Resultados para "The Sniper" en Literatura de género

Spezialagent Chance Vaught soll während einer Mission in Mexiko für die Sicherheit des Teams der US-Drogenkontrolle sorgen. Doch die Autokolonne gerät ins Fadenkreuz eines Scharfschützen, der irgendwo in der Ferne lauert. Vaught ist in höchster Not. Auch der Navy SEAL Gil Shannon kann ihm nicht helfen. Er ist offenbar bei seinem letzten Einsatz ums Leben gekommen. Die Männer und Frauen sind dem Geisterschützen hilflos ausgeliefert. Nach und nach holt er sich seine Opfer ...

Tom Hardy thought he knew the rules of loyalty, but when a covert mission takes a treacherous turn, he discovers just how expendable he is to those in power. Sent deep into enemy territory with only his spotter, Hardy’s mission takes a deadly turn when his extraction fails, leaving him stranded, alone, and hunted. Surviving the dangers of the jungle, Hardy soon realizes his own team is part of a powerful conspiracy meant to keep operatives like him silent—permanently.

While the politicians on both sides negotiate, the armies in the field are fighting a brutal war of attrition across the rugged Korean Peninsula. Sniper Caje Cole and his squad have one clear objective, which is to capture the next hill and keep it from falling back into enemy hands. That’s not easy when the enemy still attacks in overwhelming numbers. At the Battle of Triangle Hill, the soldiers find themselves in a stalemate with Chinese forces, fighting to capture and then regain a strategic foothold.

Deacon Cole and his rifle face off against a cruel Japanese commandant while liberating Allied POWs from a remote jungle prison camp. Before Deke and Patrol Easy can get there, they must continue the battle for Leyte in the Philippines across rice fields and roads still held by the enemy....

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.

The fight for victory in the Pacific continues; this time at Leyte in the Philippines. Deacon Cole and the rest of Patrol Easy are sent as an advance unit to help crack the formidable Japanese defenses before the American invasion. To make the mission even more difficult, the Japanese have deadly snipers of their own. If Deke and the others can’t help bring down the enemy defenses in time, there will be a terrible price to pay when US troops hit the beach.

Patrol Easy finds itself divided as the battle rages for the Philippines. One group of snipers sets sail for yet another beach landing on the far side of the Leyte peninsula. Crack shot Deacon Cole joins a unit fighting its way across the jungle interior, where he encounters not just the enemy but also a nasty tropical fever.

In December 1941, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunges the United States into war. Fresh from the hardscrabble mountains of Appalachia, Deacon Cole joins the fight against Imperial Japan. In his first test against the enemy, he will use all his skill with a rifle against a deadly Japanese marksman. Across the beaches and jungles, they take part in the savage battle for control of a Pacific island. Can he protect his squad, or will they fall, one by one, under the enemy’s crosshairs?

December 1944. As German forces launch a massive surprise attack through the frozen Ardennes Forest, two snipers find themselves aiming for a rematch. Caje Cole is a backwoods hunter from the Appalachian Mountains of the American South, while Kurt Von Stenger is the deadly German "Ghost Sniper". Having been in each other's crosshairs before, they fight a final duel during Germany's desperate attempt to turn the tide of war in what will come to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. Can the hunter defeat the marksman?

WWII sniper Caje Cole embarks on a rescue mission behind the new Iron Curtain for American POWs held as political pawns by Russian forces. To free them, he will have to defeat his deadliest adversary yet, the Red Sniper. The brutal Russian believes that he can outgun anyone, but he hasn't met the likes of this backwoods hunter and marksman.

Sniper Caje Cole thought he was done with war after the victory in Europe, but a violent act of justice back home in the mountains forces him into the Army once more to fight in the Korean War. Cole just wants to lay low and get through this war so that he can return to his solitary life in a cabin that he built deep in the woods. However, with his unit surrounded at the frigid Chosin Reservoir and confronted by a deadly enemy sniper, Cole must use all his skill with a rifle to fight back.

June 6, 1944. On the dawn of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, two snipers find themselves fighting a battle all their own. One is a backwoods hunter from the Appalachian Mountains in the American South, while the other is the dreaded German "Ghost Sniper" who earned his nickname on the Eastern Front. Locked in a deadly duel across the hedgerow country of France, the hunter matches wits and tactics against the marksman, both of them one bullet away from victory or defeat as Allied forces struggle to gain a foothold in Europe.

Summer 1944. When German sniper Dieter Rohde's older brother is unjustly shot for desertion by the SS, he will stop at nothing to win the Iron Cross medal and redeem his family's name by targeting as many Allied troops as possible. Rohde's deadly efforts bring him into direct confrontation with American sniper Caje Cole as the final pitched battle for France takes place around them at the Falaise Pocket.

Un encargo editorial pone a Alejandra Varela, especialista en arte urbano, tras la pista de Sniper, un reconocido artista del grafiti, promotor de acciones callejeras al límite de la legalidad -algunas de ellas con resultados fatales- del que casi nadie ha visto jamás el rostro ni conoce el paradero. La búsqueda conducirá a la protagonista de Madrid a Lisboa, y de ahí a Verona y Nápoles en su intento por descifrar cuál es el objetivo al que apunta la mira mortal del cazador solitario.

Als es tschetschenischen Terroristen gelingt, eine russische Kofferatombombe nach Amerika zu schmuggeln, bricht Panik aus: Die nukleare Zerstörung einer großen Stadt steht bevor. Aber niemand weiß, welche das Ziel sein soll.Schließlich ruft der Präsident Gil Shannon und sein todbringendes Scharfschützen-Team zu Hilfe. Den Männern bleibt jedoch kaum noch Zeit.

Noah Lindt heard the call of duty after the tragic events of 9/11. Despite a hampering medical condition that kept him on the outskirts of his high school class, he was accepted into the Marines where he found out he had a singular skill. He could outshoot almost anyone. Marksmanship alone is not enough to be a successful scout sniper. Teamwork and mental discipline are paramount, and the self-professed loner has problems adjusting to his spotter as well as the rest of his platoon when they deploy to Ramadi, "the most dangerous city on earth".

Als der Navy SEAL Scharfschütze Gil Shannon ins Fadenkreuz eines tschetschenischen Terroristen gerät, der unter dem Namen "Der Wolf" agiert, wird er vom Jäger zum Gejagten. Doch in Paris bietet sich eine überraschende Chance: Shannon verbündet sich mit einem tödlichen russischen Spezial-Kämpfer gegen den Wolf - und nach einer Verfolgung durch ganz Europa kommt es im Gebirge des Kaukasus zum Showdown der Scharfschützen.

Navy SEAL sniper Gil Shannon comes face-to-face with his most dangerous adversary yet in the breathtakingly cinematic new Sniper Elite military thriller from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper—the critically acclaimed memoir of Chris Kyle that inspired the Academy...

A top-secret band of elite warriors are forced to take a side in the Mexican drug wars in this “gripping, fast-paced adventure” (Dan Hampton, New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot) of the Sniper Elite series from the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper...

From the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper comes a gripping military action thriller, inspired by true events, about a Navy SEAL sniper leading a daring special ops rescue mission to save a downed female pilot from Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. ONE TEAM. ONE SHOT...