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In this compelling new installment of bestseller Ralph Compton's The Gunfighters series, a man driven by the destruction of his family seeks to protect a woman and her children from a band of desperados. John Stockbridge was once a peaceful man of medicine. Now, he's better known as Dr. Vengeance, a man who is as fast with a shotgun as any other gunfighter is with a six-gun. The murders of his wife and child left him with an aching hole where his soul once was. His only solace comes from wandering the West. Along the way, he encounters a woman and her two children searching for their missing fur-trapper husband/father in the Rockies. In the process, they run afoul of some foul former Confederates who have amassed money and local power by robbing those traveling west through a mountain pass. While searching for the missing trapper -- and aided by a Mexican mountain man and an independent woman who works at the local hotel-- Stockbridge must take down the vicious highwaymen one by one.

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After years of fending off challenges from the world's most dangerous terrorists, Op-Centre has been brought to heel by the US Congress. A short-sighted committee has cut Paul Hood's budget, and the first victim is his friend Mike Rodgers. But General Rodgers may not be looking for work for very long. Dynamic Senator Donald Orr is making a run for President at the head of his own third party. Running on a platform of extreme isolationism, Orr presents a real challenge to the two-party system, and he needs a strong military advisor to make his team complete. The problem is that Orr may be involved in more than just ordinary political intrigue. The bodies of two murdered millionaires may be tied into the new party, and Op-Centre is seeking the killer.

The explosion of a Chinese freighter–carrying illegal workers–in Charleston Harbor is the first sign that someone is capping Chinese interests abroad. After explosions in South Africa and Taipei, Op-Center roots out the cause: warring factions in the Chinese government. But still reeling from budget cuts and an almost devastating attack by an electromagnetic pulse explosion, Op-Center itself sustains a third hit: the removal of Commander Paul Hood, replaced by a three-star general from the Army. Op-Center is now under the control of the Pentagon. Hood's own future exists at the whim of the new President. And the world braces for more attacks….

In this thrilling new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's The Gunfighter series, a man wakes with no memory of who he is—or why someone wants him dead. A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. He has no recollection of how he got there, or even his own name. He's a dead man walking until his luck turns. He stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son who nurse him back to health. But in the desert good deeds come at a cost. The amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn't have. First a group of gunslingers, then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family. Their only hope of rescue is the very man who got them in this predicament. But how can he help them when he doesn't even know who he is? At least the men who want to kill him seem to know his name. Maybe they'll put it on his gravestone.

As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing’s top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes from multiple embassies in Washington, D.C. The Chinese squad has also infiltrated American intelligence and is aware of every move Black Wasp makes. Complicating matters, the new president of the United States seems willing to let Op Center take the fall for the mission that precipitated the crisis. The shocking murder of one of their own forces the surviving team members to seek both a safe haven and an ally in the fight for survival -- an unexpected partner who might, in fact, be part of the problem.

The B-3 is one of the US Air Force's most high-tech bombers, practically terrorist-proof, manned only by their finest pilots, until one night it is forced down in the middle of the Utah desert, and its lethal nuclear warheads seized by terrorists.

On the surface it seems a simple case: a group of African militiamen have kidnapped a priest and ordered all Catholic missionaries to leave the nation of Botswana. But the Vatican thinks otherwise. At its urging, Op-Centre investigates – and finds that the real purpose of the crime is a plan by outside forces to destabilize the government and seize the nation's diamond mines. With its military team, Striker, out of commission, Op-Centre must reinvent itself – and head straight into the crossfire of an African war.A powerful profile of America's defence, intelligence and crisis management technology, Tom Clancy's Op-Centre is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik – inspiring this and other gripping novels.

"When the launch of [a] powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dáayâou, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested--unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-Center's Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo reconnaissance mission, but when she sees an opportunity to free the imprisoned scientist, she seizes it. With Lt. Lee on the run and the Chinese military at her heels, Director Chase Williams sends the rest of Op-Center to Mongolia as an extraction team"--

Op-Center is the nation's heart of intelligence and crisis management. Sometimes, it's the only place our government can turn.

It's a mission that only Striker - the military arm of Op-Center - can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America's most proficient covert team is trapped in a full-fledged war. Their fate rests in the hands of a devious double agent whose own agenda is unknown - a man who could just as easily sell them out as set them free...

