New Releases by Michael Reaves

Tödliche Kämpfe und lebensgefährliche medizinische Operationen: Mehr Spannung geht nicht! Auf dem Sumpfplaneten Drongar tobt einer der blutigsten Kriege der Republik. Die Jedi-Schülerin Barriss Offee wird ausgesandt, um die Ärzte mit Hilfe der Macht dabei zu unterstützen, die Leben der Klonsoldaten zu retten. Doch während ihre Ideale mit der Wirklichkeit konfrontiert werden, kommt es zu einem Verrat an höchster Stelle. Plötzlich kämpfen sie nicht mehr nur um die Leben der Klone - jetzt steht ihr eigenes Überleben auf dem Spiel. Michael Reaves erhielt für seine Drehbücher der Fernsehserie "Batman" einen Emmy Award. Er arbeitet für Steven Spielberg und ist Autor mehrerer erfolgreicher Fantasy-Romane und Science-Fiction-Thriller, die häufig das Übernatürliche thematisieren. Reaves lebt in Los Angeles.

Alors qu''il participe à une course d''orientation, Joey se retrouve brusquement projeté dans un autre monde, à la fois très semblable au sien, mais subtilement différent. Lorsqu''il se rend compte que sa propre mère ne le reconnaît pas (et pour cause, elle n''a jamais eu de fils!), le jeune homme comprend qu''il a basculé dans une dimension parallèle. Et des dimensions parallèles, il y en a quantité, tout comme il existe une infinité de Joey, capables eux aussi de marcher entre les mondes. Ensemble, ils forment une unité d''élite devant à tout prix sauvegarder l''équilibre entre les forces de Sire Lamechien et celles de Madame Indigo, qui se livrent une guerre sans merci pour étendre leur influence sur les dimensions.

When Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Reaves teamed up, they created the bestselling YA novel InterWorld. InterWorld tells the story of Joey Harker, a very average kid who discovers that his world is only one of a trillion alternate earths. Some of these earths are ruled by magic. Some are ruled by science. All are at war. Joey teams up with alternate versions of himself from an array of these worlds. Together, the army of Joeys must battle evil magicians Lord Dogknife and Lady Indigo to keep the balance of power between all the earths stable. Teens—and tweens and adults—who obsessively read the His Dark Materials and Harry Potter series will be riveted by InterWorld and its sequel, The Silver Dream.

After the Empire’s bloody purge of the Jedi, one lone Knight still fights for those who cannot, unaware that he’s about to be swept into a cataclysmic battle against the Master of Darkness himself. Throughout the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in Coruscant’s most foul subterranean slums, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggle–to unlock the secrets of his father’s death and his own past. While Jax believes that I-5YQ holds some of those answers, he never imagines that the truth could be shocking enough to catapult him to the frontlines of a plot to kill Emperor Palpatine. Worse yet, Darth Vader’s relentless search for Jax is about to end . . . in triumph. The future looming over the valiant Jedi and his staunch pals promises to be dark and brief, because there’s no secret whatsoever about the harshest truth of all: Few indeed are those who tangle with Darth Vader . . . and live to tell the tale.

L''Etoile Noire : son nom suffit à faire trembler l''Alliance Rebelle... L''extermination prochaine de l''ordre Jedi ouvre la voie à Palpatine pour prendre le contrôle de la République, s''autoproclamer Empereur et instaurer un régime totalitaire. Mais malgré le soutien de Dark Vador, la rébellion menace. Pour mener à bien son projet, Palpatine sait qu''il doit frapper fort, faire régner la terreur. De là naît l''idée de l''Etoile Noire, véritable arme de destruction massive, créée dans le plus grand secret. Une part d''ombre enveloppe ce fer de lance de la Flotte Impériale capable d''anéantir tout un monde en l''espace d''une seconde. De son vol inaugural jusqu''à sa fin spectaculaire, découvrez enfin tous les mystères de cette planète infernale !

