Résultats pour "John of John" dans Espionnage

1961. L'espion britannique Alec Leamas et son amie Liz Gold trouvent la mort au pied du mur de Berlin. 2017. Peter Guillam, fidèle collègue et disciple de George Smiley dans les services de renseignement autrefois surnommés "le Cirque", est tiré de sa retraite en Bretagne par une lettre de son ancien employeur, qui le convoque à Londres. Pourquoi ? Ses activités d'agent secret pendant la guerre froide le rattrapent. Des opérations qui firent la gloire du Londres secret vont être minutieusement décortiquées par une nouvelle génération qui n'a que faire des luttes menées jadis par les Occidentaux contre le bloc communiste.

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley. This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself, Smiley decides to investigate.

The night that Flight 229 was blown apart upon landing at Washington's Dulles Airport—killing almost 400 passengers aboard—James Bond embarked on a mission that would become an obsession. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straightforward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at only one person, or a move to put the airline out of business? The search for answers has a personal meaning: Bond' s former lover and old friend, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta, is listed as one of the ill-fated passengers.

Einer der fünf Top-Leute des britschen Geheimdienstes muss ein Maulwurf sein, ein Top-Agent des KGB....

A businessman is found murdered in a Monaco Hotel room. A billionaire’s yacht is attacked by pirates. The search for a 500-year-old treasure ship has just turned deadly. John Otter is in the middle of it all, and he must stay ahead of those pursuing him before it costs him his life. Can he trust those closest to him?

On a mission with his Special Forces team in Ukraine, Rob Walker is on the hunt for an elusive enemy who strikes from the shadows and disappears without a trace. Nobody expected Russia to start a war. But when the country’s deranged president does the unthinkable, Rob’s Special Forces team is sent in to assist Ukrainian forces in repelling the invaders.

Franklin P. Scudder liegt tot in Richard Hannays Wohnung und plötzlich sind alle hinter ihm her: Scudders Mörder, ein Verschwörer-Ring, der beim anstehenden Staatsbesuch in London den griechischen Premierminister beseitigen will und die Polizei, die wiederum Hannay für Scudders Mörder hält. Für Hannay beginnt eine atemberaubende Verfolgungsjagd durch die schottische Landschaft. Bei sich trägt er Scudders Notizbuch. Um an die dort aufgeführten Informationen heranzukommen, muss er aber erst einmal den Code knacken.

Cooper Fox thought he was just an ordinary guy - until he woke up with superhuman abilities and a target on his back.

Blood has always flown easily for Ian Kelly. He's spent a double life as part of a secret government program. Plucked from the foster care system at a young age for exhibiting a rare personality profile, he was trained to kill and then set loose on enemies of the free world. These days, blood is thicker. With two grown kids old enough to be asking too many questions, Ian travels the globe on official murder business. But Ian tells himself just one more mission because world peace means someone has to kill the killers.

The CIA gave him 22 names. Then he left the CIA and went back to his birth name. He went back to being a normal American. Back to being a guy who trusts authorities to solve crimes and stop bad things. Back to being a guy who doesn't need to get involved. Then, Jake Beamer called. And he took on a 24th name.

The president of the United States has been targeted for assassination - by his own handlers. The killing must look like the president's political opposition is responsible. Desperate to prevent the crime and the overwhelming outpouring of sympathy that will only further empower the real killers, the opposition turns to the only force that can stop it this late in the game - a mysterious hunter-killer team known as the Sleeping Dogs.

William Kemper, Theaterproduzent, erhält Besuch von einem gewissen James Smith vom Geheimdienst. Der hat ein delikates Anliegen: Er sucht eine Schauspielerin, die sich mit dem Chef einer in den USA agierenden Gruppe Deutscher einlässt, um ihn auszuspionieren und einen Anschlag auf kriegswichtige Einrichtungen zu verhindern. Kemper empfiehlt das Nachwuchstalent Sylvia Dodge, die den Auftrag nicht nur spontan übernimmt, sondern ihn auch bravourös erledigt - und ihre Bühnenkarriere zugunsten von Truppenbetreuung aufgibt.

1961: An der Berliner Mauer sterben zwei Menschen, Alec Leamas, britischer Top-Spion, und seine Freundin Liz Gold. 2017: George Smileys ehemaliger Assistent Peter Guilliam wird ins Innenministerium einbestellt. Die Kinder der Spione Elizabeth Gold und Alec Leamas drohen, die Regierung zu verklagen. Die Untersuchung wirft neue Fragen auf: Warum mussten die Agenten an der Berliner Mauer sterben? Hat der britische Geheimdienst sie zu leichtfertig geopfert? Halten die Motive von damals heute noch stand?

A vicious murder at sea begins a series of deadly events stretching from Europe to the Middle East and Africa. International conspirators plot to send a shipment of goods to an undisclosed destination, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. A concealed world of deceit and lies is populated by an international assassin, a brutal ship's captain, criminal businessmen, rogue scientists, and ruthless government representatives.

“Secret wars” waged by CIA task-forces are usually confined to the pages of spy-thrillers. But when the storyteller is the former Section Chief in charge of planning and field operations in Angola, and his story is true, the “spy thriller” becomes chilling fact.

It was a strong face, certainly—the eyes pale grey and very cold, the mouth was hard, the dark hair-grey-streaked now—still fell in the authentic comma over the forehead. This is how John Pearson reacted to his first encounter with the real James Bond, an encounter probably unique in the annals of thriller writing. He went on to write the bestselling authorized biography of Ian Fleming. At the time, like most of the world he assumed that James Bond was nothing more than a character in Fleming's highly charged imagination.

Captain James Holland is the pilot on a routine flight from Frankfurt to New York, packed with people eager to be home for Christmas. When a passenger collapses from what appears to be a heart attack, Holland is forced to request an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. But to his great surprise, the air traffic controllers will not let him land in England - they tell Holland that his sick passenger has contracted a dangerous new form of influenza and that the plane must return to Germany.

After serving his country as a paratrooper in World War II, Jack Rhyce takes on an even more dangerous mission when he becomes a secret agent in the early years of the Cold War. Now he and fellow spy Ruth Bogart have been dispatched to Tokyo to foil an assassination attempt on a leading liberal politician. Murder is only the first part of this nefarious Communist plot; the ultimate objective is to stir up anti-American sentiment in a country that has formed close bonds with its former adversary in the West.

When M receives word that a known terrorist organization is planning to infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier-based summit of world leaders, James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from Commander to Captain, Bond is expected to infiltrate the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and identify potential sleeper agents.

A gripping collection of classic spy stories by some of the great early masters of espionage fiction: 'The Secret of the Black Bag' by William Le Queux, 'How I Became a Secret Agent' by Dr. A. K. Graves, 'The Secret of the Smoked Spectacles' by William Le Queux,'The 39 Steps' by John Buchan, 'Matahari and Some Other Women Spies' by Sir Basil Thomson, 'The Secret of Dr. Vaux’s Intrigue' by William Le Queux.