Bøger af Andrew Anzur Clement

April 2021 Jan and Kelly have a privileged life as the teenaged children of two wealthy defense contractors in Karachi. They don't notice the odd behavior of their servants until it is too late. Kidnapped from a Pakistani resort, the Polish boy and American girl are taken hostage by a disgraced Taliban fighter. He will stop at nothing to regain the favor of his father, the supreme Mullah of Afghanistan's Islamic extremists. Surviving with only their wits and the help of a courageous dog, the two western teens are at the mercy of their ruthless captors. They are taken to the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, controlled by rival factions of extremists with guns and suicide bombs. Their hopes of rescue are destroyed by a shocking betrayal that will cause Jan and Kelly to question everything they thought they knew. Their only chance of salvation may be a face-to-face encounter with the Mullah himself. Caught up in the chaotic American withdrawal from the Afghanistan war, the young hostages must rely on each other to survive torture, near-starvation and their loss of innocence. Their journey to The Circle of Fire begins In Pakistan.

Svetlana Williamson is a favorite to win the gold medal in figure skating at the 2030 Olympics. Just as she is perfecting her quadruple Axel for the competition, Bulgaria drops her from its team and grants citizenship to a Chinese skater who will take her place. Eligible to compete for Team USA because of her American dad, Svetlana is determined to keep her Olympic dream alive. She accepts an invitation from the Americans, despite mysterious threats that harm will come to her and her family if she skates. Svetlana and her friends arrive in Latvia for the Olympics with high hopes. But when her brother is kidnapped and her roommate in the Olympic Village is found dead, she finds herself entangled in a dangerous international spy game in which no one can be trusted. The former homeless girl will need all of her street smarts and the help of her closest friends to outwit jealous competitors and the ruthless secret agents who are after NATO's most important military secrets. Svetlana must find her brother, unmask the kidnappers and find a murderer if she wants to live long enough to have her moment on the Olympic ice.

Tsarina Katya, President Pyotr and their gang of former street bums have ruled a peaceful and prosperous Russia for a decade. They are about to celebrate with a night at the Bolshoi opera when a series of bombs explode in the orchestra pit. From the depths of Moscow's trash heaps, a ruthless new enemy has emerged. Fueled by a twisted interpretation of ancient Slavic beliefs, its secretive leadership is targeting the Royal Family with their own home-grown weapons of mass destruction. The misfits who toppled Putin now seem powerless; one by one, their loved ones become pawns in the Blazing Wheel's bloodthirsty quest for revenge. Nowhere is safe, from the luxurious beaches of Maldives to the secret passageways of Soviet-era nuclear silos. Katya and her allies must find a way to outwit the mastermind of the attacks - and traitors within their own trusted circle of friends. The band of outcasts who rose from the subway tunnels of Moscow to the halls of power in the Kremlin will face their toughest test in this page-turning final installment of The Russia Chronicles, the thrilling alternative-history series by Amazon best-selling author Andrew Anzur Clement.

Elena Markovic, raised to be the next leader of Yugoslavia, has been named the head of the Covert Action Service - the European Union's secret rapid reaction force. With clandestine support from some of the EU's most powerful leaders, defending Europe is now up to Elena and her friends from the Balkans. Operating from a high-tech underground bunker in Brussels, the team appears ready to take on terrorism and corruption. But they also must face an enemy that they never knew they had -- one that is dead-set on ruining them and destroying the EU.Conflicting agendas threaten to tear the team apart as they try to make sense of seemingly unrelated events: a political scandal in Elena's home country, a migration crisis from war-torn Syria and the plight of an abused child from a radicalized Islamic family who begs for help they cannot give.Together with her team, Elena must track down the mastermind behind this new wave of terror attacks in Europe. - someone who connects all these things and more. The mission will test her relationship with Drago, a refugee who is still coming to terms with his past deeds as a child soldier. Caught up in the European fallout of a vicious web of Balkan war crimes and revenge, they will have to face the truth of their pasts - or become its next victims.

