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Traces de poudre
Richard North Patterson
- ARCHIPEL
- Les Maitres Du Suspense Archipel
- 9 March 2005
- 9782841876808
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Nulle part au monde
Richard North Patterson
- ARCHIPEL
- Les Maitres Du Suspense Archipel
- 15 January 2000
- 9782841872169
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No Safe Place centres on seven days in a closly contested Presidential primary, in which political violence, abortion politics and potential scandal all converge. Kerry Kilcannon is a young senator from New Jersey, the younger brother of a murdered presidential aspirant. Now Kerry, too, is seeking the presidency. But Kerry's past and present have begun to converge. Unknown to him, he is being stalked by Sean Burke, an anti-abortion fanatic intent on killing him before election day. And Nate Cutler, a political reporter for a national newsmagazine is trying to establish that two years before - while still married - Kilcannon had an affair with Lara Costello, another reporter covering Kilcannonm which resulted in an abortion. Through a narrative which weaves past and present, No Safe Place introduces the compelling character, Kerry Kilcannon, and raises questions about abortion politics, the gun culture in America, and the degree to which the press is - or should be - intent on exposing the private lives of political leaders. On the eve of the election, those forces converge in a sensational and shocking climax.
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La loi de lasko
Richard North Patterson
- ARCHIPEL
- Les Maitres Du Suspense Archipel
- 2 March 2003
- 9782841874446
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An American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic leader. Complicating matters further is Okari's wife, Marissa Brand, with whom Pierce had a relationship years before that he's never quite forgotten.
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Mark Darrow grows up to become a superb trial lawyer - thanks to the mentorship of Lionel Farr, a professor at Caldwell, the local college. Now, it's time for Farr to ask his still-youthful protege to return the favour: an embezzlement scandal threatens to destroy Caldwell. Returning to his alma mater as president opens old wounds.
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Lt. Brian McCarran has recently returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. Traumatised by his wartime experiences, Brian depends on his lifelong friendship with Kate Gallagher, who also happens to be married to Brian's commanding officer in Iraq, Capt. Joe D'Abruzzo. Tragedy strikes when Brian shoots and kills D'Abruzzo on their army post in Virginia.
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David Wolfe is an ambitious former homicide prosecutor who is planning to run for Congress. A political dinner for the Israeli Prime Minister is hosted by his current girlfriend, Carole. But when David receives a call from Hana, a Palestinian woman who was David's classmate, he is rattled. Hana was more than a peer - she was his lover.
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Richard North Pattersonyes'>#8217;s masterful portrayals of law and politics at the apex of power have made him one of our most important writers of popular fiction. Combining a compelling narrative, exhaustive research, and a sophisticated grasp of contemporary society, his bestselling novels bring explosive social problems to vivid life through characters who are richly imagined and intensely real. Now in Balance of Power Patterson confronts one of Americayes'>#8217;s most inflammatory issuesyes'>#8211;the terrible toll of gun violence.President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancyes'>#233;e, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washingtonyes'>#8211;the Sons of the Second Amendment (SSA).Allied with the Presidentyes'>#8217;s most determined rival, the resourceful and relentless Senate Majority Leader Frank Fasano, the SSA declares allout war on Kerry Kilcannon, deploying its arsenal of money, intimidation, and secret dealings to eviscerate Kilcannonyes'>#8217;s crusadeyes'>#8211;and, it hopes, destroy his presidency. This ignites a highstakes game of politics and legal maneuvering in the Senate, the courtroom, and across the country, which the charismatic but unested young President is determined to win at any cost. But in the incendiary clash over gun violence and gun rights, the cost to both Kilcannons may be even higher than he imagined.And others in the crossfire may also pay the price: the idealistic lawyer who has taken on the gun industry; the embattled CEO of Americayes'>#8217;s leading gun maker; the warhero senator caught between conflicting ambitions; the female senator whose career is at risk; and the griefstricken young woman fighting to emerge from the shadow of her sister, the First Lady.The insidious ways money corrodes democracy and corrupts elected officials . . . the visceral debate between gunrights and guncontrol advocates . . . the bitter legal conflict between gun companies and the victims of gun violence . . . a ratingsdriven media that both manipulates and is manipulatedyes'>#8211;Richard North Patterson weaves these engrossing themes into an epic novel that moves us with its force, passion, and authority.From the Hardcover edition.
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August 2011. Terrorist operative Amer Al Zaroor masterminds and executes the theft of a Pakistani military weapon: a two-hundred-pound nuclear warhead, capable of causing destruction on an unprecedented scale. A chilling transmission is then broadcast to the world, in which Osama Bin Laden pledges to attack a major US city on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Intelligence indicates that the bomb has been smuggled out of Pakistan and is en route to the US, with Washington or New York the suspected target. However, this is a clever decoy set by Al Zaroor. While the CIA is focussed on thwarting a domestic attack, the weapon moves nearer to its true target, Tel Aviv, which Bin Laden plans to wipe off the map. Back in Washington, agent Brooke Chandler, a once-prodigious field operative, senses this deception. Chandler, who has his own score to settle with Al Qaeda, thinks he knows just how the bomb is being moved, and has an idea how to find it. Chandler must convince his superiors of his conviction, and then find and disable the bomb before it is too late. If he fails, Al Zaroor's plan will succeed, and the Middle East as we know it will be relegated to the annals of history.
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David Wolfe is an ambitious former homicide prosecutor who is planning to run for Congress. A political dinner for the Israeli Prime Minister is hosted by his current girlfriend, Carole Shorr, a liberal supporter of both the Palestinian and Israeli causes. But when David receives a call from Hana Ashawi, a Palestinian woman who was David's classmate at Harvard Law School, he is rattled. Hana was more than a peer - she was his lover. Suddenly David finds himself thrown into a situation with enormous global and political implications as well as emotional ones. A new pact between rival factions is planned, and David and Carole decide to watch the historic moment when the parties will all meet. It turns out to be an occasion of desperate, tragic and far reaching consequences...
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Corey Grace, a Republican senator, insists on voting his own conscience rather than the party line, and this independence has earned him a reputation as an unpredictable iconoclast. He is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in the most brutal of political contests.