Machiko Noguchi accepted the assignment of supervising the ranching colony on Ryushi as a challenge. Little did she know that not only would she have to run the colony, she'd defend it with her life.First the carcass of a spiderlike alien is discovered. Then a rancher's family is massacred. Finally a creature unlike any ever seen before is brought to the colony medical center, near death. It soon becomes clear that not one but two strains of alien life have landed near the settlement of Prosperity Wells. One kind -- beetle black with shells hard as steel -- have been spawned as the prey in a deadly hunt. The other kind -- upright like humans but infinitely stronger and just as smart -- are the Predators. Between them are the human colonists, unarmed and vulnerable. With the entire colony at risk, Machiko Noguchi must choose between death and survival -- and may find her greatest ally in a Predator ready to kill her...
Alien vs. Predator Serie
Questa serie immerge i lettori in una brutale guerra intergalattica tra due delle specie più temute della galassia. Vivi azione implacabile e suspense mentre l'umanità si ritrova intrappolata in un conflitto non creato da lei. Assisti a selvaggi incontri in cui la sopravvivenza dipende dal coraggio e dall'ingegno di fronte a un terrore inimmaginabile. È una lotta per l'esistenza in cui gli alleati possono essere pericolosi quanto i nemici.
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The best time of Machiko Naguchi's life came in the wake of the Ryushi colony massacre. It was then that she abandoned her human heritage and ran with the Predators as a dedicated Hunter. But it was only two years before she returned to live with humanity and work for the Chigusa Corporation.Livermore Evanston is an ambitious developer who has built the ultimate hunter's paradise: a world just beyond the reach of human regulations, populated by ferocious genetically engineered animals. But Evanston didn't plan on being patronized by the galaxy's most ruthless Predators--or the Aliens they brought along as prey. As his human customers fall victim to the unscheduled hunt, Evanston realizes that the Predators must be curbed, and there's only one woman for the job. But there's even more to this world than meets the eye, and Machiko Naguchi may only have one way out: to take complete control of the deadliest planet in known space!
WO NUR DIE FITTESTEN ÜBERLEBEN, HABEN MENSCHEN DIE SCHLIMMSTEN CHANCEN. Machiko Noguchi lebte für den Nervenkitzel der Jagd. Sie lief mit den Predators, bis ihre menschliche Genialität sie als Außenseiterin markierte. Jetzt ist der Nervenkitzel vorbei. Und die wilden Krieger ihrer Jagdgruppe sind hinter ihr her. In der Zwischenzeit wissen Jess, Lara und Eliis, Überreste eines Bug-Hunter-Teams, das eine Alien-Infestation auf einer Raumstation der Firma ausgelöscht hat, zu viele Geheimnisse, um weiter leben zu dürfen. Sie werden von einem rücksichtslos ehrgeizigen Firmenchef ins Visier genommen, der vor nichts zurückschreckt, um sie für immer zum Schweigen zu bringen. Eine ausgestoßene menschliche Jägerin und ein Trio von Bug-Huntern. Sie sind die unwahrscheinlichsten Verbündeten. Doch auf dem Sumpfplaneten Bunda müssen sie sich in einem verzweifelten Kampf zusammenschließen. Die Auftragskiller der Firma sind bereits auf dem Weg, um zu töten. Furchterregende Predators steuern auf ein Aufeinandertreffen mit einer grausamen Kolonie von Aliens zu. Und zwischen ihnen stehen vier mutige Krieger in einem umfassenden Krieg zwischen den wildesten Lebensformen der Galaxie — ein Krieg, den nichts Menschliches überleben kann.
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Contains three classic, previously published Alien vs Predator novels: Prey, Hunter's Planet and War. Machiko Noguchi accepted the supervision of the Ryushi ranching colony as a challenge. Little did she know that soon she would defend it with her life. First the carcass of a spider- like alien is discovered.