Cinebook

It's chaos in Puerto Blanco. Raffy, caught red-handed with Ferrango's wife Maria, is about to be thrown into a shark tank; the governor is toppled by a coup ...and the Spanish occupy the city after bombarding it. Amidst the blood and fire, alliances are...

Drawn by strange cries coming from the necropolis at the foot of the pyramids, Papyrus comes face to face with Anubis, the god of the dead. The jackal-headed god, angered by a rash of grave robbing, orders the young Egyptian to enter the Great Pyramid...

Ellie's mission of protecting a rich young man is getting increasingly difficult: her young client is too visible, too unruly. She manages to thwart another kidnapping attempt - albeit by taking enormous personal risks - and requests her charge now...

London, the near future. Ever-increasing social inequalities have seen the birth of a flourishing kidnapping industry. To counter such a constant, overhanging threat, private security companies employing highly trained bodyguards have sprung into...

Merlin is dying, cut down by Glee the Goblin's bullets. And Nigel's control over his powers is still insufficient to save him with a wish. One solution left: a vial of dragon blood, the only artefact that can revive the enchanter. The problem is that the...

Nigel is the last of the Genies, and the Faeriehood's final hope. To get his powers back, he'll have to reconcile his two halves-the Human who wants nothing but a carefree life, and the genie, all fire and violence. A balance must be reached, fragile and...

Nigel's life has been turned upside down. People close to him have died, he's on the run from a shadowy government organisation that uses fairies to hunt magical creatures, and he is - the last of the genies! Waking up in the sanctuary created by none...

Nigel Grant has a gift: he's very, very good at finding whatever people want for them. Thanks to that almost supernatural skill, he lives a comfortable, carefree life in London. But one day, a client and friend of his throws himself under an underground...

He was XIII's most dogged enemy from the start, but who really was the Mongoose, that mysterious assassin-for-hire who nearly killed the amnesiac hero so many times? During an encounter between him and Kim Rowland - an event that took place just before...

In the abandoned town, the children have established a new home and organised a life for themselves. As they prepare for a trip to other cities in an attempt to determine the extent of the phenomenon that saw everyone else vanish, they encounter and...

Will Cuba be free, or will it become part of the United States? As the election draws near, Cuba becomes a powder keg. The exactions of El Santero continue, terrifying the liberators-turned-occupiers and enflaming the spirit of the freedom-starved...

The scene is set for the breakout of the century. Wayne Shelton is ready to proceed with the mission and spring his quarry from a Khalak prison. There is a small concern over Madrier, the Frenchman who talked his way onto the team - only to abandon them...

The murky worlds of intelligence and politics collide in Washington. The Cold War: the golden age of American and Soviet spies, a time when everything was clear-cut and simple. We're the good guys, they're the bad guys. Nowadays, CIA operatives like...

Is the reign of terror that grips Rome about to end? One by one, the Pope's warrior monks fall to the Scorpion's blade or desert their master. Feeling his enemy circling ever closer, Trebaldi grows desperate and hires Rome's best paid assassins to go...

Cuba, 1902. Freed from its Spanish masters by US forces four years ago, the island is still occupied by its erstwhile liberators, some of whom aren't all that eager to leave. American businessmen and politicians would like to see Cuba become a full...

A shadow from his past stalks the Scorpion-but is it from an angel...or a devil? The iron fist of Trebaldi's monks is still strangling Rome, but such an army is expensive. To pay his men before their loyalty begins to slip, the Pope must rely on the...

The beast was believed to be dead, and yet the body has been stolen, its escort massacred. A woman has been killed inside the town. And the neo-Druids have been slaughtered by what they believed to be their god. Even more disturbing, Charles Darwin is...

In the middle of the night, Princess Theti leaves the palace like a sleepwalker and rides to the Great Sphinx. Papyrus follows her to protect her, but when he finds her, she is the prisoner of the Sphinx, who is angry at the royal line for breaking their...

With 'the beast' killed by the soldiers, the strike ends and things seem to return to normal. But there are some unanswered questions and lingering tensions, especially towards the neo-druids who live in the forests. The death of a young girl triggers a...

Victorian England. In Yorkshire, several men and horses working on a railway line have been killed-slaughtered, really. The police suspect some kind of wild beast. The government calls upon controversial naturalist Charles Darwin to help with the...

