Ergebnis für "Change" in Thriller

Hat eine Liebe, die mit einer Lüge beginnt, eine Chance? Rook hat eigentlich alles, was er je wollen könnte. Als Captain des NHL-Teams von Chicago ist er auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Eis-Hockey-Karriere angekommen: er ist erfolgreich, berühmt - und hat keine Probleme, weibliche Gesellschaft zu finden. Doch trotzdem hat Rook plötzlich das Gefühl, dass in seinem Leben etwas fehlt. Daher flieht er an einen Ort, an dem ihn hoffentlich niemand kennt: Alaska! Schon auf dem Flug dahin, muss Rook allerdings erkennen, dass seine geplante Auszeit nicht so ruhig wird, wie erhofft.

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK ""The Change is like a guttural rage scream (and somehow a soft, tearful hug) of a book, and I couldn't have loved it any more."" --Emily Henry Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about...

The city of Bridgetown has a poor reputation. With weekly homicides on the east side, an affluent section of the city where residents want no part of the Bridgetown name, and a downtown area where the city’s budget is being drained. Madeline Cross is on her way to becoming a movie star. But when she is brutally slaughtered alongside her oldest son, Brandon, and live-in nanny, Sarah, in the affluent part of the city, speculation grows about who committed the crime and, more importantly, why.

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself. On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle—and...

Ein atemberaubender Thriller aus der nahen Zukunft. Vom New York Times-Bestsellerautor Douglas E. Richards, dessen Bücher sich über eine Million Mal verkauft haben. Was wäre, wenn es möglich wäre, jahrelanges Wissen in wenigen Stunden in den eigenen Kopf zu laden? Ein Experte in mehreren wissenschaftlichen Bereichen zu werden, ein Arzt zu werden oder mehrere Sprachen zu lernen - an einem einzigen Tag? Der Nutzen für die Menschheit wäre immens. Aber das wären auch die Gefahren.

Rasante Action, coole Sprüche und eine Prise Exotik: Der grillende Killer ist ein Hard-boiled-Thriller aus Taiwan, der mit originellem Setting und schwarzem Humor punktet. Ausgerechnet wenige Tage vor der verdienten Pensionierung muss Kommissar Wu aus Taipeh sich mit dem angeblichen Suizid eines Marine-Offiziers herumschlagen. Wu ist sofort klar, dass der Mann ermordet wurde, doch das Militär beharrt auf Selbstmord - auch, als kurz darauf im fernen Rom weitere Offiziere zu Tode kommen. Nach dem reibungslos erledigten Job in Rom freut sich der junge taiwanesische Scharfschütze Alex darauf, zu seinem Asia-Imbiss zurückzukehren.

Sinful, Louisiana, is always a hotbed of activity, and despite the steamy heat, August is no exception. Godzilla is terrorizing the town, looking for a home-cooked meal, and Gertie is worried someone will take the gator out before she can get him under control. Francine has a situation of her own at the café, where food is missing from inventory. And Celia is always up to no good. But summer is almost over, which could mean huge changes for Fortune Redding.

Wie durch ein Wunder trägt Taiwans Präsident Hsu nur einen Kratzer davon, als er während einer Wahlkampf-Veranstaltung Opfer eines Scharfschützenangriffs wird. Die Beweislage ist allerdings verwirrend: Die gefundene Patronenhülse passt nicht zur Kugel, und der Schusswinkel erscheint unmöglich. Kommissar Wu, für den Fall extra aus dem Ruhestand geholt, berät sich im Geheimen mit seinem Freund, dem Scharfschützen Alex Li, der sich noch immer versteckt halten muss. Schnell ist Alex überzeugt, dass das Attentat fingiert war.

As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

A faction of fringe military scientists develop a new formula NXY-314 to make an ordinary soldier into a superhuman, killing machine What can go wrong? NXY-314 has mutated into a virus, and it is spreading from one person to another. The end result: the infected changes into strange creatures that are both intelligent and fierce fighters.

A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world . . . A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend . . . An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal Wildlife...

A battered body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, during the town's biggest event - Race Week. Jesse's investigation takes him to Florida, and back, while his private life takes him back to his ex-wife...

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life...

New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear. When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the...

What if it were possible to upload years of knowledge into your mind in hours? To become an expert in multiple scientific fields, become an MD, or learn several languages - in a single day? The benefit to humanity would be immense. But so would the danger.... Rachel Howard is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to make this capability a reality. But when she crosses paths with Kevin Quinn, a Secret Service agent desperately trying to kill the president, she finds herself at the epicenter of an insidious plot.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”—STEPHEN KING From the author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn’t what it seems...

FBI Agent Brian Deeds finds himself at a deadlock in a high-stakes fraud case unfolding in Houston, Texas. The disappearance of his prime suspect, Jonathan Edwards III, combined with the tragic demise of a key witness, has left him grappling for leads. His focus squarely rests on Edwards’ wife, Charlie.

When a young woman is found murdered in a seedy massage parlor near his neighborhood, the police recruit Randall Lee - an American acupuncturist and Tai Chi master - as a translator and expert in Chinese culture, to assist in the investigation. Lee discovers that the murderer is an expert in a forbidden Chinese martial art - the dark mirror to his own healing practices - and joins in the hunt for the killer to escape his own inner demons and save the woman he loves.

Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories. “Under any name King mesmerizes the reader” (Chicago Sun-Times). It’s all coming to an end for...