Ergebnis für "The Baron" in Internationale Krimis

Government agencies fail to find terrorists threatening the United States with nuclear weapons. To remedy that, the new President forms a highly classified operation with an executive order. The Virtual ExtraSensory Perception Experimental Research project (VESPER) is created and housed in secret facilities under the JFK runways. VESPER leaders learn of South African "mindreachers" born several decades ago.

Notorious for their satanic lyrics, drunken excess, and rumors of blood sacrifice, the Banshees shocked the world with their only album, Beat the Manshees. Death stalked their concerts - lightning, stabbings, overdoses. The world heaved a sigh of relief when the Banshees all died in a plane crash. Or did they? Forty years later, with no fanfare, they appear in a seedy Prague nightclub.

Merritt Saxe, newly hired public relations specialist with the Florida prison system, answers an urgent plea from their division’s director, Willard Ware Baintree. Following his orders, she finds him in the apartment of his mistress, his bloody T-shirt and the mistress’s dead body convincing her the criminal justice superstar is himself a criminal. The director claims he didn’t kill the woman and coerces Merritt into being his alibi.

In the wrong place at the wrong time when their hotel in Florence, Italy, is besieged by terrorists, the two strangers find themselves thrust together in Wade's honeymoon suite. Immediately attracted to each other, Wade conducts a siege of his own to win Theia's heart.

After the June Terror killed hundreds of thousands around the world, Jack Harding knew he had to disappear. Not wanting to risk flying from Europe, he takes the long trip across Russia by train, aiming to get back to the US by crossing the Bering Strait. Instead, he falls victim to a family of human traffickers, who submit him to months of unspeakable abuse.

Em "Se eu fosse Sherlock Holmes", Medeiros e Albuquerque faz jus ao título de pioneiro do policial no Brasil trazendo um narrador que declaradamente se diz inspirado pelo famoso detetive britânico e resolve o mistério do roubo de um anel. Já em "O soldado Jacob", o terror é que dá cor ao conto, na história de um soldado internado em uma instituição para doentes mentais que vive às voltas com seu pesadelo maior.