Ergebnis für "Vendetta" in Literatur & Belletristik

Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.

Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons, and each other, at the funeral of a comrade in the red dunes of the Kalahari Desert. But their scars run deep, and as the truth emerges, each man must ask himself: When serving your country, what makes you a hero and what secrets are worth dying for?

Der Luxusliner Sternentraum wird auf seiner Kreuzfahrt von einer Gruppe Bewaffneter aufgebracht und gekapert. Die fast dreitausend Passagiere und Besatzungsmitglieder werden als Geiseln genommen. Die Geiselnehmer stellen jedoch keinerlei Forderungen, weder wollen Sie Geld noch andere Leistungen. Vielmehr scheinen Sie an ganz bestimmten Zielpersonen interessiert zu sein und setzen alles daran, ihrer habhaft zu werden.

Alexandria ha sempre avuto paura di due cose: perdere sé stessa dopo il Risveglio, ed essere ridotta in servitù per mezzo dell’elisir. Ma l’amore è sempre stato più forte del fato e Aiden è pronto a dichiarare guerra all'Olimpo – e al lato oscuro di Alex – pur di riaverla con sé. Intanto il mondo è sull'orlo del caos. Gli dei hanno già ucciso una moltitudine di persone e potrebbero distruggere intere città nel tentativo di impedire ad Alex di cedere il suo potere a Seth, il primo Apollyon, rendendolo così l’invincibile Sterminatore di Dei.

Denzel Riker was the CIA's best assassin, a ghost on missions so secret they never existed on paper — until Chief Daniel Roberts pulled the trigger on his wife and son to bury a multimillion-dollar drug ring. Left for dead after a Mexican ambush, Riker clawed his way back with one burning goal: to make the Chief pay. Max Carter, a broke NYC valet, looks too much like Denzel Riker for his own good. When assassins mistake him for the agent, Max gets pulled into a dangerous and deadly world, encompassing both sides of the law.

Emanuela Ciafrei, Manuela Fucci, Maria Carolina Guidotti, Giovanni Mandruzzato, Franca Pellizzari e Claudio Righenzi. Sei autori per sei racconti noir sul tema della vendetta.

Betrayal. Murder. Revenge. Just another day in medieval Italy. The year is 1377. Angelo Anchioni has served in the Hospitaller Order for fourteen years. Determination, diligence and skill have made him a squire, but he remains unaware of the evil that those closest to him have within them. Returning home after a long absence, he finds his beloved family has been savagely murdered by the fickle decree of Bernabo Visconti, the lord of Milan and one of the most powerful men in Europe.

In the cholera-ridden Naples of 1884, Fabio Romani is prematurely buried and awakes to find himself in a coffin. After managing to free himself, Fabio rushes home to reassure his wife and child. While he expected to find his family deep in mourning, he instead discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him and is having an affair with his best friend. Utilizing a disguise and adopting a new identity, Fabio slowly works his way back into the trust, and home, of those who betrayed him, culminating in a frightful finale of revenge.

In this captivating first novel by Tripp Mehew, you will meet Kailani Priest. He is a local legend from Hawai'i turned military special operations tour de force. This action-packed story takes you on a journey to discover just who killed Kailani's best friend Stephen. He makes a shocking discovery that unveils the deep state and just how far they are willing to go to get what they want. The desire to hunt down Stephen's killers and take down these corrupt one-world government fanatics propels Kailani out of retirement and back into the fight.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “All the Steve Berry hallmarks are here: scale, scope, sweep, history—plus breathless second-by-second suspense. I love this guy.”—Lee Child Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American...

London, 1558. Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth's intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil, and archrival Robert Dudley.

Cos'hanno in comune Abel Rosnovski, un trovatello nato in Polonia alla vigilia delle invasioni tedesca e russa e cresciuto come un figlio da un barone, e William Kane, rampollo di una ricca famiglia di banchieri americani? Nulla, eccezione fatta per l'età. E per la perdita prematura del padre, che Abel non ha mai conosciuto e che William ha salutato prima che si imbarcasse sul Titanic nel suo viaggio inaugurale. Solo il destino può incrociarne le strade.

Obiettivo: contattare urgentemente Jack Reacher. Problema: Reacher non ha fissa dimora. Molto controvoglia, dopo l'11 settembre è stato costretto ad ancorarsi alla civiltà per lo meno con un documento d'identità e un conto in banca, ma lui continua la sua esistenza nomade in difesa della verità e della giustizia. Soluzione: un versamento di 1.030 dollari sul suo conto corrente. Una cifra che è anche un codice che solo Reacher può decifrare.

The agents of Supernatural Protection & Investigations (SPI) are paid to keep the peace. But that's not so easy when an endless evil threatens to tear that peace to pieces. A vampire gangster's nephew is abducted off his yacht by a bunch of low-rent Creatures from the Black Lagoon. A slew of banks are knocked over by what looks like the cast of Night of the Living Dead. All of this may seem like the movies, but, I promise you, it's not.

No one needs to push Nikki Boyd to excel on the Tennessee Missing Person Task Force. The case of her own missing sister, still unsolved after 10 years, is the driving force in her work. When a Polaroid photo of a missing girl shows up at a crime scene, Nikki quickly recognizes similarities to the past. The closer she gets to the abductor, the more she feels that this case is getting personal and that she is not the hunter at all - but actually the one being hunted.

When Adele's brother, Peter, gets banged up for GBH, she reluctantly agrees to run his nightclub, The Golden Bell. Strong opposition from Peter's thuggish number two, Glynn, who isn't best pleased about answering to a woman, isn't the only challenge she faces. The Manchester club scene of the 1990s is a dangerous place, at the mercy of illicit protection rackets and rampaging gangs, and, despite Adele's efforts to keep everything legal, the club is beginning to feel like a poisoned chalice.

Five years ago, Myra's pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver - the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. Myra was left to grieve while the murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime. But not for much longer. As the air turns crisp in the Virginia hills around Myra's lovely old farmhouse, the Sisterhood has gathered for a little creative planning, and what they have in mind is a gift for Myra of long-awaited and very sweet revenge.

"Vendetta" ist ein Roman des französischen Schriftstellers Honoré de Balzac. Es ist die achte der Scènes de la vie privée (Szenen des Privatlebens) in La Comédie humaine. Der Roman wurde erstmals 1830. "Vendetta" ist ein kurzes Werk über das tragische Schicksal von Ginevra Piombo, der Tochter korsischer Einwanderer, die das Unglück hat, sich in einen anderen Korsiker, Luigi Porta, zu verlieben.

When a British covert intelligence agency learns of an impending drug deal between the Venetian mafia and one of the UK’s most notorious importers, agent Maggie Black is sent to stop it. Under the alias of an American drug lord, Maggie must infiltrate the crime family and stop their product from reaching British soil - a feat that gets more complicated when her colleague and old flame Leon is sent along with her.

Morgonposten på UD i Stockholm innehåller ett vadderat kuvert med ett snyggt avkapat finger. Fingret tillhör en svensk medborgare som maffian på Sicilien kidnappat. Motvilligt åtar sig Carl Hamilton uppdraget att befria de kidnappade. Men han och hans medhjälpare möter en motståndare de aldrig tidigare stött på. Jan Guillous serie om Carl Hamilton blev omedelbart en stor framgång, som med åren kom att växa till Sveriges största romansuccé genom tiderna. Vendetta är den sjätte delen i serien och utkom 1991.