Ergebnis für "the squad" in Fantasy

Gaia has an eldritch problem, and Cain is tasked with stopping it before it gets out of control. To do that, he'll have to make an uneasy alliance with a human black-ops organization called Aegis. Run by the US government, Aegis has the personnel and resources to stop an eldritch invasion in its tracks. The problem is, Aegis has been taking a short-term approach, blowing up eldritch wormholes as they form on Gaia rather than cutting them off at the source.

Welcome to Andover, where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship only it turns out to be for the town's most heinous supervillain.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Set in the aftermath of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, this action-packed prequel to the hotly anticipated videogame Battlefront II introduces the Empire’s elite force: Inferno Squad. After the humiliating theft of the Death Star plans and the destruction of the...

Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte von fünf Jugendlichen, deren Körper eine zweite Pubertät durchlaufen, und sie dabei mit übernatürlichen Fähigkeiten ausgestattet hat.

An ongoing, episodic "prose comic" from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in an alternate version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it - along with most other large urban centers - has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems. Goon Squad: Year One offers three action-packed volumes in a single collection.

Lothar 'Stiff' Sauer is a mercenary captain. Unfortunately, he has no mercenaries left. He never caught a break in the Old World. Maybe in Gal'azu, he'll finally achieve the success he craves. But he soon finds out things aren't going to be easy. Starting at the bottom rung, he can only recruit the mercenaries no one else wants. The feckless; criminals, and noobs; the unhinged. Can Lothar build his squad into something to be proud of? Or will this be yet another, and final, failure?

Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it - along with most other large urban centers - has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.

Goon Squad, Volume 2: Without Sin is composed of "A Star in Strange Ways", "Holy Fool", "Dead Man Tells Tale", "A Brief History of the Goon Squad", "Tale of Terror", and "Pomona Island", as well as an introduction read by the author.

Everyone enjoys peace and tranquility, and Victor Bayne is no exception. He goes to great lengths to maintain a harmonious home with his partner, Jacob. Although the cannery is huge, it's grown difficult to avoid the elephant in the room...the elephant with the letters FPMP scrawled on its hide. Once Jacob surrendered his PsyCop badge, he infiltrated the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program. In his typical restrained fashion, he hasn't been sharing much about what he actually does behind its guarded doors.

Living in the Underworld with the dark lord himself made giving in to my darkest urges easy. It’s finding my humanity again that’s going to be tough. There’s only one reason I’d ever go back and that’s two-hundred pounds of male dragon perfection. Even with my she-demon in control, I can’t resist Talon. But will my feelings for him be enough to lure me back to the light?

An ongoing, episodic "prose comic" from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it - along with most other large urban centers - has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.

Rowan wasn't supposed to be a hero, but after becoming one by leading his people to victory against a demonic enemy . . . now he's really got problems. Transported to a fantastical world in desperate need of heroes, Rowan and his friends were gifted great weapons to use against the demon hordes...

When the Tallisker tower in Detroit exploded, evil even more demonic than usual had to be behind it. Finding out would take a team of highly trained individuals, each specialists in their field.

When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down a notorious drug gang; instead, he discovers his own body and a spirit guide called Daisy-May. She's there to enlist him to the Dying Squad, a spectral police force who solve crimes their flesh and blood counterparts cannot. Lazarus reluctantly accepts and returns to the Lincolnshire Badlands, where he faces dangers from both the living and the dead in his quest to discover the identity of his killer - before they kill again.

Compassion Squad is the story of a group of adventurous people who go around the world solving problems using compassionate methods. The problems are the contemporary ones that affect societies, civilizations, and the ecosphere. In the first part of the audiobook, a capable young lady is visited by Milarepa, who teaches her supernatural martial arts. She solves many world issues with the help of like-minded allies. In the next part of the story, her student, a school teacher, carries forward her vision of creating a better world. He is aided by a team of commandos.

Z Thornbrook and her pixie cousins thought things would be more exciting since they were now Pixie MPs. Not so far. They're stationed in a cramped little office in a military police station on post doing mundane, boring tasks. Answering phones, directing calls, and taking care of paperwork. There's a method to the badness. They have to prove they can be responsible when they're not battling magical threats alongside Alpha Team.

When Z and her cousins are finally moved to their new station at Fort Carson, Colorado, magicals in the Army are still a big secret. A new home, a new commanding officer, and a whole lot of space all to themselves. These magical soldiers aren't quite ready to face battle just yet. Their last bit of isolated training can't possibly be a breeding ground for more pixie mischief, right? Wrong. But Z gets a few hits of her own medicine when the nightmares return—From the last night on Oriceran and the tragedy that turned her and her cousins into the last living pixies of the Thornbrook clan.

On the outside Cozyville looks just like the kind of small town everyone dreams of relocating or retiring to: a Mainstreet lined with quaint little shops and old-fashioned cafes, snug little houses complete with porches, swings, and well-mowed yards, pleasant, smiling neighbors – a place where all the mysteries would be cozy, where murder victims expire over tea painlessly and bloodlessly.

Excited to receive his very first assignment, Alpha Squad recruit Adam King is ready to jump head-first into the action. With the small town of Sevenoaks experiencing violent attacks on the local population, it’s up to Alpha Squad to find the cause. But when suspicions fall on the local shifter refugee camp, and especially Felicity Weir who volunteers there, Adam is forced to reevaluate his priorities. With his inner bear insisting she is his mate and the squad’s reputation hinging on a successful first mission, Adam is torn.

Detective Joe Lazarus is missing. The Dying Squad are on the case, but following reports of his sighting, signs suggest he may have fallen back into his criminal ways. A new drug is taking the world by storm. Spook allows the living to see the dead, but its effects are often fatal. The Dying Squad's visit to a Berlin nightclub quickly turns their search into an entirely more sinister case.