Der junge Römer Caius wird an der Seite eines engen Vertrauten des Kaisers Augustus mit einem Sonderauftrag zur Armee des Legaten Publius Quinctilius Varus nach Germanien geschickt. Dabei kommt er hinter ein ungeheuerliches Geheimnis: Varus...
As they listened to the death throes of their sister ship Mako sinking in the Pacific where the waters were six miles deep, the crew of USS Eelfish suddenly came of age. They were a new breed: a brand-new fleet submarine crewed by draftees and...
Tales of a blind man, written down by an imbecile. Such is the genesis of the Bible in this raucous, unsettling account of recent and not-so-recent history with its richly entwined odysseys:
Plantagenet Strongbow, twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset,...
This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had...
He was born in the swamps of the Eastern States, but he came of age on the frontier. Now, Jean LaFarge finds himself swept up in an epic battle in the wilds of Alaska, where a tyranical Russian has seized control of the fur trade-and the land....
Ne memorante, kiel ŝi forlasis la hejmon, Assol jam kuris al la maro, subkaptita de nevenkebla vento de la evento; ĉe la unua angulo ŝi haltis preskaŭ senforte; ŝiaj kruroj estis fleksiĝantaj, la spirado estis...
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane...
An unspeakable evil is stalking the territory. Civil war veteran and bounty hunter Tyler Cabe, who is tracking a merciless murderer, must find a way to battle something beyond the imagination of living man.
“Tim Curran goes hell-bent for...