Colin: 2238 books

La ruée vers l'Ouest n'est plus qu'un souvenir que l'on peut maintenant voir sur grand écran grâce à l'industrie naissante d'Hollywood. Nevada Marquez oscille entre les deux mondes, chargé par Hollywood des missions les plus improbables à la frontière américano-mexicaine. L'enquêteur est...

Washington, 1965. Le Président réélu inaugure son second mandat par une offensive terrestre déterminante sur le nord Vietnam communiste. Tandis qu'en Amérique, la contestation grandi et que le pays sombre lentement dans la dictature, French, un engagé volontaire au Vietnam, abat un officier...

À la veille de se présenter à la candidature présidentielle, Joe Kennedy envoie ses fils charger une livraison d'alcool en provenance de la Nouvelle-Orléans, capitale française depuis l'indépendance américaine et port d'attache de tous les trafiquants du pays. Mais quand la mafia, un shérif...

Phoenice, anciennement San Francisco, n’est plus qu’un état à part entière divisé en deux zones depuis le tremblement de terre qui l’a partiellement détruite au 21ème siècle : les quadrants, quartiers où vit la majeure partie de la population, et le coeur, ville dans la ville, juchée...

Les tensions entre le peuple et le pouvoir ont atteint un point de non-retour. La ville se sonsume, ravagée par les flammes des combats qui s'étendent jusqu'à l'Apex. Au mileu de cette révolte, les masques tombent et les vérités éclatent. Helix, Jonas et Circeon devront faire face à de douloureuse révélations les unissant bien malgré eux au destin de la cité.

From the national bestselling author of Waiting in Vain and Satisfy My Soul comes a sexy, witty collection of connected stories set on San Carlos, a tiny island with an old volcano in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, the stories trace the intersecting lives of...

Twenty-four of the most exciting voices in genre fiction bring you the world and the stars, each in their own individual way. Stories that explore the vast grandeur of the universe, worlds close to us, worlds far in the distance. Alternate Earths, colonies in the sky, engineered worlds, mystical battlegrounds, pirate seas, underground caverns, journeys in time and across the stars.

In poverty-stricken 1978 Laos, a man with a truck from the city was “somebody,” a catch for even the prettiest village virgin. The corpse of one of these bucolic beauties turns up in Dr. Siri’s morgue and his curiosity is piqued. The victim was tied to a tree and strangled but she had not, as...

Laos, 1979: Dr. Siri Paiboun, the twice retired ex-National Coroner of Laos, receives an unmarked package in the mail. Inside is a handwoven pha sin, a colorful traditional skirt worn in northern Laos. A lovely present, but who sent it to him, and why? And, more importantly, why is there a severed...

It has been called "the greatest debut novel this author has ever written"... Walter Parks's life has fallen apart. Until a few days ago, he had it all—a beautiful wife, baby girl, home in the suburbs and a not-so-beautiful, but reasonably well paid job as pencil pusher at...

Dr Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to assume power. Now, as a major celebration of the...

The seventh Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery When a Lao female security officer is discovered stabbed through the heart with a fencing sword, Dr. Siri, the reluctant national coroner for the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is brought in to examine the body. Soon two other young women are found...

A funny and moving tale set during the secret war in Laos The Year is 1970. Waldo Monk is 65 years old, a widower, and two months away from retirement after a lifetime at Roundly's pool-ball factory in Mattfield, Indiana. Enter Saifon, a twenty-something Lao-American girl with an attitude,...

*Resisting Removal *is a historically detailed account of the 1850 removal efforts that resulted in the relatively unknown Sandy Lake Tragedy. Relying on real correspondence from the time period, the novel, through fictional scene and dialogue, exposes the corruption and negligence of the Indian...