New Releases by Caleb Carr

Schon als Kind hatte der erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Caleb Carr eine ganz besonders innige Beziehung zu Katzen, die ihm in den schwierigen Verhältnissen, in denen er aufwuchs, Halt und Trost geben konnten. Auch als Erwachsener begleiteten ihn zahlreiche samtpfotige Freunde durchs Leben ― doch eine Katze war anders als alle anderen: Masha, die halbwilde Waldkatze, die er in einem Tierheim als fauchendes, kratzendes Bündel entdeckte und die nur ihm gegenüber Vertrauen fasste. 17 Jahre lang waren Caleb und Masha unzertrennlich ― der zurückgezogene, menschenscheue Literat und die eigensinnige, starke Katze, die über das riesige Haus und die umliegenden wilden und gefährlichen Wälder und Wiesen regierte. Ging es Masha schlecht, konnte nur Caleb ihr helfen. Und umgekehrt war es Masha, die ihn dabei unterstützte, seine chronische Krankheit mit immer wiederkehrenden Schmerzen zu ertragen ― ein fast blindes Verständnis zwischen Mensch und Tier. Wie kein anderer versteht es der belesene Katzenkenner, Mashas Verhalten zu entschlüsseln und zu beschreiben ― doch seine Hommage an Masha ist weit mehr als das Portrait einer außergewöhnlichen Katze: Eine bewegende und inspirierende Geschichte über das Leben und den Tod, über Abschied, Trauer und Liebe. Literatur vom Feinsten ― nicht nur für Katzenfreunde.

Questa è una storia d’amore. Una storia d’amore vero, puro e disinteressato, quello che per diciassette anni ha unito Caleb Carr e Masha, una gatta delle foreste siberiane. Fin da bambino l’autore, figlio di due giornalisti alcolizzati parte della Beat Generation, ha trovato nella compagnia dei gatti una via di fuga dal caos e dalla violenza che regnava in casa. Da sempre i suoi compagni più fedeli non erano umani, ma felini, adottati o salvati dalla strada. Crescendo le cose non sono cambiate molto e Carr ha condiviso lunghi tratti di vita con gatti che sono stati per lui amici onesti e leali, motivo di gioia e riflessione, ispiratori e complici. Ma anche causa di paure e dolore, come quando la sua amata e anziana Soki scompare nel bosco che circonda la grande e solitaria casa che l’autore si è fatto costruire alle pendici dei monti Taconic, al confine tra lo stato di New York e il Vermont. Ed è proprio in un rifugio per gatti del Vermont che Caleb incontra Masha, una splendida e giovane gatta delle foreste siberiane, dal carattere forte e di spiccata intelligenza e sensibilità. Masha era stata crudelmente abbandonata, e già da mesi era ospite del rifugio dove aveva respinto tutti i potenziali nuovi padroni ed era diventata il cruccio e il terrore delle operatrici. Con Caleb, però, nasce subito una sintonia e Masha lo sceglie, perché: “la verità è che non siamo noi a scegliere loro, sono loro che scelgono noi.” Per i diciassette anni successivi i due sono stati inseparabili, uniti da un legame che con il tempo si è fatto sempre più forte e saldo. Masha aveva reso la casa e le foreste circostanti il suo indisputato dominio e, quando le accadeva qualcosa, solo Caleb poteva aiutarla. D’altra parte, quando era Caleb a soffrire, nel corpo o nell’anima, era Masha a sapere cosa fare per alleviare i suoi dolori. Profondo, toccante e commovente, Il mio mostro adorato è il racconto di un legame in grado di travalicare ogni confine, una storia d’amore e accudimento reciproco che tocca il cuore.

Al sinds zijn turbulente jeugd met een gewelddadige vader koestert schrijver Caleb Carr een speciale band met katten. Ze bieden troost en slepen hem door menig dieptepunt heen, tot in zijn volwassen jaren en het begin van zijn schrijverscarrière. Als hij verhuist naar het platteland beleeft hij de meest bijzondere kattenliefde van allemaal met Masha, een verwaarloosde Siberische asielkat. Masha blaast en vecht met haar verzorgers, maar om de een of andere reden kiest ze Carr als haar redder. En wordt zij die van hem. Zeventien jaar lang vormen ze een onafscheidelijk paar: Masha heerst over het huis en de omliggende velden, Carr over zijn studeerkamer. Als zij gewond raakt na de zoveelste aanvaring met een hond, mag alleen Carr haar verzorgen. Wanneer zijn fysieke kwalen weer oplaaien, wijkt Masha niet van zijn zijde. En zo worden ze samen ouder, en gebrekkiger, totdat het ondenkbare zich aankondigt.

