Predator meets Platoon in this action packed novel that moves at a breakneck pace.
Edge of your seat suspense and gut wrenching horror combine to leave you breathless ... and begging for more.
Vietnam 1968: Lieutenant Ethan Jacobs took command of his platoon.
He had to fight for the respect of his men. He had to fight for his family’s honor. He had to fight for his country. He had to fight the NVA, Vietcong and the Russians. He had to fight the dragons … and for his life.
If you are easily disturbed, prone to nightmares or have a weak stomach then prepare yourself for the worst case scenario.
Peter Hallett originates from Haydock, England. He has written scripts for independent movies and worked for a leading genre publication. There Be Dragons is his first novel. Views: 16
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For fans of THOMAS HARRIS, DEAN KOONTZ and JAMES PATTERSON DEAN KOONTZ, a tale of snowbound terror and suspense:
They call it The Heartland Child Murders. Everyone else calls it a nightmare. Locked doors don't stop him. He leaves no trace behind. He only takes little girls. His nickname... The Iceman.
A deranged serial killer roams wintry rural Nebraska with a demented purpose no one can fathom. Special Agent EMMA KANE, a former DC cop and damaged goods now with the FBI, is assigned to babysit burnt-out profiler JACOB THORNE, once the best in the business but now said to have lost his edge, as they both fly to Nebraska to catch this maniac.
Thorne is erratic, abrasive and unpredictably brilliant, but what he and Kane find in the heartland is much more than anyone bargained for, especially when the Iceman challenges them personally. The clock is ticking and a little girl's life is on the line.
And maybe even more than that, once they find out what he's really up to.
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Evie and Nicole Glass share a last name. They also shared a husband. When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There’s no love lost between the widow and the ex. In fact, Evie sees a silver lining in all this heartache—the chance to rid herself of Nicole once and for all. But Evie wasn’t counting on her children’s bond with their baby half-brother, and she wasn’t counting on Nicole’s desperate need to hang on to the threads of family, no matter how frayed. Strapped for cash, Evie cautiously agrees to share living expenses—and her home—with Nicole and the baby. But when Evie suspects that Nicole is determined to rearrange more than her kitchen, Evie must decide who she can trust. More than that, she must ask: what makes a family? Views: 16
'I cannot be parted longer from my sons... I am coming back to my home.' Nine years after her divorce from Cassius Clare, Catherine decides to re-enter his life. Her decision causes a dramatic upheaval in the Clare family and its implications are analysed and redefined, not only in the drawing-room, but in the children's nursery and the servants' quarters. At first, Flavia, Cassius's second wife, feels resentment, fearing that she may be usurped. But as a friendship develops between the two women, it is Cassius who is excluded and whose self-pity intensifies, erupting in a shocking, unexpected way... Views: 16
Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in wartime Poland, still ran into the same question again and again: Why didn't Jews fight back? To Tec, this question suggested that Jews were somehow complicit in their own extermination. Despite works by Tec and others, the stereotype of Jewish passivity in the Holocaust persists. In Resistance, Tec draws on first-hand accounts, interviews, and other sources to reveal the full range of tactics employed to resist the Nazi regime in Poland. She compares Jewish and non-Jewish groups, showing that they faced vastly different conditions. The Jewish resistance had its own particular aims, especially the recovery of dignity and the salvation of lives. Tec explores the conditions necessary for resistance, including favorable topography, a supply of arms, and effective leadership, and dedicates the majority of the book to the stories of those who stood up and fought back in any way that they could. Emphasizing the centrality of cooperation to the Jewish and Polish resistance movements of World War II, Tec argues that resistance is more than not submitting--that it requires taking action, and demands cooperation with others. Whereas resilience is individual in orientation, Tec writes, resistance assumes others. Within this context, Tec explores life in the ghettoes, the organizations that arose within them, and the famous uprising in Warsaw that began on January 18, 1943. She tells of those who escaped to hide and fight as partisans in the forests, and considers the crucial role played by women who acted as couriers, carrying messages and supplies between the ghetto and the outside world. Tec also discusses resistance in concentration camps, vividly recounting the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp uprising on October 7, 1944. The refusal of the rebel leaders to give information under unspeakable torture, Tec displays, was just one more of the many forms resistance took.Resistance is a rich book that forever shatters the myth of Jewish passivity in the face of annihilation.Review"Rufeisen's story is extraordinary, especially as recreated by Tec." --Publisher's Weekly on In The Lion's Den"Resilience and Courage is a milestone work in the canon of Holocaust studies. Quite simply: it is the first comprehensive study of the role and function of gender during the Holocaust years. This is a work studded with insight and imbued with compassion." --Debórah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History "A fascinating and conscientiously researched account."--The New York Review of Books on In the Lion's Den"Defiance is an accomplished and startling work of Holocaust documentation... [Tec] has assembled [the partisans'] vivid firsthand testimony into a comprehensive study of a long-neglected aspect of the Holocaust." --Newsweek "Dry Tears moves me beyond words....[It] conveys an immediate sense of what [living under the Holocaust] was like, and does so strongly, even nobly, without a trace of self-pity.... My admiration has no bounds." --Robert K. Merton, Columbia University "Tec... has a good eye for historical detail. She illuminates the Russian partisan movement and its connection to the Jewish resistance fighters. She captures well the emotional complexity of Mr. Rufeisen's position." --The New York Times Book Review on In the Lion's Den "To read When Light Pierced the Darkness is to encounter the Holocaust anew from a unique and bewildering angle." --Newsweek "Nechama Tec's Resilience and Courage is a remarkable achievement, based on a deep knowledge of the subject, profound sociological analysis, and convincing narrative style. Tec concentrates on the oppressed rather that the oppressors, and has shown that the gender division among them was primarily a result of the policy of the perpetrators and not the manifestation of conflicts within the society of the victims." --Israel Gutman, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem "Not only is Tec's book the first thorough treatment of the subject, but it is also charged with poignancy that only a survivor can summon." --Philadelphia Inquirer on When Light Pierced the Darkness About the AuthorNechama Tec is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford, and author of the bestselling Defiance and other works on the Holocaust, including Dry Tears, In the Lion's Den, and When Light Pierced the Darkness. Views: 16
There are mutants living among us. People with golden yellow eyes, extraordinary powers and strange abilities. For centuries they have hidden themselves, fearing persecution. After rising tensions in recent decades, the mutants find new hope in the twenty-first century, with one of their own holding high political office. But underlying prejudices are hard to eradicate completely. And even as the mutants find greater acceptance in society, a single event threatens to undo everything. In 2017, the murder of a prominent politician sets off a series of events that will bring the mutants into direct conflict with “normal” humans, and the world may never again be the same. Views: 16
