Bøger af Grant Patterson

ITALY, 1943: The Eighth Army pursues Hitler's retreating forces up the boot of Italy, with Montgomery secretly hoping to beat Clark's Fifth Army to Rome. Crucial to his plan is the Adriatic port of Ortona. And the unit he has picked to take this critical landmark is the First Canadian Division. In the ranks of Canada's "Red Patch Devils" is John Strachan, ne'er do well son of a Great War hero, put on the front lines as an alternative to disgrace at home; a thoroughly unlikely warrior. Soon, he and his comrades will have to rise to the occasion all the same; for the German paratroopers defending Ortona are fashioning a defensive citadel that will soon be known to the world as "Little Stalingrad," a place where the work of centuries becomes a place of small stones, and only the quick and the ruthless survive.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF BOMBER'S MOON AND THE WILL BRYANT THRILLERSCOMES A STORY OF MURDER AND CORRUPTION IN VANCOUVER'S NEONERA... AUGUST, 1954: A veteran police detective reads the headlines implicating him in a scandal about torock the department. He locks himself in an office, and a single shot rings out. Two months earlier, the bodies of two Chinese men are found on the railroad tracks, onthe boundary between the respectable west and the sordid east sides of the city.Detective Sergeant Erasmus "Eraser" Jennings gets the case. Eraser knows he's got a bad rap. Opium fiend. Hired killer. Too close to a triad boss andhis daughter. Maybe that's why he's got a case nobody really wants solved.Maybe that's why he'll go out of his way to solve it anyway. When a policeman's worst enemies are the men he answers to, what choice does hehave but to make all the wrong kinds of friends?

CRITICAL MANArzamas-16: A star Soviet nuclear weapons designer is fatally irradiated in a test of a new design. When he awakens from his initial symptoms, Evgeni Shatalov is startled to discover that the KGB believe it was no accident and want him to help find his own killer. He only has days to avenge his own death before his cells dissolve...LAUNCH ON WARNINGNorth Dakota: In the middle of NATO Exercise "Able Archer," a Minuteman ICBM crew report for a routine shift beneath the prairies. Together, Captain Fred Howe and Lieutenant Arne Olreud have the lives of twenty million people in their hands; a fact which comes into stark focus when they receive the message they never thought would come: Launch on Warning...THE HOSPITALNew Westminster, Canada: Graham Long is on his way to his job as a hospital security guard when Armageddon begins. Together with a small band of professionals and volunteers, he must maintain The Hospital as the last beacon of hope for tens of thousands of suffering victims...

Brazil: beaches, babes, samba. Will Bryant is not living in that Brazil.São Paulo is a seething megalopolis of twenty million, built on fast money and old lies. Will is a Canadian in exile, adisgraced ex-cop teaching English to feed his family when he lands a different sort of job, to find out why wealthy men with filthy habits are being blackmailed. The answer will take Will Bryant further than he ever wanted to go.This may be Brazil. But it’s no Carnaval.