Captain Yann Calec is still far from home, in French Indochina, amidst the upheaval of simmering war. He's out to shed some light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding his estranged father's death and the subsequent disappearance of the elder Calec's mistress Ha Tu. In his quest, Yann encounters a cast of colorful characters: a former war correspondent, a beguiling nightclub hostess, and his own enigmatic comprador. When a possible lead winds up dead, Yann and Souên the hostess team up to untangle a web of lies and cover-ups that only leads them deeper into the politics and history of a troubled nation.

Tramp - Volume 8 - Dirty War

Home in Rouen for a change, Yann Calec arrives just in time to save his downstairs neighbor from hanging himself. Little does Calec suspect this is the beginning of an adventure that will take him halfway around the world to French Indochina, the land of his childhood. But are his efforts to reconcile a grieving father and his estranged son just an excuse for him to find out the truth about his own past, and his father's mysterious fate? As if Calec's new job captaining a steamer in the war-torn region weren't perilous enough... Dive headlong into history and intrigue with a new arc of Tramp!

Tramp - Volume 7 - Return to the Past

As ever, Yann Calec finds himself captaining a steamer under suspicious circumstances: this time, the death of his superior officer. When the local cops look no farther for a suspect than an African longshoreman, Calec's passion for justice is aroused. But that's not the only mystery afoot, as a package of illicit diamonds goes missing. A sailor gets kidnapped, and only his finger is sent back. What does all this have to do with the late officer, much less the nun who was once his wife? The bodies continue to pile up as the Tramp saga wraps its latest two-parter.

Tramp - Volume 6 - The Road to Kibangou

Yann Calec is back as the latest volume of "Tramp" kicks off a new cycle! A posting as first mate takes him down Africa's west coast, aboard a steamer whose captain is a petty tyrant with a terrible temper. Calec grins and bears it, but trouble has a way of finding him. When the captain's rotting corpse is discovered on the ocean floor, Calec is thrown into the middle of a murder investigation. Add on a shark attack, unruly Krumen cargo-loaders, a mysterious nun, and illicit diamonds... Soon Calec's wishing he stayed home with his wife and child!

Tramp - Volume 5 - The Way to Pointe-Noire

The devilish shipowner De Trichère has succeeded in his evil plan to scuttle his own ship and commit insurance fraud. This final chapter of the first arc finds Yann Calec adrift at sea after the Belle-Hélène is torpedoed by a U-boat. He and Rosanna are the only survivors. After fighting off shady fishermen and former Nazis, the two spend an idyll on a desert island... But for Calec, at least, vengeance beckons. He's been through too much to watch the people involved go unpunished. Will revenge cloud the mind of a good man and ruin his chance at happiness?

Tramp - Volume 4 - For Helena

À bord de son cargo, Yann Calec longe les côtes de l'Afrique orientale. Mais le liberty-ship, pris dans une tempête, est malmené. Yann descend vérifier l'état des soutes et découvre alors que son propre navire transporte des caisses d'armes. Il comprend qu'un trafic de contrebande s'est organisé à son insu, mais avec la complicité d'un membre de son équipage et d'un inquiétant passager. Pris au piège, il décide de dissimuler les caisses sur une île avant d'accoster à Djibouti. Mais les trafiquants enlèvent sa fille et le font chanter ; Yann se résout à demander de l'aide, mais il ne se doute pas du prix qu'il aura à payer en retour...
Un épisode de Tramp après 5 ans d'absence, cap sur l'aventure !

Tramp - Tome 11 - Avis de tempête

L'opposition au Roi Louis-Philippe s'organise. Baptiste Le Quéant vit le soulèvement populaire de 1848 avant l'arrivée de Napoléon III et la colonisation de l'Algérie... Chronique héroïque et romantique d'une époque charnière où l'Occident et l'Orient se redécouvrent sans vraiment se rencontrer...

Chroniques de la maison le Quéant Tome 4

Pourquoi, tout soudain, en plein Moyen Âge, des dizaines de milliers de chevaliers, de moines, de paysans, de marchands, d'artisans entreprirent-ils de partir vers l'Orient pour libérer la Terre sainte tombée aux mains des Infidèles musulmans ? On compte huit croisades organisées, mais aussi de très nombreuses expéditions moins importantes et un flot continuel de pèlerins, de voyageurs et de marchands. Parmi eux, des rois et des miséreux, des femmes et des enfants, des héros et des lâches, des saints et des criminels. Pourquoi ? Pour qui ? Voici ces aventuriers, les premiers qui sortirent l'Europe d'elle-même, les ancêtres des conquérants du Nouveau Monde, des explorateurs de l'Afrique et de l'Asie, des astronautes qui mirent le pied sur la Lune...

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