Résultats pour "Knights" dans Espions et politique

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For elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of the job. The Tribe, a powerful business syndicate in Africa, ensures that she has those opportunities. But for Nena, the Tribe is more than just her employer; it’s an organization that supports the African people—until it turns on itself. 

In the shadowy world of espionage, the U.S. government has a secret weapon: Penumbra Division, a covert bureau where the line between right and wrong blurs in the name of national security. At the forefront is Adam Knight, its most skilled contractor. After returning from a mission with a bullet in his leg, the question looms: Can he still be the fixer the government so desperately needs? When a renowned genetic scientist is killed during a vacation in Greece, Knight is called up to pursue the murderer, who himself was thought dead two years earlier.

Until his untimely death, Nena’s mentor was the backbone of the Tribe. With his leadership position unfilled and despite the Tribe’s newfound misgivings about her, Nena has stepped into a new role she never wanted. Politics is an entirely new venture for her, and now one of the Tribe’s own has been kidnapped, forcing her back to her origins as an assassin. But the only person qualified for such a rescue mission is Nena Knight—and a new team whose trust in her continues to waver.

To his many thousands of fans, ex-SAS officer Ben Hope stands tall as a hero, a warrior, a protector of the innocent, a defender of those in need, relentless in his pursuit of those who exploit or do evil to others. But Ben Hope is also a man with flaws and weaknesses that we can all recognise all too well. That’s what makes Ben Hope not only one of the best-liked thriller heroes of modern fiction, but the one that readers say they feel they know as though he were a real, living person and more than a character on a page.

A disgraced cop. A city still bleeding. A conspiracy that could bring America to its knees. Former NOPD officer Brandon Landry lost everything, exposing Mayor LaFontaine's corruption, his badge, his family, and his future. Now working graveyard security at the Port of New Orleans, he watches a ship dock in darkness. No manifest. No lights. Armed foreign operatives. What Brandon witnesses that night will pull him back into a world of political deception, international secrets, and deadly plots.

Former NSA Day Ingram has national security chops and now works as a technical analyst for Scorpion. He longs for fieldwork, and his opportunity comes as he's partnered with Knight, who is a real mystery. A former Marine, Knight crawled into a bottle after losing his family. After drying out, he’s offered one last chance. He and Day must stop a terrorist threat. They must infiltrate a terrorist camp and neutralize a plot aimed at America's technological infrastructure. If they hope to have a life after the mission, they must learn to trust and rely on each other.

Shrouded in a world of intrepid agents and fatal assassins, a fearless operative dares to escape his allegiance to the cause. When his renown rises after successfully orchestrating a string of daring train raids, Confederate scout Drouet Broussard is inducted into a covert league loyal to a lethal cause - the Knights of the Golden Circle. With war raging, Broussard’s assignments become successively bolder and involve him in the ultimate mission: A presidential assassination.

When former Vatican Knight Kimball Hayden seeks solitude in a remote South Dakota cabin, he stumbles upon a catastrophic threat that could ignite World War III. Russian operatives have stolen nuclear launch codes from a secret Black Hills facility and are hiding in a neighboring cabin with a dark server capable of hijacking American satellites.

In 2009, Russian soldiers carry out a genocide in the smaller reaches of Russia, especially those being shielded by the clerics of St. Catherine’s. Nearly two decades later, when the genocidal Russian general seeks sanctuary inside Vatican City, the Vatican Knights are given an order that tests everything they stand for: keep him alive. Kimball Hayden has spent years atoning for the sins of his past, trading the life of a government assassin for the cloth of a Vatican Knight.

In Paris, a delegate from Hezbollah’s March 8 Alliance is gunned down as he arrives at a summit to broker peace, with all blame placed on Israel. As the world teeters on the edge of war, an unseen force moves in the shadows—a Hamas cell with plans to turn a diplomatic crisis into an all-out catastrophe. When the Vatican Knights uncover a plot that threatens not just the summit but the very stability of the region, one man is sent into the depths of a conflict where alliances blur and enemies strike from the dark.

Shortly after the inauguration of a new President, there's an attack on the White House. Another country has crossed the line thinking they wouldn't be caught. The US intelligence services are good at their job, however. The evidence is clear and the war drums are beating. There's just one problem. The President doesn't believe them. He's suspicious that the United States is being mislead and lured into conflict. He quietly enlists DJ and his team to run their own investigation. What the off the books team discovers is a conspiracy that no one could suspect.

In France, a member of a secret guild is killed for the secrets he keeps. In Croatia, a stronghold is breached, and a treasure is stolen. At the Vatican, a corrupt pontiff views Kimball Hayden as a threat to his rule. When a Croatian stronghold is breached and scores are killed, a religious icon is stolen that contains a dark particle that’s powerful enough to either create worlds or destroy them. With a corrupt pontiff who sees Kimball Hayden as a threat to his power, Pope Clement XV mobilizes the Vatican Knight without his team to retrieve the dark particle.

Tribal and ethnic tensions are on the brink of erupting into full-blown conflict in the East African nation of Numbani. As one faction maintains a tenuous grip on power, another is desperate to overthrow it, aided by illegal arms pouring in from an unknown source. The secret arm of the CIA—Penumbra Division—sends their top operative, Adam Knight, to uncover the truth. Scarred by battles past, Knight faces the critical question: Does he still have what it takes to navigate the complex world of deception?

Before Kimball Hayden became a Vatican Knight, he was the commander of the Pieces of Eight, a kill squad that worked as part of a black-arm force of the CIA. He kills with impunity and acts with the cold fortitude of a machine. But when he begins to question the morality of his actions and the motives of his superiors, he is placed within the crosshairs by high-end principals who want to see him dead.

While traveling across the United States during the Papal Symposium, the papal plane, Shepherd One, is commandeered by a terrorist cell calling itself the Muslim Revolutionary Front. On board: a nuclear payload with half the yield that destroyed Hiroshima. Their demand to the US government: assassinate the five leading principals of Mossad.

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