Ergebnis für "Winter" in Politik

Charlie Cooper wird nach Prag geschickt, um den Anführer einer Gruppe rechtsextremer Hooligans ausfindig zu machen – und zu eliminieren –, der für den Mordes an einem Interpol-Agenten verantwortlich ist. Dienstlich hat Cooper eine letzte Verwarnung erhalten, und es wird von ihm erwartet, dass er so unauffällig wie möglich ein- und ausreist und nur die Leiche seiner Zielperson zurücklässt.

"Geronimo" lautete das Codewort, das die Männer vom Seals Team 6 durchgeben sollten, wenn sie Osama bin Laden finden. Jahrelang wurde erfolglos nach dem al-Qaida-Führer gefahndet, bis er in der Nacht zum 2. Mai 2011 bei der Erstürmung seines Anwesens in Pakistan von US-Soldaten erschossen wurde. Doch ist die spektakuläre Jagd nach dem meistgesuchten Mann der Welt wirklich so verlaufen, wie man uns glauben macht? Das hochspannende NDR-Hörspiel des Bestsellers von Leon de Winter erzählt eine atemberaubend andere Version der Geschichte - herausragend besetzt mit Sylvester Groth, Barbara Nüsse u.v.a.

Eine toughe Frankfurter Rechtsanwältin. Geraubte Kunstschätze. Und eine Spur des Blutes. Raubkunst, deren blutige Spur sich vom nahen Osten bis nach Frankfurt zieht. Ein Killer, der seine Opfer quer über den Erdball jagt. Und mittendrin Carla Winter, eine Strafverteidigerin, die sich nicht an das Gesetz halten kann, wenn sie die Schuldigen finden und selbst am Leben bleiben will. Ein hochbrisantes Katz-und-Maus-Spiel im globalen Raubkunst-Handel, dem Milliardengeschäft der organisierten Kriminalität.

This is more than the story of nuclear conflict. It’s about the devastating effects wrought by nuclear winter. Our possible future is seen through the eyes of the Albright family. Hank Albright, a widower and proprietor of the Driftwood Key Inn, is the epitome of the laid-back islander inhabiting the Keys. His brother, Mike, is a homicide detective for the Monroe County Sheriff’s department. Along with his wife, Jessica, a paramedic and member of the sheriff’s department's water emergency team, they become involved in the investigation of a sadistic serial killer.

Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End is the first novel in a trilogy that is the defining account of the unsolved assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986 that still haunts the collective Swedish memory. Beginning with the death of an unknown American citizen in Stockholm, Persson slowly unravels the complex web of international espionage, greed, sheer incompetence and a poorly constructed Swedish intelligence force, that in this fiction lead to the murder of the Prime Minister.

Years ago, a manipulative cult leader slipped through the cracks of prosecutor Jessie Black's murder case, leaving her shaken by the failure. Those demons still haunt her. Now, the ritualistic scene of a new murder points to the same man, offering Jessie a second chance to bring him down. The twisted investigation pulls Jessie into a vortex of deceit and double lives. Shocking revelations and devastating truths emerge about both past and present crimes, and Jessie and her team become entangled in a dangerous fight against the cult.

President Timothy Kegan is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Philadelphia; a single shooter is caught and convicted. Fourteen years later, the slain President's half-brother, Nick, hears a deathbed confession that upends everything he thought he knew about his brother's death. In a desperate rush to find the real killer, Nick must navigate the murky waters of a conspiracy that involves the CIA, oil barons, the police force, movie stars, and people at the highest level of government.

When interim District Attorney Jessie Black's friend and mentor is accused of a nightmarish crime, she knows he's innocent. Jesus Rivera is a good man, a lawyer who's guided her throughout her career. But without proof, her hands are tied. She can't intervene without breaking the trust of the city that appointed her.

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder. In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran...

A game hunter is in a race against time to save his family from the most dangerous predator on earth—other people—in this high-stakes thriller in the vein of Jack Carr and Peter Heller. Mason “Mace” Winters, with his acclaimed reputation as one of the best big game hunters in Colorado...

After surviving a car crash that left her widowed at 22, Kathleen has retreated to a remote corner of a state park, where she works flipping burgers for deer hunters and hikers. But when a stranger appears in the dead of winter, Kathleen is intrigued. He says he's a student visiting from Uzbekistan, and his worldliness fills her with curiosity about life beyond the valley. After a cautious friendship settles between them, the stranger confesses to a terrible crime in his home country, and Kathleen finds herself in the grip of a manhunt - and face-to-face with secrets of her own.

When the fingers of dead women start showing up in the Supreme Court’s mail, ex-FBI Agent Jeremy Winter is brought back to the Bureau to aid in the investigation. Agent Maggie Keeley, his girlfriend and now boss, leads the search for the serial killer. Together, Jeremy and Maggie learn the five remaining cities on the murderer’s list, but they have no idea when the killer will strike or whom he will target. When they stumble upon a clue at the scene of a young woman’s death, the case focuses on an abandoned ramshackle home in sparsely populated west Texas.

Darcy, a restless young artist, travels to the Soviet Union to visit his elusive half-sister, Fin. Upon his arrival in the depths of a bleak Moscow winter, Darcy is immediately embroiled in Fin's mysterious life there and also drawn to Moscow's forbidden underground, finding himself swept up in political and sexual intrigues of a nature he could never have imagined.

On a brief visit to Cairo to support an investigation her fiancé, a Jewish American journalist, has undertaken, Salma is caught up in the machinations of a new, radical Islamist group with a vendetta against her father, a man with his own dark side. A former lover and Islamist, kidnaps her. He forces her to flee with him from Cairo to Aswan in the far south of Egypt. As they navigate the backroads, Salma, a privileged Egyptian American, finds herself hiding under a burqa, running desert sandstorms and relying on the goodwill of poor villagers.

Eli Cutter is a knight-master in an ancient order created to advise the president of the United States. Because of the mental toll from their job, knight-masters retire at a young age. Cutter has retired to Taos, New Mexico, but on a trip to Vail, Colorado, he rescues the current president. Seeing Cutter display unusual skills, the current president asks if Cutter can assist him solving crimes that fall through the cracks of bureaucracy.

“Empire City is a dark, nimble book that pulls no punches. While the novel tracks an alternate historical reality, time and again I found myself taken aback at just how prescient and applicable its insight is to our very real present. Gallagher once again establishes himself as a preeminent...

In the post-COVID near future, mysterious explosions cripple Japan's power infrastructure. Tokyo's lights go dark, and bullet trains grind to a halt. Brad Oaks and wife, Amaya Mori, put family plans on hold to answer a call for help from Japan's new prime minister. What power can Japan's first woman prime minister wield - even in her own family? What good can come from a nationwide power outage? Russia, China, and America have high stakes in solutions to these puzzles.

Diplomacy, danger, and desire collide when Brad Oaks pursues an ingenious international trade proposal that would rescue a family steel business and secure a scarce natural resource for the US. Is it a powerful idea or just a pipedream? New to the Washington, DC, lobbying scene, Brad’s pursuit of a solution to this political issue takes him from DC to California to Tokyo as he seeks to thwart an international plot to sabotage America’s infrastructure.

His best friend wants him to help enemies of the United States. A voracious corporate raider wants to take over his family's business. And an unknown adversary wants him and those closest to him dead. Brad, wife Amaya, and daughter Kozue start the new year of 2026 in Tokyo, entangled in high-stakes diplomatic intrigue over North Korean bombs traded for Iranian natural gas profits.

When a mistake in a run-of-the-mill reconnaissance mission is ruthlessly exploited as a pretext for war, the Grangers must scramble to expose the plan before casualties start mounting. To make matters worse, someone is using a powerful computer algorithm against the international intelligence community, raiding files and manipulating reports.