Résultats pour "Jane" dans Espions et politique

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.

An eye for an eye. A murder for a murder. That's the mantra Cara Stone has always lived by — until the morning she's arrested and her past threatens to rip her life apart. She grew up with nothing: no family, no future. Now she's a respected true-crime TV producer, righting injustices and staying one step ahead of the law. Then, advances in DNA testing bring a cold case back alive. Suddenly, Cara isn't chasing the story — she's the suspect.

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?

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.

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...

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.

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.

Ein weinender Mann sendet einen Notruf an die Polizeizentrale. Es ist Nacht. Er steht auf dem Friedhof und hat soeben sein eigenes Grab entdeckt, sein Todestag ist morgen. Die junge Beamtin rät ihm, die nächste Wache aufzusuchen, aber sie hat die Lage falsch eingeschätzt. Am nächsten Tag liegt der Arzt mit zertrümmertem Schädel in der Grube. Was wie ein morbider Scherz beginnt, entwickelt sich für Jan und sein unkonventionelles Ermittlerteam zu einem wahren Albtraum.

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.

Eine bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verbrannte Leiche unter dem Brandenburger Tor stellt die Berliner Kripo um Kommissar Tommen vor ein Rätsel. Wer steckt hinter dieser brutalen Tat? Und wieso hat der Täter das Risiko auf sich genommen, das Opfer an einem öffentlichen Platz abzulegen? Es gibt keine verwertbaren Spuren. Die Identifikation der Leiche bestätigt Jans schlimmste Befürchtungen, dass dies erst der Anfang ist.

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.

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...

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 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...

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

Un U-boat esquiva icebergs mientras se dirige al norte. Su misión es tan peligrosa y secreta, que nadie conoce su existencia. Ni siquiera el alto mando Alemán, porque en realidad... han desertado. En el interior de la máquina de guerra viajan tres personas aparentemente incompatibles: el capitán del submarino y su tripulación, un oficial americano y un representante del pueblo judío.

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?

During of the War of 1812, British troops ransacked the White House and made off with valuables that were never returned. Two centuries later, a British curator finds a vital clue to the long-vanished loot. Within hours, the curator is assassinated-and Ayesha Ryder, a Palestinian-born antiquities expert, is expertly framed for his murder. Who could be behind such a conspiracy? And why do they want Ryder out of the way? To find out, she picks up a trail leading from a mysterious nineteenth-century letter to the upcoming presidential election.

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.