Elena Markovic always knew that she was different, raised in a secret compound, training in martial arts and world languages. One day she finds out why: she is the granddaughter of Marsal Josip Broz Tito, the former strongman of Yugoslavia, making her the next leader of a country that no longer exists. Elena's parents entrust her with a mission to see that all of the former Yugoslavia's nationalities live again together in brotherhood and unity - this time, as members of the European Union.Wide-eyed and eager, Elena sets out for Brussels. She quickly finds that she is not prepared for life in the EU's capital. But delaying her mission is not an option. With the help of two orphaned refugee brothers, Elena uncovers a diabolical conspiracy to unleash a wave of terror attacks in Europe in order to convince the United Kingdom to leave the EU.With no one in the diplomatic community willing to believe them, Elena and her new friends are on their own. The fate of Brexit - and all of Europe - now depends on a scrappy band of college students from the Balkans. They must battle corrupt bureaucrats and bloodthirsty extremists if they are to save Europe's future. Will Elena's good intentions be enough to keep the EU from breaking apart?

Katya has been crowned Tsarina of all the Russias, but she can't escape her past as a drug-addicted teenager living on the streets. To repair her public image on the world stage, she embarks on her first official state visit to the European Union. Pyotr is by her side as president of the Russian Federation. But his leadership in the Kremlin is being tested by sinister forces that threaten topple their already-fragile hold on power. Zan has grown up in desperate poverty, digging through trash in Moscow's city dump. He stumbles upon a diabolical plot to kidnap and torture an innocent girl who may be Pyotr's missing daughter. As the royal family arrives in Brussels for a diplomatic showdown, Zan will make a mad dash through the most violent conflict zones in Russia's border regions, pursued by a rogue platoon of paramilitary troops. No one can be trusted, as the EU's Covert Action Service calls the Russians to a summit meeting behind the secure gates of a NATO base. The Americans mediating the talks have their own secret agenda. Tsarina Katya, President Pyotr and their gang of former street bums will need to form unlikely alliances to outwit scheming diplomats and secure their hold on power before it's too late.

Get Tito's Lost Children: The Kosovo Warfor FREE at: andrewanzurclement.wordpress.com.A hand clamps down on a boy's shoulder. He looks up from his father's body. In an instant, his childhood is over. He kicks and screams as he and his little brother are dragged away by the Albanian terrorist who just killed their parents. Forced to leave the only life they have ever known, the boys are taken to the murderer's home - a traditional Albanian compound where honor is everything and the only thing prized above fighting for the nation is the loyalty code of the Kanun. Determined to keep his younger brother safe, 12-year old Drago must fight alongside the man he is now told to call Father. As a soldier in the Kosovo Liberation Army, Drago is trapped on the frontlines, witnessing the senseless atrocities of war. Forced to follow the orders of a bloodthirsty commander, he must pay the price of survival without losing his will to resist. Caught up in a never-ending cycle of vengeance, Drago fights for the lives of his brother and closest friends. The decisions he makes with the gun in his hands will determine their fate in the battle for Kosovo.

Two murders. A missing child. And a killer searching for the treasure of the Knights Templar. As a native English speaker, Luka Williamson isn't expecting much from La Ciudad del Ingles. He has volunteered to spend one week talking with Spaniards who want to improve their English, in exchange for a free vacation at a luxury resort in the countryside. The program begins with a tour of La Alberca, a nearby UNESCO heritage town where a sacred pig roams the streets and the shops sell loins of jamón for tourists to take home. But the local history lesson quickly takes a back seat when a postal worker is found murdered in an alleyway near the town's main church. The language program participants are told to ignore the crime. The only witness: a local girl with a mysterious background. She tries to tell Luka what she has seen, begging him to team up with her to find the killer. While tracking the strange nocturnal activities in the resort villas, Luka realizes that anyone in the program - including the organizers - could be a suspect or the next victim. His suspicions are deepened by the shocking announcement of another killing. The only clue: a skull inscribed with the loyalty vow of the Knights Templar. Ancient oaths collide with modern conspiracies as the killer makes another bold move. Luka must solve the mystery to find his way home.

