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“Eric Steele and author Sean Parnell are the real deal.”— Lee ChildSpecial operative Eric Steele, introduced in Man of War, is on the hunt for a formidable Russian terrorist in this high-intensity tale of international intrigue from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Outlaw Platoon.Badly injured while stopping a rogue agent from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, elite warrior Eric Steele is drawn back into service before he’s ready when unknown assailants break into his home near Pittsburgh, injuring his mother and stealing his father’s pistol.An Alpha—an elite soldier under the direct command of the president of the United States—Steele is hell-bent on finding the attackers and bringing them to justice. While tracking his foe, Steele discovers he’s become entangled in a far more sinister plan that’s already been set in motion. A terrorist named Zakayev, once locked away in a maximum-security prison in Russia, has escaped and joined forces with Hassan Sitta, a man who’s shown his prowess and ingenuity with a spectacular bomb planted somewhere in the Middle East that hasn’t been ignited—and no one can find. But that is only the beginning of a horrifying plan that, if it succeeds, will shatter international alliances and bring the world to the brink of war. Now, the hunted must turn the tables on the hunter—Steele must find a way to stay alive and stop Zakayev before innocent lives are lost.

In the midst of the inhuman and brutal battle for Stalingrad, German and Russian snipers roam the ruins like angels of death, spreading fear and terror. Katja Kalikova lost her husband to German bombs and her youngest son, Boris, to a Soviet bullet. Since then, she and her 8-year-old son, Grisha, have been fighting for their daily survival. Major Erwin Koenig is an officer in the Wehrmacht and was stationed in Stalingrad. When his son Rolf is also sent to Stalingrad and falls victim to Russian snipers, Koenig has only one goal left. To avenge his son's death, the former sniper instructor sets his sights on living Russian sniper legend Vasily Saizev. Koenig blazes a bloody trail through dying Stalingrad, quickly turning from hunter to hunted.When Katja and Major Koenig's paths fatefully cross, they make a pact to defeat Saizew.The fate of the soldiers fighting in Stalingrad, as well as that of the Russian civilians forced to remain in the city, is portrayed bleakly, coldly, and without pathos.A few exemplary original photos from the Second World War and accompanying drawings illustrate the Battle of Stalingrad and the legendary sniper duel between Saizev and Koenig.

“StephenKiernan has pulled off the nearly impossible...The most tender, terrifying,relevant book you’ll read this year.” — Jenna Blum, NewYork Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and TheLost FamilyFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Baker’s Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption—a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician wife, he spends his postwar life seeking redemption—and they find it together.Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the age’s greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb.As he performs that work Charlie suffers a crisis of conscience, which his wife, Brenda—unaware of the true nature of Charlie’s top-secret task—mistakes as self-doubt. She urges him to set aside his qualms and continue. Once the bombs strike Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the feelings of culpability devastate him and Brenda. At the war’s end, Charlie receives a scholarship to pursue a PhD in physics at Stanford—an opportunity he and Brenda hope will allow them a fresh start. But the past proves inescapable. All any of his new colleagues can talk about is the bomb, and what greater atomic weapons might be on the horizon. Haunted by guilt, Charlie and Brenda leave Stanford and decide to dedicate the rest of their lives to making amends for the evil he helped to birth into the world.Based on the life of the actual mathematician Charles B. Fisk, Universe of Two combines riveting historical drama with a poignant love story. Stephen Kiernan has conjured a remarkable account of two people struggling to heal their consciences and find peace in a world forever changed.

