Résultats pour "Vera" dans Espions et politique

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her...

A quiet system controls everything. Names. Addresses. Histories. Whether a person exists at all. Odette Valin works inside that system, creating identities for those who need to disappear. Until one day, the system begins finding them. Not by force. By pattern. As files are pulled before arrests and movements predicted before they happen, Odette realizes the truth: Someone is learning how she builds false lives. And using it against her. Now, to stay ahead, she must break her own methods—while protecting the people who depend on them.

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

Keine Toten mehr! Mit diesem Vorsatz kehrt Hauptkommissarin Judith Krieger nach Köln zurück. Als Chefin der Vermisstenfahndung, nicht mehr als Mordermittlerin. Vier Jahre lang hat sie auf dieses Ziel hingearbeitet. Doch gleich der erste Tag führt Judith zum Schauplatz eines grausamen Mordes in einem fensterlosen Keller. Hier ist ein seit Wochen spurlos verschwundener Mann qualvoll verdurstet. Die Jagd nach dem Täter bringt Judith an die Grenzen der Legalität und auf die Spur einer zweiten Vermissten. Ist die junge Kolumbianerin Inez ein weiteres Opfer oder eine eiskalte Rächerin?