Polar Thriller

Mitch Matthews is writer struggling to make ends meet when his wife's brother offers them a first-class seat on a flight from Hong Kong to New York. When his wife needs to stay behind, it becomes an opportunity for some quality daddy-daughter time with his five-year-old Lilly. At check-in, they run into a strange Norwegian arguing with a huge Russian. A mysterious redhead is guarding a package in the business lounge. But everything is fine...right up until the event. Within hours of Allied Airlines 695 disappearing, a massive international search is launched.

When two killings take place thousands of miles apart in Canada and Alaska, Detective Bernadette Callahan's instincts tell her there's a link. But her superiors disagree, and they move to silence her. Undeterred, Callahan delves deeper and finds an ally deep in rural Alaska. A fellow detective, also under pressure to close his inquiries. The pair are forced into the shadows to work, where they uncover unlikely suspects and a conspiracy linked to Alaska's billion-dollar oil supply.

CyberStorm, the first novel in the World War C series, tells of a bizarre string of disasters cutting New York off from the world. Darknet is a standalone novel and an adrenaline-fueled mystery with a noir/tech edge that takes listeners to a new edge of the cyber world. Polar Vortex is a stand-alone novel about a modern airline that mysterious disappears just as global tensions rise between America and Russia.

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The Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times). It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen...

Dans la salle de rédaction à moitié vide d’un quotidien, où trainent encore des guirlandes de Noël, des reporters rentrent lentement au travail, tandis qu’à Saint-Albert-sur-le-Lac, village niché au coeur des Cantons-de-l’Est, on constate les conséquences tragiques d’un incendie. Le journaliste Michel Duquesne est dépêché sur place. Une révélation étonnante, puis des traces emprisonnées dans la glace vont l’amener sur une piste qui l’exposera à des dangers insoupçonnés, tout en réveillant en lui des monstres de son enfance.

Découvrez Arsène Lupin, malfaiteur un peu cabotin, mais malfaiteur quand même, dans ses premières aventures. Tour à tour charmeur, implacable dans la résolution des énigmes, joueur farceur ou bravache, il excelle dans la capacité à faire tourner en bourrique les policiers de la Sureté, à se venger ou à simplement déposséder son prochain (de préférence riche à millions) de ses richesses. Neuf aventures vous attendent.

Something Big Lurks Beneath the Surface Mara Kincaid tracks ghosts through the water. As a sonar specialist, her job is to find what hides in the pitch-black silence of the southern ocean. When the research vessel Valkyrie reaches the edge of a frozen trench, she hears a signal that shouldn't exist. It isn't a whale. It isn't a submarine. Something massive is rising through the ice. Trapped in a polar storm and cut off from the world, the crew realizes they are no longer the observers. They are the prey. Beneath the crushing pressure of the shelf, a leviathan from modern folklore has ...

Chill of Truth: A Murder Mystery Danger and Betrayal in the Arctic Polar Bear Capital When world-famous supermodel Elena Hart boards a private jet to the remote polar bear capital of Churchill, Manitoba, she expects an icy photo shoot—not a deadly mystery at 35,000 feet. But when she’s found dead mid-flight, her entourage of friends, rivals, and hidden enemies become prime suspects. Enter Detective Ethan Steele—trapped in an isolated Arctic lodge with a killer among them. With a vicious snowstorm closing in and time running out, Steele must unravel layers of deception, betrayal, and ...

When American covert operative Chase Fulton and his team suppress a mass shooting attempt in the tiny coastal town he calls home, the realization of how deadly his life has become sends him on a journey to separate himself from that violence and save his relationship with the woman he loves. The laidback holiday promises to rekindle the relationship and heal old wounds, until a brutal attack leaves a beloved friend fighting for her life. Chase has no choice but to put his experience, training, and lethal skill set back into action to find and eliminate the threat.

Detective Arkady Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—returns in this tense thriller set amid the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith’s celebrated Arkady Renko series, the legendary Moscow...

The sun won't rise for forty days. Neither side can wait that long. December 2045. A thousand Chinese Marines are slowly freezing to death in ships never meant to survive an Arctic winter. Their government has declared the mission a success. Their Admiral knows better. And the men who could rescue them have been ordered to treat them as a threat. As polar night descends on Victoria Strait, a British intelligence officer pieces together what the Americans already know but won't share. A Canadian sergeant prepares her section for a tactical situation she doesn't understand. And deep in the ...

