Resultados para "Black Jack" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Eddie Strike's bland life is a distant memory. Now the Steward of a magical, grumpy house on the Isle of Man, he's navigating a world of fae, vampires, and cosmic horrors—while trying to juggle two powerful dungeon fairies. When a discovery links a mad fae artist to gruesome murders and an ancient conspiracy, Eddie is dragged into the heart of a cosmic prison where terrors lay in wait. After escaping with his allies by his side, he must confront a Black Dragon, survive a landscape riddled with death, and piece together the fragments of a plot that threatens to unravel the fabric of reality.

My life was a spreadsheet of beige calculations...until a dead grandfather I never knew left me a magical house and a death sentence. Now I'm the steward of a sentient manor on the mystical Isle of Man, and my life has become a high-stakes RPG. I've got levels to grind, stats to manage, and two drop-dead gorgeous fairies for company—one, a fiery warrior with a secret, and the other, a mischievous archer who thinks sharing is caring. But my new power has earned me a new enemy: an ancient vampire prince with a grudge, and he's just fast-tracked my trial by combat...to the death.

Er starb im Krieg - so glauben alle. In Wahrheit lag er 100 Jahre im Kälteschlaf. Nun feiert man ihn wegen seiner Kriegsverdienste als lebende Legende. Er erhält das Kommando über eine Flotte, die im feindlichen Territorium gestrandet ist. Sein Auftrag: Möglichst alle Schiffe lebend nach Hause bringen. Die Realität: Unzählige Feinde auf dem Weg. Und eine Meuterei in den eigenen Reihen, die ihn 40 Schiffe kostet.

Highway patrol officer Alex Hays thinks it’s just another hot July afternoon in 2010. Then he picks up a strange man in futuristic “pajamas” claiming he’s from the year 2170. Hours later, the man vanishes without a trace during a violent desert storm, leaving Alex and a brilliant young nurse, Sally Moreno, with only questions.

Portia’s initial magic attempt fails so spectacularly that debris and ashes rain down, injuring her ancient teacher and sole practitioner of the holy magic. The chosen one not only failed, but dangerously so. It is far worse to do the magic badly than to not do it at all.

Swords and Saddles is a must-listen collection of three novellas from New York Times best-selling author Jack Campbell.

Pirate antihero Rooker Flynn has 13 death sentences. But instead of being executed, he’s forced into the deadliest fantasy magic school ever built. Trapped on the island with murderous outlaws, a corrupt warden, and giant poisonous spiders, Rooker must stage a daring prison break or die trying. This isn't school, it's survival. Joined by his former partner Jack Swift, Rooker Flynn must outwit lethal trials, outlaw gangs, and the inhuman dangers lurking beyond locked doors.

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post)...

Dragged from her bed at gunpoint, tattooed and tracked like livestock, she becomes just another number: Volunteer 4711. Shipped across the stars with hundreds of other human women, she's thrown into a cruel existence on an alien farm where survival means silence, submission, and sacrificing what little dignity remains. When fate places a high-ranking alien male's life in her hands, she saves him, not knowing this single act will pull her into the complex power structures of galactic politics.

Archangel: The Book of Mammon is the first book in a new urban fantasy thriller series that features ancient conspiracies, high-tech threats, action-packed combat sequences, and compelling characters in unique situations.

Most of the story you hold in your hands takes place in the thirteen hours surrounding the execution of Rooker Flynn. Gerba Whipmarples has won. The prison revolt has failed, the escape plan has been crushed, and the perpetrators have been captured. The headmistress has stolen Nepenthe from Jack, and Rooker has sacrificed his one true love, the Venture Brigand, to save his friend’s life. At long last, there is nothing left for Gerba to do but make sure the greedy pirate pays for his crimes at the end of a noose. Welcome to Rooker Flynn’s final day at the Locke Institute.

All three novellas feature Washington, D.C. Homicide Detective John "Black Jack" Morrison and his travails as he gets sent out to the super-secret spy facility known as Area 51 to solve a series of murders. Jack can't stay out of trouble with the chief of detectives back home, mostly due to his drinking, and his cockups get him sent to the Nevada desert as punishment. But it's not the murders that bother Black Jack, so much as the evidence he finds about the events from Roswell in 1947.