Resultados para "Rose" en Espías y políticos

Cuando Sarka Koroleva puso los ojos sobre aquel hombre de rictus serio e insondable, supo que iba a enseñarle mucho más que fórmulas matemáticas que le aceleraran el corazón. Gavrel Kovalev no solo era el padre de su mejor amiga, sino también profesor en su último año de instituto, en el que se verían obligados a vivir bajo el mismo techo.

A serial killer hides behind an untouchable global institution. A broken system fails the victims. One woman vows to uncover the truth. When young women are found dead in the capital of the Central African Republic, United Nations official Stella Fairmont is reminded of the unsolved disappearance of a friend. As she investigates, she uncovers what may be a chilling pattern-similar deaths in another UN location. The deeper she digs, the more twisted the view becomes, and Stella finds herself up against a system built on compromise where accountability is often an illusion.

Ein weißer Lichtblitz. Hitze. Ein langer Moment völliger Stille. Und dann beginnen die Schreie. Ein U-Bahn-Wagen in London wird von einem Selbstmordattentäter in die Luft gejagt. Überall Verletzte und Toten auf dem Bahnsteig. Als sich aber oben auf der Straße eine Menschenmenge bildet...

Isabella Rose führt ein ruhiges Leben in Marrakesch und verbirgt dabei ein dunkles Geheimnis: Um ihren Lebensunterhalt bestreiten zu können, erledigt sie für einen unbekannten Mittelsmann verdeckte Auftragsmorde. Ihr einziger Trost ist die Zeit, die sie in einem örtlichen Waisenhaus...

The House of Dead Roses offers murder, espionage, and mayhem to the highest bidder. Agent Harmony Black's war against the infernal cult -- and their seductive, sadistic mistress, the demoness Nadine -- last found her facing off against Nadine's top assassin under the glittering lights of Las Vegas, a battle that left her physically and psychically scarred.

A lethal plague resurrected from the bones of the dead is stolen from a secret biological warfare lab hidden in the mountains of North Korea. There's no cure and it's one hundred percent fatal. If it gets loose, millions will die. The men who have it want to reduce the world's population and bring down the global economy as part of a plan to establish world dominance.

Mary Wilson MacPherson has always been adept at putting the past behind her: her father's death, her sister's disappearance, and her complicated relationships with childhood friends Tom and Will. But that changes when, traveling to North Africa on business for her husband, Mary meets a handsome and mysterious French-Tunisian businessman who holds a package her husband has purchased - a package which has drawn the interest not only of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, but the Nazis as well.

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. Award-winning narrator Saskia Maarleveld’s...

Evacuated to the countryside, she realises there are more dangers than German bombs in wartime. In summer 1939, Canadian-born teacher Victoria McKaye takes up a new position at a London school, only to shortly coordinate the evacuation to the countryside with standoffish spinster Beatrice and young, quiet Nell. Arriving in the village of Hazelbury, Victoria sorts out billets for her young charges and meets Louis Granger, a naval officer. As their friendship turns to something more, she notices some strange behaviours - including him meeting with foreign men in secret locales.

After dismantling the last names on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List, CIA contractor Duncan Hunter expects the war to be over. Instead, he uncovers something far more insidious-a hidden conflict waged in silence for decades.

Art student Eleanor has been trapped in fascist Italy since 1939, forced into hiding, camouflaging her identity. At war's end, she meets intelligence officer Talbot who's captivated by her story, her intellect, and her beauty. He believes he can obviate her pervasive melancholy over the dreams the war forced her to abandon. They marry and head to Washington, DC, where he joins the fledgling CIA and she struggles to find her footing in a city with a rhythm and artistic sensibility so unlike lyrical Florence.

In 1941, Manila, Philippines was the hidden gem of the Far East and set to become an independent sovereignty in a few short years. On December 8, 1941, immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack 5,200 miles away in Honolulu, the Japanese Imperial Army bombed the city of Manila and began an occupation that would last more than three years and culminate in a battle for the capital city that would go down as one of the deadliest in World War II history.

Ashley Corbin, a former tennis prodigy turned prosecutor, finds herself entangled in a high-profile rape case in the small town of Freeman’s Gate. After the rapist, Daniel Lockhart, is acquitted by a jury, the victim, Sheila Fanning, having lost the protection of the rape exception in the abortion law, is arrested on the courthouse steps for having procured an illegal abortion.

While Detective Kim Brady is in Bermuda recovering from depression, an aid of the mayor's arrives with a summons to return to New York to investigate the assassination of Sabrina Dunn, a long-time critic and political opponent of the mayor's. Although the mayor pledges his full support, Kim can't ignore the mayor's potential motive. But she soon learns of others with a potential motive, including Sabrina's estranged father and a group of investors pushing a major redevelopment project that Sabrina opposed.

When New York City TV reporter Francine Vega travels from "the city" to a small New England town to hunt for a friend who has gone missing, she finds that the disappearance may be tied to Beyond Revelation and a Russian-funded nationwide conspiracy. To find the truth, Vega works with the press, the FBI, religious leaders, civil rights leaders, and even the president as she races against the clock to rescue her friend and avert a national calamity.

Craig Black thinks he's seen it all in his career with the CIA, but this case tops the list. He's just discovered that the secret organization he's been hunting, Treleous, is connected to a disgraced ex-CIA scientist. Worse, his government channels have been compromised. Unsure who he can trust, he has no choice but to call on former agents Eddie Mason and Loren Malen for help.

In the years since escaping Beirut, O'Hara Poit believes he has turned the page on the darkest period of his life. While he earns a living along the treacherous smuggling routes of West Africa, the love of his life, Dina, has been busy preparing a new beginning for them both in Australia. But before he can make it Down Under, on a fateful evening along the Guinean coast, their dream is shattered by assassins' gunfire.

Bill McGee, former CIA Director and U.S. Navy SEAL Commander, is America's most decorated military man and is the presidential candidate to beat. But an unlikely saboteur promises to stop Republicans from ever attaining the White House again. When an Air Force pilot en route to Japan defects with an F-22 Raptor, it is a national crisis. The intelligence community confirms the jet sits in a North Korean bunker waiting for Russian or Chinese engineers to take it apart.

Hunter’s counterterrorism successes in Africa and the Middle East have propelled the CIA Director and America's most decorated military man, Bill McGee, to national prominence. At the annual Pumpkin Papers Irregulars Dinner, McGee announced he will seek the Office of the President. The chief financier of terrorism and the richest man in the world, Rho Schwartz Scorpii has spent billions over the years to bring down America.

Like other large cities, Miami, known for its beautiful beaches, night life, and cuisine, suffers from an ugly undercurrent of violence. AJ Docker is forced to face off with that subculture when a gang invades the emergency room and brutally murders one of his patients in front of him and threatens Doc himself. After he surmises that a woman and her young son may be next on the hit list, he and Banshee, his well-trained service dog, embark on a search for the killers to protect the innocent woman and child.