Ergebnis für "Text" in Thriller

Dmitry Glukhovskys gnadenlose Abrechnung mit Putins Moskau. Moskau, im Herbst 2016: Als Ilja nach sieben Jahren Straflager nach Hause kommt, ist nichts mehr, wie es war. Seine Mutter stirbt wenige Tage vor seiner Rückkehr an einem Herzinfarkt, seine Freundin ist längst mit einem anderen zusammen, und sein Jugendfreund begegnet ihm mit größtem Argwohn. Enttäuscht ertränkt Ilja seine Trauer im Alkohol, bis er im Rausch der Verzweiflung jenen Fahnder aufsucht, der ihn vor sieben Jahren zu Unrecht hinter Gitter brachte.

Spying from her window in New York City with high-powered binoculars, conspiracy theorist Zoe spots a man and woman on a park bench. Zooming in, she finds she can read the texts on the woman's phone. Her initial excitement turns to alarm when the woman's texts outline a plan to murder the man she is sitting next to. The police department is trying to manage a pandemic and catch a serial killer who has murdered six women. So, when Zoe reports the conspiracy to commit murder, the police have little time or patience for her theories.

New York Times Bestseller “Like Gone Girl, Reconstructing Amelia seamlessly marries a crime story with a relationship drama. And like Gone Girl, it should be hailed as one of the best books of the year.” — Entertainment Weekly The stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight in which a...

Hundreds of years after a plague-induced apocalypse collapsed civilization back to iron and horsepower, the Hyllises have a genetic tendency to inherit “talents” such as telekinesis, teleportation, and telepathy. Though they aren’t powerful talents, they help the Hyllises diagnose and treat the underlying causes of many illnesses in their role as healers. In this book, their town of Clancy Vail is struck by the plague. In order to save thousands of lives, they must master and use the knowledge of epidemiology contained in their copies of the ancients’ books.

Horsehead Crossing, Texas, solves its problems quietly, with unspoken consequences. Tacy Vernon learned this the hard way, and when she goes missing, her boyfriend Chase Haven must learn it too. When Tacy clashes with the town's bombastic mayor and uncovers a corrupt airport deal, she becomes a reluctant whistleblower—and a target of the powerful Baxter Whitey family. After she vanishes, Chase embarks on a perilous quest to uncover the truth.

"Funding Eden" weaves an enthralling tapestry of suspense, corporate intrigue, and speculative science, where the lives of diverse characters intersect in the shadowy world of lawsuit funding. The story follows Cal, a young aspiring lawyer drawn into the murky depths of Plum Street Funding. There, he uncovers the company's enigmatic ties to the Heritage House Network and the secretive Braunian Society.

The Paiutes warned the settlers, but they didn’t listen. Now, their desert town, Big Bell Station, is cursed. A century later, Big Bell has become a failed casino town and money launderer’s paradise where depravity is overlooked and morality is scarce, and where the desert—and the coyotes—have a deadly mind of their own. When a scorned outlaw motorcycle club and a wanted jewel thief find themselves in the godforsaken town, they’ll stay just long enough to get the revenge and retribution they came for and get out. But when the Devil of the Desert comes home… No one is going anywhere.

The murder of a notorious rival high school coach thrusts former pro football player Gale McClanahan into a new and deadly game. Determined to safeguard a dark family secret, McClanahan is blackmailed into coaching the hated Caton Panthers. Little does he know that beneath the Friday night lights lies a level of corruption unprecedented in West Texas.

It’s ten years before the time of Charles Dickens’s novels, and the wild Miss Havisham is bent on revenge against the swindler who left her at the altar on her wedding day in Great Expectations. But it won’t be as simple as she hopes.

When Staff Sergeant Paul Masset’s thirst for revenge gets his best friend killed and himself wounded in Afghanistan he's discharged by the army and drifts in a downward spiral. Years pass and finds himself a Caribbean charter boat captain, but it's only a cover for drug trafficking. Abby Gray is a driven corporate lawyer who travels to Belize trying to find her missing party girl sister. Armed with only a few cell phone pictures, she begins her search. The trail leads her to a tropical paradise and Masset’s fishing boat.

When A.J. Zilchrest, one of Centerville's most prominent philanthropists, dies in a tragic car wreck, lawyer Sylvester (Sly) Jones is assigned to represent the other driver, Jorge Casa, a teenager who is accused of texting while driving. As Sly investigates, it appears that other elements may have caused the so-called accident. With a physical threat to Sly's safety looming, can he solve this mystery before his own life is taken?

Step into the heart-pounding world of The Straits, a thrilling novel set in 1978, where one man's ordinary life is shattered by a ruthless chain of events. Brad Solomon, a bar manager at a remote mountaintop resort, becomes entangled in a deadly game when his daughter is taken hostage by ruthless mercenaries.

When Horatio Billings returned from a trip, and first met Penny, she was sitting behind his receptionist/paralegal’s desk in his office. He had absolutely no idea why she was there instead of his girlfriend who was also his current receptionist/paralegal.

Cassie Blake lives a simple life on a ranch with her family. Although she hates having to go to the city, when a dear friend makes plans to come visit, Cassie makes the drive to the airport to pick her up. While waiting at the airport, an event occurs that will change her life forever.

Legendary lawman Bill Tilghman is approached by a Hollywood film crew with an offer he can't refuse...starring himself in a moving picture. The premise is simple, film Bill as he stops a bank robbery, but there is one catch. The film crew wants to use real criminals to add to the realism of the film. What's more, they want not just any outlaws, but ones that equal to Tilghman in reputation to make the film more exciting. And this is how Tilghman finds himself alongside of men like Cole Younger and Frank James making a movie the world will never forget.

After surviving a terrorist attack, Watson Drake began to wonder what horrible thing the terrorists could be planning next. In addition, he realizes that disasters are not limited to just whatever havoc the terrorists may create, the earth and society have their own share of problems as well.