Thomas Legrain: 15 books

Alix Des Maures a grandi loin de son père, tout-puissant député-maire du village de Saint-Mont-Les Flots dans la Riviera. C'est sur la tombe de sa mère qu'elle le retrouve plus de quinze ans après l'avoir quitté. Désireux d'avoir sa fille à ses côtés, Romuald Des Maures la convainc de venir...

Agent Sisco-Castiglioni—Sisco for short—is responsible for protecting the President... which doesn't necessarily mean he's on the President's side. Nor are his colleagues necessarily on his. When an ill-advised business deal threatens to embarrass the country's leader, Sisco is called in to take...

In Part 2 of this episode, French Presidential guard Sisco-Castiglioni—Sisco for short—is chasing an incriminating video, which was last seen in the hands of an elusive journalist. When he finally catches up with her, he discovers that the video is least of his worries. First, he has some departmental...

Nouvelle-Zélande, de nos jours. Un couple de faux touristes français, mais de vrais agents de la DGSE, s'introduit de nuit dans des locaux sécurisés du gouvernement. L'opération tourne mal et un des deux est grièvement blessé. Terré dans leur planque, les agents attendent l'aide de leur gouvernement....

Quand politique et mafia mènent une même danse, le bal se termine fatalement dans le sang. Saint-Mont-les-flots est une tranquille bourgade posée sur un écrin de verdure en bord de mer. Un écrin que la Mafia se verrait bien bétonner jusqu'à le rendre aussi balnéaire et rentable que...

Nouvelle-Zélande, de nos jours. Un couple de faux touristes français, mais de vrais agents de la DGSE, s'introduit de nuit dans des locaux sécurisés du gouvernement. L'opération tourne mal et ils sont obligés de fuir dans la précipitation. Au cours de la poursuite, un des deux est grièvement...

Rikers Prison in New York is not a place anyone would choose to spend time—least of all Sisco. Fortunately for him, he's thought to be safer out than in, but back in Paris he finds himself grounded. That doesn't last long either, as Sisco walks right into yet another terrorist plot and finds himself...

As ever with Sisco, it's a case of "out of the frying pan, into the fire." Having escaped (literally) from charges of conspiring with the Indian Secret Service, he finds himself being used as a scapegoat by another country's agents. But who is it this time? The trail leads to his opposite...

Sisco is beginning to wish he'd never set foot in New York. His sister has been kidnapped by Albanian terrorists, the US security service has no idea where they're holding her, and now they're blackmailing him... With a little help from HQ and some unorthodox investigative techniques of his own, he...

Pour affronter un renard, il fallait des loups.L'histoire vraie du SAS, les forces spéciales de l'armée britannique. Pour faire face à l'écrasante supériorité de l'Afrikakorps de Rommel, des officiers ont l'idée de créer un petit régiment d'hommes surentraînés, voué à combattre exclusivement...

Sisco is in hot water. His last mission didn't quite go according to plan. His punishment? Looking after the President's teenage daughter, Julie. Seems like a cushy number—though hardly Sisco's ideal assignment—until he discovers that gin fizz isn't the only "cocktail" young Julie is...

When his troops come under fire from Albanian human-traffickers, the French President decides to ask the UN Security Council to step in—which means Sisco gets a trip to the Big Apple. However, what promises to be an all-in vacation, complete with classy embassy women, soon turns into a nightmare...

It's Bagdad 2004. There are almost as many fighters in the private armies as there are official soldiers. When one of these mercenaries falls into homicidal madness and starts killing Iraqi civilians, the American government fear an international scandal. A young military legal advisor and a laconic ex-mercenary are sent on the trail of the killer.

Une sordide affaire politico-financière où la fiction colle à la réalité Devenue députée, ALIX est invitée à entrer dans la commission anti-mafia. LOUIS RAMDANE se rend à Paris où il rencontre DÉDÉ le Maltais, patron du Mylord, le « parrain des parrains » qui lui propose de faire...