Résultats pour "Simone" dans Politique

In diesem Roman schlägt Lion Feuchtwanger eine Brücke zwischen Jeanne d'Arc, der Retterin Frankreichs, und einer Fünfzehnjährigen in dem von Deutschen besetzten Land. Madame betrachtet Simone durch ihr Lorgnon. Ihr Gesicht verrät, was ihr Mund gleich sprechen wird: ​"Hochmütig, aufsässig, vorwitzig.​"​ Simone hat sich wieder einmal eingemischt in die Geschäfte ihrer Verwandten. Es ist passiert, nachdem sie Schriften über das Leben Jeanne d'Arcs gelesen hat. Das tut sie oft, abends, vor dem Einschlafen. Diesmal aber ist Merkwürdiges geschehen.

It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice-president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national-security conference has just been held, bringing together the world's greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It's American politicking at its best. That's when all hell breaks loose.

For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians becomes increasingly clear. He is given his next target: a plump Libyan diplomat who is prone to drink and is currently in Paris without a single bodyguard. Rapp finds him completely unprotected and asleep in his bed. With confidence in his well-honed skills and conviction of the man’s guilt, he easily sends a bullet into the man’s skull. But in the split second it takes the bullet to leave the silenced pistol, everything changes.

Mitch Rapp—the “mainstay of the modern techno-thriller” (New York Journal of Books)—returns in this exhilarating political thriller as he fights for the sake of his country and the pursuit of honor. Less than a week after a series of deadly explosions devastated Washington, DC, key...

2007 Audie Award Finalist for...

“In the world of black-op thrillers, Mitch Rapp continues to be among the best of the best” (Booklist, starred review), and he returns in the #1 New York Times bestselling series alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America’s closest allies. After 9/11, the United...