Résultats pour "Jane" dans Espions et politique

Did he, or didn't he? Olivia Randall is one of New York City's best criminal defence lawyers. When she gets a phone call informing her that her former fiancée has been arrested for a triple homicide, there is no doubt in her mind as to his innocence. The only question is who would go to such...

Left as a newborn to die in a dumpster, she has no name. Tossed from state-run orphanages to a string of foster homes, she has no family. Growing up hard, fast and street smart, she's accomplished in hand-to-hand combat and accurate with a gun. With no money for college, she enlisted in the US Marine Corps out of high school and was quickly plucked from her unit when her sharp shooting and intellectual skills outshined her male counterparts'. With no known past, she is deemed a perfect fit to a task force Washington denies exists.

As war looms over Britain and there is talk of gas masks and blackout, people are understandably jumpy and anxious. Stella Fry, who's been working in Vienna for a Jewish family, returns home with no job and a broken heart. She answers an advertisement from a famous mystery writer, Hubert Newman, who needs a manuscript typed. She takes on the job and is shocked the next day to learn of the writer's sudden, unexplained death. 

Den svenska underrättelsetjänstens operativa avdelning, under ledning av Hamilton, får visa vad den går för i ett par uppdrag som leder till ytterst hemlig och farlig aktivitet på såväl brittiskt som saudiarabiskt och sibiriskt område. Samtidigt som händelser i Hamiltons förflutna drabbar honom hårt på det personliga planet... Jan Guillous serie om Carl Hamilton blev omedelbart en stor framgång, som med åren kom att växa till Sveriges största romansuccé genom tiderna. I Hennes Majestäts Tjänst är den nionde delen i serien och utkom 1994.

När det gamla Sovjetunionen faller sönder beslutar sig några av landets uppfinningsrika medborgare för att smuggla ut kärnvapen till den svarta marknaden. En illegal spridning av kärnvapen skulle innebära en världskatastrof och Sverige ställs inför hårda krav att stoppa hotet. Carl Hamilton och hans närmaste medarbetare Åke Stålhandske har ett svårlösligt problem framför sig: hur luftlandsätter man en svensk trupp i trettio graders kyla över världens bäst bevakade gräns?

Hamilton & Ponti till er tjänst! Journalistveteranen Erik Ponti och hans gamle vän från förr, underrättelseofficeren Carl Hamilton, är inte vilka pensionärer som helst. Närmast som hobby har de inlett ett projekt som går ut på att sabotera telefoner och datorer för landets alla telefonbedragare. Men när Putins Ryssland anfaller Ukraina förändras förutsättningarna radikalt. Carl Hamilton återinkallas i tjänst och plötsligt får de två vännerna tillgång till hisnande militära resurser.

When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home if unequal P.I. enterprise. That is...

Jane Seymour of Wiltshire is not meant to go to Court. Not a child like her, with her lack of beauty and no title. But family connections are enough to have her named to the bridal retinue of Mary Tudor. At the French Court, the plain and docile Jane meets the girl who will grow into her rival in years to come: the already charismatic and conniving Anne Boleyn. Soon back home in the English countryside, Jane wants nothing more than peace and quiet—and the devotion of her childhood protector, William Dormer. 

In this razor-sharp crime novel from a "master of the dark arts" (Kelly Link), two estranged twin sisters hunt down their elusive mother—and face down the darkness they tried to escape. Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating...

Dirty politics, dirty tricks, and a barrage of final twists, The Other Woman is the first in an explosive new series by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Seduction, betrayal, and murder—it'll take a lot more than votes to win this election. Jane Ryland was a rising star in television news…until she...

Britain buckles under a Luftwaffe Blitz, but its population does not break. After Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Brin accompanies Winston Churchill across the Atlantic for historic meetings with President Roosevelt.

Sie gingen zelten. Und kehrten nie zurück Oktober 1997: Zwei junge Pärchen zelten im deutsch-belgischen Grenzgebiet. Zwei Tage später wird eines der Paare tot im Wald gefunden, das andere bleibt verschwunden. Gegenwart: Der Kölner Reporter Jan Römer berichtet in der Rubrik »Ungelöste...

It's a jungle out there. Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, an eternally sleepless, sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot's gone missing, and he's taken the state treasury along with him. No stranger to impossible missions and international peril, Tanner's been in over his head before. This time, however, he's in imminent danger of being buried alive. And it all has to do with the CIA, white supremacists, moderate revolutionaries...and a blond jungle bombshell named (no joke!) Sheena.

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2024 A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age: the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers...

In this darkly atmospheric suspense, a Philadelphia police detective visiting Poland gets involved when murder is suspected, and the local police turn away. Adam Kaminski, with a delegation to Philadelphia's sister city, is meant to be a polite observer only. But a good man doesn't walk away when he sees wrong being done, and he's not about to start now.

A dramatic re-imagination of the final months of World War II, Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery. "Mesmerizing" —Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network​ Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH… NOW IN DEVELOPMENT FOR TV! 'Chilling and perfectly paced, one to put on the very top of your TBR!' Sarah Pearse 'Thriller fans will be in heaven' Louise Candlish MY CHILD HAS BEEN TAKEN. AND I’VE BEEN GIVEN A CHOICE...

Der Tag der Bundestagswahl. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich, weshalb die scheidende Kanzlerin Margot Heinkel noch einmal - und das auf gänzlich unerwartete Art und Weise - ins Wahlgeschehen eingreifen muss. Die Partei ist geschockt, das Volk überrascht - die Medien in purer Hysterie. Doch Heinkels finaler Coup, ihr unfassbares "Abschiedsgeschenk" für die Nation gelingt. Und es soll sich zeigen: Nichts im Vorfeld dieser ganz besonderen Bundestagswahl am Ende der "Ära Heinkel" ist wirklich zufällig passiert! Die gesamte Chronologie war sorgfältig choreografiert.

As Israeli and Palestinian leaders prepare to make a joint announcement at the Tower of London, an influential scholar is tortured and murdered in his well-appointed home in St. John's Wood. Academic researcher Ayesha Ryder believes the killing is no coincidence. Sir Evelyn Montagu had unearthed shocking revelations about T. E. Lawrence—the famed Lawrence of Arabia. Could Montagu have been targeted because of his discoveries?

Billie, Mary Alice, Helen and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. But now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates their real-world resourcefulness in an age of technology. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses-paid trip to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realise they've been marked for death.