Resultados para "The Jungle Book" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Deacon Cole and the rest of Patrol Easy hoped that they had seen their last combat for a while, but they soon find themselves in the first wave during the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944. They witness the bold military leader General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore even as Japanese bullets still fly.

Two years ago, Dr. Gina Brady broke Thomas Prescott’s heart, but now her panic-stricken satellite phone call starts it beating again with a fury. Thugs kidnapped the good doctor from the remote jungle village where she was working, and now the retired homicide detective’s expert skills are desperately needed to save her. Led by a colorful, but perhaps untrustworthy local guide, Prescott journeys deep into the Bolivian Amazon, plunging into a world where the only thing more dangerous than the gun-toting drug traffickers and the ruthless tribesmen, is the jungle itself.

Jack Sloan, an ex-Miami cop turned private detective, is in serious trouble. Down on his luck with a gambling addiction that threatens to shred the new leaf he's turned over, his debts to drug dealers are about to get him the beating of his life, or worse. Life in the concrete jungle isn't easy, and Jack contemplates taking drastic action until a knock on his office door makes all his troubles disappear. He suddenly has a new client with a simple problem and loads of money to resolve it - or that's how it seems.

Santana Sokolov might be the one person who ties together all the mysteries of Atlantica. Which will probably get her killed. The woman has a penchant for the ancient. When Santana is approached by two enemy factions looking for the same legendary item, she partners with old friend Dick Chambers to enter the wilderness and unlock the mystery.

The weather is beautiful, work is slow, and her canine colleague could use a walk. What better day for Megan to take Brigit to the Fort Worth Zoo, where they can let loose and witness the law and order of nature unfold? But what begins as a fun field trip turns serious when a pair of rare hyacinth macaws named Fabiana and Fernando goes missing. Is the new custodian, a gentle soul who happens to be an ex-convict, to blame? Or is something far more sinister afoot? The birds are worth thousands of dollars, and the list of people on the premises who might have stolen them is long.

ATLANTICA, the forgotten isle, the glittering gem in the cesspool of humanity's future. Anything you do inside your own home is allowed. But what if you live in the jungle? It's time. Santana's benefactor, Taylor Yungheim, has located the man who stole Valentina's brother, Archie Fontana. Santana prepares to enter the jungle with Val, only to find herself mixed up once again with Dick Chambers and Terra Kris. Forming an unlikely alliance, they venture into the unknown.

The black Dust fell for over a week. Adam Blake, a seasoned survival expert, was trapped in his first floor flat in a small suburb of southeast London—no food, no cell service, and no communication with the outside world. Then the dust stopped falling, As the residents of Buckingham Avenue were left bewildered, there was no sign of help, no emergency services, no police. Just Adam and his confused neighbors. The storm was just as sudden—violent, coming out of nowhere. It was as if the town was cursed. Then came the vines.

An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents. John Milton is no stranger to the world's seedy underbelly. But when the former British secret service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he'll have to fight harder than ever to conquer the evil in his path. After Milton meets a refugee who lost a sister to people smugglers, he travels through war-torn Libya and the murkiest parts of Italy and France to get the girl back.

The Associate is at it again. His intent? To carry out the most daring raid ever against one of the largest gold mines in the world. Deep in the forests of Ghana, drone technology, so out of place its almost alien, crushes the hardened defenses. What follows is a game of cat and mouse through the jungle. The theft is so vast that the president can't ask even his most loyal allies to recover it. And so he turns to Max. Max and his team of highly trained specialists are people he thinks he can trust.

Long before Prefect Marcus Venandus directed the defense of the Jeweled Hills, Green Vigil Marcus led his first command into the treacherous jungles of Ekángá. As if the jungle itself wasn’t deadly enough, native warriors and shamans strike from its shadows with magic, spears, and darts, while the forcibly transplanted Graeci population seethes with unrest in the supposedly civilized regions of the province.

Humanity is in a race against extinction. Having survived a horrific attack by the Creeps, Adam Blake is badly scarred and weak. Though no one believes him, the attack—and subsequent coma—cursed Adam with prophetic visions wherein the Creeps evolve, the vines grow out of control, and a new threat rises to bring genocide to the human race. When his visions come to fruition, it falls to John Sage to stop the threat with the tools he’s found at the research facility. Combining science and weaponry, he faces off against familiar foes, but can John survive when aliens are involved?

If the vines and the Creeps didn’t bring about London’s ultimate destruction, Operation Inferno would. Within six days, thermo baric bombs will be dropping on the city, obliterating everything. Adam Blake has no choice but to lead the inhabitants of the Block out of the city and through a hostile world devoid of human life. Their only chance of safety lays over five hundred miles away in the cold wilds of Scotland.

Hired gun Jack Taylor is sent to the ancient city of Diyu to bring order, but his journey proves treacherous. The river to the city is home to pirates, unspeakable evils, and dangers unknown to history. It’s a mission into the unknown that could be Taylor’s last.

Something mysterious is happening in the depths of the Yucatan jungle and Miles Drake, aka Captain Action, has been sent to investigate. His superiors believe their main nemesis, the alien criminal known as Dr. Evil is hunting something called the Sky Rock, a supposed fallen meteor possessing strange energies. But as soon as Drake arrives on the site, he's met with two other unexpected characters that may or may not be involved with Evil's nefarious plans. One of these is a beautiful female Mexican agent named Selena Rubio, whereas the other is a strange masked figure.