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Aggressive, primitive and violent, the Shining Path murders in the name of freedom. Fanatical terrorists who are trying to destroy Peru's government, the Path's "low budget" warfare has suddenly turned high tech — someone is selling them state-of-the-art weapons.
Mack Bolan infiltrates the secretive group and follows an illegal arms shment straight into hell. Framed for murder, locked in a Lima prison, the American warrior struggles to complete a mission that seems to be slipping out of his control.
But the Executioner has special treatment for killers whose only reality is a smoking gun — strong medicine in a dose that will leave the Shining Path choking on its own violent prescription.
Torn by political struggles and underground revolution, the Philippines are wide open to powermongers and would-be messiahs. Now the deadliest and most elusive terrorist-bomber in the world stalks its crowded streets, plotting an act that will shake the country to its core.
Working under government cover, Mack Bolan has to infiltrate the terrorist network, find the bomber, then break him. Bolan is thrown headlong into the fire — from an unthinkable airport massacre to the steamy jungle where the heart of terrorism beats relentlessly.
In a country where white-hot violence has become almost a way of life, the Executioner is about to cause some scorching heat of his own.
A power-hungry Texas billionaire was planning to stage a revolution in Mexico. But the FBI and CIA knew only that their agents, sent to infiltrate his mysterious strike force of elite mercs, had suffered horrible deaths.
The president's decision — send in Able Team!
Breaking through the high security of the crazen Texan's base, Bolan's reborn Death Squad begins a blitzing series of combat events that bring them into the very hellheart of the drug wars of Bolivia and the Caribbean — and the sex war of the billionaire's Mexican debutante wife.
Surrounded by assassination, betrayal, and revenge, Gadgets Schwarz, Pol Blancanales and Carl Lyons must not fail — only they can stop open war between the United States and Mexico.
Seventy-two filthy, vicious motorcycle hoodlums have taken over the fantasy isle of Catalina off the coast of Los Angeles. Their hostages are the island s seventeen hundred inhabitants, cowering from the butchery.
Also kidnapped are six top government thinkers attending a secret conference. The survival of everyone is paramount to the national security experts who call in Able Team.
Lyons, Blancanales and Schwarz begin a counter-insurgency of ruthless force. The terror cyclists have done far more than trash a tourist playground. So the strategy is: smash the whole scene into shards of blazing action!
A Wall Street skyscraper had been invaded. Hostages were being held — and, with them, enough confidential banking data to imperil the entire world.
Ugly, city-wide panic was inevitable until Able Team was called in. Carl Lyons, Pol Blancanales and Gadgets Schwarz were the only possible hardmen for such a mission.
The invaders claimed to be FALN, the Puerto Rican terrorist group. But they were not who they said they were, and their huge quantity of devastating armament appeared to have come from. . . the Vietnamese.
The story exposes the ways of thinking promulgated by the Communist propaganda in 1920s and 1930s and throws in quite a few realistic facts of everyday Soviet life in those times.
Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
La más esperada novela de Arturo Pérez-Reverte podría no haber llegado nunca a las librerías. La apasionante historia con la que ratifica sus innegables dotes literarias y un magistral dominio de las técnicas narrativas quizá pudiera haberse resumido en tres minutos de música y palabras. Entonces se habría convertido en uno de los muchos corridos que cantan las "gestas" de los narcotraficantes mexicanos. Pero el escritor español más aclamado dentro y fuera de las fronteras españolas decidió alumbrar una obra inolvidable y original: un corrido de papel impreso y quinientas páginas donde relata las aventuras de una mujer legendaria: Teresa Mendoza, apodada la Reina del Sur por los periodistas y la Mejicana por los cuerpos de seguridad de tres continentes.
Al ritmo de esta peculiar canción, los lectores se van a embarcar en un viaje de ida y vuelta que dura doce años y que comienza en Culiacán, ciudad del estado mexicano de Sinaloa donde morir con violencia es morir de muerte natural, cuando la hasta entonces insignificante novia de un piloto a sueldo del cártel de Juárez se entera de que han asesinado a su hombre. Antes de saldar viejas cuentas, esta mujer va a emprender una arriesgada y fulgurante ascensión: levantará un imperio clandestino que convertirá el Estrecho de Gibraltar en la gran puerta de entrada de cocaína para el sur de Europa.
Para seguir los pasos de Teresa Mendoza y, sobre todo, para averiguar los misterios que la rodean, Arturo Pérez-Reverte ha trazado dos sendas narrativas que se alternan y convergen.
En una de ellas, se relata cronológicamente la peligrosa y fascinante vida de la protagonista; para conseguirlo, Arturo Pérez-Reverte ha superado dos retos: adoptar el punto de vista narrativo de una mujer y dotarla de una voz única, ya que Teresa Mendoza al principio apenas sabe leer y además se expresa en argot sinaloense.
En la otra, un escritor cuyo nombre nunca sabremos –aunque revele: "Ya no soy reportero. Ahora me lo invento todo y no bajo de las cuatrocientas páginas" – sigue a lo largo de ocho meses las huellas dejadas en doce años por Teresa Mendoza en México, el Norte de África y el Sur de España. Ese narrador, tras hablar con quienes la conocieron, odiaron y quisieron, es quien asegura que ha escrito un corrido.
Esta estructura narrativa, dividida en 17 capítulos encabezados por un título de canción, en modo alguno es gratuita. Al contrario, permite que el lector quede atrapado por el innegable interés que tienen las aventuras del personaje retratado –Teresa Mendoza es una heroína tan poco convencional como atractiva– y por las eficaces pesquisas que efectúa el narrador para retratarlo.
Gracias a esta doble perspectiva y a una ingente y precisa labor de documentación, Arturo Pérez-Reverte nos sumerge en un mundo que gira según reglas propias e impenetrables, donde hay traidores y corruptos a los dos márgenes de la justicia y donde la única ley que no se viola es la de la oferta y la demanda: el mundo de los narcotraficantes. Y, eso sí, sin caer en la tentación de caer en meras descripciones, sino poniendo al servicio de la trama, de una acción en muchos casos trepidante, sus conocimientos sobre los mercaderes de droga.
Les jeunes n'aiment pas lire. Et si ce n'était pas vrai ? S'il ne s'agissait que d'un amour égaré, facile à retrouver ? Détendez-vous, ceci n'est pas une dissertation sur la lecture, mais un joyeux manifeste contre la peur de lire… et le roman du lecteur que nous sommes. Par l'auteur de
For a small group of people, the dance that takes place in Perthshire in September will be a turning point in their lives. A group of people tied to each other by links of family and friendship are brought together.
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