Ergebnis für "The CEO Game" in Thriller

Mafia, Macht und ein Milliarden Imperium. Raffaele Grimaldi verkörpert Macht, Reichtum und Erfolg. Er ist ein gefeierter Visionär, ein eiskalter Zocker und ein unbarmherziger Verhandlungspartner. Der älteste Spross der Grimaldi Dynastie ist der Tycoon der New Yorker Immobilienbranche. Es gibt kein lukratives Bauprojekt, in dem er nicht seine Finger im Spiel hat. Ob das allerdings an seinem unfehlbaren Geschäftssinn, oder an seinen Verbindungen zur italienischen Mafia liegt, weiß keiner so genau.

In the game of predator and prey, sometimes the greatest trap is discovering you no longer want to escape. I've always escaped into gaming when reality became too much. As MistressOfMischief, I found freedom behind a screen, building a bond with my online partner, Rogue, that felt more real than most of my relationships. For two years, we shared victories and late-night conversations—I thought I knew him. I couldn't have been more wrong.

In the early days of 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, are given an urgent task by his brother, Mycroft: find a British spy gone missing along India's northwest frontier, where men are dying and trouble is brewing. The spy's name? It is one Holmes knows from his sojourn in India long ago, and one Russell knows from a book. It is Kimball O'Hara, known to the world by the name Rudyard Kipling called him - Kim....

Growing up, the ice was my safe space. I excelled at playing hockey. However, these days, it's hockey players who provide sanctuary—one bed at a time. We have an arrangement. I offer them a night of pleasure, and in return, they grant me all the temporary, artificial love I can get my hands on—a chance to feel whole. Happily ever after doesn't exist where I come from, but I crave it just the same. It was a foolproof system. Until Barrett. One night with him was all it took to tear down walls and crack the facade I worked so hard to build.

Kate Blackwell is the symbol of success—a beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned, she is also a survivor as indomitable as her father, who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the hard South African soil. As she celebrates her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved over the decades and asks herself: Is she the master of the game?

It's a blindingly hot summer. International visitors surge into Sydney's Darling Harbour. Two-year-old Tommy is sailing his toy boat in the park there with his mother Phoebe. Tommy vanishes into thin air. The following winter, taunting notes written as nursery rhymes begin arriving at his parents' home. Little Boy Blue, where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know.

Seine einzige Schwäche: seine dunkle Vergangenheit. Lila ist die einzige Frau, die Lexington Olivo jemals geliebt hat - auch, wenn sie ihn vor fünf Jahren verließ und ihm das Herz brach. Als er sie wiedertrifft, will er beweisen, dass er sich geändert hat und eine zweite Chance verdient. Keine illegalen Kämpfe mehr, keine Lügen. Aber dieses Mal ist es Lia, die ein Geheimnis hat. Eines, das sie ihm seit fünf Jahren verschweigt und das alles verändern wird. Für immer.