Resultados para "The Rain" en Espías y políticos

Abraham Khan is a Muslim who dreams of changing the world. He's liberal, pro-Western, and determined to speak out against the extremists who have hijacked his religion. That makes him a target, and the consequences hit him fast and hard - an armed fanatic smashes into his home one evening, trying to kill him. He survives the harrowing attempt, just barely. Maya Raines is the special operative brought in to protect Abraham. She is tough and committed. The very best at what she does. But Abraham is no ordinary principal - he will not hide, and he will not stay silent. 

Los Angeles single mother Jessie Shapiro restores paintings for a living, but ever since her divorce from unfaithful musician Pat, she can barely make ends meet. One weekend Pat fails to bring their 10-year-old daughter, Kate, home. When Jessie goes to his Venice Beach house, she hears a disturbing cut-off message on his answering machine and discovers strange foreign words written in big block letters on his kitchen blackboard. Then her life is threatened.

Guns & God: Lines in the Sand is an electrifying adult crime-thriller involving murder, conspiracy, and infidelities that jolt a community as two neighboring families collide over political ideas about gun laws...when patriarch Luke “Fuzzy” Rose learns that a family member will stop at nothing to overtake the family business, all hell breaks loose, sending the family on a manhunt to end the dark plot and exposing its plans for civil war.

Set in a fictitious post-colonial African nation, the discovery of the body of a drowned prostitute leads to an exploration of the conflict between an individual and the modern African state. A gripping study of truth, silence, and the abuse of power. A young woman runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, a curious individual known as Bukuru, is asked to account for her suicide. His shocking revelations land him in court.

Anton Glock ist auf dem Weg nach oben. Als man ihm anbietet, die Leitung der zentralen Strategieabteilung eines großen Münchener Konzerns zu übernehmen, überschlagen sich plötzlich die Ereignisse...

With an evenly-divided US Senate, the stakes are high for the nation's political power brokers. The leader of one party decides to change the numbers by arranging the elimination of one of the other party's senators. As the senator's death sends shock waves through the nation's capital, federal prosecutor Jeff Trask and a team of FBI agents and police officers must solve not only the senator's homicide, but the murder of one witness and the attempted murder of another.

A kidnapped child. A nation in crisis. A woman who knows no limits...Maya Raines is a spy caught between two cultures. She's half-Malaysian and half-American. Her skills are razor-sharp, but her soul is eternally conflicted. Now she finds herself drawn into a web of intrigue when a crisis erupts in Malaysia. A female terrorist named Khadijah has kidnapped the young son of an American businessman. It's a brazen act that marks the beginning of a civil war that threatens to destabilize Southeast Asia. Who is Khadijah? What does she want? And can she be stopped?    

Kendra Shaw was once an assassin for her government. Lethal and invisible, she worked in the shadows, hunting down terrorists all around the world. But after a harrowing mission in Iraq goes wrong, the pressure becomes too much for her to take, and she suffers a nervous breakdown. Kendra is sent back home, where she spends months recovering from the trauma. She thinks she is out of the game, but any peace is short-lived. One afternoon, Kendra spots a familiar face from her past - Ryan Hosseini, the lover she left behind years ago when she decided to serve her country.

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, weiß Michael Pope, dass dies erst der Anfang ist.

John Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” ( San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy. When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the “natural causes” demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America. But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone.

Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death. But the best route to the minister is through his gorgeous Italian wife, Maria.

What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972. Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan’s most powerful yakuza clan.

A storm is coming for Sean Dillon & company in the mesmerizing new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. It begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of...

John Milton war der gefährlichste Auftragskiller der Gruppe Fünfzehn, der Organisation für verdeckte Operationen, die für die Lösung von Problemen zuständig ist, wenn die Diplomatie versagt. Jetzt ist Milton der meistgesuchte Flüchtling Ihrer Majestät – ein namenloser Einzelgänger mit einer ganzen Palette tödlicher Talente. Als Milton nach einer Schlägerei in einer texanischen Bar verhaftet wird, ist eine schillernde Agentin des russischen Geheimdiensts so ziemlich die Letzte, von der er Hilfe erwartet hätte. Die Russen erpressen Milton, seine Vorgängerin zu finden.

The best-selling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital - and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.

Diplomacy, danger, and desire collide when Brad Oaks pursues an ingenious international trade proposal that would rescue a family steel business and secure a scarce natural resource for the US. Is it a powerful idea or just a pipedream? New to the Washington, DC, lobbying scene, Brad’s pursuit of a solution to this political issue takes him from DC to California to Tokyo as he seeks to thwart an international plot to sabotage America’s infrastructure.

Er hat einen Job als Taxifahrer in den Straßen von San Francisco. Er lebt anonym und zurückgezogen. Aber als ein Mädchen, das er zu einer Party fährt, verschwindet, macht Milton sich Sorgen, erst recht, als dann zwei Leichen gefunden werden und die Polizei ihn als ihren Hauptverdächtigen behandelt. Milton ist auf der Flucht vor dem britischen Geheimdienst, und ein Mann in seiner Lage kann zusätzliche Aufmerksamkeit nicht gebrauchen. Unerfreuliche Geheimnisse dringen an die Öffentlichkeit, und die Zahl der Leichen wächst.

A jihadist pledges his allegiance to al Qaeda with an unthinkable act...and the terrorist cell is just getting started. Raina Storm, the CIA's most lethal operative, is off the grid, leading a secluded and comfortable life with her six-year-old daughter in Barstow, California. But peace is short-lived when a former FBI agent and an ex-intelligence officer track Raina down and blackmail her into helping them stop a new threat.

Ein gewaltiger Krieg tobt in Europa. Die deutsche Rüstungsindustrie ist mittendrin und gerät ins Visier des russischen Geheimdienstes. Der BND erhält die vage Information, dass ein verheerender Anschlag kurz bevorsteht, und erteilt Anna Gudwin den Auftrag, diesen zu verhindern. Unterstützt von ihrem Team, kommt die Agentin einer Attentätergruppe auf die Spur, die mit einem hochgefährlichen Nervenkampfstoff im Gepäck Richtung Deutschland unterwegs ist. Es beginnt ein tödliches Katz-und-Maus-Spiel zwischen Anna und den erbarmungslosen Killern.

Hinter der altehrwürdigen Fassade eines malerischen Herrenhauses, dem Blauen Palais, verbirgt sich die Wissenschaft der Zukunft. Junge Spezialisten arbeiten an der Gedächtnisübertragung durch Gehirntransplantation. Als plötzlich ein mysteriöser Mann in der Weltöffentlichkeit auftaucht, dessen intellektuelle wie künstlerische Fähigkeiten alles bisher Dagewesene überbieten, vermuten die Wissenschaftler einen Zusammenhang mit ihren eigenen bahnbrechenden Versuchen - und stoßen auf ein schauerliches Geheimnis.