Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film...
Corruption
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Auteur:Kim, Michael ByungJuSommaire:With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the...
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Auteur:Hornbaker, TimSommaire:In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmen’s conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry hid their illegal practices from the U.S. Department of Justice until they were caught. The sport that privileged cold hard cash...
- Auteur:Vincent, DianeSommaire:
Vincent Bastianello, inspecteur au SPVM, et Josette Marchand, massothérapeute de réputation internationale, ont résolu trop de cas sans la moindre égratignure. Le moment est-il venu d’en payer le prix ? Vincent est hospitalisé, alité,...
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Auteur:Forand, ClaudeSommaire:Au cours d’une fête organisée pour ses 30 ans de service dans la police, le sergent-détective Roméo Dubuc apprend que le populaire député Marc-André Plamondon vient d’être assassiné, d’une manière sordide, le soir même de la fondation...
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Auteur:Poulsen, David A.Sommaire:A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat. On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to...
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Auteur:Lawson, MichaelSommaire:Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to Boston to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building. But when Elinore suffers a horrible "accident,"...
- Auteur:Rotenberg, RobertSommaire:
In the latest thrilling crime novel from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg, Homicide Detective Ari Greene discovers the bludgeoned body of Toronto's most reviled developer behind his controversial new construction site. When...
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Auteur:Davies, NickSommaire:Since 2006, award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies has worked tirelessly — determined, driven, brilliant — to uncover the truth about the goings on behind the scenes at the News of the World and News International. This book...
- Auteur:Carson, LouiseSommaire:
When the poet Eleanor Brandon dies, an apparent suicide, Peter Forrest, her former student, sometime lover and now a married professor, is asked to be her literary executor. He agrees, although he makes it clear that he is only...
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Auteur:Kaufman. ThomasSommaire:Willis Gidney was a born liar and rip-off artist until he met Captain Shadrack Davies and learnt just enough ethics to bother a kid from the streets. Now Gidney is a PI and when a friend asks him to find his daughter feels compelled to...
- Auteur:Whitehead, ColsonSommaire:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. A Best Book...
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Auteur:Batten, JackSommaire:Cause a "poker face" ain't just a song by Lady Gaga. Crang is a criminal lawyer. He loves jazz, old movies, Polish vodka, his Volkswagen convertible and his girlfriend Annie, not necessarily in that order. A wise-cracking WASP with a...
- Auteur:Lemaitre, PierreSommaire:
Février 1927. Le Tout-Paris assiste aux obsèques de Marcel Péricourt. Sa fille, Madeleine, doit prendre la tête de l'empire financier dont elle est l'héritière, mais le destin en décide autrement. Son fils, Paul, d'un geste...
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Auteur:Gay, RoxaneSommaire:The story of Mireille Duval Jameson, a rich and self-assured Haitian woman kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men who intend to hold her until her unwilling father pays up.
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Auteur:Trinetti, Paul A.Sommaire:A cop. An ex-FBI agent turned private eye. His contact within the Bureau. An anti-capitalist activist. A shady financier and his right-hand man. A biker gang. The brother of a murdered woman, seeking vengeance. A software program that...
- Auteur:Jean-Louis MorganSommaire:
Années 1950. Tout juste remis d'une impossible histoire d'amour, Eric Sanscartier est banni de la Rive-Sud par l'influent bandit qui l'employait. Le jeune journaliste parvient à survivre de peine et de misère à...
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