Showing results for "Rob" in Genre Fiction

The bite infects you. Sleep seals your fate. Noxidone was meant to be a miracle drug—designed to shorten the sleep cycle, unlock more hours in the day. Somewhere along the way, everything went wrong. The town of Egglemore is waking up to a terrifying epidemic. Those who have taken Noxidone are trapped in a violent, hallucinatory state, attacking other residents in increasingly brutal ways.

When ex-army officer and UNESCO archaeologist Max Hunter is sent to Normandy on the trail of England's missing crown jewels, he thinks he's in for a few easy weeks. But when the ancient Mont Saint-Michel abbey is attacked by gunmen, Hunter and his research assistant Lauren Lane are forced to flee for their lives with a mysterious treasure chest hidden for centuries inside the abbey. After evading the assassins, Hunter and Lauren find something inside the chest with world-changing consequences.

Smuggled to the Middle East as a child. Trained as one of the most elite insurgents of his generation. Forced to do things no one should, for a cause he couldn't believe in. But as his brothers were preparing to kill, he was looking for a way out. Now, on the eve of the deadliest coordinated attacks the world has ever seen, he'll finally get his chance. He will break free and hunt down those who made him a monster. He must draw on all his training to survive. He is Sleeper 13.

Against all odds, Aydin Torkal - aka Sleeper 13 - broke free from the terrorist group that took him as a child and raised him into a life of violence and hate. In the two years since, he's been tracking and killing all those responsible. But he's not done yet. Now living a secret life in London, he receives a surprise visit from Rachel Cox of MI6. She needs his help to infiltrate a sinister new terrorist cell who've taken root in the USA. Aydin is initially reluctant.

The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth.

Written by a retired British soldier, Trouble at Zero Hour is a breathless and vivid story, dramatising three of the key Allied operations that turned the tide of the Second World War. 6 June, 1944, somewhere over the Normandy coastline: Robbie Stokes sits in a glider, his Bren resting on the floor between his outstretched legs. The nose lowers and the glider descends rapidly: 10 minutes of stomach-churning twists and turns until suddenly the call goes up to 'brace'. The belly makes contact with the ground and the first Allied troops tumble out into occupied Europe.

Hunt for the Enemy - the breathtaking and action-packed finale to the Enemy series. The hunt is on. They've erased his past. Erased his very existence. But Carl Logan isn't finished yet. On the run in a harsh Russian winter, Logan - a once invaluable asset - has been set up for murder. His own agency, the secretive JIA, have labeled him a rogue. They're hunting him down. And they're not the only ones. But there's more at stake than just Logan's life.

Generation Blend ventures deep into the technology age gap and provides real-world solutions to combine the best that younger and older workers have to offer. It explores how generational attitudes toward technology affect issues as diverse as recruitment and retention, employee training, management decision-making, collaboration, knowledge sharing, work/life balance, and ordinary workday activities.

The Tomb of Eternity is the third and final part of the Immortality Arc and sees former Special Forces soldier Joe Hawke and the rest of the team face a lethal enemy who will stop at nothing in the epic hunt for the oldest secret in the world. As the struggle to discover the elixir of life draws to its furious conclusion, Hawke fights against the clock in a desperate search for the dark truth about not only the source of eternal life but also his wife's savage murder, and what he discovers shocks him to his core.

In Thunder God, former Special Forces specialist Joe Hawke must take even greater steps to secure the future of humanity when an international human-trafficker embarks on an insane pursuit of the greatest power in the world, a power so mighty it will change the course of history forever. Joe Hawke and his team fight their way through the Shanghai underworld to Genghis Khan's tomb and then on to the final resting place of the ancient Map of Immortality in a bid to stop the Thunder God from seizing the greatest power on Earth.

What is the oldest, darkest secret in the world? The discovery of an ancient Greek text that could be the final piece of a mysterious puzzle older than time itself leads to a hunt for the truth as Joe Hawke fights to stop dark forces intent on changing the course of history forever.

Ana Bacon, a beautiful young wife and mother, tumbled off a cruise ship into dark and deadly waters. Ana is gone—leaving behind her wealthy husband and adorable daughter—but not everything about her disappearance adds up. What secrets did she leave behind? Investigator Ryan Monahan is a numbers man. So when his company sends him the Bacon case, which could net a ten-million-dollar payout, Monahan doubts that her death is just a tragic accident. But the husband has a substantial alibi and a number of witnesses claim to have seen Ana fall, and the official ruling seems to hold up.

