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The first part of a whole new series as captivating as it is troubling! A quest for identity full of perilous hazards that turns into an intriguing treasure hunt. A story where the inhibited impulses of Victorian England are released in the sensual intimacy of the harems of the Ottoman Empire. The dangers and voluptuousness of the present East stuck between evolution and tradition.
Determined to elucidate the mysteries of the sulfurous life of her grandmother, Kim Nelson continued his investigations at Istambul. But she became the fiercely coveted key of a treasure and her will to know leads her into increasingly dangerously troubled situations. Ruined and ready to do anything to rebuild a fortune, the adventurer Amin Dorman is convinced that the research carried out by the young and beautiful English aristocrat will lead her to the treasure which the Sultan Murati intended for the Germans on the eve of the First World War. According to him, the secret of it was held by Jade, the favorite intriguing of the despot. To his subtle erotic maneuvers succumbed the grandfather of the young woman and his wife. Kim did not, she, cease to understand what retinent irresistibly retistiblely Lady Nelson to the harem of the sultan. The name of Ebu Sarki mentioned in the intimate journal of Jade, his aieule, constitutes an element of wantlessness of the old time, he returns to the deep truth. Thanks to Malek, she has discovered the enigmatic character of the fact.
1912. The obsession of the Istanbul Sultan is now to recover Jade, his mistress party with the English diplomat Lord Nelson. Bringing back the favorite, it is also, for the British, a way to regain the favors of the Turkish leaders ready to ally themselves to the Germans and above all ready to offer them a fortune to improve their armament. On both sides, it is thought that looking for Lady Nelson, also disappeared, will allow to find Jade: the beautiful English woman having fallen in love with the disquieting East. 1999. Walking in the footsteps of Jade, her aieule, the young Kim Nelson, in turn, discovers the laws of the harem and the erotic pleasures of submission body and soul to a master. However, her objective is to find the fabulous treasure that the sultan intended to support the war effort of Germany at the beginning of the century and which was mysteriously intercepted. She is obviously not the only one to covet this fortune. As she, many think that Jade was the author of this hijacking and the rebellishness of her character and that the characters of the secret still had to bend the secret.
Like Jade, who was the favorite sulfurous of the Sultan of Istambul before becoming his aiule, Kim Nelson now holds the magic power that will give him the secret of a fabulous treasure gone as if by enchantment. This sesame opens, at the edge of a desert, a very strange vault room. The disturbing and tumultuous epilogue of a quest for identity full of enchanting hazards and a hunt for the perilous treasure.
Lord Nelson, his wife and Jade, the ex-favorite of Istanbul Sultan, whose couple share favors, have undertaken to explore Africa. On his river, their boat is savagely attacked by natives. Fascinated by the black pearl she wears in her ear as their goddess, the assailants take Jade. The beginning of a second cycle of enchanting adventures around the world for the sulphurous Jade who became the mistress of Lord and Lady Nelson.
Little daughter of the former Sultan of Istambul, Kim Nelson ventures into Africa in search of the black pearl that will open to her the secret of the treasure buried by her eldest. This pearl hangs in the right ear of an evil idol planted in the heart of an inhospitable region and only the descendant of the represented goddess can risk taking it away without fear of death.
This seventh volume dares a violence uncommon to the heart of an Africa in the throes of revolt. Jean Dufaux reveals the tragic fate of Lord Nelson and his wife, while instilling in Jade a machiavélism that will surprise many readers. As for the sumptuous drawing of Ana Miralles, he reveals to us an Africa of rare ferocity.
Finally the continuation of the Djinn series! Three simultaneous quests lead Kim, Jade and Charles Augery to the heart of Africa. In pursuit of the black pearl! This pearl that gives power and money. This pearl that transforms individuals: Jade, Djinn become the goddess Anatku; Lady Nelson, sacrificial beast; Lord Nelson, Pipitku; Kim, adventurer in the African jungle. This pearl gives fever to all characters, a fever that awakens the passion of the bodies and the deadly impulses. The fever of Africa!
For the first time since the beginning of the series, the two jinns are reunited in the same album. Kim Nelson finds the pearl of the goddess Anaktu and Jade fulfills his destiny by uniting with King Gorille, becoming forever the queen of Africa. This volume 9 closes the African cycle. Voyages, romances but also ethnology and... magic are the ingredients that make up the adventures with a great A of the series. The drawings of Ana Mirallès, of a rare sensuality, are still enchanting. This exceptional album will be published under 3 different covers.
The first episode of a new cycle that is chronologically after the Ottoman cycle and before the African cycle, The Pavilion of Pleasures takes place in India at the time of British domination. Jade, accompanied by Lady and Lord Nelson, arrives at the palace of Eschnapur mandated by the Rani, mother of the maharadjah. The latter wishes that the Djinn initiate to love his future bru, the daughter of the rebel Radjah Sing. This in the secret hope that his bru, strong of power, influences the policy of his son, favorable to the English. But a strange curse hovers on the palace. Curse that takes the form of a child who will only show himself... only in Jade.
Jean Dufaux and Ana Miralles meet for volume 11 of Djinn, the second of the India cycle. Jade learns in Tamila how to use his body to bewitch a man... But the man in question is Maharadjah and Tamila is the daughter of Radjah Sing, a revolutionary who does not step back in front of anything to chase the English out of India. When the "little story" meets the great, the game becomes dangerous and Jade is threatened...
In this twelfth volume of Djinn, Dufaux and Mirallès plunge us into a terrible war of influence. Everything is good to push the Maharadjah to support the English: use Miranda and his charms, and even shoot at Lord Nelson. But the revolt against colonization, inside the Palace as well as outside. Ana Miralles proves that her talent is just as impressive in the enclosed spaces, conducive to sensuality, as in the vast battlefields where spectacular battles take place.
The time has come to find Kim Nelson in our time. Kim before his journey to Africa and his quest for the black pearl, Kim in Calcutta and in the palace of his Highness the Rani of Eschnapur. The three cycles of this great series form an enchanting loop: real time and fantasy time mix with the sound of the bells of desire. Would the blood of the Djinns flow into the veins of Kim Nelson? Jean Dufaux and Ana Miralles sign the 13th and final volume of the Indian cycle Djinn!