Robert Pépin Books

Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe Alter Orient. Der Verlag Goethe & Hafis aus Bonn veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe Alter Orient Werke, die nicht mehr zugänglich sind. Als ersten Schritt in diese Richtung haben wir uns die Neuauflage nicht mehr zugänlicher Werke großer Orientalisten oder Reisebrichte vorgenommen. Die in diesen Werken aufgeworfenen gesellschaftlich-sozialen Fragen sind nach wie vor aktuell und besitzen noch immer eine erstaunliche Frische. Die Reihe soll zum besseren Verständnis der orientalischen Kultur beitragen, die heute unter dem Bürgerkrieg und Fundamentalismus leidet. This book is part of the book series Alter Orient. As part of the book series Alter Orient the publishing company Goethe & Hafis, based in Bonn, publishes selected works which are no longer available. The main focus lies on the reprint of great oriental authors and travel reports. The purpose of the book series is to encourage the clearer understanding of the oriental civilization and culture, which is presently afflicted with civil war and fundamentalism.

Traduit de l'américain par Robert Pépin Chaque année, à l'époque du solstice d'été, un dangereux maniaque, juché sur les toits de New York, fait tomber un bloc de béton sur les foules qui se pressent à la sortie des théâtres et des cinémas. Crimes parfaits, bien sûr. Pas de piste, pas de mobile apparent... Mooney, parfait prototype de gros flic, dur et débonnaire, absolument rebelle à la hiérarchie, mène l'enquête, dans une ville à l'aspect de bocal putride, parmi les obsédés de la pire espèce, les déchets les plus associaux qui hantent les bas-fonds de la mégalopole... Rarement suspense aura été plus violent et plus maîtrisé, les personnages plus fascinants, la vision d'un auteur de romans noirs plus précise, à l'instar des maîtres de l'après-guerre, de Goodis à McBaln, mais sans doute dans une dimension plus foisonnante, qui permet une plongée mémorable dans un univers en proie aux démons, au sang et à l'Ignominie. De la fin du livre, nous ne dirons rien, sinon ceci t à New York, rien ne se passe vraiment comme ailleurs. Quand un tueur disparaît, un autre reprend aussitôt sa place. L'horreur ne peut pas s'interrompre, ni la nuit des esprits, ni la peur de chacun.

Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.

Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her. Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a new father. He gets a call, too, from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. This fact alone makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious. And Harry Bosch is heading straight into the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered...

When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defense lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one - particularly since the DA's determination to re-charge and re-try him for the same crime seems doomed to failure. Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up, with the renewed prosecution merely a tactic to prevent Jessup from successfully suing the state and county for millions of dollars. To avoid humiliation, Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about Melissa Landy and what really happened to her all those years ago.

Representing some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.

The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary holdup. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local Triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening.

After three years as a PI, Harry Bosch returns to the LAPD, working with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. Harry and Kiz are assigned to the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit. These detectives are the Closers; they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. Harry and Kiz are immediately thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of a mixed-race sixteen-year-old girl. As he navigates the case, Harry finds a police department far different from the one he left three years earlier. A new Chief has been brought over from New York to change the bad old culture of corruption - or that's the theory. But one thing hasn't changed - Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a 'retread'. He watches from the sidelines like an injured bear, hoping Harry will make a mistake...

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achievement to date--a novel of masterly suspense and righteous obsession that will never let you go. When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. But when Graciella tells him the way her sister Gloria was murdered, it leaves Terry no choice. Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul. For Gloria's killer shatters every rule that McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau--as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life...and just one shot at the truth.

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die. In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run--with a near-psychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job. Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets: like who really set up the job, why Cassie had to take the change, and how, in the end, it might all be a matter of the moon...

First there was Harry Bosch. Then Mickey Haller changed the legal thriller. Now, meet Michael Connelly's brand new detective: Renee Ballard.

Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. Here are reproduced narratives of these articles, from initial accusation along path of prosecution. Divided in three sections: Cops, Killers, and Cases.