Showing results for "Chimera" in Thriller & Suspense

When the Air National Guard receives an emergency call for help from a remote Arctic research station in Greenland, Senior Master Sergeant Dan Cameron is chosen to lead the rescue mission. In an attempt to combat climate change, the scientists have genetically engineered an aquatic biofilm capable of generating oxygen and lowering the temperature of the underlying seawater, producing environmental conditions that awaken an organism that has lain dormant beneath the ocean floor for millions of years.

John Frist was a soldier, a hero, and the victim of an IED attack in Iraq before his discharge. He returned home and committed a terrible act of domestic terrorism. Transformed by the StrikeForce technology, he saved New York City from a dirty bomb and nearly died in the process. For him, the ensuing two years has been a bone-wearying series of battles to protect the United States. Eric Wise has risen from Director of Project StrikeForce to Assistant Director of the Office of Threat Management.

Cole McBride makes a chilling discovery while investigating a mysterious disease causing the deaths of endangered mountain gorillas in war-torn central Africa. When a humanitarian aid hospital nearby diagnoses a disturbingly similar human case, the former Special Forces veterinarian knows he must figure out how to stop this outbreak from spreading--before it blows up into a global pandemic.

What happens when science goes too far? Chimera Secrets feature five stories about genetically altered humans who find love. A Nurse for a Wolfman: Only love can tame the beast. Guarding the Mermaid: Love is even more slippery than this mermaid when wet. The Lionman Kidnapping: It’s not just his mane that’s impressive. A Chimera’s Revenge: A mad scientist. An even madder patient. A fiery kind of love. Capturing a Unicorn: Will he betray or save the world’s only unicorn?

Claudia Richelieu has spent years preparing to become one of Haven's elite Chimera operatives. But when a human college student is beaten for wearing a Chimera costume, she's thrust into her first undercover mission—posing as a regular university student. It should be simple: investigate the attack and gather intel. Instead, she uncovers a conspiracy that reaches deep into vampire society itself.

The Taiwan situation spiraling dangerously out of control, the US navy in the area is placed on high alert. America facing the aggressor implies to China that it won’t back down and a state of war between the two countries is imminent.

È la notte di San Silvestro, l'ultima dell'Ottocento, e Roma saluta l'arrivo del secolo nuovo. Dopo il distaccamento in Sardegna, non privo di giorni dolorosi, il vicebrigadiere Ghibaudo ha accettato la proposta di Amelia di trasferirsi a Roma, dove un matrimonio di facciata può garantire a lei la possibilità di iscriversi alla tanto desiderata facoltà di Medicina, e a lui di continuare a nascondere il suo segreto.

Duty or love? Will a guard make the right choice? Becky needs a scoop to make her mark in the journalism world and gets her chance when she’s hired as a nurse for a top-secret clinic hidden in the Rockies. What she doesn’t expect is to become one of the patients and kept prisoner. The doctors are playing God and have found a way to change people. Change them into something else. In her case, she becomes a mermaid. The only one of her kind and about to be sold to the highest bidder unless she can convince the man guarding her to set her free.

It isn’t entirely shocking that a man like film producer Ari Goldstone would be found murdered in his hotel suite, naked and tied to the bedposts. Goldstone, after all, had a reputation for sexual misconduct and was already defending lawsuits brought by a dozen aggrieved starlets. But the brutality of the crime takes even veteran homicide detectives aback. More unsettling still are the DNA test results, which conclusively point to disgraced financier, Jimmy Kwan, the “Chinese Bernie Madoff” and father of one of Goldstone’s accusers.

Eine abgelegene militärische Forschungsstation sendet einen verzweifelten Notruf, doch als das Rettungsteam eintrifft, stoßen die Männer nur auf Leichen. Außerdem wurde jedes Lebewesen - selbst Bakterien - innerhalb von 75 Quadratkilometern ausgelöscht. Das Land ist völlig steril - und die Zone weitet sich aus! Als die Agenten der SIGMA-Force herausfinden, dass der Chefwissenschaftler entführt wurde, setzen sie alles daran, ihn aufzuspüren. Denn mit seiner Entdeckung kann man das Antlitz der Welt verändern - und dort wäre kein Platz mehr für die Menschheit.

Konets ("end" in Russian) is a frenetic thriller that reveals the before and after of the events narrated in "Khimera", another masterpiece by César Pérez Gellida.

Bologna, 1314. L'inverno è alle porte, e il buio assedia il mondo ogni giorno più presto. Dopo una di queste notti lunghissime, viene ritrovato il cadavere di un giudice. Non si tratta di morte naturale: il corpo è orrendamente sfigurato, sembra sia stato sbranato. Nell'indagine viene coinvolto Mondino de' Liuzzi, medico anatomista e accademico, capace come pochi di ricavare indizi dallo studio dei cadaveri. L'esame di Mondino, però, questa volta getta sul mistero più ombre che luci: l'accanimento sulla vittima è quello di un animale, ma i denti che l'hanno dilaniata sono umani.

A transport plane sent to Chimera to evacuate frightened scientists from a climate research station on the island disappears, along with a Chinese spy ship prowling nearby waters. The US Coast Guard sends its most secret team to investigate, Deployable Specialized Force-P - the P is said to stand for phenomenon.