Prudence Endicott is the daughter of London's Conciliator - the voice
and hope of the little people. Will she be able to pick up the torch
after her mother dies? Volume 2 of 2. Miss Endicott's life as a
Conciliator is off to a bad start: a strange plot is being hatched in
the tunnels beneath London, her headquarters have been torched, the
child whose nanny she is by day has disappeared while following her
at night ... and to top it all, her mother, whom everyone believed
dead, has reappeared! A blessing, or a curse? Can two Conciliators
together defeat the mysterious master - assuming two Conciliators
could ever work together?
Prudence Endicott is the daughter of London's Conciliator - the voice
and hope of the little people. Will she be able to pick up the torch
after her mother dies? Volume 1 of 2. After many years abroad,
Prudence Endicott is back in England to bury her mother. Hired as a
nanny by a wealthy London family, the young woman immediately begins
to spend her nights in the more popular neighbourhoods ... For Miss
Endicott is now the new Conciliator, she who helps the poor and the
humble to solve their problems when society ignores them. A difficult
task - especially as something sinister appears to be brewing
underneath London ...
After the icy North, Thorgal and his companions now face the
oppressive heat of the Middle East. On the road to Bag Dadh, the
reluctant hero has got dangerously close to the bewitching Saluma,
who tells him the story of the Red Mages - the very same who
kidnapped his son Aniel. It doesn't take long for Thorgal to realise
that he isn't mixed up in a simple crime, but rather in political
machinations that could determine the future of the entire, sprawling
megalopolis!
Chicago, the Seventies. Life is tough when you're an orphan in the streets - and even more so if you're black. Little Jones, 10, doesn't even know her real name. All she has is a brother who flirts with the Black Panthers, a streak of cunning and determination a mile wide, and a dream: that of some day enlisting into the Army. A chance encounter with war hero Major Whittaker will change her life forever...
Isère, on the marches of France. A regiment of dragoons enters a seemingly deserted village to find several badly mangled bodies and evidence of an attack by a wild animal. Survivors speak of a massive beast with almost human eyes, of a werewolf... The thing's trail leads over the border with the Duchy of Savoy, and the commander of the dragoons takes a small detachment, in civilian clothes, after it. With them is his cousin: Jean-Baptiste Poulain...
Acre, 1291. The last Crusader city in the Holy Land is about to fall. Two Knights Templar, obeying the grandmaster's orders, manage to escape the invading Muslim army on the order's last ship. New York City, nowadays. During the unveiling of an exhibition of some of the Vatican's treasures, four men disguised as Templars attack the Metropolitan Museum and steal several artefacts, including a centuries-old decoder - a loss that horrifies the Church.
He's a disturbing fellow, that Billy. A man with the face of an angel
with whom XIII briefly shares a cell during his incarceration in a
prison for the criminally insane ... A kid you couldn't believe guilty
of anything - yet who soon reveals that behind bars is exactly where
he belongs. Find out, now, what Billy Stockton was convicted of, but
also why, exactly, he happened to be in that exact prison at the same
time as XIII ...
Thorgal has failed. Despite all his efforts, he wasn't in time to
save his son Aniel, and was forced to look on as sorcery transformed
the young, mute boy into a teenager with terrible powers - the
reincarnation of the Master of Red Magic. The Viking, convinced there
is still a chance, is still not ready to give up. But many threats
are converging, from within the city and from afar, and the stakes
may be much higher than he imagines ...
Statuesque, alluring and a literal femme fatale ... Felicity Brown,
former waitress, former call-girl and pretend nurse, nearly caused
the end of XIII when she murdered for his money the man he believed
might be his father. But crime doesn't pay in the end, and Felicity
is forced to flee from the FBI. Thus begins a bloody escape that will
take the black widow to Costa Verde, into the arms of a dictator and
in the middle of a revolution that will soon draw in none other than
... XIII!
Thorgal and his friends are finally on their way back to the lands of
the Vikings of the North. Time is of the essence, for his son Aniel
is still possessed by an evil entity, and is doing increasingly
poorly. But the trip is fraught with danger, and soon they find
themselves marooned on mysterious - though perhaps not entirely
unknown - shores. Thorgal will have to fight without rest to give his
son a future ...
Within the Conspiracy of the XX, Calvin Wax was nominally only number
two. But how accurate was that? What was the real responsibility of
this utterly unscrupulous man, who was - openly or secretly - adviser
to three presidents? Now, discover the birth of the Conspiracy,
through a few very difficult days in the life of Wally Sheridan,
caught in the merciless schemes of the true brain behind the plot ...
Thorgal is finally back home and his family reunited ... but his past continues to haunt him. A young woman on a pilgrimage tries to kill him - or rather the pirate he once was, Shaigan the Merciless. He wounds her mortally while defending himself, and she demands from him the weirgild. A life for a life - he is to assassinate a Jarl who oppresses the member of the cult she belongs to. Once again, Thorgal sails off towards adventure ...
Everything is in place. The radio guidance relays are active, the
Silbervogel, the intercontinental bomber, is operational, and Anna is
ready to fly it to America - a suicide mission. As for Werner, he
seems incapable of fulfilling his mission and killing the beautiful
test pilot, in whom he still sees his childhood friend. The arrival
of Soviet forces, along with the courage of a handful of prisoners
and partisans, will give them both one last chance to do the right
thing ... Can they seize it?