La tête avait été tranchée du reste du corps, l'épiderme avait des nuances gris-vert, on voyait du pus séché aux commissures des lèvres, des ampoules hideuses autour du nez tuméfié, des taches noires suintantes de décomposition aux coins des yeux.Figée d'horreur, Susan avait reconnu la tête de Jerry Stein, son fiancé, mort treize ans auparavant dans des circonstances horribles, lors d'une cérémonie d'initiation dans une confrérie.Il est bien difficile de conserver son sang-froid, quand les hallucinations et les visions de cauchemar se succèdent. Dans ce monde de démence et d'épouvante, Susan se sent sombrer peu à peu…

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The new fast-moving thriller from Dean Koontz is the story of an innocent man forced by a serial killer to choose who will be murdered next.

VELOCITY

En 1996, Dean Koontz, l'auteur de thrillers aux 450 millions d'exemplaires vendus, imaginait l'apparition, dans la ville chinoise de Wuhan, d'un virus à même de tuer en se propageant dans le monde entier par simple voie respiratoire... Son nom : Wuhan-400. Un quart de siècle plus tard, la prophétie s'est réalisée. Le thriller prophétique de 1996 qui annonçait la pandémie de 2020 Depuis le début de la crise sanitaire, les réseaux sociaux ont relevé l'étonnant sens de la prédiction dont a fait preuve Koontz dans la seconde édition de son roman Les yeux des ténèbres (1996), imaginant une épidémie mondiale issue d'un virus issu d'un laboratoire de Wuhan. Danny, 8 ans, meurt dans un effroyable accident de car. C'est du moins ce que la police affirme à sa mère. En réalité, sa disparition a un lien avec le virus Wuhan-400, une arme bactériologique inoculée au garçonnet. L'épidémie, qui se propage à grande vitesse, est susceptible d'éradiquer l'humanité. Sa mère part à la recherche de la vérité, traquée par des services secrets... Un an plus tard, des signes indiquent à Tina que son fils serait toujours en vie. Dès lors, elle n'a de cesse de le retrouver et de découvrir la vérité. Mais elle dérange et les services secrets tentent de l'assassiner. Qu'a-t-elle à cacher ? Et si Danny était celui par qui la fin de l'humanité pouvait arriver ?

Les yeux des ténèbres

Après vingt ans d'absence, Joey Shannon, joueur de poker alcoolique et minable, revient dans sa ville natale pour l'enterrement de son père. Assailli de visions morbides, il s'apprête à faire demi-tour, lorsque, à la faveur d'une tempête, la route qu'il empruntait autrefois pour se rendre à l'université s'offre miraculeusement à lui. Reprenant l'itinéraire de jadis, il se retrouve alors sur les lieux, où vingt ans plus tôt, un terrible accident l'avait privé du destin auquel il était promis. Peu à peu une autre réalité prend forme, le passé resurgit, et il découvre que son frère n'est pas seulement l'écrivain que tous s'accordent à trouver génial. Aurait-il plongé dans le temps pour se voir offrir une chance de véritablement... refaire sa vie ?

Etranges détours

Although accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital, a brilliant physician miraculously resuscitates him. Given this second chance, Hatch and his wife Lindsey approach each day with a new appreciation of the beauty of life - until a series of mysterious and frightening events brings them face to face with the unknown.Although Hatch was given no glimpse of an afterlife during the period when his heart had stopped, he has reason to fear that he has brought a terrible presence back with him... from the land of the dead.When people who have wronged the Harrisons begin to die violently, Hatch comes to doubt his own innocence - and must confront the possibility that this life is just a prelude to another, darker place.

La Cache du diable

"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares, and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.©2003 Dean Koontz; (P)2003 Random House, Inc., Random House Audio, A Division Of Random House, Inc.

L'étrange Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)

Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to today’s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep’s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they’ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that’s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon.”By the Light of the Moon is a novel of heart-stopping suspense and transcendent beauty, of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us--a masterwork of the imagination in which the surprises come page after page and the spell of sublime storytelling triumphs throughout.From the Hardcover edition.

Au Clair de Lune

Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more—and less—than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniac—but his deranged maker.

Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #1)

"Il faut que j'en finisse, c'est urgent ! " Tels sont les derniers mots d'un homme que la vie semblait avoir comblé... mais qui y a mis fin. Brutalement. Jane Hawk, inspectrice du FBI, refuse de croire que son mari se soit donné la mort de son propre chef. Pour elle, il y a une autre raison. D'autant qu'une vague inexpliquée de suicides frappe le pays. Quitte à se mettre à dos sa hiérarchie - qui souhaite étouffer l'affaire -, Jane veut des réponses... Or, son enquête dérange. Ses ennemis, dans l'ombre, détiennent un secret si terrifiant qu'ils sont prêts à tout pour l'éliminer. Mais, bien que seule contre tous, la fugitive la plus recherchée des Etats-Unis possède pour atouts son intelligence et sa froide détermination. La vengeance est comme l'amour : elle ne connaît aucune limite...

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