DISCLAIMER This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book. Summary of My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET: Chapter provides an astute outline of the main contents. Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis. Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book Caleb Carr, the #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker, and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human can. After building a three-story home in rural New York, Caleb met Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten. For seventeen years, they were inseparable, governing the house and the surrounding fields and forests. Caleb''s life-long study of cat behavior and experience with previous cats helped him understand Masha''s inner life. Their bond goes beyond academic studies and experience, making it an inspiring and life-affirming story.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The most brilliant feline portrait in literary history.” –People Magazine (Book of the Week) The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. “Dares us to take a journey into love and pain . . . My Beloved Monster is a love story and a requiem.” –Wall Street Journal “Excellent…Worth the emotional investment, and the tissues you will need by the end, to spend time with a writer and cat duo as extraordinary as Masha and Carr.” —Washington Post Book World Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close 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 enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior. For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb’s life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha’s inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests—a love story like no other.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Imaginative and fulfilling . . . an addictive contemporary crime procedural.”—Michael Connelly, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Caleb Carr, the author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, returns with a contemporary, edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring the brilliant but unconventional criminal psychologist Dr. Trajan Jones. In the small town of Surrender in upstate New York, Dr. Jones, a psychological profiler, and Dr. Michael Li, a trace evidence expert, teach online courses in profiling and forensic science from Jones’s family farm. Once famed advisors to the New York City Police Department, Trajan and Li now work in exile, having made enemies of those in power. Protected only by farmhands and Jones’s unusual “pet,” the outcast pair is unexpectedly called in to consult on a disturbing case. In rural Burgoyne County, a pattern of strange deaths has emerged: adolescent boys and girls are found murdered in gruesome fashion. Senior law enforcement officials are quick to blame a serial killer, yet their efforts to apprehend this criminal are peculiarly ineffective. Jones and Li soon discover that the victims are all “throwaway children,” a new state classification of young people who are neither orphans, runaways, nor homeless, but who are abandoned by their families and left to fend for themselves. Two of these throwaways, Lucas Kurtz and his older sister, Ambyr, cross paths with Jones and Li, offering information that could blow the case wide open. As the stakes grow higher, Jones and Li must not only unravel the mystery of how the throwaways died but also defend themselves and the Kurtz siblings against shadowy agents who don’t want the truth to get out. Jones believes the real story leads back to the city where both he and Dr. Kreizler did their greatest work. But will Jones and Li be able to trace the case to New York before they fall victim to the murderous forces that stalk them? Tautly paced and richly researched, Surrender, New York brings to life the grim underbelly of a prosperous nation—and those most vulnerable to its failings. This brilliant novel marks another milestone in Caleb Carr’s triumphant literary suspense career. Praise for Surrender, New York “[A] page-turning thriller . . . For maximum enjoyment: surrender, reader.”—The Wall Street Journal “Every word of fiction Carr has produced seems to have been written in either direct or indirect conversation with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. . . . [Surrender, New York] allows Carr to deploy his indisputable gift for the gothic and the macabre, and the pursuit is suspenseful and believable.”—USA Today “[A] long-awaited return.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] superb mystery . . . [that moves] at a swift and often terrifying pace. As in The Alienist, Carr triumphs at every twist and turn.”—Providence Journal “Edgar Allan Poe would have understood this book and hailed it a masterpiece. . . . A terrific story with a great setting and a very modern social message.”—The Globe and Mail “[An] engrossing mystery.”—Library Journal “A compulsive read . . . Carr once again delivers a high-stakes thriller featuring a new band of clever, determined outcasts.”—Booklist (starred review) “Carr’s many fans will find this well worth the wait.”—Kirkus Reviews

