Searchlights

The Gateway to Never: John Grimes, Book 18 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 284min

The air was alive with the vicious buzzing of the stun-guns. The smuggler was frozen in his squatting posture, paralyzed, unable to stir so much as a finger. But the robot moved. Its drive unit hammered shockingly and un-rhythmically and it shot straight upwards. Beams from hastily switched on police searchlights swept the sky like the antennae of disturbed insects - then caught it, held it, a tiny bright star in a firmament that had never known any stars. At least four machine rifles were hammering, and an incandescent tracer arched upwards with deceptive slowness. The lieutenant had drawn his laser pistol and the purple beam slashed across the darkness, power-wasting and desperate. Some hapless night-flying creature caught by the sword of lethal light exploded smokily. It might have the machine rifles that found their mark, it might have been the laser pistol. Nobody ever knew. But the broken beat of the inertial drive ceased abruptly and the robot was falling, faster and faster…"Down!" shouted somebody. "Get down!" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Abano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007760/bk_adbl_007760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Winter's War: Guy Winter Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 703min

Winter's War is the first full length Guy Winter mystery. It is set in England in the Second World War at the time of the Battle of Britain and the start of the London Blitz. August 1940 - Chief Inspector Guy Winter has been Fleet Street's favorite detective for over a decade. Dubbed the "Mystery Man" by his friends and enemies alike, for all his fame he cuts a lonely figure at Scotland Yard, where every newspaper story is fresh grist to an already tired mill. Laid low by personal tragedy, there are many who suspect that the great detective's career is over. Guy Winter, still in mourning the death of his wife in a tragic traffic accident the year before is summoned back to Scotland Yard to hunt for a psychopathic killer who is retracing Jack the Ripper's 52-year-old bloody trail of terror through London's East End. Evil stalks the London blackout at the height of the Battle of Britain as a madman sets out to sow panic in the streets. But nothing is quite what it seems. As the threat of invasion looms ever larger and great aerial dogfights rage in the skies over southern England, as air raid sirens wail in the night, searchlights play across the face of the heavens and the first bombs fall, old scores are being settled and we discover that Guy Winter has been living a double life more mysterious than anybody ever suspected. Now that double life has returned to haunt him. Now he no longer knows whom to call friend or foe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066916/bk_acx0_066916_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Extreme Life of the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 470min

The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes listeners to the absolute limits of the ocean world - the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrothermal vents - and exposes the eternal darkness of the deepest undersea trenches - to show how marine life thrives against the odds. This thrilling book brings to life the sea's most extreme species, and tells their stories as characters in the drama of the oceans. Coauthored by Stephen Palumbi, one of today's leading marine scientists, The Extreme Life of the Sea tells the unforgettable tales of some of the most marvelous life-forms on Earth, and the challenges they overcome to survive. Modern science and a fluid narrative style give every listener a deep look at the lives of these species. The Extreme Life of the Sea shows you the world's oldest living species. It describes how flying fish strain to escape their predators, how predatory deep-sea fish use red searchlights only they can see to find and attack food, and how, at the end of her life, a mother octopus dedicates herself to raising her batch of young. This wide-ranging and highly accessible book also shows how ocean adaptations can inspire innovative commercial products - such as fan blades modeled on the flippers of humpback whales - and how future extremes created by human changes to the oceans might push some of these amazing species over the edge. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018236/bk_adbl_018236_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Alien Encounters: The Most Important UFO Cases in History, Hörbuch, Digital, 44min

The Roswell announcement on ABC radio. This is the original announcement of the famed Roswell, New Mexico, crashed disc, made by ABC Network Radio news anchor Taylor Grant on July 8, 1947. This first public announcement that the US government had recovered a crashed flying saucer was covered up by the Army Air Force and successfully kept the lid on the so-called Roswell Incident until 1978 - 31 years later - when former military personnel involved in the recovery began to speak openly to UFO researchers about the crash, the recovery, and the cover-up. You may have heard an edited version of this announcement before, but this is a completely un-edited transfer from the original acetate recording of the live news program. This recording is followed by excerpts from an interview with Col. Thomas DuBose, former assistant to General Ramey - who initiated the cover-up by switching the debris of the actual crash with pieces of a downed weather balloon before reporters and photographers were allowed to see the wreckage. Dubose confirms the cover-up in one typically terse military statement in a recording made just before his death in the late 1980s. The 1947 interview that named the saucers. Most researchers will tell you the "Modern Age" of UFO research began on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted a group of strange craft while on a solo flight over Oregon. It is in this interview, conducted by news reporter Bill Burquette, that Arnold speaks the famous phrase that forever nicknamed unidentifiedflying objects as "flying saucers". The battle of Los Angeles. Ray Angler, a California air-raid warden in 1942, describes an event that could be the military's first actual gunfight with an alien UFO. Hundreds of shots were fired at unknowns that hovered above the city of Los Angeles while illuminated by air-raid searchlights. Not one hit was scored. Thousands watched as this "battle Language: English. Narrator: Taylor Grant, Col. Thomas DuBose, Kenneth Arnold, Ray Angler, Al Chop, John Dailey, James Ritchie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/real/000236/bk_real_000236_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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