Still with Annika, Jason McLane has the documents his godfather left for him to find in the Netherlands deciphered. Once translated, the text offers revelations of breathtaking importance – enough to change the geopolitical map for ever. But the killers sent by the Mayflower Foundation are still after them, while in Afghanistan, Jones and Carrington’s situation goes from bad to worse. XIII will have to be on his best game to sort it all out – but at what price?
Jolan, having triumphed in the trials set by his new master Manthor, is now the Chosen One. At last his true mission is revealed: no less than storming Asgard in order to restore the immortality of Manthor’s mother, a goddess who was cast out! While he leads his army of rag dolls to the realm of the gods, Thorgal follows the trail of the Red Mages who kidnapped his other son, Aniel, the child he had with Kriss of Valnor.
Vince is still wondering why and how his brother, believed dead for the last ten years, has ended up (very much alive) aboard the yacht of the directors of the New Temple. Entrusted with the mission of finding out the nature of Cardinal Di Origio's dealings with the secret society, the keeper finds himself confronting one of the most sinister pages in the history of the church! But will he win this fight with weapons? Or with forgiveness...?
Vince's latest mission takes him to Malta. His job is to ensure the safety of the archeologists and art buyers for the Vatican. His daring and efficiency have won him many a great success, and some renown in his sector. And now he's being offered a promotion. From now on, he'll be part one of the Janitores, otherwise known as "The Keepers". The Keepers are an elite group created by the secret services of the pontifical state, who's life work is to protect the Vatican from those members who might give in to temptation. And so a new life begins...
XIII is hiding in France at the Préseaus, after a past more nebulous he even believed possible caught up to him again. But the organisation that’s after him hasn’t said its last word, and has considerable means at its disposal. It lures Jones, on duty in Afghanistan, into a terrible ambush, for the sole purpose of serving as bait for the amnesiac – who immediately rushes to her rescue. Meanwhile, Betty Barnowsky-Préseau is off to Maine to dig into XIII’s past...
Several months after their adventures in Antarctica, Blake and Mortimer are back in England. Still somewhat shaken after his ordeal, the professor is ordered by his doctor to get some rest. In typical Mortimer fashion, he decides to spend his holidays in Africa... looking for a lost civilisation! Accompanied by Nastasia Wardynska and an old flame of his, he begins tracking down a culture that is older than any ever recorded—but someone is dogging their every step...
The agents of the organisation that was hunting for XIII have finally captured him, along with his friends, but he’s still refusing his captors’ job offer. Forced to give in after they commit an appalling act just to coerce him, he’s discreetly brought back to the USA, where he finally learns what they’re really after. Meanwhile, Betty Barnowsky continues her own investigation under the FBI’s very noses. For both of them, the road leads, once again, to Green Falls...
While Jolan and his companions finally learn from Manthor what their grand destiny will be, Thorgal is still on the trail of the men who kidnapped his other son, Aniel. Along with jolly mercenary Petrov, he sails down a frozen river aboard a Blade Ship – a trade vessel equipped with heavy metal blades to break the ice. The journey is fraught with dangers – storms, raiders, spies, wild animals ... and a group of shipwrecked Vikings looking for a mysterious chest ...
The time has come for the great battle. The armies of Emperor Magnus have marched from the south, bent on forcefully converting all Vikings to the worship of their unique god – or to exterminate them. Facing them, the combined forces of Kriss and her new husband, King Taljar – none other than Jolan! The survival of the Northmen will rest on their courage, their loyalty, and the powers of their king and his lieutenants – as well as their queen’s personal bravery.
Philip Mortimer spent his youth in the land of the Maharajas. He loves India, but his last visit there did not end well. Now, many years later, the famous Professor Mortimer is in charge of the British pavilion at the Brussels Universal Exposition. When strange phenomena begin disrupting preparations, Mortimer and his friend Blake set off on a trail that will take them to the sixth continent—to confront an old and unexpected enemy.
1843, Paris. A sensational trial stuns the art world and has the streets of the capital buzzing. Is the famous art dealer Daniel Northbrook nothing but a swindler? Count Skarbek, a rich Polish businessman, will do everything he can to prove it, revealing a sensational tale of love, hatred, passion, and revenge. A gripping thriller in the vein of the great popular fiction by Hugo and Dumas. Includes a new preface from scriptwriter Yves Sente and exclusive extra content from artist Grzegorz Rosinski (for mature readers only).
