Showing results for "Thomas" in Dramatisations

A charming rogue, Dan Courtney is learning fast that it takes more than a little charm to lay the groundwork for a railroad. Particularly when the plan is to build it across some of the roughest and most dangerous territory on earth. Courtney's been hired to survey the land that would link up the Uganda Railway to the Anglo-Egyptian railroad. Running through desert, jungle and mountains, this is one line—and story—with more twists and turns than the New York City subway system.

The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet, the apparent victim of family politics, she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn.

The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet, the apparent victim of family politics, she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn.

Der Piratenstadt entkommen, zwingt die schlecht bleibende Wetterlage die Silbersterns zur Landung auf der Insel Namako. Dem Sitz einer uralten Hochzivilisation stolzer Samurai, die sich seit Jahrhunderten von der Welt abschirmt. Doch die Abschottung wurde von anderer Seite durchbrochen, als die teuflische Dämonenkönigin Gargula durch magische Portale ihre Armee von Albtraumkreaturen nach Namako schickte. Nur gemeinsam kann dieser Gefahr Einhalt geboten werden.