Ergebnis für "Vera" in Spionage

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Detective Livia Lone ist zurück! Der zweite Band der fesselnden Thriller-Reihe von Ex-CIA-Agent Barry Eisler. Von Seattle fliegt Detective Livia Lone nach Thailand, das Land ihrer Herkunft. Sie soll hier eine Taskforce gegen Menschenhandel unterstützen. Insgeheim will Livia aber die Zeit für ihren persönlichen Racheplan nutzen. Sie muss den Drahtzieher Rithisak Sorm finden. Er und seine Mittelsmänner sind schuld am tragischen Schicksal von Livias Schwester.

The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her...

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

A quiet system controls everything. Names. Addresses. Histories. Whether a person exists at all. Odette Valin works inside that system, creating identities for those who need to disappear. Until one day, the system begins finding them. Not by force. By pattern. As files are pulled before arrests and movements predicted before they happen, Odette realizes the truth: Someone is learning how she builds false lives. And using it against her. Now, to stay ahead, she must break her own methods—while protecting the people who depend on them.

Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories-fantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway places-bewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kipling's writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British colonialism. In Not So...