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In Washington, D.C, where power is everything and too few have too much of it, four highly eccentric men with mysterious pasts call themselves the Camel Club. Their mission: find out what's really going on behind the closed doors of America's leaders.The assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House has shaken the nation. And the outrageous iconoclasts of the Camel Club have found a chilling connection with another death: the demise of the director of the Library of Congress's rare books room, whose body has been found in a locked vault where seemingly nothing could have harmed him.A man who calls himself Oliver Stone is the groups unofficial leader. Staying one step ahead of his violent past and headquartered in a caretaker's cottage in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Stone, drawing on his vast experience and acute deductive powers, discovers that someone is selling America to its enemies one classified secret at a time. When Annabelle Conroy, the greatest con artist of her generation, struts onto the scene in high-heeled boots, the Camel Club gets a sexy new edge. And they'll need it, because the two murders are hurtling them into a world of high-stakes espionage that threatens to bring America to its knees.From an ingenious con in Atlantic City tho the possible forgery of one of the rarest and most valuable books in America history, to a showdown of epic proportions in the very heart of the capitol, David Baldacci weaves a brilliant, white-knuckle tale of suspense in which every collector is searching for one missing prize: the one to die for...

Les Collectionneurs

S'étant fixé pour mission de contrôler les dérives du pouvoir américain, le Camel Club et son fondateur Oliver Stone se sont fait quelques alliés, et surtout beaucoup d'ennemis, dont certains sont prêts à tout pour camoufler leurs activités illégales. Et Stone s'y connaît en activités illégales ! Quand il était à la CIA, sous le nom de Jason Carr, il a dû " liquider " des traîtres communistes durant la Guerre froide. Mais le fils de l'un de ces prétendus traîtres s'est juré de venger son père. Un à un, les proches d'Oliver Stone succombent. Sa seule chance : que le tueur ne découvre pas sa nouvelle identité car, officiellement, Jason Carr n'est plus qu'un cadavre...

Des cadavres trop bavards : Une enquête du Camel Club

Michael Fiske prekršit će zakon kad s prijemnog odjela Vrhovnog suda ukrade pismo koje je Sudu iz zatvora poslao zatvorenik osuđen zbog ubojstva djevojčice. No tom će krađom ujedno zapečatiti svoju sudbinu. Imena navedena u tom pismu nitko nije smio saznati, a krađa pisma ujedno je značila i smrtnu presudu za Fiskea. Nakon Fiskeova ubojstva njegov će brat, inače policajac koji je nakon jednog spornog slučaja odlučio postati odvjetnik, doći u Washington i pokušati saznati zašto mu je brat ubijen i kakve veze ubojstvo njegova brata ima s pismom ukradenim s prijemnog odjela Vrhovnog suda. No ubrzo će upravo on postati jedan od osumnjičenih...

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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.

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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
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One Summer by bestselling author, David Baldacci, is a tender and absorbing portrait of a family rebuilding itself after being torn apart by grief. Now an Original Movie on Hallmark Movies & MysteriesWhen thirty-four-year-old ex-war veteran Jack Armstrong is told he has only weeks to live, his first concern is for his beloved wife Lizzie, and their children: baby Jackie, twelve-year-old would-be actor Cory and rebellious teenage daughter Mikki. It seems so cruel that an apparently fatal illness should claim him, a survivor of Afghanistan and Iraq, when he still has so much left to live for. On Christmas Eve, as Jack prepares to say goodbye to his family, unthinkable tragedy strikes again and Lizzie is killed in a car accident. Just when Jack thought living was far harder than dying, and the children's future looked so bleak, something remarkable happens which gives Jack the valuable second chance he'd only dreamed of. Unexpectedly, the family inherits Lizzie's beautiful childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. During one unforgettable summer Jack and the children struggle to rebuild their lives. They learn to live again - and to love again. And they learn the biggest lesson of all - the importance of family.

One Summer

Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes the second book in the Private Investigator Archer series, A Gambling Man from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. A lucky roll of the diceCalifornia, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town. Feeling lucky, he stops off at a casino in Reno, where he meets an aspiring actress, Liberty Callahan. Together, they head west on a journey filled with danger and surprises - because Archer isn't the only one with a secretive past. A risk worth takingArriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding out who is doing everything they can to disrupt the appointment of a top official. Then two seemingly unconnected people are murdered at a burlesque club. In a tight-lipped community, Archer must dig deep to reveal the connection between the victims. All bets are offAs the final perilous showdown unfurls, Archer will need all of his skills to decipher the truth from the lies and finally, to prove she's a star in the making, will Liberty have her moment in the spotlight?A Gambling Man is the second historical crime novel in David Baldacci's Private Investigator Archer series, following the Sunday Times top five bestseller One Good Deed.

A Gambling Man

Killer twists. Heroes to believe in. Trust Baldacci. Private Investigator and WWII veteran, Aloysius Archer, returns to solve a new case in Hollywood in Dream Town, a riveting thriller from international number 1 bestselling author, David Baldacci. All that glitters .

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