Bøger af Adam Christopher

Brought to you by Penguin.Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.The Empire is dead. Nearly two decades on from the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine's forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace.Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol. The disturbance in the Force is undeniable...and Luke's worst fears are confirmed when his old friend, Lando Calrissian, comes to him with reports of a new Sith menace.After his daughter was stolen from his arms, Lando searched the stars for any trace of his lost child. But every new rumor only led to dead ends and fading hopes-until he crossed paths with Ochi of Bestoon, a Sith assassin tasked with kidnapping a young girl.Ochi's true motives remain shrouded to Luke and Lando. For on a junkyard moon, a mysterious envoy of the Sith Eternal has bequeathed a sacred blade to the assassin, promising that it will give him answers to the questions that have haunted him since the Empire fell. In exchange, he must complete a final mission: return to Exegol with the key to the Sith's glorious rebirth-the granddaughter of Darth Sidious himself, Rey.As Ochi hunts Rey and her parents to the edge of the galaxy, Luke and Lando race into the mystery of the Sith's lingering shadow and aid a young family running for their lives.(c) Adam Christopher 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things.

When lovely Anna walks into the kitchen of a luxurious Fort Lauderdale resort, the hotel's young chef, Eric, jumps at the chance to take the new management intern under his wing. The two form a fast friendship that blooms even more quickly into romance, and they embark upon an idyllic life filled with tenderness and passion. Yet when the ghosts of Anna's past resurface, her indecision and Eric's jealousy drive a sharp wedge between the couple, and they begin to struggle beneath the dark realities of love. Adam Christopher's debut novel takes a sexy and heartbreaking look at the all-consuming nature of young love, the danger inherent in trying to change those closest to us, and the redemption available with time and forbearance. Table for Two is a delicious love story for twenty-first-century romantics.

Both married and leading very separate lives. His emotional battle through his divorce and her turmoil with work and the accident. Would their relationship survive these challenges? Would their emotions be strong enough to take their relationship to the next level? It was a warm summer night when their eyes met across a crowded bar. As Demi struggled to recall his name, he disappeared. How little did they know how that brief encounter would influence their lives. How they would support each other through the roller coaster of challenges. Joshua Barnes was a tall, dark, handsome Chief Executive of a successful Finance Institute. He and Demi had first met some years before when they both worked at the same insurance company.

El jefe Jim Hopper revela a Once unos ansiados secretos sobre su pasado como inspector de policía en Nueva York, arrojando luz sobre su vida antes de los acontecimientos de la serie de televisión Stranger Things.La segunda precuela de la serie de Netflix más exitosa de todos los tiempos.Hawkins, Navidad de 1984. Lo único que anhela el jefe Jim Hopper es disfrutar de una primera Nochebuena tranquila junto a Once, pero su hija adoptiva tiene otros planes. Acaba de rescatar del sótano una caja de cartón con las palabras «Nueva York» y es entonces cuando empiezan las preguntas complicadas. ¿Por qué se marchó Hopper de Hawkins hace ya tantos años? ¿Qué significa «Vietnam»? Y ¿por qué nunca había hablado de Nueva York?Aunque Hopper preferiría enfrentarse a una horda de Demogorgones que hablar de su pasado, sabe que no puede seguir escondiendo la verdad. Y así comienza la historia del incidente de Nueva York, el último gran caso antes de que todo cambiara.Nueva York, verano de 1977. Hopper inicia una nueva vida a su regreso de Vietnam. Su hija pequeña, su cariñosa esposa y un nuevo empleo como inspector de la policía de Nueva York le facilitan la incorporación a la vida de civil. Pero cuando los agentes federales le arrebatan el caso sin resolver de una serie de brutales asesinatos, Hopper decide actuar por su cuenta y arriesgarlo todo para desvelar la verdad.Tardará poco en infiltrarse en las bandas callejeras más infames de Nueva York. Pero cuando está a punto de resolver el caso, un apagón se apodera de la ciudad y precipita a Hopper en la oscuridad más profunda a la que se haya enfrentado jamás.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONChief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper's protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked "New York" out of the basement-and the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins all those years ago? What does "Vietnam" mean? And why has he never talked about New York?Although he'd rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about his own past, Hopper knows that he can't deny the truth any longer. And so begins the story of the incident in New York-the last big case before everything changed. . . .Summer, New York City, 1977. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show up and seize the files about a series of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth.Soon Hopper is undercover among New York's notorious street gangs. But just as he's about to crack the case, a blackout rolls across the boroughs, plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any he's faced before.

Ted Hall is worried. He's been sleepwalking, and his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders by the notorious Hang Wire Killer.Meanwhile, the circus has come to town, but the Celtic dancers are taking their pagan act a little too seriously, the manager of the Olde Worlde Funfair has started talking to his vintage machines, and the new acrobat's frequent absences are causing tension among the performers.Out in the city there are other new arrivals immortals searching for an ancient power a primal evil which, if unopposed, could destroy the world!File Under:Urban Fantasy[ Tensile Strength | Dual Identities | The Greatest Show | Bandits ]

Tony Prosdocimi lives in the bustling Metropolis of San Ventura - a city gripped in fear, a city under siege by the hooded supervillain, The Cowl. When Tony develops super-powers and acts to take down The Cowl, however, he finds that the local superhero team Seven Wonders aren't as grateful as he assumed they'd be...File Under: Science Fiction [ Heroes In Action | A Double Cross | Kapow! | Tables Turned ]

