Resultados para "Vendetta" en Negra y suspense

Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.

My psychotic ex should've stayed buried in my past. But I'm done being anyone's target, done being the pawn in someone else's game. St. Sebastian's Academy is mine now. The criminal empire I've built with my three deadly kings is just the beginning. We won this battle, but the real war is about to start. They think they can use my past against me. They think fear will make me weak. Blood will spill. Empires will burn. When the smoke clears, only one of us will be left standing. This is my vendetta. Let them all come. I'll be ready.

Lenore växer upp i ett hem som för varje år blir mer och mer främmande. Sir Francis och Lady Sallonger har fyra andra barn som de håller av mycket högre. Lenore förlorade sin mor vid födseln och fadern har hon aldrig träffat. Men Lenore har åtminstone sin mormor, en fransk sömmerska, som bor i huset tillsammans med familjen. Lenore tar över mormoderns kunskap om hanterandet av siden, och med tiden gifter hon sig med en man, Philip. Men deras liv tillsammans kommer att kantas av blod och död. På deras bröllopsresa mördas en kypare på hotellet där de bor.

When a British covert intelligence agency learns of an impending drug deal between the Venetian mafia and one of the UK’s most notorious importers, agent Maggie Black is sent to stop it. Under the alias of an American drug lord, Maggie must infiltrate the crime family and stop their product from reaching British soil - a feat that gets more complicated when her colleague and old flame Leon is sent along with her.

Obiettivo: contattare urgentemente Jack Reacher. Problema: Reacher non ha fissa dimora. Molto controvoglia, dopo l'11 settembre è stato costretto ad ancorarsi alla civiltà per lo meno con un documento d'identità e un conto in banca, ma lui continua la sua esistenza nomade in difesa della verità e della giustizia. Soluzione: un versamento di 1.030 dollari sul suo conto corrente. Una cifra che è anche un codice che solo Reacher può decifrare.

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?

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.

It took three bullets to change my life, but I’d only needed one to end it all. The deadliest monsters are the ones lurking in the shadows. The ones you least expect to strike. Victor Morales took something from me, and I was back to orchestrate his downfall. Everything was going according to...

I’ll never be safe. My found family is as dangerous as the one I escaped. I need to run, but Luca Moretti has other plans. My family murdered his father, and he wants me to pay the price. Kidnapped and trapped by the man I wanted as a lover but is now my enemy, I wait for him to break me like he broke my heart. We’re a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Except in our version, Romeo tries to kill Juliet.

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.

P.J. Rutherford, abile cecchino, caparbia e sicura di sé, è l'unico membro femminile del KGI. Compagni della stessa squadra, lei e Cole sono legati da un semplice e innocuo cameratismo, fino al giorno in cui decidono di assecondare la reciproca attrazione. La mattina successiva alla loro unica notte di passione, vengono però coinvolti in una difficile missione che si concluderà con esiti drammatici.

Sandy Lynn Forrester's Christmas holiday takes a terrifying turn when someone breaks into her home and attacks her roommate…thinking it's her. But no one believes that an imprisoned man from Sandy Lynn's past is behind the attacks—except for her high-school heartbreak, ex-cop Clay Danforth. Can she trust Clay to keep her safe in the Ozark wilderness long enough to stop a ruthless criminal’s vengeance?

"Solo i morti hanno il diritto di perdonare, i vivi hanno il dovere di non dimenticare." Efrem Parodi, trentacinque anni, è il nuovo professore di Storia contemporanea della Piccola Città, nel nord-ovest dell'Argentina. Quando arriva in Sudamerica vuole solo inseguire il miraggio di un Nuovo Mondo, dimenticare il proprio passato e lo squallido presente dell'Italia. Alicia, seduta in prima fila, è l'alunna più brillante del corso. Lui ha il carisma, lei una bellezza selvatica che non lascia scampo. I due si osservano, poi si cercano con gli occhi e poi lo sguardo non basta più.

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.

In this captivating first novel by Tripp Mehew, you will meet Kailani Priest. He is a local legend from Hawai'i turned military special operations tour de force. This action-packed story takes you on a journey to discover just who killed Kailani's best friend Stephen. He makes a shocking discovery that unveils the deep state and just how far they are willing to go to get what they want. The desire to hunt down Stephen's killers and take down these corrupt one-world government fanatics propels Kailani out of retirement and back into the fight.

Harmon Keyes lives by a singular motto: Family first, justice for all. It’s the creed that sustained him when he left special forces and started an ex-military motorcycle club. There, his creed drove him to put his unique skills to good use righting the wrongs left unpunished by the law. But there’s one wrong he’s been waiting years to make right and her name is Daria Sinclair. Family first. Daria’s father is Harmon’s sworn enemy—the man who destroyed his sister’s life. Justice for all. Daria is his ticket to vengeance, and her innocent nature makes her the perfect pawn in his revenge.

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.

Under the guise of "Beto", 17-year-old Isabetta Bastian runs her father's successful shipping business. Her older brother sails their commercial galley between Venice and Lisbon, exporting luxury textiles and importing exotic spices obtained by the Portuguese. A heinous crime shatters her ideal life, and a risky attempt to save the family business ends in failure. Now, she is forced to live with the harsh consequences.

Five years ago, Myra's pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver - the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. Myra was left to grieve while the murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime. But not for much longer. As the air turns crisp in the Virginia hills around Myra's lovely old farmhouse, the Sisterhood has gathered for a little creative planning, and what they have in mind is a gift for Myra of long-awaited and very sweet revenge.

Der Bentley von Ethan Earlam wird aus der Themse gezogen, doch von ihm selbst fehlt jede Spur. Sein Bruder Paul versucht, mit Hilfe seiner Freunde...