fb2Der Roman zum erfolgreichen, immer wieder gespielten Fernsehfilm mit Ingmar Zeisberg und dem unvergessenen Hanns Lothar: Die dramatische Geschichte eines Fluges, bei dem der Pilot und der Copilot schwer erkranken.
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Arthur Hailey, geboren 1920 in Luton/England, wanderte nach dem Kriegsdienst bei der Royal Air Force nach Kanada aus. In Toronto redigierte er von 1949 bis 1953 die Zeitschrift »Bus and Truck Transports«. 1965 siedelte er sich in Kalifornien an; heute lebt er auf den Bahamas.
Nach dem Erfolg seiner Fernsehspiele, die sich meist mit dem Schicksal von Piloten befaßten, schrieb er mehrere Romane über das Leben auf Flugplätzen, in Hotels und in Industrieunternehmen. Sie wurden Bestseller und auch ins Deutsche übersetzt, so »Hotel« (1965) und »Airport« (1968). Haileys erster Bestseller ist der Roman »Flug in Gefahr« (1958), den er zusammen mit John Castle geschrieben hat, dem Autor des erfolgreichen Kriegsromans »The Password is Courage« und des 1962 bei Engelhorn unter dem Titel »Die siebente Plage« erschienenen Thrillers über biochemische Waffen.
Das Flugpersonal der Luftlinien operiert überall in der Welt mit der Greenwich-Zeit. Für die Passagiere jedoch bringt die Luftreise von Winnipeg nach Vancouver (1500 Meilen) drei örtliche Zeiten mit sich: Central Time, Mountain Time und Pacific Time.
Dieses zweimalige Umstellen der Uhr, und zwar jeweils um eine Stunde zurück, würde die chronologische Folge dieses Berichtes stören. Aus diesem Grunde wurde eine durchgehende Standardzeit gewählt.
Es erübrigt sich, darauf hinzuweisen, daß die Handlung, die Luftlinie und sämtliche Personen frei erfunden sind.
You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.
Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor - which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is stuck in the clink.
Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally… somehow. His allies may not add up to much-his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate-but Noah's got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all.
bn ,lFormer special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe — who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband — and herself.
FANATICAL LOVE, DANGEROUS OBSESSION AND A TERRIBLE DEADLY SECRET...
Detective Chief Inspector Rose Piper’s life is in turmoil. At only thirty-five, her marriage has collapsed and she is unsure about her future with the Avon and Somerset Constabulary. She disappears to a remote island off the North Devon coast to rebuild her strength.
There she meets Robin Davey, charismatic owner of the island. The spark of strong physical attraction is immediate, and mutual. When tragedy strikes their paths cross once more.
But then the case Rose is working on takes a sinister turn. She begins to fear that her preoccupation with her personal life is affecting her professional performance. Deep in an obsessive and passionate affair with Robin Davey, she has ignored the friends who warned of secrets in his past. But eventually she must accept that she will never find peace until she discovers the truth about her lover...
Danger and passion walk side by side in this dark and stormy tale.
Proprietor of a stud farm in Australia 's Snowy Mountains or muck-raking stable boy in Yorkshire? Danny Roke decides on the latter. It is the change of scene and the challenge that pushes Danny undercover, on the scent of a suspected racehorse dope scandal.
The sequel to Audrey Rose takes Janice Templeton back to the death of Audrey Rose and the mystery of where she is if she was reincarnated as Ivy Templeton. Ivy, Janice's daughter, was also killed in a car crash. Janice is determined to find the truth.
In 1964, a fiery car crash claimed the lives of Audrey Rose Hoover and her mother. Eleven years later, Elliot Hoover, her father, believes he has found Audrey's reincarnated soul in the body of 10-year-old Ivy Templeton. When Ivy dies in a terrible hypnotic reenactment of Audrey's death throes, the Templeton's are devastated and Elliot disappears. However, the question remains: If Audrey Rose returned as Ivy Templeton, who died in 1975 — then, where is she now? Janice Templeton is determined to find the answer.
With murder — or worse — in his little black bag he roamed the underworld — the timid little salesman of eternity who gagged at killing — yet killed for a gag!
From the author of the post-apocalyptic classic Alas, Babylon, comes this eerie, cold war thriller.
A young teenage couple having a rendezvous one night on a beach in Florida suddenly sees a submarine emerge from the ocean. Armed soldiers disembark the vessel and a Buick drives off its landing ramp. For Henry Hazen, who is scheduled to ship out to an army training camp the next day, the sight leaves him uneasy, but he tells no one what he has witnessed.
Katherine Hume is the only woman working for the Pentagon’s Atomic Energy Commission. From intelligence they have gathered, she and her team are convinced the Russians are poised to conduct a nuclear attack on the U.S. on or shortly before Christmas. But convincing their superiors an attack is imminent is proving far more difficult than she could have imagined—even after several stealth fighter planes and their pilots go missing over the Gulf.
Banker Robert Gumol sees all the signs that the big attack is finally coming. As a reluctant spy for the Russians, Gumol’s loyalties lie more with his adopted country than his motherland. Deciding to take the next flight to Havana, he risks being executed by the Russians if his betrayal is discovered—but he’s willing to put it all on the line for a chance at freedom.
With the clock ticking, the fate of America hangs by a very thin thread.
A classic of science fiction that is a cautionary tale of the dangers of nuclear power, Forbidden Area is as timely today as it was when it was first published in 1958.
