Showing results for "Hinterland" in Literature & Fiction

Ranger Quinn thought that morning would be like so many others. A hangover, a day off before going back to work keeping the lower levels of Zion City safe from itself. But a crime so horrific, so brutal in its execution, turns those mundane expectations around. An investigation into the death of a senior leader in their underground utopia safe from the harsh radioactive wastelands beyond their walls forces Quinn beyond that safety and into the world outside.

Their operations are deniable. Their skill is deadly. SAS hero Danny Black is recruited to an assassination squad directed to hunt down and kill terrorist cells in a gripping thriller from the man who knows what it's like at the front line. The suicide bomb strikes central London. The trail...

I was a Hunter, and I honored the Code. For my services to humanity and for leading a "proper" life, I was to be rewarded. A new life after death, and a new world to give me some well-deserved rest. But something went wrong. Once again, I must fight. The Monsters that face me here are far more terrifying than those of my past life. They are cleverer, crueler, more unpredictable. And their name is.

Am Stammtisch im "Nobody“ ist alles Spiel und gleichzeitig Ernst. Heute sind Ersatzspieler nicht notwendig. Lothar Altmann nimmt einen anderen Aufsichtsratposten wahr. Der Drexler ist stumm, der Pudel schlafende Kulisse. "Karo zugeben", verlangt der Fleischhauer, der fitgespritzt ist und die Karte auf den Tisch wirft. "Hab ich nicht", sagt der Postenkommandant. Er will den Stich mit seiner kleinsten Tarockkarte machen. Gleich muss er sich korrigieren, weil er mit Schrecken die Karo-Dame in seinem Blatt entdeckt hat.

1896. In the vast network of the Niger Delta waterways, where palm oil and blood flow from the hinterlands, the ancient kingdom of Benin is under siege. Legendary trader and leopard hunter Brendan Donivan battles to protect his adopted homeland's sacred civilization from the colonial expansion of the British while balancing his commerce with the White man's world. Brendan's reality is fractured by the arrival of....

As Jonesbridge descends into chaos, Myron seizes an opportunity as a member of a mobile recovery squad sent to salvage metal. He wanders the Nethers, where he meets a nomad who seeks out people for delivery to a mysterious place called Mesa Gap in exchange for fresh water and supplies. On their journey they encounter dangerous groups of cultists and fanatics as well as refugees as desperate as Myron for a way out.

Myron enters the Jonesbridge Industrial Complex as a worker, a prisoner, commanded to harvest the scant resources that enable the powers that be to continue waging an unwinnable war. When Sindra - a fellow prisoner and a spirited fighter - joins him at the salvage line, he finds a new reason to live and to escape. Even though any attempt to leave will lead to execution, Myron and Sindra plan a daring escape.

Meus sertões de você conta a trajetória da rendeira Isabel, uma mulher simples que, após a morte da mãe, é atravessada por encontros inesperados, despedidas e outras formas de amar. Mas nesses novos caminhos ela se depara com uma outra busca ainda mais importante: sobre sua verdadeira origem e identidade.