Showing results for "Nemesis" in Literary Fiction

Jon Hudson, lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center-P, thinks his job is a joke. While other Fusion Centers focus on thwarting terrorist activity, Hudson's division is tasked with handling paranormal threats to national security, of which there have been zero during his years at the DHS. When yet another Sasquatch sighting leads to a research facility in the backwoods of Maine, disguised as an abandoned Nike missile site, Hudson's job becomes deadly serious.

Brought to you by Penguin. It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in...

Han er den farligste seriemorder, FBI nogensinde har fanget. Og han er lige flygtet fra fængslet. De mødtes første gang på universitetet, hvor de var værelseskammerater. To af de dygtigste studerende, der nogensinde havde taget afgangseksamen fra det psykologiske fakultet på Stanford University.

With Project Nemesis, Jeremy Robinson introduced the world of popular fiction to Kaiju, a word that has become popularized by the movie Pacific Rim, and is associated with classic movie monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. In the year since the release of Project Nemesis, the audiobook has become the best-selling original Kaiju novel of all time, and it is being featured in the video game Colossal Kaiju Combat: Fall of Nemesis. In Project Maigo, Robinson amps up the scale, the characters and the city-stomping action, treating listeners to a truly monstrous experience typically reserved for the big screen.

Ein Club. Ein grausames Spiel. Eine Frau, die zurückschlägt: Auf einer Müllkippe in Florida wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau aufgefunden: enthauptet, der Körper brutal zugerichtet und gebrandmarkt wie ein Stück Vieh. C. J. Townsend, vor Kurzem als Staatsanwältin nach Miami zurückgekehrt, ist alarmiert, als sie das Brandmal auf der Schulter der Toten sieht: ein Blitz in einem Kreis, eindeutig die Handschrift eines Clubs, der bereits vor einigen Jahren ganz Florida in Angst und Schrecken versetzte.

Ten holidaymakers are bound for Katastrophos, a tiny Greek island steeped in superstition and myth. Ten people whose lives are about to change forever, because one of them is planning a ruthless murder. Detective Inspector Jack Dawes of the Murder Squad is working undercover to prevent it, and takes his wife, Corrie, to the island, ostensibly on a belated honeymoon. Mayhem ensues when a storm destroys the island’s communications, cutting it off from civilisation.

The novel that reintroduced the Napoleon of crime to the Victorian underworld Once again, the game is afoot … What really happened in Switzerland between Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in 1891? And why is Holmes, now in London at 221B Baker Street, curiously uncooperative with Scotland Yard's...

Estate 1944. A Newark imperversa una spaventosa epidemia di polio che minaccia di menomazione e perfino di morte i figli della cittadina del New Jersey. Bucky Cantor, l'animatore ventitreenne di un campo giochi della città, combatte la sua guerra privata contro la malattia nel tentativo di opporsi alla catastrofe. In che modo un individuo può resistere alla forza degli eventi?

En el «calor sofocante de la Newark ecuatorial» una espantosa epidemia causa estragos y amenaza con dejar a los niños de la ciudad de Nueva Jersey mutilados, paralizados o minusválidos, e incluso con matarlos. Este es el sorprendente tema de la nueva y desgarradora obra de Roth: una epidemia de polio que tiene lugar en un tiempo de guerra, el verano de 1944, y sus efectos sobre la comunidad de Newark, regida por la cohesión y los valores de la familia, y sobre sus niños.

Depuis qu'elle a découvert des milliers de nouvelles planètes, l'humanité s'est lancée dans la plus grande ruée vers les terres de son histoire. Des vaisseaux colons disparaissent mystérieusement sans laisser la moindre trace. Des armées privées se forment en secret. Le dernier échantillon existant de la protomolécule est volé. Des attaques terroristes inimaginables auparavant mettent à genoux les planètes intérieures.

In der virtuellen Realität ist nichts echt. Pseudo-Orks fechten Scheinkämpfe gegen falsche Elfen aus. Magier besiegen ihre Feinde mit der digitalen Illusion eines Kampfzaubers. Doch hinter jedem Spiel steckt etwas Größeres. Der Mensch kann nicht aus seiner Haut und wird immer versuchen, andere zu übervorteilen oder gar zu verletzen — selbst wenn das echte Verluste bis hin zum Tod in der realen Welt zur Folge hat.

Jaxson Duvall, bass player for the band Maiden Voyage wasn’t born into wealth or fame. He achieved it with hard work and a need to prove himself. To whom, well, that is the million-dollar question right there. When his foolish antics threaten to bankrupt him, it’s time for him to stop acting like a spoiled brat and grow the hell up before his band brothers find a new bassist. Shephard “Shep” Newsome was the opposite. Thrust into the limelight at birth and cast out damn near the same way.