Ergebnis für "Vendetta" in Krimis & Thriller

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?

Unbekannte hacken sich in amerikanische Militärdrohnen und greifen mit ihnen zivile Ziele im Irak an. Ryan Drake, Chef einer geheimen Eingreiftruppe der CIA, hat nur 48 Stunden, um die Agentin Maras aus einem sibirischen Hochsicherheitsgefängnis zu befreien, die dort wegen einer Intrige der CIA eingekerkert ist. Nicht gerade die verlässlichste Unterstützung. Allerdings ist es Drake nur mit ihr möglich, an die Terroristen heranzukommen.

Harmon Keyes lives by a singular motto: Family first, justice for all. It’s the creed that sustained him when he left special forces and started an ex-military motorcycle club. There, his creed drove him to put his unique skills to good use righting the wrongs left unpunished by the law. But there’s one wrong he’s been waiting years to make right and her name is Daria Sinclair. Family first. Daria’s father is Harmon’s sworn enemy—the man who destroyed his sister’s life. Justice for all. Daria is his ticket to vengeance, and her innocent nature makes her the perfect pawn in his revenge.

She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless. The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company’s human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims - but they don’t know that his crimes go far beyond workplace harassment. Lady Justice knows. And in one shocking night of brutality, she makes him pay a much steeper price.

My psychotic ex should've stayed buried in my past. But I'm done being anyone's target, done being the pawn in someone else's game. St. Sebastian's Academy is mine now. The criminal empire I've built with my three deadly kings is just the beginning. We won this battle, but the real war is about to start. They think they can use my past against me. They think fear will make me weak. Blood will spill. Empires will burn. When the smoke clears, only one of us will be left standing. This is my vendetta. Let them all come. I'll be ready.

One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa. From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other...

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.

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...

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.

2006, La Nouvelle-Orléans. Catherine, la fille du gouverneur de Louisiane, est enlevée. Confiée au FBI, l'enquête prend un tour imprévu : son kidnappeur se livre aux autorités et demande à s'entretenir avec Ray Hartmann, un obscur fonctionnaire qui travaille dans une unité de lutte contre le crime organisé. Alors qu'une course contre la montre s'engage pour retrouver Catherine, dans l'ombre, la mafia et les autorités s'inquiètent du dialogue qui s'établit entre les deux hommes.

Il Cicala ammazza chiunque, soprattutto gli innocenti. La Balena persuade le vittime a suicidarsi. Lo Spingitore agisce ai semafori o nelle stazioni. A Tokyo sono i migliori in circolazione. A chi verrebbe in mente di sfidarli? Dall'autore rivelazione de I sette killer dello Shinkansen un thriller indemoniato sullo sfondo di una Tokyo di cui nessuno sospettava l'esistenza. Suzuki è un tranquillo insegnante di matematica. Fino al giorno in cui sua moglie non viene travolta e uccisa da un'auto pirata.

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.

Lenore växer upp i ett hem som för varje år blir mer och mer främmande. Sir Francis och Lady Sallonger har fyra andra barn som de håller av mycket högre. Lenore förlorade sin mor vid födseln och fadern har hon aldrig träffat. Men Lenore har åtminstone sin mormor, en fransk sömmerska, som bor i huset tillsammans med familjen. Lenore tar över mormoderns kunskap om hanterandet av siden, och med tiden gifter hon sig med en man, Philip. Men deras liv tillsammans kommer att kantas av blod och död. På deras bröllopsresa mördas en kypare på hotellet där de bor.

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.

Ace hacker, former sex worker and vigilante, Lexi Winter is now a cop and not keen to revisit her criminal past. But when old friends invoke the wrath of a local motorcycle club – the same club Lexi herself used to work for – she races to help them the only way she can: undercover. If Lexi is to save a child's life, she is going to have to go back – back to a life she thought she had outrun. Back to the person she used to be. But her timing isn't great. Former club president Arthur Cronin has finished his long prison sentence and is out for revenge for the death of his wife and child.

Cyrus Shelton has spent the last twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind - revenge on the arresting detective, Frank Windom, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone. Now paroled and having learned Windom had the nerve to die, he sets his sights on Windom's former partner, Jack West.

Under the guise of "Beto", 17-year-old Isabetta Bastian runs her father's successful shipping business. Her older brother sails their commercial galley between Venice and Lisbon, exporting luxury textiles and importing exotic spices obtained by the Portuguese. A heinous crime shatters her ideal life, and a risky attempt to save the family business ends in failure. Now, she is forced to live with the harsh consequences.

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.

Mark and Michael Sharpe believed for a time that the war was over, but their past comes back to hunt them down. As much as they desire peace and a life away from the terrors that still live within their minds, they realize that the war is just beginning.