Resultados para "Americana" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella o Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny con Tom Ripley. Jonathan es un hombre honesto y pobre que lleva una existencia apacible y gris, junto a su mujer y su hijo. ¿Por qué Tom Ripley le pide que asesine a dos mafiosos?

"Lo Svedese" è un soprannome magico al liceo di Newark, New Jersey. Appartiene a Seymour Levov, il ragazzo che tutti vorrebbero essere. Alto, biondo, atletico, ebreo, Levov eccelle nel baseball e - nell' America degli anni '50 - è destinato ad eccellere nella vita: il successo professionale, quello famigliare, la villetta borghese. Ma la lunga ed estenuante guerra del Vietnam squasserà l'America e coinvolgerà personalmente Seymour, nel modo più tremendo.

Durante as mais de duas décadas em que atuou no FBI, o agente especial John Douglas tornou-se uma figura lendária. Em uma época em que a expressão "serial killer" nem existia, Douglas foi um oficial exemplar na aplicação da lei e na perseguição aos mais conhecidos e sádicos homicidas de nosso tempo. Como Jack Crawford em O Silêncio dos Inocentes, Douglas confrontou, entrevistou e estudou dezenas de serial killers e assassinos, incluindo Charles Manson, Ted Bundy e Ed Gein.

Anni dopo, anche grazie al ricordo di quello sguardo, lui decide di andare proprio in America, «assieme ai suoi morti», per tentare di scrivere il romanzo definitivo, quello che, ne è certo, sarà finalmente pubblicato. Laggiù, tra il cielo e l'acqua, lo scrittore incontrerà una vicenda più coinvolgente e pericolosa di qualsiasi romanzo abbia mai immaginato: una storia di erotismo e omicidio, di vivi che non sanno vivere e morti che non vogliono morire.

En una noche de 1991, en los camerinos del Metropolitan Opera House de Nueva York, nace Venus, una niña prematura y abandonada por sus padres biológicos, bailarines del Teatro Bolshói. Rescatada por Raquel Washington, intendente del teatro, Venus es criada en Queens, donde su talento la lleva a brillar como bailarina en el American Ballet Theatre. Años después su vida da un giro cuando sus padres biológicos, ahora parte de la élite rusa, descubren su paradero y buscan recuperarla.

"Educazione americana" racconta la vera storia di una squadra clandestina della CIA, al servizio del governo degli Stati Uniti per condizionare le democrazie in Europa: sono sbirri in borghese dalla doppia e tripla vita, fanatici del crimine o semplici mercenari in cerca di emozioni. Hanno ucciso, finanziato partiti, favorito stragi. Se un solo istante delle loro vite avesse imboccato una strada diversa, il mondo come lo conosciamo non sarebbe esistito. Dalla Francia a Israele, dal Belgio all'Italia. L'elenco delle loro operazioni attraversa trent'anni di delitti.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and Fran is baking her family's famous apple pies for the cafe. While pie fever spreads through Cape Bay, a world-famous artist holds a special art show in the town's modest museum in honor of his late mother, who grew up there....

Dopo decenni di spietata Guerra fredda, gli Stati Uniti si trovano in una posizione sempre più vulnerabile. Thomas Stansfield, veterano e capo della CIA, sa che l'identità del prossimo nemico è più sfuggente che mai. Per combatterlo con le sue stesse armi chiama la sua protetta, Irene Kennedy, e il suo vecchio collega, Stan Hurley, per formare un nuovo gruppo di agenti sotto copertura. Ma quale uomo è disposto a uccidere per il proprio Paese senza indossare una divisa?

After robbing a bank, the Colter Gang stumble on the scene of the massacre of a Cherokee hunting party by cavalry soldiers intent on "pacification". The sole survivor of the raid is a young Indian baby. Even with a posse hot on their trail, young outlaw, Frank Palmer, refuses to simply leave the child to die from exposure to the cold. He pledges to join up with the gang as soon as he can find a place to drop off the child.

