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James Herbert is one of the most influential and widely imitated authors of our time. His previous novels are ''The Rats'', ''The Fog'', ''The Survivor'', ''Fluke'', ''The Spear'', ''Lair'', ''The Dark'', ''The Jonah'', ''Shrine'', ''Moon'', ''Domain'', ''The Magic Cottage'', ''Sepulchre'', ''Haunted'', ''Creed'', ''Portent'' and ''The Ghosts of Sleath''.
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Au cours de son histoire désormais plus que centenaire, les montres-bracelets ont connu une évolution remarquable, tant sur le plan esthétique que technique. Ce n'est pas sans raison que les créations des fabricants traditionnels sont devenues des placements à valeur sûre. Ces objets ont en effet une longue histoire derrière eux.
Dans ce livre richement illustré, Herbert James, expert en horlogerie, raconte l'histoire passionnante des débuts des vingt plus grandes marques d'horlogerie au monde ainsi que leurs instruments. Présentés par ordre chronologique, vous retrouverez des modèles de légende fabriqués par des manufactures aux noms prestigieux : A. Lange & Söhne, Blancpain, Breitling, Cartier, Glashütte Original ou encore Rolex et Zenith.
Tous les modèles présentés dans ce titre sont accompagnés de leurs caractéristiques techniques ainsi que de photographies, afin de permettre au lecteur de se plonger dans une nouvelle dimension de l'univers de la créativité humaine.
Dans ce livre, Herbert James nous raconte l'histoire incroyable de ces entrepreneurs, de cet artisanat d'exception et de son esthétique raffinée. Il présente en particulier les modèles qui ont fait leur renommée.
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**A special 40th anniversary edition of the classic, bestselling novel that launched James Herbert's career** It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time suddenly, shockingly, horribly the balance of power had shifted . . . The effectiveness of the gruesome set pieces and brilliant finale are all its own Sunday Times
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What happens when you lose your body?
Jim True knows. He has returned from an out-of-body experience to find he has been brutally murdered and his body mutilated. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one, except his killer, knows he still exists. Freed from his body, True embarks on a quest to find his killer and discover why and how he has managed to survive.
As he closes in on his murderer, True discovers that even the very people he loved and trusted have betrayed him. He meets his killer, a strange and sinister figure who can also leave his body at will.
In James Herbert''s Nobody True, an epic and deadly battle ensues between True and a seemingly unstoppable and hideous serial killer - a man now intent on even more murders, including True''s wife and child . . . -
