Résultats pour "Job" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

1929 Las Vegas, New Mexico. When a man is murdered at the Castaneda Hotel, Josie MacFarland is given an impossible role: the first Harvey House Detective. Armed with only her determination, Josie faces a dismissive sheriff, the cold shoulder of old friends, and the hardships of the Great Depression. She can either return home in disgrace—or fight to prove she belongs in a world determined to shut her out. For readers of Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen, and Sulari Gentill.

Jobe Delaro served proudly with his Special Forces squad, but to focus on his duties he gave up the one woman he had planned on spending his life with. Four years later, seeing his friends find love reminded him that he had never forgotten the woman whose heart he broke.

The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox - bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire. The FBI doesn't know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has a few tricks up his sleeve to roust this particular Knipschildt chocolate-loving drug lord.

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon must solve the perfect crime in the dazzling new tale of murder, greed, and corruption from #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Silva. ""Daniel Silva spins a yarn better than any living author and I appreciated the chance to disappear into a...

When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered guy hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you're squatting in your parents' old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can't afford is the attention of the cops. Oh yeah. Hi. My name is Pet. It's not my real name, but it's the only one you're getting.

Eric Lamb is a world renowned hit-man. He's the best there is. He's the number one go-to man when a job pops up. But Lamb is getting tired of his profession. The constant killings, some seemingly innocent, have finally taken their toll on him. And he's about to do something about it. After he's contracted to do a new job, he decides he's had enough. All in the hopes of saving a young girl he doesn't even know. And it will probably cost him his life.

The first story ever told left a scar on the skin of the universe, with its characters doomed to an endless cycle of reincarnation and death. Trapped by his enemies, Daniel Faust - magician, mobster, and newly-minted knight of hell - has been cast in the role of the eternal Thief. Now, the story is dead-set on writing his final chapter, the one that ends with a knife in his back. The curse can’t be broken without tracking down the original Thief. The truth is buried beneath the legacy of a long-dead stage magician and a cache of occult relics from the 1940s.

Die frischvermählten Tricia und Ethan sind auf der Suche nach ihrem Traumhaus. Sie glauben, es gefunden zu haben in dem Anwesen, das einst Dr. Adrienne Hale gehörte, einer renommierten Psychiaterin, die vor drei Jahren spurlos verschwunden ist. Als ein heftiger Sturm aufkommt, können sie das Haus nicht mehr verlassen. Tricia stößt auf eine Sammlung von Videokassetten – Aufnahmen von Adriennes Patientensitzungen. Mit jeder Kassette, die sie sich ansieht, wird ihr klarer, wie es zu Adriennes Verschwinden kam.

El restaurador de arte y legendario espía Gabriel Allon debe resolver el crimen perfecto en la impactante nueva historia de asesinatos, codicia y corrupción del novelista bestseller del New York Times, Daniel Silva. «Daniel Silva teje una trama mejor que cualquier otro autor vivo, y agradezco...

Chasing justice left Dakota Black a convicted felon. Inside Folsom State Prison, the boy who wanted to become an FBI agent finds himself mixed up with Renoir Reza—a Machiavellian art thief with a deadly hidden agenda—and Cody Winters, the revenge-minded brother of the man Dakota supposedly put in the grave. To escape Winters’s attacks, Dakota joins Reza in a fiery jailbreak. They embark on a kamikaze crime spree seeking a five-million-dollar reward. Before the bright lights of Reno are in their rearview mirror, Special Agent Elizabeth Everett and her partner catch the scent of their trail.

Award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has reimagined the great German composer and keyboard virtuoso Johann Sebastian Bach as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Keith Richards in this imaginative new historical mystery. During a visit to the German city of Kassel to inspect the church’s newly constructed pipe organ, (based on an actual event in his life) Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his cousin and personal secretary Elias Bach (who serves as Dr. Watson to Bach’s Sherlock) discover that the pastor of the church may have murdered his young wife.

Veteran Delta Force operator Case Lee is reluctantly drawn into a high-stakes mission by the world’s most powerful spy. She suspects a cancer within the CIA and enlists Case to uncover the traitors in her midst—a razor’s edge task that will push his loyalty and commitment to the brink. Case navigates a treacherous web of intrigue spanning from Brussels to New York to Cairo. Along the way, he faces off against rogue spies, deadly assassins, and powerful conspirators. As Case uncovers a plot that threatens the entire global order, they kidnap his special friend—an act that changes everything.

It’s 1982 and one of the most daring raids of the Falklands war is about to be sprung on the Argentine mainland; the aim is to destroy the last Exocet missile and kill the pilots that might launch it; but everyone knows it’s a one-way, suicide job…Operation Mikado was an actual raid that almost went ahead. ‘The Argentine Job’ is the fictional ‘what if’ that details a mission and potential escape by surviving British forces across forty miles of barren Patagonian winter wasteland at its worst, chased by an army out for their blood.

A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the Headmaster sends cryptic messages, begging his new charge to confess. As the new boy learns to survive on the edges of this impolite society, he starts to unravel a mystery at the school's dark heart. And that's when the corpses start turning up.

When a diplomatic delegation from Bhashyistan is blown sky-high on Bronson Avenue, the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone. In no time at all, Arthur Beauchamp is tangled up with wily civil servants, gung-ho cabinet members, recently released eco-terrorists, and possibly the most incompetent spy since Mata Hari.

Ashley, an attractive blonde, falls in love with Trevor, a soldier. Ashley meets her demise, as Trevor kills her in his sleep one night, thinking he was on the battlefield. One of the best novels about veterans and their nightmares.

57-åriges Alain Delambre er arbejdsløs på fjerde år efter at have været HR-chef i en stor virksomhed. Han er midt i sit livs nedtur, økonomisk, socialt og menneskeligt, og villig til at gå meget langt for at skaffe sig et ordenligt job. En dag svarer han på et jobopslag og ender som en af fire kandidater, som går videre. Næste runde i jobsøgningen er en praktisk HR-opgave, som organiseres som en gidseltagning blandt fem ledere.

Lust - or is it love - at first sight. Ex-police detective Mike Carlton considers bodyguard work a necessary evil - it pays the bills. But he changes his mind as soon as attorney Gwyn Wells waltzes into his office. A stalker? Yes, he'll guard her all night long if necessary. All he has to do is convince this uptight attorney with a fondness for Italian shoes and a propensity for getting in trouble, that he's The Man for the Job...and the man for her.

Hadley Hunter came to Moonstone Bay to find herself. That included finding her passion in life. She just didn’t think it would involve becoming mayor. She has no qualifications, other than being a powerful witch. Half the town is rooting against her. The other half is just sitting back to see what happens. Only a handful of people are rooting for her, but they’re the only ones who matter. When a body appears on the beach, one that’s been stabbed in the back and surrounded by curse runes in blood, Hadley finds her attention split.

Before she was a thief, Blair Morgan was an FBI agent...and her corrupt former boss sent her to jail as a scapegoat. Now, she’s got all the evidence needed to take him down. She just needs to steal it first. But when her heist reveals that a master thief has beaten her to the punch, Blair finds her evidence up for sale in a bidding war between her crew, her enemy, and a mysterious figure known only as Fixer. With 10 days until the auction, Blair’s crew must find a way to determine Fixer’s identity and join forces before the man who put her in jail goes free forever.