Ergebnis für "the squad" in Historische Romane

At the stroke of midnight, a devastating explosion at Black Tom Island, an armaments depot, rocks New York City awake; and so begins this story of two patriots in World War I, each willing to put his life on the line in order to achieve a glorious victory for his cause. Serving the Fatherland is Dr. Harold Schwartz, administrator of the prestigious Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital and a German spy. Along with his father, a dealer in lethal weapons and a lifelong friend of Kaiser Wilhelm, Schwartz is hell-bent on distracting the Americans from entering the war.

In recent decades, ostensibly to combat the rising tide of criminality in Mumbai’s underworld, the Indian Police Service has carried out many hundreds of extrajudicial assassinations of suspects. Karan, an expert sharpshooter in an elite branch dispensed with dishing out this vigilante justice, has a difficult choice: Should he continue to blindly follow orders from his superiors, regardless of their moral standing, or take matters into his own hands and do what he believes to be right?

In a spellbinding narrative of sacrifice and survival, chaos and connection, four characters are caught up in the tides of history over three centuries and drawn to the sacred White Rock of San Blas off the coast of Mexico. In 2020 an Englishwoman travels to give thanks for her child, a singer...

En plena Revolución mexicana el abogado Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente le ofrece a Pancho Villa un innovador artefacto para su ejército: una guillotina que él mismo ha perfeccionado. El abogado piensa que con esa poderosa arma los villistas provocarán pavor entre sus enemigos y que por ello el general debe adquirirla. Villa decide comprarla a cambio de un pago inusual: recluta a Feliciano en sus filas y lo convierte en honorable sargento de la División del Norte a cargo del Escuadrón Guillotina.