Die Michimas sind eine Familie ultimativer Kämpfer. Sie leben für den Kampf, sie streben nach Macht - und sie hassen sich abgrundtief. Die Welt haben sie unter sich aufgeteilt. Die zwei riesigen Industriekonzerne Mishima Zaibatsu und die GCorporation stehen unter der Leitung von Vater und Sohn Michima, Kazuya und Jin. In ihrem Hass haben sie die Welt in Krieg und Chaos geführt und das nur, um sich gegenseitig zu vernichten. Doch als die G-Corporation bei Experimenten ein Mutations-Gen entdeckt, sieht Jin eine Chance, seinen Vater endlich zu besiegen. Als es zum Showdown kommt, entfesseln sich die Urgewalten der Hölle. Doch noch gibt es Hoffnung …
Cut adrift by British Intelligence at the end of the Cold War, Jack Case is called back into service following 9/11. In a quiet Alaskan backwater, a man named Danny Lewin has committed suicide. But this was no ordinary suicide. This was an agent who held secrets. A man haunted by his past interrogating prisoners in Iraq. And British Intelligence fear that he put his secrets down on paper. Before long Case is drawn into a manhunt that drags him into the murky underworld of contemporary espionage and leaves him questioning who his allies and who is enemies are. The rules of the game have changed since the Cold War, and now Case must impose his own rules…
Bloomsbury presents Vengeance by Megan Miranda read by Hunter Johns When Decker drags his best friend Delaney's lifeless body out of the frozen lake, he makes a deal: Anyone but her. Everyone but her. The lake releases her. It takes another . . . All their friends blame Delaney for Carson's death. But Decker knows the truth: Delaney is drawn to those who are dying, and she would have tried to help Carson. Or so Decker believes until a body lies in front of him in a pool of water on his kitchen floor. Until he sees in Delaney's eyes that she knew this would happen too – and she said nothing. Until he realises it isn't the lake that is looking for revenge – Delaney is part of someone else's plan. This powerful and emotionally charged psychological thriller follows Megan Miranda's stunning debut Fracture.
A swashbuckling adventure set in a version of Alexandre Dumas's world haunted by vampires... Morgane grew up at sea, daughter of the fierce pirate captain of the Vengeance, raised to follow in her footsteps as scourge of the Four Chains Trading Company. But when Anna-Marie is mortally wounded in battle, she confesses to Morgane that she is not her mother. The captain of the enemy ship reveals he was paid to kill Anna-Marie and bring Morgane home to France and her real family. Desperate to learn the truth about her lineage, Morgane spares him, leaving the Vengeance and everything she knows behind. Her quest reveals a world of decadence and darkness, in which monsters vie for control of royal courts and destinies of nations. She discovers the bloody secrets of the Four Chains Trading Company, and the truth about her real mother’s death, nearly twenty years before...
Wenn die Rache zuschlägt … Du kennst mich nicht, aber ich kenne dich. Ich bin der Schatten, der sich unbemerkt hinter dich schleicht. Und sobald du mich siehst, bist du tot. Ich bin ein Attentäter. Ein Killer. Und ich werde jeden, der mich zu diesem Schatten gemacht hat, bezahlen lassen. Rai Sokolov kann mir ihre schlimmste Seite zeigen, doch das hier endet erst, wenn der Tod uns scheidet. Der Weg zum Thron ist gepflastert mit Verlust, Verrat und Blut. Um zu gewinnen, setzen wir alles aufs Spiel. Auch unser Leben.