Mostrando resultados por título "Max" en Acción y Aventura

Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a 70-year-old man, and his body ages in reverse. Despite this torment, Max manages three times to cross paths with Alice, the woman who captures his heart. Because he appears to be a different person each time they meet, Max has three chances for true love.

Six years ago, Beata Dabrowski arranged to meet her lover in Glasgow and was never seen again. There were no leads...until now. Imprisoned gang boss Davie Hardie wants to talk in exchange for his freedom. He knows exactly where Beata is buried, and he’s prepared to take the police to her grave. But when the mission to locate Beata’s body is hijacked, DS Max Craigie is drafted on to the case. Someone is selling secrets. Max will stop at nothing to expose police corruption and uncover Beata’s murderer.

She was taken against her will. On her fifteenth birthday, trafficking victim Affi Smith goes for a run and never returns. With a new identity and secure home in the Scottish Highlands, she was supposed to be safe. She escaped once. With personal ties to Affi’s case, DS Max Craigie joins the investigation. When he discovers other trafficking victims have disappeared in exactly the same circumstances, he knows one thing for certain – there’s a leak somewhere within law-enforcement.

In September 2019, Max Morgan boarded a vintage Beech Twin aircraft with the five ladies from his office, and the three-person flight crew for a flight to Sheridan, Wyoming. Max’s boss had scheduled a team-building exercise for survival training, so they had bags packed with camping gear, firearms, and ammunition.

Twelve months ago, Max was living what one would consider a normal life. That is, until he learned he was a little more than your average 30-year-old. Together with a team of eclectic mages working out of an estate known as the Atheneum, they destroyed the Fountain of Youth and stopped a plot to disrupt the upcoming talks about the magical and Ethereal communities coming out to the normal world, known as "The Balance", but only for the time being.

Maxwell Morgan has always been a very practical guy. He started working at age 15 because his foster family was stretched thin. He joined the army right out of high school to earn money for college. Even after getting his first job after college, he kept working the three jobs that let him get there—National Guard infantryman, farmer, and blacksmith. About nine months into his new job in HR, Max’s boss arranged a team-building event. Max and his five female coworkers boarded the plane for Sheridan, Wyoming, and then things went sideways. Suddenly, they were going…somewhere else.

It's spring break and Max is stuck at home all by himself. Just the way he likes it. He games online, feasts on junk, and wonders why his cat can suddenly talk. Thanks to a bizarre mishap, Max has started shifting between parallel universes whenever he falls asleep. A curious affliction, and one that steadily erodes his sanity. Day after day, he awakes to a strange new reality and struggles to make sense of his surroundings.

Zimbabwe, 1981. An airliner crashes killing nearly everyone on board. Among a handful of survivors, former Special Branch officer Max Seager quickly realises that it was no accident—and that no one can be left alive. But as the army patrol dispatched to complete the massacre soon learns to its cost, Max was no ordinary policeman.

When it comes to killing terrorists, British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on: Max McLean. As an assassin, he's never missed, but Max has made one miscalculation, and now, he has to pay the price. His handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a seemingly one-way mission. What he finds is a horror from beyond his nightmares. Rebel forces are loose in the jungle, and someone or something is slaughtering innocent villagers. It's his job to root out the monster behind these abominations, but he soon discovers he may be the most disposable piece in this operation.

Soldier, assassin, and special agent - Max McLean works for a highly secretive unit called The Unknown: a black ops team which delivers off-the-books justice on behalf of the British Government. When a straightforward operation to kill a terrorist commander goes badly wrong, Max finds himself framed for murder. Cut off from his base and cut loose by his Government handlers, he’s forced to go even deeper underground, propelled across Europe on a personal, high-stakes investigation to clear his name.

Jason Torrance never considered himself an outright criminal, content with small-time burglaries for limited return. It’s a life that has suited his needs perfectly ‘till now. When he meets Cindy, the girl of his dreams, he knows that life needs to change if he wants to make an honest go of it. So how does a guy who’s never done a proper day’s work, turn into the supportive partner she thinks he is? By doing one final job that’s big enough to set him up for life.

Action thriller about security consultant Max Stafford, set in the Sahara. Written by the classic adventure writer. Why is Max Stafford, security consultant, beaten up in his own office? What is the secret of the famous 1930s aircraft the Lockheed Lodestar? And why has accountant Paul Bilson disappeared in North Africa? The journey to the Sahara desert becomes a race to save Paul Bilson, a race to find the buried aircraft, and - above all - a race to return alive....

Award-winning author Pat Murphy takes us aboard a luxury cruise ship and into the strange confluence of time and space known as the Bermuda Triangle, in an engaging science-fiction romp that recalls the work of Kate Wilhelm.

The CIA gets a new lead, a lead which indicates there is a well-financed global organization that has been funding terrorism around the world, including acts of terror committed on U.S. soil. The CIA teams with Mossad to destroy this newly identified enemy before it can rise to power. Again.

Like many retirees, Max Springer moves to Panama where he can afford to live at the beach and golf every day. While checking out of a local wine shop, the former CIA Agent hears a voice from his past. A voice he'll never forget. The voice of a fugitive, a man wanted in several countries for crimes against humanity. The infamous Butcher of Chame hasn't been seen in decades. No one knew if he was dead or living under a new identity. Until now. Max interrupts his peaceful retirement to bring long overdue justice to the Butcher's many victims.

Max Seager was the best there was. His skills sharpened in the midst of a brutal African civil war, he was at once a policeman, soldier and detective - a tracker of men. He thought he’d left that life behind him, but then he learns that his particular expertise is required again. Two teenage girls have been abducted and are being held to ransom, hidden deep within the Zimbabwean bush that was once his hunting ground. The mother of one of the girls begs him to help and, unable to walk away, Max returns to Africa with a handpicked team of former comrades-in-arms.

Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent in the Stockholm archipelago, and his own mysterious family past. Now behind a desk at Vektor, a think tank conducting research on Russia, he’s met his match - and fallen in love - with fierce fellow operative Pashie Kovalenko. Like all of Vektor, she’s set her sights on the tenuous future of her country.

Hang on to your shamrocks and shillelaghs, folks! Max Blake, that hard-boiled private detective and former muck-raking journalist, along with his fearless fiancée Caeli Brown are back in action and up to their Walther P99s in slick, hypnotic robberies and terrorist plots in their newly adopted Irish homeland. A favor to a new friend who works with the Irish police brings them out of retirement to solve a series of thefts at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park which cater to the tourist crowd.

Max Kane spent 20 years in the military fighting terrorists and investigating crimes. Now, he and his twin sister, Robin, work together. They take on cases that others have ignored and run their business from an internet-funded page. When a grieving mother in Marquette, Michigan hires them to find the truth about what happened to her daughter who drowned in Lake Superior, Max and Robin are at first skeptical. After all, when the gales of November come early to the big lake, nearly anything can happen. But it doesn’t take long before things don’t add up.

CIA Agents in South and Central America are suddenly dying under mysterious circumstances or are disappearing without a trace. Who is behind the deaths? How does anyone even know that these men are with the CIA? Is there a traitor inside the Agency, or has the Agency's communications system been compromised? Or both? And why are CIA Agents being targeted? And why only those in Central and South America?