Resultados para "The Double" en Acción y aventura

One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe was - as usual - in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most...

One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he’s shanghaied to Mars. Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. 

An inexperienced officer. A dysfunctional ship. Life in the Deep Dark just got a whole lot harder. In his first assignment as an officer, Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself fresh out of school, wet behind the ears, and way out of his depth. Aboard the William Tinker the senior officers are...

DISCOVER THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOWHUNTER CHRONICLES! Two outcasts find themselves at the centre of world-altering change in Sword Catcher, the start of a riveting epic fantasy series from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadowhunter...

Cole Tillman is a Hollywood star, and Johnny Biggs is his stunt double. This fast-paced novel by prolific writer, rapper and wrestler, Jeff Yager takes you on a memorable journey into the world of a Hollywood stuntman. Will Johnny become an actor in his own right, like Jackie Chan, or will he forever remain in Cole's shadow?

QUAND L’AMOUR DEVIENT UN JEU DANGEREUX Anastasia a 22 ans et ignore tout de son passé. Malgré les cauchemars et les épisodes réguliers d’amnésie dont elle souffre, elle mène une vie ordinaire dans la banlieue de Moscou, tentant de trouver un équilibre grâce à sa meilleure amie, sa...

Olivia Jameson sat at her desk in her cozy bedroom, adorned with shelves filled with books and trophies symbolizing her academic achievements. The room exuded an air of studiousness, with its neatly organized desk and the soft glow of a desk lamp illuminating Olivia's focused face. She flicked through the pages of her history textbook, absorbing the information with determination.

The next instalment in Stephanie Harte's gripping gangland series, perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kerry Kaya! A sister out for revenge... With her twin sister still missing, Daisy Kennedy is determined to do all she can to bring her sister home. She’s sure she knows who’s to blame –...

You can run from a killer - unless the killer is you . . . In top-secret talks in Barcelona, ex-spy Dr Tori Swyft seals a landmark Arctic deal with Beijing that sends Washington DC and Moscow reeling. The next morning, she wakes beside two dead bodies … A nameless voice phones her, taunting...

Chasing discomfort in the underbelly of Japan, Dante Jacoby is running from the coward he used to be. A chance encounter with a shopkeeper in Sapporo sets him on a path of destruction through the ranks of the yakuza. Only when he has the chance to stop and draw breath does he receive a distress call from the other side of the world.

A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to young journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a fan who grew up as a Foreign Service brat in the very cities where Lemaster set his plots, the story creates a brief but embarrassing sensation. More than two decades later, Cage, by then a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. The note is the first of many literary bread crumbs that soon lead him back to Vienna, Prague and Budapest in search fo the truth, even as the events of Lemaster’s past eerily – and dangerously – begin intersecting with those of his own.

Edouard MONTEL, jeune trentenaire revenu d'Afrique après un exil forcé consécutif à des soucis avec la justice, revient en France où il retombe rapidement dans ses travers. Ruiné aux jeux, sans famille, sans amis, il décide d'en finir avec la vie et se rend dans le vieux château délabré, unique témoignage de la grandeur passée de ses ancêtres, pour se suicider. Le canon de son browning contre la tempe, prêt à appuyer sur la détente !

Archaeologist Gabby Knight has been living under an assumed identity to steer clear of her mobster father's enemies. But when she suspects her father of plotting to steal a priceless statue buried in New Mexico, she risks everything and sets out for the desert to beat him to it - and to save him from making a grave mistake. Breaking into a secluded cabin to wait out a blizzard, she's not worried about visitors. It's not like anyone would be traveling in this kind of weather...right?

Like father, like son? Not even close. Following his old man’s legacy as president of the Dirty Angels MC, Zeke Jamison has large boots to fill—and that hasn’t been easy. While he may look like he could've been his father’s twin, the way he runs the club and his life is far from similar. He prefers to do his own thing, run the club his way, and not necessarily the way his father ran it for decades. That said, one way he’s followed in his biker father’s footsteps is by being incarcerated.

Wes Stone was once a lawman. Then the Sandlin Gang shot down his father, known as The Gunfighter. Swearing vengeance, he takes up his father's guns. But little does he know that the odds are even more against him than he thinks - and that to get revenge for a dead man, he might have to die himself....

1951. The Day the Earth Stood Still had just taken the world by surprise with Michael Rennie's portrayal of Klaatu. Motion pictures had seen a surge of female protagonists and heroines defying the norms of the time with films such as The Sword of Monte Cristo and Anne of the Indies. 20th Century Fox's subsidiary label, Astrys Pictures, embarks on something new, a Flash Gordon-type duo of movies...except with a female spaceship captain and action heroine.

“I spy … a brilliant thriller! Double or Nothing is a clever and utterly compelling addition to the Bond canon.” —Jeffery Deaver, author of Carte Blanche, a James Bond novel The start of a brand-new trilogy following MI6’s Double O agents with a license to kill, that blows the world of...

007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company. His whereabouts are unknown. Johanna Harwood, 003. Joseph Dryden, 004. Sid Bashir, 009. Together, they represent the very best and brightest of MI6. Skilled, determined and with a licence to kill, they will do anything to protect their country. Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise claims he can reverse the climate crisis and save the planet. But can he really?

The countdown to invasion begins... It's September 1940, and British intelligence is desperately worried: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. A sinister organisation called The Group, a collection of British and Irish Nazi collaborators, is at work trying to support Hitler's plans... But...

Trust no one. Suspect everyone. It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is. As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British...