Title : The Gardener's Constancy - John Le Carré - book Summary : Tessa Quayle, a young and beautiful English lawyer, was brutally murdered near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Her traveling companion and supposed lover, an African doctor with a humanitarian organization, has disappeared without a trace. Tessa's husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi and an amateur gardener, embarks on a solitary quest to find the killers and their motives. His quest takes him to London, then across Europe and Canada, back to Africa, to South Sudan, and ends at the very scene of the crime. An odyssey full of violence and fury, where the dark machinations of pharmaceutical multinationals are plotted and strange political alliances are formed. And as Justin's conscience awakens, as he rallies to Tessa's cause, even completing the mission she had set for herself, his greatest revelation will be the discovery of this woman he hardly had time to love. The Gardener's Constancy blends the moving story of a man raised by tragedy with the merciless exploration of the hidden side of globalization by one of the most incisive novelists of our time. John le Carré , born in 1931, studied at the universities of Bern and Oxford, taught at Eton, and worked briefly for British intelligence during the Cold War. For six decades, he devoted himself to writing. He died in 2020 at the age of 89. EAN: 9782020495752 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hercule Poirot's Christmas The Secret of Chimneys - Agatha Christie - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782298031454 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Absolute Friendship - John le Carré - book Summary : In the aftermath of the Iraq War, Englishman Edward "Ted" Mundy, son of a major in the Indian Army, a failed writer and tour guide in Bavaria, sees his past resurface in the person of Sasha, the East German activist he met in the late 1960s in a Berlin in the grip of revolutionary unrest and saw again in the grim mirror of Cold War spies for the assembly of a long double agent operation. But today times have changed, and their friendship, renewed in the name of an idealism that has become obsolete, will collide with the cynical maneuvers of an America more imperialist than ever. With this committed novel of burning relevance, le Carré sounds the death knell for old-fashioned espionage and the outdated values ​​that structured the world of secret agents: since September 11, the world has ignored any code of honor and "just causes" no longer apply when Bush's America subjects everyone to the forced march of its triumphalist and hegemonic self-celebration. Casting a cruelly disillusioned look at the Machiavellian actions of an America draped in its good conscience, le Carré also denounces the blind cowardice of his contemporaries, and his desperate message will haunt the reader long after the last line. John le Carré , born in 1931, studied at the universities of Bern and Oxford, taught at Eton, and worked briefly for British intelligence during the Cold War. For six decades, he devoted himself to writing. He died in 2020 at the age of 89. EAN: 9782020633437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moonlight House - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Newport, Rhode Island: a paradise for retired billionaires, a goldmine for crooks of all kinds. It is there, in her Victorian house, that Nuala Moore is to receive Maggie Holloway, her ex-daughter-in-law. After many years without news, the two women have decided to meet regularly. But Nuala is murdered by a burglar. At least, that's the theory accepted by the police. Maggie, incredulous, decides to discover the truth. An alcoholic doctor, a university professor specializing in funeral rites, an overly curious nurse - no one seems above suspicion. And when Greta, Nuala's old friend, and then other residents of Latham Manor, a luxurious retirement home, also die, her confusion only increases: the murderer can only be someone close to her. But who? How can the pieces of this deadly puzzle be put together? And will Maggie, who unknowingly photographed clues, soon be the killer's target? More than ever, Mary Higgins Clark, the virtuoso of suspense, plays with fatal perfection on the strings of your nerves. When death has a rendezvous with the moon, a deadly score, a tune to freeze your blood. EAN: 9782226086488 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown - book Summary : Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology, is urgently summoned by his friend Peter Solomon, a philanthropist and high-ranking Mason, for a lecture to be given that evening. Upon reaching the Capitol Rotunda, he makes a gruesome discovery. This will be the first clue in a breathless quest, from the basements of the Library of Congress to Masonic temples, in search of Freemasonry's best-kept secret. An adventure where esoteric traditions clash with the formidable intelligence of Robert Langdon. EAN: 9782709626996 