Mishka Ben-David, internationally bestselling author and former high-ranking officer in Israel’s world-renowned intelligence agency, is back with a thriller that will take the reader straight to the heart of spycraft.
Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad, ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely–until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be, but while her identity may be mysterious, there is no doubt about the love they feel for each other.
The affair, impassioned as it is, is not a part of the Mossad plan. The agency must hatch a dark scheme to drive the lovers apart. So what began as a quiet, solitary mission becomes a perilous exercise in survival, and Ben-Ari has no time to discover the truth about Anna’s identity before his employers act. Amid the shadowy manipulations of the secret services, the anguished agent finds himself at an impossible crossroads.
Written with the masterful skill of a seasoned novelist, and bringing to bear his years of experience as a Mossad agent himself, Ben-David once again delivers a powerful look into the mysterious Israeli intelligence agency in this action-packed page turner.
Three Chinese armies swarmed across the trace, with T-59s providing covering fire. The Chinese armor,T-60 tanks 85mm guns and 90,000 PLA regulars rush in. Through the downpour the American A-10 Thurnderbolts came in low, their RAU-B Avenger 30mm seven-barreled rotary cannon spitting out a deadly stream of depleted uranium, white-hot fragments that set off the tank's ammunition and fuel tanks into great blowouts of orange-black flame. Four sleek, eighteen-foot long Tomahawk cruise missiles are headed for Beijing. It is Armageddon in Asia…
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Navy SEAL turned covert operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again in Brad Thor's hottest political thriller yet.
Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created. Unfettered by the oversight of self-serving politicians, it reports only to a secret panel of military insiders. Its job is to target America 's enemies – both foreign and domestic – under a charter of three simple words: Find, Fix, and Finish.
Recruited as a field operative, Scot Harvath has just returned from his first assignment abroad when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. The evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath's past and a plan for further attacks on an unimaginable scale.
Harvath is tasked with leveraging his relationship to lure the man out of hiding and kill him on the spot. But what if it is the wrong man?
Simultaneously, a young woman is struck by a taxi in a hit-and-run in Chicago. With only two intoxicated witnesses and over five thousand cabs in the city, the Chicago Police have given up on their investigation. But when the family's attorney digs deeper, he will uncover a shocking connection to the bombing in Rome and the perpetrators' plans for America.
As the story rockets to its conclusion, the plots intersect in a race to prevent one of the most audacious and unthinkable acts of war in the history of mankind.
Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough-readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery-and altogether irresistibly odd.
We're all a little odd beneath the surface. He's the most unlikely hero you'll ever meet-an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But there's so much more to any of us than meets the eye-and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead-it's something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he's got a duty to do the right thing. That's the way Odd sees it and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.
A childhood friend of Odd's has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether you're meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or he's already an old friend, you'll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delight-to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.
Отлично запознат с тънкостите на международните финанси и със задкулисните игри в света на финансовите акули, Пол Лу Сюлицер е и писател със световна известност, чиито романи съперничат по тиражи с тези на Артър Хейли и Робърт Лъдлъм. Трилогията „Money“, „Cash!“ и „Fortune“ проследява пътя на неукротимия Франц Цимбали с всичките му възходи и падения, рискове и невероятни приключения. Хрумванията на този „Танцьор“ (както сам се нарича) на сцената на финансовите спекулации често изглеждат налудничави, но са винаги оригинални и (почти) винаги доходоносни.
Във „Fortune“ фантазията на автора напълно се развихря. Този път Цимбали купува казино и се устремява към Голямото Богатство. Пътьом обаче става жертва на Голяма Измама и му се налага да вложи цялото си въображение и дързост, за да осъществи скромната си мечта за малко над един милиард долара годишно. Съпътстват го верните му приятели и съратници Ли и Лиу, Хасан Фезали, Марк Лаватер и, разбира се, любимата му Сара и синът му Марк-Андреа. Дали ще успее да постигне целта си и най-после да намери покой? Събитията се развиват главоломно, контраатаката на Танцьора е по-динамична и изобретателна всякога.
"Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes and a brutal deep-frozen landscape… Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist." – Lee Child
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When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force (conducted, he suspects, by his own partner), Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career – and his family. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but for another young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captors will kill him. Evoking the Canadian winter and the hearts of the killers and cops in icily realistic prose, Giles Blunt has produced a masterful crime novel that rivals the best of Martin Cruz Smith and introduces readers to a detective hero whose own human faults serve to fuel his unerring sense of justice.
Stone Barrington is nearing his New York City abode when he stumbles into trouble. As it turns out, a new client is in danger — and with both business and the safety of the city at stake, he has no choice but to get involved.
When it soon becomes clear that a complicated scheme is being hatched, Stone will need to use his expertise and connections to unravel the clever plot. Though the source remains unknown, it’s just a matter of time before he and Stone must each show their hands. From ritzy Manhattan high-rises to the lush serenity of the Connecticut countryside, the game of cat and mouse can end with only one victor...
It’s been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the shocking, tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets, and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey’s sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in the hospital, Rachel won’t tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him... and then there’s Ema’s surprise announcement: She has an online boyfriend, and he’s vanished.
As he’s searching for Ema’s missing boyfriend (who may not even exist!), Mickey also gets roped into helping his nemesis, Troy Taylor, with a big problem. All the while, Mickey and his friends are pulled deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Abeona Shelter, risking their lives to find the answers — until the shocking climax, where Mickey finally comes face-to-face with the truth about his father.