Ergebnis für "Sons and Lovers" in Krimis & Thriller

Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from alone in his ambitions.

"Du bist der dunkelste Engel, der uns jemals begegnet ist, Anna. Doch verschätz dich nicht... auch Engel haben einen Boss. Und dieser sind in deinem Fall wir." Ein Oberhaupt der beiden übriggebliebenen Familien ist für den Tod meines Vaters, meiner Schwester und der anderen Regenten verantwortlich. Nur ob Dante Medici oder meine eigene Mutter daran Schuld trägt, steht noch nicht fest. Meine Deckung ist auf jeden Fall aufgeflogen und ich weiß nicht, ob das gut für mich ausgehen wird. Was ich aber weiß, ist, dass ich mit jedem Tag stärker werde.

I'm not a worldly woman. I'm not cultured, well-traveled, or well educated. I'm just a housewife. A mother. I'm the woman with the handsome husband, beautiful daughter, the large house. If you saw it from the outside, you'd probably think I have the perfect life. You would most definitely be wrong. But I don't blame you. We all see what we want to see, turning a blind eye to what others want to stay hidden. Especially when it comes to love. They say love is blind. But I'm more apt to say it's wretched. Love is what made me stay. But love is also what saved me.

Si je pensais passer ma première année d'université de la façon la plus banale qui soit, concentrée sur mes études, accompagnée de deux ou trois amis, rien n'aurait pu me préparer au tournant qu'allait prendre ma vie. J'aurais dû comprendre qu'avoir une meilleure amie dont le frère fait partie des Devil's Sons allait être une source d'ennuis. Mais la dernière chose que j'imaginais, c'était de me retrouver liée aux activités d'un gang païen du Michigan.

When you are a son and one of the heirs to the legacy of the Cavalieri name, you need to be more vicious than your enemies. Sometimes, the lines get blurred. Years ago, they tried to use her as a pawn in a revenge scheme against me. Even though I cared about her, I let them treat her as if she were nothing. I was too arrogant and self-involved to protect her then. But I'm here now. Ready to risk my life tracking down every single one of them. They'll pay for what they've done as surely as I'll pay for my sins against her.

Truth Alan Reacher was a biker. He was a bladesmith. What he was not, was a fool. The moment he walked in on his girl screwing his cousin on his bike, he does the only thing he can do. He ditches the bike seat - and the girl - riding right out of her life without a backwards glance. That is, until he's forced to attend the marriage of his cousin to his cheating ex-girlfriend. The only bright spot of the entire thing was watching some chick go off on the groom - the groom's ex-fiance - right in the middle of the bouquet toss.

Eden Cross will nur eines in seinem Leben - Football-Profi werden. Jedoch hat seine Familie ganz andere Pläne mit ihm. Eden soll in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters treten, und der war immerhin mal Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. Erin Scott möchte ebenfalls nur eins - so unauffällig wie möglich ihr Studium hinter sich bringen. Was aber gar nicht so einfach ist, denn Eden möchte noch etwas - und zwar Erin... Eine aufregende Liebesgeschichte in der zwei Welten aufeinanderprallen und die Welt von Erin und Eden ins Wanken bringt... spätestens dann, als ein Mord geschieht.

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.

KlappentextIch war sechs Jahre alt, als wir Mexiko verließen. Man entfernte mich und meinen Bruder vom Kartell. Aber das Kartell nicht aus uns. Es liegt in unseren Genen. Man sagt wir wären Monster. Weil wir regieren. Weil wir keine Angst kennen. Keine Skrupel. Weil wir herrschen, wie wir f***. Kompromisslos und ohne Tabus. Wir kriegen immer, was wir wollen. Konsequenzen spielen in unserer Welt keine Rolle. Bis zu dem Moment, als sie auftaucht und Verwirrung stiftet. Und weil das Schicksal eine lüsterne Hure ist, holt uns unerwartet auch die Vergangenheit ein.

From the 1960s until the turn of the 21st century, New York City was the world's epicenter of organized and white-collar crime. During those four decades, the most feared Mafia chiefs, assassins, defrocked stockbrokers, Orthodox Jewish money-launderers, and Arab bankers sought the counsel of one man: my father, Jimmy La Rossa, a Kennedy-era prosecutor who became the defense lawyer of first resort in the big, important, highly publicized cases for four full action-packed decades. Last of the Gladiators is a memoir about some of the seminal legal events of a generation.

When taking up an unexpected inheritance with an unhappy past, newcomer Stirling is daunted to find a town set against him. Except, perhaps, for one sassy, big-hearted woman, who is willing to give him a chance to prove he belongs. Pitch-perfect rural romance from popular Australian author...