Du bekommst alles im Store. Aber das hat seinen Preis... Der Store liefert alles. Überallhin. Zu besten Preisen. Der Store ist Familie. Der Store schafft Arbeit und weiß, was wir zum Leben brauchen. Bis in den Tod. Paxton und Zinnia lernen sich als Angestellte bei „Cloud” kennen, dem weltgrößten Onlinestore. Das Leben im Cloud-System ist perfekt geregelt, aber unter der Oberfläche brodelt es. Denn im Geheimen formiert sich der Widerstand gegen den übermächtigen Konzern. Auch Paxton muss sich bald die Frage stellen: Ist Zinnia die, die sie zu sein vorgibt? Kann er ihr trauen.

Yoga teacher Ren Devlin’s life is forever changed after he performs what the world proclaims to be a "miracle" in front of hundreds of shocked onlookers. Lauded as a spiritual healer, Ren is thrust into the limelight, along with his beloved life partner, Sean. Amidst the chaos, Ren seeks answers through deep meditation, during which he encounters his “council”—the gods and goddesses of the zodiac. Led by Saturn and Venus, Ren’s astrological council steers him down a path of spiritual healing to work through the kleshas—the five mental afflictions responsible for suffering.

Du bekommst alles im Store. Aber das hat seinen Preis... Der Store liefert alles. Überallhin. Zu besten Preisen. Der Store ist Familie. Der Store schafft Arbeit und weiß, was wir zum Leben brauchen. Bis in den Tod. Paxton und Zinnia lernen sich als Angestellte bei "Cloud" kennen, dem weltgrößten Onlinestore. Das Leben im Cloud-System ist perfekt geregelt, aber unter der Oberfläche brodelt es. Denn im Geheimen formiert sich der Widerstand gegen den übermächtigen Konzern. Auch Paxton muss sich bald die Frage stellen: Ist Zinnia die, die sie zu sein vorgibt?

Ex intelligence agent James Ryker thinks he knows why, and the answer lies at the corrupt heart of the SIS. Ryker isn’t one to let the bad guys get away with murder, even if it means taking matters into his own hands. But Karaman has many enemies, and one in particular will make all their lives much more complicated…They call her the Angel of Death – a former agent whose last encounter with Karaman cost her her family, and left her in a Lebanese prison cell. Now she’s free, and with nothing else to lose, she’s determined to get her revenge… whatever it takes.

Barry White Jr. is a self-professed man-child, and he likes it that way. He’s also a content creator for a logistics firm. No one in his Welsh village really knows what that means—least of all Barry. To add a little spice to his life, Barry places bets here and there. Then, one day, he wins big and is burdened with a mammoth sum of money. But the harder Barry tries to get rid of his winnings, the more he seems to accumulate. It’s like a real-life game of Go for Broke! Then it dawns on him. Perhaps there’s a way of turning this windfall to his advantage.

Joe Hawke ist in Amerika und wird dort Zeuge der Entführung des amerikanischen Präsidenten und einem der schlimmsten Terroranschläge in der Geschichte der USA auf die Hauptstadt Washington. Von den Bergen Idahos über Washington, D.C. und bis nach New York City heftet sich Joe Hawke an die Fersen der Entführer, um den Präsidenten vor einem furchtbaren Schicksal zu retten, und sieht sich mit einem Gegner konfrontiert, der bereit ist, in einem Racheakt ganz Amerika zu vernichten.

Joe Hawke und sein Team müssen sich einem gnadenlosen Feind stellen, der auf der Jagd nach dem ältesten Geheimnis der Welt vor nichts zurückschreckt. In seinem Wettlauf gegen die Uhr muss Hawke nicht nur das Geheimnis des Elixiers ewigen Lebens lösen, sondern auch die Wahrheit über den brutalen Mord an seiner Frau aufklären. Dieser führt ihn von der Kälte Russlands und den gewundenen Kanälen Venedigs bis zu den Pyramiden Ägyptens. Doch die Schatten seiner Vergangenheit sind länger als geahnt.

Der zweite Band der Abenteuerreihe stellt den Ex-Special-Forces-Soldaten Joe Hawke vor noch größere Herausforderungen, die Zukunft der Menschheit zu retten, denn ein Menschenhändler verfolgt den wahnsinnigen Plan, in den Besitz der größten Macht dieses Planeten zu gelangen, um damit die Geschichte für immer zu verändern. Joe Hawke und sein Team müssen sich daraufhin durch die Unterwelt Schanghais und zum Grab von Dschinghis Khan kämpfen, aber auch eine gestohlene und streng geheime Tesla-Technologie zurückerobern, mit deren Hilfe an einem unbekannten Ort ein verheerendes Erdbeben ausgelöst werden soll.