Ergebnis für "E²" in Historische Thriller

Kämpfe und Abenteuer, Machtspiele und Intrigen, Liebe und Rache: Die spannende Reihe um Tankred, der mit dem Schwert in der Hand gegen Wikinger, für Gerechtigkeit und für sein Erbe kämpft. Während die Plünderer die Kirche stürmen, rettet er den berühmten Bücherschatz, bevor er aus dem brennenden Gemäuer entkommt. Um Judith zu retten, muss er nun erneut zum Schwert greifen. Im Auftrag des Königs soll der gebildete Kämpfer in einen erbarmungslosen Krieg gegen die Normannen ziehen, die sich unweit seiner Heimatstadt Maastricht verschanzt haben.

This full-cast dramatisation tells the true story of the French Resistance plot to destroy Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall in Normandy. When France fell to the Germans in 1940, a slight, scholarly 28-year-old captain of engineers and professor escaped to England. In collaboration with General...

Entdecken Sie das Finale der nervenzerreißenden Katja-Trilogie und lassen Sie sich diesen fesselnden, historischen Thriller auf keinen Fall entgehen! Klappentext: Dem SS-Mann Keiler auf der Spur, macht sich Katjas Truppe auf, um dem jungen, israelischen Staat zur Seite zu stehen. Doch was sie nicht geahnt hatten: Der rachsüchtige Ilja ist ihnen gefährlich dicht auf den Fersen. Damit aber nicht genug. Auch der belgische Geheimdienst mischt sich in das Getümmel mit dem Ziel, an ein wertvolles Schmuckstück des deutschen Kriegsverbrechers zu gelangen.

The epic and electrifying new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of U.S.S. Seawolf And Nimitz ClassAn oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. Then a second . . . and a third.?To the President’s National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan it is more than a...

Vor dem Hintergrund des drohenden Zweiten Weltkriegs entspinnt sich eine actionreiche Jagd nach einem geheimnisvollen Artefakt von Maya-Ruinen und unterirdischen Cenoten tief im mexikanischen Dschungel, über England, die norditalienischen Lagunen bis hin zu einem mächtigen Schloss über einem Steppensee im Osten Österreichs!

Wall of Hadrian. Britannia, 382 AD. War is creeping back into the land. As silent as snowfall, as inevitable as winter. They've had sixteen years of peace, but all things must end. Tribune Sixtus Victorinus has grown old, complacent. It is his friend, Prefect Gaius Felicius, who first spots the signs. Once more, the Caledonian tribes are rearing their heads in the north, but the greatest danger does not lie with them. For there is a new pretender to the throne of the West.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia, a thrilling historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O'Malley, the infamous Irish sea captain and folk heroine who risked everything to protect her people against the powerful Elizabethan regime Grace...

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series—a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic...

Burgos, 1200. La visita de la legendaria Leonor de Aquitania coincide con el hallazgo de un cadáver en el monasterio de Santa María la Real, un bastión de poder inexpugnable. Doña Elvira, la maquiavélica abadesa, intenta averiguar quién se oculta tras el macabro descubrimiento antes de que sus enemigos utilicen esa información en su contra, quedando atrapada en una peligrosa red de conspiraciones. Mientras tanto, una misteriosa doctora siciliana avanza hacia la ciudad, portando la más insospechada y poderosa de las armas: el conocimiento.

Art student Eleanor has been trapped in fascist Italy since 1939, forced into hiding, camouflaging her identity. At war's end, she meets intelligence officer Talbot who's captivated by her story, her intellect, and her beauty. He believes he can obviate her pervasive melancholy over the dreams the war forced her to abandon. They marry and head to Washington, DC, where he joins the fledgling CIA and she struggles to find her footing in a city with a rhythm and artistic sensibility so unlike lyrical Florence.

Young Nancy Ratcliffe is on the run. Her father had sought refuge for his family with the Brethren, led by the charismatic but dangerous Prophet. But now her father is gravely ill, and even the sooty streets of Victorian London hold less terror for Nancy than the brutality of Brethren Hall. Meanwhile, Spider is biding her time. Wrapped in dreams and visions, she paces the dark corridors and hidden staircases of the crumbling house she grew up in. The man who murdered a part of her disappeared many years ago, but still she hopes for revenge...

Orphaned at birth Sushana O' Cuilin grows into a beautiful, clever young woman under the care of her guardian Albert. Drawn into the dangerous world of smuggling as a child, she built on the fortune left by her spice trader grandfather. Then, in an unguarded moment, she is press-ganged and awakes aboard the ship of a sadistic slaver. Amid unspeakable brutality, she emerges as the pirate captain of the ship. A woman in a man's world, she brings fear and death to her enemies but love, compassion and freedom to her friends.

April 1891, as the dusty frontier city of San Diego recovers from a collapsing real estate bubble, residents look forward to the arrival of Benjamin Harrison, the first US president to visit their city. Little do they suspect that some of their citizens are planning an attack on the president and his train.

Phillip Brown and Timothy Sweitzinger became best friends as boys, went off to war together, and remained steadfast as men to guard each other’s backs from all threats. When Timothy is found in bed with a dead woman, covered in her blood and with no memory of what happened, Phillip vows to uncover what really happened. Phillip’s investigation takes him all over the city of Baltimore, from the lowest of its citizens to the highest, and even to those who were thought to be above suspicion.

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Conclave and Dictator, a gripping tale of ancient Rome’s descent into dictatorship He was born feet first, a dangerous way to enter the world. His mother did not survive, and the nickname, Agrippa—mother killer—stuck. But the schoolyard...

Echoes in the Stone, written by Joshua Bish. Some places do not need ghosts. The walls remember them. When freelance journalist Ellie Glass enters the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, she believes she’s chasing a forgotten chapter of West Virginia history, a trail of vanished patients, missing records, and whispered rumors buried beneath the stone. What she finds instead is something far older than the hospital’s crumbling halls… and far hungrier than the dead who never left. The deeper Ellie searches, the more the asylum changes around her. Corridors shift. Shadows breathe.

1604. Pirate raiders terrorise the coasts of Europe, seeking slaves to sell in the markets of North Africa. When headstrong Richard Sheriff and his beloved sister Elizabeth are torn from their Devonshire home by slavers, he is cast into a living nightmare. With Richard being a talented blacksmith, the pirate captain intends to sell him for a high price. He is eventually sold into servitude in Venice: glittering, vicious city of secrets, where his talents find him apprenticed to a knife maker.

Oslo, 1942. Die Stadt ist von den Nazis besetzt. Die Jüdin Esther kämpft im Widerstand - bis sie verraten wird. In letzter Sekunde gelingt ihr die Flucht nach Schweden. Ihre Familie jedoch wird deportiert. In Stockholm trifft Esther den Widerstandskämpfer Gerhard Falkum, der ebenfalls aus Oslo geflohen ist. Er steht unter Mordverdacht an seiner Frau. Ein Verdacht, der nie ausgeräumt werden kann und Esther Jahrzehnte später noch beschäftigt. Denn zurück in Oslo will sie herausfinden, wer ihre Familie damals in den sicheren Tod geschickt hat.

Chenoa Winterhawk is a battle-hardened member of Oregon's elite U.S. Army Indian Scouts, sworn to protect travelers across treacherous mountain terrain and dark forests whispering of ancient terrors. As the daughter of legendary Civil War hero Chief Jolon Winterhawk, Chenoa is also a warrior bound by duty, struggling with injustices brought upon the Nez Perce amidst the broken promises that have forced another relocation of her tribe.