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Brought to you by Penguin. In summer 1914, a murder investigation leads Detective Isaac Bell to an explosive heist planned on the newly launched Federal Reserve System - a plot that will echo far into the future . . . A MASTER THIEF AN ASSASSIN ACCOMPLICE THE MOST FIENDISH HEIST IN AMERICA’S...

Norwegen, A. D. 785: Der Wikingerclan unter Führung von Jarl Harald steht vor einem neuen Sturm der Schwerter. Die harten Kämpfer ziehen für ihren König Gorm in die Schlacht: Drachenboot gegen Drachenboot. Doch der verräterische König lockt Harald und seine Mannen in eine tödliche Falle. Ihr Dorf wird vernichtet, Frauen und Kinder niedergemetzelt oder in die Sklaverei gegeben. Nur wenige entkommen, darunter Sigurd, der jüngste Sohn Haralds. Fortan widmet Sigurd sein Leben der Vergeltung.

Умереть военным пенсионером в мягкой постели в двадцать первом веке и очнуться, засыпанным землёй в воронке от взрыва авиабомбы, в теле молодого авиатехника в огненном сорок первом году. Над головой, ревя моторами, проносятся самолёты с крестами на крыльях, и стрекочут пулемёты, несущие смерть. Пришло твоё время. Настала пора применить свои навыки. Ведь ты всю свою жизнь готовился к этому. Готовился защищать Родину. Очень скоро врагам предстоит узнать, кто такой русский ас из будущего. Им даже не надо крестов на могилах, сойдут и на крыльях кресты.

The heart and life of a battle is the center of the combat line. A dark, throbbing, and terrifying place. A place where death prowls between enemy shields, waiting for sharp blades to carve out an advantage. Welcome to 262 B.C. A single Legion is rushed into combat to stop a fortified army. The clash between Empire and Republic thrusts thousands of Legionaries into a nasty epicenter of conflict.

The year 1777 is bleak indeed for the cause of American Independence, with the British army twice defeating Washington and taking the capital city of Philadelphia and the Royal Navy sweeping aside the defenses of the Delaware Bay. For Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and the men of the half-built frigate Falmouth, things are direr still. After managing to slip through a British blockade, they find themselves trapped in a desolate harbour on the New Jersey coast and menaced not by the British but by the outlaw bands that terrorise the countryside and see Falmouth as a potentially valuable prize.

Rex Walker kehrt zur Erde zurück - nur um festzustellen, dass sie bereits angegriffen wird. Er kommt zu spät! Mit Hilfe seiner neuen Verbündeten versuchen er und seine Freunde, eine großangelegte Invasion zu verhindern - und dabei auch seine Schwester und seinen besten Freund Marcus zu retten. Eine Chance, die die menschliche Zivilisation bedrohende Sekte zu vernichten, haben sie nur, wenn sie mit den Freedom Earthers und Special Agent Evan Young zusammenarbeiten.

Jack West hat es geschafft. Er befindet sich im Obersten Labyrinth, dem tödlichsten und gefährlichsten Ort, den Jack in all seinen Abenteuern je betreten hat. Ein schwindelerregendes Labyrinth, das wie kein anderes ist – ein mörderischer Irrgarten aus Irrgärten: Das unmögliche Labyrinth...

AD 1066. Cerdic is a prisoner of war. Captured after the Battle of Hastings, his fate is in the hands of the victorious Norman count Cynric, who is in no mood to feed and look after worthless Englishmen as the army moves inland. His survival depends on his ability to convince them of his value. Cerdic’s sole bargaining chip is his lordship of Wulfbury, a small stronghold in Northumberia, following the deaths of his father, its earl and elder brother in the invasions. If he can entice them with the lure of this fiefdom, he may yet survive.

A powerful new audiobook set in the fourth-century Roman Empire by critically acciaimed historical novelist Simon Turney, Para Bellum will delight fans of Scarrow, Kane and Cornwell. AD 381. Five years have gone by since a Roman governor ordered the deaths of a Gothic king and his attendants at...

