Th?ra peered at the floor, but couldn't see anything that could have frightened Mark?s that much, only three mounds of dust. She moved the light of her torch over them. It took her some time to realize what she was seeing- and then it was all she could do not to let the torch slip from her hand. 'Good God,' she said. She ran the light over the three faces, one after another. Sunken cheeks, empty eye-sockets, gaping mouths; they reminded her of photographs of mummies she'd once seen in National Geographic. 'Who are these people?...
At Manzhouli, near the border of China, Siberia, and Mongolia, the Chinese launch their charge into the woods. There is the roar of fire — and from the other side, the eruption of the SAS/D’s Heckler & Koch 9mm parabellums firing at over eight hundred rounds a minute, the crash of grenades, and the terrible whistling of flechettes. Suddenly the sky is aglow with phospherous flares like shooting stars, as the ChiComs’ four 120-pound Soviet-type Aphid missiles streak toward the B-52 at 2,800 meters per second. It’s all-out war…
Most of the translations from foreign languages in the text are my own, but for the quotation from Machiavelli’s and the quotation from Virgil’s (though I have adapted the latter very slightly). I am indebted to the late scholars George Bull (1929–2001) and E. V. Rieu (1887–1972), respectively. —OLIVER BOWDEN, PARIS, 2010
In 1913 Leon Courtney, an ex-soldier turned professional hunter in British East Africa, guides rich and powerful men from America and Europe on big game safaris in the territories of the Masai tribe. Leon has developed a special relationship with the Masai.One of Leon's clients is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German industrialist whose company builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. Leon is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne (from The Triumph of the Sun) who is commander of the British forces in East Africa to gather information from Von Meerbach. Instead Leon falls desperately ...
'Our concern – and we've communicated this over the weekend to all stations – is that the opposition may be about to deploy an invisible.'An invisible is CIA speak for the ultimate intelligence nightmare: the terrorist who, because he or she is an ethnic native of the target country, can cross its borders unchecked, move around that country unquestioned and infiltrate its institutions with ease. An invisible on mainland Britain was the worst possible news. For Liz Carlyle, an MI5 Intelligence officer, this report from MI6 marks the start of an operation which will test her to the limit and ...
Jason Palmer loved being a soldier. But after returning home from Iraq with an “other than honorable” discharge, he’s finding rebuilding his life the toughest battle yet. Elena Cruz is a talented cop, the first woman to make Chicago ’s prestigious Gang Intelligence Unit. She’s ready for anything the job can throw at her. Until Jason’s brother, a prominent community activist, is murdered in front of his own son. Now, stalked by brutal men with a shadowy agenda, Jason and Elena must unravel a conspiracy stretching from the darkest alleys of the ghetto to the manicured lawns of the city’s power brokers. In a world where corruption and violence are simply the cost of doing business, two damaged people are all that stand between an innocent child – and the killers who will stop at nothing to find him.
Mayhem is on the rise at the Witt’s End Resort, especially Cabin 14, where no guest ever leaves alive.Okay, is that a great hook or what? And the book is about-a death coach. Who solves murders.To add to it, the reason the guests never leave Cabin 14 is not that they're murdered. It's that-well, that would give it away.But let me just ask: have you ever heard a strange noise-when you know there's nothing there? A kitchen cabinet is open-and you now you didn't open it? A voice seems to whisper to you…but you know you're alone?Or are you? (Cue scary music.)Beth Solheim does not seem someone who believes in…well, whatever. Let her tell it.
Gabriel Espada, un c?nico buscavidas sin oficio ni beneficio, quiz? el m?s improbable de los h?roes, tiene ante s? una misi?n: descubrir el secreto de la Atl?ntida.La joven ge?loga Iris Gudrund?ttir intuye que se avecina una erupci?n en cadena de los principales volcanes de la Tierra y confiesa sus temores a Gabriel. Para evitar esta cat?strofe, que podr?a provocar una nueva Edad de Hielo, Gabriel tendr? que bucear en el pasado. El hundimiento de la Atl?ntida le ofrecer? la clave para comprender el comportamiento an?malo del planeta.Una mezcla explosiva de ciencia y arqueolog?a y, sobre todo, aventura en estado puro.
Lucie Henebelle et Franck Sharko, policiers dans la fameuse section criminelle du 36, Quai des Orf?vres, tentent de se remettre d'un drame qui a failli les s?parer. Ils essaient de faire un enfant, en vain. Et ? quelques jours de No?l, ce qui les attend est loin d'?tre l'annonce d'un heureux ?v?nement. ? l'heure o? tout le monde rentre se r?chauffer, le froid, la mort et les souvenirs maudits guettent.Une affaire d'envergure d?marre alors. Christophe Gamblin, journaliste de faits divers, est retrouv? mort de froid, enferm? dans son cong?lateur. Sa coll?gue ...
