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A United States president mad with power declares himself dictator, suspends the Constitution and declares war on the American public. Unleashing a reign of terror, the United States citizens find themselves victims of a tyrannical ruler harsher than Stalin or Hitler. In the Midwest, the general of a nuclear armed Air Force base fights back and members of the DEATH CARD militia rise up to challenge the president’s private army. Read DEATH CARD today before it is banned by the government...
| Автор | Nick L. Sacco |
Das Haus, (The House) is a story spanning almost seventy years, and is partially based on TRUE EVENTS as told to the author by our hero Erik Goldmann (Fictitious name) and the author’s father-in-law. At the request of Erik, many of the characters and locations were changed to protect the survivors of that long ago Holocaust known as World War II. It has become a NOVEL partially based on some true events. The setting is modern day, with flashbacks to WWII Germany. This book recounts the story of...
| Автор | Sean Ryan Stuart |
As in the lives of people we all know, this story presents a dozen fictional Santa Feans trying to love, yet mistreating, each other the week before US forces invade Iraq. “The aggression that dominates American life today,” says author Michael Scofield, “goads them into brandishing their dark sides.” Married realtor Maxine Morgan, for instance, coaxes conservative mortgage broker Ron Kirkpatrick (and others) into bed. Ron’s not-quite-yet-psychotic wife Lila tries to seduce handyman Victor...
| Автор | Michael Scofield |
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST. SABOTEUR. TERRORIST. Her client took direct action to ‘stop the coal’. When the rich and powerful take an interest, criminal charges may be the least of their worries … Cressida Mitsok is a successful corporate lawyer about to make partner at a large city law firm. The only problem will be the partners taking issue with her father serving time for white-collar crime, though no charges were laid against Cressida. But during her partnership interview, the lights...
| Автор | J D Svenson |
INTERNATIONAL ROMULO GALLEGOS NOVEL PRIZE 2011 (most prestigious prize given to a single novel in the Spanish language) NATIONAL CRITICS PRIZE 2011 (best novel of the year written in Spanish, awarded in Spain) THE BEST NOVEL IN SPANISH OF THE YEAR 2010 (chose by 55 critics & journalists of El País) Author taught at American universities for three decades, including at Princeton, and has deep connections to universities, bookstores, and with American writers First novel published in English...
| Автор | Ricardo Piglia |
Illuminating the intimate, human faces of war, this unique series of short stories by award-winning author Katey Schultz questions the stereotypes of modern war by bearing witness to the shared struggles of all who are touched by it. Numerous characters-returning U.S. soldier and pragmatic jihadist, Afghan mother and listless American sister, courageous amputee and a ghost that cannot let go-appear in Flashes of War, which captures personal moments of fear, introspection, confusion, and valor in...
| Автор | Katey Schultz |
First book of fiction from acclaimed poet Juliana Spahr. Her previous books have received national review attention from the NY Times, Ms. Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Believer, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Book excerpted last year in BOMB Magazine Characters in this book grapple with the role of an artist in modern culture, and will appeal to readers of Shelia Heti's «How Should a Person Be» and Ben Lerner's «Leaving the Atocha Station,» two very...
| Автор | David Buuck |
*Winner of The Betty Trask Award (2018)* Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Finalist*Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist *One of the Best Books of the Year 2016 — City Press , The Sunday Times , The Star , This is Africa , Africa's a Country , Sunday World Heralded in the author's native South Africa as «the hottest novel of the year,» The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the sudden death of his younger brother,...
| Автор | Masande Ntshanga |
[b]For readers who love The Last Jihad by Joel C. Rosenberg [/b]THE STAGE IS SET FOR WAR…Highly orchestrated plans are put into motion to inflict terror across the country. Plans to use America’s trucking and shipping infrastructure to destroy the fabric of our society while involving Russia to neutralize America’s nuclear threat are in full motion. Israel is being attacked even as moderate Arab leaders are assassinated to create a fundamentalist Middle East. If the plan succeeds, America...
| Автор | David T. Maddox |
Winner of the 2002 Anna Pidruchney Award For New Writers On a visit to Ukraine to retrieve a family heirloom secretly buried by his grandfather during the Second World War, Yaroslaw, a Ukrainian-Canadian university student, stumbles into a world full of spies and secret organizations, peril and political intrigue. His discovery of the hidden cache yields clues to the location of a fabled lost treasure-the greatest in all Europe. Working against time, Yaroslaw and a small band of accomplices...
| Автор | Myroslav Petriw |
Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the 2002 Roger Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Rescued from the dangers he faces in a Latin American military dictatorship, writer Carlos Romero Estevez is given a new life in Vancouver. His rescuers, a benevolent group devoted to aiding oppressed writers, believe they've found a poster-boy. Carlos thinks he's found a new life, new freedom, and new, powerful friends. But soon everyone's illusions...
| Автор | Ann Ireland |
It’s not easy to have enemies <i>everywhere</i> … but con artist Max O’Brien is a man of the world. Read all three of Max's adventures in this special ebook collection. <br/> <br/> <b><i>The Kashmir Trap</i> – Book #1</b> <br/> Professional con man Max O’Brien is on the run from police when he learns that his diplomat nephew has been assassinated in New Delhi. Eleven years earlier, Max’s brother mysteriously disappeared while...
| Автор | Mario Bolduc |
Autumn, 1970: Hostage-taking separatists in Quebec abduct a foreign diplomat and a cabinet minister and threaten violence across the country. As fear sets in, the government turns to Luc Cadotte, a specialist on international terrorism and veteran of the clandestine struggles in Latin America. <br/> <br/> From the jungles of Colombia to Montreal under siege, former diplomat James Bartleman plots a turbulent thriller based on events he witnessed first-hand. Swerving between...
