Resultados para "man" en Espías y políticos

Una novela oscura, sucia, llena de sexo, perversiones y sangre, que nos muestra el día a día de un policía en la España franquista. El personaje principal, anónimo, es un ser desagradable, estúpido, machista y borracho y con una voz que desconcierta, va desgranando un caso de asesinato y contrabando. Bajo el mando de un escuadrón parapolicial, la novela muestra una violencia policial y sin escrúpulos, típica del régimen duro de Franco.

Bond may have a license to kill, but “Pistols” Scaramanga has a talent for it. He’s a KGB-trained assassin who’s left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon of choice? A gold-plated Colt .45. In the aftermath of his brainwashing by the Soviets, Bond is given one last chance to win back M’s trust: terminate Scaramanga before he strikes MI6 again.

Don't miss the star-studded mini series adaptation of A Man in Full-coming soon to Netflix. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king...

The Man Within is Graham Greene's first published novel (1929). The story is set on England's South Coast and concerns Francis Andrews, who reluctantly became embroiled with a gang of smugglers. The novel opens with Andrews desperately fleeing over the downs and eventually reaching an isolated cottage. He finds it's the home of a young woman, Elizabeth, who is alone and recently bereaved of her guardian, protector, and possible abuser.

Anne Beddingfeld is a young woman who is aching for adventure and that is exactly what she gets when she witnesses the death of man on the London Underground. Her notice of a mysterious man who suspiciously leaves the scene embarks Anne on a mystery that will take her all the way to Cape Town in South Africa. With a love interest also in her future, it will take all her faculties to set everything straight. The Man in the Brown Suit is an early publication in Agatha Christie’s long and illustrious career.

CIA-Agent Mark Pierce ist ein ausgebildeter Killer mit einem strengen Moralkodex – er tötet nur diejenigen, die es wirklich verdienen. Sein aktueller Auftrag: Victor Vautrin zu eliminieren, einen internationalen Waffenhändler, der fanatische Terroristen in Westafrika beliefert. Doch er wird plötzlich zurückgepfiffen. Pierce ist überzeugt, dass etwas faul an der Sache ist – er handelt auf eigene Faust und durchquert die höllische Sahara, um sein Ziel, Vautrin, unerbittlich zu verfolgen.

"Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini." —New York Times Book Review His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him...

As a member of a New York Mafia family, Levi Yoder's role is unique: He's a fixer, a solver of problems, a man whose code puts loyalty above all else, yet he's a man with a conscience. In the Inside Man, Levi's search for the kidnapped grandchild of a Japanese mob boss plunges him into a world filled with chaos. When he's falsely accused of a heinous series of crimes, the FBI makes Levi an offer he can't refuse: use his mob connections to help investigate the murders of several undercover agents or find himself in jail awaiting trial, without a way to clear his name.  

With the team from the Jefferson Group on the run, there’s no telling where Cal Stokes will resurface next. With revelations of his father’s past bubbling to the surface, it seems that more and more parties want a bite of the Stokes legacy. Will the Russians win out, or will the mysterious forces from deep within Belarus and the United States catch Stokes in the crosshairs?

Part spy novel and part allegory, The Man Who Was Thursday centres on Gabriel Symes, a poet who was recruited by Scotland Yard to secretly infiltrate an anarchist group. During his first meeting with the anarchists, Symes is unexpectedly elected as a new delegate to the central council. Each member is named after a day of the week, and so Syme becomes ‘Thursday’. As he begins to unmask the other council members, he discovers that all is not what it seems: one by one these supposed anarchists are unveiled to be working undercover too. That is until Syme gets to man called ‘Sunday’…

Winter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an officer in the MGB secret police assures militia detective Revol Rossel. Now he knows it's murder. Only recently...

British spy Leonard Flood is asked to investigate the poisoning in London of Willa Karlsson, a retired British secret service vetting officer suspected of being a Russian agent. British intelligence is terrified by the possibility that Moscow poisoned her upon her retirement since she was no...

A train derails in Idaho, nearly causing a nuclear disaster. An inferno at a battery facility in Florida disrupts the electrical grid for days. A potentially devastating failure is discovered at Virginia’s Mud River Dam. To computational biologist Theo Cray, these aren’t mere infrastructure accidents. They are virtually undetectable acts of sabotage. Theo sees a mathematical pattern to the madness that few others can comprehend—except for his associates: rogue FBI agent Jessica Blackwood, private security specialist Brad Trasker, and Florida underwater investigator Sloan McPherson.

Reza Amani är dömd för mord på sin fru och ska utvisas till Irak. Men där väntar ett dubbelt hot från hustruns hämndlystna familj liksom från staten som vill straffa den regimkritiska Amani. John Eric Feldt och hans medarbetare på Feldt & Partners advokatbyrå tar sig an fallet och får mäktiga personer emot sig som inte drar sig för något för att gå utvisningen genomförd.

All his life, Viggo Larssen has been haunted by the same troubling dream, which he calls the Omen - a vision of a woman beckoning to him from the surface of a churning sea. Now, as he broods over his shipwrecked existence in a remote lighthouse off the outermost coast of Denmark, he is about to be borne backward by the current to a past he thought he had escaped forever.

Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector O lead an investigation into a crime of passion committed by the young man who has been selected as the best possible leader of a transition government.

When struggling painter Nicholas Gray first sees Margaretha Zelle, it is in a poor photograph. But something draws him to her. All men are drawn to Margaretha - her mysterious eyes, her effortless sensuality. In another life she will become known as Mata Hari. As a dancer she becomes famous. As a seductress she becomes legendary. Soon Mata Hari is crisscrossing Europe, collecting generals, aristocrats, and businessmen as her lovers.

Am helllichten Tag wird DIA-Agent Matt Drake in Austin, Texas, auf offener Straße von mehreren Attentätern überfallen. Wer hat die Killer angeheuert? Warum wollen sie ihn töten? Ist auch seine Familie in Gefahr? Die Antworten auf diese Fragen führen Matt an einige der gefährlichsten Orte...

He was too young to fight, but war doesn’t check IDs. A runaway farm boy. A fearless fighter pilot. A ghost in the shadows of the Cold War. When the agencies with no names needed a man who could do the impossible, they called Captain Tom Darby. But no one stays a spy forever. He tried to walk away. Fate had other plans. Before he vanished into legend, these are the missions they tried to erase.

When a young girl is snatched from a West Yorkshire town there are eerie similarities with a cold case from many years earlier. It can't be the same killer, can it? 1994. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Brown spends his days working at the local newspaper, and his evenings in his local pub. But under...