Ergebnis für "Mars" in Historische Thriller

À la veille de la première croisade, une mission diplomatique tourne mal et plonge un novice bénédictin de 17 ans dans un périple vertigineux autour de la Méditerranée du XIe siècle. Mare Nostrum est un roman d’aventures à la croisée des genres entre histoire, fantastique, romance et quête existentielle.

Tra i due rami della stirpe dei Falck non corre buon sangue. Un rapporto al veleno che è destinato a inasprirsi con la morte dell’anziana matriarca. Quando Vera, un tempo famosa scrittrice, muore in mare, porta infatti con sé due grandi misteri: quello del suo testamento, che risulta introvabile, e quello di un vecchio manoscritto mai dato alle stampe a cui aveva lavorato in silenzio tanti anni prima. Si dice che in quelle pagine raccontasse del naufragio in cui, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, aveva perso la vita il marito, ma nessuno ha mai potuto leggerle.

O jovem Humphrey van Weyden é salvo de um náufrago pela escuna Ghost. Porém, ele logo compreende que seu pesadelo está apenas começando: o capitão Wolf Larsen o obriga a integrar a tripulação de seu navio! A bordo, ele vivencia a árdua rotina dos marujos e a tirania imposta pelo capitão.

«Ocurrió en pleno conflicto bélico. La cabaña donde ahora vives estuvo habitada por una familia de pescadores. Vivía allí un hombre joven que acababa de enviudar con su hija pequeña y con su madre, también viuda. Un día, mientras faenaba junto a sus compañeros, observó que había...

A comienzos del Siglo XVII Cartagena de Indias es la urbe más fascinante del nuevo mundo. En ella desembocan todas las rutas terrestres y marítimas del imperio español, pues en sus formidables fortificaciones se almacenan las reservas del oro y la plata destinadas a satisfacer las siempre acuciantes necesidades del Rey. Pero bajo ese aparente florecimiento se ocultan la crueldad, la ambición y los vicios que impregnan todos los estamentos sociales de aquella enigmática ciudad. Es en aquel escenario donde desembarca Alonso, un brillante letrado sevillano, huyendo del desamor.

"Vicente Raga nos deleita con otra apasionante historia. Un submarino secreto, la lucha entre los servicios de inteligencia de Franco y Hitler, con el trasfondo de un misterio que ni se imaginan. Al final, todo cobra sentido. Concluye una gran aventura de misterio e intriga, basada en hechos históricos ". Harald Brook, Tribuna Libre.

Salem, 1752. Sarah Carrier Chapman, weak with infirmity, writes a letter to her granddaughter that reveals the secret she has closely guarded for six decades: how she survived the Salem Witch Trials when her mother did not. Sarah's story begins more than a year before the trials, when she and...

Part five in the new Roman pirate series of novellas from the Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. AD 25. Mighty Rome is reclaiming control of the pirate-haunted seas, endangering the livelihoods of the pirate crews. Despite their hard-won fighting skills, the...

Part three in the new Roman pirate series of novellas from the Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. AD 25. As Roman naval squadrons patrol the Adriaticum, a young pirate captain hunts for prey. But his most dangerous enemy may be on his own side ... The young pirate...

Part two in the brand new Roman pirate series by Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. AD 25, the Adriaticum. Pirate ships hunt merchantmen across the stormy waters of the vast seas. But their control of these waters is threatened by the actions of a callous Roman...

Part one in the brand new Roman pirate series by Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. It is AD 25. The Roman Empire stretches from Hispania in the west to Armenia in the east, Merchantmen roam the seas, transporting people, livestock and all manner of goods. And...

Madrid, 1834: una terribile epidemia di colera ha messo in ginocchio la città. Ma il terrore ha anche un altro nome, quello della Bestia: un essere spietato e inafferrabile che rapisce le bambine dei quartieri più poveri e ne smembra i corpi. Quando la piccola Clara scompare, sua sorella Lucía non vuole aspettare di ritrovarne il cadavere: dà inizio così alla sua lotta contro il male e contro il tempo. Ha quattordici anni e l’inestinguibile coraggio di chi sente di non poter fare altro. Anche perché nessuno sembra voler fermare davvero il mostro.

Tarzan of the Apes, Jason Gridley, and the crew of the airship O-220 return to Pellucidar, the world at the Earth’s core, on a wartime mission to stop the Nazis from obtaining a powerful superweapon. But when the Lord of the Jungle’s murderous adversaries partner with the Mahars - Pellucidar’s routed reptilian overlords - and his adventurous granddaughter Suzanne goes missing on a reconnaissance mission, can Tarzan prevent the conquest and enslavement of all humanity in both the inner and outer worlds?

PIRATA - the action-packed novel of pirates in the Roman Empire in AD 25. Across the seas of the Adriaticum, pirates face mortal danger from wild storms, fight to hold their own against merciless rival pirates, and wrangle amongst themselves over hard-won treasure. While the Roman navy hunts...

Before Julius Caesar ruled Rome, his uncle Gaius Marius was the most powerful man in the eternal city. Once a provincial nobody with a ruined family, Marius only had one way to power: the sword. Years later, he writes to his protege Quintus Sertorius, explaining to him how he rose through the ranks of the Roman legion to become the most powerful man in the Republic. He wants to encourage and inspire the young man but gets lost in the retelling of his first experience of war, love, and killing.