Résultats pour "Paradise City" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

Deutschland in der Zukunft. Die Küsten sind überschwemmt, weite Teile des Landes sind entvölkert, und die Natur erobert sich verlassene Ortschaften zurück. Berlin ist nur noch eine Kulisse für Touristen. Regierungssitz ist Frankfurt, das mit dem gesamten Rhein-Main-Gebiet zu einer einzigen Megacity verschmolzen ist. Dort, wo es eine Infrastruktur gibt, funktioniert sie einwandfrei. Nahezu das gesamte Leben wird von Algorithmen gesteuert. Allen geht es gut - solange sie keine Fragen stellen.

Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Someone, in addition to flatscreens, computers, and stereos, has also been stealing antiques and jewelry. Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman surprises some thieves in her Beacon Hill home and is viciously murdered. The Boston police find that not only is the loot similar to what's being stolen in Vermont, but it may have the same destination.

Young lawyer Ed Davis sits in his boss' fancy office, sure he is about to be fired. After two years of gradually slipping into addiction, he has finally hit bottom, and pretty much knows it. Instead though, Ed is offered a mission to an exotic island and a promise of redemption. Find fugitive gambler Orleans Moss and save his career? Seems easy enough. But Ed's personal ghosts follow him to remote Panglao island, where nothing, including himself, is what it seems.

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coast. Surfer's Paradise: a seaside city where gleaming high rises fringe sparkling surf beaches, sunny days lead to wild nights, and criminals and bikie gangs mingle with tourists and dignitaries at five star hotels, clubs and casinos. Before long, Walker is part of a team trying to solve a horrific home invasion and murder that has claimed the life of a young mother and left her nine-year-old daughter fighting to survive. Can he help them find the perpetrators, and keep the young girl safe?

Running away and becoming someone new would be far easier if the demons of my past didn't insist on showing up at my doorstep. Turns out that leaving an evil Russian Bratva leader at the altar after helping stage his assassination only pissed him off and made me a target. I tried blending, but hiding in the shadows under a fake alias is no longer enough. It should have been easy to keep my distance from the MC member burdened with protecting me. He is just as averse to commitment as I am, yet he's been the only person ever to see me, even through all the smoke and mirrors I keep between us.

Cape Town is an unlikely setting for Islamic terror, but in Bo-Kaap, the city's peaceful Muslim enclave, Imam Rauf preaches a theology of austerity, obedience, and sacrifice. When the multi-billionaire Goldwyn family settles in the Western Cape, they learn firsthand the implications of a radical imam's preaching. Cultures collide in the wake of a family crisis as the Goldwyns face off with an insidious form of jihad that has long existed but always been ignored.

Nachdem Daniel im ersten Teil erfahren hat, wie er wiedergeboren wurde und seinen eigenen Mörder ermittelt hat, birgt eine Reise nach Linz tödliche Gefahren! "Rebirth 2.0 ...willkommen in Paradise City"!: Daniel Jones weiß mehr über Leben und Tod als ihm lieb ist, und gerade als er mit sich und mit seiner Seele im Reinen ist, bringt eine Einladung nach Europa ihn und seine Freundin in äußerste Gefahr. Wenn es um Milliarden-Erträge geht, werden Freunde schnell zu Feinden und eine Urlaubsreise leicht zum Alptraum.