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There was no way to crush Judge Torture, the mad legalite whose weird court had strewn the city with broken, dismembered victims. But there was one individual – Richard Wentworth – who, in the guise of the Spider, dared steal the thunder from Judge Torture's terror reign by assuming full responsibility for the master murderer's crimes!… Never before has the Spider become so vulnerable to death – at the hands of policemen, blood-thirsty vigilantes and gunmen… alike! Judgment of the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Summoned to the nation's capital by a cryptic warning, criminologist Richard Wentworth uncovers an insidious plot brewing to violently overthrow the United States of America! Before he can swing into action as the Spider, Wentworth's worst fears are realized! On the floor of the Senate, a courageous Senator commits suicide. The President of the United States has been targeted for assassination! Official Washington is in the grip of a vicious Hindu death cult. Can even the Spider defang...
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With two exclusive, never-before-published stories featuring characters from the Paladin's Legacy series, Deeds of Honor gathers together lore and legends from Paksenarrion's world, along with tales from the Paladin's Legacy era, all revised and updated for this special compilation. Rich with the vivid and immersive storytelling for which Elizabeth Moon is known, the eight short stories in Deeds of Honor are certain to please any fan of the Paksenarrion saga.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In one explosive day, millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth was transformed into hunted fugitive. His home destroyed by the forces of the Butcher, and his reputation in tatters thanks to police incompetence, the man who is really the Spider fights his most desperate battle ever. Can the Master of Men repair his reputation, and reassemble his normal life? Or is there such a thing when you are secretly the Spider? Caught in a lethal crossfire, Richard Wentworth battles through his most...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Never before has the Spider, Master of Men, crusader extraordinary against the Underworld, been faced with such overwhelming difficulties. A magically persuasive radio voice luring thousands of young people to crime; a scientific madman dealing germicidal death over the nation; every criminal gang in the country organized to levy toll by stark terror… How can Richard Wentworth link these facts, weave a web of retribution for the Doom Dealer? With his beloved Nita captured and waiting for a...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Nordengland im 9. Jahrhundert. Die christlichen Sachsen versuchen ihr Land und ihren Glauben gegen die heidnischen Wikinger zu verteidigen. Der zehnjährige Fürstensohn Uhtred kämpft gegen die dänischen Eroberer. Ragnar, ihr Anführer, ist vom Mut des Jungen in der Schlacht so beeindruckt, daß er ihn verschont. Uhtred wächst als sein Ziehsohn bei den Nordmännern auf. Jahre später droht nun auch Wessex, das letzte der fünf angelsächsischen Königreiche, nach blutigen Raub- und Eroberungszügenan an...
| Автор | Bernard Cornwell |
Ryhalt Galharrow ist Hauptmann der Schwarzschwingen. Sie übernehmen im Kampf gegen dämonische Wesen die Drecksarbeit: Kopfgeldjagden, Morde, Einschüchterung, Folter. Ryhalt hat sich dieses Leben nicht ausgesucht, vielmehr trieb ihn sein Pech in diese erbärmlichen Lebensumstände. Und er ist gut in dem was er tut, auch wenn er manchmal seiner Ehre nachtrauert, die er dem Pragmatismus geopfert hat. Da trifft er seine Jugendliebe wieder und er weiß: Für sie will er ein besserer Mensch sein. Doch das...
| Автор | Ed McDonald |
Coffins and gold lay side by side in the strongroom of the liner that was sailing to its doom. And Richard Wentworth had picked that ship to carry Nita and himself to their long-delayed honeymoon in Europe! Denounced by Baron Otuna as a pirate, assailed by the green men in flaming chaos, he donned once more the Spider's dusty cloak and well-oiled guns – for an epic battle at sea with a terror that stalked in the great ship's wake and menaced a thousand lives! Go with Richard Wentworth,...
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In a hundred thousand homes, families sat down together at the supper table. A few hours later, those persons were dead – killed by poison in canned foods! Thousands of women used cosmetics, and acid made their faces forever hideously scarred. A master criminal, daring and clever, was ruthlessly slaughtering Americans to win immense illicit profits for himself. Only one man was powerful enough and wise enough to stop this wholesale murder – Richard Wentworth, champion of oppressed humanity,...
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Einst war Clay Cooper Mitglied der gefürchtetsten Söldnertruppe im ganzen Land. Kein Ungeheuer, das nicht von ihnen besiegt wurde. Keine Jungfrau in Nöten, die nicht von ihnen gerettet wurde. Inzwischen liegen die Heldentage lange hinter Clay – er hat eine Familie, arbeitet bei der Stadtwache. Dann steht eines Tages sein Freund Gabriel vor der Tür und bittet Clay um Hilfe bei einer Mission, der sich nur die tapfersten Krieger anschließen würden – oder die dümmsten: Gabriel will die alten...
| Автор | Nicholas Eames |
Never had Richard Wentworth – he who is the scourge of the Underworld in his guise of the Spider – faced such tremendous odds or been so alone in the strife! Nita, his beloved, had tried to kill him, was hopelessly insane. His faithful servant had been tortured beyond human endurance. And the Master of Madness, chief of a powerful, fiendish syndicate, was spreading his germs of mania unchecked. Who could rescue America from screaming, murderous frenzy when the Spider, harried by Law and lawless,...