In this thrilling installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series, a small ranch owner drives his herd into Mexico and is startled to find that human life comes cheaper than beef on the hoof. Andrew Buchanan has a problem. His modest ranch in Southern California is being pressured by an unscrupulous competitor and the encroaching wave of the future--orange growers. The only chance he has to sell his cattle for real money is to take them south into Mexico.The Empire Trail is five hundred miles of misery that crosses scorching deserts and clings to treacherous cliffs--and it's Andrew's job to find the best way across. But physical barriers are not the only thing he must contend with. A group of dangerous men are trailing the herd, determined to take the cattle or die trying.But this is Andrew's livelihood that hangs in the balance, and he won't go down without a fight.

"In this action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation. Military veterans and high-tech specialists, they've begun a savage war from public assassinations of politicians and celebrities to high-profile bombings, striking without warning or mercy. The Black Order wants nothing less than complete capitulation from the US government, giving them free rein to make their ideologies the law of the land. Only Op-Center's Black Wasp, a skilled team of military operatives answerable to the President, can defeat these militant revolutionaries. But even as Admiral Chase Williams and his agents force them on the run, the Black Order possesses a weapon of mass destruction that they will not hesitate to unleash against millions of innocent civilians"-- Provided by publisher

Shadowy elements within the State Department secretly cause tensions to flare between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. They hope to start a shooting war to increase their own power and profit.At the same time, the conspirators decide to up the ante --- by deposing the president of the United States. In a treacherous scheme, they convince the president that he is mentally unstable, and a silent coup d'etat is within their reach.Now, Paul Hood and the members of Op-Center must race against the clock to prevent the outbreak of war, save the honor of the president --- and expose the traitors ...

The eighth volume in the fast-selling series of high-tech, high-action thrillers centred on Washington's National Crisis Management Centre. schovat popis

The first volume in the bestselling series of high-tech, high-action thrillers created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik -- repackaged in a stunning new-look cover.

Attempting to establish a democratic regime, the post-cold war president of Russia is confronted by the mafia and a group of right-wing nationalists, and the Op-Center crisis management team discovers a new enemy.

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After an intelligence failure at Op-Center results in a major terrorist attack, director Chase Williams radically transforms the agency into a groundbreaking mobile strike force in Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Sting of the Wasp.It's a beautiful day in Manhattan as excited tourists board the floating Air & Space Museum on the USS Intrepid--until a horrible explosion rips across the flight deck, showering the body parts of innocent people everywhere. The perpetrator is a Middle Eastern mastermind whose previous terrorism plot was foiled at the last minute by Op-Center."Military action fans will be rewarded." --Publishers WeeklyBack in Washington, Chase Williams has been put in charge of a brand-new, top-secret organization known only as Black Wasp. Its members, all chosen for their unique set of specialized black-ops skills--martial arts expert Lieutenant Grace Lee, sharpshooter Lance Corporal Jaz Rivette, and JAG attorney and criminologist Major Hamilton Breen--have been assigned to bring the terrorist to justice. But when a terrifying conspiracy involving the creation of a new Islamic State is uncovered, Chase and his team become America's only line of defense against a ruthless enemy bent on global destruction."Thriller addicts like me devour every Op-Center tale...highly recommended." --Stephen Coonts

When Syrian terrorists attack a dam in Turkey to threaten the water supply and force all-out war in the Middle East, the new online Regional Op-Center in Greece learns of the plan and launches a counterstrike. Original.

In Jeff Rovin's Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War, after the devastating outbreak of a killer super virus, the Black Wasp Team must prevent America's enemies from gaining access to the most dangerous weapon the world has ever seen. The passengers and crew on an Airbus en route to Australia suddenly begin coughing up blood and hemorrhaging violently as the plane plunges to the ground. There are no survivors. A luxury yacht in the South Indian Sea blows up, and a lone woman escapes the contagion that has inexplicably killed everyone else on the boat. A helicopter whose occupants have been stricken by an unknown illness crashes into a bridge in South Africa, killing motorists and pedestrians. The world is facing a devastating bio-terror event, and a game of brinksmanship gets underway as the major powers jockey for position: China sends a naval flotilla to seek the source of the plague and find a way to weaponize it, while Russia maneuvers quietly on the sidelines to seize the deadly prize in its quest to regain an empire. Back in Washington D.C., Chase Williams and his top-secret Black Wasp special ops team must find out who is behind these deadly attacks before war is unleashed—and millions of innocent lives are lost.

Iconic "X-Files" star Gillian Anderson and "New York Times" bestseller Jeff Rovin team up in this 'gripping' thriller ("Publisher Weekly") that follows a brilliant child psychologist on her quest to save her young patient - and the world. The daughter of India's ambassador to the United Nations starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. A young Haitian girl claws at her throat, apparently drowning on dry land. An Iranian boy suddenly sets himself on fire. Called to treat Maanik, the ambassador's daughter, renowned child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara is sure the fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father - a shooting that has escalated nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan - but when teenagers around the world start having similar outbursts, Caitlin is forced to consider a more sinister force at work. Caitlin must now race across the globe to identify the links connecting these bizarre incidents in order to save Maanik - whose very soul might be in peril - and perhaps the world.

