Showing results for "Thomas Mann" in Thriller & Suspense

L'écrivain renommé Gustav von Aschenbach, en proie à une crise créative, entreprend un voyage pour se ressourcer. Dès son arrivée, il est captivé par la beauté exceptionnelle d'un jeune adolescent polonais. Le jour suivant, il aperçoit à nouveau le garçon, prénommé Tadzio, sur la plage en compagnie de sa famille. Cette rencontre marque le début d'une obsession grandissante pour Aschenbach, qui se trouve profondément troublé par la présence de cet être d'une rare beauté.

In Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a distinguished writer's holiday from the burdens of his work turns out very differently from what he expected. By means of the story, Mann explores the relationships between disciplined intellect and ungoverned passion, and between decaying age and youthful beauty, against a background that resonates today in a time of pandemics. It was first published in German (as Der Tod in Venedig) in 1912.

Mario und der Zauberer – Ein tragisches Reiseerlebnis ist eine Novelle von Thomas Mann, die 1930 zunächst in Velhagen und Klasings Monatsheften publiziert wurde und anschließend im S. Fischer Verlag erschien. In psychologischem Realismus schildert Mann darin die Wirkungen eines im faschistischen Italien hereinbrechenden Dämons anhand der Figur des Showhypnotiseurs Cavaliere Cipolla.

SEAL Team Six and Thomas Crocker are back hunting their most elusive adversary yet: The Falcon. SEAL Team Six operative Thomas Crocker is no stranger to missions of the highest national importance and the gravest danger. But this time, the mission hits close to home. The Iranian terrorist he and...

In war-torn Syria, the heroes of the SEAL Team Six series defuse an ISIS warlord's explosive plot. On the way to a meeting with a CIA source in Istanbul, Chief Warrant Officer Crocker noticed he's being tailed. He suspects the men tracking his movements are members of Syria's intelligence agency...

Real-life SEAL Don Mann brings all of his insight and experience to this installment of the SEAL Team Six series. When a senator's wife and teenage daughter are kidnapped, Thomas Crocker and SEAL Team Six are sent to Mexico's lawless countryside, where federal agents protect violent narcotics...

Thomas Crocker's SEAL Team Six crew deploys to the Nigerian jungle to combat arms and human trafficking by Boko Haram in this fiercely authentic military thriller. The charismatic Boko Haram leader Ratty Festus, also known as the Leopard, has been terrorizing drought-ridden northeastern Nigeria...

Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo's shockingly authentic military thriller sends Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six brothers to confront a notorious ISIS general, The Viper, during the occupation of Aleppo, Syria. Despite the efforts of the Assad government and its Russian and Turkish allies, Syria...

The North Korean government is days away from realizing its nuclear ambitions and only the heroes of SEAL Team Six can stop it. Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Crocker of SEAL Team Six's Black Cell is in Las Vegas after conducting a training exercise in the desert with new members of the team...

Ein weiterer kniffliger Fall für DIE DENKMASCHINE. John Dunn spricht bei Professor van Dusen vor. Er ist sich jedoch nicht sicher, ob er wirklich John Dunn heißt. Eigentlich weiß er so gut wie gar nichts mehr über sich. Irgendwann ist er in einem Hotelzimmer aufgewacht. Seiner kompletten Erinnerungen beraubt.