Peu nombreux sont ceux qui connaissent la source des pouvoirs magiques dévolus aux «actifs», torches, brutes, engrenages, bestiaux, estompeurs et autres lourds. Rares aussi ceux qui savent que l’entité vivante à leur origine, réfugiée dans les profondeurs de la Terre, est menacée par un prédateur galactique qui ne laisse dans son sillage que des mondes dévastés. 1933. Les jours de l’humanité sont comptés car l’éclaireur qui précède le fléau est là. C’est pourquoi Jake Sullivan et les chevaliers du Grimnoir, à bord du dirigeable la Voyageuse, avec un équipage de pirates de l’air, entreprennent une mission suicide pour affronter l’ennemi. Mais leurs pouvoirs combinés ne sont-ils pas dérisoires devant pareil adversaire? Seule peut-être la jeune Faye Vierra serait à la hauteur… C’est dans la cité libre de Shangai que se tiendra la bataille décisive. Faisant suite à Magie brute et Malédiction, Foudre de guerre conclut la trilogie du Grimnoir. «C’est un condensé du meilleur de la littérature populaire, au sens noble du terme, et de la créativité et l’inventivité contemporaines. Le résultat est détonant, étonnant et totalement réussi!»
Joe Ledger Fans Rejoice!
Everyone's favorite snarky, dangerous, idealistic, relentless covert operative is back, and this time he's brought friends. Joe Ledger: Unstoppable presents original short stories about Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences by some of New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry's "friends in the industry." Buckle up for powerful, exciting, and nail-biting adventures by Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler, Larry Correia, Weston Ochse, Steve Alten, David Farland, Aaron Rosenberg, James A. Moore, James Ray Tuck, Javier Grillo Marxuach, Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Jeremy Robinson, Joe McKinney, Jon McGoran, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Nicholas Seven, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, P.G. Charles, and Dana Fredsti!
Joe Ledger is a former Baltimore cop who was recruited into a secret government agency tasked with stopping terrorists who are using bleeding-edge science weapons. The stakes are always high. If you have to call Joe Ledger, it's already hit the fan!
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Contents:
Foreword by Tony Eldridge
Introduction by Jonathan Maberry
The Honey Pot by Steve Alten
Confusion by Nicholas Steven
Target Acquired by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
Vacation by Scott Sigler
Banshee by James A. Moore
Red Dirt by Mira Grant
Black Water by Weston Ochse
Instinct by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and G.P. Charles
No Guns at the Bar by Aaron Rosenberg
Strange Harvest by Jon McGoran
No Business at All by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Ganbatte by Keith R.A. DeCandido
White Flame on Sunday by James Ray Tuck
Wet Tuesday by David Farland
Prince of Peace by Jeremy Robinson
Rookie by Joe McKinney
Three Times by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks
Psych Eval by Larry Correia
Crash Course by Dana Fredsti
Atoll by Jonathan Maberry
New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author. Gritty urban fantasy set in an alternate noir 1930s. A tough P.I. battles an interdimensional monster that wants to suck magic power out of the world. Sequel to Hard Magic and Spellbound. Book Three in the Grimnoir Chronicles.
Only a handful of people in the world know that mankinds magic comes from a living creature, and it is a refugee from another universe. The Power showed up herein the 1850s because it was running from something. Now it is 1933, and the Powers hiding place has been discovered by a killer.
It is a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Earth is next.
Former private eye, Jake Sullivan, knows the score. The problem is hardly anyone believes him. The worlds most capable Active, Faye Vierra, could back him up,but she is hiding from the forces that think she is too dangerous to let live.So Jake has put together a ragtag crew of airship pirates and Grimnoir knights,and set out on a suicide mission to stop the predator before it is too late.