Showing results for "J L Bourne" in Literature & Fiction

In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter, if you will, into the world of the undead.

In the not-too-distant future, during an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative unwittingly triggers an incredible event that alters the course of society. A terrible weapon has been unleashed - a weapon that, left to run its course, will destroy the moral fabric of humanity.

He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip; evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face; strange things he says in his delirium, which could be code words. And a number on the...

The first book of Day by Day Armageddon took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year's resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, day by day. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve.

In a desperate bid to take back the continental United States - where hordes of undead now dominate the ravaged human population - a Navy commander leads a global mission to the heart of the pandemic. Task Force Hourglass is humanity’s final hope, and his team’s agonizing decisions could mean living one day more - or surrendering to the eternal hell that exists between life and death.

During an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative had unwittingly triggered an incredible worldwide event that irrevocably shaped the future of the United States. In the aftermath of the crisis, families have struggled to survive in a world short on food, water, and electricity. Hyperinflation cripples the United States economy, and postwar armored military vehicles are patrolling the streets. One man has now stepped forward and continues to push back the dark wave of tyranny.

In a desperate bid to survive as hordes of bloodthirsty undead now dominate the ravaged US population, a navy commander discovers an incredible secret about the pandemic in this fourth novel in the acclaimed Day by Day Armageddon series. Task Force Phoenix may be humanity's final hope, and the narrator's agonizing decisions could mean living one more day - or surrendering to the eternal hell that exists between life and death.

Time is a very fluid thing, no one really has a grasp on it other than maybe how to measure it. As the maestro of the Day by Day Armageddon Universe, I have the latitude of being in control of that time. I can adjust the slider either direction, moving the timeline back and forth along the continuum. This is one of the perks of creation, the benefit in constructing something (albeit small) from nothing. Sort of makes you wonder what the maestro of the universe is up to, no? You have again stumbled upon a ticket with service through the apocalyptic wastes, but this time the train is a little bit older, a little more beat up, and maybe a little wiser. Keep your doors locked.

It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne's age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. In Europe, Russia and America there are men and women whose lust for...

Washington, London and Peking - terror sweeps the globe. The Vice-Premier of the People's Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and everyone is asking the same fearful questions: Why has Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is next on his death list? But US officials...

Die Erde, in naher Zukunft. Nach einer mysteriösen Infektionsepidemie, die sich von China aus weiter in die USA ausgebreitet hat, haben sich die Menschen der Vereinigten Staaten in fleischfressende Zombies verwandelt. Unter den wenigen Überlebenden ist ein Mann namens Kilroy. Aufgrund seiner Erfahrung bekommt er nun einen streng geheimen Auftrag: Zusammen mit einer Handvoll Elitekämpfern wird er mit einem U-Boot nach China geschickt, um den Patienten 0 ausfindig zu machen und zu evakuieren. Eine Mission auf Leben und Tod beginnt...

Die Welt ist verwüstet, die Toten haben die Herrschaft über den Globus übernommen. Dies ist das Tagebuch eines jungen Soldaten, der sich mit einer kleinen Gruppe Überlebender in der texanischen Wüste der neuen Geißel der Menschheit stellt. Von ihrem vermeintlich sicheren Bunker aus versuchen sie das zu retten, was von der Menschheit noch übrig ist. Doch wie lange können sie durchhalten, wenn die Apokalypse Tag für Tag aufs Neue über sie hereinbricht?

An alle Überlebenden! Dies ist das handgeschriebene Tagebuch eines Mannes, der durch die zerstörten Städte streift - auf der Flucht vor dem Grauen, das über die Menschheit gekommen ist. Eine weltumspannende Epidemie hat den Großteil der Erdbevölkerung in blutrünstige Untote verwandelt, die - getrieben von ihrem Hunger auf Menschenfleisch - Jagd auf die wenigen Überlebenden machen. Als sämtliche Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung der Pandemie scheitern und selbst Atombomben keine effektive Lösung im Kampf gegen die Zombiehorden darstellen, verbarrikadiert sich ein kleines Grüppchen Überlebender in einem verlassenen Bunker.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland. ‘Neither of us had control of our monsters anymore’ In a ruined city of the future, Rachel scavenges a...