Ergebnis für "Phantoms" in Krieg & Militär

Indonesia's sea lanes are vital to international cargo carriers and naval power. To see them under the control of the West's enemies would be disastrous. One man could be the key to Indonesia's fate. But he is hiding somewhere among the country's 17,000 islands—and nobody knows where. The US Navy despatches Captain Amanda Garrett. Her orders: to find the man and prevent a catastrophe.

David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it.

Jean-Paul Martineau was never raised to live—he was trained to endure, deceive, and survive. In the charged years before the American Revolution, he vanishes from public life, reemerging in the shadows as a figure known only to a few: Mr. Smith. He moves silently through courts and colonies, navigating a world where forged letters wield more power than swords and whispers can topple kings.

Winter 1944: Months after the Liberation of France, ex-Boston cop Billy Boyle finds himself in a Paris reeling from the carnage it has endured but hopeful that an end to war is in sight. When Billy finds a rare piece of artwork after a tense shoot-out in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, he thinks it could be connected to the Syndicat du Renard, a shadowy network of Nazi sympathizers known to be smuggling stolen artwork out of France. Trailing the Syndicat, Billy discovers that someone with a high level of communications clearance may be using his position to aid the thieves.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton’s life is turned upside down with news almost too good to be true, everything he believes about his world changes in an instant, and the life he dedicated to serving his country and the preservation of freedom suddenly fades out of focus as a new reality becomes the center of his existence. But before the dream of his new life can materialize, one final mission demands his devotion like never before.

A NATO reinforcement exercise held at a British airbase in West Germany brings British, American, and French fighter crews together to practice the air corridor policing mission. When a Pembroke transport aircraft engaged in a covert reconnaissance mission is intercepted by a MiG fighter and forced to land in East Germany, events escalate. Will the crew become a pawn in the relentless confrontation as the Soviets increase the rhetoric?

In Aṣíṣẹhìndé, the protagonist, Ajomale, a wounded war warrior beset by physical and emotional scars, returns to Terioko, craving the solace of family. His world shatters upon discovering the infidelity of his wife, Sebiotimo, with the village chief, Kasali. Sebiotimo’s fraudulent death and subsequent elopement with Kasali to Mammoth Village, a land of fearsome, hirsute giants, sews a seed of deceit destined to bloom into chaos. The primary conflict: Ajomale’s pursuit of truth and redemption, overshadowing his quest for vengeance.

Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Johnny Trescott is as smart, tough, and fearless as they come. But he’s about to lose everything - his boat, his freedom, and his identity. Johnny’s mission is to track down drug runners in the Gulf of Mexico, and he’s got his eye on the biggest fish of all - Georges Coquelin. But an SOS from a downed plane that’s sinking fast leads him straight to disaster. Coquelin springs a trap. Stranding Johnny and the plane’s passengers on a deserted island, the drug smuggler commandeers Johnny’s boat and his name.

The story of Nate Carson, a young Marine pilot and naval aviator just starting his military career in the early 1980s. Nate suffers a trauma during flight training that provides him the opportunity to find himself in the process of learning to fly and fight the F-4 Phantom.