The stock market crash in '29 and the Dust Bowl left us with nothing, out on the streets, our youth our only asset. We were to reduced to wandering from place to place- no work, no future. What we were yet to realize, was that our only hope of saving our skins would be to risk our lives.
Seconde édition latine pour la série Murena de Dufaux et Delaby. C'est un retour aux sources grâce au travail de Claude Aziza, professeur à l'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelles, Paris III. En plus d'une version latine, l'album est enrichi d'un dossier évoquant l'époque dans laquelle se situe la série. Une édition avec une couverture inédite à ne pas manquer !
Rome the beautiful is dying, the symbol of civilization falling, the empire burning. Hidden from massacres and looting, a strange meeting is held by nine families who share the Roman Empire. To retain their power, they decide to support a new religion-Christianity-as well as its representative, the pope. But who are these 9 mysterious families?
Later, much later, it's the Renaissance. Christianity prospers. A brigand called «the Scorpion» makes a living by unearthing relics in the depths of the Roman catacombs, which he sells at high prices to princes and bishops. Trebaldi, a powerful cardinal, takes an interest in this Scorpion, who is either a creature of the devil... or a witness to a cursed era who must disappear .
This two-volume book includes «The Pope's Secret »
Mai 54, Rome, midi. Il fait une chaleur torride sur l'arène et les quelques gladiateurs survivants qui essaient encore de s'entretuer n'amusent plus personne, sauf l'empereur Claude, affalé dans les gradins déserts, avide d'entendre le dernier râle du dernier combattant. En dehors de l'arène, la vie est aussi féroce. Tout le monde veut le pouvoir, tout le monde est prêt à tuer pour l'obtenir. Agrippine, par exemple, seconde femme de Claude et mère de Néron, est en train de faire fabriquer un poison pour son cher époux : maintenant qu'il a reconnu son fils, il peut disparaître et lui laisser le trône. D'ailleurs, il faut faire vite : Claude parle de la répudier et d'épouser la femme qu'il aime, Lolia Paulina, mère de Lucius Murena. Evidemment, dans le colimateur d'Agrippine, la pauvre Lolia n'a aucune chance. Quant à Claude, il mourra empoisonné et son fils Britannicus sera écarté du pouvoir au profit de Néron. Voilà l'histoire de Rome telle qu'on nous la raconte dans les manuels scolaires, à ceci près qu'elle prend ici un relief surprenant : sanglante et crapuleuse, elle n'est que superstitions, trahisons, terreur et violence.
Betrayed by the beautiful Ansea Latal, the Scorpion has been captured by the Turks. But he cannot afford to tarry: Rochnan and his monks are close on his tail, Ansea is on her way to Cappadocia to find the true cross of Saint Peter, and, back in Rome, Trebaldi is preparing his reign of terror. As a prisoner or a fugitive, alone or in the reluctant company of people who have sworn his death, the Scorpion will have to reach Karabas before the agents of the Nine Families and discover the truth hidden deep inside the Holy Valley.
Poursuivi par la police Ottomane, laissé pour mort par Rochnan, le Scorpion est contraint à des alliances déplaisantes afin de poursuivre sa quête. Sur le chemin P de la Terre Sainte, l'aventurier dénoue petit à petit les secrets des Templiers. Mais tandis que les loyautés changent ou se créent, une confrontation se dessine, et ce sera dans l'ombre d'une croix inversée qu'une vérité oubliée refera surface,capable de détruire le pouvoir de Trebaldi
The Stone Cross: The Scorpion, whose mother Cardinal Trebaldi burnt at the stake for loving a man of the cloth, discovers that his father was the murdered Pope himself. When Trebaldi addresses a huge crowd at the end of the mourning period, the Scorpion is there to tell the truth about how the people's beloved Pope died.
The Devil in the Vatican: Trebaldi claims that the sacred cross of St Peter miraculously appeared in his castle. The Scorpion must find the real cross if he is to prove Trebaldi's treachery.
