Kim's group, still stranded halfway across Antares, must get back to the base camp through a journey filled with deadly encounters. Meanwhile, at the base camp, a trip to the neighbouring planet-source of the strange ray that vaporised Kim's daughter-is being organised. The prospect of meeting an intelligent species, though, drives the religious fanatics in charge to clamp down on any person or activity deemed rebellious. As if a hostile world isn't enough, the colonists have brought their own worst enemy with them...
Kim's mission to the other Antares planet - the one from which came the mysterious beam that took her daughter - is underway, and the young woman desperately wants to believe she will find her missing child. One amongst her team has no shortage of faith, though: the insufferable Jedediah Thornton is convinced they are going to meet an advanced alien civilisation. And he will stop at nothing to ensure humanity's representative is a man of proper morals...
A Puerto Blanco, la vie continue. Le capitaine Flynn est mort, assassiné par son ennemi juré. Emilio pleure un mentor et un amant, mais il peut compter sur l'amitié inattendue de Maria et Raffy. Les trois enfants débarqués du Barracuda se sont trouvés, mais les dangers abondent : De La Loya et ses espagnols ; Ferrango, le mari cocu de Maria ; l'assassin de Flynn ; une empoisonneuse jalouse. et un diamant maudit porteur de folie et de mort !
Following the Kuala Lumpur incidents, which almost prevented the Human-Sandjarr reconciliation ceremony from being held, the situation on Earth is increasingly tense. The mood has turned ugly, resulting in attacks against aliens and assassinations of isolationist personalities. Meanwhile, the circles of Confederate powers are afire with political manoeuvring, and Mezoke is on trial for high treason, a convenient scapegoat. But when the judges request that Caleb be brought out of his regenerative coma to testify, the Sandjarr agent's loyalty is put to the test...
Dans un futur pas si lointain, où la société a bien changé mais les problèmes sont souvent les mêmes, une jeune policière de Paris se trouve entraînée dans une enquête difficile et dangereuse, où se joue peut-être l'avenir de l'humanité.
Roger, le frère de Romane, a été transféré dans un laboratoire d'Algapower au Brésil. Peu de temps après, sa soeur, qui travaille toujours pour les services secrets, arrive à Rio. Sa nouvelle mission: prendre contact avec son frère et le convaincre de livrer aux autorités des informations sur la compagnie et le mystérieux Mermaid Project. Les enjeux ont changé pour les enfants Pennac, cela dit, car parmi les documents récupérés durant la mission à New York, leurs noms apparaissaient dans une liste de cobayes potentiels...
Découvrez la face cachée des personnages de XIII, la série culte racontant la quête d'un amnésique pour retrouver son identité. Troisième tome.
Chicago, années 70. La vie n'est pas tendre envers des orphelins sans domicile - et encore moins s'ils sont noirs. Little Jones, 10 ans, ne connait même pas son véritable prénom. Tout ce qu'elle a, c'est un frère qui flirte avec les Black Panthers, une bonne dose d'intelligence et de détermination, et un rêve : un jour, elle s'engagera dans l'armée. Une rencontre fortuite avec le Major Whittaker, héros de guerre, va changer sa vie pour toujours ...
1919. Colonel Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - has an unpleasant meeting with an MI5 agent who confiscates his manuscript of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 35 years later, Oxford is shaken by a series of burglaries at the Ashmolean Museum, at the same time as Blake learns of the death of an old friend. The captain begins an investigation, while Mortimer looks into the thefts. But what dark connection does all of this have with Lawrence or Blake's own past?
Correspond au tome 21 français: Le serment des Lords
The captain and the professor have finally made it to the secret base with the Swordfish blueprints, and construction has begun on the extraordinary machines. Olrik hasn't had his last word, though, and he is ready to take tremendous risks to locate the world's last bastion of resistance and freedom. A race against time is on between Imperial forces on one side and Mortimer's teams of engineers on the other... The fate of civilisation is at stake.
Correspond au tome 3 français: Le secret de l'Espadon t.3
The Neptune is gone, stolen by the Indian guide Moc, or maybe by Guiana-Capac's malevolent gods. The last members of the ill-fated expedition-Silver, Dantzig, Livesey and Bonnet-are stranded in the ancient city. Far from being broken, however, they will face head-on what lies inside the gargantuan ruin, each for his own reasons: revenge, duty, gold... or to rescue the beautiful Lady Hastings. For Moc isn't done with them, and he has plans for Vivian.
Les enfants se sont organisés, s'adaptant à leur nouvelle existence dans une cité abandonnée. Tandis qu'ils préparent une expédition vers les villes voisines pour se rendre compte de l'étendue du phénomène qui a fait disparaître tout le monde, ils rencontrent et font face aux nombreux problèmes que pose la vie sans adultes. Mais quand un jour une grande silhouette bardée de couteaux leur apparaît, leur rêve de ne plus être seuls tourne au cauchemar.
Ivan, Leila, Camille, Terry, Dodzi. Cinq enfants qui ne se connaissent pas, qui vivent des vies très différentes dans une ville normale. Et puis un jour, ils se réveillent chacun dans leur maison vide, puis errent dans une cité désertée. Plus d'adultes, pas d'autres enfants; juste eux cinq qui finissent par se rencontrer et sont forcés de faire corps pour affronter les inévitables questions - et les dangers d'une ville moderne soudainement vidée de ses habitants.
Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait croire, même le très martial Sergent Chesterfield n'a pas toujours porté l'uniforme bleu de l'Union. Lui tout autant que Blutch étaient civils au début de la guerre - respectivement garçon boucher et barman. Alors comment se sont ils retrouvés dans le 22ème de Cavalerie ? Et bien, imaginez un recruteur peu scrupuleux, beaucoup d'alcool, une jeune femme trop entreprenante ... et une certaine aversion pour l'infanterie !
It is time at last for Thorgal to return to his family. However, Aaricia is not staying idle after her rescue by Jolan, and tries to put together a fleet to attack Shaigan's stronghold - unaware that her husband is no longer the dreaded pirate lord. By the time the two find themselves on their own island again, Aaricia is disinclined to simply forgive everything, and locks Thorgal up in a cage while she makes up her mind about him.
Largo is stuck on a boat with Silky. But this isn't the end of a James Bond story: the vessel's a container ship that belongs to Winch's enemy, a Georgian arms dealer who seems to be behind all the billionaire's current problems. And the crew are armed and trigger-happy... Not entirely surprising, since this time the plot is not just about money - it's also very personal! Poor Largo; things were so much simpler before he stopped being an orphan...
A trip to Africa turns into an unusual kind of safari for our reporter friends.
Spirou and Fantasio, during a daring night investigation, encounter a wounded man who is running from mysterious men. He claims they bombed an automobile factory to steal the plans of a highly advanced prototype, and that he took half of the plans and ran. Having sworn to take the documents back to their owner-who has the other half-the two adventurers are soon on their way to Africa. But of course, the bandits are in hot pursuit.
Correspond au tome 6 français: La corne de rhinocéros
An old seaplane skims the waves over the Pacific. Onboard are Vito Cortizone, former Don of the New York Mafia forced into early retirement by Spirou and Fantasio; Von Schnabbel, unscrupulous pilot; and a mysterious cargo supposed to turn Cortizone's fortunes around. But the mafioso is cursed with terrible luck, and the plane ends up at the bottom of an isolated island's lagoon. When two months later a sailing boat arrives, an unrecognisable Vito sees none other than our two adventurer-reporters come ashore!
Little Thunder answers a mysterious call and sets off on a quest-alone.
Little Thunder is quite an astounding pony, and he and Yakari truly are the best of friends. So when upon waking up one morning, he discovers that his mount has left the village, the young Sioux boy is devastated. He tries to find his friend, but is forced to give up as the trail grows cold: whatever it is that drives Little Thunder, he's heading due south as fast as he can. What is it that calls out to him?
Emilio, a young servant disguised as a woman to escape the pirates' blood thirst. Maria, daughter of a Spanish grandee, captured by the same pirates. Raffy, son of Captain Blackdog of the pirate ship Barracuda. All three of them taken to Puerto Blanco, all three of them left behind when the Barracuda leaves to seek a fabulous diamond. What twisted fates await them on the island, amidst the various groups that vie for dominance there?
Billy's family is a perfectly normal one. Dad, Mom, some cousins, a tortoise... and of course the best dog in the world, Buddy! Oh, true, the cocker spaniel is too smart for everyone's good sometimes, and occasionally triggers disasters or raids the fridge. But that's a small price to pay for a loyal companion who'll always be there to cheer you up and give you a good laugh!
He was XIII's most dogged enemy from the start, but who really was the Mongoose, that mysterious assassin-for-hire who nearly killed the amnesiac hero so many times? During an encounter between him and Kim Rowland - an event that took place just before the start of the XIII series - the merciless hitman tells the story of his childhood and how he became a contract killer. 'Anyone would have in my circumstances', he claims. But would they? You be the judge.
Maintenant que sa mère a épousé le ténébreux Lord Blackmore, Siobhán, dernière héritière des rois de Sudenne, est censée être à l'abri de l'hostilité du mage qui règne sur le pays. Mais trop de mystères demeurent, et la terre elle-même réclame justice et que résonne la Complainte des Landes Perdues. La jeune fille parviendra t'elle à venger son père et vaincre le mal - et à quel prix ?
One by one, the Pope's warrior monks fall to the Scorpion's blade or desert their master. Feeling his enemy circling ever closer, Trebaldi grows desperate and hires Rome's best paid assassins to go after him-and whomever else stands in his way. As the women in his life choose their destinies, an old enemy reappears to plague the Scorpion... or perhaps to bring him the truth at last, hidden behind his mask.
Fresh from his old pilot Freddy's wedding, Largo is back in New York for more celebrating - the departure of one of his employees. But during the party, a Turkish national permanently retires Sir Basil with a couple of bullets. Shortly thereafter, the shooter himself is killed by a sniper before he's had a chance to say a word. When the FBI finally gets involved, they come with accusations of gun trafficking and hiring assassins... Accusations levelled at Largo himself!
Someone is intent on making XIII's life «interesting» again.
After all his adventures across the American continent, after defeating his many enemies, XIII is trying to live a simple life in the house he inherited, where it all started. It's not always easy-not everyone is happy to have such an infamous man in the area, and his skills are in high demand with some people of varying integrity. His memories are still locked away, too, and some people want to keep it that way.
