James Ellroy a transfiguré le thriller, Stephen King a réinventé le roman d'horreur. Avec La Religion, Tim Willocks renouvelle le roman historique." Étourdissant. Un voyage en enfer superbement maîtrisé. " James Ellroy" Un roman éclatant, puissant, brutal, poétique : un triomphe littéraire. " The New York TimesMai 1565. Malte. Le conflit entre islam et chrétienté bat son plein. Soliman le Magnifique, sultan des Ottomans, a déclaré la guerre sainte ...

Après La Religion et Les Douze Enfants de Paris, le nouvel opéra noir de Tim Willocks.Lors d'un week-end arrosé au Cap, un jeune et riche Afrikaner renverse en voiture une jeune Noire sans logis qui erre dans la rue. Ni lui ni ses amis ne préviennent les secours alors que la victime agonise. La mère du chauffeur, Margot Le Roux, femme puissante qui règne sur les mines du Northern Cape, décide de couvrir son fils. Pourquoi compromettre une carrière ...

Après La Religion, retrouvez Mattias et Carla au cœur du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy.23 août 1572. De retour d'Afrique du Nord, Mattias Tannhauser, chevalier de Malte, arrive à Paris. Il doit y retrouver sa femme, la comtesse Carla de La Pénautier, qui, enceinte, est venue assister au mariage de la sœur du roi avec Henri de Navarre. À son arrivée, Mattias trouve un Paris en proie au fanatisme, à la violence et à la paranoïa. La tentative d'assassinat c...

**The thrilling, bloody and glorious new novel, from the master of the epic tale, Tim Willocks, author of The ReligionParis, August 23rd, 1572**What do you do when your wife disappearsIn the middle of the bloodiest massacre in European historyAnd you know she is about to give birth to your only child?Three wars of religion have turned Paris into a fetid cauldron of hatred, intrigue and corruption. The Royal Wedding, ...

**" Étourdissant. Peut-être le plus grand roman jamais écrit sur la prison. " James EllroyDans la lignée de OZ, le chef-d'œuvre du thriller carcéral, par l'auteur de La Religion.**Green River, pénitencier de sécurité maximale au Texas. Un véritable enfer dans lequel, entre tensions raciales et violences quotidiennes, vivent cinq cent âmes perdues. Un univers sans pitié où le silence n'existe pas, l'obscurité non plus. C'est là que Ray Klein, ancien médecin...

This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us. Brace yourselves.May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the knights as the "Hounds of Hell." The knights call themselves "The Religion."In Messi...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2019****LONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD 2019**What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption?During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions – who do know – leave the girl to die....

From beyond the grave, legendary evil lawman Clarence Jefferson reaches out to cast a dark spell on the lives of Lenna Parillaud and Dr Cicero Grimes. Lenna - millionairess businesswoman, wrecked by grief over the loss of her daughter and maddened by lust for revenge against the husband who took her daughter away. Grimes, the unwilling agent who will help find the lost girl, and who will use the files left him by Jefferson to bring down the corrupt and powerful men who will do everything t...

Di tutti i posti in cui un cucciolo potrebbe nascere, nessuno è peggiore di Dedbone’s Hole, il campo di prigionia per i greyhound destinati alle corse. Se non hai tutti i requisiti di razza, non si limitano a farti fuori: ti gettano nell’abisso di una caverna. Furgul e le sue tre sorelline non hanno questi requisiti, a differenza della madre, che è una campionessa, e del padre, che è un fuorilegge. Ma Furgul ha troppi misteri da risolvere per arrendersi senza lottare: chi era suo padre? Co...

TWO BROTHERS: Cicero Grimes - freelance psychiatrist and one-man detox unit in America's white trash Deep South; and Luther Grimes - bad news Vietnam veteran and smack dealer. They hate each other, and only they know why.EX-HOOKER AND COKE HEAD: Callie Carter is on the run - with one million dollars stolen from her evangelist husband's bank.CORRUPT, SADISTIC POLICE CAPTAIN Clarence Jefferson wants to get his hands on the preacher's money. But even more, he wants to break Ci...

An edge-of-your-seat thriller for all fans of James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and John Grisham. For fans of The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Rock.After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its inmates.As the River sucks them all towards th...

Liebe, Krieg & Glaube.Malta 1565 - die letzte Bastion der Christenheit im Kampf gegen die Türken. Die Insel wird von den Türken belagert. Nur ein Mann, so scheint es, kann den Christen noch helfen: Der Deutsche Mattias Tannhäuser wurde als Zwölfjähriger von den Türken entführt und ist bei ihnen aufgewachsen. Er kennt ihre Kultur und ihre Waffen. Um ihn auf die Insel zu locken, schickt der Großmeister des Malteser Ordens die schöne Contessa Clara nach Sizilien, wo T...