Ergebnis für "Pyramides" in Thriller

Der Gotham City Staudamm zerbricht, das Tal wird überflutet. Droht der Stadt nach dem Erdbeben und dem "No Man's Land" die nächste Katastrophe? Diese kann durch den gemeinschaftlichen Einsatz der Justice League verhindert werden, doch dabei kommt etwas zum Vorschein, mit dem niemand gerechnet hat. Eine Pyramide wurde durch die Wassermassen freigelegt. Was hat es mit ihr auf sich? Welches Geheimnis birgt sie? Noch wissen Batman und seine Freunde von der Justice League nicht, dass ihr bisher größter Gegner darin lauert.

The Pyramid is the long-awaited addition to Henning Mankell's critically celebrated and internationally best-selling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of five short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here are the stories that trace, chronologically, Wallander's growth from a rookie cop into a young father and then a middle-aged divorcé, illuminating how Wallander became a first-rate detective and highlighting new facets of a now canonical character.

The note from her friend and colleague had read "I have quite the monster for you to chase, dear Annja." And then before she could speak to him, he'd been found dead in the hotel's stairwell. It didn't seemed possible. Annja Creed had been looking forward to three days of geeking out at the archaeology conference in Madison, Wisconsin, and then this tragedy strikes. And his is only the first death over the long weekend.

Doktor Clark, der Leiter der Ausgrabungsstätte des Djoser-Pyramidenkomplexes, macht eine Entdeckung, die die Entstehungsgeschichte des alten Ägyptischen Reiches neu schreiben lässt. Er bittet den Archäologen Henry Voigt dem Geheimnis zu folgen, das zu einem uralten Relikt führen soll. Sehr bald finden Henry und seine Freunde sich auf der Spur zu einer finsteren und düsteren Welt, die ihnen tiefe Einblicke in das Reich der Mythologie und der alten Götter Ägyptens gewährt. Doch nicht nur ein unbekannter Feind betritt die Bühne, auch der Tod ist ihnen stets dicht auf den Fersen.

Easy Nevada is a fortune hunter with an eye on a pyramid buried for 2,000 years. She'll do anything to get her hands on its untold riches, if she can just get past the deadly traps that protect them. Candice Cushing is an archaeologist born in Sudan and raised in Britain who is drawn to the mysterious pyramid that she sees as a piece of her heritage. Farouq Al-Jabbar doesn't see it as either history or treasure. The zealot has come to destroy anything that smells of blasphemy and anyone who gets in his way.

Nahe der schwedischen Küste geht ein Flugzeug in Flammen auf. Die Piloten sind bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verstümmelt. Kein Tower hatte Meldung über den Flug - ein Fall für Kultkommissar Wallander und sein Team. Wenig später entdeckt man die Leichen von zwei alten Schwestern, die gemeinsam einen Kurzwarenladen betrieben haben, kaltblütig durch einen Genickschuss hingerichtet.

It's been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man - a Mr Giuglù Nicotra - is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back.

Ethan Gage, an expatriate American in post-revolutionary France, wins an ancient medallion in a card game. That same night, Ethan is framed for a prostitute’s murder and barely escapes France with his life. Faced with either prison or death, Gage is offered a third choice: to accompany Napoleon Bonaparte, as France sails to conquer Egypt. Once Gage arrives, he realises that the medallion may solve one of the greatest riddles of history – who built the Great Pyramids, and why.

At a top secret research laboratory in Nevada, DARPA's most advanced artificial intelligence can read your darkest secrets and hidden intentions right off your face. The technology's manipulative inventor, however, fears no future big brother surveillance state. He built it for his own secret reasons - and now there is no untruth he won't tell, no subterfuge he won't pull, to help his estranged young daughter.

হিমাদ্রি কিশোর দাসগুপ্ত-র লেখা একটি খুবই জনপ্রিয় উপন্যাস। আজকের নবীন পাঠকদের কাছে হিমাদ্রি কিশোর খুবই...

Apothecary John Rawlings has been summoned to Devon by Elizabeth di Lorenzi, his beautiful but unpredictable mistress. Leaving his young daughter Rose in the good care of her grandfather Sir Gabriel Kent, Rawlings sets off for Exeter on board the stagecoach. His fellow-passengers are a motley crew, and incelude a large and talkative German lady; Cuthbert Simms, a dance-master; and Jack Beef, the so-called ï¿¿ï¿¿ï¿¿Black Pyramid", a bare-knuckle fighter.

After exposing a low-level congressman for accepting bribes, Alex attends a conference and runs into an old friend - and flame - Media Studies Professor Camila Gray. But just as they begin to reconnect, Alex's business partner disappears, leaving Alex only one clue: the name of a hacker who was recently murdered. A source hints at a vaster conspiracy, one that may reach all the way up to the fast-approaching presidential election.

Much is at stake, and for William, the painful realization that seeking to atone for his most famous sin upon the earth’s stage can’t guarantee lasting happiness.

Legends say the gold belongs to the famed goddess, Sekhmet. But a map belonging to Nick Caine says otherwise...at least to Nick. He has returned to Egypt to claim the treasure, along with Ishi, Marie Da Vinci, and an old friend of her father's, Akiiki Mubarek.

Louisa May Alcott was born on 29th November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is most definitely a writer of her own experiences. Her father was a transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter who founded, Fruitlands, a utopian community. Well-loved for her classic ‘Little Women’ she was a superb writer in difficult times for any woman, a strong advocate of women’s issues, the anti-slavery movement, temperance and social reform.