Résultats pour "death" dans Politique

When fifteen-year-old Trayvon Clapper is murdered by a guard at Camp B in Florida, his fringe-living mother and boyfriend come to Bergman-Deketomis to file a lawsuit against the facility. Details of the case trigger in Deke memories of his own troubled childhood. As a boy, Deke had no stable parents around him, so he lived with several different families over the years as he grew up, avoiding the foster care system. However, his best friend, Bucky, was not so fortunate.

This is the Story of Five Marriages and One Gun A British couple wonders at the unknowable city beyond their guarded compound while building walls between themselves. An American suspects his new home is having an insidious effect on his Zimbabwean wife and their young daughter. An enthusiastic...

Christmas Eve, 2059 in Nashville—a breakfast diner table overflows with coffee mugs, biscuit crumbs, and a crayon-sketched paper tablecloth. Seated around it: two lawmakers, a marine, a hunter, and a tech trillionaire. Their mission: rescue innocent loved ones caught in the crosshairs of a diabolical plan for extortion.

Smug tyrants. Battered heroes. With an insider thwarting their every move, can these resourceful special operatives defend democracy? Josh Kavanaugh refuses to give up. After surviving severe injuries trying to protect a lover, the determined former military man vows to find the people responsible and deliver payback. But with a mole in his group of contractors and corruption running deep, any operation could prove deadly.

Death of a Perm Sec is a mystery about the demise of the permanent-secretary of the housing ministry, Chow Sze Teck, accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes over his career. Set in 1980's Singapore, the novel examines the civil servant's death, which first appears to be suicide by a...

In a tale that spans two disparate worlds within one city, this gripping novel dives deep into the divide between the glistening capital of the Free World and its neglected districts, home to 700,000 citizens mostly of color. Eight years after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sparked riots that shattered the city’s core, the scars of racial fury and systemic injustice remain as evident as ever.

A bold Russian aggression. A staggering breakthrough in artificial intelligence. An otherworldly existential threat. It’s a rare fight that’s too big for war hero-turned-senator Percy Mackenzie, whose ambitions have rendered him alone. Now he must play his part and hope the people he’s left behind will do the rest.

"Death of a Union" is a gripping geopolitical thriller set against the tumultuous backdrop of the UK's infamous 1984 miners' strike. George McDonald is a union leader, on the verge of exposing staggering corruption within Arthur Scargill's National Union of Miners, where millions have vanished. However, sinister forces, including a shadowy KGB agent and fellow union leaders, conspire against him, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown.

At the Central Criminal Court, an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, an active participant in the Resistance during the war. She is now employed at the Family Hotel in Soho, where Major Eric Thoseby has been found murdered. Thoseby is believed to have fathered Lamartine's child, and the prosecution insist that his death is revenge for his abandonment of Lamartine and her arrest by the Gestapo. A last-minute change in Lamartine's defence counsel grants solicitor Nap Rumbold just eight days to prove her innocence.

Argentina, 1988. Human remains are found on a beach - a gruesome echo of when the tide brought home dozens of bodies thrown from planes during Argentina's Dirty War. Flights of death, their passengers known as the Disappeared. International Tribune reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing families of the missing, desperate to keep their memory alive, when the corpse turns up. His investigations with his companion, freelance photographer Paloma, have barely started when Argentina's simmering financial crisis explodes around them.

"If it's actionable, we act." That's the motto of the clandestine government organization that Connor Sloane works for, and he's called into action when an assassin attempts to remove several of Europe's political leaders. Things take an unexpected turn when the president's brother, a nuclear weapons expert, is reported missing somewhere in central Africa.

When power and politics collide, trust no one. In the heart of Calgary, a controversial tax proposal isn't just stirring debate—it's igniting threats, intimidation, and . . . murder. Mayor Priscilla Byrnes, committed to the city she loves, finds herself ensnared in a shadowy political conspiracy that threatens to tear her world apart. When forensic accountant Cynthia Webber takes on a tax client as a favour, she becomes embroiled in Calgary’s politics, thrust into a whirlwind of treachery and deception.

The Secret Service can stop terrorists, psychos, and garden variety murderers. But not a widow bent on revenge. It falls to Washington insider David Kelly, a "bird on the ledge", to put the pieces together before it's too late: a president's nefarious agenda...an assassin with issues...and a certain redhead with freckles across the bridge of her nose and legs to there.... But no one, least of all Kelly, can imagine the tenacity and ingenuity of those at work. No one is prepared for the dark agenda under it all.

When John Mordred leaves MI7, marries the woman he loves, and settles down to a relatively humdrum lifestyle, it ought to be a brave new start. But he and his wife have formerly been top-level spies, and they find the readjustment harder than they anticipated. When - courtesy of a friend, and apparently out of the blue - they’re offered an all-expenses-paid holiday in Malta, it seems the answer to both their prayers. Sunshine, relaxation, and romance. Just what the doctor ordered.

With an evenly-divided US Senate, the stakes are high for the nation's political power brokers. The leader of one party decides to change the numbers by arranging the elimination of one of the other party's senators. As the senator's death sends shock waves through the nation's capital, federal prosecutor Jeff Trask and a team of FBI agents and police officers must solve not only the senator's homicide, but the murder of one witness and the attempted murder of another.

The end of privacy as we know it? Kathy Kelver nearly trips over a murder victim on her way back to her dorm room late one night. In his last words, the dying man gives her stolen data about a secret project that could blow the lid off a shocking conspiracy. From the halls of Congress to the National Security Agency and beyond, Kathy must run for her life from shadowy forces who want her dead, while trying to build a relationship and hang on to her faith.

The main event is manslaughter. Someone wanted to overthrow the government of San Sebastian, a country whose tiny army, nonaligned status, and location on the deadly curve of Central America made it ripe for subversion. The first try was an attempted hit on its president on a crowded street in...

Life has never been better for Mark Sava, the former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan. He's recently married, has a newborn daughter, and the launch of his spies-for-hire business in Central Asia has been a great success. Then he gets a call from the US Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia - one his employees, seventy-two-year-old Larry Bowlan, has died of a heart attack.

COMING SOON! The Revenge of Odessa: The long-awaited sequel to the genre-defining classic thriller The Odessa File, written by Frederick Forsyth in collaboration with Tony Kent. 'Gripping' - IAN RANKIN The RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK that sends pulses pounding, Marked for Death will grip fans...

Two decades ago, the United States invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to fumigate a rat's nest of international terrorists. And then it left. Now the Taliban are teetering on the edge of a fresh civil war, and a new breed of militants is growing out of the fertile ground of chaos. One group makes the Taliban regime look like kindergarten teachers by comparison. It's known as Islamic State Khorasan. Brutal, violent, and bent on using the failed state of Afghanistan as a launching pad for global mayhem.