Résultats pour "Vendetta" dans Historique

Betrayal. Murder. Revenge. Just another day in medieval Italy. The year is 1377. Angelo Anchioni has served in the Hospitaller Order for fourteen years. Determination, diligence and skill have made him a squire, but he remains unaware of the evil that those closest to him have within them. Returning home after a long absence, he finds his beloved family has been savagely murdered by the fickle decree of Bernabo Visconti, the lord of Milan and one of the most powerful men in Europe.

Ethan Kane’s quest for the Solakari legacy leads him onto the perilous Natchez Trace in 1825. He hunts the outlaw Blackjack Stark, who unknowingly holds an ancient Bible containing a coded Solakari vellum. After a deadly confrontation where new ally Sally McGill avenges her family on Stark, Ethan recovers the Bible. Aided by the forgotten scholar Alaric Thorne, he deciphers the vellum, revealing a path to a lost Spanish presidio in Tejas.

Cos'hanno in comune Abel Rosnovski, un trovatello nato in Polonia alla vigilia delle invasioni tedesca e russa e cresciuto come un figlio da un barone, e William Kane, rampollo di una ricca famiglia di banchieri americani? Nulla, eccezione fatta per l'età. E per la perdita prematura del padre, che Abel non ha mai conosciuto e che William ha salutato prima che si imbarcasse sul Titanic nel suo viaggio inaugurale. Solo il destino può incrociarne le strade.

The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon the disagreement is all but forgotten...until the following morning’s newspaper headlines reveal that the Englishman has been murdered.

Bari, Italy, present day. Think tank Special Ops leader Timothy Stryker and his wife Angie, a self-made CEO, haven’t exactly been seeing eye-to-eye. They take a much-needed Italian holiday, but it comes to a shocking end when Angie and their daughter are kidnapped.

London, 1558. Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth's intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil, and archrival Robert Dudley.

Ike Swift travels to New York's Chinatown where he describes the rise and fall of "The Queen of Chinatown".