crime organisé. À cette condition seulement il permettra aux enquêteurs de retrouver la jeune fille saine et sauve. À sa grande surprise, Hartmann est donc appelé sur les lieux. C'est le début d'une longue confrontation entre les deux hommes, au cours de laquelle Perez va peu à peu retracer son itinéraire, l'incroyable récit d'une vie de tueur à gages au service de la mafia, un demi-siècle de la face cachée de l'Amérique, de Las Vegas à Chicago, depuis Castro et Kennedy jusqu'à nos jours. Quel est le véritable enjeu de cette confrontation ? Pourquoi Perez a-t-il souhaité qu'Hartmann soit son interlocuteur ? Alors que s'engage une course contre la montre pour retrouver Catherine et que, dans l'ombre, la mafia et les autorités s'inquiètent du dialogue qui s'établit entre les deux hommes, Hartmann ira de surprise en surprise jusqu'à l'étonnant coup de théâtre final.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Sonatine

Categories: Fiction

Authors: R.J. Ellory

Description: An epic novel of gangland intrigue from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] When Catherine Ducane disappears in the heart of New Orleans, the local cops react rapidly - she is the daughter of the Governor of Louisiana after all. But the case gets very strange, very quickly. Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated in the trunk of a beautiful vintage car and when her kidnapper calls he doesn't want money: he wants time alone with Ray Hartmann, who works for a Washington-based organised crime task force. All Ray wants to do is get this over with quickly, and go home to try and repair his broken marriage. Instead he must listen to the mysterious kidnapper, an elderly Cuban named Ernesto Perez, who wants to tell him his life story. It's only when he realises that Ernesto has been a brutal hitman for the Mob since the 1950s that things start to come together. But by the time the pieces fall into place, it's already too late...

Langue: en

Publisher: Hachette UK

Categories: Fiction

Authors: R.J. Ellory

Description: Comprises: CANDLEMOTH GHOSTHEART A QUIET VENDETTA CITY OF LIES A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS A SIMPLE ACT OF VIOLENCE THE ANNIVERSARY MAN SAINTS OF NEW YORK

Langue: en

Publisher: Hachette UK

Categories: Fiction

Authors: R.J. Ellory

Description: Wanneer Catherine Ducane verdwijnt in New Orleans duikt de lokale politie er meteen bovenop; het gaat namelijk om de dochter van de gouverneur van Louisiana. Maar algauw neemt de zaak een bizarre wending. Nadat het gruwelijk toegetakelde lijk van Catherines lijfwacht wordt aangetroffen in de kofferbak van een oldsmobile, neemt de ontvoerder contact op met de politie. Hij vraagt niet om losgeld, maar eist een gesprek met Ray Hartmann, een functionaris van een in Washington gevestigd team dat onderzoek doet naar georganiseerde misdaad. Hartmann reist af naar het diepe zuiden, terwijl hij zich afvraagt waarom de mysterieuze ontvoerder, een oude Cubaan met de naam Ernesto Perez, juist hém heeft uitgekozen als toehoorder voor zijn levensverhaal. Pas wanneer hij zich realiseert dat Perez een van de meest gevreesde huurmoordenaars is die sinds de jaren vijftig voor de maffia hebben gewerkt, begint hem iets te dagen. Maar tegen de tijd dat de stukjes van de puzzel op hun plaats beginnen te vallen, is het al te laat. Een volmaakte vendetta is zowel een adembenemende literaire vertelling over het leven van een van de kopstukken van de Italiaanse maffia een verhaal dat vijf decennia omspant en de lezer van Cuba naar Las Vegas en van New Orleans naar Chicago voert als een krachtige thriller over woede, vergelding, passie en verlies. Van R.J. Ellory verscheen eerder Een stil geloof in engelen, waarmee hij definitief doorbrak onder liefhebbers van de waarlijk literaire thriller en dat door de Volkskrant werd uitgeroepen tot beste thriller van 2009. Met Een volmaakte vendetta bewijst deze auteur eens temeer hoezeer hij een plaats in de bovenste regionen van het genre verdient.

Langue: nl

Publisher: De Fontein

Categories: Fiction

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Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: 2006, La Nouvelle-Orléans. Catherine, fille du gouverneur de Louisiane, est enlevée. Son garde du corps est assassiné. L'enquête est confiée au FBI. Très vite, le kidnappeur, Ernesto Perez, se livre aux autorités... Il veut s'entretenir avec Ray Hartmann, un obscur fonctionnaire qui travaille à Washington dans une unité chargée de la lutte contre le crime organisé. C'est le début d'une longue confrontation entre les deux hommes jusqu'à l'étonnant coup de théâtre final.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Le Livre de poche

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: When Catherine Ducane disappears in the heart of New Orleans, the local cops react quickly - she is the daughter of the Governor of Louisiana after all. But the case gets very strange, very quickly. Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated in the trunk of a beautiful vintage car and when her kidnapper calls he doesn't want money: he wants time alone with a minor functionary from a Washington-based organised crime task force... Quickly dragged down to the deep South, Ray Hartmann puzzles over why he has been summoned and why the mysterious kidnapper, an elderly Cuban named Ernesto Perez, wants to tell him his life story. It's only when he realises that Ernesto has been a brutal hitman for the Mob since 1950s that things start to come together. But by the time the pieces fall into place, it's already too late... A QUIET VENDETTA is both the epic novel of one man's life in the Italian Mafia - a story that ranges from Cuba to Las Vegas and from L.A. to Chicago - and equally a powerful thriller of rage, love and loss. It confirms Roger Jon Ellory's place at the forefront of thriller writing.

