Showing results for "The IRA" in Genre Fiction

By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine. Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World—Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to...

Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman, but...

Con la precisión y la sensualidad del cuento, pero también con el aliento épico de una novela, las tres historias que forman este volumen se sitúan en esa tierra de nadie imprecisa, sorprendente e incluso difícil de limitar que Jorge Volpi ha bautizado como "la media distancia", un género...

Uno avanza como por una alucinación en esta hipnótica historia de Cristian Romero. En ella, el horror no tiene un centro ni el tiempo un asidero. Uno entra y sale y avanza y retrocede, pero San Isidro, su población y su suerte, siempre están un paso más allá. Hay ciertas imágenes que...

Als Dius an seiner Haustür klingelt, ist Anton überrascht und irritiert. Keiner seiner Studenten an der Kunsthochschule ist bisher so ungeniert in sein Privatleben vorgedrungen. Oder hat ihm gar seine Freundschaft und einen Schreibplatz in einem alten Zunfthaus inmitten nordisch rauer Landschaft angetragen. Im Wechsel aus konzentriertem Arbeiten und langen Spaziergängen entwickelt sich dort ein fast altmodisch anmutendes Band der Freundschaft zwischen den beiden Männern, während sich ihre jeweiligen Leben zu Hause nicht ohne Komplikationen weiterdrehen.

L'amour va toujours au triple galop... Passionnée par les chevaux, Sarah espère intégrer la prestigieuse école du Cadre Noir. Elle s'entraîne sans relâche avec l'étalon que lui a offert son grand-père, un homme aimant, qui l'élève comme si elle était sa propre fille. Lorsque le vieil homme tombe malade, la vie de Sarah est bouleversée. Mais pas question de renoncer à son rêve ! Natasha, brillante avocate, a connu des jours meilleurs : son mariage s'est soldé par un désastre, et son nouveau compagnon ne se montre pas à la hauteur.

Fratelli, alleati, nemici: le storie di Shasa Courtney e Manfred De la Rey tornano a intrecciarsi nell’appassionante seguito de "Il potere della spada". Dalla fantasia del maestro dell’avventura, uno straordinario capitolo della saga dei Courtney, in una nuova traduzione. Shasa Courtney, erede dell’immensa ricchezza di famiglia, ha un unico sogno: riunificare il suo amato paese, dilaniato dall’apartheid.

150 år efter nationernes endelige sammenslutning ånder alt omsider fred og idyl. Der er ikke længere krig, og aggressioner findes ikke. Mennesket er endelig befriet fra sin elendighed ved hjælp af særlige behandlinger, der blandt andet involverer indoktrinering. Det eneste mennesket skal opgive for denne tilstand af tilfredshed, er deres selvstændighed. Storcomputeren har total kontrol over alle individer - indtil hovedpersonen, Li RK35M4419, begynder at opleve en selvstændighedstrang og tager kampen op imod undertrykkelsen.

Als Stefan Hertmans sich zum Kauf eines alten Hauses in Gent entscheidet, ahnt er nichts von den Geschichten, die sich hinter dessen Mauern abgespielt haben. Er macht sich auf die Suche nach den Spuren der früheren Bewohner und entdeckt die fesselnde Geschichte eines SS-Offiziers und dessen pazifistischer Frau. Angetrieben von einem tiefen Bedürfnis nach Verständnis, tastet sich Hertmans an diese Figuren heran und beleuchtet damit zugleich die Tragödie eines ganzen Landes.

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can just three members of the SAS quell a rebel uprising? July 1981: while Gambian President Jawara attends a royal wedding in London, Marxist rebels seize power. Fearing armed intervention from neighbouring Senegal, they take hostages – including one of...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS lead a civilian population out of war-ravaged Bosnia to safety? Bosnia, 1993. A small army of Serbs, Muslims and Croats, formed to defend the isolated mountain town of Zavik and under the command of Reeve, a renegade Briton, has begun mounting...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS prevent British Task Force being destroyed by exocet missiles? It is 1982, and a brutal, bloody war is being waged as British forces try to battle the Argentinians into surrendering the Falkland Islands. As the fighting continues, it becomes...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS succeed in rescuing one of their own from a fearsome drug cartel? The end of 1980s sees the rise of the cocaine cartels of Colombia, criminal organisations as powerful as armies, whose malign reach stretches from the coca fields of Bolivia to...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS prevent the launch of Exocet missiles at the British Task Force? May 1982: as the British Task Force prepares to retake the Falkland Islands, a lone Sea King helicopter makes an apparently forced landing in the southernmost reaches of Chile...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS survive working deep undercover among the terrorists of Northern Ireland? It is the 1970s, and a mean and dirty war is being waged on British soil. Sectarian violence is an almost daily occurrence and the terrorist groups, who finance their...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to defeat what awaits them inside a top secret Nazi research facility? In the 1990s, sketchy reports of an accident in a high-security research facility deep within the remote, mountainous region of Kazakhstan filter through to...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS face the might of Rommel’s army and win? In the North African desert in 1941 the war is being won by the brilliant German commander General Rommel, and the British are in retreat on all fronts. A young British army lieutenant, David Stirling...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS succeed in freeing Oman from the deadly grip of fanatical guerrillas? In the arid deserts and mountains of Arabia a ‘secret’ war is being fought. While Communist-backed Adoo guerrillas have been waging a campaign of terror against Oman...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS survive the inferno of Operation Desert Storm? August 1990, and Iraqi tanks are rolling into Kuwait, putting one quarter of the world’s oil reserves at risk. So begins Operation Desert Storm. As specialists in desert warfare, the legendary...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS assault team rescue the hostages from the terrorist-held Iranian embassy? 30 April 1980: six well-armed terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. Nineteen Iranian nationals and four British citizens are captured. Subsequent negotiations...