Showing results by author "Peter May" in Literature & Fiction

Cambodia, 1978. Amid the Khmer Rouge's crazed genocide, soldier of fortune Jack Elliott is given the impossible task of rescuing a family from the regime. Eighteen-year-old orphan and budding journalist Lisa Robinson has received the impossible news that her father is, in fact, alive. His name - Jack Elliott. As Jack tracks the hostages and Lisa traces her heritage, each is intent on reuniting a family. Yet to succeed, so must run a dangerous gauntlet of bullets and betrayal.

London is in lockdown under martial law. A hospital is being urgently built by the river Thames to contain the thousands of victims of a flu-like epidemic. Construction is brought to a sudden halt when a leather holdall containing the bones of a child is unearthed from the rubble. A psychopath has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified. But why are he and his handlers determined to go to such murderous lengths to hide the origins of the body?

Spain, 2020. When expat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman. Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world - and of Cleland's cruel plan. John Mackenzie - an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian investigator - is seconded to aid the Spanish authorities in their manhunt.

In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before year's end three returned, and returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three men, now in their 60s, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades. Runaway is a crime novel covering 50 years of friendships solidified and severed, dreams shared and shattered and passions lit and extinguished.

In a French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than 70 years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of occupied France, the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown.

What happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher at the École Nationale d’Administration, who trained some of France’s best and brightest as future prime ministers and presidents, vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. This ten-year-old mystery inspires a bet—one that Enzo Macleod, a biologist teaching in Toulouse, France, instead of pursuing a brilliant career in forensics back home in Scotland, can ill afford to lose.

It's the 22nd century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, we're at the bottom of the food chain. Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates humans from the majority of the other races. While some of the stories deal with mercenaries, others introduce listeners to the other guilds, organizations, and races that make up the landscape of the Four Horsemen universe.

Death isn’t always the end or the answer. Sam thought his suicide would be the end of his suffering, but he was wrong, as he wakes up in a never-ending graveyard. He soon realises he has an opportunity to be reunited with his departed twin brother, Paul. Yet they must cross through the many planes of the afterlife to find each other. They will need to escape the hordes of the dead, survive forests where burning corpses are nailed to trees, and navigate the feuds and machinations of the people who promise to help them along the way.

A fantasy, science fiction, and horror anthology featuring seven short stories by well-received authors. They may scare you, thrill you, and capture your imagination. If you enjoy high-quality short stories that will excite you, then this is for you! E. R. Robin Dover’s “The Trees” (horror): In a remote desert region of southwestern New Mexico, centered along the Rio Grande, is an ancient grove of trees permeated with an evil that has always existed.

Kommissar Fin Macleod hat den Polizistenjob eigentlich an den Nagel gehängt. Doch gerade als er auf seine schottische Heimatinsel Lewis zurückkehrt, wird im Hochmoor der Insel eine übel zugerichtete Jungenleiche gefunden. Bald zeigt sich, dass der Mord fast 50 Jahre zurückliegt. Macleod übernimmt die Ermittlungen und stößt auf den Bruder des Toten, der augenscheinlich in den Mordfall verwickelt ist. Der alte Tormod ist allerdings kein glaubhafter Zeuge: Er leidet an Demenz.

"Gefahr in der Wüste" - Hörspiel von Peter Folken nach dem Roman von Karl May.

"Das Geheimnis des Kolma Puschi" - Hörspiel von Peter Folken nach dem Roman von Karl May.

Winnetou 2: "Die Festung". Old Shatterhand hat kaum Sam Hawkins der Gewalt der Kiowas entrissen, da gerät er mitten in eine Brandkatastrophe auf dem neu entdeckten Ölfeld von New Venango. Es gelingt ihm nicht nur das eigene, sondern auch das Leben eines Knaben zu retten, dessen Herkunft für Shatterhand wenig später zu einer echten Überraschung wird. Vom Pueblo der Apachen bricht er mit Winnetou auf zu Old Firehands "Festung", erlebt auf halbem Weg dorthin einen Überfall der Poncas auf Fort Niobrara, angeführt von Parranoh, dem weißen Häuptling, dem Todfeind Winnetous und Old Firehands.

Winnetou 1: "Blutsbrüder". Millionen in aller Welt, Alt und Jung, lesen seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert voller Begeisterung die Romane Karl Mays (1842-1912). Die von ihm geschaffene Gestalt des Winnetou übertrifft an Beliebtheit wohl viele Helden der Weltliteratur. In der hier vorliegenden spannenden Hörspielfassung erleben wir, wie es zu Beginn der 60er-Jahre des 19. Jahrhunderts dem deutschen Amerika-Reisenden Karl May - alias Old Shatterhand - gelingt, nach anfänglich erbitterter Feindschaft die Freundschaft Winnetous zu erobern.

Winnetou 3: "Der Berg des Todes". Nach längerem Aufenthalt in Europa kehrt Old Shatterhand in den Wilden Westen zurück, dort will er seinen Blutsbruder Winnetou treffen. Beiden Freunden bleibt nicht viel Zeit, friedliche Tage in der Heimat der Apachen zu verbringen. Es gilt, eine Bahnstation vor einem Überfall zu retten und die von den Ogellallahs verschleppten Bewohner der Helldorf-Siedlung vor dem drohenden Tode zu bewahren. Das Abseilen in den Krater eines erloschenen Vulkans ist der einzige Weg zur Befreiung der Gefangenen, ein Weg des Todes.

Skrupellose Verbrecher planen eine Revolte gegen den Gouverneur von Buenos Aires. Vater Jaguar, so genannt, weil er der gefährlichen Raubkatze mit bloßen Händen gegenübertritt, hat den Verschwörern den Kampf angesagt, zumal er mit einem von ihnen außerdem eine persönliche Rechnung zu begleichen hat. Auf dem Wege zur Salina del Condor begegnet er mit seinen Begleitern Haukaropora, dem letzten Prinzen der Inka, und dessen Diener Anciano.