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Legacy: Phoenix and the Dark Star is a continuation of the story from Legacy: The Mark of Merlin. In Savannah, Georgia, on Halloween night, the benevolent sorceress Ellen Anderson learns from Andie Cornell (a fifteen-year-old medium) that she had drawn the attention of a sinister wizard from New Orleans who practices an elite type of magic—a type of magic that Ellen has never heard of before. As Ellen puts a plan into motion to defend herself, she meets several individuals who will stand with...
| Автор | Gerald Pruett |
Randy, a Harvard student who was ahead of his time in the field of science, set out to prove to his professor that alternate realities were more than science fiction nonsense, and while doing so, he had inadvertently caused himself and six of his friends to switch bodies with their alternate selves of another reality. To make matters worse for Randy’s six friends, Randy, the only one of the seven who could correct the crossed reality, wasn’t attending Harvard nor was he in his hometown. About...
| Автор | Gerald Pruett |
Merlin’s descendants, some evil, some not, and some not even aware of their legacy, have survived to the modern times. On the first Tuesday of October, the kind-hearted sixteen-year-old Ellen Anderson learns that she is one of Merlin’s descendants soon after her legal guardians, her brother Michael and sister-in-law Tanya, were killed in a tragic car accident. As Ellen explores her legacy she eventually befriends Jessica and Karla Harman, sixteen-year-old twin sisters who are also Merlin’s...
| Автор | Gerald Pruett |
In <I>I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking</I>, the strange collides with the mundane: close to home and far from it, in suburban neighborhoods and rural communities, with cycling apocalypses and backyard tigers. Each story stands alone, but they are connected through reoccurring imagery and a shared theme of protagonists in emotional peril. At its core, this collection is imbued with mystery, oddity, humor, and empathy, but what it really wants to show us is that we’re never...
| Автор | Leyna Krow |
One moment Senator Calles Beach was a normal, healthy human being, fighting valiantly against a certain land-steal bill which was pending in the New York State Senate. The next he had ceased to exist, his body literally disintegrated by an unseen force! Soon whole groups of people, entire sections, were to be eliminated as he had been. Can the Spider, himself dodging the death blasts, prevail against a power which seems beyond the ken of man? Richard Wentworth, alias the Spider, has battled many...
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It started with the sighting of a veterinarian's ambulance, its caged rear crammed with helpless human beings-all victims of Manhattan's newest monster, the Wreck! The Rule of the Monster Men had begun. Creating an army of human cripples, the Wreck begins a looting spree that reaches from Park Avenue to the New York World's Fair of 1939. In answer to this awful challenge, Richard Wentworth, alias the Spider, rushes to the defense of his beloved city of Manhattan. When his fiancee...
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One moment, Richard Wentworth – he who was feared in the Underworld as the deadly Spider – stood playing his priceless Stradivarius. A second later, he was fighting desperately for his life, hunted ruthlessly, like a rabid hound, by the combined forces of the Mayor of Hell: the corrupt Law and the vengeful, criminal syndicates. In a haze of gunsmoke, Wentworth vanishes, while his harassed friends mourn him as dead and his enemies rejoice. Alone – without funds of friends or name – the Spider...
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Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including novel takes on ecological/apocalyptical imbalance bound to make an impact.A Caribbean zombie—smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive at an important pharmaceutical...
| Автор | Pedro Cabiya |
"Your souls are mine – when I speak, you will obey!" From the bowels of the shaking earth itself rose the satanic ultimatum that threatened to send America's greatest city up in flames! For the hordes of Hades, ruled by a devilish dictator, had turned New York into an Underground Kingdom of Crime, and helpess thousands died, strangling, when Hell's emperor loosed his slaying devil-dust! Reeking of sulphur and brimstone, it floated over Manhattan, leaving death in its wake. Only...
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Weird, haunting, the murder-melody rang in the ears of New York – and all those who heard its sinister song died in the throes of raving madness! For a monstrous musician had mastered the city, holding the police and Underworld alike at bay. One by one, the men marked to die received the music-score with the printed notes that were tiny skulls – and none dared raise a hand to stay the red harvest. Yet Richard Wentworth, in the grim black garb of the Spider, struck at the unseen Terror – matching...
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Through the chill darkness a deluge of death swept over New York – and men died mysteriously with their brains battered in as the terror struck! For a new, frightful master of the underworld had risen, to paralyze the police and empty the city's treasure coffers. Over a long period, Richard Wentworth, with the Spider's weird weapons, had fought those master criminals whom the law could not reach. But never before had he been compelled to challenge the rule of a ruthless raider who left...
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Winner of the 2018 Foreword INDIES Award Gold Medal for Best Sci-Fi! TIME AND TIME AGAIN: Sixteen Trips in Time by beloved science fiction Grand Master ROBERT SILVERBERG presents of all his best time travel fiction in one stunning collection. [/b]Silverberg introduces this new collection with a new essay praising early sci-fi icons that left a lasting impression on him as a young boy and launched his sixty-year voyage in time travel fiction.Over the course of his career, Silverberg expanded...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
Spike, a psychologist and activist, and Jane, a philosopher and writer, leave their dead-end temping jobs in Toronto and head for Paris – in their lunch break – by car, stopping frequently to stock up on chocolate. En route they pick up X, an extraterrestrial from a planet where chocolate is one of the major food groups and testosterone is a prohibited substance. X is cosmically, galactically lost in Earth’s backwardly gendered society. Jane and Spike decide to take a detour and help X...
| Автор | Jass Richards |