The mission is classified . . . and illegal In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue. On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now the ultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands. As Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a top secret aircraft that has crashed in Africa, Whiplash Director Jonathon Reid finds himself mysteriously shut off from information about the robot drone and its mission. Maneuvering through the twisted back corridors of the CIA and Washington’s power elite, Reid discovers secrets both illegal and highly dangerous—a virtually unstoppable assassin and an out-of-control clique within the Agency. Torn between loyalty and conscience, Reid must find a way to alert the President and avert a national disaster. But with the Whiplash team caught in the chaos of a brutal Afr
Hardcover bog med titlen 'På Æresord' af forfatteren Nelson DeMille. Forsiden viser en illustration med militære symboler. Bagsiden indeholder en kort beskrivelse af bogens plot. Bogen er på dansk. Forfatter: Nelson De Mille
Jægersoldaten Michael Plessner leder en gruppe, der skal fange en al-Qaeda leder, der står bag et terrorangreb på den danske ambassade i Islamabad, da gruppen falder i baghold i det sydlige Afghanistan Titel: Shadow army Genre: Thriller Sammendrag: En terroraktion mod den danske ambassade i Islamabad dræber 11 mennesker. Angrebet er udført af Al Qaidas eliteenhed, Shadow Army. Jægersoldat Michael Plessner såres hårdt men undslipper. Han bliver fundet af drengen Jahwed, som fører ham til sin landsby. En ny, blodig konfrontation venter, da Al Qaida vender tilbage. Type: Paperback
Is there a traitor at Dreamland? When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland's drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored to be involved, as is Russia. But finding out who's really bankrolling the guerrillas means finding someone who knows combat UAVs inside and out. Someone with nothing to lose. Someone like Air Force ace Turk Mako. Yet as Mako and Freah learn, the conspiracy is deeper and darker than either imagined. With the situation worsening, the Whiplash team finds itself in a desperate race to recover their aircraft and capture the perpetrators—without setting off World War III. Forlag: Harper Udgivelsesår: 2015 Sprog: Engelsk
A Thriller #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor delivers his most frightening and pulse-pounding thriller ever! After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There’s just one problem—no one knows if she can be trusted. But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one political-asylum seeker is arrested, a deadly chain of events is set in motion. With the United States facing an imminent and devastating attack, America’s new president must turn to covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to help carry out two of the most dangerous operations in the country’s history. Code-named "Gold Dust" and "Blackbird," they are shrouded in absolute secrecy as either of them, if discovered, will constitute an act of war. Forlag: Emily Bestler Books, Atria Udgivelsesår: 2014 Sider: 358 S
The deadliest weapon . . . is man Top NATO representatives meet in Kiev to forge a new alliance . . . Powerful elements within a newly resurgent Russia decide the alliance must be stopped at all costs . . . The warriors of Dreamland have moved on. Some, like Breanna and Zen Stockard, to positions of power and influence; others, like Danny Freah and Nuri Lupo, into Whiplash, a cutting-edge combination of brain and brawn. Tasked by the President to handle the country's most deadly and sensitive jobs, the elite SpecWarfare unit marries muscle to technological prowess. But can even Whiplash stand up to a covert Russian army of genetically enhanced assassins known only as the Wolves? The stories about them sound like sheer fantasy: the killers are said to be nearly invisible and virtually unstoppable, endowed with super-human strength and endurance. But when Danny Freah and company discover t
Bogen ‘CHAKOO’ er en spændingsroman skrevet af Kjell Gjerseth. Bogen har en blød omslag med illustrationer, der viser scener fra romanens handling. Illustrationerne forestiller soldater og et nedskudt fly i hovedsageligt dæmpede blålige og jordfarvede toner. Bogens tilstand ser ud til at være let brugt med minimale tegn på slid.
''Powerful'' Barack Obama ''Searing'' New York Times How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend? How does it feel to see fear in your wife''s eyes? What does it mean to come home? In one of the most acclaimed and celebrated collections of stories for years, Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Summary: "Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos."-- Titel: Redeployment Forfatter: Phil Klay Forlag: Canongate Udgivelsesår: 2015 Sider: 291 Sprog: Engelsk