Samantha Jones is a small-town journalist with a big secret. She is actually Samantha Gentry, daughter of one of New York's most powerful moguls. At twenty-two, she's decided that finding true love isn't easy for an heiress. But she's willing to change her mind when she meets a man who knows her secret—and claims to have a message from her father. Soon, the handsome stranger has Samantha traveling by boat to a remote island along the St. Lawrence River. But who is Chris Andrews and what does he want? Why isn't Samantha allowed to leave the island? 

A mysterious key hidden in a locket leads Juliet Watts and a handsome military intelligence officer on a journey of riddles, revelations, and romance. For years Juliet has believed her husband died saving a cheap trinket - but the locket for which he foolishly risked his life leads to more and more strange clues.

Three dangerous men. One elite security firm. And women they’ll risk everything to protect. Welcome to Silver Spur Security, where former soldiers, cowboys, and lawmen trade the battlefield for private protection—and discover that some threats are far more personal.

The crash of a Cessna 310 charter flight on a Nevada mountainside has left two survivors: Leah Talbot, a young secretary from Las Vegas, and the pilot, lone wolf Reilly Smith. Part Native American, all man, Reilly is impassive, mysterious, and inscrutable. Under the noonday sun, they make their way across a hostile stretch of Nevada desert. Under the cold night rain, they have only their bodies, locked in embrace, to keep them warm. As two desperate strangers come together, so does a desire that burns as hot as the sand.

Driven by a blood debt for his murdered mentor, Lucas, who rescued him from a brutal past, Mercer travels the Western frontier seeking Elias, the gang leader responsible. In a devastating error, he kills Elias's son, his spitting image. Mercer's illusion of revenge is shattered when he learns the truth, unleashing the full fury of Elias, who now commands a massive gang bent on destroying Mercer, his love Olivia, and the very community Mercer sought to shield.

Four couples, former Wisconsin police chief Val Ryker among them. All fell in love under traumatic circumstances. All are still together years later. And now a private research institute wants to study why. As long as the couples participate in a few group therapy sessions, they can enjoy a lavish vacation only the wealthiest can afford. Sunrise trail rides, white water rafting, helicopter tours, gourmet dinners under the stars, and much, much more.

John Polly enters Shanghai in 1948 on a muggy, velvet evening, just in time for the Communist takeover of China. It marks only his fourth month in America's newly formed Central Intelligence Agency. Over the next two decades, Polly will become The White Mandarin, a double agent buried so deep within the inner circle of the People's Republic as to shape the futures of both that nation and his own.

En la profundidad húmeda y espesa del bosque de Stoneheaven, descansa el cascarón de carne y huesos en el que se ha convertido el cuerpo adolescente de Sarah Brooks. Con solo diecisiete años y muchos secretos en su poder, la joven ha aparecido colgada de un árbol, bocabajo y completamente desnuda. ¿Quién puede haberla asesinado de este modo? ¿Qué sabía Sarah? ¿Quién le tenía miedo?

When the A.A. Western Detective Agency needs to hunt men down, it turns to its toughest operatives: former cavalrymen Oswin Diehl and Ira Hoop and their Mescalero Apache scout Eskaminzim. So when the Double-A is asked to catch bank robbers fleeing across Missouri toward the Indian Territories, it sends the three to head the gang off.

The upcoming eclipse was anxiously awaited by Clay Jeffries as he prepared a private observatory on the plateau above his father's ranch near Rawlins in Wyoming territory. Then, he received a visitor with an unusual request. The stranger asked the ex-professor if he would tutor his frumpy but brilliant daughter in astronomy. Clay reluctantly agreed, but only if she proved to be an exceptional student. While the young girl surely proved to be both brilliant and frumpy, her arrival also brought with it many potentially deadly consequences that neither she nor her father realized.

Placerita Town has always been a place of opportunity, but today, it’s a death trap. Ruthless outlaws led by Jumpin’ John are ripping the town apart, and the sheriff’s nowhere to be found. You came here to trade your father’s ironworks—not to fight for your life. Now, every choice could mean the difference between making it out alive or ending up in a shallow grave. Will you outsmart the gang, brave the desert’s dangers, and find a way to survive?