Résultats pour "Adam" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

Juliette est une jeune militante écologiste, fragile et idéaliste. Elle participe à une opération commando pour libérer des animaux de laboratoire. Cette action apparemment innocente va l'entraîner au cœur d'un complot sans précédent qui, au nom de la planète, prend ni plus ni moins pour cible l'espèce humaine.

1946 beginnt die junge Ruth, sich in Palästina ein neues Leben aufzubauen, getrieben von jugendlichen Idealen in einem Land, das ihr feindlich gesinnt ist. Wir folgen Ruth und den Ihren durch die Jahre 1945 bis 2009. Und damit durch die Turbulenzen des Staates Israel – die Auseinandersetzung mit den Briten, die Vertreibung der Araber, der Sechs-Tage-Krieg und der Jom-Kippur-Krieg machen Ruth womöglich noch zäher und härter.

Dr. Adam Cassidy's last mission cost him an eye, his memory, and any chance of staying with his military brothers-in-arms on Guardian's Alpha Team. He'd scraped together the remnants of his life. He’d refined, rebuilt, and pushed on alone, while every night, sleep tortured him with the fleeting memory of the warm, welcome lips of a faceless, nameless woman. Keelee Marshall knew all about loss. She couldn't forget their brief nights of passion - but Adam had. The man she loved beyond reason had disappeared on the battlefields of Afghanistan.

Tribulation is a twisted mystery about an end-of-days religious cult manipulating space and traveling across planes of existence on electricity and radio signals. Cult members willingly accept seven brutal years of torture, known as their “tribulation,” to atone for their earthly sins and come out on the other side saved (or thoroughly brainwashed?). The hero of this thriller, Stacy Carlson, must uncover the mystery of the Tribulation cult after her husband Greg is kidnapped by its leader, Brother Elijah (Josh Charles), through a bizarre AM radio broadcast.

"Adamas maître du jeu" raconte l'effondrement d'une démocratie qui ressemble à la nôtre. Il s'inscrit dans la lignée des romans populaires du XIXe siècle. L'époque où Jules Verne inventait la science-fiction et où "Les Mystères de Paris" déclenchaient des révolutions. Travail, liberté, mérite, démocratie sont des valeurs revisitées par ce roman d'aventures sans précédent, qui dépasse largement le simple divertissement. Adamas, un homme d'affaire mystérieux et controversé, rachète une entreprise au bord de la faillite.

Alerte enlèvement : la petite Daisy Mason, 8 ans, a disparu lors d'une fête, donnée dans le jardin de ses parents. Elle était déguisée en pâquerette : elle portait une robe, des collants et des chaussures vertes, ainsi qu'une coiffe avec des pétales blancs. Et personne n'a rien vu. L'inspecteur Adam Fowley, qui prend en charge l'enquête, sait bien que, dans 90% des cas, c'est un proche qui a fait le coup. Il a lui-même perdu un fils, Jake, quelques mois plus tôt.

La sixième enquête d'Adam Dalgliesh Un village des Fens, au sud-est de l'Angleterre. Des marécages, de la pluie, la découverte du cadavre d'une femme... Le lendemain, le Pr Lorrimer, responsable du service de biologie d'un laboratoire de médecine légale, est trouvé assassiné dans son bureau, toutes portes fermées. Au fil d'une enquête extrêmement minutieuse parmi le personnel médical, le commandant Dalgliesh va démêler l'écheveau des passions et des rancœurs et percer à jour des mystères où sexe et superstition se mêlent, bien loin de la rationalité scientifique.

It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But...

John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted. No idea who his attacker is. No idea how he will prevent the inevitable. Then the pendulum of fate swings in his favour. He has one chance to escape, find the truth and halt his destruction. The momentum is in his favour for now. But with a killer on his tail, everything can change with one swing of this deadly pendulum....

