Hodder & Stoughton Altar of Blood Ричес Энтони

Мятежники побеждены. Кальг, властитель северных племён, стал узником вождей, которыми не так давно командовал. Ну а лидер римлян строит амбициозные планы по захвату крепости варваров, их Твердыни Копий • Марк Аквила, охваченный жаждой мести за смерть одного из своих лучших друзей, выезжает на север с кавалерией. Он уверен, что легенда центуриона по-прежнему защищает его • Но император Рима уже отправил своих людей за его головой. Эти безжалостные убийцы знают настоящее имя Марка. Им слишком многое известно о его друзьях. И он опережает их всего лишь на каких-то несколько дней • "Твердыня тысячи копий" - третья часть цикла Энтони Ричеса "Империя" • Книга на английском языке • The Romans have vanquished the rebel alliance; Calgus, Lord of the Northern Tribes, is the prisoner of the chieftains he once led

Thrilling, authentic and action-packed, this novel introduces soldier hero Marcus Valerius: a centurion stationed on Hadrian's Wall in the second century during a revolt against the Roman Empire • Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal, violent war

Marcus Aquila and his allies spearhead a daring attack into enemy territory, as three generals claim to be the true Roman Emperor • A new civil war has begun: with the emperor Pertinax's murder Marcus and his protector Scaurus have escaped Rome, seeking sanctuary for their familia in the East • But they are soon pressed back into service by Septimus Severus, the ruthless commander who has seized the imperial capital and who holds the military balance of power over his two rivals • Niger, the would-be emperor in the East, is on the march with six legions, and Scaurus's legion is ordered to Thrace as a sacrificial advance guard, tasked with delaying them. Whatever the cost

Адрианова стена спасена, но новый римский наместник в Британии должен подавить восстание северных племён, чтобы не потерять провинцию. Кальг, кровожадный вождь мятежников, предаёт южные земли огню и мечу, и остановить его будет непросто • Для Марка, ныне просто центуриона Первой Тунгрийской когорты, эта кампания опасна вдвойне. Ведь в Британию прибывают подкрепления, и его окружают офицеры, у которых нет причин защищать его от прихвостней императора. В такой обстановке неосторожно брошенное слово и вражеское копьё одинаково смертельны • Мало того, враги уже дышат Марку в спину. Пока он тренирует две центурии сирийских лучников, чтобы отбить нападение варваров и начать контрнаступление, новый префект Второй Тунгрийской узнал его тайну. Только чудо может спасти Марка и его людей от смерти и позора

Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins • Posted to the Second Tungrian auxiliary cohort's original home in Germania Inferior, Marcus finds a very different world from the turbulent British frontier - but one with its own dangers. Tungrorum, the center of a once-prosperous farming province, a city already brought low by the ravages of the eastern plague that has swept through the empire, is now threatened by an outbreak of brutally violent robbery. A bandit chieftain called Obduro, his identity always hidden behind an iron cavalry helmet, is robbing and killing with impunity • His sword - sharper, stronger and more deadly than any known to the Roman army - is the lethal symbol of his unstoppable power

Давным-давно ангел и дьявол полюбили друг друга и осмелились представить себе новый образ жизни — без массовых убийств, разорванных глоток и костров павших, без армий незаконнорожденных или детей, вырванных из рук своих матерей, чтобы в свою очередь убивать и умирать • Однажды влюбленные лежали, вплетенные друг в друга, в тайном храме луны и мечтали о мире, похожем на шкатулку с драгоценностями, в которой нет ни одного драгоценного камня, — о рае, который ждет, когда они найдут его и наполнят своим счастьем • Это был не тот мир • Книга Лэйни Тейлор «Дни крови и света» — 2-я книга цикла «Дочь дыма и костей» (за ней следует «Сны богов и монстров») и отличный подарок для любителей темного фэнтези, триллеров и историй, полных мистики, загадок и тайн

Vietnam veteran Michael Lander wants the country that made him suffer to suffer in return • Al-Fatah operative Dahlia Iyad wants to help him turn his bold plan into devastating reality • David Kabakov, Mossad's most dedicated soldier, is determined to uncover the plot before it's too late • All he and the FBI know is that it will be apocalyptic • They don't know about the 1,200 pounds of explosives on their way to the states • The largest, deadliest bomb on American soil • That it will detonate in front of millions at the biggest sporting event of the season • The day of horror is nearly here • Black Sunday

Once seen in the heat of battle, Captain Stryker is never forgotten. A hardened veteran of the wars in the Low Countries, he has come home to England to seek revenge on the man who left him for dead and scarred him for life • Stryker is driven by loyalty rather than conviction to serve King Charles's cause. He has no truck with aristocracy, preferring the company of a handful of trusted men, including sometime actor Lancelot Forreseter and his foul-mouthed sergeant, Skellen. But when the existence of a dangerous spy at the heart of the Royalist establishment is discovered, it is Stryker whom Prince Rupert chooses to capture the man before he realises the game is up • Lightly armed and with only a handful of men, Stryker must journey across a country riven by bitterness and beset by marauding bands of soldiers in a race against time

1483: A secret war is born • Jack Wynter is trapped in sun-baked Seville, sent there by his father with a locked box he's been told to guard with his life. A vital task, or just a ruse to get an illegitimate son out of the country? • But, then, when his father is arrested for treason, Jack finds himself at the heart of a deadly conspiracy • Seeking answers to the mystery he has inherited, Jack returns to England, where his half-brother, Harry, broods bitterly over their father's apparent preference for a bastard son and young Prince Edward is due to become king... unless his uncle, Richard of Gloucester, makes a play for the throne • Jack Wynter is coming home, to a realm of danger, intrigue and war. Somehow, he is connected to a secret that stretches across Europe, and beyond

It is the dawn of a new world • Henry Tudor has vanquished Richard III and claimed the throne of England, taking possession of a secret map. At the glittering court of the Medici in Florence, Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of the republic and head of the mysterious Academy, is engaged in a dangerous game of power with the Vatican. In Spain, the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, have declared a crusade against Islam, forcing the Moors from Granada. Europe stands upon the brink of war, at the edge of a discovery that will change everything • Jack Wynter is clinging to the wreckage of the life he dreamed of living, his father's execution by Richard III destroying his hope of overcoming his status as an illegitimate son. The map entrusted to him by his father is gone, stolen by his hated half-brother, Harry Vaughan

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an incompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for her siblings. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the cruellest of hands, rendering them more desperate than ever • In a harsh world, small acts of kindness can bring great hope -Eli Beckett's offer of a job at the Dragon pub promises a better future for Carrie, especially as Eli's uncle has offered his nephew some spare land to build a music room • With the great cities of England alive to the sound of music halls, the locals of Hedderby are soon looking forward to their own place of celebration and merriment. Yet not everyone in the town shares this excitement, and some will stop at nothing in the pursuit of selfish gain