Résultats pour "Richard III." dans Fiction historique

Relieved that Lorkin is coming home, Sonea prepares to meet with the traitors on behalf of the Guild. Then bad news arrives: The Sachakan king has imprisoned her son.

As the Sachakan king tries to force Lorkin into betraying the traitors, Dannyl questions his friendship with Ashaki Achati. Can he trust the Sachakan? Not at all, if Tayend is right. But do Tayend’s suspicions spring from good political instincts, or jealousy? Easily evading capture by the Guild, the Rogue knows only one obstacle lies between him and his ambition to rule the underworld: Cery.

Kidnap, murder, slander and a legend unearthed.1483: King Edward IV dies, leaving two innocent young princes in line to the throne. But when scandal and conspiracy explodes around their claim, Richard of Gloucester is proclaimed king. Shortly after, the princes vanish, and storm clouds begin to gather around the newly crowned King Richard III.Fighter, philanderer and royal spy Henry Morane is tasked with investigating the princes' disappearance, the attempted kidnap of the exiled Lancastrian leader Henry Tudor and the hunting out of traitors amid Richard's supporters.

Contains books three and four of the Richard Jackson Saga, a coming-of-age adventure series: Hollywood and In the Movies.

With the war behind them, Germans struggle to rebuild both the structures demolished in the war, and their society decimated by the Nazis. While Willi works to rebuild the civilian police a serial killer targets young women in both the Western and Eastern zones. At the same time, Major Ross, now fully engaged in US intelligence, is ensnared in the growing conflict between the Russians and their Western allies. Entangled with a female Russian defector, she demands Ross provide both security and, in her words, comfort during this trying moment in her life.

In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief - and the warrior woman he may never possess - are disgusted by their Chief's lust for tribute. Now even the gods have turned their faces, closing the underworld to the seers. If the gods have abandoned the people, there is no hope - unless it comes in the form of a young girl who is learning to Dream of Power.

The army is no place for being idle. A bad soldier is one who can't get this into his head; one who'll do anything to get out of work, who's forever looking for a quiet corner where he can sit and do nothing. But Konstantin was not that soldier. Konstantin was always looking for ways to make...

Back in London, Gideon and his colleagues: journalist Aloysius Bent, airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, and Maria, the mechanical girl to whom Gideon has lost his heart, are dragged into a case that is confounding the Metropolitan Police. For the city is on the edge of mass rioting due to the continuing reign of terror by the serial killer known only as Jack the Ripper, who is rampaging though London's less salubrious quarters. 

Hunted by an ungrateful Persian royal family, the rogue agents Samuel and Mehrnaz are on the run to escape the empire they formerly served. Their destination (if they live to see it): the distant fabled land of India. There, on the far side of the Indus, the agents find ancient perils have returned in the weapons-blasted desert left behind by the earth-shattering Mahabharata War. Nightmarish creatures that have grown giant and twisted hunt down their human prey, while other animals have metamorphosized into something stranger still.

Whip Station, a critical stop on the Butterfield stagecoach line, is dead smack in the middle of no-man's land. The lawless call it an easy target. Joe O'Malley calls it home. If anybody can tame a wild, violent territory, it's the seasoned frontiersman. So can his family, who have with the same pride and honor coursing through their veins. Helping to plant roots is his son Jackson, a former wrangler married to a steadying force of nature. Joe's grandchildren have their own brand of grit. The boy - a firebrand with a knife. The girl - book-smart and wicked-wise. 

October 1, 1890. Colonel Annika Wise is stranded in time. After Kyle Mason and Padma Mahajan return to the year 2008, Annika is stuck in 1890s Deadwood, unable to escape. After the punishing defeat of the US Army at the Massacre of Grand River, the military will stop at nothing to exact revenge on Annika and her Lakota allies.