Get the ebook version of Pagans' Cult for FREE at www.andrewanzurclement.wordpress.comA murderous cult has emerged from the tunnels of Moscow's underground, seeking vengeance through a series of grisly killings. But revenge for what?The police officer responsible for protecting the Second Subway is Agent Brezhov of the Federal Security Bureau. Assigned to track down trespassers at any cost, he leaves his two young sons at their mother's deathbed.Now responsible for the care of his younger brother, Alexei is devastated by both his mother's death and his father's obsession with work. He clings to his mother's Slavic pagan faith in Svetovid, the four-headed god who sees all.At school, Alexei befriends Kristina, an orphan who is being abused by her adoptive parents. Together, they begin to explore Moscow's hidden tunnels. They find allies among the Diggers of the Underground, a group devoted to uncovering the secrets of the Second Subway. They also encounter a band of homeless street children who live in the abandoned metro station beneath the Bolshoi Theater.Bringing an unlikely sect together in the name of Svetovid, Alexei and Kristina set out to punish the families who have wronged them. They know they must risk everything to get justice for themselves and their siblings. Each of the conspirators will give their families one last chance to make amends. But is it too late?As Agent Brezhov struggles to make sense of the bloody crime scenes and catch the perpetrators, Alexei prays to Svetovid that his father would look just a little closer to home.

Three missions. Two bloodlines. One endgame. One destiny.In the Indian Ocean, 2005: Time-traveler Henry finds himself imprisoned on Jenn's ship of mercenaries, more than seven decades farther into the future than he expected. He will have to find a way to win the trust of a crew captained by his greatest nemesis if he is to have any hope of accomplishing the Order of the Dragon's goals, and saving Natalia's captured gypsy troop.Following the crew's attempted mutiny, castaway Mark Fletcher decides to return home to England. But the Urumi's demonic Order has other ideas for Mark's future. They are planning to turn him against the crew in a final bid to control time itself.To stop the Urumi, the crew must fight their way through multiple enemies in one of the world's most dangerous cities, as they try to gain control of the Invisible Circus's time-travel portals. Their success or failure may hinge on a secret deep in crewmember Mei Hua's past that could mean she is fated to play a pivotal role in the Order of the Dragon's endgame.In Romania, 1890: Having escaped from her grandfather's rival gypsy troop, Natalia must make her way into the Ottoman Empire to locate the only magical object that could save her people. But her grandfather's adopted daughter, a vicious tyrant with superhuman combat abilities, is hot on her trail. Can Natalia outwit her long enough to aid the Order of the Dragon and lead her troop to salvation?Location Unknown, 1928: Seven decades into the future, the Order of the Dragon's and the Urumi's ploys are coming to a head, but what role might world traveler and adventurer Alma Karlin still have to play?The stakes have never been higher as the struggle to control time enters its final stages. The only hope is to trust the notes that continue to appear out of nowhere, sent by a mysterious puppet master who seems to be pulling all the strings for some purpose still unknown. Henry, the crew, and Natalia must fight their most difficult battles yet as they attempt to accomplish the Order of the Dragon's true purpose, uncover the sender's real identity, and the common destiny that will change the world. The Voyages of Fortune trilogy is an eons-spanning, historical fantasy adventure. Its expansive story connects the royalty of the European Middle Ages with a space-folding pirate ship, sailing the high seas of the twenty-first century Indian Ocean. A action-packed adventure of self-discovery where nothing is as it seems; when nothing is certain, the only one you can rely on is yourself.Tags for Voyages of Fortune Book Three: Dragon's Destiny : -young adult fantasy adventure series-time-travel-shapeshifters & demons-magic and mystery-pirate ship-high seas quest-Karachi