With the Jedi all but wiped out in the grim aftermath of Order 66, the Empire’s power seems unchecked. But one lone Knight continues to fight the good fight–against all odds and when all else fails. Deep in the bowels of Coruscant, Jedi Jax Pavan ekes out a living as a private investigator, a go-to, can-do guy for the downtrodden. Now a mysterious Zeltron knockout named Deejah approaches Jax with a case that needs to be cracked: to find out who killed her artist lover Volette, brutally murdered hours after his triumphant unveiling of a dazzling new light sculpture with obvious links to lightsaber pyrotechnics. Finding Volette’s killer won’t be easy–too many secrets, too many suspects, and all kinds of motives. But with the droid I-5YQ’s help, and ex-reporter Den Dhur’s excellent snooping skills, the investigation is soon operating like a well-oiled machine. Unfortunately, there’s a far more efficient machine hunting Jax. It’s a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as the clock starts ticking toward the final explosive showdown . . . to see who strikes first and who will die first.

With the dark ascension of the Empire, and the Jedi Knights virtually wiped out, one Jedi who escaped the massacre is slated for a date with destiny–and a confrontation with Darth Vader. Jax Pavan is one of the few Jedi Knights who miraculously survived the slaughter that followed Palpatine’s ruthless Order 66. Now, deep in Coruscant’s Blackpit Slums, Jax ekes out a living as a private investigator, trying to help people in need while concealing his Jedi identity and staying one step ahead of the killers out for Jedi blood. And they’re not the only ones in search of the elusive Jax. Hard-boiled reporter Den Dhur and his buddy, the highly unorthodox droid I-5YQ, have shocking news to bring Jax–about the father he never knew. But when Jax learns that his old Jedi Master has been killed, leaving behind the request that Jax finish a mission critical to the resistance, Jax has no choice but to emerge from hiding–and risk detection by Darth Vader–to fulfill his Master’s dying wish. Don’t miss the continuing adventures in the Coruscant Nights series, coming this Fall!

In this third novel in an original, action-packed trilogy, the Dark Knight battles his nemesis, the Scarecrow, to save Gotham City from a true reign of terror. Original.

Mr. Twilight combines the mystical and the mysterious, the supernatural and the primitive, in a rich, steamy brew of otherworldly adventure. In bookshop specializing in rare volumes, an avid fan of horror fiction seizes a tome too valuable and too incredible to fathom. In the end, the man was too curious to live. . . . A few miles away, in a Manhattan brownstone, another man learns about the explosion that left a gaping hole in the fabric of reality. Colin—he has no other name—has been an unrelenting warrior against the dark, the demonic, and the damned. A man who has angels at his side and hell staring him in the face, he has devoted his life to solving magical crimes and tracking down—and neutralizing—the perpetrators of those crimes, human and nonhuman alike. Now Colin is about to team up with a beautiful Native American a long way from home and a tough NYPD detective who seems to be immune to magic. Together, in a funhouse of evidence and apparitions, they are chasing a killer and untangling a tale that leads from the infamous Vlad the Impaler to a dead twentieth-century occult author and his gorgeous daughter—who is as seductive as the devil himself.

Alors que la guerre des clones ravage la galaxie, la situation est désespérée sur la lointaine planète Drongar. Pour faire face à l''offensive ennemie, les Séparatistes lancent des légions de droïdes dans la bataille. Même assistée de renforts, la République faite de chair et de sang ne peut rien contre le Duracier des druides de combat. Une situation douloureusement claire, dans la jungle moite de Jasserak, où une petite unité de médecins et d''infirmières tente de faire face. Alors que morts et blessés s''amoncellent, les chirurgiens Jos Vandar et Kornell " Uli " Divini comprennent que le temps leur est compté. Même les pouvoirs Jedi de la Padawan Barriss Offee sont poussés à leurs limites. Une mise à l''épreuve qui pourrait bien causer sa perte. Le conflit s''aggrave, et pour cette obscure unité médicale, il ne reste plus qu''une seule solution. Choquante, audacieuse, sans précédent, c''est la dernière option envisageable pour Jos et ses compagnons. L''impensable est désormais inévitable. Savoir s''ils survivront est un autre débat...

Emmy Award-winner, Michael Reaves'' first short story collection is a mix of science fiction and southern gothic horror. Reaves is the author of Star Wars: Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter

A killer lurks in the shadows of Whitechapel and the police have a suspect, John Watson. To save his friend from the gallows, Sherlock Holmes enlists a band of street urchins to act as his eyes and ears on the streets.

