Ergebnis für "Maria" in Politik & Spionage

Brought to you by Penguin. Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere. That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been...

En una plaza pública de Arabia Saudí, un hombre es ajusticiado bajo un sol abrasador y un chico observa impotente entre la muchedumbre: es su hijo. En un lúgubre hotel de Manhattan, aparece el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer joven y todos los indicios para identificarla han sido eliminados minuciosamente. Una línea invisible conecta todos estos hechos, dibujando un plan perfecto para cometer un monstruoso crimen contra la humanidad, y la única persona capaz de impedirlo es un ex agente que huye de su pasado y ha borrado su identidad: ahora sólo responde al nombre de Pilgrim.

Her world didn't shatter. She did. The explosion that should have ended Moura's life rewired her instead — $4.2 million in surgical reconstruction, but her identity paid the real cost. Her instincts turned lethal. She understands the Fermat Point better than anyone alive, a deadly military secret designed to eradicate unexpected enemies. But now she knows how to think like it. Her carefully controlled world fractures when her protégé, George, a spy convicted of treason, is released from solitary confinement, and an impostor clone of Moura interferes with company operations.

Military intelligence colleagues summon attorney Craig Malcault to testify against his client, a sensual, provocative socialite with a suspect divorce case. But he decides to destroy her file and risk all he's got to guard her secret. Craig was chasing informants a decade ago when his client built an international conglomerate and founded Ara Pacis, the code-named territory in Latin America, with the two men in her life as protection against threatening extermination. The bloodcurdling discoveries Craig now makes about her case are a human rights attorney's stellar dream come true.

An inferno erupts when an arms dealer’s classified weapon leaks in a hotbed of crime, threatening to expose the illusive elixir incubated in the territory of Ara Pacis. US intelligence detects a most bizarre signature of secret emitters in the signal traffic of that area. They suspect a lone wolf has launched a cruel defense.

When Washington D.C. human rights attorney Craig Malcault’s investigations uncover connections to U.S. military intelligence and the mysterious wife of an international biochemical conglomerate’s founder, the assassins are dispatched. Craig’s job is to extract evidence from the hellish pitfall while the top candidate is en route to face and pass his final test.

Attorney Craig Malcault has survived an assassination plot over his possession of top-secret intelligence. He thought he had rebuilt his life at his new law firm in New York City, with a tycoon's taboo divorce case to pay the bills. But when the provocative, hypnotic lady client refuses to desert her cruel, blood-thirsty husband, Craig knows his enemies are a step ahead in the game. Business has been lucrative in the code-named territory in Latin America that Craig saved from annihilation a decade ago.

Cleverer Wirtschaftsthriller trifft auf packenden Krimi: Michael Ridpath sorgt erneut für Hochspannung! Für Simon läuft alles perfekt: er hat eine vielversprechende Karriere in einer Bostoner Finanzierungsgesellschaft vor sich und ist mit Lisa, der Tochter seines Chefs, verheiratet. Doch dann gerät Simons Welt aus den Fugen: sein Schwiegervater wird ermordet. Simon wird schnell zum Hauptverdächtigen und ist gezwungen, selbst Ermittlungen anzustellen: Welche Geheimnisse verbergen die mächtigen Konzerne der Stadt? Wer ist bereit, für Geld zu töten?

Nell'indagine che sta conducendo per scoprire cos'è davvero successo al suo vice, Jack Fielding, ucciso sei mesi prima, Kay Scarpetta ha deciso di incontrare una detenuta della Georgia Prison for Women, una donna condannata per reati sessuali e madre di una diabolica assassina. Sono ragioni personali, oltre che professionali, a metterla nella necessità di fare luce su macabri omicidi: il massacro di un'intera famiglia avvenuto anni prima a Savannah e una serie di morti inspiegabili che si stanno susseguendo a un ritmo inquietante.

Former seamstress turned couturier turned spy Sira Quiroga is finally ready to embrace serenity with her British diplomat husband, Marcus, and the upcoming prospect of motherhood. But tranquility proves elusive. Fate has other plans for Sira. Installed in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and enmeshed in the murky world of shady operators, political menace, and catastrophic violence, Sira finds her future with Marcus put to the ultimate test.