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crime by Ascendancy - Ruth Rendell - book Summary : When Martin Nanther decided to write a biography of his great-grandfather, Henry Nanther, he had no idea what awaited him. A physician, Henry specialized in hemophilia, a disease that was decimating male members of the royal family at the time. Ambitious and brilliant, he had been made a hereditary lord by Queen Victoria, a title his great-grandson still holds today. Little by little, as Martin interviews family members and finds period documents, his grandfather's smooth facade cracks and the questions pile up. Why did Henry prefer to marry the daughter of a small-time lawyer rather than this young woman from high society who was in love with him and whom he seemed to love? What is the true explanation for the horrible tragedy that cost his fiancée her life? And why did he, who had been so successful, end his life in suffering and despair? As the House of Lords is torn apart, he risks losing his title and his wife tries everything price to have a child, Martin goes from surprise to surprise. The search for his roots sometimes leads to very dark discoveries, and the doctor with the exemplary life will gradually reveal his monstrous secret... EAN : 9782253112907 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sweet Revenge - Elizabeth George - book Summary : A new mail train affair wouldn't stir up Scotland Yard any more. Thomas Linley, eighth Earl of Asherton, the most elegant of the house inspectors, announces his marriage to the fashionable photographer Deborah Cotter. A weekend engagement is being planned in Cornwall, at the aristocratic police officer's family estate. But the presence of a hostile future father-in-law, a dangerous friend and rival, and a drug-addicted brother poisons the party. And the garden party turns into a nightmare when the corpse of a local journalist is discovered, conscientiously mutilated and castrated. For Linley, the high-society comedy risks ending in dark tragedy. Especially if the ghosts of the past get involved. EAN : 9782266066068 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Phantom of Rue Royale - Volume 3 - Jean-François Parot - book Summary : The previous successes of Nicolas Le Floch, protégé of police lieutenant Sartine, are annoying. They want to sideline him. But, as Paris celebrates the Dauphin's wedding with a fireworks display on the Place Louis-XV, disaster strikes: overturned carriages, hundreds of crushed victims... Our very young police commissioner at the Châtelet returns to duty. Amid the corpses, a young woman clutches a black pearl in her hand. Did she die of suffocation... or strangulation? "Against a backdrop of impeccable historical reconstruction, and in a style that evokes 18th-century literature without pastiching it, Jean-François Parot makes numerous references to the contemporary situation." Gérard Meudal, Le Monde EAN : 9782264035493 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Double Trap - Harlan Coben - book Summary : You think you know the truth. The truth is, you don't know anything. New Jersey, today. To monitor her babysitter, Maya installed a camera in her living room. One day, a man appears on the screen, playing with her little Lily. A man Maya knows well: Joe, her husband... whom she has just buried. A shock. And disturbing discoveries: Joe's death certificate is missing, and the gun used in his death is also the one that killed Maya's sister, Claire, three years earlier. Dead or alive, who was Joe really? Should we believe everything we see? For Maya, the time has come to delve into a troubled past; a world on the border between truth and illusion. A dangerous world, of which she could be the latest victim. EAN : 9782714460677 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Those Who Are Going to Die Salute You - Fred Vargas - book Summary : A priori, all of Michelangelo's drawings have been catalogued. And when one of them discreetly appears on the market, there is every reason to assume that it has been stolen. The most incredible thing is that the one offered to Henri Valhubert, a famous Parisian expert, probably comes from the Vatican Library! Who would risk stealing the treasures of the papal archives? The matter becomes complicated when Valhubert is assassinated one evening during a celebration in front of the Palazzo Farnese. Instantly, suspicion falls on the victim's son. He is part of a curious triumvirate of students, nicknamed after emperors: Claudius, Nero, and Tiberius. Having lived in Rome for several years, all three have a unique bond with Valhubert's widow. A woman of captivating charm and whose past contains some dark patches... EAN : 9782290309926 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Black Fear - Harlan Coben - book Summary : Myron Bolitar is in a bad patch: just as his agency is struggling, this phone call from Emily Downing. A first love that reconnects is never a good sign. Especially since thirteen years ago, Emily could think of nothing