Jack l''Éventreur fait piètre figure à côté du meurtrier de ce roman, dans lequel le lecteur découvre avec effroi les bas-fonds new-yorkais de la fin du XIX e siècle. " Si notre tueur respectait son calendrier, quel qu''il fût, il frapperait bientôt une nouvelle fois. " Mars 1896. Un meurtrier sème des cadavres d''adolescents atrocement mutilés dans les rues de New York sans provoquer la moindre réaction. Révolté par cette indifférence, Theodore Roosevelt, alors préfet de police, fait appel à Laszlo Kreizler, spécialiste des maladies mentales, et John Moore, chroniqueur criminel. Leur méthode est atypique : en étudiant les meurtres, ils tentent de brosser le portrait psychologique du tueur afin de le devancer dans ses funèbres desseins. Mais la découverte d''une nouvelle victime les entraîne bientôt dans une course contre la montre dans laquelle se confondent chasseur et proie. " Un monde digne d''Eugène Sue. Avec l''ombre de Sherlock Holmes qui plane, non loin de celle de Jack l''Éventreur. " – Télérama Né à Manhattan, Caleb Carr est diplômé d''histoire. Il a passé son enfance dans le Lower East Side, quartier populaire de New York où il réside toujours. Avec L''Aliéniste, son premier roman (Grand Prix de la littérature policière en 1996) et L''Ange des ténèbres, publiés aux Presses de la Cité, il est devenu un maître du thriller historique, mondialement reconnu.

Tout commence lorsque Sherlock Holmes reçoit un télégramme de son frère Mycroft qui l''appelle à l''aide : proche conseiller de la reine Victoria, ce dernier craint pour la vie de la souveraine. En effet, deux de ses serviteurs ont été percés de plus de cinquante coups de poignard, exactement comme le secrétaire italien de Marie Stuart, assassiné trois siècles auparavant. Et on sait que celle-ci a fini sans tête... Il n''en faut pas plus à Holmes et à son fidèle Watson pour accourir sur les lieux du drame et démontrer que la force de déduction vient toujours à bout de l''inextricable quand il s''agit de défendre l''ordre, l''Empire et la reine.

“A sprawling fantasy saga . . . Caleb Carr boldly goes where he’s never gone before.”—USA Today Legend meets history in this mesmerizing novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Caleb Carr. Demonstrating the rich storytelling, skillful plotting, and depth of research he showcased in The Alienist, Carr has written a wildly imaginative, genre-bending saga that redefines the boundaries of literature. Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumored to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword—even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city’s granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood. At every turn, the lives of Broken’s defenders and its would-be destroyers intertwine: Sixt Arnem, the widely respected and honorable head of the kingdom’s powerful army, grapples with his conscience and newfound responsibilities amid rumors of impending war. Lord Baster-kin, master of the Merchants’ Council, struggles to maintain the magnificence of his kingdom even as he pursues vainglorious dreams of power. And Keera, a gifted female tracker of the Bane tribe, embarks on a perilous journey to save her people, enlisting the aid of the notorious and brilliant philosopher Caliphestros. Together, they hope to exact a ruinous revenge on Broken, ushering in a day of reckoning when the mighty walls will be breached forever in a triumph of science over superstition. Breathtakingly profound and compulsively readable, Caleb Carr’s long-awaited new book is an action-packed, multicharacter epic of a medieval clash of cultures—in which new gods collide with old, science defies all expectation, and virtue comes in many guises. Brimming with adventure and narrative invention, The Legend of Broken is an exhilarating and enthralling masterwork. Praise for The Legend of Broken “An excellent and old-fashioned entertainment . . . The Legend of Broken seamlessly blends epic adventure with serious research and asks questions that men and women grappled with in the Dark Ages and still do today.”—The Washington Post “[A] colossal effort . . . a fantasy epic . . . meant as an allegory, a cautionary tale for our precarious times. To make his points, Carr has summoned a dream team of soldiers, wizards, and tiny forest folk.”—The New York Times Book Review “Carr keeps the action hurtling along with a steady diet of gruesome murders and political betrayals. And he clearly wants modern readers to see something of their own world in the political corruption and greed that ultimately doom Broken.”—The Boston Globe

