Ergebnis für "Max" in Politik

August 1961: Hauptmann Max Heller ist in den Innendienst versetzt worden. Ein Affront für Heller, der kurz vor seinem Ruhestand steht. Als er eines Tages ein Paket mit Beweismaterial aus einem längst aufgeklärten Mordfall erhält, ist schnell klar: Der wahre Täter von damals ist zurück und fordert ihn zu einem Kampf um Leben und Tod heraus. Eine atemlose Mörderjagd beginnt. Auch die politische Lage in der DDR spitzt sich zu. Nahezu unbemerkt von der Welt wird der Bau der Berliner Mauer vorbereitet. Und Karin und Max Heller müssen eine dramatische Entscheidung treffen - gehen oder bleiben?

1917 kehrt der 21-jährige Max Heller verletzt und traumatisiert aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg zurück. Im von Hunger, Gewalt und politischen Unruhen geprägten Dresden sucht er nach einem Weg zurück ins Leben, nach Ablenkung, nach Liebe und nach einer Aufgabe. Die Konfrontation mit brutaler Bandenkriminalität, sein großer Gerechtigkeitssinn und der Rat seines Großvaters Gustav Heller, einem Kriminalrat a.D., führen ihn in den Polizeidienst. Als frischgebackener Schupo verliebt sich Heller bei einem Elbdampferausflug in die junge Karin. Doch der Standesunterschied scheint eine Beziehung unmöglich zu machen.

Dresden, 18. Juni 1953, ein Tag nach dem blutig niedergeschlagenen Arbeiteraufstand in der DDR: Max Heller wird zu einem Todesfall in einem Betrieb für Wärmeisolierungen gerufen. Dem dortigen Betriebsleiter wurden brutal die Atemwege mit Isolierwolle verstopft. Unter Mordverdacht gerät eine ehemalige Angestellte, die von sich selbst behauptet, eine frühere KZ-Aufseherin und jetzt Spionin für den Westen zu sein. Doch Heller glaubt ihr nicht. Zumal alle Angestellten des kleinen Betriebes hartnäckig die Aussage verweigern.

Zimbabwe, 1981. An airliner crashes killing nearly everyone on board. Among a handful of survivors, former Special Branch officer Max Seager quickly realises that it was no accident—and that no one can be left alive. But as the army patrol dispatched to complete the massacre soon learns to its cost, Max was no ordinary policeman.

A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel. A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. A US senator receives death threats from a shadowy group. There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is. The chase leads CIA asset Max Fend from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the plains of Wisconsin, home of the largest air show in the world - Oshkosh. Beneath the drone of old warbirds and sleek aerobatics aircraft, Max and his partner, Renee, uncover clues that point to a global conspiracy.

Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past - if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow operative, who wants out of the battle zone. For them, a normal life is just one more dangerous uncertainty. Especially now that evil is hitting closer to home. Sofia Karlsson of the Swedish police wants Max’s help in a high-profile and high-stakes murder investigation: the hunt for a serial killer stalking the streets of Stockholm, who’s eliminating his victims in gruesome ways.

In Eastern Europe four CIA agents are dead - geopolitical pawns caught in border dispute cross fire. Why were they there? Who sent them? Not even the President knows. Back in Washington, the Secretary of the Interior dies from an apparent allergic shock. As details emerge, so do suspicions that she was murdered. Investigating their respective cases, ex - Secret Service agent Joe Reeder and FBI Special Situations Task Force leader Patti Rogers recognize a dangerous conspiracy is in play.

When a retired colleague dies of an apparent suicide, ex - Secret Service agent Joe Reeder knows there must be far more to the story. Why did the man leave a desperate message for Reeder moments before dying? And what could possibly make such a seasoned veteran fear for his life? FBI Special Agent Patti Rogers has a mystery of her own to solve: she's leading a task force investigating a brutal series of similar but seemingly unconnected murders across the DC area.

