Resultados para "Noir" en Acción y aventura

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.

La Déesse veille. Son autorité est représentée par ses Anges et ses Archanges. Ils interviennent dans tous les aspects quotidiens de la vie. Francesca Sebastani se rend dans la ville marchande d’Alba pour accomplir les volontés de son père : épouser un riche négociant de basse extraction sociale et retrouver son frère, Taddeo, qu’elle déteste, afin de le pousser à accepter son héritage. Seulement, Francesca ne désire qu’une chose : découvrir qui a causé l’effroyable assassinat de son autre frère, Iacopo... et lui faire justice, car en rêve, elle la voit.

Faussement accusé de conspiration, le sympathique Cornélius Van Baerle est en prison. Grand amateur de tulipes, il pense avoir découvert le secret de cette merveille : "la tulipe noire". Mais un rival sans scrupules essaie de lui voler sa découverte : heureusement, Rosa, sa jolie geôlière, intervient.

Avec "Les Indes noires", Jules Verne développe une histoire fantastique qui plonge ses racines dans l'histoire de la Révolution industrielle, en Ecosse, au XIXème siècle. Phénomènes mystérieux, apparitions, réouverture après la découverte d'un filon d'une extrême richesse, la mine d'Aberfoyle est décidemment bien étrange.

After detainment by the Bureau of Investigation, Arthur Tormes is forced to spy on Hubert Julian. For thirteen years he follows Julian-a parachutist, pilot, and possible seditious threat to the United States. To win his freedom, Arthur must stay close to Julian, from New York City to Ethiopia, often at great personal sacrifice.

Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-Mi6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate. 

Tyrant magus Edrin Walker destroyed the monster sent by the Skallgrim, but not before it laid waste to Setharis, and infested their magical elite with mind-controlling parasites. Edrin's own Gift to seize the minds of others was cracked by the strain of battle, and he barely survives the interrogation of a captured magus. There's no time for recovery though: a Skallgrim army is marching on the mountain passes of the Clanhold. Edrin and a coterie of villains race to stop them, but the mountains are filled with gods, daemons, magic, and his hideous past.  

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop - in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be 15-year-old Cleste Jonqures, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into.

La Lune Noire has a pulse. It rules apart from its owners. Backroom deals and electro swing. Extravagant parties and bootlegger tunnels. The walls have secrets. The doors have codes. Ashes and lies. White oak and screams. Champagne and delusions. Hope is the gateway to hell.

There is only one way to deal with murderous souls when killing is their modus operandi and revenge is on their minds. When the West was wild, one man knew this better than any other. His name was Frank Savage.

Norman Spindle: CEO. Business guru. Secret mortal enemy. Lance Zoom must stop the mad tycoon from taking over ZoomCorp—unfortunately, spreadsheets creep him out. It falls to Layla Zoom to call in the cavalry. Or in this case, the twelve-year-old. In this warped introduction to the Zoom Universe, a hero will rise, a dark heart will be kindled, and the family toaster will be in dire peril. Hey, business meetings are tough.

Dans les houillères épuisées d'Aberfoyle en Ecosse, ne vivent plus que le vieux contremaître Simon Ford, sa femme et son fils.

I wasn’t supposed to fall for a werewolf. He wasn’t supposed to break my heart. But he did—and I’m done letting ancient fairy tales decide my future. Sure, I’m named after the original Red Riding Hood (the real one, not the sanitized bedtime version), and yes, I was supposed to follow in her footsteps: master silver magic, protect the veil between humans and the supernatural, and become the next “wolf watcher” of the House of Red. But honestly? I’d rather eat dumplings and avoid werewolves altogether. That plan works… until Tobias Somfield shows up. He’s English. He’s brooding.

Adapting what may be the most popular of graphic novels, by the edgy Hard Case Crime author, adding layers and exploring the nature of morality. Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in...

A darkly compelling serial-killer thriller set in America's deep South, introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for a long time to come. A headless male torso found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night is...

Drizzt a définitivement quitté l'Outreterre pour gagner le monde de la surface. Il espère trouver le foyer qu'il a toujours cherché. Mais il ne s'agit nullement de la terre promise qu'il avait espérée, bien au contraire. À la surface, les drows sont considérés comme des ennemis, des meurtriers et personne n'imagine qu'il existe des elfes noirs différents, capables de compassion, et qui aspirent à une vie meilleure. Drizzt sera chassé, traqué et il devra apprendre de nouvelles règles, prouver à la face du monde qu'il peut s'adapter et qu'il n'est pas nuisible ou malfaisant.

Drizzt a quitté Menzoberranzan, sa ville natale, pour gagner les régions sauvages de l'Outre-terre. C'est le début pour lui d'une vie d'errance et de traque. Car Drizzt doit devenir un chasseur s'il veut prendre le dessus sur les créatures qui rôdent dans les profondeurs. Il peut heureusement compter sur l'aide de Guenhwyvar, sa fidèle panthère magique.

Drizzt est un elfe noir né en Outreterre où le pouvoir s'obtient par la guerre ou le meurtre, L'honneur, l'amitié, l'amour n'y ont pas leur place et Drizzt y fait le rude apprentissage d'une vie de servitude. Bien qu'il ait été élevé dans un système de valeurs totalement perverti et qu'il soit rompu à l'art du combat, il sait qu'il n'est pas comme les autres. Il aspire à une vie différente et refuse de devenir un assassin au service des siens. Mais pour survivre, Drizzt est obligé de dissimuler et même nier sa véritable nature. Jusqu'au jour où il devra se battre seul contre tous !