Resultados para "Luca" en Espías y políticos

Febbraio 1962. Berlino è il cuore di un impero monumentale e inflessibile, ma la morte improvvisa di Adolf Hitler sconvolge il fragile equilibrio del Reich. Edda Göring, giovane e risoluta, si trova coinvolta in un intrigo che metterà alla prova la sua lealtà familiare e la sua sete di verità.

Luis Fuentes longs to quit the violence-riddled border. But when the undercover DEA agent is contacted by a would-be-terrorist, he jumps in to probe for details before an extremist plot unfolds. And when the FBI Director tells him to quietly string the man along, the street-smart operative's instincts tell him his superior is playing dirty pool.

To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything - even another climber's life. His friends and family know and fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it. Together with his climbing partner, Bill Taylor, they set off into a region of Tibet highly restricted by the Chinese.

The Iceman crept into the house on the edge of the lake. He killed the father first. Then the mother and child. And when his work was done, he set the house on fire…. Lucas Davenport has tracked killers in cities across America. But the woods of rural Wisconsin are as dark and primal as evil itself. The winters are harsher and colder. And in the heart of every mother and father, there is fear... Because tonight, the Iceman cometh.

Dr. Sergei Karlovich - code-named Seagull - is one of the most brilliant, powerful, and dangerous of Russian operatives. He seeks a hideous form of revenge for what Luc Ponti and his SPI (Super Paranormal Intelligence) Team wrought on his daughter, Tamara Carlin, a Russian double agent within the CIA. Should Seagull succeed, it could place the world in jeopardy of falling under Rus­sian global dominance.

Lundi 28 avril 2025. L'Espagne est paralysée par la plus grande panne électrique de son histoire. Directrice de la filiale espagnole de StarCo, Emma Bosch se précipite au chevet de son père, dont la vie dépend d'un respirateur artificiel. Aux États-Unis, les corps sans vie de plusieurs collaboratrices du célèbre milliardaire Milton Gail, le fantasque et génial fondateur de StarCo, sont retrouvés.

The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare, is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.

An off-duty coast guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behaviour from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver...a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense, and his hunch is proved right when all three guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed.

William Warwick, appena promosso ispettore, ha ricevuto un nuovo incarico che si prospetta assai più delicato e pericoloso dei precedenti. Perché non solo dovrà occuparsi, come al solito, dei crimini commessi in città, ma dovrà anche portare alla luce la corruzione che dilaga all’interno della stessa Scotland Yard. I suoi stretti collaboratori, agendo sotto copertura, si concentrano subito sul sergente Summers, un giovane ufficiale le cui abitudini di vita sembrano molto al di sopra di ciò che si può permettere con lo stipendio da poliziotto.

Mancano solo 6 giorni, 13 ore e 37 minuti... Florentyna Kane è riuscita in un’impresa che sembrava impossibile, è diventata la prima presidente donna degli Stati Uniti. Ma il giorno stesso in cui deve prestare giuramento a Capitol Hill, forze imperscrutabili sono già al lavoro per ucciderla. L’FBI viene a conoscenza della congiura, ma solo cinque persone ne conoscono i dettagli. Un’ora dopo quattro di loro sono morte. L’unico superstite è l’agente Mark Andrews. Solo lui conosce la verità e solo lui può salvare Florentyna da quello che sembra un destino segnato.

În lumea bărbaţilor, femeile sunt spioanele perfecte. Bestseller New York Times, USA Today şi Washington Post O capodoperă interzisă În 1956, un important autor rus termină o carte, Doctor Jivago, care ar putea să pună Uniunea Sovietică într-o lumină nefavorabilă...

Cresciuta fra i privilegi nella dimora di famiglia, in un idillico Hampshire, la bionda e bellissima Alexandra Wickham sembra destinata a una vita di agi. Ma nel 1939 l'Europa va a fuoco e anche la Gran Bretagna entra in guerra. Alexandra si trasferisce a Londra per offrirsi come ausiliaria, ma la sua conoscenza delle lingue la rende perfetta per servire la patria in altro modo. Arruolata dal mitico SOE, Special Operations Executive, impara l'arte dello spionaggio.

