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661) Tomás Nevinson
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[arzo de 2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Dos hombres, uno en la ficción y otro en la realidad, tuvieron la oportunidad de matar a Hitler antes de que éste desencadenara la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A partir de este hecho, Javier Marías explora el envés del ±No matarás. Si esos hombres quizá debieron disparar contra el Führer, ¿cabe la posibilidad de hacerlo contra alguien más? Como dice el narrador de Tomás Nevinson, ±ya se ve que matar no es tan extremo ni tan difícil e injusto...
662) Skullsworn
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pyrre Lakatur doesn't like the word skullsworn. It fails to capture the faith and grace, the peace and beauty of her devotion to the God of Death. She is not, to her mind, an assassin, not a murderer--she is a priestess. At least, she will be a priestess if she manages to pass her final trial. The problem isn't the killing. Pyrre has been killing and training to kill, studying with some of the most deadly men and women in the world, since she was...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Abby Holden changed with the sudden death of her parents. Once adventurous and fearless, she's now frozen in a cloud of fear, expecting death at every turn. Her only joy lies in her museum work, saving artifacts from decay. Nothing seems capable of lifting the fog-not her best friend, not her love of surfing, and especially not her self-centered slacker boyfriend. Searching for some way to escape the dread-filled fog that's settled over her, Abby...
Author
Series
Bandette ; 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The greatest thief in all the lands, uncovers the greatest of all mysteries: a clue to the location of the legendary House of the Green Mask! But the sinister Voice has set his sights on the same treasure and sent a deadly assassin after the same secrets! Worse, he's stolen the one thing dearest to Bandette's heart. Now, she's after revenge! (And also chocolate.)"--
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janes
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Ibon Martín, the master of suspense, is back. After the success of The Tulip Dance, Ibon Martín returns with a sinuous, magnetic and impeccable thriller, in which Ane Cestero and his special unit confront an enemy with multiple faces: the irrational hatred that can inhabit any of us." --
"Nadie como Ibon Martín para sumergirnos en uno de los enclaves más sobrecogedores de la costa vasca. El odio es el enemigo más peligroso. Las gaviotas sobrevuelan...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Play Misty for me: Clint Eastwood stars as a radio disc jokey who becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan; The Eiger Sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps; Coogan's Bluff: An Arizona lawman whose unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer anger a tough NYC police lieutenant; The Beguiled: A wounded soldier...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Marvel's top merc is back is business and better than ever! We all know Wade Wilson is one of the leading guns-for-hire in the Marvel Universe (even if he is simultaneously the most annoying one), but now he's pushing to make that recognition official. Deadpool is auditioning for the elite group of assassins known as the Atelier, and he has 48 hours to kill one of the world's most famous super villains: Doctor Octopus! Only problem? He's been kidnapped,...
669) Divergence
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The overthrow of the Atevi head of state, Tabini-aiji, and the several moves of enemies even since his restoration, have prompted major changes in the Assassins' Guild, which has since worked to root out its seditious elements - a clandestine group they call the Shadow Guild. With the Assassins now rid of internal corruption, with the birth of Tabini's second child, and with the appointment of an heir, stability seems to have returned to the Atevi...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Four hardcore heroes. One high-speed torpedo boat. Ten thousand bullets! Lock n' load with the baddest group of mercenaries ever to hit the high seas of Southeast Asia! Aboard their World War II torpedo boat, the Black Lagoon, Dutch the Boss, Benny the Mechanic, Revy Two Hand, and Rock, the salaryman from Japan, deliver anything, anywhere. In the dangerous underworld of the Russian Mafia, Chinese triads, Colombian drug cartels, crazed assassins,...
671) Dancer's lament
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR /A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For ages warfare has crippled the continent as minor city states, baronies, and principates fought in an endless round of hostilities. Only the alliance of the rival Tali and Quon cities could field the resources to mount a hegemony from coast to coast -- and thus become known as Quon Taili. It is a generation since the collapse of this dynasty and regional powers are once more rousing themselves. Into this arena of renewed border wars come two youths...
Author
Series
Crescent City ; 2
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Bryce Quinlan y Hunt Athalar han salvado Ciudad Medialuna, por fin ha llegado el momento de bajar la guardia y tratar de volver a la normalidad. Para ello, han acordado tomárselo con calma y no empezar su relación hasta el Solsticio de Invierno, si es que antes no incendian la ciudad con su deseo. Pero todavía no están fuera de peligro. Cuando Bryce, Hunt y sus amigos se ven involucrados en un movimiento rebelde del que no quieren formar parte,...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Deathstroke, the break-out villain from the 1980s sensation The New Teen Titans and current star of the hit TV series Arrow stars in his own graphic novel series! In these stories, hunted by the CIA and the Teen Titans, Deathstroke is in trouble--he may be dying. But his chances for survival lie with a figure from his past, half a world away in Cambodia. While his pursuers believe him to be dead, Deathstroke takes refuge on Titans island--and when...
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Delve deeper into the madness of Gotham City in this anthology about Talia al Ghul-Daughter of the Demon. Intelligent, calculating, and composed: this brilliant strategist and master martial artist has proven to be one of the very few adversaries capable of going head-to-head with Batman on an emotional, mental, and physical level. As Ra's al Ghul's daughter--also known as Daughter of the Demon--she is an elite and lethal warrior of the League of...
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