Ergebnis für "The Double Traitor" in Krimis & Thriller

"It is an easy task," Selingman declared. "This young man is your slave. Whatever your daily business may be here, some part of your time, I imagine, will be spent in his company. Let me know what manner of man he is. Is this innate corruptness which brings him so easily to the bait, or is it the stinging smart of injustice from which he may well be suffering? Or, failing these, has he dared to set his wits against mine, to play the double traitor? If even a suspicion of this should come to you, there must be an end of Mr. Francis Norgate."

It's 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin's Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is. As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent ‘Archie', and there's a frantic search to find them. What they don't know is that he is not the only traitor.

It's September 1940, and British intelligence is desperately worried: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. A sinister organisation called The Group, a collection of British and Irish Nazi collaborators, is at work trying to support Hitler's plans. But that is not the only concern for the spy chiefs: the search for double agent 'Archie'–the Soviet spy and British traitor–is proving fruitless, and now they know there’s a second traitor, Bertie, also in play.

Moskau, 1962. Alexander Wassin ist der Top-Agentenjäger des KGB. Als es gilt, einen Maulwurf im Kreml aufzuspüren, kommt nur er dafür infrage. Während die Spannungen zwischen Chruschtschow und Kennedy zunehmen und die Kubakrise auf ihren Höhepunkt zusteuert, ahnt Wassin nicht, dass das Schicksal der Welt bald vom Erfolg seiner Mission abhängt - und von der Geduld des Kapitäns einer sowjetischen U-Boot-Flotte, der weit unter dem Meer auf die Befehle seiner Kommandanten wartet, zu denen er den Kontakt verloren hat.

London, 1865. Caroline Courtwood wird in der Nähe des Traitor's Gate erwürgt aufgefunden. Inspektor Stockworth und Sergeant Bennett ermitteln in diesem Fall. Da Stockworths Ehefrau Charlotte sich, wie die Tote, in der Greenland´s Armenschule engagiert hat, stellt sie eigene Nachforschungen an.

Vertrauen ist ein Fehler, der sonst nur anderen passiert... jetzt muss er dafür büßen. Als Victor für einen Mord verhaftet wird, den er ausnahmsweise nicht begangen hat, muss er fliehen, damit seine wahren Absichten verborgen bleiben. Doch irgendjemand will Victor unbedingt hinter Gittern sehen. So landet er in einem LowSecurity Gefängnis, umgeben von Polizisten, die keine Ahnung haben, welches Monster sie eingefangen haben! Und auch den anderen Insassen ist nicht klar: Sie befinden sich in einem Käfig mit dem kaltblütigsten Auftragsmörder der Staaten.

Gemma Tate has a new job and a new address. She is putting her past – her memories of nursing in the Crimean war – behind her. But when Jacob Harrow, a journalist with ties to Crimea, is found brutally killed, Gemma is pulled into the investigation. Police inspector Sebastian Bell works alone. But when all signs point toward a dark secret Harrow brought back from the war, he realizes he needs Gemma’s help to untangle the mystery. But raking up the past has devastating consequences when Gemma’s friend, another nurse from Crimea, is found murdered in her boarding house…

George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a senior officer in the British Intelligence Service who was double agent for the Soviet Union, his actions had devastating consequences for Britain. Yet he was also one of the least-known double agents, and remained unrepentant. In 1961, Blake was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for betraying to the KGB all of the Western operations in which he was involved, and the names of hundreds of British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. This was the longest sentence for espionage ever to have been handed down by a British court

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Tired of people, Jack Widow takes a break. He camps out in the Alaskan wilderness on Kodiak Island, relying on nothing but his survival skills. It’s everything he wanted: quiet terrain, plenty of fishing, sleeping out under the stars, and no people. It seemed like the perfect vacation until Widow meets a man with a familiar face.

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