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It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children.... With “one of the most arresting first sentences in contemporary writing” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival, redemption, and the astonishing transformations love...

L'apocalypse, c'est maintenant. Missiles et fusées se croisent dans le ciel et font s'abattre sur la terre des tornades de feu. Un vent terrible se lève, les poussières radioactives voilent le soleil, la vie telle qu'on la connaît va s'achever. Dans une plaine déserte du Kansas brûlée par le feu nucléaire, Black Frankenstein, une force de la nature, se voit confier une mission par un vieillard mourant : ­protéger une enfant au don particulier.

It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children.... With “one of the most arresting first sentences in contemporary writing” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival, redemption, and the astonishing transformations love...

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works - something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris - now closely watched by the Gestapo - is to send in a personal courier. Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works - something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris - now closely watched by the Gestapo - is to send in a personal courier. Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.

Une seconde naissance. Sept années ont passé, l’holocauste nucléaire a obscurci le ciel d’un voile de poussière et recouvert la terre d’un linceul de neige grise, cédant la place à un hiver sans fin dont les mâchoires gelées se referment lentement mais inexorablement sur la planète entière. Et dans ce monde d’après, les hommes continuent à s’entredéchirer, pour les ressources, pour le pouvoir, par pure folie.

1699 in den Carolina-Kolonien Amerikas... Die Einwohner von Fount Royal sind überzeugt, dass eine Hexe für die unerklärlichen Tragödien in ihrem Dorf verantwortlich ist. Sie verlangen, dass die schöne Witwe Rachel Howarth vor Gericht gestellt und wegen Hexerei hingerichtet wird. Der Prozess wird vom reisenden Richter Isaac Woodward mithilfe seines scharfsinnigen jungen Gerichtsdieners Matthew Corbett geführt. Matthew glaubt an Rachels Unschuld und muss sich bald dem wahren Bösen stellen, das in Fount Royal umgeht.