Ergebnis für "the english admiral" in Krimis & Thriller

Ashore on leave, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd learns of a dismal harvest and general hardship among the population. In Germany, Napoleon Bonaparte is celebrating victories that once again make his name feared throughout Europe. An armistice is signed and while the Allies lick their wounds Bonaparte sets to preparing for a grand advance. And, in a fragile peace, and saddled with huge war debts, the government has no choice but to place HMS Thunderer, along with many other Royal Navy ships, in reserve, until the Navy can decide what to do with their great fleets.

Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the admiralty by his erratic voting as a member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates.

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

Tensions are escalating between England and Napoleon's France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions, and spies on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking in English waters poised to strike at British trade. Meanwhile, smugglers and storms threaten to overcome HMS Teazer.

Inmitten des kalten Kriegs enttarnt das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR den Fregattenkapitän Winfried Baumann als Spion des BND. Die Baumann drohende Todesstrafe verursacht dem damaligen BND Chef Klaus Kinkel schlaflose Nächte. Auch Anna Gudwin, alias Hannah Herold, findet nach einer schockierenden Nachricht keinen Schlaf und muss Klaus Gudwin aus Pakistan zurück nach Deutschland schleusen. Manfred Mor, der sich zunächst als loyaler Feind aber Helfer positioniert, scheint dabei ein doppeltes Spiel zu spielen und verzögert die Sache.