Ergebnis für "Prague" in Krimis & Thriller

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of...

Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night...

A renegade CIA officer must infiltrate an extremist group in the heart of Europe in a novel offering “spy fiction at its headiest and most addictive” (Kirkus Reviews). “Left me breathless with its nimble plot work and sheer storytelling audacity.” —The New York Times A Financial Times...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Prague Nights by Benjamin Black, read by Sean Barrett. 'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in...

Une nouvelle enquête de Bernie Gunther. Quand, en septembre 1941, Bernie Gunther revient du front russe, la capitale du Reich a bien changé. Pénurie, rationnement, couvre-feu, crimes... Berlin rime avec misère et terreur. La découverte d’un cadavre sur une voie de chemin de fer puis l’agression d’une jeune femme précipitent Bernie, affecté au département des homicides de la sinistre Kripo, dans de nouvelles enquêtes criminelles.

París, 1897. Un hombre escribe sentado a una mesa en una habitación abarrotada de muebles: he aquí al capitán Simonini, un piamontés afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedica al noble arte de crear documentos falsos.

Hombre de pocas palabras, misógino y glotón impenitente, el capitán se inspira en los folletines de Dumas y Sue para dar fe de complots inexistentes, fomentar intrigas o difamar a las grandes figuras de la política europea. Caballero sin escrúpulos, Simonini trabaja al servicio del mejor postor.

'A masterclass in suspenseful, character-driven prose fiction. Simply exceptional' Frank Darabont, writer and director of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile 'A blood-pumping, nerve-shredding thriller . . . ingenious' (A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window) 'Breathtaking' (Daily...

As Leopold’s private investigators zero in on Atlas’s missing daughter, a network of hunters have dropped their roots in Prague. What starts as a mother’s revenge becomes something more, something out of a nightmare. In the black market of hellish delights, the wicked always feast. But such loathsome pursuits cannot go on forever, for there are hunters of a different breed taking notice—men and women no longer willing to suffer the mischief of deviants. Atlas and the team are animals of this very sort.

When 3 of Zita’s MI6 colleagues mysteriously die in Prague and she is marked with terminate on sight orders, an American government analyst called Doc breaks through the Iron Curtain to save his partner from Communist forces in Czechoslovakia. But before they can go, they must take care of a few small matters concerning a sadistic serial killer stalking them and stopping a few rogue nuclear weapons before they cross the border to western Europe.

A holiday with family in Europe, after a three-day detour to the Christmas markets of ancient Prague. Sounds idyllic. What could possibly go wrong? Max and Maggie Pierce are about to find out. When Max's sudden medical emergency leaves him writhing on cold cobblestones on a winter evening, the couple are thrust into a bizarre journey for survival. Trapped by sinister forces unknown, they soon realize that Max's detention in a decrepit prison hospital is the least of obstacles they face.

Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna's time is about to expire - on his visa, that is. Having fled the demons that haunted him in the U.S., Ash has been laying low in Prague for nearly three months. Now, it's time to move on. But as he contemplates his next stop, a man named Roman appears, claiming to work for the U.S. government, and possessing intimate knowledge of Ash's many sins. Sins nobody should know. Roman offers to protect him...in exchange for a favor.

Brought to you by Penguin. DIVE INTO A DAZZLING WARTIME TALE OF ENDURING LOVE AND HUMAN RESILIENCE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS 1924, PRAGUE Two worlds collide, until a world at war threatens to tear them apart . . . On her first day at the Viennese Conservatory, gifted pianist and darling of...

A charming young Czech promises staggering returns. An entire country’s oil industry is up for grabs. America’s top investors want in. Sounds too good to be true? Damn right it is. This is a story of private jets, $20,000 dinners, and suitcases stuffed with cash. It’s also a tale about the collapse of communism, the free-for-all that followed, and the birth of the oligarchs. And it’s a story of plain-old human greed...of just how far the rich may go to get even richer. Viktor Kožený smooth-talked his super-wealthy Aspen neighbors and a Wall Street titan into investing huge sums of ...

Artist by day. Assassin by night. Join the Artist as he tracks down his target through the dark shadows of Prague, and see if he survives the night to create his new masterpiece.