Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Sean King knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, the hard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for a split second. And the candidate he was protecting was gunned down before his eyes. Now Michelle and Sean are about to see their destinies converge.Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, the two discredited agents uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making – and are a long way from over….

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The Simple Truth is a tense courtroom drama with a fast-paced plot from bestselling author, David Baldacci. As a young conscripted soldier, Rufus Harms was jailed for the brutal killing of a schoolgirl. Yet, after twenty-five hard years of incarceration, a stray letter from the US army reveals new facts about the night of the murder - and the evil secret shared by some of Washington's most powerful men. Fearful for his life, Harms seizes his one chance to escape. But within hours the only people who knew about the letter have been hunted down and eliminated. As the unknown assassins close in on Harms, ex-cop turned criminal attorney John Fiske is drawn into the web. His younger brother is already a victim, the woman he loves is under threat. For the truth and the chance of a future, he will never give up the fight. But for both men time is already running out. Their enemy is buried deep within the system and completely ruthless when protecting the truth .

The Simple Truth

Après avoir assisté, impuissant, au meurtre de sa femme et à l'enlèvement de sa fille, John Carr, ex-agent secret, a changé de vie. Convaincu que ses propres services ont cherché à l'éliminer, partisan de la théorie du complot, il a fondé le Camel Club. Derrière ce nom, quatre aventuriers vieillissants revenus de tout. Leur mission : placer les autorités des États-Unis sous surveillance. Une nuit qu'il s'apprête à se réunir, le quatuor est le témoin involontaire du meurtre d'un certain Patrick Johnson, agent du NIC, le tout-puissant service du contre-espionnage. Se refusant à contacter la police, les hommes du Camel Club mènent leur propre enquête. Pourquoi les autorités s'empressent-elles de conclure à un suicide ? Qui cherche-t-on à protéger derrière les assassins de Johnson ? Et s'il s'agissait du plus grand complot de l'histoire des Etats-Unis ? Par un maître du suspense, un thriller ambitieux dans la mouvance post-11 Septembre, une plongée dans les rouages de la machine politique américaine.

Le Camel Club (Camel Club, #1)

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

La Contrepartie

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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Remember his name: FBI Agent Amos Decker is back in a thrilling memory man investigation. From the number one bestselling author of The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci. A town with a secret. A lone hunter discovers the remains of a woman in North Dakota's Badlands. She appears to have had a post-mortem performed on her, reminiscent of those only seen on TV shows - but there is no slab, morgue or camera in sight. A victim without a past. The FBI decide to investigate Irene Cramer's death, as key questions surface around her mysterious past. Little is known about this school teacher, where she came from or her true identity. But she clearly had something to hide. A hero with a unique skill. FBI investigator Amos Decker and his colleague, Alex Jamison, are summoned to seek answers. They travel to the local community of London, North Dakota - a town which sits at the very heart of the fracking industry. Enriched with oil money, jealousy and a deep-set rivalry lie beneath a veneer of glitz and opulence. Decker soon realizes that the nearby 'eye in the sky', the Air Force Station, may hold the vital clues. And that this town holds secrets so explosive, they could destabilize the entire country .

Walk the Wire - The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Dan et Amy ont decouvert que tous les objets qu'ils ont voles pour Vesper I permettent de reconstituer une machine de l'Apocalypse sur laquelle travaillait Archimede. Desormais, ils savent que Vesper I a pour dessein de detruire des millions de vies et de prendre le pouvoir. Les deux enfants decident de l'en empecher... Mais l'ennemi est partout ! Ils apprennent que l'horrible Isabel Kabra est Vesper II, et qu'elle est en route pour Washington DC. Les voici sur une nouvelle piste, direction le musee d'Histoire naturelle...

L'ultime sacrifice (Les 39 clés, Cahill contre Vesper #17)

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

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...

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