Mayberry and Garrett, introduced in the national bestseller Collusion, are caught in the middle of a deadly crisis with a pending nuclear bomb attack and little help from the government that sidelined them both.When an exiled Iranian scientist is assassinated inWashington, DC, the former FBI counterintelligence agent and ex-SEAL are pulled back into theworld of clandestine ops—and the fate of the entireEast Coast is at stake. Joining ranks with a heraldedMossad agent, Mayberry and Garrett pursue a skilledinternational killer hired to murder a legendary Israeli spymaster. Their pursuit draws them into an internationalconspiracy led by a power-hungry Russian oligarchintent on destroying Washington, DC, and the Navy’smost important Atlantic base. The oligarch plots tounleash a nuclear onslaught first devised by the KGBbut shelved by Kremlin leaders during the Cold War.On top of this, Iran’s sudden offer to help the UnitedStates raises suspicions about its possible role in aglobal shakedown. With too many enemies emerging and too littletime, the two Americans are forced to operate outsideofficial channels to stay ahead of naive US politiciansand foreign enemies out to entangle their efforts inred tape. Operating in an international tinderbox,Mayberry and Garrett must decipher which playersare allies and which are posers—in time to thwart acataclysmic nuclear attack on US soil and prevent aninternational incident that could ignite a third worldwar. And they must keep themselves alive.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! <BR> <BR>A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.<BR><BR>1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention.<BR> <BR>That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy.<BR> <BR>But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?

Führen die schriftlichen Erinnerungen eines "alten Kameraden" zur Katastrophe?Unter den alten Sachen, die Kalle zwar erbte, jedoch nie beachtete, entdeckt er durch Zufall ein Notizbuch, in das sein Großvater alle seine Erinnerungen an die Erlebnisse im Kriegsgefangenenlager eingetragen hatte.Dieses Notizbuch befindet sich bereits seit Jahren in Kalles Besitz, doch er wusste nichts davon. Eigentlich zählt er sich zur hartgesottenen Art, doch was er da zu lesen bekommt, verschlägt ihm teilweise die Sprache.Auch gründete der mittlerweile verstorbene Großvater nach seiner Heimkehr eine Firma mit seinem damaligen Kameraden, den er in der Kriegsgefangenschaft kennenlernte und in diesem Notizbuch namentlich nennt.Da Kalle der einzige Erbe ist, müsste die Teilhaberschaft also an ihn gegangen sein. Das ist jedoch nicht der Fall. Kalles Großvater wird nirgendwo als Kompagnon aufgeführt. Sein Name wurde offensichtlich spurlos beseitigt.Es scheint jetzt so, als hätte er nie existiert, denn kein Papier weist seine Beteiligung aus. Kalle schaltet einen Anwalt ein und legt ihm das Notizbuch als Indiz für einen möglichen Betrug vor.Weitere Recherchen ergeben, dass sowohl Kalles Großvater als auch der Kompagnon und frühere Kamerad in demselben Lager untergebracht waren.Auch der bis zum heutigen Zeitpunkt nie eindeutig geklärte Tod des Großvaters wirft ein seltsames Licht auf die gesamte Angelegenheit.

Du mondmilitoj - du generacioj de unu skota familio. Luktado ¿e la fronto - kaj luktado ankä hejme.La granda kaldrono, la majstroverko de John Francis kaj unu el la plej gravaj romanoj en Esperanto, sekvas la vivojn de kelkaj ordinaraj homoj tra la tempo de du mondmilitoj, esploras iliajn diversajn sintenojn al la milito, bildigas la militservajn spertojn de kelkaj el ili, kaj montras la ¿an¿ojn en ilia socio kaj la dilemojn de la ¿iutaga vivo.Tiu ¿i verko estas nepre epokfara. [...] A¿tentiko, fizika kaj psi¿ologia, estas ¿ia elstara karakterizo. William AuldFrancis konstruis sian verkon tre lerte kaj sukcese. [...] la ampleksaj dialogoj igas la tutan romanon facile legebla, malgrä ¿ia dikeco. Sten JohanssonJohn Islay Francis estas eksterdube unu el niaj plej kompetentaj prozverkistoj. Baldur Ragnarsson

