Ergebnis für "Emma" in Politik

Emma Sköld in Lebensgefahr. Die Polizistin Emma Sköld ist tot, getötet von Kollegen, denen sie auf die Spur gekommen ist. Zumindest glaubt das alle Welt. In Wahrheit hat Emma den Anschlag überlebt. Zusammen mit ihrem Vater will sie nun dem Polizeichef von Stockholm das Handwerk legen. Gunnar Olausson sieht sich auf einer Mission; er will das Land von Bettlern und Migranten säubern. Emma aber braucht Beweise. Da gerät sie an Soraya, eine junge Frau, die den Mord an einem Bettler beobachtet hat und seitdem vor Gunnar auf der Flucht ist.

Gray’s life has been in turmoil ever since her mother was chosen to lead the country. First, they had to leave their home and move into the prime minister’s official residence at Number 10, Downing Street. Now, everywhere she goes, she must be accompanied by bodyguards. Worst of all, the media won’t leave her alone - she’s in every tabloid, and her behavior, appearance, the length of her skirts...everything is judged.

Imagínese a un par de jóvenes hacktivistas, ambos ex miembros del grupo de lucha por la libertad de Internet Anonymous, y uno de ellos ex oficial de operaciones encubiertas, separándose de Anonymous y creando un grupo militante de anarquistas comprometidos con el cambio social. Pero el cambio social es acelerado por actos de violencia contra los directores ejecutivos de las principales corporaciones responsables de crímenes de lesa humanidad.

This is an Emma Lathen political mystery featuring House Rep. Ben Safford, D-Ohio, who is caught up in a mystery and solves it skillfully as he does in her other six mysteries featuring him, much like John Putnam Thatcher does in her 26 Wall Street mysteries. The New York Times called Emma Lathen “The American Agatha Christie.”

Emma St. Claire is only weeks away from an important election when she is approached by a total stranger to spearhead an investigation of a soldier held in a POW camp for five decades. Immortalized in granite while being proclaimed alive, the young representative grapples with the idea that America would have left one of hers behind. The two countries involved, Vietnam and the United States, can't decide what to do with the Army veteran because of an alleged document signed by a dead president that awards the prisoner's descendants a large county in southwest California.

Gray Langtry is on the run. As the only child of the British prime minister, Gray's life has been in turmoil ever since her mother was chosen to lead the country. Both she and her mother are targets of a Russian assassination plot. And what's worse, members of her mother's own cabinet are involved. A team of bodyguards never leaves her side. The press attention is relentless. And then there are the death threats.

The 25th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. The political power games going on in the California and Washington, DC, worlds. Elizabeth Thatcher, like her father, cuts through the emotions to get to the money and power motives.

A Washington upstart comes under fire for her support of a wonder drug that kills hundreds of veterans. While in the throes of her second election, Representative Emma St. Claire and her edgy staff must prove her innocence in the court of public opinion. Follow her as she takes you on a wild political adventure.

By the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Lie. Forbidden love, intimate betrayal and the devastating power of exposure drive Helen Dunmore's remarkable new title. London, November 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets and arrested.

Dr. David Fazio is a maternity physician at Chicago-Western Medical Hospital. He is a handsome, divorced baby doctor who has more than his share of personal flaws. But Dr. Fazio has one good moral quality going for him: He is a pro-life obstetrician. In a state where late-term abortions are now legal, he is being strongly encouraged by the hospital to perform abortions on any patient requesting one.

Efter en våt nyårsnatt i Ålborg vaknar klimatforskaren Jessica Winther ensam i hotellsängen. Pojkvännen, yrkessoldaten Björn, är försvunnen, likaså Jessicas minnen av natten. Innan Jessica reser tillbaka till Köpenhamn får hon i uppdrag av miljö- och klimatministern att besöka en vindkraftverkspark. När hon högst upp i ett av vindkraftverken hittar ett lik blir det början på en långdragen mardröm. Kort därefter får pressen ett anonymt brev i vilket avsändaren förklarar sig redo att mörda i klimatets namn under namnet #klimatkrigaren.