Ergebnis für "Owen" in Krieg & Militär

Ex-Scharfschützin Sara will eine entführte Schwangere retten und riskiert dafür nicht nur ihr eigenes Leben. Morgenübelkeit statt Bundeswehr: Sara gewöhnt sich nur langsam an das Leben als Zivilistin. Doch dann sind ihre besonderen Fähigkeiten wieder gefragt. Der Mann ihrer neuen Freundin Finya wird getötet und deren Liebhaber gerät ins Visier der Polizei. Als Finya dann auch noch entführt wird, muss Sara sich entscheiden: Wird sie weiter auf Recht und Gesetz vertrauen oder die Sache selbst in die Hand nehmen und damit nicht nur sich, sondern auch ihr ungeborenes Kind gefährden?

Sara und Jay stehen vor ihrer bisher gefährlichsten Mission: Die Sisterhood beauftragt sie, eine Journalistin aus einem russischen Straflager zu befreien – inhaftiert wegen eines brisanten Artikels über ein entführtes Kind. Nach der riskanten Rettung lässt der Fall Sara nicht los. Sie überzeugt Jay, das Kind aus dem Artikel aufzuspüren und es sicher zurück zu seiner Familie in der Ukraine zu bringen.

When the rebel leaders prove harder to eliminate than the rest of the mob, Lord Edward is helped in his quest by Pope Adrian V. In thanks, he agrees to join the Crusades with King Louis IX of France. The so-called holy war is a complex and punishing pursuit, and Lord Edward needs help in defeating the Mamluks. He calls upon his trusted comrade Gerald to lead a crusade of his own, to enlist the aid of Abaqa Khan, a Mongol leader and much needed ally. With miles of Muslim-controlled land to cross, can Gerald make the journey unscathed, and will his efforts help to turn the war?

In the span of a few days, six tons of lithium-6 are stolen in Japan, and 180 grams of plutonium vanish in France. Word of these crimes quickly reaches Colonel Kenneth Andrews at the US Nuclear Terrorism Unit. He mobilizes the best team in nuclear defense, including special agents - and couple - Lauri Nurmi and Alice Donovan.

A veteran Marine and an ex-convict find themselves on opposite sides of the law in this propulsive new thriller from award-nominated suspense master and "damn fine storyteller" Owen Laukkanen (Kirkus Reviews). Could your closest friend be a killer? When a body washes up outside Deception Cove...

When Lieutenant Gavin Kelly's recon platoon swims ashore a Mogadishu beach under the glare of hundreds of news camera lights, it is an appropriately surreal beginning to Operation Restore Hope. This modern war is vastly different from the battles Kelly's father and grandfather fought and from...

In a dystopian desert landscape, Camp Gamma clings to the edge of a cliff, constantly besieged by mysterious hordes of shadows from the northern desert. The only protection for the camp is The Range, a magical energy fence upheld by its defenders wielding crossbows and pikes.

The USA has been ravaged by civil war. It's been 30 years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease, the North has emerged victorious but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the vicious Northern dictator, Renard. Two survivors, Dyce and Vida, journeyed deep into the Southern terrains in search of a cure for Renard's chemical warfare. Now they find themselves scouring the Northern territories on a new and far deadlier pursuit.

In 1932, Hitler and the Nazi Party were threatening to take control of Germany, and there was a growing fear of another war. In the summer of that year, John and Annie Williams make their annual trip to visit their son's grave in the Flanders region of Belgium. Their son, Herbert Edward Williams, had been killed while fighting at the battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Erich and Martina Lehmann from Germany are also in Flanders to pay their respects to the memory of their son, Kurt, who died in the same campaign.

In the 22nd Century colonies spread out to the stars, hidden by a secretive industrialist. 80 years later the locations are revealed, one at a time, once a year. Midshipman William Grace, sole survivor of the genocide on the colony Farshore, is shipwrecked and stranded with a handful of surviving marines and soldiers. The good news, they're alive. The bad news is that they face the frigid climate, betrayal, a harrowing ocean crossing, terror drones, and a mercenary force intent on holding the planet.