Ergebnis für "Americana" in Thriller

By 1964, the great empires of Europe have not faded into history. They have expanded across the globe, carving the world into spheres of influence, colonial possessions, and rival imperial blocs. For decades, the United States has thrived by playing one empire against another, balancing ambition with diplomacy and avoiding a direct clash with the Old World powers. But when events spiral out of control, that delicate game collapses.

Goodrow Hill podría parecer uno de esos lugares apacibles que han vivido tiempos mejores, pero este pequeño pueblo oculto entre la espesura del bosque tiene escrita en su pasado una historia llena de secretos que todos preferirían olvidar. Hace veinticinco años de aquel caluroso verano en el que un grupo de adolescentes mintió para ocultar algo que ningún adulto debía conocer. Veinticinco años desde que un hombre murió, un niño fue secuestrado y un joven desapareció.

At 33, Ryan Kealey has achieved more in his military and CIA career than most men can dream of in a lifetime. He's also seen the worst life has to offer and is lucky to have survived it. But being left alone with his demons is no longer an option. The CIA needs him badly, because the enemy they're facing is former U.S. soldier Jason March. Ryan knows all about March - he trained him.

Hundreds of people have gathered to watch the launching of the USS America - our newest and most sophisticated nuclear submarine. Then, the unthinkable happens. The experimental nuclear submarine is hijacked in broad daylight, and only Admiral Jake Grafton stands between the deadly cargo and its intended target: Washington D.C.

En la profundidad húmeda y espesa del bosque de Stoneheaven, descansa el cascarón de carne y huesos en el que se ha convertido el cuerpo adolescente de Sarah Brooks. Con solo diecisiete años y muchos secretos en su poder, la joven ha aparecido colgada de un árbol, bocabajo y completamente desnuda. ¿Quién puede haberla asesinado de este modo? ¿Qué sabía Sarah? ¿Quién le tenía miedo?

Samantha Jones is a small-town journalist with a big secret. She is actually Samantha Gentry, daughter of one of New York's most powerful moguls. At twenty-two, she's decided that finding true love isn't easy for an heiress. But she's willing to change her mind when she meets a man who knows her secret—and claims to have a message from her father. Soon, the handsome stranger has Samantha traveling by boat to a remote island along the St. Lawrence River. But who is Chris Andrews and what does he want? Why isn't Samantha allowed to leave the island? 

The bestselling author of The Dog Stars returns with a riveting novel of one man’s resilience against the ocean’s ferocious power as a husband finds himself swept out to sea off the coast of Maine and, while fighting for his very survival, encounters the looters and profiteers who seek to...

"Lo Svedese" è un soprannome magico al liceo di Newark, New Jersey. Appartiene a Seymour Levov, il ragazzo che tutti vorrebbero essere. Alto, biondo, atletico, ebreo, Levov eccelle nel baseball e - nell' America degli anni '50 - è destinato ad eccellere nella vita: il successo professionale, quello famigliare, la villetta borghese. Ma la lunga ed estenuante guerra del Vietnam squasserà l'America e coinvolgerà personalmente Seymour, nel modo più tremendo.

"Educazione americana" racconta la vera storia di una squadra clandestina della CIA, al servizio del governo degli Stati Uniti per condizionare le democrazie in Europa: sono sbirri in borghese dalla doppia e tripla vita, fanatici del crimine o semplici mercenari in cerca di emozioni. Hanno ucciso, finanziato partiti, favorito stragi. Se un solo istante delle loro vite avesse imboccato una strada diversa, il mondo come lo conosciamo non sarebbe esistito. Dalla Francia a Israele, dal Belgio all'Italia. L'elenco delle loro operazioni attraversa trent'anni di delitti.

A mysterious key hidden in a locket leads Juliet Watts and a handsome military intelligence officer on a journey of riddles, revelations, and romance. For years Juliet has believed her husband died saving a cheap trinket - but the locket for which he foolishly risked his life leads to more and more strange clues.

52 Pickup is a rip-roaring thriller from master of crime fiction Elmore Leonard, the New York Times bestselling author of Raylan, Get Shorty, Killshot, and other novels of suspense. Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell has had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony...

While taking a class trip to South America, sixteen friends are ambushed, captured and taken to a nearby village run by a mad man. It becomes clear that this is no ordinary village. It is a village of slaves, psychological warfare, and pure terror. With nothing but her wits and the voice of her dead uncle to guide her, Brooke Kylee must find a way to escape the horror while still maintaining the one thing she has left: her sanity.

By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light. In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes...

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958)—and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’ Gold...

The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times–bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford’s old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical...

A tragic accident threatens to unravel two families in this gripping novel of suspense and culture clash set in the Hamptons. Corey Halpern, a local high schooler with a troubled home life, is desperate to leave the Hamptons and start anew somewhere else. His last summer before college, he...