Showing results for "Guerrillas" in Literature & Fiction

On an unnamed Caribbean Island, political tensions provoked by race and poverty are high. Jimmy Ahmed, a young mixed-race man, has been hailed as a revolutionary leader of the people. Roche, imprisoned for activities against South Africa's apartheid regime, and Jane, a feckless English rich girl wanting to feel a part of something bigger, get sucked into the turmoil and world of Ahmed. But does anyone achieve anything by causing unrest? Do any of them really want freedom in a new society or just the old society with themselves at the helm of power?

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS patrol escape the deadly Malayan jungle alive? Malaya in the 1950s, and Communist terrorists wage a bloody war against the country’s estates and rubber plantation owners. Chased into the interior by British Army units, the guerrillas soon...

In the heart of the Amazon, the river runs red with greed. When Caleb Saunders—known only as Corsair—agrees to protect a remote village under siege by a brutal guerrilla faction, he expects a simple rescue. What he finds is something far more dangerous: a hidden deposit of gold that ruthless men are willing to kill for—and innocent lives trapped in the crossfire.

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Madisun Dumas is on a roll. She kicked ISO-1 out of Detroit and then New Orleans. The people who killed her family are six feet under. Now, it's time to go after their bosses, but not everything is as simple as it appears. Something sinister is brewing within ISO-1. Drugs, corruption, and human trafficking are all just a cover for something far more horrific. And Madi is about to land right in the middle. When the entity inside her tells her to trust no one, Madisun really needs to take that advice to heart. If she doesn't, death may not be the worst option.

El año en que la democracia se perdió, una mujer lo dejó todo para impedirlo. Mientras Alfonso maneja hacia Tixtla donde agoniza Ubalda, una maestra rural y luchadora social, recuerda el momento en que la conoció, así como los acontecimientos políticos y sociales que sacudieron la vida democrática de México en los años ochenta y que, inevitablemente, terminaron marcando la historia de ella: el abandono de su hija, la desaparición forzada de su esposo, y su doloroso exilio.