Résultats pour "shanghai" dans Policier

When a suspicious algorithm embedded in China’s digital infrastructure trips a silent alert across the global intelligence grid, Alex Cárdenas—a retired CIA NOC operative turned private intelligence leader—is thrust back into the shadows he thought he’d escaped. What appears to be a rogue cyber event is, in fact, the opening salvo in a calculated plan to destabilize the world economy, pit superpowers against one another, and ignite a new world order.

Dan Roy, ex Black Ops legend, is becoming a new legend in the infamous blood fight tournament called Kumite in Hong Kong. He is carving himself a new life, when disaster strikes his loved ones back home. He gets a phone call, and he cannot deny Kimberly Smith's plea for help. Not only is Kim's life endangered, the rumbles of discontent have reached the White House. A devastating secret lurks inside the glamorous night life of Shanghai. Political interests are involved, and soon Dan finds himself in a ruthless and twisted struggle for survival.

In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, Jo sets out to prove herself as a girl reporter. Following the trail of a missing maid, she finds her newspaper’s publisher dead. Left in charge of the paper, she discovers danger is a lot closer than she thinks.

Chris Collins is an ex-CIA agent with a history of rogue missions. His enemies took away everything he had, and now it's time to pay. He knows his adversaries will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in their way - including himself. But they move in the shadows, and smoking them out means taking himself to some dark places.

Just when Kincaid Strange thinks her life is back on track and she's finally put her time as a paranormal practitioner with the Seattle PD to rest, her ex (and Seattle cop) Aaron asks her for help with yet another strange and ominous case. Martin Dane, the White Picket Fence Serial Killer who terrorized West Coast families living the suburban American dream, appears to be back at it with a fresh murder in Portland. There's only one problem: Dane has been dead for three weeks.

Vor einer Woche hat C.F. Wong eine Zweigstelle in Shanghai eröffnet. Hier hofft er mit Fengshui-Beratungen leichtes Geld zu verdienen und die schönen Dinge des Lebens zu genießen; wie zum Beispiel ein exklusives Menü lebend zubereiteter Spezialitäten im angesagtesten Club der Stadt. Doch vegane Aktivisten sprengen das Dinner. Der Fengshui-Meister und seine Assistentin Joyce McQuinnie geraten mitten in die Vorbereitungen eines Anschlags auf den amerikanischen Präsidenten. Wong bleibt kleine Wahl: Er muss Shanghai und die Welt retten.

In Edward Whittemore’s masterful and surreal alternate history, a man’s search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past, from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Quin, born in China and raised in the Bronx, is orphaned in the closing days of the Second World War when his parents go missing and are presumed dead in Shanghai.

Holmes erwacht in der Drachenhöhle von Chiu Chung. Im Wahn taumelt er umher. Er weiß nicht, wie er hierhergekommen ist. Als Lestrade mit seinen Leuten zur Tür hereinstürmt, sieht er den Meisterdetektiv mit einer Waffe in der Hand neben einer Leiche stehen. Noch ahnt keiner der beiden Ermittler, dass sie Teil eines perfiden Spiels sind.

Dusky derring-doer and Korean War jet jockey Lieutenant Rufus "Rocket" Crockett has thwarted a plot to flood America with a new species of heroin. But he has offended a terrifying, irresistible enemy: the Shanghai She-Devil. Her recompense? His flesh, his very soul. In this homage to 1950s pulp, our hero battles gangsters on the streets of Harlem, assassins in the High Sierras, and MiGs in the skies over the South China Sea toward his showdown with an ancient evil!

This collection gathers the finest pieces from the "Appreciation of Foreign Literature" column. It includes works by influential contemporary writers from countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, and Japan, with a focus on the United States and Japan.

Weil Hongkong eine Filmstadt ist, hat sie auch ihre Stars. Und Ai Wu ist der größte...

Shanghai, 1936. A series of assassinations of Japanese businessmen, sailors, and officials has struck fear into the International Settlement, and the Chinese government is blaming communist insurgents. Doug Bainbridge is soon pulled into the political intrigue. When a friend of Doug's is arrested for the assassination of a Japanese secret agent, Doug is certain she didn't do it. Since Chinese officials don't seem to care about Wong Mei-ling's actual guilt or innocence, Doug and his girlfriend Lucy Kinzler take it upon themselves to find proof of the real killers.

The Jade Dragon will take you on a journey to old Shanghai, where danger, excitement, and romance exist side by side. In 1935, Shanghai is the place to be. Glittering nightlife, bustling business, and a diverse international community are just some of the appeals of the "Paris of the Orient". Douglas Bainbridge, Office of Naval Intelligence, is beginning a two-year immersion in Shanghai when he runs into Tim McIntyre, a childhood friend from San Francisco. Tim is a reporter for the Associated Press, and he offers to show Doug the local nightlife.