Resultados para "Anna" en Espías y políticos

Thomas Danforth has lived a fortunate life. The son of a wealthy importer, he traveled the world in his youth, and now, in his twenties, he lives in New York City and runs the family business. It is 1939, and the world is on the brink of war, but Danforth's life is untroubled, his future assured. Then, on a snowy evening walk along Gramercy Park, a friend poses a fateful question. As it turns out, this friend has a dangerous idea that can change the world.

Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the communityand reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share his Fifth Avenue mansion. Mary, her uncle's favorite, is to inherit her uncle's fortune at his death. As this mystery opens, that lamentable event has just occurred. Leavenworth has been shot to death and circumstances point to one of his young wards.

On Earth, Grover Baines (a NASA scientist) is murdered in 1979 when he stumbles upon a secret third Voyager flight. Unlike the two other probes, Voyager 3 was a small manned craft loaded with reproductive material in hopes of finding a suitable planet for habitation on Alpha Centauri. Years later, in 2001, a fourth Voyager is sent on the same mission. Though technology has advanced dramatically in the 24 years since the first three Voyagers were launched, this mission manages to remain secret amid the attacks on the Twin Towers.

Czasy kampanii napoleońskiej w Prusach Wschodnich. Émilie de Berier, tajemnicza Francuzka, szantażowana przez politycznych wrogów z Polski, pragnie odzyskać porwaną córkę. Lekkoduch pułkownik Antoni Podolski, dziedzic rodzinnego majątku, szuka szpiega, który wykradł dokumenty francuskiemu generałowi. Jego i Émilie łączy wspólna podróż do Warszawy zajętej przez Wielką Armię Napoleona. Choć nie pałają do siebie sympatią, ich ścieżki nieustannie się krzyżują. Szukając pomocy u księcia Józefa Poniatowskiego, obydwoje zostają wplątani w wir wielkiej polityki.

UN RACCONTO DELLA SERIE AGENTE ZERO è un racconto originale di 6000 parole che è assolutamente da leggere a complemento della serie di best seller di spionaggio della serie AGENTE ZERO, che inizia con AGENTE ZERO (Libro 1), un libro in download gratuito con quasi 300 recensioni a cinque stelle. Si può leggere anche come una storia a sé o come introduzione per chi si avvicina ora al mondo dell'Agente Zero. Questo racconto originale ci riporta indietro nel tempo per mostrarci come tutto è iniziato.

December 1941: ‘Pearl Harbor has been bombed.’ My husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, voice shakes as he tells me the devastating news. We both know what this means: America is at war. Eleanor Roosevelt takes a deep breath. This is her third term as First Lady and she knows what it takes to lead her country alongside charming and charismatic Franklin. She’s dedicated to her role as an activist having spent her life working towards a vision of a better America. But the attack on Pearl Harbor shatters everything.

Die schwedische Polizeiausbilderin und Verhandlungsführerin Amanda Lund ist für ein Jahr in Afghanistan stationiert, sie soll die Sicherheitskräfte vor Ort schulen. Gerade erst hat die 35-Jährige einen Angriff der Taliban überlebt, da erhält sie einen neuen heiklen Auftrag: In Kabul wurden zwei Diplomaten der schwedischen Botschaft entführt, Amanda soll als Unterhändlerin fungieren. Der Druck ist immens, denn in Schweden erwartet man afghanischen Staatsbesuch.

One of The Washington Post’s Best Thrillers of 2023 It’s the case of Amanda’s lifetime but solving it will require her to betray another spy—who just so happens to be her father in this “delicious spy novel” (People). Spying is the family business. Amanda Cole is a brilliant young...

In this brief crime novel, set in the days of Lincoln's presidential election, a man responds to a cry for help from a woman who lives in the same block of apartments. She claims that a ring has been stolen from her finger and asks the man to assist her in recovering it.

A globe-spanning thriller of love and betrayal about a mysterious first lady with an explosive secret. Paris, 1974. Lara Orlov and her family arrive from Moscow at the height of the Cold War, thanks to her father’s position as a diplomat. The years pass, and Lara becomes more and more enamored...

Gerade aus der Elternzeit zurück und wieder im Team des schwedischen Sondereinsatzkommandos, muss Kommissarin Amanda Lund zu einer Mission auf dem Balkan. Ein schwedischer Polizist ist dort verschwunden. Er wurde entführt. Amanda, die bereits in der Region im Einsatz war, übernimmt die Verhandlungen im Kosovo. Zur gleichen Zeit untersuchen Amandas Stockholmer Kollegen den Hintergrund des Entführungsopfers. Was hat den Polizisten zur Zielscheibe gemacht? Schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass es um weit mehr geht als um schnell erbeutetes Geld. Die Gründe sind persönlicher.

The world has grown even more dangerous for the survivors of the EMP strikes that crippled the United States. Ronny is a prisoner of AILS, a terrorist group planning to remake the world to suit their twisted vision. He’ll do whatever it takes to stop them, even if it costs him his life. Ruth and the others remain on the offshore drilling platform. But AILS has set their sights on the facility, and are coming to take it by force. If their plan succeeds, there will be nowhere left to hide.

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley. This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself, Smiley decides to investigate.

Ever since it was first drilled more than 150 years ago, oil has been both a blessing and a curse. It has enabled economic growth, provided an efficient energy source, fuelled our entire infrastructure - and caused wars, pollution and global warming. These seven dramas, set between 1951 and 2045, and taking us from postwar Iran to futuristic Lancashire, examine the role oil has played in shaping our world: recounting incredible stories of wealth, power, politics and corruption.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna. Journalist...