While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatists. . . . The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droids’ durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell “Uli” Divini know that time is running out. Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her death–and that of countless others. For the conflict is growing–and for this obscure mobile med unit, there’s only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, it’s the only option Jos and his colleagues really have. The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen.

As Civil War between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy, nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own . . . A surgeon who covers his despair with wise-cracks; another who faces death and misery head-on, venting his emotions through beautiful music . . . A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor . . . A Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master . . . These are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar, where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant, and an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying—mostly clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species. While the healers work desperately to save lives, others plot secretly to profit from the war—either by dealing on the black market or by manipulating the events of the war itself. In the end, though, all will face individual tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day.

Dark Sidious, le néfaste Seigneur de Sith, a conclu une alliance avec les Neimoidiens afin d''organiser le blocus de la planète Naboo, l''objectif ultime étant de faire plier la République sous son joug. Dans les profondeurs de l''espace se tient une conférence ultrasecrète qui doit régler les détails de l''opération. Lorsque l''un des plénipotentiaires neimoidiens est porté absent, Sidious flaire aussitôt la traîtrise. Tandis qu''il envoie son apprenti Dark Maul, champion du Côté Obscur de la Force, sur les traces du félon, les Neimoidiens engagent un chasseur de primes chargé de retrouver leur congénère dans l''espoir d''apaiser la fureur de leur puissant allié. Parallèlement, sur Coruscant, l''homme d''affaires Lorn Pavan essaie tant bien que mal de négocier avec Yanth le Hutt, un ponte de l''organisation criminelle du Soleil Noir. Pavan est censé livrer au Hutt un cristal renfermant de précieuses informations. Le hasard fait que le Neimoidien en fuite détient justement un pareil cristal, qu''il s''apprête à vendre au plus offrant. Ce qu''il ignore, c''est que le plus redoutable assassin de l''univers est lancé à ses trousses... Ce que Pavan ignore, c''est que, en faisant affaire avec le Neimoidien, il se retrouve à son tour sur la liste des individus à éliminer... Semant mort et désolation sur son passage, Dark Maul traque impitoyablement ses proies. Et, lorsque son parcours croise celui d''une jeune Padawan Jedi, sa fureur sanglante ne connaît plus de bornes : c''est pour lui l''occasion rêvée de mettre en pratique ses longues années d''entraînement durant lesquelles on lui avait assigné un objectif unique : détruire ses ennemis jurés, les Chevaliers Jedi...

Science fiction-roman.

"In a Greenwich Village townhouse, a mysterious man named Colin, an orphan raised by sorcerors skilled in dark magic, awakens to find the talisman known as the Trine missing from its place of safekeeping - and an angel named Zoel impatiently ringing his doorbell." "In the death chamber of the Oregon Federal Penitentiary, Liz Russell, author of a bestseller on the serial killer called the Maneater, watches her subject receive the lethal injection that will end his life. But the Maneater has sworn that she will be his next victim - even if he has to claw his way up from Hell." "On the streets of Los Angeles, Terry Dane, a bodyguard with a dark and bloody secret, fights to protect his rock star client from a knife-wielding maniac impervious to pain and injury." "And in an Alabama backwoods clinic, a young girl gives birth to something monstrous and unholy, something that thirsts not for mother''s milk but for the blood of all that lives." "Now it''s up to Colin, with the assistance of Zoel and the demon Asdeon - aiding Colin for his own sinister purposes - to recover the Trine before its awesome power can be used to spark Armageddon. It''s a struggle that Liz and Terry will find themselves part of as well, whether they like it or not. The only trouble is, without the Trine, Colin''s magic is no match for that of his enigmatic adversary. And Zoel can be trusted no more than Asdeon to avert an apocalypse that may be as much God''s plan as the Devil''s desire."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

As a Louisiana parole officer, Lia St. Charles is used to tough customers, but the man in front of her doesn''t fit the description. Shane LaFitte had been a priest of vodun--a healer, not a killer--until he was put away for the brutal ritual murder of his beloved wife. Something about his case just doesn''t make sense. And now a ruthless drug lord who controls the New Orleans street trade has opened a door to the Invisible World beyond, summoning monstrous forces for a dreadful day of reckoning. To work this terrible evil, he needs the sacrifice of an innocent, a very special child. Only Shane LaFitte has the power to stop his old enemy--but first he must convince Lia not to put him back in prison for trying...