Dowodzona przez Johna „Black Jacka” Geary’ego flota Sojuszu przedziera się przez światy Syndykatu. Wybudzony po 100-letniej hibernacji legendarny dowódca prowadzi ją od zwycięstwa do zwycięstwa zyskując szacunek u wroga, ale budząc też zazdrość wśród swoich oficerów. Dokonał już wielu niebezpiecznych wyborów. Jednak rozkaz zawrócenia do systemu Lakota, gdzie o mało co nie doszło do zniszczenia floty Sojuszu doprowadza do sytuacji, w której nawet najwierniejsi wyznawcy wątpią w rozsądek dowódcy. Ten ryzykowny ruch to jedyna szansa, by wycieńczona flota zdołała przygotować się do kolejnego starcia z osaczającym ją wrogiem. Niestety syndycki pościg nie jest jedynym problemem, z jakim musi się zmierzyć Geary. Spisek w jego własnej flocie przybiera na sile. Oficerowie pragnący zmiany na stanowisku dowodzenia zaczynają działać bardziej zdecydowanie. Tymczasem, jedyną szansą na przetrwanie i ocalenie okrętów Sojuszu jest utrzymanie jedności floty w obliczu zbliżającej się bitwy

Jest rok 1886. W Moskwie od pewnego czasu grasuje sprytny oszust, Walet Pikowy. Ofiarami jego żartów padają różne osoby, ale dopiero kiedy ośmielił się zadrzeć z generałem-gubernatorem Moskwy, Władimirem Andriejewiczem Dołgorukim, na pomoc wezwany zostaje Erast Pietrowicz. Jego pomocnikiem zostaje posłaniec Anisij Tulipanow. Razem toczą batalię przeciwko sprytnemu Waletowi

Berlin, 07.06.1942. Auf einer Parkbank in der Nähe der Siegessäule wird eine Leiche entdeckt. Zunächst deutet alles auf Selbstmord hin, doch Kommissar Tom Sydow will nicht so recht daran glauben. Zumal es sich bei dem Toten um ein "hohes Tier" der Gestapo handelt. In seiner Obhut befanden sich brisante Akten des gefürchteten Geheimdienstchefs Reinhard Heydrich, um deren Besitz ein gnadenloser Wettlauf beginnt

Jeden z napastników zatrzymał się przy wejściu. Drugi szybko przeszedł, a właściwie przebiegł przez salę i stanął w drzwiach skarbca. Trzebi brodacz wybrał miejsce na środku sali. Podniósł pistolet i dwukrotnie strzelił w sufit. – Wszyscy wstać! Ręce do góry!- zakomenderował. Wybuchła panika. Jedna z urzędniczek zaczęła krzyczeć. Napastnik skierował lufę swej broni w jej kierunku. – Cisza! Bo strzelam – powiedział dobitnie

A town with a secret. A lone hunter discovers the remains of a woman in North Dakota’s Badlands. She appears to have had a post-mortem performed on her reminiscent of those only seen on TV shows — but this time, there was no slab, morgue or camera in sight. A victim without a past. The reason why Irene Cramer’s death merits an FBI investigation becomes rapidly clear when key questions surface about her mysterious past. Little is known about this school teacher, where she came from or her true identity. She clearly had something to hide. A hero with a unique skill. FBI investigator, Amos Decker and his colleague, Alex Jamison, are summoned to seek answers in the local community of London, North Dakota, which sits at the very heart of the fracking industry. Enriched with oil money, jealousy and a deep-set rivalry lie beneath a veneer of glitz and opulence. Decker soon realizes that the nearby ‘eye in the sky’, the Air Force Station, may hold the vital clues and that this town holds secrets so explosive that they could destabilize the entire country

“How about a story? Spin us a yarn.” Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. “I could tell you an extensively strange story,” I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. “Delicious!” And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe’s outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold—the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion

In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do. But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food, clothing, shelter – from a computer, there is little reason to toil within the system. So, like thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them turn their back on the world of rules, jobs, the morning commute and... walkaway. It’s a dangerous world out there: the empty lands are lawless, hiding predators – animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, the thousands become hundreds of thousands, building what threatens to become a post-scarcity utopia. But then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. And now it’s war – a war that will turn the world upside down

Joana was one of the dead. But she was brought back to life! That’s when people began trying to kill her… nice people… the last people in the world anyone would suspect of being capable of murder—people who were already dead…

For once, Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead. But it's Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party. Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there's no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about it which they do no one's getting out of there alive

Remy Chandler, angel private investigator, is trying his damnedest to lead a normal life in a world on the verge of supernatural change. He’s found a new love—a woman his dog, Marlowe, approves of—and his best human friend is reluctantly coming to grips with how...unusual...Remy’s actions can be. And he’s finally reached a kind of peace between his true angelic nature and the human persona he created for himself so very long ago. But that peace can’t last—Heaven and the Legions of the Fallen still stand on the brink of war. Then one of Heaven’s greatest generals is murdered, and it falls to Remy to discover who—or what—might be responsible for the death, which could trigger the final conflict...a conflict in which Earth will most certainly be the beachhead. The deeper he digs, the further he goes into a dark world of demonic assassins, secret brothels, and things that are unsettling even to a being who has lived since time began. But it is not in his nature—angelic or human—to stop until he has found the killer, no matter the personal price

