Showing results for "Luca" in Espionage

For Maddog, the killer who had Minneapolis in a grip of chilled terror, satisfaction came from the thrill of the contest. After each grisly murder he would leave behind one of the rules he had devised: Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. He was no textbook psychopath. But Lieutenant Lucas Davenport was no ordinary detective. To bring an end to Maddog's trail of death, he would have to play by his own rules.

To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything - even another climber's life. His friends and family know and fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it. Together with his climbing partner, Bill Taylor, they set off into a region of Tibet highly restricted by the Chinese.

The Iceman crept into the house on the edge of the lake. He killed the father first. Then the mother and child. And when his work was done, he set the house on fire…. Lucas Davenport has tracked killers in cities across America. But the woods of rural Wisconsin are as dark and primal as evil itself. The winters are harsher and colder. And in the heart of every mother and father, there is fear... Because tonight, the Iceman cometh.

After having been abducted from an FBI operation, Jake Summers wakes up the victim of an explosion in London a week later. He is perhaps the sole witness to the start of a massive terrorist plot, but his memory of the event—and of the last 12 years of his life—have been erased. Jake's not sure if he can be the man he once was to help the government stop another attack. But when MI6 Agent Alexa Ryan shows up needing his help, Jake begins to recall some of his past. And some of those memories include her.

Le nouveau thriller policier d'Alex Sol ! Alors que la commandante Elise Duromain rentre d’un week-end de détente, le cri d’une femme retentit dans le train qui la ramène à Paris. Son fils vient de disparaître. Elise découvre très vite que l’enfant ne s’est pas perdu. Il a été enlevé. Bien qu'elle soit en congé, la commandante ne peut ignorer son devoir et se lance dans une course contre la montre pour retrouver Gabriel. Il lui reste peu de temps avant que le train n'entre dans la gare suivante, offrant ainsi une opportunité au ravisseur de s'échapper. Chaque seconde compte.

Die gefeierte Cellistin Hannah Gold berührt die Menschen mit ihrer Musik, doch an sie selbst kommt niemand heran: Denn Hannah kann keinen Schmerz mehr empfinden. Als Kind wurde sie vor den Augen ihres Vaters, eines Staatssekretärs im Wirtschaftsministerium der DDR, gefoltert, um geheime Informationen über die Rosenholz-Dateien aus ihm herauszupressen. Er schwieg, und Hannah hat ihn nie wiedergesehen, bis er eines Abends plötzlich in einem ihrer Konzerte sitzt.

Das Buch zur ARD-Eventserie "DAVOS 1917": Der Erste Weltkrieg verwüstet Europa. In Kontrast dazu erscheint Davos, der noble Bergkurort in der neutralen Schweiz, wie eine Oase des Friedens. Doch in Wahrheit tobt hier hinter den Kulissen ein unerbittlicher Agentenkrieg der Weltmächte. Die junge Schweizer Krankenschwester Johanna Gabathuler gerät unerwartet zwischen die Fronten der Spione: Um ihre uneheliche Tochter zurückzubekommen, lässt sie sich auf ein tödliches Spiel mit dem deutschen Geheimdienst ein – und wird so plötzlich zum Zünglein an der Waage, das über Krieg oder Frieden entscheidet.

Luis Fuentes longs to quit the violence-riddled border. But when the undercover DEA agent is contacted by a would-be-terrorist, he jumps in to probe for details before an extremist plot unfolds. And when the FBI Director tells him to quietly string the man along, the street-smart operative's instincts tell him his superior is playing dirty pool.

William Warwick, appena promosso ispettore, ha ricevuto un nuovo incarico che si prospetta assai più delicato e pericoloso dei precedenti. Perché non solo dovrà occuparsi, come al solito, dei crimini commessi in città, ma dovrà anche portare alla luce la corruzione che dilaga all’interno della stessa Scotland Yard. I suoi stretti collaboratori, agendo sotto copertura, si concentrano subito sul sergente Summers, un giovane ufficiale le cui abitudini di vita sembrano molto al di sopra di ciò che si può permettere con lo stipendio da poliziotto.

Mancano solo 6 giorni, 13 ore e 37 minuti... Florentyna Kane è riuscita in un’impresa che sembrava impossibile, è diventata la prima presidente donna degli Stati Uniti. Ma il giorno stesso in cui deve prestare giuramento a Capitol Hill, forze imperscrutabili sono già al lavoro per ucciderla. L’FBI viene a conoscenza della congiura, ma solo cinque persone ne conoscono i dettagli. Un’ora dopo quattro di loro sono morte. L’unico superstite è l’agente Mark Andrews. Solo lui conosce la verità e solo lui può salvare Florentyna da quello che sembra un destino segnato.

Cresciuta fra i privilegi nella dimora di famiglia, in un idillico Hampshire, la bionda e bellissima Alexandra Wickham sembra destinata a una vita di agi. Ma nel 1939 l'Europa va a fuoco e anche la Gran Bretagna entra in guerra. Alexandra si trasferisce a Londra per offrirsi come ausiliaria, ma la sua conoscenza delle lingue la rende perfetta per servire la patria in altro modo. Arruolata dal mitico SOE, Special Operations Executive, impara l'arte dello spionaggio.