Assassin Thriller

Set in the urban area of Tokyo in the near future, the story revolves around Touka Kimizuki and her twin brother, Yuuto. Both of them are just like a typical 16-year old high schooler. But they're actually recruited by Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) to become secret agents due to their ability to kill skilled assassins while they were still in the middle school.

An interplanetary crime syndicate. A debt, long overdue. An assassin gone rogue. Love. Revenge. Betrayal. Although he knows it will mean the end of his relationship with both the crime syndicate and his long-time lover, Captain Victoria Maruska, Damian can’t let sleeping dogs lie. After overcoming his captain’s well-intended efforts to hold him back, Damian sets off to exact his revenge on the man who had once left him to die on the barren wastelands of Earth.

"Il commissario Saverio Mineo odia molte cose: per esempio i guanti, la forfora, i piedi brutti, la fretta, i pigiami a righe, il suo assistente Milito e sua moglie. Ma la cosa che odia di più sono i delitti, perché lo costringono a fingere di lavorare, mentre lui vorrebbe starsene in pace a leggere "La Gazzetta dello Sport", nel suo ufficio o al limite su una panchina vista mare. In fondo, perché dovrebbe succedere qualcosa nei tranquilli paesini di Cinisi e Terrasini?"

Lorsque Arthur Surbonadier s'écroule sur la scène du théâtre londonien de la Licorne, les spectateurs retiennent leur souffle. Quel talent ! Mais, cette fois, les balles chargées dans le revolver n'étaient pas à blanc... Le mobile du crime ? Difficile d'en trouver un de prime abord tant cette crapule de Surbonadier était détestée de tous au sein de la troupe. Alors, vengeance, règlement de comptes, jalousie ? À l'inspecteur principal Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, assisté du journaliste Nigel Bathgate, de monter sur scène pour résoudre l'affaire.

The body lying on its back before us was unquestionably that of the man who had attempted to kill Holmes and I with explosives at Glenbury Gardens. He wore the same dark clothing, although his hat was gone, and the hare lip was a livid scar on his pallid face. Strangely, it crossed my mind that what could be seen of his expression in death was softer than that he had worn in life.

"Upon hearing that I had to consciously resist the temptation that I had to peek through the drapes to see if I could catch a glimpse of that scoundrel." Double Trouble in York is the 19th in a string of new short stories set in the late 19th century, no fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes.

Si tratta di un racconto lungo. Un facchino uccide e deruba un compagno di sbornie. Compie poi, sulla spinta del senso di colpa, una serie di errori che porteranno al suo smascheramento e al suo arresto. Si avverte l'influenza sulla narrazione di Zola e del naturalismo. Si avvertono, inoltre, echi kafkiani e dostoevskijani, ma sopratutto traspare la passione dell'autore per l'analisi psicologica.