Résultats pour "Americana" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

At 33, Ryan Kealey has achieved more in his military and CIA career than most men can dream of in a lifetime. He's also seen the worst life has to offer and is lucky to have survived it. But being left alone with his demons is no longer an option. The CIA needs him badly, because the enemy they're facing is former U.S. soldier Jason March. Ryan knows all about March - he trained him.

The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico's The Poseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner and its unimaginable final journey. When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely...

When Chechen terrorists manage to smuggle a Cold War-era Russian nuke across the Mexican-American border, the president is forced to reactivate the only unit capable of stopping them: Navy SEAL sniper Gil Shannon and his brash team of SEALs and Delta Force fighters.

A stifling heat wave rolls into New York City, amplifying the already critical level of tension in the fragile concrete ecosystem. The air tastes of electricity - the negative charge of bad things to come - but everyone hopes it’s just the temperature. Then, on the morning homicide detective Alexandra “Hemi” Hemingway finds out she is pregnant, a twisted serial killer makes his debut. And the heat goes up.

“Few authors write about espionage, terrorism, and clandestine hit squads as well as Taylor does.”—Houston Press Pike Logan is on the desperate hunt for a man who is about to betray his country—and ignite a horrific new world war—in this pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times...

In 1725 the Blackfeet attacked at dawn. In a single, brutal raid, Little Bull's world shatters. He watches helplessly as his brother falls beneath the blade of Lightning On His Face the merciless war chief behind the slaughter. Blood soaks the earth. Vengeance burns in his soul. However revenge demands more than fury; it demands horses, the ultimate weapon of the plains. With his people's survival at stake, Little Bull embarks on a suicide mission; a 150 mile journey through enemy lands to barter with the Cheyenne for horses.

Starvation, violence, and death run rampant in the remains of our once-proud country. Federal troops, commissioned to protect the homeland, have turned their guns on the lawless population. Citizens find shelter in government safe zones while ruthless gangs enforce their will outside the camps. When the military transforms Washington's life-saving food bank into a gun collection center in order to disarm all but the soldiers themselves, riots ensue.

An enemy is dangerous. A traitor is lethal. They call them the Taskforce. Designed to operate outside the bounds of law, trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability, their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Recruited from top operators in the intelligence spheres and led by...

An American King unfolds during a violent rash of crime in Whicher's hometown. Working for the Abilene US Marshals Office, Whicher investigates a baffling murder, part of an outbreak of lawlessness that threatens to escalate out of control. Assigned a new partner to help work a case unlike any he's known, what starts in shadow soon burns a path across the city, ever closer to home.

Newly elected President Jack Wilford reinvigorates the nation by stressing Judeo-Christian roots, the US Constitution, and individual rights. Reversing an apologetic course set by an unprincipled, un-American administration, he faces Islamic militants, hostile press, and power-brokers that despise his nationalistic agenda.

'Miller is a classy satirist of American mores. He’s serious too, about racism and police brutality. A superb novel on all levels' The Times 'A subtle crime story peopled with beautifully drawn characters' Daily Mail 'Ingenious. Humorous. Wonderful' Lee Child Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger...

Winter in Colorado - a storm moving in, a passenger train collides with a car. US Marshal John Whicher is called to assist a marshal riding onboard. On arrival, no trace of the man can be found. But a young woman asks to be arrested... An American Bullet, third in The Whicher Series, is a stand-alone story; as with all the titles, you can enjoy the books in any order. 

Patch Kincaid finds himself in late 1966, and he contacts his friend, Johnny Roselli, in California to help find Ray Meinkewitz. In doing so, Patch becomes part of an ultra-stealth group of individuals called the Milky Way Network. Led by a high-level American politician, the network’s goal is to aid Jim Garrison’s investigation in New Orleans. Within this network are Ray Meinkewitz, commander of Hughes Air Force Base Phineas Beauregard, and Lieutenant Natalie Tompkins. Being in the network is not without risk, as an operative from the Kennedy assassination takes Patch head-on.

An ex-CIA assassin is recruited by North Korea to release a weapon of mass destruction, but what is the target, Washington, London, or Mecca? Only the killer knows where and when the deadly virus will be released. MI6 dispatch Jack Castle to track down the rogue agent and prevent the unthinkable from happening. With thousands of lives at stake, will Jack stop the madman in time? A fast moving international thriller that begins in Panama and culminates in Istanbul.

Two Yale honor students, Matt & Tangie Riley, marry after college and are offered jobs by a CIA-run secret underground facility known as Global Observation Defense, or G.O.D., adjacent to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. They are tasked with developing a mind-control process. The program is extremely secretive, and an unlikely group wants to find out more. The couple are abducted by aliens, and they plant a spy chip in Matt to track what is happening in the complex.

John Whicher is a US Marshal, not long out of training - barely 12 months back from serving in the Persian Gulf war. In south Texas he's working his first case when a multiple shooting on the US-Mexico border leaves five undocumented immigrants and one American dead. The county decides to limit any inquest - money's tight, deaths among undocumented immigrants are notoriously hard to crack. But Whicher, in his first case, is not about to see justice denied.

""First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.” So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel...

Jack Holman is a well-respected independent journalist contracted by the New York Times. Upon his return from reporting on the war in Syria, he is tasked to investigate the COVID virus outbreak in China. As he digs deeper, he uncovers a hideous plot by the powers that be here in America. Jack risks life and limb to uncover the conspirators behind all of this and shed light to the American people and the world.

Self-made expatriate billionaire Jet Taylor spearheads a strong-armed force of militia well on its way to resolution of every contemporary American problem. Standing directly in the juggernaut’s way is his daughter, Natalie Taylor, deputy director of the FBI. She will bring her father in, apprehend him, dead or alive. Failure is not an option, for Natalie or for the American nation.

The bestselling author of The Dog Stars returns with a riveting novel of one man’s resilience against the ocean’s ferocious power as a husband finds himself swept out to sea off the coast of Maine and, while fighting for his very survival, encounters the looters and profiteers who seek to...