Resultados para "The Call" en Espías y políticos

Her first day on the job, brand-new prosecutor Mara Brent gets the case nobody else wants: the execution-style killing of hometown hero Deputy KC Black by a small-time criminal. The evidence is shaky, the eyewitness is unreliable, and her new boss has already set Mara up as a scapegoat if she loses. But the whole town is watching, and local law enforcement is out for blood. One verdict will decide the defendant’s fate—and Mara’s future.

In 1943, the once-unstoppable Nazi war machine is starting to falter. For a decade and a half, Lanny Budd’s cover as a fine-art dealer and Fascist sympathizer has held firm, earning him the confidence of Hermann Göring and other top officials, including Adolf Hitler himself. With the Allies preparing to retake Europe, Lanny must make certain that the location of the invasion remains hidden from the Nazi high command. But his mission is compromised and his life endangered when Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s feared Gestapo chief, uncovers Lanny’s true loyalties.

¿Qué ocurre cuando un viejo espía como David Cartwright pierde la cabeza? ¿Alguien se ocupa de esos agentes que atesoran información reservada, pero que no recuerdan que lo es? Son algunas de las preguntas a las que su nieto River, miembro del equipo de Jackson Lamb y sus «caballos lentos», los proscritos del servicio secreto británico, quiere responder ahora que su abuelo, un mito de la Guerra Fría y figura legendaria del MI5, empieza a olvidarse de las cosas.

Airliners are falling out of the sky. The United States is on lockdown. The President is about to punish the country behind the atrocities. But Adam Drake knows they're making a terrible error. A lawyer and former Special Forces Tier 1 operator, Drake has evidence that it’s a false flag operation to disguise the real party behind the attacks…terrorists operating from training camps in America with ties to a traitor in the White House.

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the death, he begins his own investigation, meeting Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very day Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?

A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours. Bound to his employer for life, Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape. He finds an unlikely ally in...

Amnesty bildet den Abschluss der für den Nebula und den LAMBDA Award nominierten Glam-Spionagethriller-Trilogie. In Amberlough City kehrt aus der Asche der Revolution ein Verräter zurück, eine politische Schlacht spitzt sich zu, und das Volk fordert Gerechtigkeit für vergangene Verbrechen. Wer kann der Vergeltung entgehen, während eine Nation um den Wiederaufbau kämpft?

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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.

Matt 'Mace' Mason is deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen, becoming embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes terribly wrong. Pulling at the strings of the local political scene is not only the local warlord who is destined to become Mace's nemesis, General Ruak Shahlai, but hardbitten American arms dealer Erica Atkins, who controls a whole international network to her advantage. As well as his own team, Mace has to work, initially unwillingly, with female CIA Agent (and Islamic scholar) Redford. 

After a 20 year career as an assassin for an unnamed government agency, Finn joined Phorcys, a private contractor providing permanent solutions when disreputable people cause problems for our government.

CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked in a souk while infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had been blown or if the act was just an arbitrary attack on Westerners. Now, Liz Carlyle and her Counter Terrorism unit in MI5 have been charged with the task of observing the international under-the-counter arms trade. With the Arabic region in such a volatile state, British Intelligence forces have become increasing concerned that extremist Al-Qaeda jihadis are building their power base, ready to launch another attack.

Jack Widow is in New York City for his birthday. He’s living the good life without a care in the world. Not until his hotel phone rings at midnight. A woman with a seductive Russian accent speaks, making a desperate plea for her life. She needs help. She claims she’s being held captive by a group of dangerous men. And they’re going to kill her.

Mystery, adventure, and international intrigue surround Ken Thurston, The Man Called X! Radio's most enduring cloak-and-dagger drama presents suave stage and screen star Herbert Marshall in 16 tales of globetrotting espionage! Announcer John McIntire tells of the man "who crosses the ocean as readily as you or I cross town." Leon Belasco costars as Pegon Zellschmidt, with a supporting cast that includes Ge Ge Pearson, Steven Geray, Ted von Eltz, Frank Graham, Alan Reed, Cathy Lewis, William Conrad, and more.

Dr. Leila Voss builds predictive models that forecast where climate migration will strike next. Governments use her data to prepare. Cities use it to plan. Investors use it to get there first. When Leila uncovers evidence that a powerful firm is exploiting her forecasts to buy land ahead of displaced families—driving up prices and profiting from crisis—she realizes the damage isn’t accidental. It’s strategic. As she follows the trail of property records, access logs, and quiet partnerships, Leila must decide whether to protect her career or expose a system designed to monetize displacement.

When one crucial moment turns FBI Agent Ethan Shaw into a fugitive, he finds himself on the run, fighting back against the country he swore to protect. Framed for a crime he did not commit, Ethan will risk everything to prove his innocence and protect the ones he loves - but the truth he will uncover poses a far deeper threat. They took everything from him: his partner, his career, his freedom. How far would you go to get it all back?

Holly Wakefield arbeitet als Kriminalpsychologin. Ihr Spezialgebiet: Serienmörder. Es gibt einen guten Grund, weshalb sie die Beste in ihrem Job ist - aber den behält sie für sich. Als Detective Inspector Bishop von der Met Police Holly kontaktiert, um einen Mordfall zu untersuchen, ist Holly entsetzt von den brutal zugerichteten und theatralisch positionierten Leichen.

1941. As America edges toward world war, a cat burglar stalks Manhattan. The newspapers call him "The Smoke" - elusive and vaporous. However, The Smoke’s next job will unintentionally throw him headlong into the world of espionage and murder. The thief has his eyes on an Egyptian artifact tucked away in a safe at the New Yorker Hotel, but as the heist goes awry, The Smoke stumbles into the suite of renowned scientist, Nikola Tesla.

Brought to you by Penguin. Penguin Audio presents a captivating collection of six John le Carré novels, each featuring the iconic character George Smiley. This collection includes the finest examples of le Carré's work, written between 1961 and 1979, and contains over 15 hours of unmissable...

Crystal Moore's good friend Ron Drake is a shoo-in for governor of Texas. Two members of the opposition camp believe their candidate's only chance is a political dirty trick that will sink Drake's backing. They execute an elaborate hoax. But something goes terribly wrong and a man is killed. And things only get worse from there as the perpetrators try to eliminate loose ends.