One by one, the Pope's warrior monks fall to the Scorpion's blade or desert their master. Feeling his enemy circling ever closer, Trebaldi grows desperate and hires Rome's best paid assassins to go after him-and whomever else stands in his way. As the women in his life choose their destinies, an old enemy reappears to plague the Scorpion... or perhaps to bring him the truth at last, hidden behind his mask.
Irak 2006, seconde guerre du golfe, une section de la 1st Marine Division dirigée par le sergent Berenski, avec sous ses ordres le caporal Chavez, se retrouve à assister un agent de la CIA dans sa traque d'un chef djihadiste.
The mysterious scarred man who was dogging the Scorpion's footsteps took him away from his confrontation with Trebaldi, promising to take him to his father. Forced to follow but eager to know at last, Armando doesn't resist. Meanwhile, the Pope resorts to desperate measures to make up his monks' losses. Old enemies, new ones... Conspiracies and lies... Fifteen centuries of conflicts and plots come to a head as the truth is revealed at last, shattering all certainties and leaving many dead...
Jean-Baptiste Poulain comes to Auvergne in central France to investigate the deaths of two young women. Both were killed one year apart in the same barbaric, ritual way, their bodies left near the Black Virgin Chapel ... and the day approaches when another victim could turn up. Unfortunately, he's going to have to struggle against the locals' superstitions, the hostility of the authorities, and the hatred all seem to direct at the neighbouring gypsies.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
In his wake, a great many seafarers, spurred on by a lust for gold, glory, or just adventure, faced the immense ocean.
Such a man was Giovanni Verrazzano.
Sent by Francis I, King of France, to find the much talked about Northwest Passage, he was the first European to see and tread American land from North Carolina to Maine, including the site of present-day New York City, which he named «Land of Angoulême» in honor of his sovereign.
This book tells of his voyages.
After being kidnapped by Vance and subsequently escaping, Tess is now officially part of the investigative team alongside Agent Reilly. But despite the constant danger of the lurking assassins who have already nearly killed her once, the young woman refuses to play a passive role. Her research will take her far from New York, under the protection of Sean Reilly - who is about to face a terrible crisis of faith.
The investigation onto the museum raid continues, but it's a difficult one. One of the four 'knights' has already died in his - guarded - hospital room, and FBI Agent Reilly is unknowingly engaged in a race to find the other thieves before the mysterious assassins trying to eliminate them. Meanwhile, young archaeologist Tess Chaykin is following up the Templar lead - one that the FBI considers too far-fetched to be worth looking into...
Reilly a retrouvé la trace du faux professeur Sharafi en Turquie. Mais l'homme est retors, et parvient non seulement à s'échapper, mais aussi à re-capturer Tess. Une course-poursuite s'engage dans les collines de Cappadoce, l'agent du FBI poursuivant son ennemi tandis que Tess, pour survivre, fait de son mieux pour remonter la piste de Conrad le Templier et du mystérieux et maléfique trésor qu'il protégeait - celui dont tant de gens pensent qu'il est une menace pour la Chrétienté toute entière...
1941. Pratiquement toute l'Europe est sous la coupe des Nazis. L'Angleterre tient toujours bon, mais sa situation empire de jour en jour. Et en Afrique du Nord, porte ouverte sur le Moyen Orient et ses réserves de pétrole, Rommel menace désormais l'Egypte, clé de la défense britannique. C'est dans ce contexte que David Stirling, Blair Mayne et 'Jock' Lewes, trois officiers aux méthodes inhabituelles, s'associent pour créer une petite unité d'élite qui deviendra une véritable légende militaire : les SAS.
Tess has gone with Vance to look for the Falcon Temple and its precious cargo, convinced that truth must prevail. Meanwhile, the Church persuades Sean to help them keep that truth hidden - at any cost. On the dark waters of the Mediterranean, in a storm so fierce it could be the very wrath of God, a merciless battle will take place for the future of the Christian faith...