Tibor and Eva work at Synapse, a corporation specialised in advanced software engineering. One day, a simple industrial accident throws their lives into chaos. Who is the beautiful mathematician Alicia Pallas, founder of Synapse? The sinister Blacksmith,...

John Midas is a financial genius. For years he's made a killing on the stock market. He's one of the richest men on earth - and on Wall Street, he's a legend. The only thing he loves more than money is his daughter, who lives a simple life away from his...

On the run from both agents of the Vatican and Ottoman authorities, the Scorpion is forced into uneasy alliances to continue his quest. Riding towards the Holy Land, the motley band begins to unravel the secrets of the Templars. But as loyalties shift, a...

Najah Cruz has infiltrated the entourage of Sam Nachez, head of the international organised-crime ring known as the High Council. She's an insider, working directly for the White House. And she's been cut off from her bosses. While corrupt forces in...

Larry B. Max is an unusual specialist from a little-known branch of the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service), the all-powerful tax-collecting agency of the United States, with every technological method at his disposal to link high finance and high crime...

Betrayed by the beautiful Ansea Latal, the Scorpion has been captured by the Turks. But he cannot afford to tarry: Rochnan and his monks are close on his tail, Ansea is on her way to Cappadocia to find the true cross of Saint Peter, and, back in Rome,...

Larry B. Max is an unusual specialist from a little-known branch of the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service), the all-powerful tax-collecting agency of the United States, which has every technological method at its disposal to investigate possible links...

Cedric is an eight-year-old boy who is desperately in love with Chen but too shy to let her know. Between school, rowdy friends, nosy parents and an insufferable cousin, little Cedric has a lot to deal with. Thankfully, his grandpa is always there to...

In 2035, the US Navy discovers a strange space capsule that has crashed in the Indian Ocean. Helen Friedman is in charge of interrogating the two survivors, who are none other than Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin! Who, then, are the men who came back from...

Theti-Cheri asks Papyrus to accompany her to the temple of Mout-Sekhmet, where she is to conduct a ceremony to appease the goddess's wrath, kindled after the previous high priest committed crimes. Unfortunately, the day chosen by the princess is viewed...

Felix's meteoric rise to the top has brought him much, but it also cost him dearly. Rachel has left him. His shareholders keep demanding ever more from him. Desperate, horrified, the young man is losing himself - but even that he is not allowed: Simon,...

Captured by neo-Taliban tribesmen along with French businessman Cordez, Najah is taken to Pashtun territory. Sam Nachez is looking for her, and French Intelligence are looking for Cordez, but none of them know precisely who took her or why. Nor do they...

In the future, the entire population is under a de facto dictatorship because of cerebral implants invented by one F.G. Wilson. Nolan Ska, an engineer, manages to travel back in time, with the intention of changing history by encouraging Wilson's first...

Among the many obstacles to Spirou Magazine's productivity, two of the most formidable are Gomer's little proteges: a very playful cat and an evil-tempered black-headed gull. Between the bird's dive-bombing attacks and the feline's recurrent bouts of...

Buck, Tumb, Sonny and Cindy have volunteered for a secret mission, and are practicing flying cargo planes across mountainous terrain. They're soon off to Afghanistan with new identities. Their cover: relief agency pilots. Their goal: locate a CIA agent...

Melusine, the young witch-in-training, divides her time between studying at the sorcery school and working au pair at the local vampire's castle. That's a lot of pressure, and she needs some distractions and fun too. So, what better way to take your mind...

The peace of Mordwick, a small coastal village, is shattered by the news that mysterious individuals have come ashore to dig up the recently departed. They looked like pirates, and rumours swell that the infamous captain Black Mary, a legendary,...

Rescued at sea by Black Mary, Lord James, the libertine aristocrat who longed for adventure, is utterly enthralled by the fierce pirate captain - enough so that when she boards a royal warship, he chooses to fight at her side. With her ship badly...

Elijah, the titular Lonesome Rider, had come to New York to settle accounts. Instead, he found a family lost to time and memory. But neither he nor his newfound sister Miss Lyle, the Pinkerton agent, were able to confront the one responsible for all...

Ireland, 1801. Two men are walking across the moors when they chance upon an unearthly mausoleum lost in the mists. 122 years later, Emilie Bertin, a cabaret singer going through difficult times, is contacted by a lawyer, who explains that she is the...