Qu'est-ce qu'un dinosaure ? C'est une question que le docteur Bobbie Carter, ancienne interne de l'hôpital de Chicago, n'aurait jamais imaginé devoir se poser. Et pourtant, quand on lui amène, dans sa modeste clinique du Costa Rica, un homme couvert d'atroces blessures, et qu'elle recueille ses dernières paroles juste avant qu'il ne meure, ses certitudes basculent. Que se passe-t-il réellement sur cette île perdue du Pacifique, sur laquelle on devine des êtres terrifiants ? Et qui sont ceux qui ont donné la vie à ces créatures monstrueuses ? Le docteur Carter pensait passer quelques mois tranquilles au bord de l'océan, elle ne savait pas qu'elle était aux portes de l'enfer. Mike Browman, sa femme Ellen, leur fille Tina devaient également l'apprendre. Très vite. Trop vite...

Jurassic Park

Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jamaica′s capital, a cut-throat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses, is devoid of London′s luxuries; life here can end swiftly with dysentery or a dagger in your back. But for Captain Charles Hunter it is a life that can also lead to riches, if he abides by the island′s code. In the name of His Majesty King Charles II of England, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking. And law in the New World is made by those who take it into their hands.Word in port is that the Spanish treasure galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is stalled in nearby Matanceros harbor awaiting repairs. Heavily fortified, the impregnable Spanish outpost is guarded by the blood-swiller Cazalla, a favorite commander of King Philip IV himself. With the governor′s backing, Hunter assembles a roughneck crew to infiltrate the enemy island and commandeer the galleon, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. The raid is as perilous as the bloody legends of Matanceros suggest, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he finds himself on the island′s shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry are all that stand between him and the treasure.With the help of his cunning crew, Hunter hijacks El Trinidad and escapes the deadly clutches of Cazalla, leaving plenty of carnage in his wake. But his troubles have just begun. . . .

Pirates

Vengeance criminelle ? meurtre crapuleux ou erreur médicale impardonnable ? qui a intérêt à ce que le cadavre de la jeune karen, lamentablement échoué dans une rue de boston, emporte à tout jamais avec lui ses secrets ? comment expliquer cette fin sordide pour la fille d'un des plus grands médecins de la ville, fût-elle marginale, nymphomane et droguée ? est-elle morte, comme on le croit, des suites d'un avortement illégal ? la police a-t-elle raison de soupçonner le médecin asiatique qui aurait pratiqué l'intervention ?
L'autopsie livre des révélations de plus en plus surprenantes.
 L'enquête chirurgicale tourne au suspense le plus pur... là où enquêteurs et policiers s'avouent très vite impuissants, un scientifique- seul face à tous-réussira peut-être à élucider le mystère insondable d'une vie qui n'est plus.

Extrême urgence

It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.

Les Mangeurs de morts

Three men are found dead in the locked second-floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye.In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined.In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.

Micro

From Michael Crichton, the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  Jurassic Park , comes a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America''s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. Against this backdrop two paleontologists pillage the Wild West for dinosaur fossils, while deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. 
           Into this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to win a bet against his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, and abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice. 
           Soon William joins forces with Cope and stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. The struggle to protect this extraordinary treasure, however, will test William''s newfound resilience and pit him against some of the West''s most dangerous and notorious characters...

DRAGON TEETH

1960. Monaco, Le Caire, Copenhague... Partout où se prépare une importante vente d'armes à Israël, les intermédiaires tombent comme des mouches. Au coeur de ce complot : une association d'espions arabes, menée par un machiavélique chirurgien de la Riviera, le Dr Liseau. Le gouvernement américain, qui a financé la prochaine livraison d'armes, décide d'envoyer son meilleur tueur à gages régler le problème. Mais ce dernier n'arrive jamais à Nice... Atterrit en revanche l'insouciant Roger Carr, playboy et avocat, chargé par un client d'acheter une villa dans la région. Problème : il ressemble à s'y méprendre à l'agent double... Bienvenue en France, Mr Carr... " Toute une ambiance sixties qui rappelle les James Bond époque Sean Connery. " Aujourd'hui en France " Rythmé et divertissant. " Metronews

Agent trouble

Pourquoi Meredith Johnson s'est-elle juré d'avoir la peau de Tom Sanders dès que celui-ci est entré dans la société d'informatique où elle occupe un poste important ? Son cynisme, sa férocité professionnelle, sa secrète nymphomanie et même ses tractations avec un groupe concurrent n'expliquent pas tout. Dans un passé récent, Tom a été son amant : elle ne le lui pardonne pas. De plus, il est intelligent et droit : une menace pour ses ambitions personnelles. Elle doit donc le détruire. Dans la guerre ouverte des sexes et la jungle des relations sociales américaines d'aujourd'hui, le harcèlement sexuel est devenu l'arme fatale. Meredith prépare une machination érotique d'une audace et d'une impudeur absolue dont l'homme sera la victime.

Harcelement

From Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last!

 If you thought Jurassic Park was an adventure, you should try the Wild West!

 1876. In the lawless territories of the Wild West, two teams of explorers are pitted against one another. Their quarry? Dinosaur bones. But in a land filled with hostile Indian tribes and towns where pistol fights are a daily occurrence, every exploit puts their lives in danger.

 William Johnson, a student with more privilege than sense, finds himself plunged into this deadly environment after making a brash wager. Alongside Edwin Drinker Cope, the famed adventurer, he stumbles upon a momentous discovery - dragon teeth of a fantastic size!

 But to keep this extraordinary treasure safe, William must first confront some of the West's most dangerous and notorious characters.

Jurassic Park

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