Amérique. De nos jours. Ou presque. Ils sont quatre. Quatre États du Sud des États-Unis à ne pas avoir aboli l'esclavage et à vivre sur l'exploitation abjecte de la détresse humaine. Mais au Nord, l'Underground Airlines permet aux esclaves évadés de rejoindre le Canada. Du moins s'ils parviennent à...
À quoi bon tenter de résoudre un meurtre quand tout le monde va mour Concord, New Hamsphire. Hank Palace est ce qu'on appelle un flic obstiné. Confronté à une banale affaire de suicide, il refuse de s'en tenir à l'évidence et, certain qu'il a affaire à un meurtre, poursuit inlassablement son enquêt...
" This is the end. " Tragique, superbe et sans concession, la conclusion magistrale d'une série apocalyptique unique en son genre. Les derniers jours sont arrivés. Ancien agent des forces de police de Concord (New Hampshire), Hank Palace a trouvé refuge dans les bois de Nouvelle-Angleterre, où d'...
Le compte à rebours est enclenché. Deuxième tome d'une trilogie passionnante, le roman de Ben H. Winters, lauréat du prix Elgar, nous transporte dans un monde à feu et à sang, au côté d'un personnage qui se révèle à lui-même, au moment où l'humanité sombre ! La fin du monde ? Elle arrive. Dans 7...
Winner of the 2013 Edgarr Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months unt...
FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No brokers fee. Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment. Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic rema...
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Critically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive final installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series. With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime mem...
Love Poems to Rip Your Heart Out Find a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters's 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins's beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . . ...
'The most timely of alternate history novels. Ben Winters has created a spellbinding world that forces the reader to look around-'and to look within. This is a thriller not to be missed and one that will not be easily forgotten.' Hugh HoweyIt is the present-day, and the world is as we know it. Excep...
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From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, a...
It’s been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy’s timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to an awesomer version of 19thcentury Russia. It is a world humming with highpowered groznium engines: where debutantes dance the 3D waltz in midair, mechanical wolves charge into battl...
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