Ergebnis für "Vladimir" in Krimis & Thriller

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder. One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator.

'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, Telegraph The gripping sequel to the bestselling Killer in the Kremlin, revised and updated for paperback...

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a “page-turner of a memoir” (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the early 2000s to bring down a Russian intelligence agent in New York City. For three nerve-wracking years, from...

De décembre 1984 à octobre 1987, les femmes blondes de la ville rose ont vécu dans l’insécurité la plus totale. En effet à cette époque, si vous étiez une femme blonde, menue et d’apparence bourgeoise, il fallait être très prudente dans les rues de Toulouse. Tout démarre un 24 décembre 1984 .https://www.lepetitjournal.net/31-haute-garonne/2024/04/09/1984-1987-quand-le-tueur-des-parkings-toulousains-sevissait/

Devadesátá léta byla nejen dobou nadějných vyhlídek svobodné společnosti, ale i úrodným podhoubím organizovaného zločinu. Investigativní novinář Josef Klíma osobně poznal jeho aktéry – majitele Discolandu Silvie Ivana Jonáka, technologa orlických vražd Karla Kopáče, hlavy podsvětí Radovana Krejčíře či Františka Mrázka, vrahy Ivana Roubala i Jiřího Kajínka. Jak organizovaný zločin ovlivňoval polistopadovou politiku? A jak se postupně měnil v nebezpečnou realitu? Josef Klíma se snaží najít odpovědi společně s bývalými policisty, advokáty i pracovníky v tajných službách.

Vladimir has always been the oddball among the Frazier kids. With his love for reptiles, gothic appearance, and devil-may-care attitude, he can be easily separated from the rest of the Frazier bunch. At 22, he is standing on solid ground and trying to create a life of his own. However, it does get lonely sometimes. He is young, but knows his days of partying and sleeping around cannot last forever. He is slowly running out of options when it comes to the female population of Tyler, Texas. Until Carrisa Abbott walks into the pet store where Vladimir works.

Un misterio paranormal asola el recóndito pueblo de Dark Falls. La escritora Bárbara Myst lleva años escribiendo novelas de intriga con gran éxito comercial, cuya trama ha copiado de un enigmático libro que encontró en el garaje de su abuelo y cuyas historias le han abierto las puertas...

Le véhicule Cupra Formentor de Ouisam B. 33 ans surnommé le Gay a été criblé de balles de 9 mm samedi 4 mai 2024 sur le parking de la discothèque l'étoile à toulouse. La Ville rose fait face, depuis quelques années maintenant, à une multiplication des règlement de comptes sanglants sur fond de trafic de drogue. Une situation qui rappelle celle à laquelle les habitants de la cité phocéenne sont régulièrement confrontés. Mais pourquoi un tel changement ? pour comprendre il faut remonter à la fin des années 90 début des années 2000.

Pour comprendre cette rocambolesque histoire, il faut se plonger d’abord dans la mouvance rock et punk des années 80. A cette époque, de nombreux groupes de rock font leur apparition dans le paysage musical français comme les Béruriers Noirs, Les Garçons Bouchers ou bien Les Wampas

Hlavní hrdinka Rachel Sextonová, dcera volebního soupeře amerického prezidenta, odlétá do Arktidy, kde NASA objevila ve starém meteoritu pravděpodobný důkaz mimozemského života. Za polární kruh je povolán i biolog Michael Tolland, který má pomoci ověřit autenticitu objevu. Vědecké bádání se ale brzy zvrtne do boje o holé přežití. Nakolik je objev součástí nemilosrdného politického boje o prezidentský post? Kdo má zájem utajit pravdu i za cenu lidských životů a proč?

Quel serait le point commun entre l’affaire du bar du téléphone, l’assassinat du juge Pierre Michel et l’exécution en pleine Rue Saint Rome à Toulouse d’un homme surnommé « Le grand » ?https://www.lepetitjournal.net/31-haute-garonne/2024/02/20/1987-quand-le-fils-spirituel-de-gaetan-zampa-etait-abattu-en-plein-toulouse/

Rosja znalazla sposób, by znów realizowac imperialne marzenia. Rozwiazaniem jej problemów ekonomicznych ma byc ekspansja na terenach Arktyki i aneksja dwudziestu pieciu procent swiatowych zlóz ropy. Kurs poteznych lodolamaczy atomowych „Jamal” i „Rassija” staje sie kursem zdeterminowanego panstwa. Blyskawicznie rosna bazy wojskowe i porty na syberyjskich wybrzezach, wzmocniona zostaje potezna Flota Pólnocna.

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad: “A compelling rendering of Putin’s frightening extensions of power into Europe and the United States” (Associated Press). They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England...

A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history. When a small team of investigators discovered that a black market currency dealer was operating out of a Brazilian petrol station, they could never have imagined that their work would destroy the government and lead to the impeachment of two presidents.

In Spymaster's Prism, the legendary former spymaster Jack Devine details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security. Devine tells this story through the unique perspective of a seasoned CIA professional who served more than three decades, some at the highest levels of the agency.

Женя Колодин и его друзья-телевизионщики продолжают съёмки розыгрышей ничего не подозревающих людей скрытой камерой. И на свою беду неожиданно сталкиваются со "спящим убийцей". И как им теперь в этой кровавой свистопляске уцелеть?

Всё началось с того, что богатый предприниматель нанял телохранителя для своей юной дочери. Та отправилась из Москвы далеко за Урал к своей подружке, дочери местного олигарха. И надо было сделать так, чтобы девушку охранял кто-то надёжный. С пистолетом.

Del ganador del premio L’H confidencial, nos llega Habana réquiem, un thriller policiaco que nos arrastra por las calles de La Habana Vieja. Cuba se tensa en medio del panorama de recesión y el Estado intenta maniobrar con un falso aperturismo económico, pero la mentalidad insular ha...