A trained killer. A demonic Order. A jewel that could change the course of history. Malka and Stas have found have already found themselves unwilling allies once, protecting a fantastical stone from the designs of the Urumi's demonic Order. Little do they know that was only the beginning.... The last in a Sect of fanatical thieves, Malka has sacrificed everything to protect the object she carries. Having become its unwitting guardian, she is forced to flee British India for the American West. Her immediate goal? Keep the Urumi's dark Order off her trail and avoid being taken into the ranks of its enslaved members. But - even with her supernatural powers and the aid of a mysterious shapeshifter - doing so will prove tougher than she could've possibly imagined. Stas is about to go on a journey of his own. The courageous son of a refugee learns he is being sent home to a continent he has never visited. Unknown to him, the Order of the Urumi has it's own plans for Stas. He is about to embark on his most dangerous adventure yet.... Trapped in unfamiliar parts the globe and thrust into a fantasy world they do not understand, Stas and Malka struggle to find allies. Battle the Urumi. And uncover their path to the stone's cataclysmic final purpose. Whether they know it or not, their most epic quest has just begun.... The Keepers of the Stone fantasy trilogy is a soul-searching, action-packed adventure that will keep you guessing from its middle-of-the-action opening, right up until the end. If you enjoy epic fantasy adventures, don't miss this trilogy of expansive proportions that tests the limits of our potential.

Yugoslav People's Army brats Jovana and Hristijan grew up in a secluded border-watch compound, dreaming of grander horizons. They get their wish in the worst way possible when Predrag, a rogue Army captain, kidnaps Jovana for no apparent reason. Hristijan manages to rescue her, but their ordeals are far from over.On the run, they uncover the shocking secret behind Jovana's upbringing: she is the chosen successor to Marsal Josip Broz Tito. With Yugoslavia on the brink of collapse, it is her duty to keep order among the country's quarrelsome nationalities - and stop the Serbs from grabbing power. There's only one tiny problem: Jovana was never trained to take on her new role as the only hope for a unified Yugoslavia.Joining forces with a hard-fighting mute girl, Jovana and Hristijan must make their way to Slovenia to prevent its secession from the Yugoslav Federation. To get there, they will have to outwit Predrag, who is determined to capture Jovana and win the approval of his Serb nationalist father.The fate of Yugoslavia now rests with a band of snarky teenagers. Armed with nothing but a few guns and an old Army truck, they are about to make their mark on history.

Marsal Jovana Avramovska, the next leader of Yugoslavia, awakens from near-death to find Sarajevo under siege by Serb artillery. She and her team must keep her continued existence a secret while her adoptive brother, Hristijan, works on a desperate plan to topple Serbia's power-mad president. To do so, they must prevent the Bosnian lines from collapsing - and stop the country's other nationalities from turning against each other. Faced with more human suffering than they imagined possible, how much can Jovana and her team take, before they start to crack?After years of trying to regain his father's approval, Predrag returns to the Serbian capital of Belgrade, triumphant. Credited with killing Jovana, he is promoted into the Serb military's upper ranks, but remains convinced that his half-brother is still out to ruin him. Paranoid and angrier than ever, Predrag is forced to reexamine who his real allies are. Then he learns of a shocking Serb plot. The course of the entire war - and the failure or success of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia - could rest on his decision.As the Yugoslav Wars enter their most brutal phase, Jovana and Predrag must wrestle with dark family vendettas and botched schemes of international diplomacy. They face their greatest challenges yet, in the final installment of Tito's Lost Children, the alternative history trilogy that dares to ask the question: What if Marsal Tito, the strongman of Yugoslavia, had named a completely untested successor?

