Resultados para "Weiß" en Negra y suspense

Philadelphia, 1947. When private investigator Cole Harper is summoned to the penthouse of Sam Hensley—a powerful but shadowy industrialist--he knows it's no ordinary case. Luxury goods, military surplus, and counterfeit money are disappearing from Hensley's warehouses, and the clues point to an operation as sophisticated as it is ruthless. But Harper soon discovers this is no simple theft—this is the black market at its most dangerous.

This gripping thriller takes listeners on an adrenaline-filled journey through the shadowy world of sabotage in 1942 America. Ric Dymond is an inexperienced young FBI agent on a mission to bring a covert and deadly sabotage plot hatched by the German Abwehr to justice. Ric is forced to go undercover and rely on his wits and intuition to uncover the unknown saboteurs, aware that another uncover agent was brutally murdered. But the mission is further complicated when Ric meets an old flame, throwing his resolve and focus into question.

William Bennet har i mer än 25 år arbetat med att skydda den amerikanska regeringen med hjälp av lögner och desinformation. Som avdelningschef för NSA vet han saker som skulle chocka de mest inbitna konspirationsteoretikerna. William har aldrig haft några planer på att avslöja vad han vet, men efter en personlig tragedi inser han att han själv också har ansvar för händelser i andra delar av världen.

After Special Agent Jennifer Morton is fired from the IRS, she pursues a fat-cat financial felon who has fled to an island with no extradition laws. While off the grid, she discovers a community that shelters some of the most wanted white-collar fugitives in the world. Just as she's about to expose the entire web, she unearths the truth about her father and must choose between two very different kinds of betrayals.

Twin brothers Ethan and Jack Stone have built the ultimate transparency app - Stalker - and it's going to make them rich. But when Ethan's girlfriend dumps him, and his brother bails for their biggest competitor, Ethan is convinced they've run off together. Using Stalker to find out, he tracks them from Silicon Beach to Silicon Valley, and the secret he reveals is even more twisted than he imagined. Between his faith in people and the technology he designed to expose the truth, Ethan is forced to rethink everything he had believed regarding privacy, freedom, and trust.

The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her against all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he persuaded an influential friend in the Foreign Office to secure an appointment for Guy in the Embassy at Madrid. He little knew that he was sending his son into the centre of a hotbed of anarchism, that Guy’s footsteps were to be dogged by a vindictive and revengeful woman, that his life was to hold many a thrilling moment and not a few narrow escapes.

Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he is asked by his friend, Sir Digby Kemsley - a very famous railroad engineer, to come to his flat to discuss something although Kemsley is quite mysterious on the telephone. Royle visits, then returns home only to be summoned again by Kemsley, this time imploring him to return at once. Royle finds a gentleman in Kemsley’s place who is clearly not Kemsley, or is he?

Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a discussion regarding a man named Gastrell. Gastrell is somewhat of a mystery to the club members in spite of his renting a house from one of them. Berrington’s interest in Gastrell intensifies as his fiancé, Dulcie Challoner, befriends a wealthy widow, Mrs. Connie Stapleton who evidently has some type of relationship with Gastrell.

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional "backwater” area in England with no apparent military value. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from a German zeppelin along with a Homburg hat near Dreymarsh. The mystery is further complicated when an Englishman, Mr. Hamar Lessingham, presents himself at Mainsail Haul which is the residence of Sir Henry Cranston.

Havoc occurs when European countries are discussing covert alliances. The story revolves around the creation of a secret alliance between Germany, Russia, and Austria. The English hope to split Russia away by holding the Czar to his previous public commitments, but they need proof of what was done to create the pressure. All the pressures that lead to WWI are there, but the intrigues and secret treaties create an interesting background to the twists and turns of the plot.

E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales are thrillers and espionage. The Great Impersonation was written following World War I and is considered by many to be perhaps his best novel. The story focuses on German espionage in England prior to the start of World War I. The tale centers on two characters that are almost identical in appearance. Indeed, while both attend the same school in England, they are often mistaken for one another.

