Resultados para "Tin" en Militar

Jakob og Emmanuelle er begge overlevende fra de tyske koncentrationslejre, og efter krigen rejser de til New York, hvor de slår sig ned. For ikke at blive adskilt, gifter de sig og sætter sig for at arbejde hårdt på at komme væk fra Lower East Side og dårligt betalte jobs. Gennem årene skaber Jakob en stor formue, og han kan give deres søn, Max, alt det, som han selv og Emmanuelle blev berøvet i lejrene. Selvom Max gerne vil følge i sin fars fodspor og skabe sin egen succes, er modstanden stor og udfordringerne mange.

Imagine drowning in your own sadness, screaming silently into the void, but no one notices. No one hears. Not until the echo of the gunshot rips through the air, sharp and final. Only then do they stop, their laughter caught in their throats, their smiles fading. Only then do they look back, piecing together the fragments they ignored, whispering “Why didn’t we see it?”

There are levels to survival. Things you swear you’ll never accept—until you do. Until you have to. Honor was supposed to mean something, wasn’t it? But honor doesn’t quiet the cries of a child in the dead of night. Justice doesn’t pay the bills piling up on the counter. Morality doesn’t patch together a home that’s already frayed at the edges. So, the lies were swallowed. The shame. The betrayal. The late nights filled with secrets and cold, hollow excuses. The chains of addiction that dragged everything further into the dark.

Ted Bronsky is an ex-marine, and ex-husband and will soon become an ex-employee if he doesn't get on board his sleazy boss's new plan. He is a quiet, patient man who takes life's punches on the chin and never returns them until dead women begin turning up downstream of his favorite running spot. When his loved ones are threatened by the ghosts of his past, he turns into someone he doesn't recognize. Despite struggling with PTSD and migraines from his last deployment in Afghanistan, he manages to uncover the filthy politics at play in the cut-throat world of upper-echelon military advancement.

Experience the exciting breadth of #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins’s wild imagination and adventurous spirit in this anthology of his short masterworks, including a new full-length novella featuring Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog, Kane, as well as eleven...