Anno 70 nach Christus, Unruhen in Syria und neue Steuern plagen die Bevölkerung des römischen Imperiums. Doch die Gladiatorenspiele sorgen nach wie vor für Ablenkung.Um seine Spielschulden zu begleichen, verkauft sich Gavin Tettius an den Gladiatorenmeister Marcus Atticus, wo er fortan als Gladiator Myrdin um sein Leben kämpft. Bald avanciert er zum gefeierten Publikumsliebling. Doch das ruft Neider hervor. Marcus schenkt ihm die Freiheit und Gavin denkt, dass es nur noch besser werden kann, da stirbt sein Freund und Mentor unerwartet. Kurz darauf findet sich Gavin mit einer Mordanklage konfrontiert. Sein Anwalt tut alles, um ihn und seine Geliebte frei zu bekommen. Doch Gavin muss sich mehr als dem Gottesurteil stellen, denn die Vergangenheit wirft ihre langen Schatten voraus, wodurch er noch weitere gefahrvolle Prüfungen überstehen muss.

Emma ist siebenundzwanzig und hat sie überlebt: Die russische Hölle samt Teufel und seinen bestialischen Handlangern. Sie taucht unter, führt zusammen mit ihrer Tochter ein Leben auf der Flucht. Doch dann ist die kleine Val plötzlich verschwunden. Ihr Daddy hat sie geholt. Nur ist Daddy des Teufels rechte Hand. Um ihr Kind aus den Fängen der Russen zu befreien, begibt Emma sich an den Ort zurück, der sie seelisch auf Lebzeiten zerstört hat. An einen dunklen Ort, an dem niemand, der bei Verstand ist, freiwillig sein Dasein fristet. An einen grauenvollen Ort, an dem Deals mit dem Teufel persönlich geschlossen werden. ----------- Emma ist am Ende. Sie musste ohne ihre Tochter das Koslow-Anwesen verlassen, um Sam das Leben zu retten. Ihr Leben ist eine Aneinanderreihung grenzenloser Dramen und diese enden auch nicht, als sie an einen unbekannten Ort gebracht und erneut eingesperrt wird. Als sie glaubt, dass alles nicht noch schrecklicher werden kann, geht es erst richtig los. Bisher wurde die kleine Kämpferin mit allem fertig, doch neue Schicksalsschläge verlangen ihr alles ab. Am liebsten würde sie die Augen schließen und sich ihrem Elend hingeben, als auch noch unvorhergesehene Katastrophen eintreten, die niemand verhindern kann.

The world called him a monster, so he became one...Guilty. Innocent? Definitely dangerous. The media chases Lane Lawson wherever he goes. Once upon a time, he'd been locked away because the Feds believed he was a serial killer. Every single day that he'd been in that hell, he'd had to fight for survival. Now he's out, free, seemingly clear, but he'll never be the man he was before a nightmare ended the life he knew.It's his turn to be the predator.So he hunts. Adrenaline and rage fuel him, and he hunts the killers who think they've gotten away with their crimes. He paid for someone else's sins before, and he's determined that the guilty will be the ones to suffer. He's joined up with the Ice Breakers, a team of cold case solvers-a team that helped get him out of his hell-and he will not stop until the scales of justice have been balanced.And in this new life, he has an unlikely new partner.PI Ophelia Raine is Lane's opposite in every way. Fiery when he's ice cold. Smiling when he's ready to rip the world apart. She's supposed to balance him, to help train him as an Ice Breaker...and, most importantly, he knows that Ophelia is supposed to keep him in check. Don't let him go off the deep end. An order he'd heard her receive.But the problem is that the more he's around the gorgeous and tenacious Ophelia, the more Lane's control begins to fracture. Because it has been far too long since he's taken something-someone-for himself. And he very, very much wants Ophelia. A dark and desperate desire that begins to consume him.Ophelia has her own darkness hidden inside.The more he's around her, the more Lane realizes that Ophelia's bright and beautiful veneer is just a facade. She's hiding secrets. Secrets that she's keeping from him and all of the Ice Breakers. And when Ophelia's bloody and violent past comes back to haunt her...She will need a monster to keep her safe.Author's Note: Cold case solvers need to get ready-Ophelia's past isn't dead and buried the way she'd desperately hoped. Instead, it's alive and well...and coming after her. She'll need the help of a very unlikely protector-a man who claims to be no one's hero-in order to survive the evil heading her way. But heroes are overrated, and sometimes it's the "monsters" who are the only ones who can get the job done. Prepare for some huge blurs between truth and lies, ice-meltingly hot scenes, and a love that might just be worth killing for...

