Resultados para "Max" en Thriller criminal

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. Most of his life he had thought of himself as a decent man. But now he's so consumed with thoughts of retribution that he questions whether he will take that last step and enact the vengeance he longs for.

In Eastern Europe four CIA agents are dead - geopolitical pawns caught in border dispute cross fire. Why were they there? Who sent them? Not even the President knows. Back in Washington, the Secretary of the Interior dies from an apparent allergic shock. As details emerge, so do suspicions that she was murdered. Investigating their respective cases, ex - Secret Service agent Joe Reeder and FBI Special Situations Task Force leader Patti Rogers recognize a dangerous conspiracy is in play.

La Rochelle, mois de juillet. Une femme est retrouvée égorgée chez elle face à son fils de dix ans ligoté, qu'un bandeau et un casque audio ont préservé de l'intolérable spectacle. C'est la deuxième en l'espace de quelques semaines et les flics n'ont pas la moindre piste. Le commissaire Baccaro va alors faire appel à Victor Caranne, psychologue carcéral et oreille préférée des criminels multirécidivistes de la prison de l'île de Ré. Mais le tueur est une ombre insaisissable qui va bientôt faire basculer la ville dans la psychose.

Orpheline, Marguerite est recueillie par son tuteur, Sir Evérard, dans le domaine de Malbackt, en Ecosse. Le luxe de la demeure, isolée dans une nature sauvage, ne parvient pas à dissiper l'intense malaise qui saisit la jeune Française dès son arrivée. Marguerite n'éprouve aucune sympathie pour Sir Evérard, un homme cynique. Cruel, même... Son sentiment devient angoisse lorsqu'elle découvre que le neveu de son hôte, Roland, est séquestré dans le donjon.

The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hit man into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one—why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care?

After nearly fifty years in the killing business, the hitman known as Quarry was enjoying a comfortable retirement–until the grown daughter he only recently met mysteriously went missing. Now it’s up to the old man to show he hasn’t lost a step and, with the help of a femme fatale from his past, prove he’s as ruthless, deadly and unstoppable as any man half his age.

Telefon ze szpitala to dopiero początek. Informacja przekazana przez dyspozytorkę wzbudza niepokój komisarza Deryły. Coś się stało z jego partnerką, Tamarą Haler. Po przeprowadzeniu serii badań kobieta zniknęła ze szpitalnego oddziału i nie ma po niej śladu. Gdzie jest? Dlaczego przepadła bez wieści? Kolejny telefon jest niczym ziszczenie się najgorszego koszmaru. Szaleniec twierdzi, że uprowadził Haler i uwolni ją tylko pod jednym warunkiem. Deryło musi wykonać pewne zadanie. Jest ono nie tylko czystym szaleństwem, ale co gorsze, komisarz dostaje na nie jedynie dwanaście godzin.

KONIEC ŚWIATA JEST JUŻ BLISKO. BĄDŹ PRZYGOTOWANY. Takie przesłanie powtarza w swoich mediach Profet, samozwańczy prorok. Z dnia na dzień jego hasła zyskują coraz więcej odbiorców. Tymczasem na obrzeżach Gdańska dochodzi do włamania do domku kempingowego. W jego trakcie ginie mężczyzna, a kobieta w ciąży zostaje poddana okrutnej torturze i cudem uchodzi z życiem. Na miejscu przestępstwa śledczy odnajdują starą zabawkę z upiorną wiadomością. Kim jest jej autor i co dokładnie chciał przekazać? Śledztwo przejmuje komisarz Liza Langer, którą coraz mocniej dręczą demony nawracającej depresji.

After a large bank is attacked with no sign of the perpetrators, MI5 Cyber is called in to help the Met investigate. Max must follow his instincts, and in chasing down leads, he infiltrates a suspect data company. His personal, military, and professional loyalties are tested. To maintain his cover, he’s forced to participate in a daring crime of passion. A foreign power then blackmails them to undertake an outrageous heist for revenge, striking at the seat of power to humiliate the United Kingdom. To find out what they’re planning, Max must join them in the crime of the century!

