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When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children’s home, she wasn’t sure what to expect – but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn’t it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil – the covert branch of the U.S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural – is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life? As Eleanor struggles to master her new powers, she comes to realise that in humanity’s struggle against the darkness, the wrong...

So, dear reader, you thought Spiderman and Iron Man was the ultimate team-up? Or Captain America and the Hulk, perhaps? No! Such paltry partnerships were long before authors Charles Dickens and Stephen Hunt teamed up together to bring the world the steampunk adaptation of A Christmas Carol. This tome imaginatively entitled 'A STEAMPUNK Christmas Carol ... the fantastical adaptation no-one asked for, yet everyone somehow desperately needed. Yes, this - spoilers - classic tale of a grumpy miser's Xmas-related redemption has been recast in the Jackelian Kingdom, a far-future steampunk Earth ...

Algo espeluznantemente terrorífico viene por aquí... La comandante Adella Vega, de la Armada de la Alianza -también conocida como Flota del Infierno-, está atrapada en el extremo más perruno de la galaxia cumpliendo su deber de castigo con los perdedores, ladrones y pedantes de la Flota. Adella pensaba que eso ya era bastante malo. Hasta que gran parte de su sector quedó a oscuras. ¿Se dirige ahora hacia ella algo grande, malo y especialmente desagradable? ¿Y qué tiene que ver su predicamento con la capitana librecambista Lana Fiveworlds, su desvencijada nave Gravity Rose y su ...

Cuando la capitana Lana Fiveworlds consigue un lucrativo contrato para llevar a un grupo de rudos ladrones de tumbas entre los mundos de civilizaciones extinguidas hace mucho tiempo, espera un viaje fácil para su inadaptada tripulación a bordo de la nave Gravity Rose. Al fin y al cabo, esas desafortunadas especies alienígenas perecidas murieron a causa del cambio climático, las guerras atómicas, los impactos de cometas, las plagas y las eyecciones masivas de llamaradas solares hace miles, si no millones de años. Entonces, ¿qué puede salir mal? Saquear unos cuantos planetas fallidos ...

Estamos en los últimos años del siglo XVIII, pero en un mundo que pocos reconocerían. La gente de Europa se refugia en pequeñas islas seguras, refugios de la naturaleza encantada, los extraños bosques sin límites que la gente llama el Tumble. Es a través de este paisaje endemoniado donde el oficial de baja cuna Taliesin debe liderar a sus hombres, atrapado en las más mortíferas intrigas mientras lucha en guerras para una clase noble que le desprecia. Con asesinos despiadados de las peores alcantarillas del Reino marchando tras él, y las fuerzas de las naciones más poderosas del ...

Something shockingly scary this way comes? Commander Adella Vega of the Alliance navy - aka Hell-Fleet - is stuck at the dog-end of the galaxy on punishment duty with the Fleet's losers, thieves, and pedantic pen-pushers. Adella thought that was bad enough. Until large portions of her sector just went dark. Is something big, bad, and particularly nasty now heading her way? And what does her predicament have to do with the free-trader captain Lana Fiveworlds, her rickety ship, Gravity Rose - and its misfit crew? Sadly, all their troubles are about to collide and multiply in the most horrific...

Estamos en los últimos años del siglo XVIII, pero en un mundo que pocos reconocerían. La gente de Europa se refugia en pequeñas islas seguras, refugios de la naturaleza encantada, los extraños bosques sin límites que la gente llama el Tumble. Es a través de este paisaje endemoniado donde el oficial de baja cuna Taliesin debe liderar a sus hombres, atrapado en las más mortíferas intrigas mientras lucha en guerras para una clase noble que le desprecia. Con asesinos despiadados de las peores alcantarillas del Reino marchando tras él, y las fuerzas de las naciones más poderosas del ...

Seline Templar no ha tenido una vida fácil. Primero, su padre murió por razones que le han sido escandalosamente ocultadas. Después, la madre de Seline, Molly, desapareció en circunstancias sospechosas. Así que ha sido criada como pupila del Rey Vapor... en el Estado Libre de Steamman, lejos de los peligros potenciales de su hogar en el Reino Jackelian. Criada en relativa soledad entre la raza de las máquinas... hasta que un viejo amigo de la familia, el científico Coppertracks, aparece en la capital con noticias del descubrimiento más asombroso. Esto hará que Seline y sus ...

The future is beautiful ... just not for everyone! Ash must escape from his broken war-torn country, fleeing towards mythical Europe, or face murder at the hands of a brutish local warlord. The one slight problem is, few ever survive the horrifying packs of ravenous hunting machines roaming across the depopulated border zone! But his perilous odyssey might be worth it. For in this future Europe, nobody goes hungry or poor. Crime has been as good as abolished, and everyone can pursue their dreams, whatever their passions may be. But when you have the perfect utopia, just how far do the ...

Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer. And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world....

Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment when their fathers met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. More than 60 years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest.

The Thebes State Penal Farm in Mississippi is up a dark river, surrounded by swamps and impenetrable piney woods. It’s the Old South at its most brutal - a place of violence, racial terror, and even more horrific rumors. Of the few who make the journey, black or white, even fewer return.

Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was once the most hunted woman on Earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. But Kathy Reilly of The Washington Post doesn’t know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have vanished from history.

A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the team’s sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka “the Cruise Missile,” is determined to finish his job. He almost succeeds when a mystery blast terminates his enterprise....

New York Times best-selling author Stephen Hunter returns with his most riveting Bob Lee Swagger volume to date. The stakes are high - and personal - because this time, Swagger's daughter's life is at stake. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her clinging to life in a coma, Nikki Swagger had begun to peel back the onion of a Southern Fried scandal.

Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose 93 kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. But Nick is suspicious and asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data.

This second volume of a must-listen collection contains 15 bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors.

During the latter days of the Vietnam War, deep in-country, a young idealistic Marine named Donny Fenn was cut down by a sniper's bullet as he set out on patrol with Swagger, who himself received a grievous wound. Years later Swagger married Donny's widow, Julie, and together they raise their daughter, Nikki, on a ranch in the isolated Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. Although he struggles with the painful legacy of Vietnam, Swagger's greatest wish - to leave his violent past behind and live quietly with his family - seems to have come true...until a mortal enemy found him once again.

Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was once the most hunted woman on Earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. But Kathy Reilly of The Washington Post doesn’t know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have vanished from history.

July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It’s clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American soldiers, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation. Enter Earl Swagger, an Army Major assigned this crucial and bloody mission.