Ergebnis für "Tumult" in Literatur & Belletristik

Tumult in Mecca: From Civil Servant to Global Business Adventurer transports listeners to 1979, a year of upheaval and change. Henrik Bertelsen, a Danish civil servant and baby boomer, is dedicated to his stable life in Copenhagen. Alongside his English wife, Sammy, they are building a co-housing community and navigating the complex adoption of a child from Indonesia. Henrik longs for peace and stability to secure his career. But life takes an unexpected turn when he is offered the chance to renovate hospital kitchens in Saudi Arabia.

Eigentlich sollte der Filter meiner Maske noch ein paar Minuten halten. Eigentlich. Das Institut. Leuchtfeuer der Menschheit. Ein gewaltiger Forschungskomplex am Ende der Welt. Hier sollte unsere Spezies die Grenzen ihres Daseins überwinden. Hier sollten wir neue Menschen werden. Doch es kam alles anders. Nun steht das Institut für dutzende unterirdische Ebenen voller Giftgas, unerklärlicher Anomalien und missgestalteter Kreaturen. Es ist die Keimzelle unseres Untergangs.

Tumult in Mecca masterfully weaves Henrik’s personal quest for fulfilment with the global turbulence of 1979, capturing the tension between career and adventure, ambition and family, security and risk.

En 1940, le Maroc, sous protectorat français, est administré par le régime de Vichy. Le débarquement des Alliés en 1942 va bouleverser la vie des Casablancais. Les soldats américains et l'Armée d'Afrique se mobiliseront pour libérer l'Europe. La jeunesse et l'amour triompheront de cette période troublée.

Having survived the best efforts of the Dark Angels to kill him, Marley Fox is conscripted into the British army along with his companion, James Finnegan. The two are sent to South Africa to fight in the war against the Boers, the brutality of which swallows them up as they are thrown into battle after battle. In the midst of the war, the Dark Angels send supernatural forces against them, and old enemies from England suddenly appear and do their best to finish off the pair.

And so begins the warleader's descent into darkness... Cenoc, the self-styled Lord of Latimus, learns of hidden treasures that can make him even more powerful. Few dare oppose his will, even as they witness his growing madness. However, a remnant stands in his way: a newly knighted young man who is torn between his mission and an overwhelming desire for revenge; an enchanter-initiate who finds himself facing terrors even greater than the danger of opposing Cenoc.