Ergebnis für "Phantom" in Spionage

Sie verwenden kein Telefon, kein Internet, keine Banktransaktionen. Niemand weiß, wer sie sind, sie hinterlassen keine Spuren. Sie sind ein Phantom. Solveigh Lang von der Europapolizei ECSB und Kriminalhauptkommissar Paul Regen vom LKA Bayern sind auf der Jagd nach einer Gruppe gewaltbereiter Terroristen, die sich allen modernen Ermittlungstechniken entzieht. Sie müssen ihre Arbeit vollkommen neu erfinden. Und dabei dürfen sie keine Zeit verlieren, denn der nächste Anschlag steht unmittelbar bevor...

David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it.

The first and most bizarre event nearly becomes a monumental catastrophe when something goes awry at an American theme park, wreaking havoc on visitors looking for nothing more than a sun-splashed holiday. In a different part of the country, a USAF F-15 pilot, escorting another jet in the skies over the Midwest, inexplicably loses control of his plane, endangering the lives of several people and deeply puzzling those following his mission on the ground.

The first and most bizarre event nearly becomes a monumental catastrophe when something goes awry at an American theme park, wreaking havoc on visitors looking for nothing more than a sun-splashed holiday. In a different part of the country, a USAF F-15 pilot, escorting another jet in the skies over the Midwest, inexplicably loses control of his plane, endangering the lives of several people and deeply puzzling those following his mission on the ground.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton’s life is turned upside down with news almost too good to be true, everything he believes about his world changes in an instant, and the life he dedicated to serving his country and the preservation of freedom suddenly fades out of focus as a new reality becomes the center of his existence. But before the dream of his new life can materialize, one final mission demands his devotion like never before.