better to do than to dump him for Greg, the hated rival. The man who raised Emily, now tells him, has his own son, Jeremy... The news throws Bolitar off balance, but a second one quickly puts him back in the picture: Jeremy suffers from severe anemia that only a bone marrow transplant could cure. And the only compatible donor has vanished into thin air. Fathers, sons, a plagiarizing journalist, a serial killer, a mess of problems and bills to settle. The race for the donor is on, and the stakes are nothing like a baseball game. EAN : 9782266196369 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Without a Word - Harlan Coben - book Summary : How well do you really know your child? Mike and Tia constantly ask themselves this question: their sixteen-year-old son Adam has changed. Hidden away in his room, he never leaves his computer. Despite their reluctance, they decide to install monitoring software. One day, a disturbing email. And Adam disappears. Without a word... That's when everything changes. EAN : 9782266198691 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shame of the Family - Charles Exbrayat - book Summary : Good mother, what did he do to deserve such infamy? Is it possible that his son, Maspie the Great, could have turned out so badly? To think that in the family, one has belonged to the Marseille underworld for generations... Ah, the traitor! To bite the hand that fed him! What misery! What ingratitude! To join the police! Maspie the Great will die of shame... And since misfortune never comes alone, now the Corsican gang is looking for trouble with him. Accused of being an informer, a dirty informant... him, Maspie the Great! Well, with a son in the police, nothing surprising... EAN : 9782702412831 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little Further to the Right - Fred Vargas - book Summary : It was at Place de la Contrescarpe that Louis Kehlweiler suddenly noticed something strange on a tree railing: a human bone. His research stalled and his curiosity gnawed at him. Obsessed, he left his Parisian spinning mills to follow a lead in a remote village on the coast of Finistère: Port-Nicholas and its harborside café, where tongues loosened as the plumes of smoke rose. EAN : 9782290304556 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Eternal Woods - Fred Vargas - book Summary : The Brigade had accumulated undeniable results, but Veyrenc remained very skeptical. Whether this efficiency was the result of a strategy or the fruit of Providence. Providence that turned a blind eye, for example, to the fact that Mercadet had installed cushions upstairs and slept there several hours a day, to the fact that an abnormal cat defecated on the reams of paper, that Commander Danglard hid his wine in the cellar cupboard, and that documents unrelated to the investigations were lying around on the tables: real estate ads, shopping lists, ichthyology articles, private reproaches, the geopolitical press, the spectrum of the colors of the rainbow, for what little he had seen in a month. This state of affairs didn't seem to bother anyone, except perhaps Lieutenant Noël, a brutal guy who couldn't find anyone to his liking. And who, on the second day, had made an offensive remark about his hair. Twenty years ago, he would have cried, but today, he almost didn't care. Lieutenant Veyrenc crossed his arms and pressed his head against the wall. An indestructible force nestled in a compact substance. EAN : 9782878582338 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Guide to Paradise - Comparative Advertising of the Beyond - Pierre Conesa - book Summary : The religious world is in turmoil. The transcendentals on both sides can now fight back by explaining that they have a direct mandate from (their) God. All these many unique and merciful Gods—pervaded by peace and love, as they should be—have had to face the deadly delusions of their disciples and the massive and uncontrolled arrival of the dead at the gates of their paradise. They must all together summon men to bring them back to reason. Does anyone have their addresses? » Pierre Conesa, 2015 "The author uses the right humor and brings us back down to earth. Jubilant?!" La Voix du Nord Pierre Conesa, a former senior official at the Ministry of Defense, is a specialist in international strategic issues – and in particular military ones. EAN : 9782815913683 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cursed Tennessee - Catherine Coulter - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782749900650 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girl Without a Face - Patricia Mac Donald - book Summary : Hoffman, New Jersey, a small, peaceful town, a middle-class community. When it is learned that the highly regarded and attractive Dr. Avery stabbed his wife, it is shocking. Rejected by his two sons, he finds support only from Nina, his sixteen-year-old daughter, convinced of his innocence. Fifteen years later, released on parole and determined to find the culprit, he returns to Hoffman. But