Ergebnis für "road, The" in Krimis & Thriller

War hero and infamous ladies’ man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in China’s Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking with a case against him pending in Washington...

Jon Reznick is a “ghost”: a black-ops specialist who takes his orders from shadowy handlers, and his salary from the US government. Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife on 9/11, he’s dispatched to carry out a high-level hit. Reznick knows only that it must look like suicide. It’s textbook. But the target is not the man Reznick expected. The whole setup is wrong.

Found guilty of stealing bread to feed his starving family, Michael McGuire is offered the “Queen’s Hard Bargain”, go to prison or join the army. He chooses the army and, after training in Dublin Castle, his life is changed forever as he is selected to join the Gordon Relief Expedition that is being sent south of Egypt to Khartoum, in the Sudan.

Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a...

Henry of Monmouth, Prince Hal, is barely recovered from a near-fatal wound when his father leaves him to retake his land. Owain Glendower and Edmund Mortimer, however, have French allies and the most inhospitable landscape to aid them. All that Prince Hal has to guide him is the guardian of kings, Will Strongstaff. The two of them have to fight treachery and those who count money as well as more traditional enemies, the Welsh archers.

Roman Keane has been in the saddle for the last four months, exploring America from his Road King. He was looking forward to getting home when a couple of old friends asked him for a favor. Would he help them deliver a collection of vintage motorcycles? No problem, he said. He didn’t even give it a second thought, until it nearly got them all killed. Now they’re in deep trouble, and before it’s over, Roman will have to ask himself the hardest question anyone can face: How far will you go to save your friends?

On the phone Hugh had said, “I’ve got something you have to see to believe. Get yourself out here.” One year after retiring as a master sergeant in the 75th Rangers, this was Roman Keane’s idea of the perfect way to spend his time: jump on a motorcycle and ride from Georgia to South Dakota to see his old friend, Hugh Early. Hugh had once been Roman’s sniper instructor and was now an internationally respected historian of military arms. Historians, of all people, should know that the past you thought was dead and gone has a way of rising up to finish what it started.

Haunted ex-cop John Sole is still hunting the cartel that butchered his family. His search drags him into Creosote, a dusty Texas border town built on secrets. There he finds Isabella, a café owner fighting to protect her son. As Sole's presence sparks violence, the cartel turns its sights on him. Forced to flee with Isabella and her son, he knows the cartel won't stop until they're silenced. To keep them safe, Sole must sacrifice the only people he's begun to care about since his loss and take the fight back to the enemy.

Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a...

A mystical object brings the CIA, Mossad, crime syndicates, and the Holy Roman Church into conflict. A father and son get caught in the middle as forces collide.

After container ships carrying black-market nuclear bombs are detonated in American port cities, millions are killed, and the country is thrown into panic. In Greenwood, Nebraska, Paul Edwards learns about the devastating terrorist attacks on the news. As the power grid goes down, his fear is magnified by the knowledge that his wife and daughter are a thousand miles away in Atlanta.

As the might of the Global Military Alliance (GMA) pushes North Korea into a risky nuclear showdown by falsely accusing the Hermit Kingdom of spreading a deadly virus that was manufactured in England at Porton Down the MOD’S Defence Science and Technology Laboratory they declare it ‘an act of war.’ Meanwhile one of their former elite assets ex-SAS soldier Conner ‘Skid’ Ryan executes ‘his’ audacious mission to be ‘invited’ into the Islamic Republic of Iran after claiming political asylum.

1938: As Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the fürher’s land hunger is insatiable, the head of the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to help him prove that Czechoslovakia is threatened with invasion. Before heading undercover to Prague, however, Jardine must first extricate himself from France, where his attempts to smuggle guns to Spain have been held up by a group of fanatical fascists. Finally arriving in Czechoslovakia, working undercover for the SIS proves no less dangerous.

Oliver Cross is fresh out of jail. His plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain, and a bottle of Lone Star. But when he finds out his granddaughter, a wild child who reminds him of his late wife, has vanished - bless her hell-raising heart - Oliver jumps parole. With a sketchy teen and an abandoned dog, he hits the blacktop to find her. On the road and on the run from a vengeful Russian drug dealer, Oliver finds himself on a trip across America and into his own past, fueled by fumes from a Ford F-250 and a reason to live.

New York City: Legendary interrogator Malcolm Chaucer is known as The Oracle. There is no subject he cannot break, no secret he cannot unlock. The key to his uncanny ability: eight years as the victim of experimental torture at the hands of a North Korean madman. Chaucer is a broken man, with a unique psychology that makes him both incapable of lying, and a near perfect lie detector.

Twice before, Dodge Dalton proved himself a worthy heir to the heroic Captain Falcon, but saving the world has been more costly than he could have imagined. The scars of that sacrifice have only just begun to heal when disaster strikes again. Dodge's friend Doc Newcombe has been kidnapped by a gang of terrorists who plan to use his scientific expertise to build a weapon capable of destroying entire cities.

Jacob Gamble is a rough-riding outlaw who happens to be flat broke. But when a failed train robbery leaves him looking like a hero, Jacob lands in uncharted territory. Trying to escape his fame, and a suspicious Pinkerton detective, Jacob agrees to help the beautiful Olivia Weathers find a cave full of treasure hidden deep in Apache country - among the infamous bluffs of Canyon Diablo.

Maggie Spritzer’s nose for a story doesn’t just make her a top-notch newspaper editor, it also tells her when to go the extra mile for a friend. When she gets a strange message from her journalism pal, Gabby Richardson, Maggie knows her services are needed.

What has the death of an American Interpol agent to do with the Destabilisation of Europe? Conspiracy theory, master plan, or fake news? Only the Head of the Dragon knows. Can Jack Castle and Lisa Reynard discover the truth, or is it all too late? Silk Roads, is an international thriller, that takes the listener on a head spinning journey. From Marseille to Hong Kong, this fast paced adventure culminates in Paris, and will have Jack Castle fans reading till sunrise...

Andreas, Bart, Ethan, and Amin—four friends who drifted apart, and then together again—had planned on racing the Mongol Rally for years. This time, they had finally committed that this year would be the one. But before the race started, Amin died.