Resultados para "The Sister" en Espías y políticos

Suspended from duty, Detective Frølich is working as a private investigator when his girlfriend's colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death. Frølich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman's sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling, and Frølich is threatened off the case by the police.

Andra världskrigets slutskede. SS-Stormdivision Wotan befinner sig i Ardennerna och uppdraget är att till varje pris säkra en bro för att tyskarna ska kunna avancera västerut. Men någonting går galet. De tyska stabscheferna har räknat fel och offensiven hindras nästan innan den har hunnit börja. Dessutom blir överste Kuno von Dodenburg jagad som krigsförbrytare... Leo Kessler är en pseudonym som användes av den brittiske författaren och militärhistorikern Charles Henry Whiting (1926-2007). Han skrev cirka 350 böcker, både skönlitteratur och fackböcker.

Andra världskriget led mot sitt slut. De på pappret allierade amerikanerna och ryssarna insåg att de var tänkbara fiender i ett framtida kallt krig. Nu gällde det att roffa åt sig så mycket det bara gick av Europa innan Tysklands kapitulation. Den ryske generalen Ulanovs armé var större än den amerikanska kollegan Pattons. Men Patton hade ett ess i rockärmen... Charles Henry Whiting (1926-2007) var en brittisk författare och militärhistoriker som skrev cirka 350 böcker, både skönlitteratur och fackböcker.

Little Sister has vanished. The prototype device - real name IPD400 - has powers of surveillance that governments and terrorist organizations would kill for. They might yet. James Palatine, a trained killer with a surplus of conscience, invented the device and is the only person who can operate it. He's determined to retrieve it, and so is Natalya Kocharian - the arms dealer who "inadvertently" sold the prototype to a rogue dealer.

Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters. Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital.

Bjorn Thorsson joined the Special Air Service to forget the horrors of his childhood. He killed for Queen and country, and he was good at it. He quits the army and settles down, looking for a quieter life. When his beautiful sister, Gudrun, finds herself in trouble with the owner of a hedge fund, Bjorn promises to get her out of danger. But there’s another factor in play. Group 15, a clandestine government agency, has plans for the financier, and Bjorn is in their way. Bjorn must outwit the Group in the streets of London and in the Highlands of Scotland if he is to protect his sister and survive.

Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years in squalor and degradation. Middle sister Ruth fell in love with a wealthy man and now has a life beyond all the dreams she spun in the cramped, upstairs bedroom of their parents’ old farmhouse.

The training in women’s gymnastics is long and hard. After their Olympic competition, the USA’s bus is pulled over by special agents from Iran. The girls’ instincts take over and save them from becoming victims of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict.