Ergebnis für "Ray" in Historische Thriller

Jazz, mafia et meurtres en série : le retour du nouveau maître du thriller historique. New York, 1947 : un mystérieux tueur assassine de sang-froid tous les occupants d'un hôtel de Harlem. On parle d'un meurtre rituel, lié au vaudou. Un suspect est arrêté, condamné. Une ancienne détective de l'agence Pinkerton, Ida Davis, et le patron d'un club en vogue de Manhattan, Gabriel Leveson, se retrouvent mêlés à l'enquête.

Fall, 1947. New York City. Private Investigator Ida Davis has been called to New York by her old partner, Michael Talbot, to investigate a brutal killing spree in a Harlem flophouse that has left four people dead. But as they delve deeper into the case, Ida and Michael realize the murders are part of a larger conspiracy that stretches further than they ever could have imagined. Meanwhile, Ida’s childhood friend, Louis Armstrong, is at his lowest ebb.

When one retired CIA analyst plunges off a cliff in his vintage Porsche, it’s an unfortunate accident. When a second and then a third turn up dead under unusual circumstances, the CIA’s suspicions are confirmed: these men were murdered. All three analysts were once assigned to the same top-secret project: an internal review of the CIA’s own involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Walker Monroe, Yale professor, librarian, and expert in ancient languages, gets an unexpected visit from two U.S. Geological Service members. They show him a piece of unknown metal engraved with a mysterious, coded text, and seek his help in translating it.

On planet Mythos, a utopia is endangered when the Mothergod mysteriously dies right after childbirth. One son was planned, but five were born. With the death of their wise leader, a perfect chance arises for a criminal organization to take form. This shakes the utopia to its foundation and breaks the peace they've known for billions of years. Dimago was chosen as heir to Mythos, placing Vikor, the firstborn, on a path of revenge. The five brothers live their lives cluelessly running into each other as their fates are forever intertwined.

Dragged from the dank, rat-infested prison cell where he has spent the past few months, Buonaparte Sartene is given a choice: join the French Resistance or rot in jail for the next seven years. The adopted son of a Corsican Mafia family, Sartene is a thief with a capacity for violence and a knack for subterfuge - valuable tools in the fight against the Nazis.

Cold War Marseille is a city of shadowy alliances and loose morals, where a good man can lose sight of which side he is really on and evil men profit from the misery and confusion of others. It is therefore the perfect town for Ernst Ludwig, an East German terrorist who is sadistic beyond measure. But when Ludwig kidnaps and murders the wife of Alex Moran, the US intelligence agent hot on his trail, he sets off a blood feud whose violent shock waves will span decades and reach all the way across the globe.

From the creators of Smallville and Into the Badlands comes an action-packed "triple feature" debut thriller about a war veteran and CIA officer in the 1960s swept up into a cat and mouse game with enormous, world-altering consequences where Hitler may still be alive (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York...

Expat American Vietnam War vet Amboy Stevens wants nothing more than to live in peace in 1982 Argentina. But with the Falklands War raging, he is forced to protect a fellow six-fingered American girl who has lost her memory. They stumble upon a myth as ancient as humanity itself and are soon on the run from warlocks, Nazi treasure hunters, the cult of the unicorn, and sorcerers who want the pair for their own nefarious reasons. From Buenos Aires to the Island at the End of the World, they are chased, harassed, possessed, attacked, and beleaguered. Worse, the Red Unicorn is near.