Novel / Adventure

Alexandra Clarkson is devastated. Her mother has just committed suicide, leaving her suddenly confronted with an immense feeling of emptiness. Emptiness, but also abandonment, because she is now alone to unravel the mystery surrounding her origins and answer the questions she has asked herself since childhood. When she contacts Detective Inspector Daniel Reed, the last person to have spoken with her mother, Alexandra is far from expecting the revelations he makes: she apparently grew up until the age of five in a wealthy and prestigious family.

Jason Bourne has returned to the quiet life of David Webb, a linguistics professor at Georgetown. But when his friend Dominic Specter is kidnapped before his very eyes, he doesn't hesitate and sets off in pursuit of the mysterious Black Legion, a former SS battalion now involved in international terrorism. They are preparing to strike on American soil.
Jason Bourne will set out to dismantle the network and recover the valuable documents that reveal the nature of the target.

Enrique Serpa's first novel, Contraband, brilliantly depicts the turbulent and wretched world of Havana in the 1920s. Through the bustle of a crowd of fishermen, prostitutes, smugglers, and impoverished children, we see the smoldering embers of the fire that will engulf the island of Cuba, where the obscene wealth of a few mocks the extreme destitution of the majority. Contraband is also the story of a confrontation between the rather cowardly and delusional owner of La Buena Ventura, worn down by debauchery, and Requin.

Coste is a police captain in the 93rd district's crime unit. For fifteen years, he has chosen to work in the suburbs, navigating the heart of normalized violence and senseless crime. A series of strange discoveries—a dead man who opens his eyes in the morgue, a drug addict who dies by spontaneous combustion—leads him to believe that his investigation, this time, will go beyond the usual cases in Seine-Saint-Denis. And the anonymous letters addressed to him personally will guide him into far more dangerous territory…

Serge is brilliant, enterprising, and narcissistic. Marianne is sincere, passionate, and determined to be happy. *Cherchez la femme* tells the "complete story" of their relationship. Before the reader's eyes, their life takes shape, settles down, they have children, they flourish, they face the test of time and the heartbreak of infidelity... Are our emotional destinies truly free? How much do the dreams and failures of a generation weigh on us?

I'm fed up with guys. You're getting on my nerves! I've had more than enough of your dirty tricks! It's your turn to suffer! My voice echoes throughout the neighborhood. And there, soaked, staggering, exhausted, I make a decision I swear I'll never go back on: I'm not going to let them get away with anything anymore. We're starting from scratch. We're turning the tables.

After announcing to her husband that she was leaving him, Hartenia is involved in a car accident. She escapes death, but suffers a head injury resulting in an extremely rare neurological dysfunction: "alien hand syndrome." At any time, against her will, the young woman loses control of her hand.

One night in Copenhagen, a woman jumps from a bridge. Niels Bentzon, a negotiator with the Copenhagen police, was unable to dissuade her. Who is this woman? What was she running from? And what does the enigmatic message written on her hand mean?
Niels soon discovers that the victim was not simply a mentally unstable person.

November 1918. Istanbul, the legendary city, is subjected to the relentless occupation of the Allies, victors of the Great War. On the banks of the Bosphorus, between East and West, painful choices must be made. Leyla Hanim is the young wife of a secretary to Sultan Mehmet VI. Her mother-in-law is a freed Circassian slave from the imperial harem.

Patrick Rush loses his wife and, in the process, his job as a literary critic. Only his five-year-old son keeps him from falling apart. Feeling a bit lost, and also because he's always dreamed of becoming an author, he signs up for a writing workshop, where he mainly distinguishes himself by his lack of inspiration...
Patrick meets Angela there, a strange woman who had a painful childhood.