Resultat för "Serien" i Historiska thrillers

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.

Visionäre, Baumeister und Feministinnen - Aufbruchsstimmung im Mittelalter: In "Die Tore der Welt" entführt Sie Erfolgsautor Ken Follett in die vielschichtige Welt des englischen Mittelalters. Als Grundlage für diese spannende Zeitreise dient Follett die Stadt Kingsbridge und Nachfahren der Personen aus seinem Erfolgsroman "Die Säulen der Erde". Inzwischen sind 200 Jahre vergangen und Sie begleiten die Charaktere Merthin, Ralph, Caris, Godwin und Brenda auf ihren gefahrvollen und facettenreichen Lebenswegen. Meisterhaft recherchiert und reich an Hintergrundinformationen, eröffnet Ihnen "Die Tore der Welt" einen abwechslungsreichen Einblick in das Leben im Schatten des Hundertjährigen Krieges.

Im Januar 1944 halten vier Menschen das Schicksal der Welt in ihren Händen: ein amerikanischer Arzt, eine deutsche Krankenschwester, ein zionistischer Attentäter und eine junge jüdische Witwe. Im Auftrag des britischen Premierministers Winston Churchill sollen sie eine Mission erfüllen, die ihnen allen den Tod bringen kann. In einem Gefangenenlager in Mecklenburg arbeiten die Deutschen fieberhaft an der Herstellung von Giftgas, dessen Einsatz den Krieg entscheiden soll.

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 #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, book two of the All Souls series. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes...

The first book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people...

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

Book 1 The Alexander Wolfe SeriesBest selling author with sales of over one million booksChristmas at Caxton Manor promises to be a festive gathering of old friends, but the holiday cheer turns deadly when an uninvited guest, the ruthless industrialist Boris Bullen, is found murdered in the snow. Called in to discreetly investigate, the enigmatic Alexander Wolfe arrives to find himself embroiled in a perplexing mystery with echoes of a past crime.

THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE AND THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER, THE SECRET OF SECRETS “Impossible to put down.” —The New York Times “Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.” —Los Angeles Times Famed Harvard...

Narrated by Samantha Bond Don’t miss Magpie Murders on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery! ""A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers."" —Janet Maslin, New York Times New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best...

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.

This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining, and enjoying amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge.

The stylish mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal. COLD WAR MOSCOW IS A PLACE SMOLDERING WITH SECRETS . . . Gabriel Dax is on route to Russia, tasked with delivering a...

H.M.S. Surprise, the third in O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy, as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues, and the enemy, and accepts a commission to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies. The voyage leads him and his friend Stephen Maturin to the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and through the archipelago of Spice Islands where the French have superiority.

The Wolves of Odin have been unleashed: the hunt has begun. Anno Domini 1040. Christianity has swept unstoppably across Scandinavia, leaving few enclaves of the old ways clinging on to their fading world as King Olof of Sweden works to convert his people. A young warrior, Halfdan, has witnessed...

Now a major Disney+ original series, Shardlake – airing this summer on ITV. 'C. J. Sansom’s books are arguably the best Tudor novels going' – The Sunday Times Dissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom’s phenomenal bestselling Shardlake series, perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and...

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a dangerous disease which decimates the crew.

The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters. Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain, commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of his early days.... A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek islands. All his old skills of seamanship - and luck when fighting against odds - come triumphantly into their own as the story concludes with some fierce and thrilling action.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as thrilling, as tense and as unexpected in its culmination as anything Patrick O'Brian has written.