Resultados para "E A Johnson" en Política

A self-serving dictator is preparing to engage his country in a war that none of the citizens want to participate in. The dictator is well protected by his loyal guards, leaving his subjects with two options: fight or pray for peace. But wait....

Robert Finlay is looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life. But fate has other plans. Finlay's traumatic past is about to return to haunt him. A policeman is killed by a bomb blast, and a second is gunned down; both were former army colleagues from Finlay's own SAS regiment. And so begins a game of cat and mouse, a wicked game in which Finlay is in embroiled in a fight against a determined and unidentified enemy.

After an acrimonious US election whose outcome Moscow may or may not have influenced, can it really be that a few maverick intelligence agents from Russia and the United States are fighting a discreet battle to the death on some of London’s back streets? And that the corpses are piling up, out of sight of the British police? And even that the whole thing could spiral at any moment into God knows what version of a third world war?

John A. Kinley is a forty-two-year-old disillusioned United States Congressman from Indiana. Following John’s retirement, an old friend introduces John to a mysterious group of investors. Their proposal stuns him—they want to provide a trillion-dollar budget for John to found his own country from inception to fruition. Though D.C. has made him skeptical, John hasn’t given up on his dreams of creating a great nation. John accepts this task naively, with no idea of the strings attached to their deal.

RESUяяECTION is a diary from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson starting in July 2020, three months after the nurses (whose name he forgets) saved his life. With a daily entry over these months of rehabilitation for himself and the country, the diary is an explosive, addicting, imagined exposé of what is really happening at the height of power as Boris, the UK, and the world recover from COVID-19. And events quickly send Boris down a murky and dangerous pathway in search of eternal life.

The UK referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU was a political showdown the British PM, Jeremy Hartley, thought he couldn’t lose. But the next morning both he and the rest of the country woke in a state of shock. America meanwhile has its own unlikely presidential candidate, the brash showman Ronald Craig, a man that nobody thought could gain office. Throw into the mix the cunning Russian President Igor Popov, with his plans to destabilise the West, and you have a brilliant alternative account of the events of 2016 that led to Brexit and America welcoming its own new leader.

Lionel Pigot Johnson was born in 1867. He was a poet, short story writer, essayist, and critic. A member of the notorious and influential Rhymer’s Club his poetry and short stories are studded with the themes of the times. His most influential work ‘Dark Angel’ was published in 1893.

"Jahrestage" ist ein Jahrhundertbuch. Es gibt keinen zweiten deutschen Roman dieser Art. Gesine Cresspahl lebt mit ihrer zehnjährigen Tochter Marie in New York. Ein Jahr lang, 1967/68, erzählt sie ihr täglich aus der Familiengeschichte. Jeden Tag wird so mitten im amerikanischen Alltag ein Stück deutscher Geschichte lebendig, werden die Schicksale einfacher Leute mit dem Weltgeschehen verwoben.

A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Now the basis for a major motion picture Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice...

The story takes place in a northern California town near the Sierra foothills. Neville Stryker, the protagonist, is ambushed and left for dead on the trail. He walks to the next town, Egalitaria, formerly named Bickford, and finds his horse but he also finds a town held captive by a gang of murderous politicos. Major Neville Stryker, now known as Stryker, has had a relentless series of violently tragic losses and he reacts to aggression with a gun or a blade. Most of his enemies occupy graves.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2015 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, MEN’S JOURNAL, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, KANSAS CITY STAR, BROOKLYN MAGAZINE, NPR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE DAILY BEAST, AND BUZZFEED WINNER OF THE 2015 ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD FOR LITERARY...

Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years'...

In the wake of a devastating space attack, Guy Erma, teenage bodyguard to the young King, miraculously survives. However, his close friend and charge, Teodor of Earth, is missing and feared dead. After a devastating attack in space, only Guy, the king's brave young bodyguard, survives. His best friend and heir to the throne, Teodor of Earth, is missing and might be gone for good. Now, every second counts as Guy launches daring rescue missions to find survivors.

A king without a crown, a soldier on a desperate mission, and a planet on the brink of war. Teodor, the young king of Earth, is trapped in a brutal alien world, fighting for survival among the enigmatic Spider Riders. His friend, Guy Erma, a captain in the Dome Militant, embarks on a perilous journey across the treacherous landscapes of Sas Darona to rescue him. As Guy and his team delve deeper into the alien wilderness, they uncover a web of deceit and betrayal that threatens to shatter the fragile peace between the tribes and the Dodecahedral Empire.

From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master. "Tell me what...

Tomorrow’s Hope: A journey of exploration and hope builds on the themes reminiscent of classic Science Fiction written by the greats of the 1960’s. Inspired by the works of Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, and more, we dive into worlds that could be just around the corner.