New Releases by Jess Walter

Five days after a terrorist attack decimates his home city, Brian Remy struggles with gaps in his memory pertaining to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a girlfriend whose name he does not know, deteriorating eyesight, and a new job with a shadowy intelligence operation.

Pas de doute : l''inspectrice Caroline Mabry a affaire à un fou. Borgne, mal rasé et... séduisant, Clark Mason prétend avoir une révélation à lui faire. Un cadavre serait caché quelque part dans la ville. Pendant quarante-huit heures, Caroline va l''écouter, se plonger dans la troublante relation qu''il entretenait, enfant, avec un certain Eli Boyle. Et peu à peu, elle comprend que cette confession cache tout autre chose...

The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening pages—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he''s shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn''t seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor known as "The Boss," and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen peddling First Responder cereal, and pink real estate divas hyping the spoils of tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn''t know, a son who pretends he''s dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell—or send him circling back to himself—is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel. From a novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an extraordinary story of how our trials become our transgressions, of how we forgive ourselves and whether or not we should.

Die Polizistin Caroline wird mit einem Mann konfrontiert, der behauptet, einen Mord begangen zu haben. Er will das Opfer nicht nennen, sondern zunächst alle Vorgänge, die zu der Tat geführt haben, aufschreiben. - Spannender und seht komplexer Kriminalroman.

Een vrouwelijke detective uit Spokane wordt geconfronteerd met een seriemoordenaar die het op prostituees heeft voorzien.

What went wrong at Ruby Ridge? Why was Randy Weaver''s son fatally shot in the back? How could the FBI justify shooting a woman as she held her infant child? Why were the Weavers given a $3.1 million settlement by the U.S. Government? Was there an FBI cover-up and how high did it go? Every Knee Shall Bow answers the critical questions that cut to the heart of the most explosive issues in the United States today. The Weaver Family took to the woods to escape what they believed was a sinful world on the brink of Armageddon. But Randy Weaver''s indictment on a firearms violation escalated into a deadly shoot out at his northern Idaho cabin. Before it was over, a federal marshal, Weaver''s wife and his only son were dead. Now, featuring exclusive interviews with key figures on both sides, Pulitzer Prize finalist Jess Walter objectively reconstructs all the riveting events in this controversial case.