Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Genre Fiction

Rachefeldzug und geheime Mission - die Geburtsstunde von John Clark: In "Gnadenlos" gibt uns Erfolgsautor Tom Clancy einen Einblick in die Lebensgeschichte des geheimnisumwobenen John Clark, Anführer der Spezialeinheit "Rainbow Six". Clark alias John Kelly erlebt in seiner Vergangenheit mehrere traumatisierende Schicksalsschläge. Getrieben von Hass beginnt er einen blutigen Rachefeldzug gegen Gangsterbosse und korrupte Polizisten. Parallel dazu ruft ihn eine hochbrisante geheime Militärmission nach Vietnam. Beide Aufgaben verlangen John Kelly einiges ab. Ein erbitterter Kampf um Leben und Tod beginnt.

Der Zufall will es, daß Jack Ryan während eines Besuches mit seiner Familie in London ein IRA-Attentat auf die königliche Familie verhindern kann. Doch während Ryan die Rachedrohung des überlebenden Terroristen eher gelassen nimmt, planen dessen Kumpane bereits die Befreiung aus dem britischen Knast. Schon bald herrscht der Terror auch in den Vereinigten Staaten, und nicht nur Ryan selbst sondern auch seine Familie werden durch IRA-Attentäter bedroht.

When monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane comes across the gruesome aftermath of a ritual murder in a London church, he enlists the help of magician-scribe Simon Archer and alchemist extraordinaire Kate Anstruther. Studying the macabre scene, they struggle to understand obscure clues in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved into the victim’s heart—as well as bizarre mystical allusions to the romantic poetry of William Blake. One thing is clear: Some very potent black magic is at work.

How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong “astronaut” fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. As she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings.

Alex Walker has always looked up to her perfect older sister. Maddie has succeeded in all the ways Alex has not: She escaped their hometown and seems to have put the memories of their unstable childhood behind her. But despite the different paths their lives have taken, the two sisters made a pact to spend one week together every summer. It was a promise they’d never broken . . . until now.

Eine ägyptische Mumie, die keine ist, ein Schrumpfkopf und eine Moorleiche im Kofferraum - ein komplizierter Fall für Detective Jane Rizzoli und Pathologin Maura Isles. Denn Boston wird von einem Serienkiller gepeinigt, dessen Vertrautheit mit urzeitlichen Todesritualen die junge Archäologin Josephine Pulcillo in Lebensgefahr bringt. Aber auch sie hat ein dunkles Geheimnis.

Diesen Mann unterschätzen Kriminelle nur ein Mal – der neue Fall für Jack Reacher. Am Busbahnhof von Gerrardsville, Colorado, beobachtet der ehemalige Militärpolizist Jack Reacher, wie eine Frau vor einen fahrenden Bus gestoßen wird. Es gelingt ihm nicht, den Täter dingfest zu machen. Doch er gerät so ins Visier skrupelloser Verbrecher, die jeden Zeugen eliminieren wollen. Nichts darf ihre Operation gefährden. Allerdings haben sie nicht mit einem Mann wie Reacher gerechnet. Als der bedroht wird, geht er sofort zum Gegenangriff über.

As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of Victorian London, werewolves prowl the shadows of back alleys. But they have infiltrated the inner circles of upper-crust society as well. Only a handful of specially gifted practitioners are equipped to battle the beasts.

Rising out of the Nevada canyons, Utopia is a theme park so technologically advanced as to be awe-inspiring. But serious mishaps are starting to cause concern, and things turn from bad to worse when a group of mercenaries infiltrates the park's computerized infrastructure, holding the entire park hostage. The engineer who designed the park now must find a way to save it.

Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality.

After twenty-two years together, Danielle and Alex are getting a divorce. Once fiercely in love, they can barely stand the sound of each other’s voice. Instead of shuttling the kids between two broken homes, Alex and Dani decide to share a nesting apartment while swapping days with their two teenage boys at the family home. In the apartment, Dani and Alex, on their own, begin to reflect on the last two decades—why they fell in love and why the marriage fell, spectacularly, apart.

Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century, from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side, bestselling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel, which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid color.

The twelve stories in this collection run the spectrum of human emotions as they transport us from the fading majesty of the Old West to a small-town football field to the lonely canyons of one man’s mind. These classic tales of adventure, mystery, mysticism, and suspense epitomize the uniquely American yearning for connection and roots, justice and love, as only L’Amour can. Here is a diverse group of heroes and traitors, outlaws and lawmen—the innocent, the guilty, and those who operate in the shadowy territory outside the reach of justice.

Erschreckt stellen die Amerikaner bei der Auswertung ihrer Satellitenbilder fest, daß die Sowjets eine hochmoderne Laserwaffe errichtet haben, die Objekte im All beschießen kann. Clancys Dauerheld Jack Ryan von der CIA wird mit Nachforschungen betraut und erkennt, daß die Russen schon sehr weit fortgeschritten sind mit ihrem Programm - viel weiter als die Amerikaner selbst.

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.

Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth century’s most original writers.

Die nahe Zukunft: Die USA stehen vor dem Kollaps, doch der Bevölkerung ist das völlig egal, denn sie sind abhängig von einer Droge namens Flashback...

Our heroes are dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers but soon find themselves defending their hotel and convention center against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Suddenly, all of their useless knowledge about particle physics and old Star Trek episodes has genuine real-world applications! And while hotel employees and regular civilians are dying left and right, our Trekkies summon strength and courage by emulating their favorite starship-voyaging characters

In this original short story, Jo Marie Rose readies her inn for spring, turning to her new friends Grace and Olivia when she needs them most.

Jo Marie has big plans for her bed-and-breakfast. With the help of handyman Mark Taylor, she intends to plant a beautiful rose garden in time for her upcoming open house. Jo Marie and Mark rarely see eye to eye - especially on matters of home improvement - but she knows he has her best interests at heart. After the two walk the grounds, Jo Marie realizes that her beloved rescue dog, Rover, is missing....

Ranch foreman Ward McQueen recognizes trouble when he sees it - and trouble is what the Texan sees when he spies the tracks of a wounded man in the middle of the big Tumbling K spread. In town, he learns that a tinhorn gambler has just won the ranch next to the Tumbling K in a dirty card game - and is turning his oily gaze toward the K's pretty owner, Miss Ruth Kermitt.