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Greed. Rage. Grief. Love. Smouldering tinder, waiting to trigger a war. But this war is different. This one is for Dharma. This war is for the greatest goddess of them all. Sita has been kidnapped. Defiantly, she dares Raavan to kill her–she’d rather die than allow Ram to surrender. Ram is beside himself with grief and rage. He prepares for war. Fury is his fuel. Calm focus, his guide. Raavan thought he was invincible. He thought he’d negotiate and force a surrender. Little did he know...

Sie sind in der Unterzahl, doch sie verlieren nie den Mut... Rom, im Jahr 255. Von allen Seiten stoßen die Feinde Roms vor, um sich Teile des angeschlagenen Weltreiches einzuverleiben. Auch Sassanidenherrscher Shapur steht mit seinem mächtigen Heer vor Arete, dem östlichsten Bollwerk des Imperiums. Um die Festung zu verteidigen, sendet Kaiser Valerian seinen Tribun Ballista aus. Ballista ist Germane, steht aber seit Langem in Diensten Roms. Unerschrocken und loyal folgt er seinem Auftrag, obgleich er weiß, wie aussichtslos die Lage ist, denn er verfügt nur über wenige Krieger.

Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father's diplomacy or charisma and all of his vanity and violence. When the warriors of Persia are unexpectedly crushed in battle Cyrus is put to death, and Cambyses assumes the throne.

A defeated king stands on top of a pyre. His conqueror, the Persian ruler Cyrus, signals to his guards; they step forward and touch flaming torches to the dry wood. Croesus, once the wealthiest man of the ancient world, is to be burned alive. As he watches the flames catch, Croesus thinks back over his life. He remembers the time he asked the old Athenian philosopher, Solon, who was the happiest man in the world. Croesus used to think it was him. But then all his riches could not remove the spear from his dying elder son's chest; could not bring his mute younger son to speak

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. He's wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit; his best friend has just been murdered; and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed by those closest to him, he must flee the sanctuary of his safe house in Cornwall and track her down.

Their mission was to kill bin Laden. They wound up saving the world. Assembled by mysterious superspy Bobby Murphy, trained by the best and ignoring the generals and the politicians, the Superhawks become America's ruthless answer to the post-9/11 reality.

Zindagi ke 16 saal ghar par farmaishi aur aaramdayak life jeene ke baad Nikhil, Burty, Randy aur Maachh ki life mein 360 degress ka turn tab aata hai jab wei National Defence Academy mein kadam rakhte hain. Bahut jald he unhein ye baat samajh aa jaati hai ki Academy mei life sirf thook lagakar joota polish karna nahi hai, balki NDA mei bitaye six terms adventures aur achievements ka endless khazana hain. Suniye Boots Belts Berets ka Hindi sanskaran, Abhishek Banerjee ki jaandaar awaaz mein.

En Alepo, la vida de Nuri y de su esposa, Afra, transcurría feliz junto a su hijo, Sami. Él era apicultor y dedicaba su vida a las abejas, ella era una artista de gran sensibilidad que vendía sus cuadros en el mercado de la ciudad. Pero cuando sucede lo impensable y la guerra destruye todo lo que aman, tienen que escapar.

Arrastrados por los efectos de un fenómeno astrofísico, cinco amigos --César, Edurne, Nicolás, Roi y Tomás--, son transportados desde una recreación histórica hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y allí, en 1940, descubrirán que la representación en el siglo XXI en la que participaban, no los había preparado para afrontar el convulsionado escenario de la más destructiva de las guerras.

Arrastrados por los efectos de un fenómeno astrofísico, cinco amigos -César, Edurne, Nicolás, Roi y Tomás- , son transportados desde una recreación histórica hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y allí, en 1940, descubrirán que la representación en el siglo XXI en la que participaban, no los había preparado para afrontar el convulsionado escenario de la más destructiva de las guerras.

Ludwig Mason is the only Marine to have survived an explosion that reduced his military Humvee to a smoldering wreck in war-torn Fallujah. Back home on American soil, the 28-year-old Iraq War vet struggles through the traumatized, booze-and drug-addled aftermath. He fears that he’s lost his family, his friends, and his last chance at anything when something like fate intervenes in the form of a mysterious stranger named Mrs. S. The old fortune-teller tells Ludwig about an heirloom seized from her family by Nazis decades ago.

US Air Force major Hawk Hunter and his band of patriotic ex-military men have fought tirelessly to reunite their fractured nation after the Russian nuclear sneak attack that put a devastating end to World War III. Now, returning from a space odyssey that began with the diversion of a comet headed for Earth, Hunter finds a 60,000-man Russian army occupying New York City, ready to invade the rest of America.

The unthinkable has happened to operative Dan Morgan. Captured by the Russians. Imprisoned in the Gulag. Tortured by his cruelest, most sadistic enemy. But Morgan knows that every prisoner has a past - and every rival can be used. With the most unlikely of allies, Morgan hatches a plan. To save what's important, he must risk everything. And that's when the stakes go sky-high. Dan Morgan's got to keep fighting. For duty. And honor. And even certain death.

The remote and impenetrable Pakistani mountains have offered refuge to the worst enemies of civilization since the time of Alexander. Now, the world faces a new challenge. Reared from birth to harbor a seething hatred, a lone man is about to unleash a firestorm that will rage for centuries. And the window of opportunity to stop him is shutting much faster than Washington D.C. can hope to deal with. A top lethal operative, Will Parker is embedded within the terrorist's ranks to stop this catastrophic disaster.

Esta vez, Blanca Miosi se adentra en el oscuro mundo del terrorismo y crea un personaje inolvidable: Kevin Stooskopf. Una novela que nació inspirada en los cientos de soldados que desde Afghanistán leían sus novelas a través del Kindle y se comunicaban con ella por email. El rastreador se mueve entre la pasión por un amor imposible y el apego al deber en un escenario conflictivo en el que luchan dos religiones, dos pensamientos, y formas diferentes de ver el mundo.

Preparing to unleash a series of attacks from the heart of America, dozens of al-Qaeda terrorists sneak into the United States under paper-thin disguises - refugees, shipwreck survivors, a team of soccer players - overcoming tight border security with help from treasonous US officials. One potential obstacle - the Superhawks - gets eliminated when the US government burns the entire team.

A terrorist cell with direct links to al-Qaeda's leader captures Singapore's Tonka Tower Hotel, one of the world's tallest skyscrapers. The terrorists contact dozens of news organizations so the world can witness its destruction. News copters surround the building just as the Superhawks enter - rappelling from military choppers, guns blazing, disarming the terrorists' bombs seconds before they detonate. It would seem that kudos are due, but the Superhawks are supposed to be top secret.

Operating Base Cornucopia: A 300-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment - among them Private Toby Durrant, a self-described broke nobody. Then, a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy.

The year is 1935. Beneath the sweltering sun of French North Africa only the tough, iron men of the Foreign Legion stand between the restless tribesmen of the interior with their dreams of jihad, and the innocent traders and colonists of the coastal towns. Lieutenant Crispin de Corville, a secret agent for the Legion, discovers a plot to unite the tribes and win the essential arms and ammunition for their revolt, taking them from the Legion itself.