Jack Ketchum, né en 1946, est considéré comme l'un des plus importants auteurs américains vivants. Derrière ce pseudonyme (inspiré du nom des bourreaux britanniques) se cache un écrivain qui fut le secrétaire de Henry Miller. Jack Ketchum a publié trente romans et novellas, dont quelques chefs-d'oeuvre du genre, comme Morte Saison, Une fille comme les autres ou Fils Unique. Cinq d'entre eux ont fait l'objet d'une adaptation au cinéma et sa prose est traduite dans seize langues. Il a remporté quatre fois le Bram Stoker Award, une distinction décernée par la prestigieuse Horror Writers Association, qui, en 2015, lui a décerné un Prix Spécial pour l'Ensemble de son OEuvre, consécration réservée à un petit nombre d'auteurs dont Stephen King, Peter Straub, Ann Rice et Richard Matheson.
It's the Arizona Territory. The year, 1848. The year the Mexican War ended. Fate and blazing pistols have just thrown together reporter and part-time drunk Marion T. Bell and the very nearly legendary John Charles Hart, mustanger and scout, in the Little Fanny Saloon. Plying the river-trade across the Colorado to the gold fields of California in the north, and war-torn Mexico to the south, the town of Gable's Ferry has sprung up overnight—lacking only a church, a schoolhouse and a jail.
Though some would say that only the jail was needed.
A rough place in a lawless era. About to become a hell of a lot more so one night when Hart, Bell and the easy-going giant Mother Knuckles stumble upon Elena, a fierce, young, badly wounded Mexican woman near the banks of the Colorado. She's naked. She's been bullwhipped, knifed and branded. And she tells them about the kidnap, rape and servitude she and her sister have endured at the hands of las hermanas de lupo, the deadly Valenzura Sisters and their henchman, the deserter Paddy Ryan, at the well-manned slave-camp across the river aptly called Garanta del Diablo—Mouth of the Devil.
It's just three hundred years since Cortez. Only three hundred years since the Old Gods of Mexico were in their full and fearsome flower.
Tezcatlipoca, god of the moon and the night. Tlazolteotl, Eater of Filth. Xipe, Lord of the Flayed.
Blood for rain. Blood for bounty.
For many, like the Valenzura Sisters, they have never died.
And Elena's sister's still there.
Título : The Crossings
EAN : 9781452492162
Editorial : DavidNiallWilson
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