Résultats pour "Tell" dans Politique

At the end of The Prodigal Daughter, Florentyna Kane is elected president—the first woman president of the United States. At 7.30 one evening the FBI learn of a plot to kill her—the 1572nd such threat of the year. At 8.30 five people know all the details. By 9.30 four of them are dead. FBI agent Mark Andrews alone knows when. He also knows that a senator is involved. He has six days to learn where—and how. Six days to prevent certain death of the President.

Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer keeps the pace sizzling in this final installment in the Kane and Abel trilogy, Shall We Tell the President?, a daring political thriller where treason and betrayal threaten to topple an American dynasty. After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy...

When five people die from tainted pain medication, Governor Duncan Cochrane must lead the investigation. The clues quickly point to sabotage, threatening all the citizens of Chicago. Meanwhile, his son’s drunken confession leaks to a journalist with an agenda. To protect his reputation and his family, Duncan keeps the boy by his side, yet he also needs to campaign for reelection. Can he manage all three without sacrificing his family or his office?

Two years have passed since the murder of Duncan Cochrane’s daughter. As governor, he now holds the power to punish all criminals, yet he cannot prosecute her killer without destroying his political career. Then two new threats emerge: A sniper begins targeting people in Chicago’s most notorious housing project, Cabrini Green, and a blackmailer plans to reveal his ruinous family secret. He moves into the tenements and begins parallel manhunts for both enemies.

Duncan Cochrane quit politics to escape the sins of his past, but two years later, he's pulled back in to protect his imprisoned son, and a death row inmate who just might be innocent. To do so, he must find new sources of power and new ways to inspire the voters who turned on him.

Duncan Cochrane is set on being the next governor of Illinois until his daughter is murdered six weeks before the election. Then the candidate can only focus on finding her killer. As the police investigation follows a trio of unlikely leads, Duncan realizes that his best shot at justice is the bully pulpit of the campaign trail, so he returns to the race and makes crime-fighting his mantra. Soon he discovers that his own ambitions may have caused her death, yet by then he knows that he must win the election or risk political and personal failure.

Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI investigates 1000s of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy - in less than one week?

Marosa Vega, una talentosa y hábil periodista que fue despedida por su inquebrantable compromiso con la verdad, acepta un encargo muy especial de un antiguo compañero. Salva Lamas le pide ayuda para destapar un caso de corrupción política que afecta al presidente de la Xunta de Galicia y que está dejando un reguero de víctimas.

Gerade aus der Elternzeit zurück und wieder im Team des schwedischen Sondereinsatzkommandos, muss Kommissarin Amanda Lund zu einer Mission auf dem Balkan. Ein schwedischer Polizist ist dort verschwunden. Er wurde entführt. Amanda, die bereits in der Region im Einsatz war, übernimmt die Verhandlungen im Kosovo. Zur gleichen Zeit untersuchen Amandas Stockholmer Kollegen den Hintergrund des Entführungsopfers. Was hat den Polizisten zur Zielscheibe gemacht? Schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass es um weit mehr geht als um schnell erbeutetes Geld. Die Gründe sind persönlicher.

Die schwedische Polizeiausbilderin und Verhandlungsführerin Amanda Lund ist für ein Jahr in Afghanistan stationiert, sie soll die Sicherheitskräfte vor Ort schulen. Gerade erst hat die 35-Jährige einen Angriff der Taliban überlebt, da erhält sie einen neuen heiklen Auftrag: In Kabul wurden zwei Diplomaten der schwedischen Botschaft entführt, Amanda soll als Unterhändlerin fungieren. Der Druck ist immens, denn in Schweden erwartet man afghanischen Staatsbesuch.

Después de años de mucho sacrificio y de hondas tragedias personales, Florentina Kane se ha convertido en la primera presidenta de Estados Unidos. Y justo el día de su toma de protesta, fuerzas secretas tienen todo listo para asesinarla.

In our near-future, the eccentric tech billionaire Jamin Lake reveals an innovation that could save our broken and divided nation: Algo, an A.I. candidate for president. It is heralded as an efficient, rational, and seemingly incorruptible leader, underpinned by the brainpower of a million minds. Jamin vows the A.I. has been programmed to follow only a single benevolent mantra: to deliver “the most good for the most people”. In a nation mired in seemingly endless crisis and division, it feels like a real chance for a better future.

Tehran was well known to American businessman Jack Devlin until the day everything changed. When radical Islamic students stormed the US embassy on November 4, 1979, Jack narrowly escaped the revolutionary chaos, leaving behind 80 percent of his business and 100 percent of his heart. To get his beautiful girlfriend, Farideh, out of Iran, Jack accepts a devil’s bargain with the CIA and MI6. He must slip back into Tehran, where the militant students are holding dozens of Americans hostage in their own embassy.

When Geoffrey Tate, one of the world’s richest individuals and the CEO of Yukon, the country’s preeminent artificial intelligence company, is shot and killed by his young trophy wife, it’s going to grab headlines. And seasoned Newshound reporter Nik Byron intends to be the one generating them. But Nik’s investigation quickly leads him down a treacherous path he didn’t foresee.