Esta edición presenta una reproducción fiel del clásico de 1895, que sigue las peripecias de Hajji Baba, un personaje ingenioso y agudo que navega por la vida en Persia. La narrativa combina aventura, humor y perspectivas culturales, ofreciendo un retrato vívido de la sociedad iraní del siglo XIX. A través del viaje de Hajji Baba, los lectores se encuentran con un rico tapiz de experiencias, que muestra las complejidades de la identidad y el espíritu humano.
Traduit de l'américain par Robert Pépin Chaque année, à l'époque du solstice d'été, un dangereux maniaque, juché sur les toits de New York, fait tomber un bloc de béton sur les foules qui se pressent à la sortie des théâtres et des cinémas. Crimes parfaits, bien sûr. Pas de piste, pas de mobile apparent... Mooney, parfait prototype de gros flic, dur et débonnaire, absolument rebelle à la hiérarchie, mène l'enquête, dans une ville à l'aspect de bocal putride, parmi les obsédés de la pire espèce, les déchets les plus associaux qui hantent les bas-fonds de la mégalopole... Rarement suspense aura été plus violent et plus maîtrisé, les personnages plus fascinants, la vision d'un auteur de romans noirs plus précise, à l'instar des maîtres de l'après-guerre, de Goodis à McBaln, mais sans doute dans une dimension plus foisonnante, qui permet une plongée mémorable dans un univers en proie aux démons, au sang et à l'Ignominie. De la fin du livre, nous ne dirons rien, sinon ceci t à New York, rien ne se passe vraiment comme ailleurs. Quand un tueur disparaît, un autre reprend aussitôt sa place. L'horreur ne peut pas s'interrompre, ni la nuit des esprits, ni la peur de chacun.
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the Missing Persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case, but the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive.
Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her. Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and as a new father. He gets a call, too, from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. This fact alone makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious. And Harry Bosch is heading straight into the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered...
When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defense lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one - particularly since the DA's determination to re-charge and re-try him for the same crime seems doomed to failure. Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up, with the renewed prosecution merely a tactic to prevent Jessup from successfully suing the state and county for millions of dollars. To avoid humiliation, Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about Melissa Landy and what really happened to her all those years ago.
El abogado defensor Michael Haller siempre ha creído que sabría reconocer a un cliente inocente. Pero la defensa de Louis Roulet, un rico heredero detenido por el intento de asesinato de una prostituta, da un giro a la trayectoria del abogado. Por una parte, supone defender a alguien presuntamente inocente; por otra, implica unos ingresos desacostumbrados. Poco a poco, y gracias a la ayuda de Raul Levin (investigador con el que colabora habitualmente), Haller descubre cabos sueltos en el caso Roulet. «Ningún cliente asusta más que un hombre inocente», J. Michael Haller, abogado penalista.
The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary hold-up. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening.
Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed race girl. The police department has changed, but one thing hasn't - Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a 'retread'. He watches from the sidelines like an injured bear, hoping Harry will make a mistake ...
Tras dos años a la espera de un donante compatible, Terry McCaleb se recupera de un trasplante de corazón que le ha obligado a cambiar por completo de estilo de vida. Su única meta es reparar el velero en el que se ha retirado y dejar definitivamente atrás sus días como agente del FBI especializado en casos de asesinos en serie. Sin embargo, antes de empezar una nueva vida deberá zanjar un asunto pendiente: resolver el asesinato de Gloria Rivers, la mujer cuyo corazón late en su pecho.
Tras varios años en la cárcel, Cassie Black desea cerrar su historial delictivo para siempre y llevar una vida convencional. Trabaja en un concesionario de automóviles de Los Ángeles y nada parece enturbiar su plena reinserción hasta que un hecho inesperado le obliga a dar un golpe final y jugárselo todo a una carta. Para ello recurre a Leo Renfro, un amigo de los viejos tiempos que le propone participar en un gran robo en Las Vegas. A pesar de lo arriesgado del asunto, Cassie acepta convencida de que con su experiencia como ladrona de guante blanco logrará salir airosa de la operación. Supersticioso, Leo le da un último consejo: evitar realizar el trabajo durante la luna vacía de curso, una situación astral que puede torcer incluso el plan más perfecto.
'Death is my beat.' Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of The Poet, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting true crime, non-fiction pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist: 'On the day I arrived in Los Angeles I sat in the newspaper editor's office being interviewed for a job on the crime beat. The day before there had been a bank heist in which the thieves had gone into the city's labyrinthine storm water tunnel system to get beneath the bank before tunnelling upward.' Years later that story would become The Black Echo. 'Moments. They kept coming. One morning an editor called me and told me to swing by a murder scene on my way to the office. Just like that, like I was picking up a coffee on the way to work. The murder was on Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills. I went as instructed and got the story. I also got the place where I would put the home of the fictional detective [Harry Bosch] I had secretly begun writing about . . .' The cops, the killers, the cases - it's all here in a collection that is a MUST for Connelly fans.
