Ergebnis für "road, The" in Politik

Ein Auftrag. Ein Fehler. Ein Mann auf der Flucht. Jon Reznick ist ein »Geist« – ein Spezialist für verdeckte Operationen, der seine Befehle von zwielichtigen Vorgesetzten und sein Gehalt von der US-Regierung erhält. Sein neuester Auftrag: ein Anschlag auf höchster Ebene. Reznick weiß nur, dass es wie ein Selbstmord aussehen muss. Doch etwas läuft schief. Das Ziel ist nicht der Mann, den er erwartet hat. Reznick selbst wird zum Gejagten. Er ist mit dem Mann, den er töten sollte, auf der Flucht.

When a child is kidnapped by his unstable mother, the father turns to Joe Tiplady - offering him a lot of money to find the boy and bring him back. It soon becomes clear that Joe will have to earn every cent: mother and son are in war-torn Syria, and they've willingly joined the ranks of ISIS.

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.

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A veteran journalist in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protester in this “sensual, provocative, and riveting” (The Washington Post) novel from the celebrated author of The Forgiven—now a major motion picture starring...

When Iran's deadly nuclear game is revealed, CIA agent Frank Williams realizes there is only one man made for the job of traveling to the other side of the world to neutralize this threat—his disgraced former partner, agent Jim Duffy. Williams travels to Duffy's Maine hideaway and presents the facts of the case: The world's largest heroin dealers have carved a path straight to America's doorsteps and may possess six of the deadliest weapons known to man. Duffy doesn't want to yield to the Agency that cast him aside. But a sense of duty and a love of country will not let him stand by.

It was supposed to be a quiet night for Bobbie Casto and his friends outside their small town of Rion, West Virginia. But when two police officers arrive, things quickly spiral out of control. Now, Bobbie is on the run, his friends dead, and himself wanted for the attempted murder of a police officer. So when Bear Beauchamp checks on his business partner Raymond Byrd and finds him abetting the young kid, he knows of only one person that can help: Jackson Clay. Together, they try to piece together what happened that night, but what they learn may be even worse then what's happened.

North Korea launches a hypersonic missile that barely misses Los Angeles. U.S. President Sarah Jacobsen tasks top physicist Ric O’Malley to quickly complete a quantum computer project that will bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a level that can stop any ICBM in the world. Ric races to East Asia to obtain breakthrough research data from South Korean and Japanese allies. China enters the conflict and attacks the United States. Caught up in the maelstrom of escalating violence, Ric is attacked and almost killed.

After the events of Ahriman: The Spirit of Destruction, Petra Shirazi settles into a life in Paris under the alias of Ana Zagini. Her new world comes crashing down after a visit from a former Agency colleague forces her back into fieldwork. As they race to stop a mole that has infiltrated the Agency, they uncover an insidious plot to destroy the leadership of the International Monetary Fund and place it in the control of a corrupt Russian politician.

Winter has never been so hot, nor the world so dangerous. Sidney Bannister has been lucky so far. With no survival training and no real skills besides her street smarts, she realizes that must learn to fight so she can protect her newborn baby from the infected that plague the United States. Enemies from her former life arise to bring the AWOL Lieutenant Jake Murphy to justice. The hunt intensifies as the remnants of Jake’s old unit close in around him and his group of survivors.

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.

Following decades of deindustrialization, economic decline, income inequality, and political polarization, parts of America are a tinderbox. In Detroit, the match is lit when the local power company routinely shuts off the electricity of households behind in their monthly payments, even in the midst of an unusually brutal winter. Thousands of households resort to space and kerosene heaters, causing a spike in house fires and fire-related deaths.

Hayley Chill descends even deeper into the dangerous political web of Washington, DC, in this “twisty, electrifying thriller” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) and sequel to the national bestseller Deep State. When a series of devastating cyber attacks rock the United...

Sur une route perdue de l'Ouest américain, un homme roule à tombeau ouvert. Cet homme, c'est Frank Guidry. À ses trousses, un tueur à gages mandaté par le mafieux Carlos Marcello, qui veut se débarrasser d'un témoin indésirable dans le crime du siècle : l'assassinat de JFK. Guidry sait que la première règle, quand on est en cavale, est de ne pas s'arrêter. Et que la seconde est de ne compter que sur soi-même.

No deserto do Saara, dois agentes de inteligência de elite—um francês e uma americana—arriscam a própria vida enquanto seguem o rastro de um poderoso grupo de extremistas. Do outro lado do mundo, a primeira mulher a ocupar o cargo de presidente dos Estados Unidos faz de tudo para lidar diplomaticamente com ataques estrangeiros, comércio ilegal de armas e campanhas de difamação de um adversário populista. Mas, à medida que pequenos atos de violência se sucedem e começam a ganhar escala, o início de uma nova guerra mundial parece uma certeza.

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER “One of the more surprising double-reverse plot twists...in some time.” —The New York Times In this “propulsive, page-turning, compelling, fragmentation grenade of a debut thriller” (C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a deadly plot against...

A debut novel in the vein of Greene and le Carré, A Dying Breed is a brilliant and gripping story of the politics of news reporting, intrigue and blood set between the dark halls of Whitehall, the shadowy corridors of the BBC and the perilous streets of Kabul, in the shadowy le Carré-esque world of foreign correspondents reporting from war zones around the world. Carver, an old BBC hack, is warned off a story when a bomb goes off, killing a local official in Kabul, but his instincts tell him something isn't quite right....