The exciting third instalment of Griff Hosker's incredible Tudor Warrior series! James of Ecclestone is now a rich man, a family man and a respected landowner. Once the spy of two kings, his life is peaceful. When a Scottish raid touches his family he is forced to draw a sword and go to war once...

The British Army at the end of the nineteenth century was not a fair place. Despite the reforms, a bad officer could still ruin men’s lives and Jack Roberts discovers that despite being a hero of Rorke’s Drift, that means nothing when a superior has influence. He becomes a soldier serving in...

The eighth gripping adventure in David Gilman's critically acclaimed Master of War series set in fourteenth-century Europe. Bordeaux, 1367. Having angered the bloodthirsty Don Pedro, King of Castile, Sir Thomas Blackstone is thoroughly sick of his mission for the Prince of Wales, but must remain...

Zweiter Weltkrieg, Ende 1942, Stalingrad: Was wäre, wenn die fähigsten deutschen Offiziere den Krieg nach Ihren Vorstellungen geführt hätten? Tauchen Sie ein in eine packende Geschichte, die von einem alternativen Krieg erzählt. Autor Hermann Weinhauer, bekannt für seine nervenzerfetzenden Frontberichte, legt mit „Imperium Germanicum“ seinen ersten Ausflug in die Alternativweltgeschichte vor. Seine Serie vereint gekonnt die Genres Polit-Thriller und Kriegsroman, wenn Weinhauer die wohl spannendste aller Fragen beantwortet.

From the shattered empire, five kingdoms are emerging. Seleukos, triumphant in the capture of Babylon, now faces the challenge of holding onto his hard-won prize. One-eyed Antigonos and his son are newly reconciled and both hungry for revenge. But Antigonos has foes of his own. Driven by vengeance, widowed Artonis sides with Ptolemy, planning to thwart the one-eyed brute. The key to their success is Herakles, the sixteen-year-old illegitimate son of Alexander. To see him crowned, they will not only need an army but also to eliminate Kassandros, a powerful rival.

It is 1347 and the French, after a crushing defeat at Crécy, are licking their wounds while their king raises a new army. Locked into a fruitless siege, the English are camped in the marshes around Calais. Among them is foot soldier and archer Martin Kemp, whose dreams of serving his king and reliving the chivalrous adventures of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table are tempered by the gory and brutal reality of siege warfare. Having narrowly escaped death in a surprise attack from the French, Kemp sees a chance for a reprieve when a shaky truce is signed.

1777. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, together with his wife and child, is bound for Philadelphia aboard the brig Charlemagne. His orders are to take command of the newly built frigate Falmouth and take her out to sea before she is taken by General Richard Howe's invading army. Unknown to Biddlecomb, the entire British fleet stands between him and the new nation's capital. Forced to run his beloved brig aground, Biddlecomb comes face to face with his mortal enemy, Lieutenant John Smeaton.

Sir Thomas, Hero of Arsuf, rides to war again! When a king asks a baron to go on crusade it is an order not a request and, as such, is not to be ignored. The Earl of Cleveland has done his duty for his King and for the Pope many times over but he and his son, William,are chosen as token gesture...

A BRAND NEW series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller - Meet the Army Girls! Army Girls - reporting for duty! When duty calls, East End girl Minnie Wolton isn’t afraid to do her bit. She’s excited to be joining the ATS girls and although she knows life at the barracks will be tough...

The start of a BRAND NEW series detailing the epic adventures of Harald Hardrada - Prince. Mercenary. Exile. The lost throne of Norway must be won in foreign lands. 1030 AD Some men are gifted a crown. Others have to fight to claim it. Exiled from Norway, Harald Sigurdsson, brother to murdered...

Nur um Haaresbreite ist Athen 480 vor Christus einer Katastrophe entgangen – dank der todesmutigen Krieger aus Sparta, die den Pass bei den Thermophylen lange genug gehalten hatten, um die Stadt zu evakuieren.