Ergebnis für "The Republic" in Spionage

When bestselling thriller writer Ian Ferguson's research gets too close to the enigmatic founder of a classified-leaks website, he becomes the victim of a ruthless pair of assassins. Convinced that Ferguson was on to something big, his publisher enlists crusading journalists Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell to complete his book, and identify who was behind the hit. But when the pair link Ferguson's death to a notorious member of the British royal family, they begin to uncover a plot that points uncomfortably close to home – Stella's estranged mother.

1755, Grand Pré, Acadia. As British troops forcibly remove Acadian families from their land, young Clément Gosselin stumbles upon a covert exchange that thrusts him into the heart of an imperial conspiracy. What begins as exile quickly becomes espionage, as Clément leads his brothers through burning villages and hostile forests into a secret war for survival—and revolution.

This second Major Brown adventure takes him and his team from the streets of London to Somalia. While his nemesis Brigadier General Tsygankov forms his team in his dacha to bring havoc to the UK using the IRA. They travel to Afghanistan, Moscow, Split, Libya, Ireland, France, Canal du Midi and Toulouse before setting foot in the UK and Southern Ireland and setting up a mission devised by General Tsygankov to cripple a major arm of the British Army and Major Rodney Brown.

This is a thriller which traces the history of the Stevens family from 1916 to 2020, covering four generations. What is so unusual about this family is that they are all special intelligence operatives and serve in an ultra-secret unit answering to senior military officers appointed directly by the King. In each generation, the eldest son is selected to carry on the tradition when he reaches the age of 21 years.

A mysterious saboteur. A lethal helicopter accident. A psychotic terrorist. What should be a routine examination for CAA inspector Steve Allen quickly spirals into a whirlpool of violence, sex, lies, and intrigue. While rubbing shoulders with the privileged patrons of Skyforce UK, Steve must find out who his enemies are before it is too late.

After losing his life savings to Russian hackers, Mickey Summer wants compensation. Or revenge. Ideally both. With British authorities dragging their feet, Mickey decides he'll do it his way and is soon enmeshed in the tangled web of Russian state, mafia and business. Declan Lehane heads a US task force fighting a Kremlin-sponsored hybrid war. Their investigations overlap in St Petersburg, and in the process they uncover the Russian president's darkest secret. But with his finger on the nuclear button, dare they reveal it?

Having just stunned those in Washington with Operation Hail Storm, Marshall Hail and his crew move on to their next mission, using assets from two ships, the Hail Nucleus and the Hail Proton. Hail's team has been provided the latest intelligence for a new operation that seems impossible, but then, Hail and his techno-savages have a knack for pulling off the impossible.

The most virulent weapon of mass destruction will be unleashed upon the world, but Delta Force veteran Daniel Strong isn't about to let that happen. Recalled from the depths of drug addiction and depression, Danny is the last chance for the CIA to stop an auction in New York where powerful weapons dealers are to bid for the right to proliferate a deadly neurotoxin.

The world is dreaming. Dreaming of things that would be impossible whilst they were awake. Until now. Something is brewing in the minds of the mundane populous. Those that could not command magick are finding themselves able to do unimaginable things. And there is intent behind this new understanding, intent from a vast and powerful being, that has designs on the world of man. The more minds it reaches, the more powerful it gets. And soon, it will come for us, for our world, and only The Circle stands in its way.

Luis Fuentes longs to quit the violence-riddled border. But when the undercover DEA agent is contacted by a would-be-terrorist, he jumps in to probe for details before an extremist plot unfolds. And when the FBI Director tells him to quietly string the man along, the street-smart operative's instincts tell him his superior is playing dirty pool.

This is the first book in the George Melville Mystery series and as such sees our eponymous hero, investigative officer George Melville, who works for a law firm, get tangled up in the murky world of pre-Second World War espionage. He meets an eccentric Scottish laird who in fact is his British secret service contact, as he is unsuspectingly thrust into the dangerous life as an ill-prepared secret agent in Hong Kong, Macau, Cairo, and eventually Ireland, where he meets again his old friend Inspector Dodds, along with a policewoman named Yvonne.

Tehran was well known to American businessman Jack Devlin until the day everything changed. When radical Islamic students stormed the US embassy on November 4, 1979, Jack narrowly escaped the revolutionary chaos, leaving behind 80 percent of his business and 100 percent of his heart. To get his beautiful girlfriend, Farideh, out of Iran, Jack accepts a devil’s bargain with the CIA and MI6. He must slip back into Tehran, where the militant students are holding dozens of Americans hostage in their own embassy.

Hawke's writing excels, especially during the book's many action sequences. The dialogue in the novel is both crisp and tense but also humorous at times. Hawke spins his international counter-terrorism tale at a breakneck pace starting with the 1999 shoot down of a US super-secret stealth military jet in Bosnia and a terrorist plot to use the plane's technology for nefarious purposes.

A monstrous infection is spreading worldwide. Is this a simple infection or a deliberate attempt to ruin the human population, or bioterrorism? What is this global infection, and who is spreading this? To know that, listen to this suspense-filled audiobook.