Elena and her Covert Action Service team may be Europe's only hope of stopping the Brutalists. Their leader, Marana, has recruited a rogue army and is closing in on Sarajevo, determined to promote the rise of Greater Serbia and bring down the European Union. The endgame has begun.Ayoub is training in Brussels to join the CAS special ops team. The scrappy teenager is learning fast, but time is running out. As he fights his own demons, he unwittingly allows an enterprising American journalist to infiltrate CAS headquarters. She is about to reveal the existence of Europe's secret intelligence service, run by a bunch of misfits from the Balkans.But the big story may never reach the headlines. Sinister forces are manipulating the Internet to preserve a cover-up of the secret war in the Balkans, enabling the United States to save face at any cost. The fate of Europe may depend on a daring plan by Ayoub's forbidden girlfriend to break the silence - and the willingness of some of CAS's members to pay the ultimate price.Personal vendettas are still simmering beneath the surface. Drago, a former child soldier returning to Kosovo, must confront a blood feud that demands death for him and his brother. Neglected as a child, Marana is still resentful of Elena's privileged upbringing. She adopts an abused refugee girl as her own daughter as she plots her revenge. Marana and Elena are headed for a final confrontation between the forces of Greater Serbia and Europe. The outcome will determine if Europe's Lost Children will ever find a place where they truly belong.

Sixteen-year-old Peter Greenfield didn't want to go to Moscow. When his Foreign Service officer parents are called on an emergency mission to Russia, he is left with little choice but to get dragged along.The trip starts off with Red Square, the Kremlin and the sights of the city - what any tourist would expect. Then an anti-government protest breaks out. His parents run toward the unrest - along with him.Lost in the body crush, separated from his parents and his American passport, Peter is rescued by a band of teenagers: children fleeing broken homes and struggling to survive on their own in Moscow's subway system.Unable to return to the US embassy, Peter must now throw in his lot with the band of homeless youth who have taken him in. Reluctant, and unable to speak Russian at first, he begins to discover Moscow's secret underworld as he grows closer to his newfound friends, including a resolute but caring girl named Tanya. Together, they face the indifference, hunger, and corruption that are a part of life for Russia's street children. Life or death could hinge on outsmarting a former member of their gang turned politically powerful enemy, and breaking into some of the Russian government's most heavily fortified facilities.As Peter and his friends fight to live another day, he begins to question whether Peter Greenfield still exists, or if he will ever be able to leave behind life on the streets of Moscow.

Slovenia has declared independence, but Jovana hasn't given up on keeping the rest of Yugoslavia together. Ordained by her father to lead what is left of the country, she has uncovered evidence of a Serb plot for ethnic cleansing. She heads for Croatia to face a tangled web of alliances as she tries to stop the fighting; her adoptive brother Hristijan and their hard-fighting sidekick Mojca may be the only friends she can count on as they race against time to the endangered city of Dubrovnik. Will they be able to stop the violence and outwit the elite secret police team that's now hot on their heels?Predrag's quest to capture Jovana ended in failure, but at first it looks like that may have been enough to win back his place in Serbia's ruling class. Then, a shocking reversal strips him of his rank in the Yugoslav People's Army. Now a fugitive, he must struggle to survive on the margins of the fighting. Seeking redemption, he comes face to face with the human suffering caused by his father's plan to take over Yugoslavia by force. His fate may be in the hands of his vengeful half-brother, who has embarked on his own mission to kill Jovana and cleanse Yugoslavia of its enemies.As the conflict in Yugoslavia escalates, Jovana and Predrag find themselves on the front lines, at risk of being named enemies by both sides; they begin to question whether the side they are on is really the right one.