Graham Park is in love.  But Sara Ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery.  Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice.  He knows that They are out to get him.  They are.  Quiss, insecure in his fabulous if ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games.  The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will release him.  But he must find an answer before he knows the question. Park, Grout, Quiss - no trio could be further apart.  But their separate courses are set for collision... "A feast of horrors, variously spiced with incest, conspiracy, and cheerful descriptions of torture... fine writing" The Times "The author's powerful imagination is displayed again here every bit as vividly as in his debut" Financial Times "Establishes beyond doubt that lain Banks is a novelist of remarkable talents" Daily Telegraph

Ukraine, 1944: After the Soviets burned the Ukrainian city of Ternopyl to the ground to crush the stubborn Nazi occupiers, they rounded up every remaining Ukrainian man around for the Red Army’s final push on Germany. Maurice Bury, Canadian citizen, Ukrainian resistance fighter and intelligence officer, is thrust once again into the death struggle between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR. Fighting across the Baltics in the autumn of 1944 is tough and bloody. Then the Red Army enters Germany, where they’re no longer liberators—they’re the long-feared Communist horde, bent on destruction, rape and revenge. The Communists are determined to wipe Nazism from the face of the earth. And the soldiers want revenge for Germany’s brutal invasion and occupation. Maurice has determined his only way out of this hell is to survive until Nazi Germany dies, and then move home to Canada. But to do that, he’ll have to not only walk out of war, but elude Stalin’s dreaded secret police

Doors don’t always lead where you expect…

I’m lost. I’m scared. And there’s something horrible in here. My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw. I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived. Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here. Lucky me. Lucky, lucky, lucky. A new standalone novella by the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time

This title is an extraordinary triptych in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with his characteristic fearlessness and edgy humour

Walking With Ghosts is a spellbinding short story from the bestselling author of The Bones of Odin and Chosen. Join rookie police officer Josie Leigh as she tries to rescue a young girl from the clutches of a deadly serial killer, her only guide being the local ancients- ghostly, supernatural forces who have haunted and walked the night-cloaked streets of the the city of York for thousands of years

IT DIDN'T TAKE TWO TO RAMBO It didn't matter to Remo that his mentor Chiun told him he was acting like a child to want to go back to Vietnam on a mission of rescue and revenge. It didn't matter to Remo that his superior Smith ordered him to abandon a plan that could upset the delicate balance of world peace. Remo was out of his skull with remembered rage, and out of control of anyone who wanted to stop him from trying to spring a wartime buddy from a jungle hell. And the Destroyer plunged back into the past to fight a one-man war against an old enemy that would not die but could still kill without mercy and vanish like a ghoulish ghost

Thomas Bernhard is “one of the masters of contemporary European fiction” (George Steiner); “one of the century’s most gifted writers” (Newsday); “a virtuoso of rancor and rage” (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, it is only in recent years that he has gained a devoted cult following in America. A powerful, compact novella, Walking provides a perfect introduction to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard, showing a preoccupation with themes — illness and madness, isolation, tragic friendships — that would obsess Bernhard throughout his career. Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad. Perhaps the most overtly philosophical work in Bernhard’s highly philosophical oeuvre, Walking provides a penetrating meditation on the impossibility of truly thinking

In a world all but drowned, a man called Bran has been living on an island for ten years. He was sent there in exile by those whose leader he was, and he tallies on the wall of his cave the days as they pass. Until the day when something happens that kindles in Bran such memories and longing that he persuades himself to return, even if it means execution. His reception is so unexpected, so mystifying that he casts about unsure of what is real and what imaginary. Only the friendship of a child consoles him as he retraces the terrible deeds for which he is answerable, and as he tries to reach back, over his biggest betrayal, to the one he loved. Wall of Days is a moving parable about guilt, loss and remembering

Alice told the psychiatrist about her blind sister. “She has built a wall of eyes around her, the good eyes of the rest of us, the eyes of the people who hate her and watch her and wait for her to die. That’s what she says, that the eyes are watching and waiting.” Soon the waiting would be over

