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Derek Harrington, retired Marine Force Recon and SERE instructor, is barely scraping by teaching the basics of wilderness survival. His fledgling bushcraft school is on the cusp of going out of business and expenses are piling up fast. His only true mission these days? To get his ailing father into a full care facility and to support his ex-wife and their son. When one of his students presents him with an opportunity too good to be true—$20,000 to instruct a private group for 30 days in upstate New York—Derek reluctantly takes the job.

A World War II sailor works in a New York City brothel - for his country. After being arrested in a gay brothel in New York during a raid, Seaman Second Class Hank Fayette doesn't understand why his homosexual activities are grounds for imprisonment. The brothel is rumored to be a hangout for Nazi spies and the Navy forces Hank to go undercover as a prostitute. They hope to use clandestine sexuality to retrieve clandestine intelligence. However, after Hank becomes friendly with a black teenager named Juke, nothing seems to go as planned.

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.

When a food storage depot in famine-struck South Sudan is torched, American aid worker Brie Stewart flees, only to land in a market where she's the next item up for auction. Is the attack on the aid facility another assault upon the war-torn fledgling democracy, or has her family set her up as a pawn in their quest for oil rights? Chief Warrant Officer Sebastian Ford crossed paths with Brie years ago when she was a shill for her family's company, pushing a pipeline that threatened his tribe's land. He leads the rescue operation to save her.

On a cold night in Australia, two construction workers driving along a deserted mountain road are gunned down inside their vehicle. The killings are fast. Efficient. An assassination carried out with expert precision. The only witness to the crime is a man resting by the side of the road. Recently retired, he'd flown halfway across the world to escape his demons. Ex-US black ops operative Jason King.

Near Checkpoint Zulu, 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border, in 1991, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones, in part to avoid his lacklustre marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Hobbes is a Midwestern American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus or might be a brilliant lunatic with a death wish - it's hard to tell.

When someone disappears on Northern California’s lawless Murder Mountain, it isn’t news. The vast terrain for illegal marijuana harvests is also a notorious black hole for outsiders. But when that someone is the family friend of the persuasive and righteous Senator Steele, finding him becomes covert investigator Ryan Decker’s mission.

Off the shore of Costa Rica, the Navy command ship USS Coronado launches an all-out assault against one of the most powerful drug lords in Central America. The high-tech fist of the US military is poised to come down like a sledgehammer. Everything is going according to plan until the quiet jungle erupts in a chaos of blood, shrapnel, and fire. When CIA operative Rick Holden and Naval Intelligence Officer Laura Peters begin investigating the circumstances of the ambush, they uncover something much more sinister than a failed military operation.

Aleksander wächst in der kleinen bosnischen Stadt Višegrad auf. Als der Krieg über Višegrad hereinbricht und die Familie fliehen muss, erweist sich Aleksanders Fabulierlust als ungemein nützlich: Rastlos neugierig erobert er sich diesen merkwürdigen Ort namens Deutschland, und mit unbändiger Lust erzählt er die irrwitzigen Geschichten von damals.

Der untergetauchte Bangladeschi entdeckt in einem versteckten Gewölbe in Zürich einen Sarg, der die Unheilige Dreifaltigkeit birgt: Satan, den Antichristen und den Falschen Propheten – drei Bomben, die in der Lage sind, die Hölle auf Erden zu bringen und den Vatikan in ein Reich der Flammen zu verwandeln.

Black-ops specialist Jon Reznick is hoping for some well-earned down time under the Florida sun when he gets a surprise call from the CIA. An embittered US counterintelligence expert is about to sell a career’s worth of state secrets to the Russians, and the Agency wants Reznick to track him down. With the spook holed up somewhere in the diplomatic cauldron of the Middle East, protected by highly trained Russian mercenaries, Reznick knows it’s almost certainly a suicide mission.

