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Hornet's Nest follows an aircraft carrier's tour of duty during 1985, offering shoot-'em-up action and a mindset that equates Middle Eastern with terrorist. Central to this unsavory tale are fighter pilots 'Sweetwater' Sullivan and 'Sundance' Karnes and Sweetwater's squadron, the Fighting Aardvarks, who seem like free-wheeling, hard-partying frat brothers armed with technical training, powerful weapons and minds uncluttered by any understanding of the complex political events that dominate their lives.

The first work of fiction by a President of the United States—a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence. In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the Deep South; it is a saga that will change the...

Most people think the Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed. Though the USSR may have been beaten, their war infrastructure and resentment didn’t simply go away. What if there were still secret weapons systems in place and angry old men eager to set them off? In From Within the Firebird’s Nest, former KGB official Sergei Kirill Mikhailov revives a secret biological weapon: The Crimson Firebird. His aim is to strike a devastating blow to the United States while pinning the blame on an impressionable young Arab man, thus initiating a global crisis.

Die Erzählung setzt im Jahre 1003 auf dem Höhepunkt der Konsolidierungskämpfe König Heinrichs II. in der Abtei Abtei Hersfeld ("Herolfsfeld“) ein. Die Hauptfigur, Immo, erfährt hier seine schulische Ausbildung als Vorbereitung seiner geistlichen Laufbahn. Ein Mönch erteilt ihm Maximen für ein ritterliches Leben, die leitmotivisch das Buch durchziehen: Sich nie ohne Not in Lehnsabhängigkeit zu begeben, nicht mit der Mitteilung einer schlechten Botschaft zu warten, nie einem unter Zwang geleisteten Eid zu trauen und sich für einen Kampfgenossen einzusetzen.