Resultados para "Thief" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Laura Loire es una librera anticuaria que está a punto de cerrar la venta de un manuscrito del Inferno de la Divina comedia de Dante con el que espera salvar su negocio. En el momento de la operación, descubre que le han robado el valioso libro y que en su lugar hay una burda copia. Ella está convencida de que Pol, su exnovio, un ladrón de guante blanco, está implicado. Sin embargo, poco después descubre que este forma parte de la lista de pasajeros de un avión que ha tenido un accidente en Barajas.

1715. Jonas Flynt, ex-soldier and reluctant member of the Company of Rogues, a shady intelligence group run by ruthless spymaster Nathaniel Charters, is ordered to recover a missing document. Its contents could prove devastating in the wrong hands. On her deathbed, the late Queen Anne may have promised the nation to her half-brother James, the Old Pretender, rather than the new king, George I. But the will has been lost. It may decide the fate of the nation.

Stellan, a married mid-20s Chicago accountant, dreams of a new life free from a spiteful wife and two unruly young daughters. His salvation comes by way of mobster Dusan “Squeezebox” Kovačević. Stellan stumbles onto a cache of $2.1 million hidden beneath loose floorboards at Squeezebox’s warehouse. He at first resists the temptation, but it proves too tempting. He plots out his theft, and, under the cover of darkness, bolts with the money in his trunk.

On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the...

It's 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his 14th car and frankly doesn't know why. His divorced, working-class father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy plant in Detroit and looks forward to the flask in his glove compartment and the open bottles of booze in his Flint, Michigan, home. Broke and fighting to survive, Alex and his father face the realities of estrangement, incarceration, and even violence as their lives unfold toward the climactic episode that a New York Times reviewer called "one of the most profoundly powerful in American fiction."

Rayla Rousseau is all about using her significant talents and training to dole out vigilante justice for victims of real criminals—despicable, low-life crooks with no conscience or honor—who take advantage of the poor and defenseless. Nevertheless, she is a thief…and an infamous one at that: Thief à la Femme.

Charlee Flynn just discovered her parents aren’t really antiquities experts, they’re "black market acquisitions specialists." They're thieves! When an old enemy returns, the Flynns go on the run, and Charlee is forced to become their apprentice. Now, they must track down the accursed Diamond of Despair. To do so, they need to locate a lost pirate sanctuary linked to the legendary Anne Bonny. Adventure, betrayal, and danger await as they race to claim the treasure before time runs out.

He knows she’s a thief. She knows he’s a fed. they married each other anyway. And now that the honeymoon’s over, things are about to get interesting.

As a formidable high-end thief in good standing in her community of renegades, Rayla Rousseau—aka Thief à la Femme and one of the 12 all-female Robins of the Hood—has complete knowledge of the heisting challenge known in her world as simply The Triple Crown. For one thing, she knows it’s not a challenge high-end thieves with any morals would consider perpetrating.

A recent college graduate, Rayla Rousseau has been leading a double life that’s given her life extraordinary meaning. Trained from the time she was seven by her grandmother to become the irrepressible thief she is, Rayla has worked for a secret sisterhood since her 13th birthday. In addition, Rayla’s maintained a solo thieving career since she turned 18. Now at 22, she’s a full-fledged high-end thief who steals from the vile, contemptible, and entitled wealthy, taking down real bad guys and keeping a fair amount of the spoils for her trouble.

The year is 1820 and England has fought its last victorious battle against the French. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has finally returned to London to wed his young bride. But instead of being able to settle down to his fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where...

Join Lenny, son Barry, girlfriend Portia, and hacker Emma Meripol as they connect the dots that lead them on a carnage-strewn chase that will set you on edge and keep you guessing to the very end. It begins early one Christmas morning at a local Starbucks as Lenny, an ex-securities trader turned sleuth, watches a curly haired barista add a suspicious packet of white powder to a woman's coffee. And, well, I hate to spoil the fun....

In the spring of 1944, I realized that I was not going to survive the war… Shtefan Brandt, adjutant to a colonel of the Waffen SS, has made it through the war so far in spite of his commander’s habit of bringing his staff into combat, and a pair of secrets that are far more dangerous than...

Rider Sandman, having fought Napoleon in the French wars, expected to lead the life of an English country gentleman, but now, two years after Waterloo, his family is impoverished, his name is disgraced and he has been forced to relinquish the woman he loves from her obligation to marry him...

Europe’s most ingenious and thrilling protagonist–artist and photographer–Mikky dos Santos is a compelling heroine. She has a savvy mixture of emotion and intelligent resources as she tracks down priceless antiquities and foils wicked plots. These rapid paced novels have heroes to love and criminals to hate, and of course, mysteries to solve.

The last thing newly married jewel thief Gregg Hadyn expects is to bump into a former girlfriend, especially one who also happens to be an exceptional thief. Now plying his talents for a premier espionage team, Gregg considers it one too many coincidences to learn fellow thief Derek Clayton is also in the mix. When Derek’s routine heist from a billionaire Greek recluse puts him on the run for his life, he heads directly to Gregg and the SIRU.

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately...

In what was once America’s heartland dwell the survivors of the nuclear holocaust that annihilated most of civilization, leaving a scorched land filled with roving bands of vicious outlaws and savage new breeds of deadly creatures. A team of warriors known as the Alpha Triad have vowed to defend the Home, the survivors’ last refuge. Blade, Hickok and Geronimo are all that stand between a tenuous existence and certain death. The Triad’s latest mission is a trek to the Twin Cities to acquire medical supplies.