Jean Dufaux: 107 books

We're in Rome, three days before the ides of October. The Emperor Cladius is dead, poisoned by his wife, Agrippina, who'd discovered his plans to renounce her so as to marry Lollia Paulina, Murena's mother. Thus Nero, Agrippine's son, becomes emperor. His mother, having bought the favor of the army...

It's stinking hot, and the crowd is beginning to lose interest in the last few gladiators still fighting for survival in the arena. Only the Emperor Claudius is still riveted, determined to stick it out until the death rattle of the last fighter announces the end of the day's frivolities. Life is...

Valgar est un valeureux viking qui, pour avoir commis l'imprudence de séduire Astridr, la fille de Thorgerr aux cents guerriers, va devoir fuir les hordes de tueurs sanguinaires lancées à ses trousses. Il ne devra sa survie qu'à la lance qu'il porte, artefact légendaire hérité du dieu Odin... A présent, l'heure de la vengeance a sonné pour Valgar.

England, last century. A castle: Blacktales. Every seven years its proprietor, the frightening Monsieur Noir, comes over to sign the new lease with his tenant. In Blacktales, two unrelenting opposing clans fight a ferocious and cunning struggle over the possession of a pen: the lease contract can...

La joie règne sans partage dans le royaume d'Entremonde ! Les habitants ont tout pour être heureux : leur reine Blanche est de retour, l'envahisseur est en déroute et la paix est revenue. Mais ce tableau idyllique va bientôt s'assombrir. Le pouvoir, ce poison qui ne dit pas son nom, corrompt peu...

Massam, the slave that Poppaea uses to do her dirty work, is given the order to exterminate Balba the gladiator and his accomplice Evix, the woman who dared better Nero in a chariot race. The pair of them are considered dangerous enemies of the emperor. At the imperial palace, while Nero is making...

Nero dreamed of it. Lucius Murena did it: burning Rome. However, to atone for his act, the young patrician tries to save as many human lives as he can. Everyone, whether they be rich or poor, is seeking a way out. While some throw themselves into the river Tiber, others manage to get to the Campus...

L’homme n’est qu’un jouet aux mains du diable… Après avoir pillé le trésor de l’empereur aztèque Moctezuma, le groupe d’aventuriers missionné par Cortés a pris la fuite et connaît l’enfer dans la jungle… Ce ne sont pas tant les attaques incessantes des indiens otomis...

A real dive into the heart of 17th-century Paris, this story takes us into the daily life of Vincent de Paul, a devoted churchman, in search of the truth. Accompanied by young Antoine, Father Vincent travels the neighborhoods of the city, pleading his case with the richest of the rich and helping...

The Drax contamination Karloff sustained in book 2 of the series continues to lie dormant in his body, while Medina battles mutants who threaten the city from the inside, and fends off ever-greater attacks to its exterior. The city's protective dome is at risk of total collapse. Kladia strikes off...

In a post-apocalyptic future, Medina has become the last bastion of a humanity fighting the nightmarish and infectious creatures known as the Drax. The shield that protects the city won't hold out much longer, and humankind appears to be condemned. The only ray of hope is a "package" ripped...

In present day Turkey, Kim Nelson continues her quest to recover the long-lost treasure of the Black Sultan to which only her captivating ancestor, Jade, the Sultan's favorite, had the key. Meanwhile, we're flung back in time to the sumptuous era of the Ottoman Empire, where Jade has been kidnapped...

There's a treasure, long hidden, deep in the heart of the Turkish desert. All those who have tried to obtain it have never returned. But Kim Nelson, a young Englishwoman, has inherited the powers invested in her smoldering ancestor, Jade, the favorite of the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. These...

Kim Nelson, the beautiful English granddaughter of the Sultan of Istanbul's favorite courtesan, gets ever more wrapped up in the mysteries of Africa in her quest to reclaim the black pearl that is the key to her ancestor's long-hidden treasure. Like her grandmother before her, she must go through...