War & Military
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

The other method was to place a flat-headed nail on the victim's skull and then, with one massive blow of the palm, drive the nail six inches into the skull. ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2006-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

THE NOTE came well after dark. Sharpe was waiting with his men in an empty stall of the embassy stables. His five men were all in cheap civilian clothes and ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-30 | Author:William Dietrich

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO If the hold of Dragut’s ship had been claustrophobic, and the slave market of Tripoli wretched, Omar’s dungeon was infinitely worse. Its tunnels had been hewn by Carthaginians, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Donald Hamilton [Hamilton, Donald]

Chapter XIII The Voyager Club is to Montreal, I guess, what Stallmästaregãrden is to Stockholm or Antoine's is to New Orleans- to drop the names of a couple of classy ...
( Category: Conspiracies March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Larry Bond [Bond, Larry]

Vidchenko almost rubbed his eyes in disbelief. They were manning the rails! Ships usually did this to honor a high-ranking officer, but this was a working visit, not some ceremonial ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Larry Bond [Bond, Larry]

“Son,” growled Reynolds menacingly, “talk like that will get back to Boreas. And if he doesn’t find you pure of heart, he may not let you in, and then you’ll ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Larry Bond [Bond, Larry]

“I understand, sir, but it also warns the other side. I don’t like telling them what we know.” “Concealment is not always the best course.” “General, this is about more ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Strauss, Barry [Strauss, Barry]

Spartacus’s men used what look like similar raft-building techniques, maybe as a result of recruiting local helpers. The fish-rich waters of the strait surely employed many boat-builders. A contemporary source ...
( Category: War & Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]

THE WATCHER Let us look upon this head,” his prince commanded. Areo Hotah ran his hand along the smooth shaft of his longaxe, his ash-and-iron wife, all the while watching. ...
( Category: Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Cherie Priest [Priest, Cherie]

OUR PLAYERS ARE COMPELLED TO COLLABORATE 8 Hainey swung himself into the captain’s chair and snarled when a hail of bullets struck the windshield—chipping it here and nicking it there, ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Two different Carthaginian commanders, Himlico and Maharbal, were credited with defeating barbarian tribes with poisoned wine. According to Polyaenus, Himilco, a “pertinacious soldier” who owed most of his victories to ...
( Category: War & Military March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1983-05-31 | Author:Roderick Thorp

... 3:10 A.M., PST ... He continued going up. Karl had prevailed and they were after him in earnest. With Leland dead, they had control. His leg muscles were cramping ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Eight Alfred was buried. The burial took five hours of praying, chanting, weeping, and preaching. The old king had been placed in an elm coffin painted with scenes from the ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

There were six of us: the man who poled the punt, Iseult and I, two of the newly arrived household troops, and Alfred. I tried once again to make him ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 2009-05-25 | Author:Robert Buettner

I ran toward the sound of Aud’s shout, Jude alongside me. FIFTY-SIX AUD PLANCK STOOD IN THE DOORWAY of a room in the camp commandant’s quarters hut as I ran ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 25,2014 )