Langue: en

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Categories: Mafia

Authors: Ellory

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Langue: fr

Publisher: Livre de Poche

Categories: Fiction

Authors: R-J Ellory

Description: It should have all been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred grand from the thieves who stole it in the first place and who could they turn to for help? Madigan is charming, resourceful, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debt to the drug king of East Harlem. This one heist will give Madigan the chance he needs to get his life back on track. But things go wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators and a child is shot in the crossfire. Now both sides of the law are hunting him down, and the one cop assigned to lead the case is the very last person he could have expected. Employing every deception and ruse he can think of, Madigan must stay one step ahead in a battle of wits that will test him to his limits. Can he evade justice for his crimes, or will his own conscience be his final undoing?

Langue: en

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Categories: Criminals

Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, became victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. This murderer went after young courting couples in an attempt to 'save their souls'. Nadia was killed by the first blow of the hammer. John survived, but was physically and psychologically scarred to an extent that few people could comprehend. He withdrew from society, hid in his apartment and now only emerges to work as a crime researcher for a major newspaper. Damaged he may be, but no one in New Jersey knows more about serial killers than John Costello. So, when a new spate of murders starts - all seemingly random and unrelated - John is the only one who can discern the complex pattern that lies behind them. But could this dark knowledge be about to threaten his life?

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Large type books

Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, didn't want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a 4th murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people who could ignore it. Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case. Rapidly things begin to complicate. The victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. The harder Miller works, the less it makes sense. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life...

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Detective and mystery stories

Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: Annie has it all - an apartment, a bookshop and a network of friends. But at the heart of it all is a hole - a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood. So when a mysterious man she meets claims to be her father's oldest friend, she jumps at the chance to find out more of her past.

Langue: en

Publisher: Orion Media

Categories: Fathers and daughters

Authors: R.J. Ellory

Description: Orphaned half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world outside. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row. Earl Sheridan is a psychopath of the worst kind, but he has the potential to change the boys' lives for ever. As the trio set off on a frenetic escape from the law through California and Texas, the two brothers must come to terms with the ever-growing tide of violence that follows in their wake and their relationship to one another.

Langue: en

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Categories: Brothers

Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he was just seven years old and he was raised in New York by an aunt he barely knew. He never even made his father's acquaintance - a man who died shortly after he was born. After leaving the Big Apple as soon as he was old enough, his life consisted of one moderately successful book, a collection affectionately received newspaper columns and a comfortable existence in Miami.But then all that changed. One liquor store heist that goes wrong turns John's existence on its head. It seems that his father didn't die all those years ago - in fact, he has thrived in the New York underworld. But now the man himself lies critically injured in a Manhattan hospital and it's time for father and son to meet at last.But this is just the start. For it seems that John's father was working on something when he got caught in the heist - something very big indeed. And powerful people all over the city want in on it. The only problem is that the only person with the key to it is John...

Langue: en

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Categories: Fathers and sons

Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan twelve years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God. Father John Rousseau is the man to whom the last month of Daniel's life has been entrusted. All the two men have left to do is rake over the last ashes of Ford's existence. So he begins to tell his story. Daniel's story takes him from his first meeting with Nathan, aged six, on the shores of a lake in 1952, through first loves, Vietnam, the death of Kennedy and finally their flight from the draft which ends in Nathan's brutal murder. But meanwhile the clock is ticking and the days are running out...

Langue: en

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Categories: Death row inmates

Authors: R. J. Ellory

Description: Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, became victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. This murderer went after young courting couples in an attempt to 'save their souls'. Nadia was killed by the first blow of the hammer. John survived, but was physically and psychologically scarred to an extent that few people could comprehend. He withdrew from society, hid in his apartment and now only emerges to work as a crime researcher for a major newspaper. Damaged he may be, but no one in New Jersey knows more about serial killers than John Costello. So, when a new spate of murders starts - all seemingly random and unrelated - John is the only one who can discern the complex pattern that lies behind them. But could this dark knowledge be about to threaten his life?

Langue: en

Publisher: Clipper Audio

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Authors: Roger Jon Ellory

Description: Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of a series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer. But he was powerless to prevent more murders - and no one was ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare end when one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope - with articles from the dead girls around him. Ill-fortune was not yet done with Joseph though, and in desperation he leaves to forge a new life in New York. But the past won't leave him alone - for it seems that the real murderer still lives and is killing again. And the secret of his identity lies in Joseph's own history...

Langue: en

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Categories: English

Authors: R. J. Ellory

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Authors: Jackie Collins

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Langue: en

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Authors: Joel Don Humphreys

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