Thrill seeking ex-Navy SEAL Adam Torrey loves a good HALO jump. There’s nothing better than the exhilaration and freedom of a heart-stopping, high altitude plummet to earth - until he comes face to face with Shannon Reagan, daughter of the billionaire inventor behind the world’s most lethal military drone. She’s champagne and caviar to Adam’s beer and pizza. They have absolutely nothing in common. Except those damned drones.... She’s living the dream...her father’s dream. Not that Shannon has a choice. As his only heir, she already has everything she’s never wanted.

Adam was sure the security escort would fall into the category of the most boring mission ever. But he enjoyed getting to know the beautiful and intelligent professor’s assistant. But he caught Valerie in a meeting that ended their relationship before it began. When Valerie travels to Columbia, she discovers the man she vowed to forget was the only one who could help her. Wanting to keep her safe as well as seek her forgiveness, Adam rushes to Columbia, and with the help of his fellow LSI Keepers, finds where she is in hiding. They travel together to get back to California.

Un suspense psychologique électrisant pour les fans de Claire Mackintosh ("Te laisser partir", Prix du meilleur roman étranger Festival Polar de Cognac 2016), S.K. Tremayne ("Le Doute"), S.J. Watson ("Avant d'aller dormir") et Paula Hawkins ("La Fille du train"). Je m'appelle Irini. Mes parents m'ont abandonnée. Je m'appelle Eleanor. Quand ma sœur avait trois ans, mes parents l'ont abandonnée. Moi, ils m'ont gardée. Deux sœurs. Deux vies séparées. Une seule et même famille, unie par un atroce secret. Irini n'avait que trois ans lorsqu'elle a été abandonnée par ses parents.

After posting a negative review of a horror novel, a woman staying at an isolated beach house begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy—or very, very dangerous—in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and...

Only regret the things you haven't done. A cheap motel or the guest bedroom of Newport's infamous heartbreaker? Any sane person would run the other way after hearing a "move in with me" proposition days after meeting Theo Hayes. Not me. Having escaped a dark past and started over with only three suitcases, I'm not guided by pride but survival instinct. Taking the plunge, I soon find Theo's magnetic pull impossible to resist. I should keep my secrets, maintain my distance, and build a new life, but... with Theo, I don't want to have any regrets.

Grab a flashlight and go monster-hunting in the safe company of Adam Jortner, award-winning professor of religion at Auburn University. You’ll encounter chilling tales of living houses, sentient plants, psychotic toys, brain-eating zombies, and otherworldly beings whose mere name is enough to drive people insane. Along the way, you’ll learn how monster stories change how Americans think and what Americans do, how they shape the history of our country, and what secrets about human nature these inhuman monsters can share.

Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.

Maddie died. Piper refused to accept it. One blood ritual later and Maddie is back—undead, starving and nothing close to resembling human. Despite her deceased girlfriend reeking of rotting flesh, Piper decides she’ll do anything to keep her zombie girlfriend: lie to suspicious neighbors, outwit a nosy cop, and make sure the apartment complex’s missing-person flyers don’t point to their kitchen. As scraps of the old Maddie surface, so do the hunger pangs. The body count begins to pile up, and Piper has to decide what she's willing to do to keep her girlfriend fed.

Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She's still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind. Being around him awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline kick of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head—wanted: dead or half-alive—means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones.

Sông Bé, a fact-based narrative told in flashback from a present-day evening concert at the New Orleans Orpheum Theater, features a fit, world-renowned architect, Richard Foxworth, a West Point graduate who reacts to what his wife finds in his old Army footlocker.

Adam Emerson always believed martial arts were about discipline, respect, and mastering the self—until he found himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy that demanded more than skill. It demanded survival. After witnessing a brutal crime connected to a powerful underground network, Adam is thrust into a world where political corruption, shadowy operatives, and ruthless killers collide. With danger closing in, Adam must rely on every lesson he’s ever learned—on and off the mat—to uncover the truth and stay alive long enough to expose it.