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Brand-new stories by: John Burdett, Henry Blodget, Peter Blauner, Jason Starr, Megan Abbott, Reed Farrel Coleman, Stephen Rhodes, Twist Phelan, Tim Broderick, Jim Fusilli, David Noonan, Richard Aleas, Lawrence Light, James Hime, Mark Haskell Smith, Peter Spiegelman, and Lauren Sanders. From a distance — on television, say, or in the pages of the business section — it looks like such a clean, well-lighted place, a place where decisions to buy or sell are guided by formulas and subtle strategy, and thorough, dispassionate consideration of all available facts. A place where cool reason prevails. And sure, that’s one version of Wall Street — call it the CNBC edition. But this book is about another place, just beneath that shiny surface — a place where fear and greed have always held sway. Think WorldCom or Tyco; think Enron. Think Gordon Gekko. Wall Street Noir illuminates a place whose boundaries have spread well beyond Trinity Church and the East River. In today’s relentlessly global economy, Wall Street is everywhere: a borderless, virtual city encompassing Midtown Manhattan, Main Street, U.S.A., the maquilas of Honduras, the office towers of Shanghai, and the brothels of Bangkok. It’s a shadowy metropolis, as the stories in this exciting collection reveal, and one that’s far more Jim Thompson than Warren Buffet

Stefan Wallner, verheiratet mit der Deutsch-Rumänin Ana, hat sich mit seiner Firma für Landmaschinen eine Heimat geschaffen. Der berufliche Erfolg ließ ihn seine katastrophale Vaterbeziehung vergessen. Aber über die Jahre hinweg, in denen die Firma floriert, schließlich mit einer anderen fusioniert und an die Börse geht, bröckelt das enge Verhältnis zu den Mitarbeitern innerhalb des Betriebs. Wallner fühlt sich verfolgt, wittert eine Verschwörung. Sein Sohn Costin ahnt nichts von der beginnenden Paranoia seines Vaters. Doch was bei Stefan Wallner nur im Kopf stattfindet, das erlebt Costin in Wirklichkeit, er zappt sich durch sein Leben und seine Rollen wie durch eine Fernsehserie. Er macht Karriere als Superstar einer vom Fernsehen gecasteten Popgruppe, er lebt Alternativkarrieren als Synchronsprecher in einem Hitler Zeichentrickfilm oder als Ex-Promi in einer Reality-Show. Er gründet ein Rock-Label, lebt mit Romy zusammen, der Sängerin der Gruppe „Erich“, und erfährt erst spät von seiner unehelichen Tochter Wendy. Wendy trifft ihren Vater zum ersten Mal kurz vor ihrer Volljährigkeit. Die Mutter hatte ihr das Verhältnis mit Costin verschwiegen. Doch kaum hat sie ihren leiblichen Vater kennen und lieben gelernt, da stirbt Costin. Als Wendy sich nach dem Tod Costins daran macht, ihre Familiengeschichte zu rekonstruieren und aufzuschreiben, fällt es ihr bald schwer, zwischen Lebenslügen, Irrtümern und der nachrecherchierten Wirklichkeit zu unterscheiden. „Wallner beginnt zu fliegen“ ist ein Familienroman, eine Saga über drei Familiengenerationen. Und ein Roman über die Frage, ob man Familiengeschichte so erzählen kann, wie sie wirklich passiert ist. Ein faszinierendes Debüt in drei Kapiteln: Ein Wirtschaftsroman, ein Musikerleben und ein Frauenschicksal

Waltenberg is a riveting novel of espionage and a major work of literature. The Hotel Waldhaus in the Swiss mountain village of Waltenberg is central to the action of this epic novel, which takes in Europe from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Waltenberg tells the story of the love between Hans Kappler, a German novelist, and Lena Hotspur, an American singer; of the friendship between Hans and Max Goffard, a French journalist. It is also a spy story. Michael Lilstein, a leader of the underground German communist party before World War II and an Auschwitz survivor, becomes responsible for the East German spy network. In 1956 in Waltenberg, Lilstein recruits as his mole a young Frenchman whose identity remains mysterious. At the height of the Cold War, the CIA observes Lilstein and Max at Hans’s funeral, determined to flush out the mole

What happens when a decent, moral man falls under the baneful spell of a thoroughly depraved, delectable woman? A top mystery writer, in his first novel, traces the downward course of respectable Louis Durand as he tumbles to his ultimate degraded hell — an unforgettable story of suspense, terror, and fascination. This is the story of a man betrayed by his own loneliness and desire for romance. From the romantic beginning to the tragic, logical end, with subtle punishments and cumulative sins between, Louis Durand is trapped by his own passion. Completely credible is the power which his captivating, evil wife holds over him. From the moment Bonnie Castle arrives in New Orleans — with murder and deception lying just behind her guileless gaze and little-girl beauty — Louis Durand is a doomed man. His happiness is based upon a quicksand which soon gives way beneath him. Dragged down by his connivance in crime, tortured by his own doubts, Durand blindly follows his will-o’-the-wisp wife on the path that leads to murder, personal ruin, and final agony. Waltz into Darkness captures the magnolia-scented charm of New Orleans in the 1880’s, a nostalgic “period piece” of the days when ladies wore bustles and elaborate gowns, never smoked, never crossed their legs, rarely showed their ankles — and were capable of evil which is of no time or place. Filled with memorable scenes, peopled with strongly knit characters, expertly constructed, Waltz into Darkness will keep the reader on the edge of his chair to its final climax