Resultados para "One On One" en Acción y aventura

NYPD Detective Sam Archer is on his way home on a Sunday afternoon in New York City. He's been out of the field for over three months but has just been cleared to return to duty. Sitting on a bench in the Upper West Side, Archer sees something totally unexpected. Two men are crossing the street in front of him, heading quickly toward another group climbing into a car. All are heavily armed and all hell breaks loose as a ferocious gunfight erupts, shattering the peaceful afternoon.

The Faithful had prepared their defenses. One by one the Asatu had hunted down and slaughtered them. Billions were already dead. The survivors sought refuge in the last remaining stronghold. Haven One-Eight.

Two hundred years after Adron’s Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn’t what it used to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor, of the Orb that is the focus of the Empire’s power, of their capital city with its Impe-rial bureaucracy, and of a great many of their late fellow citizens, the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum, bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life.

Inwazja obcych na Ziemie skapala miasta w ogniu i krwi. Niektórzy ludzie w panice rzucili sie do ucieczki, inni chwycili za bron, aby stawic czola Drasinom. "Odyseja" wypelnila swoja ostatnia misje - w atmosferze rodzimej planety siala zniszczenie wsród ladujacych dronów. I rozbila sie na Manhattanie. Dla kapitana Westona nie byl to jednak koniec zmagan. Tylko on walczyl z Drasinami w kosmosie. Tylko on tak dobrze znal wroga.

Okret badawczy "Odyseja" powrócil z dziewiczej podrózy. Powrócil, wiozac zle nowiny oraz ambasadorów - przedstawicieli innej, chodz ludzkiej, cywilizacji kosmicznej, uwiklanej w krwawa wojne z okrutnymi obcymi. Ziemianie musza podjac decyzje, czy angazowac sie w walke, podejmowac ryzyko, czy tez schowac glowe w piasek i udawac, ze odlegly konflikt nie dotyczy Ukladu Slonecznego.

Korzystajac z najnowszej technologii, umozliwiajacej podróze miedzygwiezdne, okret badawczy "Odyseja" wyrusza w dziewiczy rejs. Lecz kosmos nie jest tak pusty, jak moze sie wydawac z perspektywy naszej planety. "Odyseja" trafia prosto w srodek konfliktu miedzy dwoma rasami. Zaloga okretu staje w obliczu smiertelnie groznego, bardzo poteznego i znakomicie wyposazonego przeciwnika. Dysponuje o wiele mniej zaawansowana technologia, lecz musi sobie radzic za pomoca tego, co posiada. Ale czy podola wyzwaniu? I jakie beda konsekwencje poczynan Ziemian? Czy odwaga, poswiecenie i ludzka inteligencja sa w stanie zniwelowac dystans cywilizacyjny?

Wrogom zostaje zdradzony pilnie strzezony dotad sekret - wspólrzedne Ziemi. I tym razem to wcale nie zaloga "Odyssei" sprowadzila na Terran nieszczescie. To kapitan Sun z okretu Bloku Wschodniego, wracajac z wyprawy eksploracyjnej, nieopatrznie podaje polozenie ojczyzny. Reakcja nadzorców ze sfery Dysona jest natychmiastowa. Ku Ukladowi Slonecznemu nadciaga prawdziwa potega militarna, zlozona ze zbuntowanych dronów.

John Patterson has always been a loner...his heroic rescue of an inexperienced climber on Everest results in the loss of his leg...Michelle Bonheur still blames herself for the car accident that killed her husband Adam two years ago...As John and Michelle’s paths converge in Nepal...and discover they’re not alone in their grief, the guilt they carry, or their attraction to each other. When disaster strikes one morning on the Annapurna circuit, the two wounded souls find themselves in peril, and Michelle makes a decision that will change both of their lives.

In Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle, Matthew Stover created a new kind of fantasy novel, and a new kind of hero to go with it: Caine, a street thug turned superstar, battling in a future where reality shows take place in another dimension, on a world where magic exists and gods are up close and personal. In that beautiful, savage land, Caine is an assassin without peer, a living legend born from one of the highest-rated reality shows ever made.

Tatum had a brutal home life, but one thing to emerge from her living with a family of gun runners was that she learned to shoot with unerring accuracy. When she finally escaped her family, she found friendship and camaraderie with a sisterhood of feminist activists until many of her friends were killed in a deadly terrorist attack.

Jeff Walker's Outer Red. A fantastic new science fiction/fantasy spin on a classic fable. Enter a world where a young female ship captain is sent to retrieve information vital to the Galactic Kingdom; a new threat has emerged, and the galaxy is in danger. Can she and her computer companion - GRIMM - get back onto the charted path and return home? Or will they be hunted down and killed before the mission can be completed? Listen to find out more.

Prisioneira de uma sombria dimensão e possuidora de um dom e de uma maldição, Nina está determinada a encontrar seu caminho e sua identidade. O que fazer? Fugir e sobreviver, ou enfrentar seus fantasmas e acabar morrendo? A única pessoa que poderia lhe ajudar foi justamente a responsável por reduzir seu coração a pedaços. Em quem Nina poderá confiar agora, que acaba de descobrir que a morte pode ter muitas facetas?

On their first day of training with the Metropolitan Police, new recruits Jamie, Bunny, and Tina are asked to join a team of undercover detectives, a secret unit involved in the long-term penetration of criminal gangs. Their target? One of the world’s biggest drug dealers: Den Donovan, alias "Tango One". To close in on their quarry, the three must go back into the outside world and become criminals themselves. But someone within the Met is pursuing an alternative agenda. Someone who has deliberately put their lives on the line.…

This audiobook tells the story of a supervillain called "The Crisis" and his best friend, an assassin named "Poison" as they carve out a living in a dystopian future. Crisis is on the run from the FBI, including a sexy metahuman agent with whom he might be in love. Along the way, they run into a genius Russian cyborg, a pink-haired exotic dancer who wants to become a supervillain, a superhero with an MBA from Wharton who can lift a skyscraper, and many others.

The first installment in the Far Star series, a swashbuckling space saga that introduces the daring pirate Blackhawk and the loyal crew of the Wolf’s Claw, from Jay Allan, the author of the bestselling Crimson Worlds saga. Smuggler and mercenary Arkarin Blackhawk and the crew of the ship...

There is a starship in trouble, lost in the void, with no one awake to hear the alarms. A thousand specially selected people left a troubled and unsustainable Earth for another world. Their dream was a new start on a virgin planet 30 years away. Their ship was state-of-the-art and entirely automatic, it's passengers safely sleeping through the journey - but something has gone wrong, something unexpected.