Brillant avocat, Paul Madriani n'avait aucune envie de s'attarder à Davenport, un comté perdu de l'Amérique profonde, où il a accepté de remplacer son ami le procureur Féretti qui vient de subir une opération. Mais Feretti meurt, et Paul se voit contraint de poursuivre l'enquête commencée : six cadavres mutilés et attachés, comme pour des meurtres rituels...
Tout va mal pour Madriani : sa femme lui mène une vie infernale et exige de quitter cet endroit, les magistrats et les notables du lieu semblent s'être ligués pour lui rendre le travail impossible. 
Faux témoignages, cabales et enfin disparition du principal témoin, celui qui aurait vu l'un des meurtres : rien ne lui sera épargné. Démasquer le coupable dans ces conditions tient du miracle...
Avocat lui-même, Steve Martini nous offre ici une intrigue solide, captivante, réaliste, qui l'impose au côté de John Grisham comme un maître du " thriller juridique ".

Principal témoin - Occasion

1 aventure inédite pour les fans du genre et pour tous les autres !
Un projet unique dans le monde du noir et un concept simple : 2 auteurs, parmi les plus grandes voix actuelles du genre, font se rencontrer leurs héros respectifs en dehors de leurs romans et de leur cadre habituel.

Cette nouvelle est issue du recueil 
Face à face
 auquel participent les auteurs suivants :
Dennis Lehane vs Michael Connelly
Ian Rankin vs Peter James
R. L. Stine vs Douglas Preston et Lincoln Child
M. J. Rose vs Lisa Gardner
Steve Martini vs Linda Fairstein
Jeffery Deaver vs John Standford
Heather Graham vs F. Paul Wilson
Raymond Khoury vs Linwood Barclay
John Lescroart vs T. Jefferson Parker
Steve Berry vs James Rollins
Lee Child vs Joseph Finder

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"Steve Martini is an expert at good old-fashioned, gimmick-free storytelling."-Steve Berry, author of The Paris Vendetta"Take it from a prosecutor-Steve Martini has created one of the most charismatic defense attorneys in thriller fiction."-Linda Fairstein, author of Lethal LegacyIn The Rule of Nine, New York Times bestseller Steve Martini sets his popular protagonist, defense attorney Paul Madriani, on the trail of a dangerous extremist who's hellbent on destroying the entire Supreme Court with one deadly stroke. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette loves Martini's "richly interesting characters, masterful plots, and beautiful writing, " and his latest blockbuster is a sure bet to enthrall Brad Thor and Vince Flynn readers as well as the ever-growing army of Paul Madriani fans.

The Rule of Nine - A Paul Madriani Novel

Découverte de la Thaïlande, à travers ses paysages, ses monuments historiques, et ses aspects insolites.

Thaïlande : itinéraire d'un voyageur solitaire

The explosive new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of "Undue Influence".
Judge Armando "the Coconut" Acosta is arrested on charges of soliciting a prostitute in a sting operation for "johns, " and few, including attorney Paul Madriani, who has a long history of enmity with the judge, are sympathetic. When the young female decoy who snared the judge is found brutally murdered, Acosta is the prime suspect.Abandoned by his friends, Acosta asks Paul to save his career from impending doom. Paul is reluctant, but when Acosta's original defense lawyer is forced off the case by a zealous district attorney looking for revenge, Paul steps forward to defend the judge. With his client now charged with murder, Paul faces the most daunting, disturbing, and complex case of his career.Packed with nonstop drama and a cast of richly drawn characters that have come to be Steve Martini's trademark, "The Judge" delivers a decisive thumbs-up verdict.

Pas De Pitié Pour Le Juge (Paul Madriani, #4)

La liste est celle des best-sellers du New York Times... Abby Chandlis, 40 ans, romancière, rêve d'y entrer avec son nouveau livre écrit sous le pseudonyme de Gable Cooper. Son expérience avec ses trois derniers romans, qui n'ont fait que prendre la poussière sur des étagères ; lui a fait choisir un nom masculin mais elle doit à tout prix trouver l'auteur supposé qui assurera la promotion en son nom.
Jack Jermaine est un homme à la beauté dévastatrice et au sombre passé. Amer, il rêve, devant sa malle de manuscrits refusés, d'écrire un roman à succès. Grâce à des stratagèmes juridiques qui tiennent plutôt d'un pacte avec le diable... Jack devient Gable Cooper.
Lorsque Jack devient célèbre, Abby est à la fois séduite et prisonnière de sa propre création, mais elle ne sait rien de lui et le succès tourne à l'horreur... Sa maison est dévastée, sa meilleure amie est électrocutée, son ex-mari, un alcoolo violent, est découvert noyé. Du nord du Pacifique à New York, puis dans les îles Caraïbes, Abby est à la poursuite de la seule personne en qui elle peut avoir confiance, la seule qui peut prouver qu'elle est l'auteur du roman et mettre fin à son cauchemar qui fut son rêve : être l'auteur de La Liste...

