Résultats de "David Robbins" dans Toutes les catégories

Hundra år efter tredje världskriget ligger världen i ruiner. Men snart dyker lite hopp upp vid horisonten i form av ett toppmöte mellan alla stridande parter. Målet är att ena alla mot den gemensamma fienden - ryssarna och deras allierade. Blade och hans vänner har svurit att skydda ledarna vid det stora mötet mot mördarna som kommit för att förstöra mötet och jordens framtid. Men mördarna var villiga att dö hellre än att misslyckas och snart utvecklas toppmötet till en desperat kamp om planetens framtid.

Efter tredje världskriget befinner sig en liten del av befolkningen i staden Twin Cities instängda. En grupp som heter Triad Alfa ska försöka hjälpa dem och ta dem till Hemmet. Men gruppens ledare, Blade, och hans vänner blir snart gripna och hotas med inspärrning. Diktatorn Samuel II härskar i den Civiliserade zonen där Omvandlingslägret finns. Dit skickas de som ska omdanas till goda och lydiga medborgare. Och det är dit Blade och hans vänner ska föras.

Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch's best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling - minding the line shack 40 miles from the ranch - and secluded himself from the pity of his peers in the Wyoming wilderness. Now, the T-Bar is being sold, leaving Willis to wonder whether the new owner will want to keep a broken bronc buster on the payroll.

One hundred years after WWIII, what was left of America was swarming with mutants, killers, and savages bent on plunging the world into eternal darkness. Isolated survivors of the holocaust, the Family was the last, best hope for the future of mankind. Blade, Hickock, and Geronimo were the fighting arm of the Family - hard men, skilled in staying alive, no matter what the cost. Now called Androxia, the city of Houston had been taken over by the Superiors, a race of androids developed by NASA before the war. Masterpieces of perfect evil, they planned to take over the world.

All Alpine's marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is a nice retirement, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn't have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake, so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They're mad enough to break their own no-kill rule, and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started.

The life of a cowboy suits Thalis Christie just fine. A puncher for the Crescent H in Texas, he loves what he does and is damn good at it too. He doesn't even mind being away from his family - he's got good friends to keep him from getting too homesick. That is, until his folks write, imploring him to hunt down his brother, Myles, who's been shot while prospecting in the Black Hills. Thalis sets out to do his family duty and find his little brother - still alive, he hopes.

If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred's relaxed nature is put to the test. At 15 years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him "boy." He's come to apprehend a killer who escaped from Cheyenne and has been hiding in plain sight in Sweetwater. Fred must ride with Tyree and his prisoner all the way to Cheyenne. The unlikely pair has a rough trail ahead of them, and as tough as Tyree is, he has some lessons to learn about the evil men do - and how to survive it.

Washington, DC was in the tight grip of the Russians. They planned to use their base on the Potomac to launch an all-out attack on the warring states of America. But the Red Menace made one mistake - they thought Blade and the Warriors would go like lambs to the slaughter. Instead, they fought with a savagery that would drive the invaders back to the land of perpetual nuclear winter.

Wes Turner, an aging, careworn helicopter pilot in South Carolina, learns out of the blue that he is a father and grandfather. His new family has found him and embraces him, but Wes doesn't trust that love can come without a price tag. A continent away in California, Dante LaBella can't commit to his beloved girlfriend Natalie; he breaks up with her one too many times, then she refuses to take him back. In a moment of metaphoric pleading, he offers her the choice of a finger as a display of his devotion. Natalie takes him up on it, selecting the pinky of his left hand. "The love I want with you," she says, "the love I need you to understand, is forever. Nothing's forever like nine fingers."

USA Today best-selling author David Robbins' searing Western tales capture all the thunder and lightning of Ralph Compton's extraordinary legacy. In Blood Duel, Jeeter Frost is targeted by reporters seeking insider details of the "Missouri Man-Killer." Jeeter knows he's done his share of killin', but his inability to read the so-called true accounts of his exploits makes his trigger finger burn worse than ever.

