Ergebnis für "Japan Inc." in Thriller

Atomenergie, bakteriologische Kampfmittel, die japanische Mafia der Yakuza, eine Geiselnahme im Shanghai World Financial Center...

Tokio, 1991. Die Stadt ächzt unter der Sommerhitze, als zwei kleine Mädchen kurz hintereinander spurlos verschwinden. Kurz darauf wird die eine von ihnen tot in einem nahegelegenen Fluss entdeckt. Während der trauernde Vater Zuflucht in den düsteren Ritualen einer obskuren Glaubensgemeinschaft sucht, steht Kommissar Saeki vor einem Rätsel: Sind die Fälle miteinander verbunden? Dann verschwindet ein weiteres Kind – und Saeki stößt auf eine Spur, die ihn tief in die Abgründe menschlicher Verzweiflung führt.

Nicholai Hel, born in the ravages of World War I China to an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go Master, survives the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished and highly paid assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hel's secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection: shibumi.

From bestselling author of If Cats Disappeared from the World comes a taut psychological mystery based on a real-life crime for fans of Butter and Diary of a Void. She works quietly in a coastal shipyard office, barely noticed by those around her. Life passes in grey repetition until one day, on...

Under the guise of machinery for making dumplings, a Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing a key component in the production of nuclear weapons. When information finds its way to the inboxes of Western intelligence agencies that this "dumpling maker" is meant for North Korea, orders go out that the shipment must be stopped. Either the machine must be disabled while still in the factory, or the transportation route must be discovered so the equipment can be intercepted before it reaches its destination.