Showing results for "Augustus" in Thriller & Suspense

Als de achtjarige wees Jack bij het bezoeken van het graf van zijn ouders een meisje ontmoet, Stella, is hij direct weg van haar. Maar hun ontmoeting wordt plotseling beëindigd door een mysterieuze vrouw, die Stella dwingt in een witte SUV te stappen. Wekenlang blijft Jack naar de begraafplaats gaan, hopend een glimp van Stella op te vangen. Altijd tevergeefs. Tot hij exact een jaar later weer het graf van zijn ouders bezoekt en de witte SUV opnieuw opduikt.

An addictive literary puzzle that introduces an unforgettable young heroine plunged into the twisted world of a secret society with a dark agenda. Lee Cuddy is 17 years old and on the run, alone on the streets of Philadelphia. After taking the fall for a rich friend, Lee reluctantly accepts refuge in the Crystal Castle - a cooperative of homeless kids squatting in an austere, derelict building. But homeless kids are disappearing from the streets in suspicious numbers, and Lee quickly discovers that the secret society's charitable façade is too good to be true.

Prior to becoming a political appointee, Augustus Pena was an assassin for National Intelligence Covert Operations [NICO]. He believed his past was behind him. Yet, when he starts to write fiction that bears a resemblance to his experiences, his former director Milken elects to silence him. The decision to eliminate the Pena threat stems from Milken's paranoid perception that recent military intelligence tell-all books and video games have permanently damaged the clandestine community.

When Victor Fitzgerald is killed by a falling statue, Lisa Donahue becomes interim director of her Boston University museum. Suddenly, she’s juggling murder, artifact theft, and a complicated move into a new building. Then, the treacherous dean announces her replacement: a vicious woman from Lisa’s past.

Diana King is a psychiatric doctor, working closely with military families. Her marriage to a major in the US Army may not seem anything out of the normal except that her husband is an African American man. She is a white woman from the rural south. Her father makes it very clear that he is not supportive of the relationship. The drama explodes when King and family are reassigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama, where Diana's family resides as original settlers. King is called up for duties in Iraq, serving a couple stints in the Gulf War.

In the rustic and quaint town of Kalesteen, on the western slope of Shawangunk Ridge, life is tranquil and orderly – just the way its colorful residents like it. After leaving his good-paying job in New Jersey over ethical concerns and making a clean break with his fiancée, John Hallock finds solitude in the purchase of the old Fulmer place, a weathered and overgrown farm left to ruin after its sole owner was found dead. As Hallock sets out to renovate the farmhouse and tend to the land along Shawangunk Ridge, he stumbles across an unsettling secret.

During the course of his search for a missing man living off the grid in a remote stretch of the Sierra Nevada foothills, private investigator Adam Fraley suddenly finds himself the target of a deranged sniper who is determined to take him out.

Francisco is next in line to take over as Mafia kingpin. His father wants him to settle down, but Francisco has never met a woman who made him want more than a one-night stand. Until the night of the masquerade party at Club Ecstasy - when a masked woman entrances him with her warmth, kindness, and innate sensuality.

Now separated in the unidentified forest, Steven and Monica must fend for themselves. A vengeful man with a gun has apprehended one of them, and the other is forced to cope with a potent, mind-altering medication.

After escaping the chaos of his first Bigfoot encounter, author Steven Armstrong feels lucky to be alive. But the aftermath soon sets in, not just in the form of trauma from seeing the creatures but also from a phone call from someone claiming to work for the FBI. Why would an intelligence agency have any interest in Steven? Could it have something to do with the Sasquatch species?

Following the publication of his popular Bigfoot Horror Stories series, author Steven Armstrong is approached by someone on the internet claiming they can take him to see Sasquatch in the wild. Initially, the idea sounds crazy, but things get serious when the email is followed up with a devastating photograph.