صباحٌ يجيء مثقلاً بما لم تنمه المدينة. الجبهة تتأهب، والبيوت تراجع حساباتها، وما كان خلافًا صغيرًا يصير ظلًا أكبر. بين الاستعداد والانتظار، تتكشف هشاشة الأمان. حلقة تمضي نحو المواجهة… فيما يبقى في الصدور ما لم يُقَل بعد.

صباحٌ يجيء مثقلاً بما لم تنمه المدينة. الجبهة تتأهب، والبيوت تراجع حساباتها، وما كان خلافًا صغيرًا يصير ظلًا أكبر. بين الاستعداد والانتظار، تتكشف هشاشة الأمان. حلقة تمضي نحو المواجهة… فيما يبقى في الصدور ما لم يُقَل بعد.

جمعةٌ في اللد… بين وعدٍ بالنجدة وأسرارٍ تتكشف على مهل. المدينة تحاول أن تتماسك، فيما تتشابك السمعة والذاكرة والحرب في خيطٍ واحد. قرارات تُتخذ في العلن، وأخرى تُحسم في الخفاء. حلقة يعلو فيها الصوت… قبل أن يعود الإنذار مجددًا.

المعركة تنتقل من الخندق إلى المطار… خطة على عجل، واندفاعة لا تعرف حجم ما ينتظرها. تتصاعد الأصوات، وتختلط الشجاعة بالذهول، وتتكشف فجأة كلفة المواجهة. حلقة قاسية تكشف الفرق بين الحلم بالمعركة… وحقيقتها.

ليلةٌ لم تعد تشبه أول رمضان. الصوت هذه المرة ليس مدفع الإفطار… بل ما هو أبعد وأقسى. بين البيوت والمستشفى والخندق، تتبدل الوجوه من فرحةٍ إلى يقظةٍ حادّة. المدينة تفهم أخيرًا أن الهدنة لم تكن سوى فاصلة قصيرة… وأن القادم أثقل.

È il '94 quando il ragazzo riceve la chiamata per la leva obbligatoria. Nel '96 il tenente Lovoci salpa da Brindisi, a bordo della San Giorgio per la Bosnia, in «missione di pace» convinto di tornare in Italia col suo plotone al completo. L'orrore della guerra, la paura delle bombe, la fame e la morte lo cambieranno per sempre. Terminata la missione i soldati tornano a casa, qualcuno sceglie di ripartire, altri di riprendere le abitudini di un tempo. E Matteo, che da Villari era partito con grandi ideali, lascia Sarajevo con nessuna certezza, tranne una: la pace è un'utopia.

Die Schlacht um Europa eskaliert auf hoher See! Schlachtfeld Deutschland: Seeherrschaft katapultiert Sie direkt in die erbarmungslosen Seegefechte um die Nord- und Ostsee – Adrenalin pur von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite. Klappentext: Der Dritte Weltkrieg tobt auch über und unter Wasser. Während die Volksmarine der NVA, polnische Seestreitkräfte und die sowjetische Marine die westdeutschen Ostseehäfen attackieren, entbrennt im Nordmeer eine gnadenlose Schlacht unter Wasser… Seeherrschaft schildert das dramatische Geschehen zur See.

Stell dir eine Welt vor, in der alle elektronischen Systeme versagen und die Gesellschaft im Chaos versinkt. Würdest du überleben? Die Wölfin ist der packende Endzeit-Thriller, der dich mit jeder Seite tiefer in eine gnadenlose Realität zieht und deinen Puls rasen lässt. Die ehemalige Fallschirmjägerin Kathrin befindet sich auf einem Lehrgang, als plötzlich die Welt, wie sie sie kennt, zusammenbricht: Ein mysteriöser Ausfall sämtlicher elektronischer Geräte und Systeme stürzt die Gesellschaft in Anarchie.

Ian Hale was once the deadliest operator of a top-tier private security firm. But after walking away from that world for good, he has no intention of going back. Or so he thinks. When word reaches Hale of an orphanage caught in the crossfire of a brutal South Sudanese civil war—a war he feels partly responsible for starting—there's no chance he won't answer the call. But what starts as a rescue mission quickly turns into something far more dangerous.