The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick's saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume...Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn't the average teenager. He's a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him. He's learned to raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive and keep a girlfriend so hard?But driving isn't the primary skill he has to master. Survival is. And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known - or he'll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he'll lose everyone he cares about. Even himself.

When a terrorist bomb devastates an exclusive junior school in Hollywood, killing the sons and daughters of many famous TV and movie actors and producers, all hell breaks loose. Among the many dead is Danny Bell, the son of successful comedy writer Frank Bell. Responsibility for the blast is claimed by a group who say that they want to put the decadent Western media out of business for good.

BuchAuf der Karibikinsel Juan Griego kommt es im 17. Jahrhundert zu Spannungen: Unter der Führung von Miguel Heredia setzen sich die Bewohner, zumeist arme Perlenfischer, zur Wehr gegen die hohen Steuern, die ihnen auferlegt werden. Der spanische Statthalter Hernando Pedrarias Gotarredona begibt sich persönlich an den Schauplatz, um für Ruhe und Ordnung zu sorgen – ein Auftritt, der für Miguel höchst unerfreuliche Folgen hat. Denn seine Ehefrau Emiliana, geblendet vom Reichtum und der Macht des einflußreichen Spaniers, verläßt ihre Familie und folgt Hernando. Wenig später geraten Miguel und sein Sohn Sebastian auf das Schiff des berüchtigten Piraten Jacare Jack, eines kauzigen Schotten, der es durch Überfälle auf spanische Handelsflotten zu einem ansehnlichen Vermögen gebracht hat. Jack findet Gefallen an dem klugen und furchtlosen Jungen und ernennt ihn nach einiger Zeit zu seinem Nachfolger. Als frischgebackener Jacare Jack ist es Sebastians erste Tat, eine Gruppe Afrikaner zu befreien, die als Sklaven nach Jamaika verkauft werden sollten. Und hinter dem Sklavenhandel steht, wie Sebastian erfährt, niemand anders als der Verführer seiner Mutter! Der junge Pirat setzt alles daran, dem verhaßten Schurken das Handwerk zu legen. Doch Hernando ist ein kaltblütiger und grausamer Gegner, und als er erkennen muß, wie gefährlich ihm Sebastian und dessen unerschrockene Schwester Celeste werden, sinnt er auf Rache…AutorAlberto Vazquez-Figueroa, 1936 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife geboren, verbrachte einen großen Teil seiner Kinder- und Jugendjahre in Marokko. Nach seinem Studium in Madrid arbeitete er als Auslandskorrespondent in Afrika und Südamerika. Vazquez-Figueroa, der neben seinen journalistischen Arbeiten zahlreiche Romane und Sachbücher veröffentlicht hat, lebt heute in Spanien.Die Originalausgabe erschien 1996 unter dem Titel »Piratas«bei Plaza & Janes Editores, S. A. Barcelona

In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent of those who survived mutated into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since then—and of the heroes among that one percent.Originally begun in 1986, long before George R. R. Martin became a household name among fantasy readers ("The American Tolkien"—Time magazine), the Wild Cards series earned a reputation among connoisseurs for its smart reimagining of the superhero idea. Now, with Inside Straight, the Wild Cards continuity jumps forward to a new generation of major characters, entirely accessible to Martin's hundreds of thousands of new readers, with all-original stories by Martin himself, along with Daniel Abraham, Michael Cassutt, and Stephen Leigh, among others.

As Cole begins to accept her new life as Akhet, someone who can remember flashes of her past lives, every new vision from her past lives helps explain who she is in this life. As her passion for Griffon grows, she learns to identify other Akhet around her, including Drew, the young self-made millionaire who reveals his startling connection to Cole-he was her husband in Elizabethan England and gave her the ankh necklace that has been returned to her after centuries in hiding. Drew's attentions are overwhelming as he insists that their connection in the past signals their future destiny together, but before she can decide who she truly loves, Cole must learn to harness her unique Akhet abilities if she is to ever understand her role in this strange new world.

Admiral Geary's First Fleet of the Alliance has survived the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally. Now Geary's mission is to ensure the safety of the Midway Star System, which has revolted against the Syndicate Worlds empire — an empire that is on the brink of collapse.

Nick Gautier’s day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul.His new principal thinks he’s even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to things he can’t even mention and the girl he’s not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him.But more than that, he’s being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn’t learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them...