Of all the enemies Thorgal made in his life, Kriss of Valnor is by far the fiercest. Strangely, she’s also, one of the most ambiguous, and the mother of one of his children. Can there still be redemption for her? Kriss sacrificed herself to save not only her son Aniel, but also Aaricia and her family. An act of selfless bravery for which she’s rewarded with waking up in the kingdom of the gods. Yet Valhalla isn’t hers yet, for she’s also committed numerous terrible and despicable acts throughout her life. She is brought before the Valkyrie Tribunal, to have her life judged by the goddess Freyja. And the childhood she is asked to recount was a most unhappy one ...
The Valkyries have passed judgement: Kriss of Valnor has been sent back to Midgard, free to live a new life better than the first – she cannot kill anyone or anything, or she herself will die immediately. Befriended by Hildebrun, daughter of King Gustavson, she suddenly finds herself in the midst of intense political scheming, caught between the threat of Emperor Magnus, invader from the south, and a new, mysterious healer-king who’s trying to unite the Vikings ...
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?
A Soviet rocket falls back to Earth carrying deadly bacteria. KGB Professor Voronov turns the extraterrestrial threat into a terrifying weapon that could be used to devastate the Western world–but he doesn’t take into account the vigilance of Her Majesty’s intelligence services. Soon, Blake and Mortimer are drawn into a lethal, shadowy war, from Moscow to London, where the stakes are no less than international peace and the real enemy may not be so obvious.
Blake, Mortimer and Nasir are en route to Antarctica, hoping to locate Olrik and his Indian and KGB allies and to stop his attack on the Brussels Universal Exposition. Little do they know that their old adversary isn’t the one in charge this time. In the frozen wasteland of the sixth continent, Mortimer will be reunited with an old acquaintance and solve the enigma of his younger days—at a terrible price.
Mortimer is brought to the camp of General Li Hsi, the Chinese warlord, where he is reunited with a seriously injured Nasir. The professor was kidnapped in order to recover the archaeological proof of the general’s imperial lineage, but also to repair the Red Wing, a formidable combat aircraft Olrik unwittingly delivered. While Blake moves heaven and earth to find him and protect Hong Kong, Mortimer escapes to go in search of the only thing that can save Nasir: a legendary pearl ...
Vince is a member of the Roman Catholic's intelligence service. He's recently discovered that a powerful organization, 'The New Temple,' is trying to infiltrate the curia. But why? The handsome Vince is on the trail of the assassins who stole the computer of a priest photographer who was a little too curious for his own good - the computer that will allow them to hack into 'Cognitio,' the powerful search engine used by Vatican intelligence agencies...
Vatican secret agent Vincent, aka The Keeper, travels to a Mexican island to track down members of The Order of the New Temple, a powerful organization with sinister plans to manipulate the world stage. As he fights off killers and crocodiles in the Caribbean mangroves with the help of a local priest and discourages assistance from a group of vigilantes hunting down war criminals, Vince makes some unsettling discoveries in the research lab run by modern-day Nazis and uncovers a dark secret about his own past.
After the icy North, Thorgal and his companions now face the oppressive heat of the Middle East. On the road to Bag Dadh, the reluctant hero has got dangerously close to the bewitching Saluma, who tells him the story of the Red Mages – the very same who kidnapped his son Aniel. It doesn’t take long for Thorgal to realise that he isn’t mixed up in a simple crime, but rather in political machinations that could determine the future of the entire, sprawling megalopolis!
In Venice, a boating accident leads to the discovery of a 400 year old text bearing the signature ‘W.S.’ and promising the truth about the ‘Shakespeare mystery’. That very night, someone tries unsuccessfully to steal the precious document. The discoverer, Marquis Stefano Da Spiri, decides to send a copy of the document to a specialist of the Bard in London for stylistic authentication. As for the original, he entrusts it to an old comrade in arms from WW2: Captain Francis Blake...
Jason McLane – XIII – has just taken a shot at the pope during an official visit to Washington DC. If he hadn’t, two innocent hostages would have paid the price. Granted, General Wolf’s orders were always to maintain his cover at all costs, but the plans of the Mayflower conspirators – the same people that XIII was supposed to infiltrate but now control him through blackmail – are appallingly more complex and dangerous than just this assassination attempt. American democracy itself is in danger ...
