William Dietrich
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fusion of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire and the movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic culture. For three centuries, the stone barrier we know as Hadrian's Wall shielded Roman Britain from the unconquered barbarians of the island's northern highlands. But when Valeria, a senator's daughter, is sent to the Wall for an arranged marriage to an aristocratic officer in 367 AD,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Napoleon dispatches Gage and his three "savant" friends to chase down the rumor of the fabled mirror of Archimedes. Things turn sticky when Gage's old arch nemesis, the Egyptian Rite, a ruthless cabal out to rule the world, joins the race to grab the mirror for their own evil designs.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1803. Swashbuckling, ribald, and irreverent hero Ethan Gage has outsmarted wily enemies and survived dangerous challenges across the globe, from the wilds of the American frontier to the pyramids of Egypt. Now the rakish hero finds himself in the Caribbean with his wife, Astiza, on a desperate hunt to secure the lost treasure of Montezuma--a legendary hoard rumored to have been hidden from Cortés's plundering Spanish conquistadors."--Publisher...
7) Ice reich
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An Antarctic adventure in which an American pilot tries to thwart Nazi plans to exploit a deadly bacterium as a weapon in World War II. With a beautiful German biologist he fights off a submarine with storm troopers. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
To make Napoleon pay for kidnapping his son and nearly killing his wife, spy, adventurer and treasure hunter Ethan Gage, after his plot to sabotage Napoleon's coronation is foiled, flees to England where he and a group of brilliant renegades devise a daring plan as the French set sail for invasion.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Having quick-wittedly survived the battle of Trafalgar, Ethan is rushing to rescue 'Egyptian priestess' Astiza and son Harry from imprisonment by a ruthless mystic who seeks revenge for disfigurement, and an evil dwarf alchemist who experiments with the occult on Prague's Golden Lane.
10) Dark winter
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Geologist Jed Lewis finds himself accused of murder as the long winter sets in on the Amundsen-Scott research base at the South Pole.
11) Getting back
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Getting back is a novel of survival and a search for meaning in a world where both have become extinct--a thriller that asks us whether getting back is the object of the game, or the punishment for losing ...