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Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series. FROM THE RUINS OF BATTLE A HERO MUST RISE FOR THE GLORY OF EGYPT Years of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of once-mighty Egypt. Though the two...

Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one's surprise--especially Troy's--are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington...

Cinder Shade’s life begins on a fateful afternoon at the bottom of a well where he awakens, bruised, battered, and bereft of all memory. His only understanding is a driving imperative to protect those who can’t defend themselves and become a warrior worthy of the name. He discovers within himself a peculiar gift, one in which the codes of combat are made evident and the language of steel is made clear.

Ragnarok was the End of Worlds. Asgard fell centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated. Some are dead while others have been consigned to eternal torment in the netherworld - among them the legendary trickster, Loki. A god who betrayed every side and still lost everything, who has lain forgotten as time passed and the world of humans moved on to new beliefs, new idols and new deities...But now mankind dreams of the Norse Gods once again, the river Dream is but a stone's throw from their dark prison and Loki is the first to escape into a new reality. 

Reporter Reuben Bourne has broken a promise - to cast a paramilitary white supremacy group in a favorable light. Now, one basically peaceful man, one with a paradoxical attraction for violence, must confront a force of unrelenting hate. Somehow, he must survive - as he leads his family on a desperate flight into a wilderness as unforgiving as the fanatical humans who pursue him.

When the body of a local artist is found mutilated inside a five-pointed star, DCI Tanner’s attention turns to the disciples of a Satanic cult. But when the man's body is discovered to be the cult’s leader, Tanner's interest is soon drawn to his will, and the five beneficiaries who’ve been named in it.

From the Number One bestselling author of The Righteous Men comes this staggering religious conspiracy thriller. The Last Testament: It was written. It was lost. It will save us all. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient scroll in a...

Braverman Shaw—"Bravo" to his friends—always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies does Bravo discover that his father belonged to the Order of Gnostic Observatines, a hidden sect long believed to be extinct. For centuries, the Order has guarded a lost Testament that...

1937: Hitler sent an expedition to Tibet in search of the lost land of Thule. 1941: Himmler spent a huge fortune, and sacrificed the lives of hundreds to turn Wewelsburg Castle in Germany into a shrine to the SS. 2008: Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is astonished to discover that the gentle grandfather he thought he knew was a decorated war hero, serving in the Special Air Service in World War Two. And his grandfather has one more surprise.

Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Caspar Schulz. Once a prominent Nazi, and long believed to be dead, Schultz could soon be hailed as the author of the most shattering confessions ever to make print.

When the small town of Drassox is massacred in a sudden and ruthless attack, veteran Captain Lothar finds himself thrust into an unexpected role: Protector of Kael, a quiet, wide-eyed boy with a mysterious past—and a terrifying future. Hunted by a ruthless holy order hellbent on exterminating all the children in the area and haunted by terrifying dreams, it becomes clear Kael is no ordinary child. As the pair are forced to flee deeper into the wilderness, Lothar must confront dark forces far beyond mortal reckoning, including whispers of an ancient evil, eager to return to the world.

Tal vez un hombre sin alma no sea un hombre. Puede que sea un monstruo, como aseguran algunos, o puede que sea mucho más que un hombre. Ni siquiera yo, que conozco toda la historia, me atrevo a juzgar a un ser único. El Gris, aquel que no tiene alma, es por definición un fenómeno insólito. ¿Cómo describir lo que siente un hombre sin alma? Tal vez ni siquiera se deba intentar.

Habrá quien opine que las andanzas de un asesino no merecen ser incluidas en estas crónicas. Pero solo yo, que poseo una visión global, estoy en disposición de saber qué acontecimientos deben ser narrados. Y la historia del vampiro llamado Sombra tendrá el hueco que le corresponde. Ramsey.

Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series. FROM THE RUINS OF BATTLE A HERO MUST RISE FOR THE GLORY OF EGYPT Years of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of once-mighty Egypt. Though the two...

While travelling in central Turkey, Joe Grafton stumbles upon some ancient scrolls that contain a secret so devastating it could shake the foundations of the modern world. Soon, he and the beautiful Turkish girl he has befriended are fighting for their lives, pursued across the country by enemies who will do anything to get their hands on the scrolls.

Generationen lasen begeistert die Abenteuer der beiden Weltenbummler Rolf Torring und Hans Warren. Die Serie erschien von 1930 bis 1939 in 445 Heften im Verlag Neues Verlagshaus für Volksliteratur GmbH, Berlin, und noch einmal von 1950 bis 1960 in 273 Heftausgaben zunächst im nun in Bad Pyrmont angesiedelten Verlagshaus, später in Lizenz bei Pabel, Rastatt. Wie Peter Wanjek in seiner grundlegenden Arbeit "Rolf Torrings Abenteuer".

Acts of the Shaddai: The Final Testament is the last volume in the Bloodline Chronicles trilogy. Jake Stanton finds himself once again incarcerated for a crime he did not commit and faces the hardest decision of his life. His faith is tested to its limit in this closing of his quest for the 12 enchanted instruments.