Die junge Lizzie Spence träumt davon, Schauspielerin zu werden. Sie beschließt, von zuhause wegzulaufen und ihr Glück in einem der unzähligen Theater im Londoner West End zu suchen. Dort verschwindet sie spurlos. Harry und Kat werden auf den Fall aufmerksam und machen sich auf die Suche nach dem vermissten Mädchen. Ein glamouröses Ermittlerduo, ungewöhnliche Verbrechen, schnelle Autos, schicke Kleider und rauchende Revolver - das ist Mydworth, die neue Serie von Matthew Costello und Neil Richards, den Autoren der britischen Erfolgsserie Cherringham.

The territorial governor has sent three lawmen to clean up the mess that is Chico, New Mexico - and not one of those lawmen has made it out alive. A crooked sheriff has the terrified denizens of Chico under his boot heel, so the governor turns to John Henry Sixkiller, sending him undercover as a gunman for hire. 

When her friend, Lady Samantha, spies a rather handsome groom from her bedchamber window, Lady Julia agrees the man is far too handsome to be a groom. "He could be a gentleman", she tells Sam, thinking it wouldn't be too difficult to teach the servant how to speak and dance and dress like a gentleman. Doubting Julia can accomplish such a task, Samantha dares her to do just that - and in time for the Mayfield ball - in just three weeks!

London, 1956. A generation of British Spies are haunted by the ghost of friends turned traitors. Henry Bone, a Mandarin spymaster, is convinced that a man code-named Butterfly is an aristocratic pervert whose political tastes are as ugly as his sexual preferences. Worst of all, Butterfly has the ability to identify each traitor!

Durch puren Zufall erfährt das FBI am 3. März um 19 Uhr abends von einem perfiden Mordanschlag auf Florentyna Kane, die amerikanische Präsidentin. Um 20.30 Uhr wissen fünf Personen alle Details - eine Stunde später sind vier von ihnen tot. Nur der Agent Mike Andrews bleibt übrig. Er hat genau sieben Tage Zeit, das Attentat zu verhindern. Andrews kann sich niemandem anvertrauen, denn der unbekannte Täter scheint aus den eigenen Reihen zu kommen. Und die Frau, die er liebt, ist die Tochter des hauptverdächtigen Senators.

Durch puren Zufall erfährt das FBI am 3. März um 19 Uhr abends von einem perfiden Mordanschlag auf Florentyna Kane, die amerikanische Präsidentin. Um 20.30 Uhr wissen fünf Personen alle Details - eine Stunde später sind vier von ihnen tot. Nur der Agent Mike Andrews bleibt übrig. Er hat genau sieben Tage Zeit, das Attentat zu verhindern. Andrews kann sich niemandem anvertrauen, denn der unbekannte Täter scheint aus den eigenen Reihen zu kommen. Und die Frau, die er liebt, ist die Tochter des hauptverdächtigen Senators.

The little town of No-Name, Colorado is jubilant when they strike gold there, until every no-account degenerate and desperado for hundreds of miles shows up on their doorstep. It's up to mountain Man Smoke Jensen and his over-the-hill companions to save the town's bacon, and do their best not to get killed in the process.

Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It’s a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of 2,000 cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion — a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They’re heading to a settlement called Butcher Bottom, and risking their necks to get there. 

Wise in the ways of a lawless land, the blood brothers deal out their own brand of frontier justice. And when they ride a hot and dusty trail into Texas looking for some excitement, they find it in spades. Big John Lee owns the biggest spread west of the Pecos, but he’s hired a crowd of tough gunners to claim more than his legal share. Bodine and Sam Two Wolves decide to throw their lot in with the men of the Circle S, who were next on John Lee’s land-grabbing list. 

This latest installment in Johnstone's series about frontiersman Jamie MacCallister finds the former gunfighter, now 50, leading a serene life of retirement in Colorado even as his sons are fighting on both sides of the Civil War. Summoned to Washington, Jamie is offered the position of chief scout for the Union by Lincoln himself. But though the rugged Westerner loathes slavery, he loves states' rights more and, after a meeting with Robert E. Lee, he signs up with the Confederacy as commander of a guerrilla band.