Ergebnis für "Son" in Politik & Spionage

“Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!”—Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List “A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come.” —Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling...

We hang petty thieves and promote the great ones to public office. The secret world where the vicious and cunning Erethizon brainwash their political prisoners has been found. Mark and his allies have saved his father and thousands of political leaders from a fate worse than death. It’s time to work together and build a brighter future, right? If only it were that simple...

Soldier-turned-sommelier Chase Burke may have traded his rifle for bottles of wine, but violence and conspiracy aren’t through with him yet. First, his intelligence analyst brother is killed in a covert op gone wrong and branded a traitor. Then a brutal ambush at the restaurant where Chase works leaves the woman he is romantically involved with—a congresswoman—clinging to life. Scrambling to clear the family name and protect his secret love, Chase teams up with NYPD Detective Alice Doyle, a single mother fighting battles of her own.

Londres, 1932. La reine a confié à Georgie une nouvelle mission délicate : elle doit héberger la princesse Hanneflore de Bavière et jouer les entremetteuses entre elle et le prince de Galles dans l'espoir que ce dernier se détourne enfin de son amante américaine. Mais entre la propension d'Hanni à séduire tout ce qui porte une moustache, son langage de charretier et sa fâcheuse tendance au vol à l'étalage, Georgie a déjà fort à faire. Et comme si tout cela ne suffisait pas, la princesse bavaroise se retrouve mêlée à un meurtre.

In this electric and provocative debut novel, Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of victims of sexual violence, mapping the destructive ways in which our society perpetuates rape culture, brilliantly brought to life through a...

Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire's son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics as a Democrat.

The world population is hurtling toward nine billion; some say more than the planet can support. Two titanic blocks rule that population – East and West – bound together in a global economy - and a secret, war to the death. Never has so much been at stake, never has the prize of absolute power been more seductive. And never have the leaders of these titanic blocks been quite so insane. Insane enough to invoke the Son of Hell, to bring the war out of the shadows and fire down from Heaven; and count the dead not in dozens but millions.

Londres, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, fille du duc de Glen Garry et Rannoch, trente-quatrième héritière du trône britannique, est complètement fauchée depuis que son demi-frère lui a coupé les vivres. Et voilà qu'en plus ce dernier veut la marier à un prince roumain ! Georgie, qui refuse qu'on lui dicte sa vie, s'enfuit à Londres pour échapper à cette funeste promesse de mariage : elle va devoir apprendre à se débrouiller par elle-même.

Silas attempts to restore his preferred way to work, through re-establishing the rules of secrecy and solitude. His friends try to give him the space he requires, but circumstances call for him to once again work with his associates. Lives are put into danger by a deep, convoluted plot against the very fabric of our country. Book three of The Son continues with the action and suspense that surrounds Jonathan Crane.

Ex-Special Forces soldier Connor (Skid) Ryan is recruited as a contractor by his former hated SAS officer to capture or kill Declan O’Malley, a notorious Sons Of Eirinn bombmaker. With soldiers from the PKK, Ryan has to execute a daring military operation - this time without his Special Forces comrades before the terrorists can use the WMD on the streets of Britain. The worlds security services of China, Russia, USA, and the UK are all desperately homing in to prevent another 9/11 atrocity on an even larger scale.

In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin brother begins his days as Fletcher Davenport, son of a millionaire and his society wife. During the 1950s and 1960s, the two brothers grow up apart, following similar paths that take them in different directions. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam, then finishes school, earns his MBA, and becomes a successful currency dealer.

Caught between an infamous bomb maker and a dying CIA spy, Bridger and the Spy Devils fight for their survival while preventing a radioactive disaster. The CIA’s former terrorist hunter, Wes Henslow, pleads with Bridger to help find the only terrorist he never caught. Bridger agrees, but May, his mother and CIA handler, orders Bridger not to assist their friend.

Three months before the invasion of Iraq, a member of a Masonic fraternity known as the Rosicrucians escapes from a British Intelligence holding station. Orchestrated by the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, this event is somehow linked to the highly classified CIA file only known as Gladio B. Tasked to destroy an unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, the chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee plans to bring the criminals to justice. But he is running low on both time and allies, as mass annihilation threatens the whole planet.

Operation Melchior-Sanctum was a failure and a potential embarrassment. It went wrong, terribly wrong. So wrong the entire team of DevGru Operators had been quietly retired to head off any bad publicity. But now, those men were being killed one by one, and faster than the law could react. Jon Crane is asked to do the impossible: find out who this killer is and stop him...fast.

CIA operatives Max Wayne and his brother Tom race through Europe and the Middle East to avenge the death of Tom's girlfriend. It's do-or-die to get payback and stop a deadlier attack before it reaches Times Square on New Year's Eve.

भा. रा. भागवत लिखित मराठी कादंबरी "पुत्र असावा ऐसा गुंडा"

Okinawa-basen i 1974 sætter scenen i "Den anden søn", som giver et indblik ind i Jack Reachers teenageår og hvordan han har udviklet sig til den hårdtslående og knivskarpe enespænder, som man kender ham. I "Den anden søn" stilles Reacher overfor en række store problemer og novellen afslører det afgørende øjeblik, da den unge Reachers skarpe reptilhjerne viser sig at være lige så vigtig som hans muskler.

From the bestselling author of Conclave, Fatherland, and the Cicero Trilogy comes a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land...

Zack Mason is an ordinary boy working his way quietly through high school. When armed terrorists take over the school, Zack must summon all his courage to lead his classmates in victory against the threat.