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A new breed of evil in Old New York New York, 1886: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation...

A new breed of evil in Old New York New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation...

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

Caleb Carr has lived with cats ever since he was a young boy. He grew up in a turbulent household – where famous Beat poets, artists and addicts came and went – and his steadiest companions were pets. Since then he had many feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he encounter someone extraordinary: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten and was languishing in a shelter.

The year is 2023, and much of the world enjoys great wealth generated by the triumph of information technology. However, the staphylococcus plague of 2006 wiped out 40 million people, and the 2020 assassination of American President Emily Forrester traumatized the nation. Through it all, the...

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

New York 1896: Unter Polizeichef Theodore Roosevelt kommt es zu einem grauenvollen Mord an einem jungen Prosituierten aus einem der berüchtigsten Bordelle der Stadt, der sich als Teil einer ganzen Mordserie erweist. Mit den Ermittlungen wird Dr. Lazlo Kreisler beauftragt, ein Pionier im Feld der Psychoanalyse. Gegen erbitterte Widerstände und mithilfe des Polizeireporters John Moore und der Polizeisekretärin Sarah Howard gelingt es ihm, mittels eines detaillierten Psychogramms, dem Mörder auf die Schliche zu kommen.

The year is 2023, and much of the world enjoys great wealth generated by the triumph of information technology. However, the staphylococcus plague of 2006 wiped out 40 million people, and the 2020 assassination of American President Emily Forrester traumatized the nation. Through it all, the...

Nueva York, 1896. John Schuyler Moore, reportero de sucesos de The New York Times, recibe en plena madrugada la llamada de su antiguo compañero de Harvard, el famoso alienista (como se conocía entonces a los psicólogos) Laszlo Kreizler, quien le cita en el puente de Williamsburg, escenario de un horrible asesinato. Theodore Roosevelt, jefe de policía de la ciudad, solicita la colaboración de ambos amigos para indagar el crimen, una atrevida iniciativa, pues el alienista es visto con desconfianza por una sociedad conservadora, que considera que un asesino nace y no se hace.

Le classique du genre, qui a inspiré la série éponyme, enfin à l'audio et porté par le timbre profond de Jean-Christophe Acquaviva ! New York, 1896. Un meurtrier sème les cadavres d'adolescents atrocement mutilés sans provoquer la moindre réaction des pouvoirs publics... Révolté par tant d'indifférence, Theodore Roosevelt, alors préfet, fait appel à John Schuyler Moore, chroniqueur criminel, et Laszlo Kreizler, spécialiste des maladies mentales, pour élucider ces crimes atroces. En les étudiant, ils pensent pouvoir brosser le portrait psychologique de l'assassin et l'identifier.