- Henry Thompson a la poisse. Ancienne star montante du baseball devenue barman suite à une blessure, il a plongé dans l'alcoolisme et vient de perdre un rein. En pleine convalescence, il accepte à contrecoeur de garder le chat de son voisin. Il ignore que le panier de l'animal abrite la clef d'un garde-meuble contenant des millions de dollars, et que la dite clef est activement recherchée par des mafiosi russes, des voyous soupe au lait et un flic véreux. Une chasse s'engage, où tous les coups sont permis, surtout, les plus bas...Attention, changement de titre : le roman est paru en grand format sous le titre Trop de mains dans le sac.
- Né à Oakland, Charlie Huston est écrivain et auteur de comics. Un temps barman, mordu de théâtre, il est entre autres l'auteur du Vampire de New-York (Seuil).
A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny.
"I absolutely loved it.
Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, hes all but squandered his reputation as one of the most uniquely talented thieves in LA. There arent many who can do what Sid does. Hes a
What LAPD cop Parker Hass wants is a world both safe and just for his wife and infant daughter. But then a plague of insomnia strikes. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial law and insurgency, Park is tasked with cutting off illegal trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected their precious sleep. After a year of lost leads, Park stumbles into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceutical giant behind Dreamer. Somewhere in those shadows a secret is hiding. Drawn into the inner circle of a tech guru with a warped agenda, Park delves deeper into the restless world. His wife has become sleepless, and their daughter may soon share the same fate. For them, he will risk everything. Whatever the cost to himself.
