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London, 1898. Held captive by a diabolical criminal mastermind and his gang of thugs, Watson overhears an assassination plot that not only endangers the life of Sherlock Holmes, but threatens to ignite a war. If he has any hope of foiling his kidnappers’ nefarious plans, he must escape - and quickly. Eluding the familiar foe proves challenging, however. Watson is soon caught and awakens in jail, the prime suspect for two murders, dressed in the clothes of a missing man, one Lord Harwell.

A lifetime spent fighting other people’s wars had earned John Winter a comfortable early retirement. But when the CIA seizes his money, they quickly realise that their former employee is not a man you want to try to push around. When the former combat pilot and SAS man turned gun-for-hire gives Langley a deadline for its return, the agency think it holds all the cards. An F-4 Phantom jet fighter, an audacious plan to fly halfway round the world, and a threat to dramatically alter the balance of power in the Middle East says they don’t. 

Dylan is an average nerdy worker. By day, he works for an architecture firm. When his shift ends, he consumes all manner of superhero fiction—comics, books, or games. When an up-and-coming gaming company, Vert, announces a new superhero game—a game that promises infinite choice—Dylan is immediately ready to dive in. He has the perfect role in mind for himself: the egotistical supervillain from cartoons.

Relics are worth dying for. So is freedom. Luke is a relic hunter with a dangerous secret and a sacred vow he cannot break. When an opportunity arises to acquire powerful necromantic artifacts, he'll risk everything to get them. The frontier is no place for the faint-hearted. Traveling aboard a...

The Starlight Express has a reputation as the wildest, most exotic alien bar, in two dozen galaxies. So, when Noah and Caleb want to kick back for a few hours on the night before Noah’s nuptials, it’s the obvious choice. And the wrong one. See, aliens tend to be the quirky sort, and humans haven’t quite gotten the hang of them yet - which is why no one should be surprised when a friendly disagreement, over one too many drinks, goes sideways. Now, a jailbreak, a police chase across seven galaxies, and an exploding ship have to get them out of this mess.

The year is 1931. A boy boards a train to visit his friend in New York. A woman in a jumpsuit boards a train to meet her employer in New York. And the conductor? He boards because it's his job. If it had been any other day, they all would have gotten where they were going just fine. But it's...

Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail - a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage.

ज्येष्ठ साहित्यिक भा. रा. भागवत यांच्या लेखणीतून साकारलेल्या फास्टर फेणे या साहस वीराची आणखी एक साहस कथा जे...

A motley team of warriors on a secret mission organized by the president of the United States take on infected flesh eaters in a nuclear wasteland, risking their lives in a convoy of three specially armored black Chevy Suburbans to obtain a vaccine against the apocalyptic zombie plague that is wiping out the human race.

El primero de los elaborados crímenes de esta recopilación de cuentos policiales tiene lugar en el Lusitania Express mientras alguien lee la revista "Misterio y delito". Los siguientes relatos narran los casos que se exponen en los artículos de la revista. Con esta obra, Mariano Sánchez Soler se identifica sin prejuicios con los escritores "negros" de los que en 1992 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán dijo: "como reacción a la literatura merodeante [...] nos salieron historias en las que intervenían la aventura y el delito".

Der Pony Express ist das größte Abenteuer auf Erden. Ich bin dabei. Für mich wurde ein Traum wahr. Doch er kann zum Albtraum werden. Gejagt von Cheyenne. Gejagt von weißen Banditen. Vor mir liegt die endlos weite Prärie. Hinter mir lauert der Tod. Ronco, der Waisenjunge, der ehemalige weiße Indianer, sucht seinen Weg im amerikanischen Westen. Sein Leben ist geprägt von Blut und Gewalt. Dieser Band enthält die folgenden Romane: "Pony Express" (21), "Todesfracht für Laramie" (22).

Private Detective Alan Blades can't count on a regular paycheck, but he can always count on his gut. His gut just convinced him to accompany his ex-wife’s sister on a cruiser to Orion - a good thing, considering there’s a killer on board. Throw in a femme fatale, some space pirates, and an eccentric collection of suspects, and you have the makings of the first Alan Blades Adventure.

- Los muchos miles de lectores de Luis Sepúlveda ya conocen su gran pasión: viajar, deambular por el mundo, observar a sus gentes y escuchar sus historias. Pero Sepúlveda tiene también otra pasión, podría decirse que en simbiosis con la anterior, que es la de contar él mismo, a su modo...

Peluquerías, postizos, tinturas, cortes y extensiones, quirófanos, clínicas, lipos, liftings, flotadores, operaciones estéticas, residuos patógenos. Los ámbitos en que transcurre y el vocabulario que ilumina esta siniestra historia protagonizada por Ruth Epelbaum –la detective creada por...

Larry Brent alias X-RAY 3 und seine Kollegen fahren im Orient-Express Richtung Budapest. Ihre Mission: Die Machenschaften des neuen Earl of Gainsborough zu vereiteln und die Menschheit vor Schaden zu bewahren. Wird es den PSA-Agenten gelingen ihre Gegner aufzuhalten und die Menschen zu retten? Die Situation spitzt sich dramatisch zu und Larry Brent sieht sich mit dem Tod konfrontiert. Der Zug wird zum rollenden Sarg! Gibt es noch eine Rettung für die PSA-Agenten? Larry Brent weiß, dass er keine Chance hat seine Mission erfolgreich zu beenden.

When Suhan Cha wakes dazed and confused in an unfamiliar train carriage crossing a strange-looking river, a young woman is there to reveal the truth: he is aboard the Magic Lantern Express, journeying through the afterlife to the Judgement Gates where he will be at peace. She is Wonjung Lee, a...