Every member of the Special Ops US Air Force pararescue jumpers, the PJs, swears by the motto "That Others May Live." A top-secret mission to save a kidnapped Saudi princess will put that oath to the ultimate test. With a force of armed men, a former mujahideen chases across the desert of Yemen to recover his Saudi wife, kidnapped by her powerful father, a prince of the Kingdom. The kidnapping turns violent, she is badly wounded, and the PJs are dropped into the vast sere badlands to rescue the princess and a young American diplomat....

Postnuclear America was a slagheap littered with the charred debris of the holocaust. Only a few survivors remained - some dedicated to rebuilding civilization, most determined to drive humanity deeper into the abyss. Blade, an Alpha Triad Warrior, was a knife fighter with a razor-sharp temper. He had sworn to protect The Home from all invaders - but this time he had to slaughter the innocent to save the guilty.

It was a mission of mercy that turned into a run with death as Blade and the Alpha Triad tried to rescue the pathetic remnants of humanity from the festering stinkhole that had once been the Twin Cities. Captured, tortured, and marked for "Reabsorption," the Triad had about as much chance to survive as a snowflake in a thermonuclear blast....

National best-selling phenomenon Ralph Compton's legacy lives on with By the Horns. A greenhorn - an Englishman, no less - arrives in Whiskey Flats to purchase one of the Bar 40's best longhorns. Owen, the ranch foreman, must escort the tenderfoot on the drive from Texas to Wyoming. But Luke Deal and his gang of ruthless cowboys have been hankerin' to get even with Owen, and this seems like the perfect time to settle an old score.

David L. Robbins, author of the war classic War of the Rats, delivers another heart-stopping, deeply researched military adventure, this time right off today’s front pages. The US military’s most highly trained and elite unit is the US Air Force pararescuers, known as PJs. All battle-hardened vets, their motto is "That Others May Live". Their singular mission is CSAR: Combat Search and Rescue. But, off the Horn of Africa, one PJ unit is tasked with a desperate assignment that goes against its oath: Take down a cargo ship full of secrets that’s been captured by Somali pirates.

At a remote site in Minnesota, filmmaker Kurt Carpenter has built a secure compound and invited a select group of people to bunker down until the worst is over. The world into which they re-emerge is like nothing they've ever seen. At first they think they're the only ones left. But they soon find out how wrong they are. In the wasteland of what used to be America, their battle to survive is only just beginning.

New York Times best-selling author David L. Robbins has entrenched himself as the master of the World War II novel. Telling the gripping story of the 1945 rescue of allied prisoners from the Los Baños camp near Manila, Broken Jewel received tremendous critical acclaim, including starred reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

The Earth is devastated, left a desolate wasteland of mutant beings and desperate renegades by the final holocaust of World War III. Out of the ashes rose Blade, leader of the brutal fighting force known as the Alpha Triad. Together the Triad must risk sudden death to retrieve the vital serum that would save a handful of survivors from a lethal disease. But first the Triad must fend off hordes of deranged humanoids, a hideously deformed creature that hungered for human flesh, and make their way through a long-dead city ruled by warring factions that let no one survive!

Efter tredje världskriget befinner sig världen i fullkomligt kaos. Bland resterna efter civilisationen försöker överlevare att hanka sig fram, men när en ondskefull diktator tar makten faller ytterligare en skugga över den redan trasiga världen. Diktatorn missbrukar all den makt han sitter på för att lägga hela världen under sig, men samtidigt dyker ett motstånd upp här och var, ett motstånd som leds av en man som är den enda som kan rädda världen nu. Bara det inte redan är för sent.

Blade, Hicock och Geronimo är tre vänner som kämpar för att hålla sig vid liv efter kärnvapesapokalypsen. Världen är slagen i spillror, men ur vrakdelarna försöker långsamt en civilisation att växa fram. Men snart blir det uppenbart att allt inte är som det ska bland ruinerna. Ett mystiskt virus sprider sig som leder till att de överlevande åldras och dör i förtid. För att överleva måste nu de tre vännerna ta till all list som ligger för dem. Vad ligger bakom utbrottet av viruset? Eller är det någon som vill dem ont som spridit den hemska smittan ...?