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The Black Berets had to hand it to Parkes, their former CIA case officer. First he’d sent them on a suicide mission to Vietnam. Then he’d sent some CIA hitmen to finish them off when the enemy couldn’t. And the moment they set foot stateside, the world’s meanest mercenaries found that Parkes had arranged another lethal welcome. Well, they’d never liked Parkes much. But how were they going to tell him? First they had to find him, and that would take Beeker, Rosie, Cowboy, Harry, and Marty, from the bayous of Louisiana to an academy of terror in the Libyan desert.

Tel un organisme vivant, le clan Caskey se développe et se transforme. Certains font face à la mort, d'autres accueillent la vie. Entre rapprochements inattendus, haines sourdes et séparations inévitables, les relations évoluent. Miriam, désormais à la tête de la scierie et noyau dur de la famille, ne cesse de faire croître la richesse. Suite à une découverte surprenante et miraculeuse – sauf pour une personne –, c'est bientôt la ville entière qui va prospérer. Mais cette soudaine fortune suffira-t-elle, alors que la nature commence à réclamer son dû ?

1928 à Perdido. Alors que le clan Caskey se déchire dans la guerre intestine et sans merci que se livrent Mary-Love et sa belle-fille, et tandis que d'autres crises - conjugales, économiques, existentielles - aux répercussions défiant l'imagination se profilent, dans les recoins sombres de la maison d'Elinor, la plus grande de la ville, les mauvais souvenirs rôdent et tissent, implacables, leurs toiles mortelles.

Pâques 1919, alors que les flots menaçant Perdido submergent cette petite ville du nord de l'Alabama, un clan de riches propriétaires terriens, les Caskey, doivent faire face aux avaries de leurs scieries, à la perte de leur bois et aux incalculables dégâts provoqués par l'implacable crue de la rivière Blackwater.

Tandis que la ville se remet à peine d'une crue dévastatrice, le chantier d'une digue censée la protéger charrie son lot de conséquences : main d'œuvre incontrôlable, courants capricieux, disparitions inquiétantes.

Pendant ce temps, dans le clan Caskey, Mary-Love, la matriarche, voit ses machinations se heurter à celles d'Elinor, son étrange belle-fille, mais la lutte ne fait que commencer.

Si le clan Caskey accuse le poids des ans, il est loin de s'être assagi : révélations écrasantes, unions insolites et réceptions fastueuses rythment leur vie dans une insouciance bienheureuse. Mais quelque chose surplombe Perdido, ses habitants et ses rivières. Le temps des prophéties est enfin venu.

Une nouvelle ère s'ouvre pour le clan Caskey : les années d'acharnement d'Elinor vont enfin porter leurs fruits ; les ennemies d'hier sont sur le point de devenir les amies de demain ; et des changements surgissent d'où personne ne les attendait. Le conflit en Europe a fait affluer du sang neuf jusqu'à Perdido. Désormais les hommes vont et viennent comme des marionnettes sur la propriété des Caskey, sans se douter que, peut-être, leur vie ne tient qu'à un fil.

"But come back soon", the sign said. Obviously it was a lie. The people in the grocery store just wanted to make sure he couldn't buy the spice he needed to make the recipe he'd selected for that night (recipes must be followed exactly). Obviously they wanted him to eat out...to meet the waitress, Marta, to see her horrible, unspeakable, unbearable ugliness. It was obvious to him: her maimed, twisted face was the living desire to be dead. He had to help Marta be dead.

When Philo Drax receives a letter from her wealthy grandfather saying he fears for his life at the hands of the vicious Slape family, she rushes to the rescue. But too late! Katie Slape, a monstrous girl with psychic powers and a penchant for smashing skulls with her hammer, has already finished him off and gotten hold of his cash.

Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: 14-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law. But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror.

It is a time of tranquility for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. But the peace is short-lived. A restless Luke must journey to his mother's...

In the wake of a shattered alliance, the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestselling Star Wars saga... Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate...

As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld, destroyed by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more...

When her daddy is tortured and murdered by two women with no discernible motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There, another woman awaits their presence, a woman who knows what Calley is and who seeks to control her. For Calley is no ordinary little girl.

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl. Everything except the Brookline mansion and the multi-million dollar trust fund left to the three children. But what wicked stepmother couldn't get rid of three children?

Dall’autore della fortunata saga Blackwater, un altro romanzo impossibile da interrompere. Alla fine del XIX secolo, nel cuore del famigerato Triangolo Nero, una ricca famiglia cerca di affermarsi pretendendo di liberare la città dalla corruzione. Gli Stallworth, guidati con pugno di ferro dal loro patriarca, l’influente e implacabile giudice James Stallworth, coadiuvato dal figlio Edward, predicatore dai sermoni incendiari, e dal genero Duncan Phair, giovane avvocato dalla carriera promettente, hanno un piano impeccabile: estirpare il male annientando una famiglia di corrotti e criminali: gli Shanks.

Benvenuti a Babylon, una tipica e sonnolenta cittadina del sud, dove anni prima la famiglia Larkin ha subito una terribile tragedia. Ora stanno per subirne un'altra: la quattordicenne Margaret Larkin verrà derubata della sua innocenza e della sua vita da un assassino al di là della legge. Ma a Babylon sta accadendo qualcosa di strano: i semafori lampeggiano di un blu inquietante, una mano spettrale scivola fuori dallo scarico di un lavello da cucina, le tombe eruttano dal cimitero locale... E sotto la superficie torbida del fiume, un'entità mutevole, quasi umana, prende lentamente forma.

Alabama, 1958. A família Caskey, mais rica e poderosa do que jamais imaginou, vive cercada por festas luxuosas e recepções elegantes. Mas o passado não foi esquecido e uma presença sombria ameaça a cidade de Perdido. Neste eletrizante desfecho da saga, os Caskeys pagarão o preço de suas escolhas e uma profecia finalmente se cumprirá.

Die Blackwater-Saga gilt als eine der besten unheimlichen Erzählungen aller Zeiten. Ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko. Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von Michael McDowell) dazu inspirierte, The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen. Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the gothic horror phenomenon that is sweeping across Europe, with over 2 million copies sold As the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys - a family of rich landowners - must confront...