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Justin Hill

    1. január 1971

    Tento anglický prozaik sa vo svojej tvorbe zameriava na hlboko ľudské príbehy a komplexné sociálne témy. Jeho štýl sa vyznačuje prenikavou psychologickou hĺbkou a pútavým rozprávaním, ktoré čitateľa vtiahne do rozmanitých svetov. Autor skúma témy identity, kultúrnych stretov a hľadania zmyslu v nejednoznačnom svete. Jeho diela sú oceňované pre svoju autentickosť a schopnosť vyvolať silné emócie.

    Pilgrims of Fire
    Minka Lesk: The Last Whiteshield
    Traitor Rock
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Viking Fire
    Hell's Last
    • Hell's Last

      • 416 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania

      Cadia has fallen. Last to escape the hell that was the Thirteenth Black Crusade's destruction of their home world, the Cadian 101st are bloodied, but unbroken as they fight to prove they deserve the legacy that was left to them. READ IT BECAUSE Captain Minka Lesk returns and is tested as never before. As she leads her regiment in the Gallows Cluster, she must deal with a threat she's never seen – a jungle that wants to eat her troops alive! THE STORY When a new threat surges through the Gallows Cluster, jeopardising the stability of the entire warfront, the 101st are thrown into the breach. As loyal fortresses fall on the world of Alia, Minka Lesk’s company leads the mad gambit that is the last hope of turning the tide. But when the jungle itself is as deadly as any enemy, can Minka keep her troopers fighting as her regiment fractures around her?

      Hell's Last
      4,5
    • Viking Fire

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      A brilliant novel that vividly tells the story of Harald Hardrada (hard ruler), the last of the Vikings.

      Viking Fire
      4,3
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

      • 320 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      When master warrior Shulien learns of the death of her family's patron, she abandons retirement and returns to the capital to protect Green Legend, a sword renowned for its historic triumphs. But much has happened in the years she has been in seclusion, and she finds herself beset on all sides with hidden enemies, and the tragic past which she had hoped to forget returns to haunts her. In her hour of need arrives a beautiful young warrior, Snow Vase, who is seeking a master. But the new apprentice is not all that she seems. When she falls in love with the bandit Wei-fang, a secret is revealed that makes all of them question who is friend and who is foe. In an age of thwarted love, can these two youths find happiness? Based on the original novels by Wang Du Lu, this is a beautiful love story set in the fading years of nineteenth century Imperial China.

      Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
      4,0
    • Traitor Rock

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      Book 2 in the Minka Lesk series. Cadia, ten thousand years a stalwart bastion against Chaos, is broken. Its collapse at the hands of Abaddon and the Thirteenth Black Crusade has fractured the Imperium of Man, and in its wake spreads the seeds of heresy, lies and insurrection. It falls to Cadia’s survivors to fight on, bloodied but unyielding, in the name of the Emperor. On the world of Malouri, traitorous forces have retreated to the impregnable island fortress of Crannog Mons. After years of stalemate warfare, the task of breaking the siege is given to Minka Lesk and the Cadian 101st, who find themselves fighting a meat-grinder mission that threatens to devour them. In the midst of slaughter, sacrifice and brutal attrition, a question must be answered: What does it mean to be Cadian in a galaxy without Cadia?

      Traitor Rock
      4,1
    • Catch up with the heroic tales of Minka Lesk in this great value omnibus. Cadia has stood in grim defiance against the enemies of the Imperium for ten thousand years, an indomitable bulwark against the forces of Chaos… but now, the Thirteenth Black Crusade has come, and there will be no victory. Here, Minka Lesk will be tested in the very fires of a world's destruction. Join Minka as she grows from a young Whiteshield struggling to survive in the ruins of the kasr she called home, to a sergeant haunted by loss, fighting to excise the rot at the heart of an Ecclesiarchy world, to a lieutenant who will do anything to break the stalemate in the grinding mire that is the Siege of Crannog Mons. She will battle on, bloodied but unbroken, for the honour of Cadia itself.

      Minka Lesk: The Last Whiteshield
      3,9
    • Pilgrims of Fire

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      Of all the devout warriors in the Adepta Sororitas, none are as renowned or battle-hungry as those of the Order of Our Martyred Lady. Yet while others seek glory in their own martyrdom, Sister Helewise is determined to stay alive so that her death might serve a greater purpose, when the God-Emperor wills it. Assigned to Fleet Quintus of the Indomitus Crusade, Helewise and her Sisters follow an ancient route of pilgrimage in an effort to rediscover and liberate the shrine world of Cion, once a sacred bastion of their order. In retracing the steps of Saint Katherine herself, their faith will be tested to the extreme as they attempt to uncover what became of their Sisters stationed in the daemon-infested sectors beyond the Cicatrix Maledictum. As their mission lurches from disaster to disaster and the Emperor’s voice grows ever more silent, the Sisters of Battle must trust in bolter, blade and their own unbreakable bonds in order to drive back the darkness of Imperium Nihilus.

      Pilgrims of Fire
      3,8
    • Shieldwall

      • 416 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania

      The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and destined to become one of his country’s great warriors. When Ethelred’s son Edmund takes the throne, determined to succeed where his father failed, he plucks Godwin from domestic peace to be right-hand man in his loyal shield wall. Godwin must traverse the meadows, wintry forests and fogbound marshes of Saxon England, raising armies of monks, ploughmen and shepherds against the Viking invader. With epic courage and ferocity, Godwin and Edmund repel the butchering Danes in three great battles. But an old enemy, the treacherous Earl Eadric, dogs Godwin’s footsteps, and as the final battle approaches, around the valiant English the trap begins to close.

      Shieldwall
      3,9
    • Cadian Honour

      • 368 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      The follow-up to Cadia Stands continues the journey of Minka Lesk and her warriors as they seek revenge against the Imperium's enemies for the loss of their world.

      Cadian Honour
      3,8
    • Terminal Overkill

      • 384 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      When the barbarous Fettnir turns his attention to Escher territory, the result is nothing short of a massacre.

      Terminal Overkill
      3,8
    • The Bookkeeper's Skull

      • 208 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania

      A Warhammer Horror NovelFollow in the footsteps of Rudgard Howe, an enforcer cadet who, while on their first mission, and embroiled in an embittered succession battle back home, uncovers a heinous sanguinary cult…READ IT BECAUSEIn the grim darkness of the far future, horror lies in the most unlikely of places, as a routine investigation becomes something all the more sinister.THE STORYOn the captital world of Potence, young enforcer cadet Rudgard Howe is caught up in a bitter internecine feud to inherit his father's position of Chief Enforcer. As the tithe fleets approach, he is sent on his first mission to ensure that the planet's distant agri-facilities fulfil their quotas to the God-Emperor. Farmed with serfs and managed by ex-Militarum soldiers, the agri-facilities are places of shocking brutality and hopelessness. But when he is sent to the outlying farmstead of Thorsarbour, Rudgard discovers a community where the crops are left to rot as the inhabitants indulge in the bloody ecstasy of a sanguinary cult. As Rudgard imposes the strict Lex Imperialis upon the farmstead, he begins to uncover a place where sanity is rapidly slipping. Just a single step into his nightmarish mission though, a series of cruel deaths threatens to dismantle everything he has ever known about the Imperium, his faith in the Emperor, and the strength of his very soul.

      The Bookkeeper's Skull
      3,8