Resultados para "Vendetta" en Novela negra

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.

È la primavera del 1967. L'alluvione di novembre, con il suo strascico di tragedie e di detriti, sembra essersi placata e Firenze comincia di nuovo a respirare. Ma non il commissario Bordelli. Per lui non c'è pace dopo un fatto che gli è successo. Indagando sull'omicidio di un ragazzino, si è scontrato con i poteri occulti della massoneria ed è stato costretto alla resa con un "messaggio" molto chiaro: lo stupro di Eleonora, la giovane commessa con cui aveva appena intrecciato una relazione appassionata, e una lista con i nomi di tutte le persone a lui più care.

When Adele's brother, Peter, gets banged up for GBH, she reluctantly agrees to run his nightclub, The Golden Bell. Strong opposition from Peter's thuggish number two, Glynn, who isn't best pleased about answering to a woman, isn't the only challenge she faces. The Manchester club scene of the 1990s is a dangerous place, at the mercy of illicit protection rackets and rampaging gangs, and, despite Adele's efforts to keep everything legal, the club is beginning to feel like a poisoned chalice.

Once bitter enemies, Samantha Reynold and Seb Stoker's powerful alliance enables their firms and casinos to go from strength to strength. With the families no longer in opposition, it seems that Sam and Seb are untouchable. But not everyone is happy with the new power couple of the club world. Unbeknownst to everyone, someone new wants to see Sam’s perfect life ruined. And they will stop at nothing to seek their revenge—even if it means destroying everything—and everyone—in their path. With tensions high, Sam and Seb must put their trust in each other completely.

Emanuela Ciafrei, Manuela Fucci, Maria Carolina Guidotti, Giovanni Mandruzzato, Franca Pellizzari e Claudio Righenzi. Sei autori per sei racconti noir sul tema della vendetta.

Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons, and each other, at the funeral of a comrade in the red dunes of the Kalahari Desert. But their scars run deep, and as the truth emerges, each man must ask himself: When serving your country, what makes you a hero and what secrets are worth dying for?

Il Cicala ammazza chiunque, soprattutto gli innocenti. La Balena persuade le vittime a suicidarsi. Lo Spingitore agisce ai semafori o nelle stazioni. A Tokyo sono i migliori in circolazione. A chi verrebbe in mente di sfidarli? Dall'autore rivelazione de I sette killer dello Shinkansen un thriller indemoniato sullo sfondo di una Tokyo di cui nessuno sospettava l'esistenza. Suzuki è un tranquillo insegnante di matematica. Fino al giorno in cui sua moglie non viene travolta e uccisa da un'auto pirata.

Firenze, 1971. Un uomo sembra essersi suicidato lanciandosi dal Campanile di Giotto. Il commissario Bisagno, tuttavia, nutre dei seri dubbi sulle modalità della sua morte. Nel frattempo, il cadavere viene identificato: si tratta di un ex detenuto, fuggito dal carcere durante l'alluvione del 1966. Ben presto, Bisagno capirà che quello che appare come un suicidio è, in realtà, un omicidio. Basterà scavare un po' più a fondo per capire come l'evento sia proprio collegato a un fatto di sangue consumatosi anni e anni prima.

Reeling from the news dropped on his desk days earlier, Sheriff Elven Hallie is left questioning everyone and everything in his life. But when a former deputy is burned to death, Elven must push aside the turmoil in his personal life to catch the killer. As if that wasn’t enough, new faces from the Starcher clan enter his county with vengeance in their eyes for Corbin’s death. Paranoid, angry, and directionless, Elven must lean on those closest to him to bring a ruthless murderer to justice. But that’s easier said than done when it’s those closest to him who he trusts the least.

Roberto Cherchi è stato con­dannato all'ergastolo per quattro omicidi ed è ricercato dalle forze dell'ordine. Quando, durante la sua latitanza, scopre che l'avvocato Antonella Deme­las è in coma in seguito a un ag­guato, decide di trovare il responsabile. Un sentimento di profonda gratitudine, infatti, lega il fuggiasco alla donna e il deside­rio di vendetta è più forte di qua­lunque rischio.

Cyrus Shelton has spent the last twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind - revenge on the arresting detective, Frank Windom, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone. Now paroled and having learned Windom had the nerve to die, he sets his sights on Windom's former partner, Jack West.

Ace hacker, former sex worker and vigilante, Lexi Winter is now a cop and not keen to revisit her criminal past. But when old friends invoke the wrath of a local motorcycle club – the same club Lexi herself used to work for – she races to help them the only way she can: undercover. If Lexi is to save a child's life, she is going to have to go back – back to a life she thought she had outrun. Back to the person she used to be. But her timing isn't great. Former club president Arthur Cronin has finished his long prison sentence and is out for revenge for the death of his wife and child.

Gia Santella is all about the fast life. Ever since her parents died in a tragic accident, she’s been burning through her inheritance, chasing desperate highs in the hopes of forgetting her past. But when an unexpected letter arrives, the past finally catches up to her. Because her parents’ death was no accident...and now their killer is coming for her.

C'è un filo conduttore che, superando lo Stretto dalla Calabria alla Sicilia, unisce una serie di cinque omicidi: un prete, giovani ragazze ritrovate con indosso delle maschere mortuarie, vittime mummificate. E se si vuole prestare l'orecchio alle dicerie, c'è anche una profezia che viene dalle strade di Roma, dove un mendicante avrebbe predetto esattamente le morti, l'ordine, e le dinamiche.

Sono gli anni Ottanta. Alessandro Loggia si mantiene all'università lavorando come cameriere. Aspira a un futuro diverso da quello dei suoi genitori, da costruire insieme a Diletta, il suo grande amore. Ma il sogno si infrange quando Gaetano Santoliquido, figlio di un ricco imprenditore edile di origini siciliane, irrompe nella sua vita portandogli via tutto, compresa Diletta. Le umiliazioni, l'arresto, la vita che si sbriciola pezzo dopo pezzo. Alessandro cade in un abisso profondo. Il buio e poi più nulla.

Some debts can’t be buried. Some vendettas never die. After escaping the Mob’s deadly grip in New York, retired undercover cop Steve Regan and his son Marco vanish into the chaos of Bangkok. But their fresh start becomes a nightmare when Marco is nearly killed in a targeted attack.

When amiable Italian immigrant Pigeon Tony discovers that local drug dealers are pressuring his young neighbor into joining their ranks, he resolves to put an end to the crime wave before it can take over the community. Pigeon Tony knows the law isn’t always on the right side, but it takes only one person to rally a revolution.

When ex-Navy SEAL and black ops legend Anna Gabriel gets word that her sister’s children are being held on a remote U.S. military base in Turkey, she doesn’t ask questions—she grabs her gear. The man behind the abduction? A ruthless American general who faked his own death and vanished into the shadows of a rogue operation.

Denzel Riker was the CIA's best assassin, a ghost on missions so secret they never existed on paper — until Chief Daniel Roberts pulled the trigger on his wife and son to bury a multimillion-dollar drug ring. Left for dead after a Mexican ambush, Riker clawed his way back with one burning goal: to make the Chief pay. Max Carter, a broke NYC valet, looks too much like Denzel Riker for his own good. When assassins mistake him for the agent, Max gets pulled into a dangerous and deadly world, encompassing both sides of the law.

The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon the disagreement is all but forgotten...until the following morning’s newspaper headlines reveal that the Englishman has been murdered.