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth century, capturing the bravery, battles, and bloodshed of Britain’s peninsular wars with this epic tale of historical fiction featuring his iconic hero Richard Sharpe.Outsider.Hero.Rogue.If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe.And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he’s sent on a dangerous mission of espionage to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines.For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge, one from the North and one from the South. If they meet, the British are lost.Only Sharpe’s small band of riflemen—with their cunning and courage to rely on—stand in their way. But they’re rapidly outnumbered, enemies are hiding in plain sight, and as the French edge ever closer to the frontline, time is running out….

Entre mécaniques inquiétantes, cultes nébuleux et héros sans boussoles, les jeux se font sur des plateaux détraqués. Sur Arian, le continent aux quatre dieux et au peuple divisé, les trompettes de la guerre retentissent comme en écho lointain. Les siècles de dissension menacent de rompre et les monarchies en carré sont prêtes à en recueillir les gloires. Million, page aux talents d'épée suspicieux et Jena, alchimiste fallacieux, posent pieds dans le royaume de Lanua, le pays le plus prospère de ces terres. Alors même que les véritables raisons de leur venue leur vaudraient la mort, ils se retrouvent tiraillés dans une intrigue qui les dépasse. Car en passant les portes du palais de la capitale Liv, c'est au duo le plus impitoyable d'Arian qu'ils doivent faire face : Sa Majesté Delayne et son ésotérique Sorcière. L'insatiable soif de grandeur de la première et les errances métaphysiques de la seconde finiront par les déployer dans un périple à travers le continent des quatre dieux, pour décider de qui lancera la première pierre.

In der neuesten Übersetzung von Alexandre Dumas' seltenem Juwel "L'Horoscope" entfaltet sich eine Geschichte, die mit Witz, Weisheit und der unverkennbaren Dramatik des Meisters selbst durchzogen ist. Dieses Theaterstück, ein verborgener Schatz in Dumas' umfangreichem Oeuvre, beleuchtet die ewige Frage nach Schicksal gegen freien Willen durch das Prisma eines mysteriösen Horoskops, das das Leben seiner Protagonisten unwiderruflich verändert.Als ein Horoskop das Schicksal eines jungen Liebespaares zu besiegeln droht, finden sich die Charaktere in einem Wirbel aus Intrigen, Leidenschaft und philosophischen Dilemmata wieder. Dumas, bekannt für seine tiefgründigen Charakterstudien und spannungsgeladenen Handlungen, webt eine komplexe Erzählung, die den Leser dazu herausfordert, über die Macht der Sterne und die Stärke des menschlichen Geistes nachzudenken.Diese Neuübersetzung bringt Dumas' geistreiche Dialoge und lebendige Beschreibungen mit einer Frische und Lebendigkeit, die moderne Leser anspricht, während sie gleichzeitig die historische Tiefe und den kulturellen Reichtum des Originaltextes bewahrt. "L'Horoscope" ist nicht nur eine fesselnde Geschichte über Liebe, Schicksal und Selbstbestimmung, sondern auch ein faszinierender Einblick in das Werk eines der größten Schriftsteller der Literaturgeschichte.Tauchen Sie ein in ein vergessenes Meisterwerk, das nun endlich das Licht der modernen Welt erblickt und bereit ist, eine neue Generation von Lesern und Theaterliebhabern zu begeistern. "L'Horoscope" verspricht eine unvergessliche Reise durch die Tiefen der menschlichen Seele, getrieben von der unerschütterlichen Hoffnung auf die Macht der Liebe und des freien Willens. Ein Muss für jeden Dumas-Fan und Liebhaber klassischer Literatur.