| Автор | James Bartleman |
2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards – Winner, Fiction Judith finds the courage to stand up for her beliefs and protest anti-Semitic hypocrisy. Judith is a young woman who lived in Israel for a decade, was a peace activist there, and defines herself as «left-wing,» yet in graduate school back in Canada, she discovers that vilification of Israel is the expected norm. When the keynote speaker for Anti-Oppression Day turns out to be a supporter of terrorist attacks not only against Israeli...
| Автор | Nora Gold |
Auch Killer haben Sorgen … Will Robie ist der professionellste und beste Auftragskiller der US-Regierung. Er infiltriert die feindseligsten Länder der Welt, überwindet die fortschrittlichsten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und beseitigt Bedrohungen, ehe sie Amerika überhaupt erreichen. Doch dann, urplötzlich, versagt Robie. Bei einem Einsatz in Übersee bringt er es nicht fertig, den Abzug zu drücken. Ohne seine tödlichen Fähigkeiten ist Robie ein Mann ohne Mission und Lebensinhalt. Um wiederzubekommen,...
| Автор | Дэвид Болдаччи |
Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends—an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright—who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's manuscript. See About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Then she quoted from...
| Автор | Mauro Javier Cardenas |
A murder at the Taj Mahal. A kidnapping in a sacred city. A desperate chase through a cliffside monastery. All in the pursuit of a legend that could link the world’s great religious faiths.In 1887, a Russian journalist made an explosive discovery in a remote Himalayan monastery only to be condemned and silenced for the heresy he proposed. His discovery vanished shortly thereafter.Now, graduate student Grant Matthews journeys to the Himalayas in search of this ancient mystery. But...
| Автор | Jeffrey Small |
The Book of Stone examines the evolution of the terrorist mentality and the complexities of religious extremism, as well as how easily a vulnerable mind can be exploited for dark purposes.Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant father—who is also a disgraced judge. After his father’s death, Matthew is a young man alone. He turns to his father’s beloved books for comfort, perceiving within them guidance that leads him to...
| Автор | Jonathan Papernick |
Stell dir vor, der mächtigste Mann der Welt wäre ein gefährlicher Egomane … Als die Bürger der USA einen unberechenbaren Demagogen zum Präsidenten wählen, hält die Welt den Atem an. Kaum jemand weiß: Bereits kurz nach Amtsantritt ordnet der Präsident fast einen Nuklearstreich an, nachdem ein Wortgefecht mit dem Machthaber von Nordkorea aus dem Ruder läuft. Eins ist den Mitwissern klar: Jemand muss etwas unternehmen, oder die Welt steht kurz vor einem dritten Weltkrieg. Ein Attentat scheint der...
| Автор | Sam Bourne |
Kabul, Afghanistan, 1979: CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation’s intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador. Burling’s reaction to the murder, and his desire to understand its larger meaning, propel him on a journey of intrigue and betrayal that will reach its ultimate end in the streets of Shanghai, months after 9/11. A Chinese dissident physicist may (or may not) be planning to sell his country’s nuclear...
| Автор | Mark Harril Saunders |
Will Robie und Jessica Reel sind die zwei tödlichsten Auftragskiller der US-Regierung. Während ihrer gefährlichen Missionen in Übersee hält ihnen ein Mann zu Hause den Rücken frei: Blue Man, ihr Führungsoffizier bei der CIA. Als Blue Man im Heimaturlaub spurlos verschwindet, machen Robie und Reel sich sofort auf den Weg nach Colorado. Dort, in dem kleinen Kaff Grand, stoßen sie rasch auf gewaltbereite Hinterwäldler. Im Hintergrund jedoch zieht ein weitaus gefährlicherer Gegner die Strippen, ein...
| Автор | Дэвид Болдаччи |
Stellen Sie sich vor, der Liter Superbenzin würde über 4 Euro kosten. Ein Alptraum? Ja. Bloß wäre es erst der Anfang. Als in Saudi-Arabien das größte Ölfeld der Welt versiegt, kommt es weltweit zu Unruhen. Bahnt sich tatsächlich das Ende unserer Zivilisation an? Nur Markus Westermann glaubt an ein Wunder. Er glaubt, eine Methode zu kennen, wie man noch Öl finden kann. Viel Öl. Doch der Schein trügt. Die Menschheit vor ihrer größten Herausforderung: Das Ende des Erdölzeitalters steht bevor!...
| Автор | Andreas Eschbach |
Zwanzig Jahre sind vergangen, seit ihr Vater mit seinem Flugzeug abgestürzt ist: Wilone «Willy» Maitland reist nach Vietnam, um seinem Schicksal auf den Grund zu gehen. Dort trifft sie auf Guy Barnard, einen ortskundigen Paläontologen, der ihr seine Hilfe anbietet. Er erzählt ihr von einem berüchtigten US-Piloten, den man nur unter Friar Tuck kannte – und der für den Feind geflogen ist. War ihr Vater etwa ein Verräter? Schnell erfährt Willy, dass dunkle Mächte auch vor Mord nicht...
| Автор | Тесс Герритсен |
London: Ein grausamer Anschlag des IS im Westend kostet unzählige Menschenleben. Ein Beweis für das teuflische Genie von Saladin, IS-Chefstratege und Urheber einiger der schwersten Terrorangriffe in Europa und den USA. Gabriel Allon, legendärer Agent und mittlerweile Leiter des israelischen Geheimdienstes, führt eine multinationale Operation zu Saladins Neutralisierung an. Ihn auszuschalten hat für Allon oberste Priorität. Als bei einem Besuch Allons die Zentrale der französischen...
| Автор | Daniel Silva |