Ergebnis für "Sean" in Krimis & Thriller

Follow Sean Kruger as he tackles a kidnapper haunting his past, unearths a deadly political conspiracy, and faces a murder that hits heartbreakingly close to home. From dark secrets on college campuses to threats against American democracy and a final race to bring a killer to justice, these stories showcase Kruger at his best—and most vulnerable. This collection includes The Cold Trail, The Money Trail, and The Dark Trail, delivering non-stop action, shocking twists, and unforgettable stakes.

This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action.

Babbage Town ist streng geheim. Dort arbeiten Genies an einer Maschine, die jeden Code knacken soll. Doch nun ist einer der Wissenschaftler ermordet worden. Nur Viggie, die Tochter des Toten, kennt die Hintergründe. Aber Viggie ist autistisch, und jedes Mal, wenn sie nach ihrem Vater gefragt wird, spielt sie auf dem Klavier ein bestimmtes Stück...

Der Ex-Nachrichtendienstmitarbeiter Edgar Roy ist des Mordes angeklagt - zu Unrecht, wie er beteuert. Roys Anwalt bittet das Duo King und Maxwell um Hilfe. Doch dann wird er ermordet. Wer hat den Anwalt getötet? Und ist Roy wirklich ein Mörder? Je tiefer King und Maxwell in Roys Vergangenheit graben, desto mehr Halbwahrheiten entdecken sie. Ihre Hartnäckigkeit bringt sie schließlich auf Kollisionskurs mit den finstersten Winkeln der Macht - und in einer furchterregenden Konfrontation könnte das Duo für alle Zeit getrennt werden.

Der Teenager Tyler erhält die schreckliche Nachricht, dass sein Vater, ein Soldat in Afghanistan, tot ist. Doch dann taucht eine E-Mail von ihm auf, eine E-Mail, die nach seinem Tod geschrieben wurde. Ratlos bittet Tyler Sean King und Michelle Maxwell um Hilfe. Die beiden Ermittler erkennen rasch, dass hinter der Geschichte etwas weit Größeres steckt als zunächst angenommen.

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn’t be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention.

A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. What seems a gutless response from the government has pushed the Service's First Desk into mounting her own counter-offensive—but she's had to make a deal with the devil first. And given that the devil in question is arch-manipulator Peter Judd, she could be about to lose control of everything she's fought for.

In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere. A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.

I used to have big dreams. Finish college, make beautiful art, and take over my dad's business. But his illness wasn't part of the plan. Neither was his sudden need to keep me locked up in his mansion. Until one night, I came face-to-face with a street biker. Revenge has always been my plan. I've spent years plotting the perfect way to take back everything Regan Fletcher's father stole from me. When fate puts us together, I know I've found the key to his destruction. What starts as a twisted game of vengeance turns into an obsession.

Der Teenager Tyler erhält die schreckliche Nachricht, dass sein Vater, ein Soldat in Afghanistan, tot ist. Doch dann taucht eine E-Mail seines Vaters auf, eine E-Mail, die lange nach seinem Tod geschrieben wurde. Ratlos bittet Tyler Sean King und Michelle Maxwell um Hilfe. Die beiden Ermittler erkennen rasch, dass hinter dieser Geschichte etwas weit Größeres steckt als zunächst angenommen. Ihre Suche nach der Wahrheit führt sie in die höchsten Ebenen der Macht, dorthin, wo ein Menschenleben nichts zählt - und das erfährt das Duo bald am eigenen Leib.

Eigentlich geht es ja geruhsam zu in Brand, einem Dorf in der Buckligen Welt. Denn hier, im Süden von Niederösterreich, ticken die Uhren noch ein wenig langsamer. Zumindest für Franz Ebner, seines Zeichens letzter Dorfgendarm von Österreich. Doch dann wird die Bucklige Welt blutig… denn grauenhaft verstümmelte Frauenleichen werden gefunden. Allen wurde das Herz herausgeschnitten. Und als ob das noch nicht genug wäre, soll Franz auch noch eine Ausbildung zur Hexe antreten. Zumindest, wenn es nach seinen Drei Mäderl - Mama, Oma und Uroma - geht.

Deacon Slater was my high school crush—the bad boy with haunted eyes that made my heart skip a beat. But in our small town, the Slater name is synonymous with trouble, and Deke lived up to it when he landed in prison a few years after graduation.

Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright used to say, but he forgot to add they can be dangerous too, especially if they've fallen on hard times - as Diana Taverner learns when the past lands on her desk. An operation carried out during the height of the Troubles laid bare the ugly side of state security, and those involved are threatening to expose details. But every threat hides an opportunity, and the would-be blackmailer is soon being used as Taverner's solution to a much newer problem.

It isn’t just small-town lore or neighborhood gossip—I’ve witnessed what happens when the men in my family get too comfortable and fall. And maybe that’s history now, but the responsibility to lead our family business and maintain our standing as the world’s most sought-after Kentucky bourbon is on my shoulders. Few others know the lengths I’ll go to ensure the safety of my business and family. Blurring morals and manipulating rules are all just part of the game.

It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot's whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside.

Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave. Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.

Willkommen im Deep Web. Dem Teil des Internets, das von keiner Suchmaschine erfasst wird. Dem Ort, wo man alles kaufen kann. Drogen, Kinder, Waffen. Jeder kann es. Jederzeit. Anthony Prince, Chef der Sicherheitsfirma PrinceSec, die Software für die Regierung und große Unternehmen entwickelt, stirbt bei einem Absturz seines Privatflugzeugs. Verantwortlich für Prince' Tod war ein Hacker namens Strider. Unter seinem wirklichen Namen, Scott Mitchell, arbeitet er als Berater für die National Cyber Crime Unit. Als Mitchell verfolgt er die Bösen mit legalen Mitteln. Striders Mittel sind nicht ganz so legal. In derselben Nacht wird PrinceSec Opfer eines Hackerangriffs.

From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now.

When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried. The police find a major piece of the puzzle at Sienna’s house: her father, a retired cop, is face-down in a pool of his own blood, his throat slashed and his skull caved in. The blood covering Sienna was his.

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.