is the town ready to welcome him, to forgive him? Armed with nothing but her certainties, Nina has no choice but to explore a painful family past to help her father. As the young woman gets closer to the truth, the neighborhood's secrets are revealed one by one. And death strikes again. Emotional truth, masterfully executed intrigue... a truly great thriller where the darkest instincts and fiercest passions are hidden behind the most innocuous appearances. Patricia MacDonald has never more deserved her title as queen of psychological suspense. EAN : 9782226156709 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Kennedy File - Gérard de Villiers - book Summary : Malko slammed on the accelerator in a rage. The bulldozer drove into the fence like butter, then stopped dead: the tracks were slipping. A long burst of machine-gun fire cracked and bullets whistled past, tearing off strips of bark. A projectile ricocheted off the steel inches from Malko's head. If he couldn't tear down this fence, the Czech border guards would be here in less than a minute. He would have the choice between death and the gulag. EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Our Game - John Le Carré - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286070205 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Counter-espionage, memoirs of a DST boss - Yves Bonnet - book Summary : In November 1982, Yves Bonnet was chosen by François Mitterrand to succeed Marcel Chalet as head of the DST, the legendary Directorate of Territorial Surveillance. For nearly three years, he would run the "big house" on Rue des Saussaies. Upon his arrival, he discovered that some departments had been monitored by Roger Wibot, the famous founder of the Service, and immediately put an end to it. In 1983, he became certain that France had a huge technological espionage network, plundering nearly 70 percent of the country's civil and military patents. Yves Bonnet did not waver and, in close collaboration with François Mitterrand, decided to expel forty-seven Soviet diplomats. A few months later, four days after the bloody anti-Turkish attack at Orly, he dismantled the ASALA network in France. Yves Bonnet launched an all-out international cooperation, multiplying contacts with the British, American, Israeli, Syrian, Iraqi, and Palestinian intelligence services, not hesitating to collaborate with Abu Liad and Georges Habache. Thanks to his "special relationships," it was he who, in the spring of 1985, obtained the release of Gilles Sydney Pérolles, the son of Gilles Perrault, kidnapped in Lebanon. But Yves Bonnet was a nuisance: he was too successful, reluctant to transform the DST into a "personal" intelligence agency. And, in July 1985, he was ousted... Written with vitriol, rich in revelations, "Counter-espionage" is a landmark book on the world of intelligence. EAN : 9782702130919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Little Lord Fauntleroy - Burnett Frances. - book Summary : Upon his father's death, Cedric goes to live with his grandfather, the terrible Earl of Dorincourt, in England. He intends to educate this little lord properly, so that he is worthy of his social status! Will the proud grandfather be softened by this young boy? EAN : 9782724280494 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fantastic Dimension 1 13 short stories from Hoffmann to Seignolle - Collectives - book Summary : Is Nathanaël mad, or did he really see Coppelius using human eyes to create a new being? Is this a dream, or is the attractive young woman at the ball really just a common coffee maker? Is Bob's inner turmoil causing him to lose his mind, or has everything, even his own identity, disappeared? The characters in these stories brush against the limits of the known rational world: doubt, illusion, madness? In this anthology, discover ETA Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, Edgar Allan Poe, Gérard de Nerval, Erckmann-Chatrian, Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, HP Lovecraft, Jean Ray, Claude Seignolle, and Richard Matheson. Subject of study: Fiction to question reality. Special educational file for new programs. Extensions: Fantastic cinema; the art of Odilon Redon, fourth grade. EAN : 9782290335321 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Musgrave Ritual, followed by three other stories - Arthur Conan Doyle - book Summary : The Musgrave maid and sommelier have disappeared. This old English aristocratic family has a ritual that each of its descendants must perform upon reaching adulthood: a formula to decipher, which would grant access to a secret place... Shortly before his disappearance, the sommelier was surprised, in the middle of the night, carefully examining this document. Is it a kidnapping? A murder? Could the Musgrave ritual be the key to the mystery? Sherlock Holmes's unstoppable logic will be needed to solve the enigma... EAN : 9782290341124 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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