Ergebnis für "Phönix" in Politik

Eine neue Gefahr ist aus der Asche des Dritten Reichs auferstanden: Phoenix! Rudolf Heß, die rechte Hand Hitlers, ist tot und sein persönliches Tagebuch, die "Spandauer Papiere", landen durch Zufall in den Händen des unscheinbaren Polizisten Hannes Apfel. Nur Stunden später ist Hannes nicht nur das Ziel von mehreren internationalen Geheimdiensten, sondern wird auch noch von der mysteriösen und skrupellosen Gruppe "Phoenix" gejagt! Denn was auch immer in den "Spandauer Papieren" geschrieben steht – es könnte den Kalten Krieg wieder eskalieren lassen ... und sogar einen alten Feind zurückbringen.

1987 stirbt Adolf Hitlers rechte Hand im Berliner Gefängnis Spandau. Doch mit dem Tod von Rudolf Heß beginnt das größte Rätsel der Nachkriegszeit: Wurde Heß ermordet? Und wenn ja, von wem? Durch Zufall gerät der deutsche Polizist Hannes Apfel an den Schlüssel zu diesem Geheimnis: das Tagebuch von Heß! Und plötzlich verwandelt sich Westberlin in einen Hexenkessel, in dem nichts so ist, wie es scheint. Secret Service, KGB und CIA versuchen verzweifelt, die Spandauer Papiere in die Finger zu bekommen, um eine Katastrophe zu verhindern.

The president of the US orders Director Elizabeth Harker of the Project to investigate the collision at sea of a US Navy missile destroyer with a Chinese freighter. It may have been sabotage, and the president wants her to get to the bottom of it. But the assignment is not what it seems. Harker has an enemy in the White House who wants her to fail. The Project's continued existence is on the line.

A deadly enemy will rise again.... Ella Praeger has always felt like an outsider. So when she is called to join the ranks of The Group, a force for good operating in the shadows, her world shifts. She is gifted a purpose - and a dangerous legacy. Years ago, The Group rid the world of one of its most powerful criminal masterminds. Yet when a child washes up on a beach in Greece, a mysterious symbol tattooed on its heel, it is a clear warning: impossibly, Athena Petridis has returned to reclaim her empire.

Victoria Emerson is a congressional member of the US House of Representatives for the state of West Virginia. Her aspirations have always been to help her community and to avoid the ambitious power plays of her peers in Washington, DC. Then Major Joseph McCrea appears on her doorstep and uses the code phrase Crimson Phoenix, meaning this is not a drill. The United States is on the verge of nuclear war. Victoria must accompany McCrea to a secure bunker. She cannot bring her family.

The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an enemy that is amoral, elusive, and formidable. It also lays bare a warfare within the company itself, adding another dimension to the spy vs. spy game. The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an enemy that is amoral, elusive, and formidable. It also lays bare a warfare within the company itself, adding another dimension to the spy vs. spy game.

When Iran's deadly nuclear game is revealed, CIA agent Frank Williams realizes there is only one man made for the job of traveling to the other side of the world to neutralize this threat—his disgraced former partner, agent Jim Duffy. Williams travels to Duffy's Maine hideaway and presents the facts of the case: The world's largest heroin dealers have carved a path straight to America's doorsteps and may possess six of the deadliest weapons known to man. Duffy doesn't want to yield to the Agency that cast him aside. But a sense of duty and a love of country will not let him stand by.

In the near future, U.S. forces are completing their final withdrawal from bases in the Philippines. The navy of the People's Republic of China lays claim to the Spratly Islands, decimating a Philippine drilling platform when its occupants refuse to knuckle under.

An all-too-plausible terrorist plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament brings into focus much greater problems than the differences between two cultures in this gripping thriller from a former commissioned officer in the Parachute Regiment.

DEA agent Kevin Grady discovers that the CIA is turning a blind eye to drug smuggling by its allies—and CIA officer Jack Lind is at the center of this conspiracy. Lind allows Panamanian policeman Manuel Noriega to become the country's dictator, ignoring his ties to the Medellin cocaine cartel in order to use Panama as a base for an anti-Communist crusade. Grady and Lind become enemies in a war they should have been fighting together, and beautiful Panamanian Juanita Boyd—Lind's lover—is caught in their struggle.

In a speculative dystopian thriller based on the premise that the South won the Civil War, President Spencer Jefferson Lee is shocked to discover that underneath the facade of civil order in his world of very separate races, there is dissent. A protest group made up of "losers" among this "ideal" society— same-sex and cross-racial lovers and their children— threatens the seeming peace and order.

He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all costs, while his jilted fiancée is intent on revenge and grows a media empire to destroy him. In a world of beautiful people, money, and deception, two equally determined people are headed on a collision course.

If he had been just another married man, and she a beautiful woman— it would have been just a passionate affair. But he was the president. Will this dangerous liaison change the course of history? Matthew Underwood—former anchorman and now U.S. President—is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets the female head of the tiny country of Lampang. After they fall in love, Underwood becomes mired in Lampang's internal politics—and a nosy reporter, not to mention the jealous First Lady, threaten everything.