Ergebnis für "Crisis" in Thriller

Wenn ein Mann bei einem Date gesagt bekommt, dass er älter aussieht als sein brandaktuelles Foto, dann weiß er, die Dinge in seinem Leben laufen nicht gerade toll. So wie bei Henri. Irgendwie geht es ihm okay. Aber irgendwie auch überhaupt nicht: seine Ehe ist Geschichte, die Affäre aber auch. Als sein Hausarzt dann auch noch »die Wechseljahre« bei ihm diagnostiziert, reicht es Henri langsam. Da passt es auch ganz gut, dass seine Traumfrau Emily als Coach arbeitet. Kann sie ihm helfen? Dummerweise steht Emily privat auf junge Männer. Aber so leicht gibt Henri nicht auf.

Stuck working at a backwater convenience store in the middle of northern Florida, Mattie longs for a cigarette. She longs for her days as a marine biologist at the Queen Aquarium down south. She longs for her best friend Hank the Manatee. Her colleagues blamed her for his death, and now, she blames herself. She should have done something sooner.

When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who works continuously in the service of others, he endured grueling years of training and is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical...

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean. Tom Mangan was a sharply successful entrepreneur who lured the super-rich to his luxury hotels in the sun-soaked Bahamas. Then violent tragedy struck: his own family disappeared, and a series of misfortunes...

Creel Creek, Virginia, is the last place either of her ex-husbands would ever think to look for Constance. What better place to hide from her humiliations than a town too small to warrant a mention on a map? Laid off, and recently divorced from husband number two, this former workaholic moves in with her estranged - and very strange - grandmother. A grandmother who informs Constance that she comes from a long line of powerful witches. And on the day she hits the big 4-0, she'll come into her powers.

Martha's posting to Agok, in South Sudan, gives her the chance to make amends for the mistake that caused her to be sent home from her last posting. As Project Manager, she's in charge of a small team facing an escalating crisis, with more and more refugees arriving across the border from the...

With my life back to normal - normal being a very relative word - one would think I’d catch a break. One would be very wrong. With an angel gunning for me and a demon in my bed, life couldn’t be more complicated. Not to mention, I’m going to have to make a rather large life choice. Do I want to live forever? Does anyone? Forever is a very long time. Whatever. I’ll think about it tomorrow...or next week...or next month. As long as I have my girlfriends, my dogs, a super-sized case of merlot, and my deceased squatters, I’m good to go.

Never in my 40 years did I think my new normal would be gluing body parts back onto ghosts and hosting a houseful of dead squatters. Thank God for superglue and a strong stomach. Never thought I’d date the Grim Reaper and that I would be the one to blow it. I mean, how idiotic does one have to be to get dumped by a dude who lives in Hell? Going about business as usual is not usual in any way. No one is who they seem to be...and to be honest, neither am I. What I’d known to be true has turned out to be myth. The angels are frightening, and the demons are hot.

The third installment of the Just A.S.K. series finds Andrew Stanislus Kolar in crisis. He means well, but things seem to turn out much different than he hopes they will. His actions create problems that his training as a Marine helps him overcome. A Mexico trip with his two teenagers brings him into contact with an old enemy and a dilemma as he seeks the hidden loot of the legendary war treasure collector, Helmit Heil.

Tess O'Rourke dreams of becoming the first female chief of police in Long Beach, California. As commander of the East Division, she is well on her way...until the night she responds to an officer-needs-assistance call and fatally shoots an unarmed teenager. Despite being cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury, Tess is so hounded by the public that she takes a job in Oregon to escape the bad press.

After a Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader moment, I discovered I do indeed have a father. He comes with a hell of a lot of baggage, but I’ve decided to keep him. Not only do I have a father, I have a kick-ass new sister, a ghostly family, and super powers to boot. If you add to the mix that I’m dating the Grim Reaper, it’s a freakin’ party. The only thing standing in the way of my happiness is the Angel of Mercy, though Angel of Misery is more appropriate. She’s responsible for almost everyone I have loved, and who has loved me, being taken away.

In the beginning was Jacqueline, and crossings on the Star Ferry with warm Hong Kong breezes blowing strands of long, black hair across her face as her eyes gazed into his. When investment banker Alexander “Dusty” Street returns to Hong Kong 20 years later, everybody wants him to save a huge acquisition, stabilize panicking financial markets, and return home to New York. The choice is obvious, until the love of his life reappears.

In the classic film Casablanca, everyone fades into the fog and that is the end of the story. But actions have consequences, and in this sequel to Return From Casablanca, an update inspired by the film's story, the listener learns what happens to the main characters, Rick Grey, Ari Levy, and Anya (Sharansky) Levy, after they all "fade to black" and the credits roll. Ari Levy returns to the field and travels to the United States to track down and assassinate a terrorist, but is he ready for the mission?

Mitch Herron is done with America. But America isn’t done with him. When he went on the run from the authorities, Mitch Herron knew he could never return home to the United States. But after an ambush in Hong Kong that almost left him dead, he found the American government wasn’t ready to let him vanish. Now, the ultimate deniable asset has agreed to one last job to save a key intelligence asset. If he fails, America will lose one of its key weapons in an increasingly unstable world, and a key United States ally will be ripe for the picking by its enemies.

Luke Flynn discovers suddenly, alongside the rest of his classroom, that one of the other, young students in the class filled with five and six-year-olds had gone missing. Two weeks later, the girl returns, yet she's different, her personality having mysteriously flipped, though she has no recollection of how she'd previously acted. Luke, his classmates, the teachers and the parents are put under a lot of strain as they try to prevent the other children from going missing and having the same fate, though as a pattern unfolds, it's proved to be futile.

Dr. Vince DeLuca would normally take a Tito’s straight up with two olives after a ruptured ectopic pregnancy nearly flatlined a patient. Maybe follow it up with a one-night stand to chase away memories of the trauma that’s kept his life stagnant for so long. But when he overhears one of his recovering patients—married to the CEO of a defense contractor—mumbling about “stingers,” “revenge,” and her affair with a mysterious man named Salaam, Vince’s PTSD alights.

The secretary of defense is dead, and no one is more shocked than Defense Policy Undersecretary Colt Garrett when he’s appointed by the president to the second-most powerful job in the world. While onboard USS Ronald Reagan in the Western Pacific, he must find and recover missing biological warheads hidden in South Korea before US efforts to bring peace to the region are derailed.

In the aftermath of the brutal attack on his family compound, Alex Fletcher embraces his rapidly expanding role within the New England Regional Recovery Zone (RRZ). Fueled by a limitless drive to protect his family and a rekindled sense of duty, he enlists the reluctant aid of a local militia commander - to ease the public's fears of a federal government takeover.

Thirty-nine was a fantastic year. I was married to the man I loved. I had a body that worked without creaking. My grandma, who raised me, was still healthy, and life was pretty damned good. But as they say, all good things come to an end. One year later, I’m a widow. My joints are starting to ache. Gram is in the nursing home, and dead people think my home is some kind of supernatural bed-and-breakfast. Gluing body parts onto semi-transparent people has become a side job - deceased people I’m not even sure are actually there.

Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca’s old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace. The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift on the horizon.