Resultados para "Thief" en Aventura

The Hesgyr are thieves. Scavengers, to hear their victims tell it; repurposers by their own reckoning. As Chief of Intelligence for Non-Anaden Affairs, Eren Savitas' job is to protect the Advocacy from all manner of alien threats: sabotage, assassination, insurgency and, way down the list, theft. So when he spots a Hesgyr running off with valuable technology, he follows the alien home—and discovers a civilization unlike any he's ever encountered.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant’s Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New York City! What’s the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Pop - a role made for Walter Matthau - is on top of it...and better stay there, because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks, his job will disappear as well - and land in the hands of the newspaper publisher’s son-in-law.

Robert Orhe is the Thief of Faces, a man who can change his appearance at will. In the cutthroat world of political journalism, it’s easy to succeed when you can be whoever people want you to be. But when a routine investigation unearths a terrifying secret, Robert stumbles into a conspiracy beyond belief. An alien race, the Follen, has infiltrated the highest levels of the British Government, manipulating global affairs from the shadows. Now hunted by unseen enemies and betrayed by those he trusted, Robert must survive with nothing but his wits and his gift.

Jack Bishop is desperate to get back to Earth. When a Krettelian slave sneaks aboard their ship and promises Jack a way home in exchange for her people’s freedom, he jumps at the offer…even if it means betraying one of the most powerful races in the galaxy. Following a secret meeting on the Mansa homeworld, Jack agrees to risk his life stealing a Solar Core for the Krettelian resistance. He sneaks on board a cargo ship chartered for a new colony, but the heist is sabotaged…and now a whole empire wants him dead. Can Jack use the Core to save humanity? Or did he just condemn it?

When linguist and smuggler Sean Wren is blackmailed into a job to get some data off an ancient ship, he's not expecting it to be the Philosopher's Stone: a literal recipe for immortality. Unfortunately, he's not the only one looking. The undying Ministers, mysterious aliens that have ruled over humanity for thousands of years, want the data too. So does the Republic, the last free human government. To add to the fun, the map to the treasure is in a long-lost language, the ship's filled with dangerous traps and genetically engineered monsters.

Hiro’s parents rearrange the furniture every December. They make space in the corner for something tall. They plug in string lights and leave them on the floor. Sometimes, they cut down a tree but don’t know what to do with it. It’s not just Hiro’s parents. Everyone does it. Come January, they all straighten up their living rooms and everything goes back to normal. They do this every year. No one knows why. Something’s missing, and they all feel it, but they never wonder what it is. And every year that passes, the world becomes colder and grayer. Until Hiro has a dream.