Download or read book My Name Is Fulcna written by Jessica M. Stone and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fulcna is a 13-year-old African girl who is captured with the rest of her clan and sold in Pompeii as a slave. Fulcna finds a friend in her mistress, Adriadne, and together they determine to locate Fulcna's other family members. But Adriadne's stepmother, Nathalia, is evil, and wants to control Adriadne's family, especially Adriadne's easy-going father. After Nathalia poisons Adriadne's father, the two girls travel to Herculaneum to locate a doctor for him. On their way, Fulcna thinks she spots her brother Celando through the crowds, but she soon loses sight of him. When Adriadne and Fulcna return home, they realize Nathalia is not there. After Adriadne reads Nathalia's diary, the girls discover that she is even more dangerous than they originally believed. Kidnappings, escapes, and the cautionary rumblings of Vesuvius ensue in this captivating tale.
Download or read book First Into Action written by Duncan Falconer and published by Lume Books. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First into Action tells how Duncan Falconer trained with the Royal Marines before being recruited into the SBS. The ruthless training is graphically described, as are accounts of operations in Ulster, Bosnia and the Gulf War. It is the first Special Boat Services memoir written from the inside.
Download or read book The Operative written by Duncan Falconer and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In war-torn Iraq, Stratton's closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton's godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles she is brutally murdered and her child placed in state custody. Stratton, rocked to his foundations by the killing, uncovers a FBI plot to hide the crime and sets off on a private operation of revenge that eventually pits him against one of the most powerful East European crime syndicates in America. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war; a fight he suspects could be his last. Yet another enjoyable Falconer weave of thrill and action wrapped in the rich authenticity that defined his previous novels, taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride across half the globe to a nail-biting climax.
Download or read book The Protector written by Duncan Falconer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three men: an Iraqi, a former coalition soldier and a journalist, drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the US Marines encircle the city to take it apart. It seems the men are on a single mission to seek a recent kidnap victim, but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town, and each keep a dark secret from the others. Greed, ambition - and guilt - are what separates their individual motivations, but a single miscalculation could bring an end to them all . . .