La Liste - Occasion

"The sort of compulsive page-turner that keeps readers up at night.. Both timely and scary.. Guardian of Lies more than satisfies."-Washington Times  Defense attorney Paul Madriani is caught in a web of deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious assassin in Guardian of Lies, the most entertaining novel yet in the New York Times bestselling series. Steve Martini, #1 bestselling author of Shadow of Power, Double Tap, and other acclaimed Madriani thrillers, demonstrates once again why he's one of the genre's masters, along with John Grisham, David Baldacci, James Patterson, John Lescroart, Brad Meltzer, and Scott Turow.

Guardian of Lies - A Paul Madriani Novel

"Steve Martini ranks among the top authors of legal thrillers."-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"You like Law & Order? Or even a John Grisham novel? Well, Steve Martini is one of the best of the best when it comes to crime thrillers."-Asbury Park PressThe reasons why Steve Martini is one of the most popular thriller writers around are abundantly clear in Trader of Secrets: an ingenious plot, great characters, gripping storytelling that combines the legal expertise of John Lescroart, Brad Meltzer, and Scott Turow with the heart-pounding political intrigue of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor. Superstar crime novelist Linda Fairstein says, "Take it from a prosecutor-Steve Martini has created one of the most charismatic defense attorneys in thriller fiction, " referring to Martini's fearless yet very human series protagonist, defense attorney Paul Madriani. In Trader of Secrets the crusading lawyer is on the trail of dangerous criminals who are trying to steal state-of-the-art weapons technology.with nothing less than the future of America at stake.

Trader of Secrets - A Paul Madriani Novel

Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this electrifying tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini. One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets, where the bodies are buried, and how deeply they are stacked. When she's killed in a roadside crash in the high desert of Southern California, powerful heads in Washington begin to panic, worried that their secrets may not be safe anymore. Alex Ives, a friend of Paul Madriani's daughter, is accused of vehicular manslaughter in Serna's death. Ives claims he had only one drink on the night of the accident, yet he can't remember anything between the time he left for a party north of San Diego and the moment he woke up in a hospital the next morning. He's still dazed and a little bruised, but also obviously very afraid. After all, a woman is dead, and he's sure he didn't kill her. To save an innocent young man's life, the brilliant defense attorney must uncover everything he can about Serna and her clients-no matter how unsavory-a search that will lead him into a vortex of corruption, and at its center, a devious killer poised to strike again.

The Enemy Inside - A Paul Madriani Novel

Navy SEALs are the military's elite-highly trained, deadly, and sworn to secrecy about the details of their dangerous and confidential missions. So when one of the men goes public about a high-profile assassination abroad, all of his comrades are thrown into peril. In this riveting novella, attorney Paul Madriani comes to the aid of a Navy SEAL who is pursued by his own government and facing possible prosecution for disclosures he says were made by others. When the soldier disappears, Paul finds himself ensnared in a deadly game of intrigue that forces him to track the man down before it is too late.

The Second Man - A Paul Madriani Novella

Paul Madriani, the brilliant defense attorney from Compelling Evidence and Prime Witness, is back in a complex web of murder and deceit — this time within his own family. His wife Nikki has just died of cancer. On her deathbed, Nikki made Paul promise to look after her younger sister, Laurel Vega, who is mired in a bitter child-custody battle with her ex-husband, a powerful state senator.
When Jack Vega's new wife is found slain execution-style, Laurel becomes the prime suspect. Paul — remembering his promise to his wife — has no choice but to take Laurel's case. But as he tries to mount a defense and probes deeper into the lives of those involved, he discovers a trail of betrayal and duplicity that hides the truth at every turn.A gripping drama that spirals toward its shattering conclusion, Undue Influence is a brilliant work from the author hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the newest superstar among fictionalizing attorneys."

Trouble Influence (Paul Madriani, #3)

Defending a client accused of killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy dating to World War II in this enthralling installment in the New York Times bestselling series. Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds have a new client: Emma Brauer, a woman accused in the "mercy killing" of her aged father, Robert Brauer. Insisting she's innocent, Emma tells Paul about a package sent to her father shortly before he entered the hospital. Bequeathed to him by a member of his unit from World War II, the box contains a key and a slip of paper. Emma fears that this package is connected to her father's death. When Paul's young assistant Sofia is murdered, Madriani is blindsided by the realization that Emma's fears are well-grounded. Digging into Robert's military history, Madriani discovers that other members of the Army unit Robert served with have recently died-under similarly suspicious circumstances. When he finds that the box sent to Brauer relates to a mysterious talisman that went missing at the end of the war-a feared Nazi relic known as the "Blood Flag"-Madriani and Hinds realize they are in for the fight of their lives. With Emma's life on the line and their own safety in jeopardy, Madriani must uncover the truth before the evil of the Blood Flag is allowed to spin a new web.

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