Still appearing before Freyja at the Valkyrie tribunal, Kriss continues to tell the story of her life before Thorgal. Following her tragic first meeting with Sigwald, the young woman’s existence changed considerably. Now free and independent, the former victim quickly became the bully, allowing her worst instincts to rule her. Until, one day, her past caught up with her, and her horrific revenge turned out to have serious consequences – including for Freyja’s final judgement ...
After the terrible attack on the Capitol, the Mayflower Foundation, now under the sole leadership of Janet Fitzsimmons, succeeded in taking over the US government. As for Jason McLane, he has become a puppet controlled electronically by Janet – and is now also her husband, as well as one of the new president’s closest advisors. When XIII goes to Cuba in order to covertly spring a Russian hacker from prison, he has no idea his past will once again come back to haunt him ...
A large-scale account of Conrad's extensive involvement with the French literary tradition, Yves Hervouet's book is a milestone in our understanding of his work. It will have a major impact on Conrad scholarship and as a study of cross-cultural influence, it will be of interest to all students of comparative literature in the period.
The context of this second volume by Professor Duval is the trinitarian controversies of the later 4th century. His work presents a detailed analysis of the 'reconquest' of Northan Italy and Illyricum from the homeist dogmas put in place by Constans II and affirmed by the Council of Rimini in 359-60. Milan occupies a central place, first as a bastion of Arianism, then as the see of Ambrose, who eventually oversaw the victory of orthodoxy; as these studies show, the process was not straightforward, and even after the Council of Aquileia in 381, remained imperilled by the turbulent politics of the Empire. The final item, hitherto unpublished, gives a critical account of some recent work on Ambrose.
mai 1968-2014. Souvenirs personnels et amitiés. Les avatars de la société du spectacle, son intégration et sa désintégration : le monde mafieux. Découvertes archéologiques et religions. Terroristes et pirates. Fin d'une civilisation et destruction du monde, quelques projets incertains pour pallier les dérives.Quelques autres points particuliers...
Missionnaires au quotidien à Tahiti immerses us in the everyday life of Catholic missionaries sent out to the Tahitian islands in the period 1834 to 1914. Using the correspondence of the 167 members of the order of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, an attempt is made to define the social and geographic origins of the Picpucian people. Priests and friars are followed in their education, from the apostolic school to the first Pacific vicariates. Right from the first days of established contact, we see the management of the day-to-day affairs of these eternal travellers, by turns vicars and planters, schoolmasters and builders. Within the framework of a very hierarchical ecclesiastical structure, we watch the elaboration of a social project that quickly extends beyond the bounds of a narrow theocracy. It is on this societal model that a large part of Polynesia rests today.
The best part of Christmas is getting to hear one of Uncle Paul's stories. This year, Uncle Paul treats the kids—and us—to the story of the real-life boy who inspired the beloved Spirou. It's 1929. Ptirou is a circus acrobat who, while the world's economy is crashing, sees his own world fall apart. Orphaned, and possessing only his skill, a bottle of perfume, and an inherited dream, Ptirou sets out for New York and new adventures. With saboteurs on one side, the lovely Juliette on the other, and his own knack for mischief, Ptirou finds adventure aboard an ocean liner before it's even left port.
Jason has managed to give his captors the slip, but he was forced to leave Betty behind, severely injured. After a short but tense episode dealing with the north-eastern mafia, he’s off to the next step in his quest: Leiden, Holland, from where half of the Mayflower expedition left, and where his godfather appears to live. But his enemies haven’t given up, and the young local guide he’s picked brings her own heap of troubles...
Paris, 1843. The incredible case brought by Count Skarbek against the rich art dealer Northbrook continues, with new revelations surging forth by the day. The judge seems to have decided in favor of Skarbek—alias Louis Paulus, the famous painter who disappeared more than a decade before—when yet another shockwave is sent through the courtroom, in the form of composer Frederic Chopin, who has his own take on this tale of murder and double-crossing.
Jason McLane, a.k.a. XIII, seems to have finally accepted his true destiny. Tired of fighting the powerful elite who control the world, he has apparently joined them. Of course, he supposedly did so on orders from General Wolf, so as to bring down the sinister Mayflower Foundation at last, but ... what if the temptation of power proved too strong? Janet Fitzsimmons, the Foundation’s president, too beautiful? Or the price of integrity too steep for him ... or his friends?
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...
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