Showing results for "Whispers" in War & Military

On September 11th, 2001, Kris Caldera was a junior member of the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to finding and stopping Osama Bin Laden. They failed. Ten days later, he was on the ground in Afghanistan with a Special Forces team. On the battlefield, he meets Special Forces Sergeant David Haddad. David - Arab American, Muslim, and gay - becomes the man Kris loves, the man he lives for, and the man he kills for, through the long years of the raging wars. When a botched mission rips David from Kris' life, Kris' world falls into ruin and ash.

The British government is worried. Rumours have spread about a new monster in the armoury of the Irish terrorist movement: an utterly ruthless team of American special forces mercenaries. The top secret, top priority order goes out: seek and destroy - no matter where. For the four-man Sabre team this will be their toughest ever assignment...probing the inner sanctum of the IRA's terror machine, fighting in the bloody carnage and chaos of Ulster. Never before has so much been at stake.

Eva Lopo se casa con Luis Álex, un estudiante de matemáticas en una misión militar en África. La boda es en el Stella Maris, un hotel donde se presentan dos sucesos inauditos que serán la raíz de una historia que retratará "la crisis del espacio doméstico colonial que, en últimas, acaba por ser la del Estado imperialista portugués". En esta novela hay una polifonía narrativa absoluta, en ella Eva rememora en primera y tercera persona un periodo que ella misma experimentó veinte años atrás, y confronta la idea de la construcción histórica con la memoria.