Ergebnis für "Gambit" in Thriller

Meet Major General Richard LeGrande, the USA’s answer to George Smiley. He knows each of his agents personally, their strengths and weakness and hopes and dreams—and he watches over each and every one of them, doing his utmost to ensure they return home safely from each and every mission. He is aware of the thousand things that could go wrong, with fatal results for his operatives.

A French invasion fleet is poised to cross the Channel and storm the beaches of southern England. A member of Napoleon's inner circle contacts the British naval intelligence service in hopes of defecting to London. His escape plan calls for a rendezvous at an international chess tournament in Frankfurt. Naval intelligence sends its top man and best chess player, Captain Thomas Grey, to orchestrate the Frenchman's escape to England. But Grey's mission changes dramatically when the defector demands that his pro-Napoleon daughter come with him—expecting Grey to act as kidnapper.

Jane’s future, the desperate dreams she’s locked in her heart for so long, rest on faraway shores, but being ashore comes with its own challenges; ones that force Jane and Bennett to change their identities, yet again. But, in a life of piracy, grudges are often long-held and blood-tainted. Jane couldn’t have known that when pirates crossed long ago set their vengeful gazes upon her. She isn’t the same woman she was when she climbed aboard Sneaky Lass a lifetime ago. Watching her hopes of beginning a new and lawful life deflate like sails on a windless sea is not who she is anymore.

Protagonist JR John is beginning to understand that money, sex, and power are all fruits from the same tree. What’s the worst that could happen if risk-averse money manager JR Johnson dips his toe into Bitcoin investing? The Russian FSB, US Cyber Command, and a couple of murderous operatives want to show him. Who’s really behind all this Bitcoin noise, and how does it connect to cyberwarfare? How does it feel to be a useful idiot? JR finds out the answers to these questions in a novel that is suspenseful, smart, and funny.