Le temps presse, un tueur en série au mode opératoire bien rôdé est sur le point de frapper à nouveau... La brigade du 36 Quai des Orfèvres pourra-t-elle résoudre ce mystère et s'en sortir indemne ? Dans le manoir Taillandier, au cœur de la forêt de Rambouillet, une soirée libertine vire à la catastrophe : le corps sans vie d'une jeune femme est retrouvé, le visage mutilé. Le tueur s'est évanoui dans la nature et aucun indice à proximité de la victime. Michel Darros, capitaine en charge de la fameuse brigade du 36 Quai des Orfèvres est mis sur le coup. Il peut compter sur le soutien d'une équipe tant hétéroclite qu'espiègle, notamment Mina Taoline, dit Tao, une jeune lieutenante désireuse de faire ses preuves. Darros et son équipe doivent être méticuleux et surtout rapides : le meurtrier a une autre victime en ligne de mire... Un roman sombre enveloppé d'une atmosphère angoissante et lugubre qui saura tenir en haleine les plus grands lecteurs de Franck Thilliez.
The Allied landings on the coast of "Normandy" have assumed legendary status. But overly romanticizing D-day, Wieviorka argues, losses sight of the full picture. "Normandy" offers a balanced, complete account that reveals the successes and weaknesses of the titanic enterprise.
African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic strategies, as well as the emergence of a post-colonial popular cinema. Drawing on more than 1,500 articles, reviews, and interviews written over the past fifteen years, Olivier Barlet identifies the critical questions brought about by the evolution of African cinema. In the process, he offers us a personal and passionate vision, making this book an indispensable sum of thought that challenges preconceived ideas and enriches an approach to cinema as a critical art.
This biography is the first comprehensive volume to delve into the life, scholarship, writing, and hobbies of the famed doctor, for whom Tourette's Syndrome is named. In Part One, we learn Georges' family history, follow his schooling and mentorship under Charcot, travel to the World's Fair of 1900, and evade an attempted assassination, all before succumbing to death by syphilis. Part Two provides an in-depth analysis of his neurological and psychiatric works, notably the eponymous neurological disorder that will forever remain "Tourette's Syndrome." Part Three looks at the lighter side of Georges, inspecting his favorite past-times as poet, historian, and art critic. Part Four brings an extensive bibliography of Georges' complete body of work.
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