Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Thriller & Suspense

Ben Harris is a talented news photographer whose job puts him where the action is - a job that costs him his marriage and his family. His ex-wife marries his editor and boss. For the sake of his two children, Harris swallows his pride and offers his hand in friendship. Then his best friend is killed by the blast of a concealed bomb in Harris' surveillance van. He looks into the stories Gallagher was investigating to find the killer - and the target.

In Mercy 6, David Bajo's courageous new medical thriller, four people collapse dead in the same instant within a newly renovated Los Angeles hospital. Dr. Mendenhall, the woman who is head of the emergency room, isn't convinced the cause of death is a contagion. But it's in the interests of the hospital administrators - and of the world at large - for people to think that it is. If the world knew the truth there could only be widespread panic. The hospital is immediately locked down. Information is suddenly being strictly controlled.

When Ali Hussein, suspected terrorist and alleged banker for Al Qaeda, is finally transported from Guantanamo Bay to the US mainland to stand trial, many are stunned when Byron Carlos Johnson, a preeminent lawyer and son of a high-profile diplomat, volunteers to represent him. On principle, Johnson thought he was merely defending a man unjustly captured through Rendition and water-boarded illegally. But Johnson soon learns that there is much more at stake than one man’s civil rights.

A series of child abductions in Peru leads an FBI agent and an archaeologist to uncover the ultimate secret of the Inca Empire. On a Peruvian Andes mountaintop, archaeology professor Nina Ramirez and her students make two stunning discoveries: The five-hundred-year-old mummy of an Inca girl, the victim of ritual sacrifice, and in another grave, the corpse of a recently kidnapped boy wearing the same ancient costume. Child abductions are being reported throughout Peru, and when an American boy is snatched in Lima, FBI agent Adam Palma is assigned to the case.

Paul Wood and his girlfriend, Talena, were just tourists in Sarajevo, a city still reeling from the aftermath of civil war. But an unexpected encounter makes them a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, they must navigate through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia. Pursued by brutal gangsters and unable to leave the country legally, Paul agrees to do a job for a shadowy group of people – smugglers - in exchange for safe passage.

An American music icon is on a collision course with the world's two superpowers when trying to save a Chinese baby from death. Haunted by a troubled past and betrayed by the people closest to her, she is set to win against those determined to silence her.

No one’s mourning the death of Cuba’s dictator, Fidel Castro. His heirs, including daughter Carla, are jockeying for power. Guerrilla rebels threaten to topple the teetering government. But there’s more at stake than just the island nation. Il Jeffe’s legacy includes a long-hidden atomic missile, left over from the Kennedy-era Bay of Pigs crisis - which guerrilla leaders threaten to use against any American interference. Ace pilot Marine Lt. Edward Garcia is tasked to find the launch site.

Sardonic, chain-smoking, java-addicted FBI Special Agent Andy Fisher is called to look into the possibility that a terrorist group claims to have acquired an "E Bomb" - which can disable all electronic systems within a 10-mile radius - from North Korea. Fisher doubts that the North Koreans could actually make a working lawnmower, let alone an E Bomb. But the threat is more immediate than he suspects: The terrorists are already proceeding toward their objective.

hn Signal, fleeing from a murder charge in a fair fight, arrives in the mining town of Monument. Calling himself John Alias, he is made a deputy sheriff by Sheriff Peter Ogden, who puts Alias between two crooked factions and fails to give him any support.

The lush and beautiful forest planet of Bellerophon is home to a cacophony of noises, but its resident psychics are known as the Silent. Previously they could travel to the Dream, a telepathic plane of existence where they could twist the laws of reality. But that time is over... One madman's lust for power tore the Dream asunder. Now only a handful of the Silent can enter it. Kendi Weaver is one of them.

FBI agent Jack Ferico’s father is dying. His last wish? To see his estranged son, Danny, before he dies. Jack never got along with his older brother, but agrees to bring him home. Trouble is, Danny has disappeared without a trace. Jack’s search uncovers secrets, hidden agendas, and a danger more serious than he ever imagined. Danny specialized in stealth technologies at an international think tank. National security agencies suspect Danny sold classified technologies to the wrong people.

Before Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave.

After five years of virtual banishment because he sold out his small outfit to the Middle Arizona Cattle Company, giving it a foothold on the Mesa Grande range, violent-tempered Joe Bonnyman is summoned back to Lodgepole by his father when it appears that a cattle war between the syndicate and the various rangers is imminent. During his short stay in town, Joe has an unpleasant meeting with Ed Merrill, the brother of a girl Joe had once courted.

Princess Yu-Malu (The Dragon Princess), ancient in age (although seemingly young), most beautiful, and vastly wealthy, hates Western civilization and vows its downfall. She is assisted by a Corps of Dragonflies, members of the Hung, a powerful Secret Society. Yu-Malu wants China restored to its rightful place in the world. As part of her campaign, the Princess desires to obtain the formula of a revolutionary new rocket fuel invented by the West. Unless her demands are met, she will destroy the entire gold stocks of the West with her secret weapon. Already, planes carrying gold have been disappearing, but Yu-Malu's patience has been exhausted.

American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighura member of a Chinese Muslim minority at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are hounding her for information.

Freelance photographer and wildcat smuggler Dan Abatangelo blows into Vegas to hit the tables and taste the night life. In his path waits Shel Beaudry, a knockout redhead with a smile that says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." The attraction is instant - and soon the two are living the gypsy life on the West Coast, where Dan captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana, His credo: "No guns, no gangsters, it's only money." But the trade is changing.

International Falls, Minnesota, 4 de julio, una mujer es encontrada inconsciente y cubierta de sangre en el Parque Nacional de Voyageurs. El resto de su familia ha desaparecido y ella no parece recordar nada. El doctor Sullivan, director del centro psiquiátrico de la ciudad, y Sharon Dirckx, ayudante del Sheriff, intentarán que recuerde todo lo sucedido, aunque sin saberlo, pondrán en juego sus vidas, su idea de la cordura y los llevará hasta dudar de lo que la paciente le está contando.

La heredera de una gran hacienda de Yucatán y un arqueólogo inglés. La sombra mágica del jaguar. Dos cadáveres, una ciudad perdida y un misterio por resolver.

Una coppia perfetta, Étienne e Vive. Solida di una solidità costruita in dieci anni di convivenza. Come tutte le coppie, Étienne e Vive hanno i loro rituali: i vernissage a cui viene invitata Vive, i concerti di Étienne il martedì, le vacanze insieme in Italia, ogni agosto. Una vita sociale piena, a cui Vive partecipa con entusiasmo e che Étienne in parte subisce. I problemi di soldi, gli occasionali litigi, le riappacificazioni. Étienne e Vive si compensano.

È il gennaio del 2020 quando Ralph Core vola in Zimbabwe per raccogliere materiale per il suo nuovo libro. Vuole scrivere della diga di Kariba, un’opera colossale e avveniristica che sbarra il fiume Zambesi e dal 1960, grazie al lavoro ingegneristico di alcune imprese italiane, fornisce energia idroelettrica al paese centrafricano e a quelli vicini. I lavori, che all’epoca avevano costretto 70.000 indigeni Tonga ad abbandonare tra tensioni e rivolte le fertili rive dello Zambesi e della Gwembe Valley, erano stati però considerati non solo un’opportunità ma una ferita inferta a Nyaminyami, il dio del fiume.