THE EMPIRE STATE IS THE OTHER NEW YORK. A parallel-universe,Prohibition-era world of mooks and shamuses that is the twisted magic mirror to our bustling Big Apple, a place wheresinister characters lurk around every corner while the great superheroes that once kept the streets safe have fallen into dysfunctional rivalries and feuds. Not that its colourful residents know anything about the real New York until detective Rad Bradley makes a discovery that will change the lives of all its inhabitants. Playing on the classic Gotham conventions of the Batman comics and HBO's Boardwalk Empire, debut author Adam Christopher has spun this smart and fast-paced superhero-noir adventure, the sort of souped-up thrill ride that will excite genre fans and general readers alike.File Under: Science Fiction [ Pocket Universe | Heroes or Villains | Speak Easy | Loyalties Divided ]e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-194-4

Adam Christopher's dazzling first novel, Empire State, was named the Best Book of 2012 by SciFi Now magazine. Here he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning Dark.Back in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds. After saving a planet, and getting a bum robot knee in the process, he finds himself relegated to one of the most remote backwaters in Fleetspace, overseeing the decommissioning of a semi-deserted space station. The station's reclusive commandant is nowhere to be seen. Persistent malfunctions plague the station's systems while interference from a toxic purple star makes even ordinary communications problematic. Alien shadows and whispers seem to haunt the lonely corridors and airlocks, fraying the nerves of everyone aboard. Isolated and friendless, Cleveland reaches out to the universe via an old-fashioned space radio, only to tune in to a strange, enigmatic signal: a woman's voice that echoes across a thousand light-years of space. But is the transmission just a random bit of static from the past-or a warning of an undying menace beyond mortal comprehension? "Builds tension expertly. Claustrophobic in mood but with the scope of great space opera, this is SF you will want to read with the light on."-Library Journal, starred review, on The Burning Dark

Adam Christopher's The Machine Awakes is a far future space opera set in the Spider War universe of Burning Dark. In the decades since the human race first made contact with the Spiders-a machine race capable of tearing planets apart-the two groups have fought over interstellar territory. But the war has not been going well for humankind, and with the failure of the Fleet Admiral's secret plan in the Shadow system, the commander is overthrown by a group of hardliners determined to get the war back on track.When the deposed Fleet Admiral is assassinated, Special Agent Von Kodiak suspects the new guard is eliminating the old. But when the Admiral's replacement is likewise murdered, all bets are off as Kodiak discovers the prime suspect is one of the Fleet's own, a psi-marine and decorated hero-a hero killed in action, months ago, at the same time his twin sister vanished from the Fleet Academy, where she was training to join her brother on the front.As Kodiak investigates, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from the slums of Salt City to the floating gas mines of Jupiter. There, deep in the roiling clouds of the planet, the Jovian Mining Corporation is hiding something, a secret that will tear the Fleet apart and that the Morning Star, a group of militarized pilgrims searching for their lost god, is determined to uncover.But there is something else hiding in Jovian system. Something insidious and intelligent, machine-like and hungry.The Spiders are near.

The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.Honey.As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancerΓÇÖs cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion. A shot, under the cover of darkness, a body bleeding out in a corner, and most of Los AngelesΓÇÖ population of hired guns hulking, sour-faced over un-drunk whiskey sours at the bar.But as Ray tries to track down the package he was dispatched to the club to retrieve, his own programming might be working against him, sending him down a long hall and straight into a mobsterΓÇÖs paradise. Is Honey still the goalΓÇöor was she merely bait for a bigger catch?Just your standard bit of Hollywood depravity, as tracked by the memory tapes of a less-than-standard robot hitman.Standard Hollywood Depravity is a Ray Electromatic mystery by Adam Christopher.Ray Electromatic MysteriesBrisk MoneyMade to KillStandard Hollywood DepravityKilling is My Business

Branded terrorists and on the run from the Fleet, ex-Marines Carmina Serra and Charlie Carter and mining superstar Zia Hollywood crash land on planet Lucifer. Populated by two warring factions - a religious cult and a crime syndicate - Lucifer is blighted with a spate of murders that threaten to plunge the planet into civil war...

Picking up where Dishonoured left off, this first novel continues the adventures of Corvo Attano as he protects and trains his daughter, Emily, now the Empress of Isles residing in Dunwall and a burgeoning adventuress in her own right. The official bridge between Dishonored and the forthcoming Dishonored 2, slated for release in 2016.

The CFO of a secretive NYC hedge fund is found murdered-stabbed through the eye with an expensive fountain pen. Holmes and Watson discover a link between the victim and a touring management guru with a doubtful past. As secrets are revealed and another victim is found murdered in the same grisly fashion, they begin to uncover a murky world.

Captain Idaho Cleveland has one last mission before he retires: decommissioning the Coast City, a distant research outpost orbiting the toxic star Shadow, only connected with the outside universe via ham radio.

Holmes is a former consultant to Scotland Yard, and an addict. He travels to New York City to check into a rehabilitation center and stays on in Brooklyn with Dr Joan Watson, who becomes his sober companion.

When a familiar-looking woman arrives at the Los Angeles offices of Raymond Electromatic-PI turned hit man and the world's last robot - he takes on the case of a missing movie star, and is soon plunged into a glittering world of 1960s Hollywood. But when he uncovers a sinister plot, this robot is in the wrong place, at the wrong time.