Resultados para "Atlantia" en Novela negra

The CIA wants James Hawker dead. For years, his one-man campaign against organized crime has struck fear into America's most corrupt politicians, and now they're striking back. Hawker escaped the United States by the skin of his teeth, and has spent the last months living the life of a glamorous expatriate in Latin America: fast cars, lovely women, and all the champagne his Swiss bank account can buy him. For some men, it would be paradise. For Hawker, a life without action is a living hell.

Come sit on the veranda and pour yourself a glass of sweet tea, fortified with a slug of bourbon. Put your feet up and enjoy these stories set in Atlanta, a city sewn from the ashes, where everything that grows is both fertilized and corrupted by the past.

Chiara è magrissima, ha un'aria buffa, calza degli zoccoli e porta lunghi capelli scuri che contrastano col suo nome. Ogni tanto le sembra di incepparsi mentre i pensieri scorrono fuori sincrono. Per crescere ha solo la scuola della strada e le lezioni che le impartirà un destino beffardo.nDa Bari a Torino, passando per Bologna, la trilogia "Atlante freddo" è un racconto di formazione in nero, un "giro d'Italia" da Sudest a Nordovest scandito da fughe rocambolesche, incontri sorprendenti e perdite che fanno malissimo.

A crime drama about a dysfunctional and prominent family's decline into criminality.

The year is 1990. A shocking murder of the star quarterback upends a sleepy Georgia town. After his father Jack decides to risk everything by defending the accused, young Chance Meridian—along with his three best friends—must grow up fast when the uglier lessons of life interrupt their carefree boyhood. Jim Crow may be dead, but old attitudes die hard.

You can buy anything in Atlanta. Especially sex. When a serial killer brutally murders one of the lost girls of the city, Chance Meridian and his murder squad dive deep into the dark underbelly of human trafficking, only to learn that money has no conscience. With the clock ticking on yet another victim, Chance must risk everything to stop a madman. But faced with his most dangerous foe yet, will he be too late to save even himself?

When a high-end hooker crashes the party and ends up dead, shameful secrets of prominent men hang in the balance. The kind of secrets that get folks killed. Chance Meridian and his murder squad soon learn that the dead woman had a penchant for playing dangerous games with the wrong people. Powerful people—including a United States Senator whose decades-old hatred of Chance still burns hot. As past and present converge to put him in a vise, Chance discovers a hard truth about his line of work. Some cases can only be solved at the point of a gun.

A multimedia designer is hard at work. His latest computer game heralds a new era in state-of-the-art graphics. But there's only one way to ensure that the death scenes are realistic enough. In an isolated field in Philadelphia, Detective Ciccotelli's day begins with one grave, one body and no murder weapon. It ends with sixteen graves, but only nine bodies and the realisation that the killer is going to strike again. When it's discovered that the murder weapons are similar to those used in medieval torture, Ciccotelli knows he's going up against the most dangerous opponent.

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