Ergebnis für "Noir" in Krieg & Militär

Quando Amos Profeti irrompe di nuovo nella vita di Michele Banti, sono passati più di vent'anni dal loro ultimo incontro. Quell'uomo, un mercenario dal passato pieno di ombre, ha segnato inesorabil-mente la sua vita e ha trasformato un gior-nalista in prima linea sempre accanto agli ultimi nel cinico autore di un programma televisivo pomeridiano. Il passato torna a chiedere il conto e riavvolge il nastro del-la memoria. Ci ritroviamo catapultati in-sieme a Banti sotto la pioggia di bombe su una Sarajevo assediata dopo un viaggio nell'inferno della guerra balcanica.

Out of the blue, private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold receives a visit from an old army mate. Abbas al'Barri worked as a translator with him during the Second Iraq War. Now living in Ilford with his family, Abbas is convinced that he's had a message from his estranged son Fayyaad, who...

**Finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize** **Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize** From the award-winning British author—a poet's noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar...

Gary Halvorson stumbles upon the mysterious object in his attic, curious over what it represents. It leads him to an old German lady who then reveals what happened in World War II between Max Adams, an American soldier and investigator into smuggled German art work, and Ilsa, the beautiful German spy he falls in love with. Never having met or spoken to his great grandfather, Gary is very interested in learning whatever became of Max Adams. Will the old German lady tell the truth? Or will she keep it hidden?

A troubled war hero. A criminal mastermind. And the meeting of two fatal enemies....

Two explosions at the same time. In two different cities. Ex-US Navy-turned-investigator Thomas J Cooper knows this is no random coincidence. This is a carefully planned attack calling for war on the US government. The clock is ticking, and Cooper must stop the perpetrators before the threat of...

Former Special Forces officer and international best-selling author Jason Kasper delivers a gripping thriller series that follows an Army Ranger into the mercenary depths of an international crime syndicate. Get the first two audiobooks of the series in one bundle.

In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, 25 years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter.

David Rivers is no ordinary mercenary. He’s just been assigned command of a team in the international criminal war raging in South America. But the Triple Frontier region is deadly. Narcos and terrorists rule its remote jungle, and David must lead his team into the heart of danger. Getting in is easy. Getting out might be impossible. When a high-risk recon mission turns deadly, David’s team must fight for survival against overwhelming odds. Desperate and on the run, they use everything at their disposal just to stay alive.

David Rivers’ luck has finally run out. He’s been condemned to certain death as a deep cover agent. But his new mission reveals an unlikely ally with one shared goal: The death of David’s greatest enemy. A brilliant assassination plot is already underway. And the final element is trapped amid the firestorm of a civil war in Myanmar. To kill his opponent and free his only surviving teammate, David will have to survive impossible odds - odds that he’s determined to beat, no matter the cost.

Rivers of Gold is the first in the More series of dystopian thrillers featuring MARSOC operator Everett "Ever" More and NYPD Detective Sixto Santiago. The series is set in the Second Great Depression. The primary locale is New York City. The economy is shattered, the government is helpless, and crime and disease run rampant. An underground party circuit has developed, wherein rival cartels use a network of taxicabs to move contraband around the city.

This is the second novel in the More series of dystopian thrillers set in the Second Great Depression in NYC. More and Santiago's new unit is now detailed to the NYPD's most elite division to investigate the brutal mob killing of a high-profile hedge fund founder. Their team is also assigned its first federal, and female, member (whom More and Santiago instantly dislike) from a financial crimes division of the Treasury Department.