Sara Tate, a Manhattan assistant DA is about to lose her job. But the case she nabs to secure her professional future is far more complicated – and deadly than it first appears. While forces within the DA’s office conspire against her, an outside threat looms larger: Win the case or her attorney husband, Jared, will die. Jared has his own motivations for winning. Strong-armed into defending the opposition, he learns that Sara will be killed should he lose the case. In court and at home, husband and wife go head to head while harboring the terrible secret of their motives. In a battle of roller coaster emotions and shocking betrayals, Jared and Sara must face the unthinkable truth: No matter who wins, one of them may die.
Si supiera que no ser? descubierto ?robar?a tres millones de d?lares?Charlie y Oliver Caruso son hermanos y trabajan en un banco privado tan exclusivo que se necesitan dos millones de d?lares para abrir una cuenta. All? descubren una cuenta abandonada, cuya existencia nadie conoce y que no pertenece a nadie, con tres millones de d?lares. Antes de que el estado se quede con el dinero deciden apropi?rselo, sin saber que algo que hacen para resolver su existencia estar? a punto de costarles la vida.
Sombra es el nombre en clave que el Servicio Secreto ha dado a Nora Hartson, la hija del Presidente de Estados Unidos, una de las mujeres m?s vigiladas del mundo. Michael Garrick, un joven abogado del Departamento de Presidencia, empieza a salir con Nora sin tener en cuenta que ella tambi?n es Sombra y que mil ojos se posan sobre ambos. Una noche presencian algo que no deber?an haber visto y quedan atrapados en una trama secreta urdida por alguien muy poderoso. Ambos j?venes se convierten en un estorbo para quienes han hecho de la corrupci?n pol?tica el medio habitual para conseguir sus fines.
JFK Jr. was Lark. Amy Carter was Dynamo. Chelsea Clinton was Energy. Meet Shadow. "Shadow" is the Secret Service codename for the First Daughter, Nora Hartson. And when she starts dating young White House lawyer Michael Garrick, he starts feeling like the First Counsel. That's what happens to everyone who lives in her world. It's a world all of us have heard about, but none of us truly know – a world where your dad's the President, your close friends wear earpieces and carry guns and a world where everyone is watching. On a date, Nora and Michael see something they shouldn't. To protect her, he admits to something he shouldn't. And when the problem snowballs out of control, she may have to do something she shouldn't. The First Counsel. The President's Daughter.
Two brothers, one an executive at a bank and the other in an entry-level position, hatch a plot to steal three million dollars. Using a sophisticated computer program, they plan to transfer the money into an account only they can access. But after the transaction has been completed, they quickly realize that rather than three million dollars, they stole three hundred million. The secret service are called in to investigate and Charlie and Oliver soon find themselves on the run not only from the law, but from the people they stole the money from. Using technology to alter their identity and conceal their personal records, the people hunting them down use the same technology to track their whereabouts. It’s a high-speed game of cat and mouse, filled with twists and turns that are sure to have readers racing to the last page.
A Washington-based thriller about four ambitious twenty-something housemates, fresh out of college and eager to make their mark in their careers. When one of them, Ben Addison, is tricked into leaking a Supreme Court decision on a corporate merger in advance, he lands them all in big trouble.
Set on Capitol Hill, this is the story of Sandler Harris, a young man who, over the course of the decade, has worked as a Congressional staffer and seen his idealism and initial zeal for the job fade into a sense of disillusionment. To relieve his boredom and growing lack of enthusiasm, Sandler and another staffer, who is similarly jaded, are pulled into a seemingly harmless but clandestine game that involves betting on small bills being introduced into Congress. Those who play the game are kept in the dark about those whom they are betting against. It all seems ...