Elena Markovic, head of the European Union's Covert Action Service, has survived a Syrian warzone and a harrowing journey through the Balkan migrant corridor. Stranded in an abandoned house in Bosnia, she finds herself at the mercy of the Brutalists - a mysterious enemy determined to destroy the EU and empower the rise of Greater Serbia.Twelve-year-old Ayoub, now an orphaned migrant, has been left to an uncertain fate in a squalid refugee camp. Although he has finally escaped a lifetime of abuse by his Islamic extremist father, his ordeal is far from over. Reuniting with Elena could be his only chance for survival - if he can get to her before the Brutalists finish her off.Drago and the rest of the Covert Action Service team wonder if Elena is even still alive as they are tasked with tracking down the culprits behind a string of gruesome murders. As the CAS team investigates, they discover that the key to catching the perpetrators - and possibly learning the Brutalists' true identities - could be buried in their own childhood memories.Old vendettas are about to be settled as the children of wartime rape join forces with terrorists and convicted war criminals in a diabolical plot to take down CAS and strike at the heart of Europe. Elena's friends and loved ones will be in the line of fire as they struggle to fight the Brutalists. The CAS team's most powerful weapon may be the realization that family and friendship are what matter most - maybe even enough for some of them to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Fifteen-year-old Svetlana Williamson doesn't want to be at a boring summer camp on the Slovenia/Croatia border. She and her brother, Sasha, would rather be at the ice rink in their hometown of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, chasing their dreams of Olympic gold. Hoping it's an opportunity for the two teens to branch out, their adoptive parents send them anyway. The most popular activity among the young campers: swinging Tarzan-style from a tree into the Kolpa River. By day, it's harmless fun. By night, it's a brutal competition with a mysterious scoring system that allows the winners to punish the losers. With their spinning and jumping skills, the two young skaters easily earn the highest scores. Only then do they learn that the Tarzan game is the gateway to a sinister world of drugs, sex and migrant smuggling. Popularity, not athletic ability, may be the secret to survival. Svetlana is willing to risk everything to become one of the "cool kids" for the first time in her life. But the once-homeless girl will also stop at nothing to protect Sasha and their bright future as the adopted kids of a wealthy family - and rising stars of the figure skating world. Sasha must also battle the memory of seeing his Ukrainian family slaughtered. A half-remembered moment may hold the key to unlocking the game's scoring system. But can he survive the vicious bullying the losers must endure long enough to crack the code? In over their heads, the two Poor Little Rich Kids must choose which side they're really on and outwit the traitor in their midst to find their way home. Warning: The Underdogs of Tarzan contains extensive profanity as well as depictions of drug use and heavily implied sex.

The EU has widened and deepened the single market over time according to a transactionalist discourse of common-interests in integration. This rationale holds that as amounts of cross-border movement increase, Member State populations should perceive the single market as beneficial, thus leading to the creation of an affective European identity. Instead, as consequences of integration have become more visible, resistance to the EU has become more pronounced, especially with relation to the Union's right of free movement of persons. This work of scholarship argues that interest-based theories of integration ignore prospects for resilient national identities to influence the accordance of solidarity ties, so as to color interest perceptions within national public spheres. Combining the literature on European identity, moral panic and communication studies on news framing, it maintains that the popular news media provide a conduit through which these interest perceptions can be taken up through the tendency of news outlets to report events that deviantly threaten underlying identity conceptions. Through content analysis of 'popular' press in the UK, Spain and Poland, it seeks to show how the inane tendency of news to report events in terms of an identity-based narrative can serve to foment moral panic within national publics. Contrary to interest based theories of integration, the EU's discourse clashes with national identity. Disintegration may be posited as the 'proper stance' to be supported on the part of the public in news narrative, if threatening deviance caused by the EU is to be resolved.

Stranded on the American frontier, Malka must stop at nothing to safeguard the all-powerful stone. She has come under the protection of a snarky felinoid - a shape-shifting girl who traces her lineage back to the court of Vlad Dracula. They must rescue with Henry, the American orphan whose thirst for knowledge could help decipher the clues to the next leg of their journey - if the Urumi don't kill them first.Alone in yet another strange land, Stas is mourning the unthinkable loss of his friend, Nell. Cryptic messages offer new hope. But the Dark Order has devised another strategy to outwit the band of misfits. Plans are betrayed and alliances are formed as history points to the final objective of their quest.