It is during World War I. A chemist, Sandy Graham, has discovered a new powerful explosive, but he lets it slip in a London restaurant that he has made the discovery. Graham is ready to join some friends for luncheon at the restaurant but chooses to clean up before joining them. He never comes out of the restroom. Several spies from different governments set out to find him and the formula. This espionage novel is from 1918, but it could just as easily have been from today.

"It is an easy task," Selingman declared. "This young man is your slave. Whatever your daily business may be here, some part of your time, I imagine, will be spent in his company. Let me know what manner of man he is. Is this innate corruptness which brings him so easily to the bait, or is it the stinging smart of injustice from which he may well be suffering? Or, failing these, has he dared to set his wits against mine, to play the double traitor? If even a suspicion of this should come to you, there must be an end of Mr. Francis Norgate."

Commander Walter Topham, assigned as an attaché in Japan, is requested by the Secretary of State to deliver a sealed secret document via the Berlin embassy en route to Japan. Topham agrees to travel to Japan via Berlin. He meets and falls in love with the Countess de Ouro Preto on the steamer voyage, not knowing she is part of a conspiracy. He is drugged on the sea journey and attacked while traveling by train to Berlin by plotters who want to prevent the document from reaching Berlin.

One of G.A. Henty's most stirring adventures tells the story of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce as they battle the brutal seizure of their native Scotland by England's King Edward I (1326-1314). With the Scottish heroes is the courageous young Archie Forbes, whose daring, insightful mind is as sharp as his flashing sword.

Der "Tinder Mörder" wählt sich sorgfältig seine Opfer im Internet aus, bevor er sich das nimmt was ihm immer verwehrt wurde; der weibliche Schoß. Doch geht das Grauen wirklich von ihm aus?

Mysteriöse Morde - ein Bundesland im Ausnahmezustand und eine Kommissarin, die an die Grenzen ihrer Kraft gerät. Ein Serienkiller zieht seine Kreise im Saarland. Er tötet nach einem Muster und er ist nicht aufzuhalten. Hauptkommissarin Franziska Merten versucht ihn zu stoppen. Sie ist einem alten Geheimnis auf der Spur.

Rudolf Sawitzky ist seines Lebens überdrüssig. Der dahinplätschernde Alltag treibt ihn in den Wahnsinn. Er mailt Gott an und bittet um einen gnädigen Tod. Weil Gott der Ansicht ist, dass Sawitzky sich nicht so anstellen solle und sich also mit dem Ableben noch gedulden müsse, wendet sich Sawitzky an Luzifer. Und der hat einen zündenden Tipp parat... Rosenhaus 9: Ein mysteriöses Haus in der Innenstadt Kölns. Doch der Name trügt: Wer hier einzieht, ist nicht auf Rosen gebettet. Verrückt vielleicht. Oder mutig.

Alex Volkov, einer der reichsten russischen Oligarchen, ist ebenso rücksichtslos wie anziehend. Er bekommt immer, was er will, und das, was er will, bin ich, in seinem Bett. Er ist die Art von Ärger, vor dem jede Frau weglaufen sollte. Die Kugel, die sein Leibwächter für ihn abgefangen hat, beweist das. Ich sollte mich von ihm fernhalten, aber für eine Nacht gebe ich der Versuchung nach. Ehe ich mich versehe, zieht er mich tiefer in seine Welt voller Exzesse und Gewalt und dringt nicht nur in mein Leben, sondern auch in mein Herz ein.

Nick Carter, ehemaliger Aufklärungs-Marine, dessen Vergangenheit ihm unzählige körperliche und seelische Narben bescherte, arbeitet für das PROJECT, eine geheime Einheit zur Bekämpfung des Terrorismus, die direkt dem Präsidenten unterstellt ist. Selena Connor, eine gutaussehende, starke und fähige Sprachwissenschaftlerin, findet sich plötzlich inmitten seiner gefährlichen und gnadenlosen Welt wieder, als ihr wohlhabender Onkel von jemandem auf grausame Weise ermordet wird, der auf der Suche nach einem altertümlichen Buch über das Elixier der Unsterblichkeit ist.