David Harwood doit élucider un meurtre et un kidnapping, sur fond d'éléments troublants qui ont lieu dans sa ville natale de Promise Falls. Plongez dans cet incroyable thriller, signé Linwood Barclay, en VO intégrale avec des traductions en marge pour bien comprendre le texte original.
When the National Secruity Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fetcher, a brillant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers is being held hostage, not by guns or bumbs, but by a code so complex that it released would cripple US intelligence. Caught in a accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves...
Harry Pierce has just moved in to a new apartment but the first time he checks his phone messages he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages are for a woman named Lilly - and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, a nighttime world of escort services, websites, sex and secret identities. Every step Pierce takes leads him to abandon his own orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met, as he is faced with a decision that could cost him everything...
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to them. Perhaps they steal from a shop, perhaps they get angry and hit someone, perhaps they kill...