Resultados para "John" en Misterios y delitos internacionales

Discover the BRAND NEW gripping Scottish crime series, from the author of the bestselling DCI James Craig series, John Carson. An absolute must-read for fans of JD Kirk, L.J. Ross and Andrew Raymond! 🔍👀🩸 'A twisty, tartan-clad cracker laced with dark humour.' Bestselling crime author...

Instant national bestseller An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by the acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war with the Soviets...

En 1978 una joven llamada Maria Turquand fue asesinada en una habitación de hotel. Se investigó a los sospechosos, pero el culpable nunca apareció. John Rebus siempre tuvo la sensación de que algún detalle importante se le escapaba a la policía. Ahora ha decidido recuperar el caso y parece que eso aún puede acarrear imprevisibles consecuencias. No es lo único que le preocupa al exinspector Rebus. Darryl Christie, aspirante a controlar las actividades delictivas en Edimburgo, ha recibido una paliza que lo ha dejado fuera de combate.

Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it. For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it's his last chance at a big payday. But the more he learns about the wreck, the more questions he uncovers—because none of the survivors are telling the same story.

"No reader, whatever his politics, could fail to be moved by the passion and intelligence of le Carr's latest." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he...

le Carr shows his customary mastery in the detailsfrom Jonathan's self-lacerating momentum to the intricacies of interagency turf warsand reveals once again why nobody writes espionage fiction with his kind of authority. Kirkus Reviews In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an...

A Small Town in Germany is an exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted novel. Le Carr has shown once more that he can write this kind of book better than anyone else aroundand he has done so without repeating himself. The New York Times Book Review In the late 1960s, in the town...

" the narrative is grand, the dialogue is even better, and best of all is the warm, sadly ironic intelligence that colors even the tiniest of encounters." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) When General Vladimir, a Soviet defector, is brutally murdered in London's Hampstead Heath on his way to meet...

"…a well-informed, up-to-the-minute political parable, incisive and instructive." —The New York Times Book Review In the era of perestroika and glasnost in the USSR, a manuscript is meant to be delivered to one Bartholomew "Barley" Blair, a British publisher known for his eccentricity. The...

a splendid book [le Carr] is a perfect spy novelist. The New York Times The most autobiographical of John le Carrs works, A Perfect Spy follows two narratives: the manhunt for the double agent Magnus Pym, and the makings of the man in questiontold in his own words. Referred to as le Carrs best...

Not a page of this book is without intelligence and grace. The New York Times The mole has been purged from the Circus, and George Smiley, newly-made chief of the agency, has both rebuilding and revenge in his sights. To fully eradicate the threat, Smiley must trace back the treachery to its...

John Le Carr dominates the espionage form as no other writer has since Eric Ambler was at his peak. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In years past, the Circus oversaw political matters while their counterpart, the Department, dealt with intelligence more military in nature. These days, however...

The best spy novel of all time Publishers Weekly Its the early 1960s, and the newly built Berlin Wall looms large. British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, caught in its shadow, feels the chill all too keenly: the preceding years have seen nearly every member of his Berlin spy network either...

Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty Daily Telegraph For Alisa Brimley, editor of the small magazine Christian Voice, receiving a letter from a longtime subscriber might otherwise be a perfectly normal occasionexcept Stella Rode, the reader in question, writes that her husband is planning...

For American radiologist Peter Ross, it sounded like the perfect vacation: deliver one study in Spain and then spend the rest of his time on a Mediterranean beach. But he wasn't planning on meeting Angela Locke, a dark-haired beauty with a big problem—she's on the run from two warring gangs, each dead set on finding a mysterious artifact, and they'll kill anyone who stands in their way. It's a desperate fight for survival across the European continent as Peter and Angela race to uncover a centuries-old secret before they become its next victim.

Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh's lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself. But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological history, Barnaby will need help. Enter Robert Pierce, a transient freelance writer looking for excitement.

Ian Caine is a Welsh, former MI6 operative, now a contract mercenary. A deadly spy and assassin whose only rule is lethal precision with absolute justification. When his handler, Colonel Garfield Jaffe of the CIA, tasks him with eliminating a female operative and retrieving a crucial briefcase, Caine carries out the hit flawlessly in a New York parking garage.

Jack Kiley, a professional footballer turned private investigator, is hired to track down a soldier who has gone missing while on leave from Iraq. The soldier's mind is disturbed by what he has seen and done in the war, and he is armed. There are fears both for the man himself and for the safety...