Ergebnis für "Némesis" in Belletristik

Sie hatten sieben Jahre Zeit, sich vorzubereiten. Die Erde ist verloren. Vor sieben Jahren erhielt die Kolonie Neu-Erde eine letzte Nachricht von der Erde … eine Warnung. Zuerst eine globale Pandemie, dann die Entstehung einer neuen Spezies. Ein erbitterter Krieg verwüstete das Sonnensystem. Jetzt werden sie die Kolonie angreifen. Viele Kolonisten glauben es nicht, aber Connor ist davon überzeugt. Sie müssen sich vorbereiten. Sie müssen kämpfen. Aber wie können sie etwas überleben, das jeden Menschen auf der Erde getötet hat?

Newark 1944. In der Stadt bricht eine schreckliche Polioepidemie aus. Die meisten Betroffenen sind Kinder...

“A totally new and original work that stretches his talents to their fullest . . . welcome back, champ!”—The Detroit News In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the...

Sandra Meinke, Kriminalkommissarin bei der Hamburger Polizei, hat das Gefühl, auf einem Abstellgleis gelandet zu sein. Ihre aktuelle Aufgabe ist unbefriedigend, ihr Vorgesetzter eine Katastrophe. Dazu kommt, dass niemand ihre Theorie über einen professionellen Kinderhändlerring ernst nimmt. So ermittelt sie in ihrer Freizeit weiter, bis ihr ein folgenschwerer Fehler unterläuft, der sie direkt ins Visier der Verbrecher katapultiert.

Das dramatische und epische Ende der "Mars Ultor" Reihe. Welche Gefahren werden auf das Team der Wayaki Industries warten? Wird Major Dener seinen Platz in Walhalla finden? Major Dener ist zurück auf der Erde. Doch statt Ruhe und die versprochene Bonuszahlung zu genießen, wird er zu einem geheimen Briefing im Wayaki Konzern gerufen. Die Ares-Station antwortet nicht mehr, auch die Funkverbindung zur Mars-Basis One ist verstummt. Major Dener und sein Team werden auf eine riskante Aufklärungsmission geschickt.

Ein gewaltiges Erdbeben im Südpazifik überschwemmt einen Großteil des Planeten und stürzt die Menschheit in eine tiefe Glaubenskrise. Kriege folgen und zwingen den verbliebenen Rest, der einst vorherrschenden Spezies, Schutz in einem riesigen Bunkersystem zu suchen. Die Unterwelt ist die letzte Zuflucht. Technik und Genmanipulation bewahren die Menschen vor dem Aussterben, doch die alten Konflikte sind noch nicht beendet. Jack Parker hat, wie alle in seinem Dorf, nie das Sonnenlicht erblickt.

“Nesbø’s storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment.” —USA Today Detective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal bank robberies and the suspicious suicide of a female artist in...

Between the fall of man and the arrival of the JFK, the Horn of Africa is a battleground. Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity.

In the midst of a sea of holidaymakers, I find myself the lone outsider – no companion, no luggage. An enigma among the carefree crowd. I wonder what they’d do if they knew who I am. Who I really am… What is Liz running away from? Who is this woman my father married? Did he have any idea of what she was capable of? My gaze fixates on the once-familiar house that now feels like a distant memory. I can hardly believe how much my life has changed and that Liz, the woman who puts the word wicked into stepmother has completely vanished.

They killed his brother. They buried the truth. They thought it was over. They were wrong. Ryan Blaze was a Marine, a warrior, a man who never broke under pressure. So when his body comes home in a flag-draped coffin, the official report—friendly fire, a tragic mistake—feels like a lie. His brother, Delta Force operator Axel Blaze, wants the truth. The deeper he digs, the darker it gets. Ryan wasn’t killed in combat—he was executed. His killers? American soldiers turned traitors, now living large off dirty money, hiding behind wealth and power. Blaze knows there’s only one way this ends.

Georgie Deacon thinks nothing of it when a gang of girls led by Yasmin, a member of the notorious Marx family, knock at her door and threaten to hurt her daughter—that is until her daughter doesn't return home. Detective Clark Kims ignores Georgie's plea to have the gang of girls brought in for questioning. He insists it is the work of the Kent serial killer, until Georgie realizes that the detective's daughter is part of the gang.

When word finally reaches him that his sister and her family have died a horrid death at the hands of a cattle baron and his craven cowhands, Taggart McBain comes down off the mountain with bear traps, a double barrel coach gun, two LeMats, and a Winchester. He's on the hunt. When the task is done and blood soaks the Nemesis, NV, desert, he receives a shock - his sister is still alive.

The empire is settled from its civil wars with a strong new ruler in Septimius Severus, and while the emperor campaigns in the east, a cohort of Praetorians has been left in control of Rome under Rufinus, now a tribune of the Guard. But adventure calls once more, as Rufinus receives a worrying letter that sends him on a quest in the north, which will take him and his new faithful companion to the edge of empire, where he will uncover a secret that puts the whole world in danger.

Lily was made to stand alone. She is the perfect executioner and insurgent. Born of a human mother, she was altered into something completely terrifying. Lily chose a new life and started a family. Her past life is a secret that is hidden from everyone. If they knew, they would fear and despise her for what she is. She spent years trying to forget who she was.

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.

Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more—but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship.

A group of women gather at a fertility clinic, where Dr. Margherita Dumas offers a revolutionary treatment for their infertility problems. A year later, each of them gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Thirty years later, a killer begins to wipe out the children born as a result of Dumas’ programme. Detective Inspector Harry Houston is assigned to piece together the case and bring the killer to justice. But with little time and even less clues, can Harry and his team find the link between the past and the deaths of the progeny of Clinique Sobel?

A novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series! The U.S.S. Discovery’s specialty is using its spore-based hub drive to jump great distances faster than any warp-faring vessel in Starfleet. To do this, Lieutenant Paul Stamets navigates the ship through the recently revealed mycelial...

An unknown enemy. Loved ones in peril. A battle for survival. Tatya has sent the demon who pursued her back to Hell. Now she’s about to open a healing center and use her gifts to help those in need. The only one she can’t help is the man she is in love with, the vampire master, Vanse, who lies in a coma. When an ambitious vampire arrives in town with designs on Vanse’s family, Tatya’s plans are turned upside down. Her best friend, the local shaman, Forked Lightning, puts his life on the line to help, but chaos and tragedy follow when Tatya is kidnapped.

What do an Internet scam, a conference for mystery writers, and "The Great Sausage Scandal" have in common? They're all connected to the latest adventure of Addy Zhuang, an employee of the real-life bank at 221B Baker Street tasked with answering all of the mail that mystery fans send to Sherlock Holmes. In the sequel to Sherlock's Secretary, Addy, his true crime reporter girlfriend Zabel, and his friends Sanna and Jasper travel to Scotland in order to solve a missing persons case connected to a prop from the classic movie The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.