Ergebnis für "The Wolf Hour" in Belletristik

Michael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Now, three years later, the army asks him to end his retirement and parachute into occupied Paris. A mysterious German plan called the Iron Fist threatens the D-Day invasion, and the Nazi in charge is the spy who betrayed Michael’s lover. The werewolf goes to France for king and country, hoping for a chance at bloody vengeance.

It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done, and unless he pays him a ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.

Tessa Lowell is working in Uganda researching the effects of PTSD and war on child soldiers when she is kidnapped by rebel forces. Isolated in an increasingly volatile situation, she tries to form a bond with 13-year-old Francis, already an experienced soldier and survivor of shocking violence. In Melbourne, Tessa's parents learn government agencies can do little to help, so they contact their son Stephen, an astute if manipulative businessman based in Cape Town who agrees to search for her but has reasons of his own to do so.

Wenn das eigene Kind zum Fremden wird. Lilach Schuster hat alles: ein Haus mit Pool im Herzen des Silicon Valley, einen erfolgreichen Ehemann und das Gefühl, angekommen zu sein in einem Land, in dem man sich nicht in ständiger Gefahr wähnen muss wie in ihrer Heimat Israel. Doch dann stirbt auf einer Party ein Mitschüler ihres Sohns Adam. Je mehr Lilach über die Umstände des Todes erfährt, desto größer wird ihr Unbehagen: Ist es möglich, dass Adam irgendwie damit in Verbindung steht?

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, The Hours tells the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planning a party in honor of a beloved friend; Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her husband in a London suburb and beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway. By the end of the novel, the stories have intertwined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.

Als der Navy SEAL Scharfschütze Gil Shannon ins Fadenkreuz eines tschetschenischen Terroristen gerät, der unter dem Namen "Der Wolf" agiert, wird er vom Jäger zum Gejagten. Doch in Paris bietet sich eine überraschende Chance: Shannon verbündet sich mit einem tödlichen russischen Spezial-Kämpfer gegen den Wolf - und nach einer Verfolgung durch ganz Europa kommt es im Gebirge des Kaukasus zum Showdown der Scharfschützen.

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.

"Brassard's accents—whether French Canadian, Italian, or continental French—create indelible characters. His performance lets us feel Reine Marie's warmth and Armand's affectionate nature, and he adds an additional layer to surly Ruth and her potty-mouthed duck. Exciting and entertaining."...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ""A taut, slow-burning thriller."" -Boston Globe ""Truly exceptional."" – Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out...

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved.

**Winner of the Gold Award for Best Drama in the New York Festivals Radio Awards 2018*** A BBC radio adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Michael Cunningham, inspired by Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway Three separate women, living in different locations and eras, are linked by their...

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works - something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris - now closely watched by the Gestapo - is to send in a personal courier. Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works - something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris - now closely watched by the Gestapo - is to send in a personal courier. Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works - something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris - now closely watched by the Gestapo - is to send in a personal courier. Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.

Was verwandelt einen normalen amerikanischen Teenager in einen eiskalten Killer Amerika wurde durch einen mysteriösen Stealth-Angriff zerstört, doch das war nur der Anfang. Jetzt beginnt eine Invasion. Der Teenager Jack Monaghan hat inmitten der Katastrophe gerade erst seine Eltern zu Grabe getragen, aber ihm bleibt keine Zeit zu trauern: Er muss einen Weg finden, inmitten seiner am Boden liegenden Heimat und fremden Invasoren zu überleben.

Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself the captive voyager aboard the Ghost, captained by the brutal and barbaric Wolf Larsen. The desperate character of Van Weyden's voyage is defined by the fact that he is out of his element, in unimaginable peril, and the slave of this cynical and wild soul, Larsen. Almost immediately, the slave plots his freedom - and must confront the weakness in his soul, mind and body.

Golden couple Annie and David Crayce have it all. A loving marriage, three beautiful children and a thriving family business. Life couldn’t be better. Until the unthinkable happens. Suddenly, David is the prime suspect of a murder committed 20 years ago. As the police investigate the cold case, so does Annie. But it all comes down to a few lost hours she can’t solve. Now Annie must prove the man she loves is innocent.

“Thrity Umrigar has an uncanny ability to look deeply into the human heart and find the absolute truth of our lives. The Story Hour is stunning and beautiful. Lakshmi and Maggie will stay with readers for a very long time.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter From...