The outside man is lawyer Adam Shaw. A northerner in a southern town jealous of its secrets, he finds the dead body of his best friend's wealthy wife--and his friend is missing. In a world where wealthy people will stop at nothing to maintain a genteel image, Shaw will risk everything to solve the murder and learn the shocking truth. From the author of Degree of Guilt. Reissue.

Equation a Une Inconnue

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.

THE RACE

Projection privée

'Patterson has the rare gift of enthralling as he informs' Mark Lawson, GuardianCan an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics. Corey Grace - a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio - is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favourite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War Air Force pilot known for speaking his mind, Grace's reputation for voting his own conscience rather than the party line has earned him a reputation as a maverick and an iconoclast. But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past or present life is off-limits, including his ongoing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie star. Depicting contemporary power politics at its most ruthless, The Race takes on the most incendiary issues in American culture: racism, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, gay rights, and the rise of media monopolies with their own agenda and lust for power. As the pressure of the campaign intensifies, Grace encounters betrayal, excruciating moral choices, and secrets that can destroy lives. Ultimately, the race leads to a deadlocked party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his romance with Lexie and his presidential ambitions - and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice...

The Race

Exclus, SDF, chômeurs : en quelques mois, Kerry Kilcannon est devenu le champion des minorités. Et le candidat démocrate le mieux placé dans la course aux primaires en ce début de millénaire.
Sean Burke, lui, n'a que mépris pour une Amérique qui, estime-t-il, a trahi les siens. Pour ce militant anti-avortement, le combat politique est vain. Seule la violence, désormais, peut provoquer l'électrochoc nécessaire.
Et le prochain meeting du sénateur Kilcannon pourrait être le théâtre de son plus sanglant coup d'éclat...
Avec ce récit d'une chasse aux suffrages se transformant peu à peu en chasse à l'homme, Richard North Patterson démontre sa maîtrise de tous les rouages du suspense.

Nulle part au monde

William Lasko is a self-made millionaire with an eye for wealth and influence, the ear of the president, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crime Commission wants Lasko brought down, and US Attorney Christopher Paget is tipped to take on the job.

La Loi de Lasko

Pour les yeux d'un enfant

Une meurtrière que tous les indices accablent. Le cas de conscience d'une brillante avocate, qui risque sa carrière en acceptant d'assurer une défense quasi impossible. Un procès qui ravive de vieilles blessures et réveille une affaire de famille depuis longtemps enterrée. Des révélations douloureuses et poignantes. Le nouveau grand roman de Richard North Patterson, Grand Prix de littérature policière pour DEGRE DE CULPABILITE. Un thriller psychologique et un suspense judiciaire d'une redoutable Efficacité. Un best-seller aux Etats-Unis, un auteur considéré comme l'égal de John Grisham ou de Scott Turow.

Equation a Une Inconnue

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