Ergebnis für "Evan" in Politik

Evan Smoak, einst Orphan X – der gefürchtetste Auftragskiller eines geheimen Programms – und heute als »Nowhere Man« die letzte Hoffnung für Verzweifelte, steht am Wendepunkt: Eine persönliche Krise zwingt ihn zum Rückzug. Doch als seine Nichte Sofia ihn bittet, ihren verschwundenen Hund zu finden, kann er nicht Nein sagen. Was wie ein harmloser Gefallen beginnt, eskaliert zum größten Einsatz seines Lebens.

Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets - i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him.

Für ein streng geheimes Programm hat die Regierung einen Waisenjungen rekrutiert und ihn zu einem Auftragskiller gemacht. Sein Name: Evan Smoak. Auch bekannt als "Orphan X." Nachdem er die Organisation hinter sich gelassen hat, lebt er nun außer Sicht- und Reichweite seiner ehemaligen Arbeitgeber. In einem Café in Nordkalifornien trifft Evan zufällig auf eine junge Frau, die seine Hilfe braucht. Ein sehr mächtiger, gefährlicher Mann hat sie brutal misshandelt und kontrolliert jeden ihrer Schritte. Die Frau weiß, dass sie sterben wird, wenn sie nicht flieht.

Say hello to Pittsburgh’s most eligible bachelor. Evan is a twenty-something with the world at his feet. If only he could meet the right woman. Someone he’ll be able to settle down with. There’s just one problem. He can’t seem to find one. Will Evan’s fortune change when he meets a stripper at a bachelor party?

Tim Donovan is a Catholic priest with a guilty conscience - though not in the way you’d guess. And Katherine Donne is a Parisian socialite who long ago kicked her self-respect to the curb - for good and for ill. And much closer, we have a group of men whose fortunes, graying temples, and positions in life are distinguished and enviable. But their morals? Anything but. And that’s where Evan Reed comes in.

Against the bloody backdrop of a country simmering with racial tension, friendships are tested, beliefs are tried, and the prejudices of years are challenged...Unaware of the inner turmoil of Kuwait, Evan Davis enters as an employee of Al Hakim, a benevolent Kuwaiti horse-breeder, hired to change the country’s perception on the world’s stage. But all is not what it seems - when documents detailing the atrocities done to the Bedoon are thrust into Evan’s hands anonymously, he is forced to act. But wherever he turns mysteries and secrets abound.

When it comes to finding dirt, Evan Reed is the best in the business. She’s a “dust-buster” - a paid operative hired by political campaigns to vet candidates for national office. She’s also a foulmouthed and cranky ex-Catholic - attempting to raise a 14-year-old daughter on her own. When she is hired to investigate the background of a squeaky-clean and charismatic junior senator who might just be the next president, the last thing she expects to uncover is a murder.

A bomb threat is made at a provincial Austrian village station. An unattended bag placed next to three messages: 'repent!', 'first and final warning!' and 'next time it will be for real!' But no one takes it too seriously, not even the police. Then a teacher in the village thinks he recognises his favourite pupil, Daniel, on a wanted notice in a newspaper.

Tennessee Assistant Attorney General, Casey Cooper, a top graduate of Harvard Law School, passed on a promising legal career in New York or Washington D.C. and elected instead to stay in Nashville to care for his grandmother who suffered a heart attack. Following the overdose death of a young woman connected to his family, Casey investigates and is shocked by what he learns about the opioid epidemic that is devastating the country.

Guns & God: Lines in the Sand is an electrifying adult crime-thriller involving murder, conspiracy, and infidelities that jolt a community as two neighboring families collide over political ideas about gun laws...when patriarch Luke “Fuzzy” Rose learns that a family member will stop at nothing to overtake the family business, all hell breaks loose, sending the family on a manhunt to end the dark plot and exposing its plans for civil war.

Darlene and Mike fight not only the foreign enemy on United States soil but the foes within the populace of America in the exciting third book of this World War 3 apocalyptic tale. Faced with chaos and disorder all around them, the survivors must not only reach Osceola but make sure it stays outside of enemy hands in this epic thriller!