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A master assassin craves one thing above all else: a normal everyday life. Trained to be a killer from the age of 11, Peter has never known the things the average person takes for granted. He has always been an asset. Burned by the CIA and now occupying their secret hit list, he works overseas as a Ronin, living a solitary life in hiding. But someone knows where he is. A strange man arrives at his door offering Peter the chance of a real life. "Get this done and you can be free," he is told.

Passing out as her battle-damaged starfighter bleeds the last of its air, she comes to in the cavernous and deserted docking bay of an unknown starship. Leaving her crippled fighter to seek help, she finds she's been scooped up by a gigantic generation ship inhabited by the descendants of the original crew and passengers - people whose entire universe is the ship!

Eigentlich wollte Lennard nur seinen feucht-fröhlichen Nachmittag in der provinziellen Raumstation genießen. Doch mit der Ruhe ist es vorbei, als er von einem mysteriösen Lieferauftrag gestört wird. Zusammen mit seinem treuen Offizier Muriel macht er sich auf den Weg zu einem unbekannten Planeten. Als er schließlich herausfindet, was sich wirklich in dem Paket befindet, ist es schon zu spät: Die Galaxie taumelt unweigerlich auf die Katastrophe zu, und nur eine Person kann es verhindern. Nur gut, dass es nicht er ist.

When Cash is asked to complete the research of a renowned historian - a man famous for his search for the Holy Grail - she can't agree quickly enough. After all, life at her new home in Berkeley, California, has quickly become dull: too dull for a best-selling adventurer who's equally famous for her hands-on research...and for landing in hot water.

In The Lost Continent, when Cash Cassidy, a best-selling adventure author, jets off to Greece and leaves her husband behind, it's for a good reason: to research the myth of Atlantis for a new novel. To help her begin researching the book, Cash's publisher rents her a place on the edge of the Aegean Sea, near where Atlantis is rumored to have disappeared thousands of years ago.