Joe Dillard, ex avvocato diventato procuratore distrettuale, indaga su un caso molto delicato che sconvolge la comunità di Johnson City, Tennessee. Le acque del lago Boone hanno restituito i corpi di tre giovani donne, assassinate. Sembrerebbe un ordinario, per quanto efferato, caso di pluriomicidio, se non fosse che il principale sospettato dell'uccisione delle ragazze è uno degli uomini più ricchi e potenti dello Stato, il che complica le cose...

SECONDARY CONTACT is a psychological suspense novel about what happens when systems quietly outlive the reasons they were created. When a father discovers that his name has been removed from his daughter’s school emergency contact form—and replaced with a stranger he’s never met—he assumes it’s a clerical error. It isn’t. The name was placed there deliberately, years earlier, as part of an arrangement his wife believed had expired. As he pushes for answers, he learns that the school isn’t acting alone.

In a world run by billionaires and tyrants, the only way to survive is to fight. Enslaved and used in brutal fights to the death for the entertainment of billionaires, Lon longs for the freedom he once had as a human. Being caged, abused and neglected in a facility with other werewolves, he almost loses hope… until an unforeseen opportunity arises and he escapes. In order to cash in on the escape, the billionaire donors turn it into a live gameshow to hunt Lon down. Winner gets top prize… and Lon is ready for one last fight.

Ein Kampf um Freiheit — von den Schatten Johannesburgs bis zur letzten Hoffnung der Menschheit auf dem Mars. Johannesburg, 2004: Der Enthuellungsjournalist Thabo Khumalo stoesst auf AGENDA 33.33, ein verborgenes Machtkartell, das durch strategische Korruption Kriege, Wirtschaftskrisen und soziale Umwaelzungen gezielt steuert. Doch wer die Wahrheit aufdeckt, wird zur Zielscheibe. Ueberwachung, Verfolgung, Verrat - Thabos Kampf beginnt.

"(…) Hvorfor ikke bare kalde en spade for en spade - og kort og godt skrive »seks stjerner«" - Berlingske Nye trusselsbilleder ulmer i Danmark. Teknologisk. Samfundsmæssigt. Men er myndighederne klar? Klar til det, der er på vej? I fjerde bog i den prisvindende serie om politiets hemmelige Task Force 14 står David Flugt og Lucas Stage over for en helt ny form for kriminalitet, der spreder sig i kølvandet på den massive digitalisering af samfundet og puster til den spirende ekstremisme.

Das Buch zur ARD-Eventserie "DAVOS 1917": Der Erste Weltkrieg verwüstet Europa. In Kontrast dazu erscheint Davos, der noble Bergkurort in der neutralen Schweiz, wie eine Oase des Friedens. Doch in Wahrheit tobt hier hinter den Kulissen ein unerbittlicher Agentenkrieg der Weltmächte. Die junge Schweizer Krankenschwester Johanna Gabathuler gerät unerwartet zwischen die Fronten der Spione: Um ihre uneheliche Tochter zurückzubekommen, lässt sie sich auf ein tödliches Spiel mit dem deutschen Geheimdienst ein – und wird so plötzlich zum Zünglein an der Waage, das über Krieg oder Frieden entscheidet.

Die gefeierte Cellistin Hannah Gold berührt die Menschen mit ihrer Musik, doch an sie selbst kommt niemand heran: Denn Hannah kann keinen Schmerz mehr empfinden. Als Kind wurde sie vor den Augen ihres Vaters, eines Staatssekretärs im Wirtschaftsministerium der DDR, gefoltert, um geheime Informationen über die Rosenholz-Dateien aus ihm herauszupressen. Er schwieg, und Hannah hat ihn nie wiedergesehen, bis er eines Abends plötzlich in einem ihrer Konzerte sitzt.

Fatima, Portugal : la Vierge apparaît à la jeune Lúcia et lui confie trois secrets. Les deux premiers sont rendus publics. Mais rien ne filtre concernant le troisième, jusqu'à ce que le Vatican en livre une " version officielle ". Rome, Vatican : le souverain pontife envoie son homme de confiance, monseigneur Michener, en Roumanie afin de transmettre un message confidentiel à un vieux prêtre. Michener découvre que celui-ci est le traducteur du troisième secret. Dès lors, il devra faire preuve de toute son habileté pour déjouer la conspiration qui le guette et échapper à ceux qui veulent à tout prix garder cachée la terrible vérité.