Ergebnis für "Nomads Band 5 Last Legion: Ascension" in Literatur & Belletristik

Tobe Roux ist ein Ghost: Ein ehemaliger Elite-Soldat ohne Identität, Rang oder Zukunft... also so gut wie tot! Denn seit dem Verrat an seiner Legion lebt Tobe auf der Flucht. Vor der Regierung, Kopfgeldjägern... und seinem ehemals besten Freund, der ihn aus Rache jagt! Auch Aislinn Walsh kämpft ums nackte Überleben, genauer gesagt: Um das der gesamten Menschheit. Eine unbekannte, aggressive Spezies drängt in die Milchstraße und die gewaltigste Materialschlacht aller Zeiten steht kurz bevor.

Gefallene Legionäre werden nicht vom Sensenmann geholt. Der fürchtet sich vor ihnen. Sie fliegen selbst nach Walhalla. Tobe Roux kann den Verrat an der dritten Zenturie nicht verhindern. Seine Kameraden zahlen dafür mit ihrem Leben. Für die Legion gelten andere Regeln. Sie werden nur gerufen, wenn Spezialeinheiten der Föderation bereits am Boden liegen. Dafür gibt es keinen Dank. Verbrecher hassen sie, die Öffentlichkeit fürchtet sie, die Politik will eine bessere Lösung.

Ein mysteriöser Wanderer aus dem legendären Reich Askir trifft im Gasthof "Zum Hammerkopf" ein. Er unterrichtet den Krieger Havald und die Halbelfe...

Gewaltige Schlachten im Schatten der Pyramiden. Der ehemalige Gladiator Ajax wurde aus Kreta vertrieben und macht nun Ägypten unsicher. Seine Überfälle auf Flottenstützpunkte und Handelsschiffe stellen eine Bedrohung für die Stabilität des römischen Imperiums dar, da sich seine Männer als Römer ausgeben und so den Hass der Bevölkerung auf die Besatzungsmacht schüren. Die beiden erprobten Kämpfer Cato und Macro werden von Ägyptens Statthalter damit beauftragt, sich der 22. Legion anzuschließen und Ajax zur Strecke zu bringen, bevor das Land endgültig verloren ist.

For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series is available in this collection—including a brand-new novella.

The Legion is the action-packed tenth novel in Simon Scarrow's best-selling Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Egypt, AD 49. Cato, one of the youngest Prefects of the Roman army, and Centurion Macro have a tough posting: to track down and destroy a gang of former gladiators who have turned to piracy. Driven by vengeance, these hardened brutes have been defiling temples, sinking Roman ships, and slaughtering men, women and children.

The Custodian Guard have stood watch over the Emperor's Palace on Terra since the foundation of the Imperium. Charged with protecting the Master of Mankind from all threats, within and without, their fearsome resolve is renowned throughout the galaxy, and their golden armour is the last thing that a would-be assassin or saboteur will ever see.

Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people - Stephen calls them aspects - to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...for a price. Then a company hires him to recover stolen property - a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past....

The Coalition is reeling. New Vega and its other worlds have fallen beneath the boot of the newly allied Savage marines, and the death count continues to rise at a staggering rate. One thing is clear: The war to come will be a fight for the very survival of the species. For both sides in this conflict, now is the time to become what fate, and victory, demand. The Savages - post-human monsters who believe themselves to be gods - are intent on remaking civilization in their own violent and pathological image. Yet their alliance is tenuous.

Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force. Vampires are dying impossibly of disease. Guild hunter Elena Deveraux and the Archangel Raphael must discover the source of the wave of death before it engulfs their city and their people, leaving New York a ruin and Raphael's Tower under siege by enemy archangels. Yet even as they fight desperately to save the city, an even darker force is stirring, its chill eyes trained on New York...and on Raphael.

What if evil won't let go? Along a sheltered lane, deep in the Sussex countryside, sits a house that is sometimes called home, the tenants it has held unable to forget it. When Ruby Davis gets a distressed call from Rosie Cowell, the latest inhabitant, little does she know that her life too will change forever, from the moment she steps over the threshold.

Who in the storied history of the greatest fighting force the galaxy’s ever known shines as their brightest beacon? Who is the template for legionnaire virtue, the person that every leej who ever wore the bucket strives to be? Only one legionnaire qualifies: General Rex. The general has become more myth than man. More fable than real. The Legion he led to victory in the Savage Wars followed his example of warrior perfection and absolute duty unto death to save humanity while painting glory across the stars. The Legion was his legacy; it cemented the legend of Tyrus Rex.

Nathaniel Garro - loyalist Death Guard, and hero of the Eisenstein - has found a new calling in his service to the Emperor. Surrounded by a cloak of secrecy, Garro travels the galaxy in pursuit of his new goal. His quest will lead him to heart of the most destructive warzones and reveal a secret that will change the course of the Horus Heresy itself....

The Sentinels have rallied under the leadership of Adequin Rake, and Cavalon Mercer has uncovered the horrifying genetic solution his grandfather is about to unleash on the unsuspecting outer colonies. Both Rake and Cavalon race against time to save the universe once again. They'll need every resource, every ally who might answer the call.

Members of Al-Qaida have set in place a vicious biological attack. Men and women infected with the highly communicable Marburg virus have been sent to sensitive locations throughout the world in hopes of creating a deadly, global epidemic. Posing a frightening scenario that could become all too real, and filled with the details of the military world that have made Coyle's books best-sellers, Pandora's Legion hits the front lines of the new war against terrorism in this engrossing, high-stakes novel.