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Katarina Daniels is an up and coming FBI agent with the perfect life. But when she discovers her husband has spent them into financial ruin, things quickly begin to spiral out of control. She questions her sanity when she starts having visions of an apocalyptic world inhabited by hideous creatures. She hatches a desperate scheme to steal drug money, but unwittingly sets off a cascade of tragic events. With her life in tatters and a ruthless cartel enforcer in pursuit, she discovers her visions are not only real, but demons bent on the destruction of the world have already arrived.

A hilarious thriller that pits a CIA-trained assassin against a cross-dressing Mafioso. Henry and his wife Frances have gone bamboo—living an idyllic, tequila-drenched life as two of the Caribbean’s most charming expatriates (and professional assassins). But when Charlie “Wagons”...

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.

Never Love a Stranger, still considered one of Robbins' most powerful books, tells the story of Francis "Frankie" Kane, an orphan growing up in the dirty world of New York's Hell's Kitchen. After being kicked out of a Catholic orphanage when it is discovered that he is of Jewish descent, a confused and deeply distraught Frankie turns to a life of crime, the only life he knows, and he's good at it.

Timothy Van Bender, Yale graduate and hedge fund manager in Palo Alto, lives a magical life: His business mints money; his wife, Katherine, is beautiful and charming; his young sexy secretary,Tricia, greets him each morning with a flirtatious smile. Then, one Tuesday, everything changes. Timothy wakes to learn that his hedge fund has lost $24 million on a bad bet against the yen. Timothy decides to double down and bet again.

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

Le fameux détective privé John Blacksad est bien connu pour mettre son museau où il ne faut pas. Des rues sombres de New York à la lumineuse Nouvelle-Orléans, Blacksad devra résoudre meurtres et disparitions, tout en déjouant complots, manipulations et secrets politiques ou familiaux. Du pur roman noir, à travers toute l'Amérique des années 1950, et une plongée audio immersive au coeur de la saga bande dessinée chef-d'œuvre de Juanjo Guarnido et Juan Días Canales.

Lorsque Carole prend les rênes du groupe d'intervention du RAID pour gérer une prise d'otage, elle sait qu'elle n'a pas le droit à l'erreur. Derrière la porte de la chambre de bonne qui lui fait face, la vie d'une jeune fille est entre les mains de Jacques. Et Jacques a dit : que le jeu commence.

Quelque chose punit les habitants de la petite colonie de Roanoke... Prenez garde pauvre pécheurs. 1587, Caroline du Nord, Agnès a quitté l'Angleterre à contre cœur pour suivre Thomas, un homme d'église auquel elle est mariée, à Roanoke. Celui-ci espère une vie meilleure, mais il ne reste plus rien de la première colonie et Agnès craint que la seconde ne subisse le même sort devant le manque de ressources, la rigueur de l'hiver et la famine qui guette.

John Blacksad, fameux détective privé, doit enquêter sur le meurtre de son ancien amour, une star de cinéma... Plongée immersive au coeur d'un pur roman noir, avec cette adaptation audio de la bande dessinée chef-d'œuvre de Juanjo Guarnido et Juan Días Canales.