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Re-animation, the science of bringing dead creatures back to life, is Herbert West's dream. West tests his secret life-rejuvenating potion on some cooperative corpses at a local morgue. It's a success! But only a temporary one - as the dead spring to life, reacting violently to their re-animation. Zombies are loose and now West cannot control the very beasts he has re-created. The born-again dead are unstoppable, even severed body parts take on life like so many split worms! Herbert West has a serious problem - will he become the first in a new breed of headhunters or all of his woes coming to a head? Re-Animator - an intense book of macabre humor. Based on the screenplay by Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris and Stuart Gordon.

The Ops-Center team faces untold chaos on a mission in Africa in the ninth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series created by Tom Clancy and former Department of State official Steve Pieczenik. On the surface it seems a simple case: a group of African militiamen have kidnapped a priest and ordered all Catholic missionaries to leave the nation of Botswana. But the Vatican thinks otherwise. At its urging, Op-Center investigates—and finds out that the real purpose of the crime is a plan by outside forces to destabilize the government and seize the nation’s diamond mines. With its military team, Striker, out of commission, Op-Center must reinvent itself—and head straight into the crossfire of an African war.

The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian mafia, the right wing nationalists, and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. Op-Center, the newly-founded but highly successful crisis management team, begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart . . . but this one's controlled by those same repressive hardliners and represents everything Op-Center stands for. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirror images of each other. But if this mirror cracks, it'll be more than seven years of bad luck . . .

The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian mafia, the right wing nationalists, and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. Op-Center, the newly-founded but highly successful crisis management team, begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart . . . but this one's controlled by those same repressive hardliners and represents everything Op-Center stands for. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirror images of each other. But if this mirror cracks, it'll be more than seven years of bad luck . . .

Wanneer - waar dan ook ter wereld - een conflict dreigt uit te groeien tot een wereldcrisis, komt Op-Center in actie. Onder zenuwslopende omstandigheden coordineert directeur Paul Hood de interactie tussen het computercentrum en het veldteam. Militaire bliksemacties ter plekke, geregisseerd door de meest geavanceerde computertechnologie ter wereld.

Wanneer een conflict dreigt uit te groeien tot een wereldcrisis, komt Op-Center in actie. In Contra-Commando wordt het team geconfronteerd met de chaos in het Rusland van nu. Tegengewerkt door criminele en reactionaire machtsblokken - de meedogenloze mafia, de ultrarechtse nationalisten en de neo-tsaristen - tracht de Russische president een nieuwe democratische orde op te bouwen. Ter bestrijding van deze machtige krachten wordt het Op-Center-team ingezet. Een zware taak, temeer daar al snel blijkt dat deze zelfde krachten over een goed georganiseerde, nietsontziende contra-organisatie beschikken...

Con ocasión del 48 cumpleaños de Nicholas Van Orton, un empresario de éxito, su hermano Conrad le regala una suscripción para un club muy especial cuyo principal atractivo es participar en un emocionante juego. Nicholas acepta, pero el juego no es nada divertido: para empezar amenaza su vida, invade su casa y su empresa, controla sus movimientos y sus finanzas. Al principio lo desconcierta, pero pronto lo aterroriza. Nicholas quiere salirse pero no sabe como hacerlo. Conrad admite que él tampoco lo ha conseguido y que, en realidad, le obligaron a suscribir a Nicholas... Una historia escalofriante, protagonizada por Michael Douglas y Sean Penn, y dirigida por el creador de Seven.

Botswana. Porywacze, którzy uprowadzili katolickiego księdza, żądają, by misjonarze opuścili kraj. Lecz Watykan nie zamierza ustąpić. Zleca Centrum Szybkiego Reagowania misję: odkryć, co naprawdę kryje się za porwaniem. Ale żeby zniweczyć groźny plan, komandosi muszą przeprowadzić straceńczą akcję w sercu afrykańskiej wojny...

Bizarre Überfälle erschüttern New York: Obdachlose werden ermordet in einem U-Bahntunnel aufgefunden, unschuldige Spaziergänger zerfleischt und Menschen in Aufzügen tödlich attackiert. Millionen von Fledermäusen sind in Manhattan eingefallen auf der Jagd nach frischem Blut. Dr. Nancy Joyce, eine attraktive junge Frau, die im Museum für Naturgeschichte arbeitet und zudem Fledermaus-Expertin ist, wird von dem schroffen Oberinspektor Robert Gentry um Hilfe gebeten. Und binnen kurzem müssen sie feststellen, dass die Anführer der Massaker zwei Monster-Fledermäuse mit einer unfassbaren Flügelspannweite sind ...

Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik are About to Declare War on the Competition. . . . THE OBJECTIVE : A fourth consecutive New York Times bestseller for Tom Clancy's Op-Center THE HARDWARE: A blockbuster thriller armed with cutting-edge technology (a.k.a. everything a Clancy fan wants) THE PREDICTION: A SLAM-DUNKIn Tom Clancy's all-new, original novel, OP-CENTER: Acts of War , Syrian terrorists have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatening the water supply of their very homeland. It is not insanity, but the first step in a deceptively simple plan: to force all-out war in the Middle East. What they don't know is that a new Regional Op-Center is now on-line in Greece, and its team can see exactly what the rebels are trying to do. But these terrorists are more resourceful than anyone thinks.

Que peut-on offrir à l'homme qui a déjà tout ? Une participation au " Jeu " ! C'est le cadeau d'anniversaire que Nicholas Van Orton vient de recevoir de son jeune frère...Un cadeau empoisonné car, en quoi consiste ce mystérieux " jeu " dont il sait seulement qu'il va bientôt commencer ? Très vite, Nicholas se retrouve traqué. On lui fournit bien quelques indices, mais il ne comprend pas à quoi ils correspondent. Puis les gens en qui il a le plus confiance deviennent... différents. Ils l'évitent, lui mentent, le manipulent, jusqu'à ce qu'il ait le sentiment que sa vie est menacée... Cette fois, le jeu a vraiment commencé ! Mais est-ce bien un jeu ? Ou quelque piège diabolique ? Un thriller haletant, mis en scène par David Fincher, le réalisateur de "Seven" avec Michael Douglas et Sean Penn.

Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers becomes involved in activities on the wrong side of the law. When their tour of duty ends, the mayhem begins. Calling themselves the "Keepers," the rogue soldiers -- outfitted with stolen U.N. arms and ammunition -- devise a shocking scheme to get the world's attention... Meanwhile, Op-Center head Paul Hood has cleared out his desk. But his retirement is short-lived. Demanding one hundred million dollars in ransom, the Keepers have taken over the U.N. -- where ambassadors from ten nations have gathered for a gala function at which Hood's daughter will perform. This time the Keepers have made it personal. And the Op-Center forces will strike with deadly vengeance...

Continues author's popular thriller series. Others in series I/S.

Wanneer - waar dan ook ter wereld - een conflict dreigt uit te groeien tot een wereldcrisis, komt Op-Center in actie. Onder zenuwslopende omstandigheden coördineert directeur Paul Hood de interactie tussen het computercentrum en het veldteam. Militaire bliksemacties ter plekke, geregistreerd door de meest geavanceerde computertechnologie ter wereld.

The Striker team is sent in to capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion in the Indian government and gets caught up in a full-scale war.

Aux confins de l'Europe et de l'Asie, la région de la mer Caspienne est une zone stratégique. Un no man's land dont les gisements pétrolifères suscitent depuis toujours l'extrême convoitise de l'Azerbaïdjan et de l'Iran, sous 1'œil attentif de la Russie et des États-Unis. Une contrée idéale pour allumer une guerre... Justement, des terroristes font sauter une plate-forme iranienne au large de Bakou. Pour enrayer l'implacable mécanisme des alliances et éviter un conflit mondial, la cellule antiterroriste Op-Center devra faire preuve de sang-froid. Surtout quand les terroristes tentent de provoquer le chaos et d'affaiblir le président des Etats-Unis... Et qu'ils agissent dans le secret même de la Maison Blanche !

Psychoterapeutka Sára žije sama s matkou v malém městečku Delwood, které skrývá pod zdánlivě poklidným povrchem mnohá tajemství. Ta se týkají soukromých životů obyvatel města a Sára může nahlížet do jejich nitra a slyšet to, co jiným zůstává skryto. Mezi její pacienty patří i dospívající Frederik, jehož problémy jsou hlubší a je za nimi něco víc než snaha prvoplánově šokovat. Vytvořil si svůj vlastní mystický svět, v němž mohou hrát roli tajemné síly i vztahy, které se vymykají z běžných konvencí. Snaha odkrýt Frederikovo tajemství vede k tomu, že Sára je vtažena do složité hry, v níž bude bojovat o svou profesní čest i vlastní duši se silami, jejichž existenci by ve své racionální mysli nebyla schopna připustit.