En los convulsos albores del nazismo y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Tánger se convierte en un escenario vibrante de espionaje. Aquí, una joya heredada, un brillante con un pasado turbio, amenaza con destrozar la vida de una familia española mientras aliados y nazis luchan por el control de una ruta de tráfico de diamantes, cruciales para la maquinaria de guerra. Sumérgete en una trama donde el amor entre una joven católica y un hombre judío desafía las convenciones en una sociedad acelerada.

Ein führender IS-Terrorist, dessen Ziel die Etablierung eines globalen Gottesstaates ist, gelangt in den Besitz eines todbringenden Erregers. Damit infizierte IS-Kämpfer tragen das tödliche Virus, unerkannt in der Masse des Flüchtlingsstroms, nach Europa. Eine Pandemie ungeahnten Ausmaßes bedroht die Menschheit.

La primera novela del actor internacional Jean Reno La historia de una pasión tan intensa como peligrosa. Emma es la masajista estrella de un exclusivo centro de talasoterapia en la Bretaña francesa. Independiente y reservada, lleva una vida tranquila junto a su gato, con el océano como...

Nr justitieminister Karin Landberg ppnar drren till sitt inre rum p Rosenbad knner hon genast att ngot r fel. I morgondunklet mts hon av lukter som inte borde finnas dr - och snart ser hon ngot som skakar henne i grunden. P sngen ligger hennes vn tillika statssekreterare Beatrice Chiquin, blodig och medvetsls. Ngon har utsatt henne fr en brutal attack - frgan r bara vem. Det blir kriminalinspektr Margareta Davidsson som fr ta sig an det hrt mediabevakade verfallet i regeringsbyggnaden.

Madrid, anni Trenta. Sira Quiroga, giovane sarta, perde la testa per un carismatico imprenditore e si trasferisce con lui in Marocco, in una Tangeri che ricorda la Casablanca di Humphrey Bogart. Ma qui si ritrova presto sola, ingannata e piena di debiti. Riesce però ad aprire un atelier di alta moda che, grazie al suo gusto e alla sua forza di volontà, diventa il punto di riferimento per le signore più ricche e influenti della città. Una clientela all'apparenza insospettabile, ma che nasconde dei segreti.

Un eco-thriller feminista. Una obra de humor negro/sátira política/con elementos fantásticos. La oscuridad de Guayaquil que muestra Gabriela Alemán en su novela Poso Wells, parece surgir del sedimento (el poso) del cuento de Wells. El país de los ciegos ambientado en Los Andes ecuatorianos...

Hay secretos que sólo un presidente puede saber. Hay situaciones que sólo un presidente puede resolver. Pero hay decisiones que ni siquiera un presidente querría tomar. La presidencia de los Estados Unidos pende de un hilo. El presidente, Jonathan Duncan, está a punto de ser destituido y es...

World-renowned cellist Celeste Morgan has spent her life performing perfection on the world's grandest stages-while carrying out assassinations no government will ever admit to ordering. But when her mother's hidden files reveal the inner machinery of Eidolon, the shadow network that built her...

Klara Andersson har återvänt till Sverige efter många år i Spanien. Under Franco-diktaturen var hon informatör för CIA. Efter ett blodigt attentat mot ett NATO-möte där hon arbetar som tolk, förstår hon att hon blivit förväxlad med en av israeliska säkerhetstjänsten Moussad eftersökt terrorist. Ett svenskt vapenprojekt är bakgrunden till de utländska säkerhetstjänsternas agerande.

Isaac har reddet Marthas liv. Martha Honeydew er blevet løsladt fra Celle 7. Men hun bliver stadigvæk overvåget døgnet rundt. Isaac, hendes eneste ven, er nu fængslet i den samme dødscelle, hvor Martha var. Nu er det op til Martha at redde Isaac. Regeringens korruption når ud i alle afkroge, og måske er det umuligt at kæmpe mod noget så magtfuldt. Kan hun nå det, inden det er for sent?