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BOOK BEHIND SEASON TWO OF TNT’S THE ALIENIST • Dr. Laszlo Kreizler returns in a “whopping thriller” (The Washington Post) that showcases Caleb Carr “at his strongest” (USA Today). June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime—have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York. Praise for The Angel of Darkness “A ripping yarn told with verve, intensity, and a feel for historical detail . . . Once again we are careening around the gaslighted New York that Carr knows, and depicts, so well.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . Carr is at his strongest, exploring the dark underside of the human psyche and ferreting out the terrors and tragedies that drive men—and women—to kill. . . . In Libby Hatch, Carr has created a villain whose cunning is nearly equal to his detectives’ crime-solving prowess. . . . The mystery is plotted with military precision.”—USA Today “[A] whopping thriller . . . Carr keeps us racing along with him to the very end.”—The Washington Post Book World “Fascinating . . . In a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial.”—Time

When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology.

Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence–and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot. Such a consideration of the Cold War–as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones–is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume’s contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in “The War Scare of 1983,” shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers “The Right Man,” his pungent reassessment of the bellicose air-power zealot Curtis LeMay as a man whose words were judged more critically than his actions. The secret war also gets its due in George Feiffer’s “The Berlin Tunnel,” which details the charismatic C.I.A. operative “Big Bill” Harvey’s effort to tunnel under East Berlin and tap Soviet phone lines–and the Soviets’ equally audacious reaction to the plan; while “The Truth About Overflights,” by R. Cargill Hall, sheds light on some of the Cold War’s best-kept secrets. The often overlooked human cost of fighting the Cold War finds a clear voice in “MIA” by Marilyn Elkins, the widow of a Navy airman, who details the struggle to learn the truth about her husband, Lt. Frank C. Elkins, whose A-4 Skyhawk disappeared over Vietnam in 1966. In addition there are profiles of the war’s “front lines”–Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs–as well as of prominent military and civil leaders from both sides, including Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Dean Acheson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, and others. Encompassing so many perspectives and events, The Cold War succeeds at an impossible task: illuminating and explaining the history of an undeclared shadow war that threatened the very existence of humankind.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • “A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us.”—The Detroit News When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over. Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It is an age in which questioning society’s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and fatal consequences. Praise for The Alienist “[A] delicious premise . . . Its settings and characterizations are much more sophisticated than the run-of-the-mill thrillers that line the shelves in bookstores.”—The Washington Post Book World “Mesmerizing.”—Detroit Free Press “The method of the hunt and the disparate team of hunters lift the tale beyond the level of a good thriller—way beyond. . . . A remarkable combination of historical novel and psychological thriller.”—The Buffalo News “Engrossing.”—Newsweek “Gripping, atmospheric . . . intelligent and entertaining.”—USA Today “A high-spirited, charged-up and unfailingly smart thriller.”—Los Angeles Times “Keeps readers turning pages well past their bedtime.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes finds himself on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.

BASED ON THE FILM FROM THE ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR OF AUTO FOCUS AND AFFLICTION, AND FROM THE WRITER OF THE ALIENIST In the aftermath of World War II, Lankester Merrin finds himself in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. Haunted by memories of the war, he has taken a sabbatical from the priesthood and journeyed far from his native Holland. He has come to lead the archaeological excavation of a mysterious, Byzantine church, buried in pristine condition as if on the day it was completed. Directly underneath the church, Merrin discovers a much more ancient crypt -- and finds himself face-to-face with unspeakable Evil. Madness descends on the local villagers and the contingent of British soldiers sent to guard the excavation. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village -- atrocities he''d hoped to never see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun....

