Résultats pour "Connect" dans Policiers et crimes internationaux

"Walter, you old rascal," chuckled the barista as she placed the steaming cup of black coffee on the counter. Walter Shively raised an eyebrow, his eyes twinkling with amusement. "I've told you, young lady, it's not polite to call an old man a rascal," he said with a wink, taking the coffee in his weathered hands. The warmth was a comforting contrast to the chill outside, and he took a sip, savoring the bitter taste that brought him back to life every morning. The barista, barely in her twenties, giggled.

Karen Harris, commander of Unit T, had come to the streets of London in an effort to curb the activities of an Italian cartel engaged in prostitution and abduction across Europe and beyond. Alongside this, many young homeless in the city are going missing with nothing being done about it. Karen starts investigating an agency that not only rents out companions but is involved in more-sinister operations.

It began with a letter from Nigeria that led to the uncovering of an illicit trafficking route, directing Karen Harris, commander of Unit T, into the very core of the trafficker groups. Except this time, one trafficker is fighting back. Unit T's families are no longer safe, as the fight becomes more and more deadly. Karen's only option is to go covert, in an attempt to find a way around the impasse, leaving her vulnerable, without backup, fighting a trafficker out to destroy her unit's morale.

A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel. A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. A US senator receives death threats from a shadowy group. There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is. The chase leads CIA asset Max Fend from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the plains of Wisconsin, home of the largest air show in the world - Oshkosh. Beneath the drone of old warbirds and sleek aerobatics aircraft, Max and his partner, Renee, uncover clues that point to a global conspiracy.

Karen Harris is in serious trouble. With her mind, virtually destroyed by drugs, forced down her when captured in the past by traffickers, besides her inability to rely on others for help; Karen is about to go up against one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal cartels in the world, on a covert mission to find her sister, Sophie. However, to find Sophie, Karen will need to live as a working girl, hiding among them, in order to seek out informers, who often will demand more than money for their information.

Colin Cavendish doesn't get the 21st century. Arguably born a hundred years after his time, he is an old-fashioned, rigid, pedantic man who relishes his well-ordered life selling theatrical memorabilia from his tiny London shop. But a chance encounter with a mysterious woman plunges him into a dangerous word of murder, espionage, and double-dealing. Drugged and kidnapped, he wakes up in a coffin somewhere in Italy, in possession of some earth-shattering information. So begins a deadly chase as he is pursued across Europe in his efforts to make it safely back to London.

Former intelligence expert Darren Priest tries to distance himself from his old life, and turns to a new vocation as a wine and food writer. He soon discovers that with his background, some things you can't un-volunteer for. Sent to Austria by the US President, Priest undertakes a covert mission where friend quickly turns to foe. With numerous enemies threatening his mission, can Priest figure out whom to trust - and expose the Vienna Connection?