Jean Dufaux

Valgar of Valta has won Skarperdinn to his cause, but will the chieftains word be enough to sway the Council of Elders? The two men set out to seek the aid of Skarperdinns father, Njall the Burnt, but their quest is menaced by the dread serpent Jonnung, and Berrga, collectress of corpses. Meanwhile, vowing to win back Valgar at any cost, Skarperdinns wife Hildegirrd journeys to see her cruel sorceress sister Sosjia Black-Cloak, whose son Hanserr wields...

Waves crash on the beaches of California as Jessica Blandy wakes up in her lovers arms for the last time. A mysterious killer is stalking the streets of San Francisco with a chilling final message for his victims: remember Enola Gay. Sexy, strong-willed Jessie wont rest until shes found the truth, a quest for revenge that propels her into a world of thugs, mystics, and crooked cops in this classic thriller by Renaud & Dufaux.

An essential question hovers over this second volume of the Medina saga: what separates the humans from their adversaries the Drax? Karloff finally comes face to face with Boso 1, who will accept nothing less than Hadron and his unborn child. The conservator and Karloff agree to a meeting at the site of Alice, the nuclear generator that first spawned the Drax arrival, to hash out the terms of an unprecedented agreement. Meanwhile, Hadron has strong...

In the third installment of Renaud and Dufaux's classic thriller series, Jessica Blandy finds herself a prisoner in the Florida evergladesat the mercy of a pair of murderous brothers and caught up in a plot to make a man disappear. Do her captors plan to hold her for ransom, or do they have something else in mind? Set to the sounds of the swamp and the haunting voice of Jim Morrison, this might be Jessicas most dangerous adventure yet.

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 be signed only with this pen, the signature giving absolute power. Into this troubled atmosphere arrives the recently orphaned Fanny: the pen, missing for...

Jessica Blandy hasnt been the same since her brush with death in the Florida Everglades. Back in San Francisco, she tries to drown her sorrows in whiskey and the kisses of a dark, handsome stranger a saxophonist with sad eyes and a deep connection to Charlie Parker. But how much does she know about him, really? And what does he have to do with the women who keep disappearing from the club where he plays?

After years of violence, a relative peace has returned to the Holy Land. Yet the magic and afflictions that permeate the region haven't gone away. When Gauthier of Flanders, a wandering knight, stops at a caravansary and gives water to a Christian woman who is held prisoner by the Order of Assassins, he has no idea what evil is about to be unleashed upon the world... nor that he will be brought to stand against a deadly demon.

Lord Nelson, Lady Nelson and Jade continue to enjoy their mnage trois as they travel to Africa. Their boat is savagely attacked by the natives as they go up river, deeper into the heart of this vibrant but mysterious continent. But is this just an act of pure brutality? Or is there another reason, perhaps one connected to that black pearl that Jade wears in her ear, a pearl that exactly matches that of their goddess? This is the beginning of a second...

A crusade forgotten by history, tainted by the mark of the devil. The final volume of an epic adventure in the Holy Land. Gauthier and Osarias have reached Jebel Tarr, the city of the flagellants, where the breath of the Qadj now resides. They want to extinguish it forever, but can such a demonic force ever be destroyed? Meanwhile, the machinations of Guy of Lusignan, and his thirst for power and blood, have brought the Cross and the Crescent to the...

In The Ant, the plot thickens. The Stingray is put in charge of finding a prostitute named Opal and ends up in the vises of the Ant, the self-proclaimed ruler of the Paris underworld. On his search, the Stingray will encounter a slew of strange and fearsome characters. Some of them will help him on his quest, others will make his life that much harder. Dufaux and Jamars inspiration remains the great French novelists of the 19th century Dumas, Victor...