Świat wypełniła cisza. Była gotowa na śmierć. Tyle że śmierć nie była najgorsza... W lesie pod Gdańskiem robotnicy odkrywają masowy grób. Wiele wskazuje, że to albo cmentarzysko ofiar seryjnego mordercy sprzed lat, albo miejsce spoczynku pacjentów poddawanych potwornym eksperymentom przez nazistów. Zmumifikowane ciała noszą tajemnicze ślady. Śledczy muszą je rozszyfrować. Jednak nie tylko oni interesują się grobem. Tymczasem lokalny przedsiębiorca otrzymuje przerażającą przesyłkę.

Co kryje umysł potwora? Powieść inspirowana prawdziwą historią seryjnego mordercy, rzeźnika z niebuszewa. Rzeźnikowi z Niebuszewa, dzielnicy Szczecina, przypisano potworne zbrodnie. Zwłoki swoich ofiar wywoził do opuszczonego gmachu magazynów późniejszej szkoły rolniczej. Tam przerabiał je na mięso.Po spuszczeniu wody w stawie przy ulicy Słowackiego odnaleziono kilkadziesiąt ludzkich czaszek, przeważnie dzieci. Rzeźnikowi udowodniono jednak tylko jedno morderstwo. Został skazany na karę śmierci. Wyrok na Józefie Cyppku wykonano 3 listopada 1952 rokuo godzinie 17.45.

Nolan and Jon have put their lives of crime behind them—but when a cruel adversary from their past resurfaces, they’re forced back into the heist game with a brutal ultimatum: pull off an insanely ambitious overnight robbery or Nolan’s kidnapped lover won’t live to see the morning. Appearing in bookstores for the first time in thirty-five years and on audio for the first time, this is Nolan’s biggest and deadliest job.

Quando osserva la sua vita, Harry Castellani ancora non riesce a spiegarsi che cosa sia accaduto. Un giorno era un detective della Squadra Omicidi di Miami, sottopagato, frustrato e con la tendenza a fare un uso smodato di alcol, e qualche settimana dopo il suo primo thriller scalava le classifiche di tutti i giornali americani più importanti rendendolo ricco e famoso. Ha cambiato tutto: macchina, casa, frequentazioni, viaggi. Tutto a parte la bottiglia di whisky che continua a fargli compagnia dovunque vada.

Beautiful, homicidal Julie has one lethal solution for every problem. And now Nolan and his sometime sidekick Jon have gotten on Julie's “problem” list. If a pair of out-of-town hitmen can't do the job, Julie will do it herself.

The professional hitman known as Quarry - star of the Cinemax TV miniseries of the same name - has put killing behind him. But after a beautiful writer of true-crime best sellers drops by to announce he's the subject of her next book, killers descend to give him some of his own deadly medicine, forcing Quarry to journey into his bloody past to find the answers - and settle old scores.

Nolan was still alive; his wounds healed and his money was safe - all $800,000 of it. It was Nolan’s birthday, and he was sitting happy. Until Planner was killed. Planner was an eccentric antique dealer; Planner had the $800,000 in his safe. But now he was dead, and the money was gone. Caught up in the sizzling crossfire of double-dealing, danger, and death, Nolan was up against the “Family” again.

The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he’s thought to be casing the joint. An old “friend” sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul....

FBI agent Patti Rogers finds herself paired with the unpopular former agent on a task force investigating the killing of Supreme Court Justice Henry Venter. Reeder - nicknamed "Peep" for his unparalleled skills at reading body language - makes a startling discovery while reviewing a security tape: the shooting was premeditated, not a botched robbery. Even more chilling, the controversial Venter may not be the only justice targeted for death.

The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973. Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation—this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling’s seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer—filled with contempt for dope dealers—goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.

Sierra Kane—who has bounced from one foster family to another—faces an uncertain future when she receives an unapplied-for scholarship to Barnard College specifically designed for orphans whose academic records are merely above average. A second unexpected boon comes her way when another recipient of that somewhat mysterious scholarship offers her a part-time courier job. Soon, Sierra is caught up in a whirl of espionage and murder, with a new boyfriend who may or may not be part of a plot, a college mentor with a possible agenda of her own, and an FBI agent who rebuffs Sierra’s plea for help.