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Thirteen passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.

In einem Kasseler Hotel wird eine Studentin tot aufgefunden. Ohne den geringsten Hinweis auf den Täter tappt die Polizei jedoch völlig im Dunkeln. Zur gleichen Zeit bekommt der frischgebackene Uni-Absolvent David Wächter eine Chance als Praktikant bei der Tageszeitung HNA. Zusammen mit seinem Mentor Klaus Borowski gerät er immer tiefer in den Strudel einer politischen Verschwörung, die bis in die höchsten Kreise reicht. Wurde die junge Frau tatsächlich ermordet, um einen der größten Skandale in der Geschichte des Landes zu vertuschen?

Harry was too good an operative to be permitted to live his own life. So they reeled him into a new civilian life in the city’s illicit drug distribution underbelly. Now, to survive, he has to kill or be killed—or find a way out.

Former CIA Russia expert Max Geller is recovering from an intense mission while lying low in Australia, enjoying his sudden wealth in the company of his new girlfriend. But his beachy bliss is short-lived when Max, while relaxing by the ocean, is ambushed by the CIA.

In Climatized, Max is hired by the wife of a prominent senator to determine the cause of his untimely death. It leads her to discover that three world-renowned scientists had been killed days before they were scheduled to testify before the late senator's investigative committee. Meanwhile, a fourth scientist has gone missing. Max determined he is the key to unearthing the motives behind the deaths. Following the many twists and turns, Max and her associate, Jackson Monroe uncover a powerful organization responsible for the killings.

Fired for bias against the US president, ex-CIA Russia expert Max Geller gets a chance to redeem his reputation and make a fortune when he is hired to investigate the president's incriminating ties to Moscow. Jill Rucker, an undercover CIA agent, is assigned to work with him - and she does - when she's not pursuing her own conflicting goals.

Senator Jeffrey Lance was found dead in the Amazon rain forest under mysterious circumstances. Years before, holistic doctors throughout the country had also died from shadowy causes. Could they be connected? There was only one answer in the irrepressible mind of Maxine Ford. With the scent of a hound dog, she swings into action as these deaths raise doubts. In hot pursuit, she uncovers some baffling revelations that sends her off to New Mexico to track down a beekeeper.

When high football star Max Bell falls victim to a hit-and-run, local reporter Ray Harper engages in an all-out pursuit for the driver who left him for dead in the middle of a busy suburban Detroit road. Harper investigates and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to a prominent suburban Detroit political figure.

The CIA has learned that the Kremlin is about to launch a sophisticated propaganda operation aimed at discrediting and disrupting the United States and ultimately restoring Russia to great nation status. Intercepted intelligence suggests that the operation will hinge on a single, breaking news event in Eastern Europe, supported by a sustained campaign of disinformation and cyberattacks.

Most people think they know what happened on the day President Joseph Reinhard died - few know the truth. Max Brower’s debut novel follows former Secret Service agent Jimmy Chambers (now a CIA reserve officer) as he hunts a preternaturally cunning assassin who has already killed the president of the United States and now plans to duplicate his feat by assassinating the new president.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln set off a hysterical burst of international conspiracy theories, with all eyes turning first to Canada - once a hotbed of Confederate plots - and then, as evidence mounted, to the Catholic Church and Rome. Now from best-selling author Max Byrd, comes a long forgotten true story: a confidential mission to track down and capture any Europeans (and fugitive Confederates) who may have aided John Wilkes Booth.

Max Bowman has been gone for a long time. So long that he’s lost his home, his love, his money and most of his memories. Now, the Russian Rat Pack is hunting him down. A dog puppet with Lego blocks for teeth is barking out strange warnings. His weird brother is hiding something in the basement. And the woman Max left behind is involved with a crooked lobbyist whose menace is almost as big as his stomach, as well as the stunning secret he’s got under wraps. Oh yeah. And Donald Trump is also now president.