Lewis Gannett Livres

Suicidal terrorists from the Middle East have targeted Manhattan and blown up a busload of innocent people. Demanding the release of their leader. they threaten to escalate their campaign of violence if their wishes are not met. Denzel Washington plays an FBI agent hot on the terrorists' trail. who is desperately trying to catch them while staying true to his pledge to uphold American law and justice. Bruce Willis plays a high-level military general who places New York City under martial law, suspending individuals' rights for the good of the nation. And Annette Bening plays the beautiful but untrustworthy government agent who has ties to both men, as well as to a mysterious Islamic revolutionary who may hold, the key to the city's survival -- or total annihilation.

Taking as his motif the poet Sam Foss’s words, “Bring me men to match my mountains,” Irving Stone has created an interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward drive which, in a few rousing decades, settled a continent and gave the United States dimensions of which its founders hardly dreamed. Exploration, sudden wealth, unspeakable hardship, the golden chance to build a new life in a new land - all these are present in this saga of human aspiration. This book is a colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed or were tamed by what the geographers call the true Far West — California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. In the cast are Spaniards, Russians, Yankees, Southerners; Sutter, whose dream of an idyllic retreat in the foothills of paradise was shattered by the Gold Rush; John C. Fremont, Mark Twain, Brigham Young, Ralston’s Ring and the Big Four; the Silver Kings, H. A.W. Tabor and Baby Doe, the Rose of Sharon and Eilley Orrum, and scores more. There were the Mormons who tamed the desert with Bible texts, polygamy and co-operation; miners who played wild melodramas in Nevada’s Comstock Lode and Colorado’s awesome Rockies; the tragic Donner Party; gun-toting newspapermen and bankers; and some of the world’s most fascinating women. There were men who went West to fight, to make millions (or lose them), to die famous, infamous, or unknown; men who built colonies, railroads, cities, financial empires, or dreamed and struggled and failed. They were men who were larger than life size, who matched the mountains and shaped a pattern of American history.

Príbehy svetoznámeho seriálu Milénium spracované do knižnej podoby Elizabeth Handovou a Lewisom Gannettom. Autorom televízneho spracovania je Chris Carter, tvorca úspešných Spisov X. FRANCÚZ Všade sa zjavujú znamenia: záhadne nápisy. zohavené telo striptérky. narýchlo pochované mŕtvoly na brehu ľadovej rieky... Sexuálnym podsvetím Seattlu sa zakráda temný prízrak a polícia je bezmocná. Detektív Frank Black sa sťahuje so ženou a s dcérkou do Seattlu a myslí si, že tu budú v bezpečí. Blíži sa koniec tisícročia a temnota, ktorú vidí len on, sa vydáva za ním. Frank Black a tajomná skupina Milénium sú konfrontovaní so šialeným sériovým vrahom a vo Frankovej mysli sa zrkadlia jeho hrôzostrašné vízie: celý svet sa zmieta v smrteľných kŕčoch a nezadržateľne sa rúti do pekla. Black má schopnosť vžívať sa do pocitov vraha, vie nájsť mŕtve tela, vie si predstaviť, ako boli zavraždené. GEHENNA Objavenie popola z ľudských tiel, pozostatku obetí spálených zaživa, privedie Franka a skupinu Milénium na stopu sekty očakávajúcej Armagedon. Frank sa pri pátraní po vodcovi sekty stretne s človekom, ktorého moc je taká deštruktívna, že spochybní Frankovo chápanie podstaty zla.