In 2040, as poachers close in on the last polar bear on earth, an Inuit scientist named Nuli must use her abilities to save the bear’s life, even at the risk of her own. Nuli feels caught between two cultures, but when she develops a shamanic gift to communicate with the bear she calls Anuk, her mystical revelation is mind-blowing; Anuk has a plan of her own.

The elf had been murdered, that much was evident... Christmas is only days away, and Santa is facing the greatest crisis of his career. Pinkie Merryvale, head of the elves' union, has been brutally murdered, the most obvious suspect none other than Santa himself - for years he and Merryvale had clashed over the working conditions of the North Pole's workforce. The elves, worked to exhaustion, issue an ultimatum in response. If Santa can't find the killer and prove his innocence before Christmas Eve, they STRIKE, and Christmas worldwide will be ruined.

Un meurtre au cœur de la Costa Blanca. Un journaliste accusé à tort. Un passé qui refuse de mourir. Gabriel Caballero, célèbre écrivain et ancien journaliste, retourne à Alicante pour une visite sans histoires. Mais tout bascule lorsqu’une femme est retrouvée morte… et que les indices pointent directement vers lui. La victime ? La rectrice de l’université. Le suspect principal ? Son meilleur ami. La vérité ? Plus sombre que ce qu’il aurait jamais imaginé. Pour prouver son innocence, Gabriel devra replonger dans un monde de secrets enfouis, de trahisons et de silences ...

Lisbonne cache des secrets qui pourraient tout faire basculer… L’écrivain Gabriel Caballero se rend à Lisbonne pour participer à un concours littéraire. Ce qui devait être une visite paisible se transforme vite en une aventure périlleuse. Au fil de rencontres avec des auteurs célèbres et des personnages énigmatiques, Gabriel est entraîné dans une sombre histoire de trahisons et de vengeances. Chaque jour qui passe fait ressurgir des spectres du passé, tandis que les mystères de la ville s’épaississent et commencent à l’engloutir. Gabriel parviendra-t-il à rester sain...

LA TREIZIÈME CLOCHE PRIX PROMO : 0,99 € Entrez. Lisez le premier chapitre. Et essayez d'arrêter. Treize coups. Un corps. Zéro témoin. Et vous ne devinerez jamais qui tire les ficelles. Cette nuit-là, les cloches n'auraient jamais dû sonner treize fois. Gabriel Ferrer croyait avoir fui ses démons en s'exilant sur la côte caraïbe. Un phare. Des ruelles qui suintent l'humidité. Une église face à l'océan. Loin de Madrid. Loin de tout. Erreur. Un adolescent gît près de l'autel. Aucun témoin — ou plutôt, personne qui ose parler. Et ce détail qui glace le sang : de l'eau ...

UN PASSÉ OBSCUR, UNE TRAQUE SANS RÉPIT — LA VÉRITÉ POURRAIT TOUT DÉTRUIRE. DCI David Garrick est hanté par son passé — et cela va coûter encore plus de vies. Encore marqué par le meurtre brutal de sa sœur et tourmenté par des visions qu’il ne peut expliquer, Garrick peine à maintenir son équipe à flot lorsque des corps atrocement mutilés commencent à apparaître dans les villages idylliques du Kent. Chaque victime porte la même signature macabre : une trophée taillé dans la chair de la victime. En creusant plus profondément, Garrick découvre un monde clandestin de...

Back from exile, Renko must defeat the powerful black-market crime lords in this third installment to the Arkady Renko series by internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith. Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his...

Pourquoi Merete Lyyngaard croupit-elle dans une cage depuis des années ? Pour quelle raison ses bourreaux s'acharnent-ils sur la jeune femme ? Cinq ans auparavant, la soudaine disparition de celle qui incarnait l'avenir politique du Danemark avait fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Mais, faute d'indices, la police avait classé l'affaire. Jusqu'à l'intervention des improbables Carl Mørck et Hafez el Assad du Département V, un flic sur la touche et son assistant d'origine syrienne.