In The Lessons of Terror, novelist and military historian Caleb Carr examines terrorism throughout history and the roots of our present crisis and reaches a provocative set of conclusions: the practice of targeting enemy civilians is as old as warfare itself; it has always failed as a military and political tactic; and despite the dramatic increases in its scope and range of weapons, it will continue to fail in the future. International terrorism—the victimization of unarmed civilians in an attempt to affect their support for the government that leads them—is a phrase with which Americans have become all too familiar recently. Yet while at first glance terrorism seems a relatively modern phenomenon, Carr illustrates that it has been a constant of military history. In ancient times, warring armies raped and slaughtered civilians and gratuitously destroyed property, homes, and cities; in the Middle Ages, evangelical Muslims and Christian crusaders spread their faiths by the sword; and in the early modern era, such celebrated kings as Louis XIV revealed a taste for victimizing noncombatants for political purposes. It was during the Civil War that Americans themselves first engaged in “total war,” the most egregious of the many euphemisms for the tactics of terror. Under the leadership of such generals as Stonewall Jackson, the forces of the South tried to systematize this horrifying practice; but it fell to a Union general, William Tecumseh Sherman, to achieve that dubious goal. Carr recounts Sherman’s declaration of war on every man, woman, and child in the South—a policy that he himself knew was badly flawed, had nothing to do with his military successes (indeed, it hampered them), and brought long-term unrest to the American South by giving birth to the Ku Klux Klan. Carr’s exploration of terror reveals its consistently self-defeating nature. Far from prompting submission, Carr argues, terrorism stiffens enemy resolve: for this reason above all, terrorism has never achieved—nor will it ever achieve—long-term success, however physically destructive and psychologically debilitating it may become. With commanding authority and the storyteller’s gift for which he is renowned, Caleb Carr provides a critical historical context for understanding terrorist acts today, arguing that terrorism will be eradicated only when it is perceived as a tactic that brings nothing save defeat to its agents.

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times crime reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels.

Tout en menant sa carrière de romancier, Caleb Carr a continué à collaborer à de prestigieuses revues historiques spécialisées dans le domaine militaire. Il a ainsi écrit en 1996 pour le World Policy Journal un long article, terriblement prémonitoire, intitulé Le Terrorisme, arme de guerre. Depuis, la tragédie du 11 septembre 2001 a fait découvrir au monde entier ce qui a été présenté comme une nouvelle facette du terrorisme. Caleb Carr démontre ici qu''il n''en est rien et que le terrorisme a été utilisé en tant qu''arme en tout temps et en tout lieu, depuis Tamerlan, qui passait des villes entières au fil de l''épée afin d''empêcher toute révolte des cités voisines, jusqu''au bombardement de Dresde durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, exclusivement destiné à terroriser les populations allemandes. Conclusion de l''historien : l''arme du terrorisme s''est toujours retournée contre ses auteurs... Un essai percutant, qui apporte un éclairage particulièrement pertinent sur les tragiques attentats du 11 septembre 2001.

"Historians and philosophers alike have pondered the crucial turning points of history--the events that forever altered the course of civilization and set the stage for the world in which we live today. In these essays, some of the most respected minds of our time as the question "What if...": Pontius Pilate hadn''t ordered Jesus Christ''s crucifixion? Abraham Lincoln hadn''t abolished slavery? A Confederate aide hadn''t accidentally lost General Robert E. Lee''s plans for invading the North? The Allied invasion of D Day had failed? Pope Pius XII had spoken out against the Holocaust? The Mongols had succeeded in conquering Europe?"--Back cover.

Mystery thriller set 25 years in the future.

A Spanish diplomat''s wife has her baby snatched in 1890s New York and the case is given to psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his young assistant who narrates the tale. The probe leads them to a nurse turned serial killer of children, including her own. By the author of The Alienist.

2024. Alors que le tentaculaire réseau mondial offre toujours davantage d''informations, l''ordre international est au bord de l''explosion... La présidente américaine a été assassinée et une photo du meurtrier diffusée sur Internet accuse formellement l''Afghanistan. Mais alors que les États-Unis ont lancé une violente guerre contre le régime de Kaboul, il se pourrait que la photo soit en réalité un montage... Pour Gideon Wolfe, professeur en psychologie criminelle, une personne aussi démente que géniale a pris le contrôle de la Toile mondiale et cherche à plonger le monde dans le chaos. Sa traque le conduira jusqu''à Malcolm Tressalian. Nouveau capitaine Nemo, celui-ci est prêt à tout pour imposer une nouvelle société : falsifier l''histoire ou, à défaut, tuer le temps...

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. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends--high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime--have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara''s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico''s still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer''s past. At the same time, we go onrevealing journeys into Stevie''s New York, a place where poor and neglected children--then as now--turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.