Ergebnis für "The Trap" in Krimis & Thriller

Brought to you by Penguin. How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned. But...

Meanwhile, Gillan McArdle’s academic career is ending because of one stupid lapse of judgement. Offered a short-term contract, he lands on the Hebridean island of Harris to investigate obscure animal bones. Quickly dismissing the unicorn skull as a thinly disguised fake, he can’t deny there’s something unusual about these bones. Baited by rumors of a majestic tusked horse roaming the uplands, Gill begins to suspect someone is manipulating him. As he gradually unravels the mystery of the skull, he grasps a disturbing conclusion: If this creature does exist, the evidence suggests it’s a killer.

For Jack Burgoyne, a former investment banker turned reluctant fixer, the world of high finance isn’t just about profit margins and market trends—it’s a maze of lies, double-crosses, and high-stakes betrayal. In Cash-Trap, a gripping financial thriller, Burgoyne is thrust into a world where the line between genius and madness is measured in billions.

Ilya Kromov, head lawyer at a struggling defense plant on the Volga, has spent years playing the game —giving bribes, cutting corners, keeping the raiders at bay. He’s no hero. He’s just better at the game than most. But when police ambush him at a meeting with a bank representative, Ilya realizes he’s been outplayed. The ambush was a setup. And the man pulling the strings —a corporate raider named Lazarev —has already seized the plant’s subsidiary and is now coming for the rest.

When Steel picks up a CIA asset with classified intel in the Bahamas, his team is hit hard and the mission blows up. A Russian Oligarch and a Russian SVR operative will stop at nothing to prevent Steel from delivering intel that will expose the criminality of a hundred powerful men. Fighting for his life, Steel asks for help from an old acquaintance - a reluctant cartel hitman. Worse, Steel's partner, Christie, has a family emergency and she has to leave Steel - but even Montana isn’t going to be safe.

Fleeing through the night, recon pilot Ben Cobb races to warn MacArthur of a secret Japanese build-up on Mindanao. The marines must not invade! When a pack of trailing Zeroes flame him from the sky, Ben must find another way to deliver his message. With precious little time, and with everything he meets trying to kill him, Ben must not fail. The fate of the entire war may well depend on it.