Ergebnis für "Das Verbrechen" in Historische Romane

Ein meisterhaft erzählter Roman über den Aufstieg eines jüdischen Boxers im Warschau der Vorkriegszeit, der in die Welt des organisierten Verbrechens gerät. Der talentierte Boxer Jakub Shapiro wird vom mächtigen Unterweltboss Kaplica gefördert und steigt zu dessen engstem Vertrauten auf. Mit großer erzählerischer Wucht zeichnet Szczepan Twardoch das schillernde und brutale Warschau der 1930er-Jahre.

With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boastfulness or his enormous vanity.

Giacomo Sereni è un maresciallo dei carabinieri, siciliano, cresciuto tra gli ulivi di Noto. Sceglie la divisa come si sceglie una fede. La sua missione ha il nome che il mondo intero conosce: Salvatore Riina. Giacomo è uno dei quattro uomini che una sera d'agosto, in una palazzina qualunque di Palermo, bussano alla porta del covo. Pistola in pugno, il cuore che batte come un colpo di fucile. Ma catturare il male non significa vincerlo. Il Capitano Ultimo finisce sotto processo. Gli eroi diventano imputati.

Greg Ellis had a fascinating legal career. He grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Law School in Chicago in 1980. He defended Chicago mobsters and later prosecuted the worst mob murderers as a State’s Attorney. His first case out of Law School was a life changer. While working for a prominent criminal defense lawyer, Greg represented the two Marlborough Diamond Thieves. It is a 45-carat diamond in a necklace, stolen from a London jewelry store in 1980. It has never been recovered. This book follows its trail for the past 42 years. Where it has been and where it is now.

A young man desperate for work and independence finds himself employed in a rural nursing home. When young Jason gets too close to a resident (a self-proclaimed KGB spy who is under the watchful eye of an agent known only as Chandler) he finds his only way out is in.

Charlie White leads a simple life in 1920s Philadelphia as a chemist at the Dupont Corporation. One day, as he's walking home from work, he is approached by two men and is forced into the world of bootlegging, corruption and murder. When tragedy strikes, Charlie must decide whether to continue his double-life or tell the world his story before it's too late. The Chemist is based on a true story during Prohibition.