A sexy, suspenseful standalone in the Second Shot Series . . .When Dominic Fairmore left Oregon to be all he could be as an Army Ranger, he always knew he’d come back to claim Lily Greene. But after six years and three career-ending bullets, Dominic is battered, broken, and nobody's hero—so he stays away. Until he learns Lily has been the victim of a seemingly random attack. He’ll do anything to keep her safe . . . even go home.Lily is starting to find a life without Dominic when suddenly her wounded warrior is home and playing bodyguard. But she refuses to play the part of a damsel in distress, no matter how much she misses his tempting touch. He’ll leave as soon as she’s safe and Lily knows her heart will never heal.But as attraction stirs, danger closes in. With more than Lily’s heart at stake, can Dominic draw a line between protecting Lily and loving her?

Anfang der 1930er-Jahre. Der Erste Weltkrieg tobt weiter in Europa.Eine kleine Inselgruppe im Nordatlantik hat sich inmitten der Kriegswirren vom unbesiegten Kaiserreich Preußen-Polen gelöst. Doch die neu gewonnene Freiheit ist trügerisch. Wie Dávid, Zeichner beim führenden Industriekonsortium, feststellen muss, geht die neu gebildete Regierung unbarmherzig gegen Arbeiterunruhen vor und erweist sich als ebenso gnadenlos wie die ehemaligen Besatzer. Wird er den Kampf gegen die Ungerechtigkeit aufnehmen? Und welchen Preis muss sein Schwager, der einst als Kriegsflüchtling auf die Inseln gekommen ist, für den Frieden zahlen?Rauch über den Schafsinseln - Eine Dieselpunk-Alternativweltgeschichte.

Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Women of Trachis, and Euripides' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, Erika L. Weiberg examines how and why female characters' expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Tragic representations of female noncombatants' trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. At the same time, these characters' expressions of trauma also create a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero's wife and the women he enslaves, Weiberg calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Weiberg argues that recognizing women's trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero's story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences.

He thought his battles were over. This one is for his soul.Lummy Tullos has borne witness to the brutal toll of war. His harrowing journey has led him down paths he never intended, forced him to commit acts he never imagined. Yet, in the crucible of conflict, it's often the noblest of men who must carry out the darkest deeds. Lummy faced the impossible because survival-and sanity-demanded it.With the Civil War's echoes fading, Choctaw County, Mississippi, has known relative peace since Captain Tom Ford's notorious gang met its violent end two years ago. But the loss of kin and comrades presses heavily on Lummy's soul. Now, all he yearns for is to be a devoted husband, a loving father, and to till the good soil of the family farm in peace.Lummy's story isn't finished, though. His battles, he hoped, were over, but President Grant himself reaches out to deny him respite. The work of preserving freedom demands further sacrifice as a new specter looms on the horizon. A former brother-in-arms, once bound by the shared crucible of Vicksburg's trenches, now reigns terror over central Louisiana. The call to arms reaches Lummy's ears once more, beckoning him to stand against the storm of terror so that others may know the peace he now craves.Choctaw County's fields will have to wait as Lummy journeys back to Winn Parish, where the West-Kimbrell Gang's tyranny must be quelled and the clash of wills will decide the fate of a region held captive by fear and lawlessness.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! <BR> <BR>A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.<BR><BR>1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention.<BR> <BR>That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy.<BR> <BR>But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?

Can love blossom in times of trouble?Life-long friends Louisa, Jeannie and Kate are following in the footsteps of their families, working at the Clarks shoe factory.But when Britain declares war on Germany, the Somerset village of Street is shaken to its core. The Clarks factory is at the heart of life in the village, but the Clark family are Quakers and pacifists. Before long, there are fierce debates amongst the workers and tensions between those who oppose the war and those who believe the village men should go to fight.Each of the girls must decide her own position but as brothers and sweethearts leave for France, Louisa is relieved that her beloved Mattie, a Quaker, won't be signing up. But she'll soon find that they face fierce opposition at home as well as across the Channel.Will the girls' friendship be enough to keep them together, as everything around them falls apart?A heartwarming and gripping new saga series perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Rosie Clarke.