Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met ...
A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal, domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism. From the battlefield of Vietnam via war-torn Serbia to the jungles of Central America, Avenger is packed with riveting detail, breathtaking action and political suspense, while in Cal Dexter we meet an unforgettable hero in the most dynamic Forsyth tradition.
Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels through the Panama Canal as a passenger on a tanker bound for Europe. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on her cello…'Apocalyptic is the first word that springs to mind to describe this violent and powerful novel in which Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination… impressive' 'Brilliantly crafted' 'Currents of dark wit swirl through Banks' writing, enriching its buoyancy… and, like Graham Greene, he can readily open the reader's senses to the «foreignness» of places' 'Extraordinary, brilliant, bloody'
n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal actA few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source — could be big, could be very big — in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing Cameron Colley, a fully-paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper.The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago — only to find that the police are ...
Agentenroman vom besten: Mitten im kalten Krieg wird George Smiley, ehemaliger Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes, aus dem Ruhestand zur?ckgeholt, um den f?hrenden Agenten der Gegenseite zu stellen. Dabei holt ihn auch die eigene Vergangenheit ein, hat doch gerade dieser Gegner ihm die gro?e Liebe seines Lebens genommen. Alte Freunde arbeiten auf der Suche wieder mit ihm, einer seiner fr?heren Helfer kommt tragisch ums Leben.Spannung bis zum Schlu?!
Iran, ostatnie dni szacha. Kilku pracownik?w ameryka?skiego koncernu trafia do wi?zienia w Teheranie. ?adne interwencje nie odnosz? skutku, a wobec chwilowego "bezkr?lewia" nie ma z kim pertraktowa?. Ross Perot, w?a?ciciel koncernu, postanawia na w?asn? r?k? odbi? wi??ni?w – zak?adnik?w. Jego ekipa, z?o?ona z pracownik?w sp??ki i jednego zawodowego komandosa, wkracza do akcji…
Rapp had traveled to New York City to decide the fate of a man. He had debated the wisdom of handling it himself. In addition to the inherent risk of getting caught, there was another, more pressing, problem. Just six days earlier a series of explosions had torn through Washington D.C., killing 185 and wounding hundreds. Three of the terrorists were still at large, and Rapp had been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary. So far, however, the investigation had been painfully complicated and had yet to yield a single solid lead. The three men had up and disappeared, which suggested a level of sophistication that few of them thought the enemy capable of. The last thing Rapp expected, though, was that he would still be dealing with this other issue. In light of the attacks in Washington, he thought the fool would have come to his senses.
Agentenroman vom besten: Mitten im kalten Krieg wird George Smiley, ehemaliger Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes, aus dem Ruhestand zur?ckgeholt, um den f?hrenden Agenten der Gegenseite zu stellen. Dabei holt ihn auch die eigene Vergangenheit ein, hat doch gerade dieser Gegner ihm die gro?e Liebe seines Lebens genommen. Alte Freunde arbeiten auf der Suche wieder mit ihm, einer seiner fr?heren Helfer kommt tragisch ums Leben.Spannung bis zum Schlu?!
Newspaper reporter Jack Flynn, last seen in McGrory's Dead Line (2004), investigates a series of contemporary murders that parallel the terrifying Boston Strangler slayings of the 1960s in the author's less than convincing fourth thriller. Somewhat improbably, Flynn must begin by probing the older case and the debate over whether the confessed strangler, Albert DeSalvo, was actually guilty. In the novel's reality, the senior Bay State senator isn't Ted Kennedy but a prosecutor who made his reputation on the DeSalvo case and who's among many in law enforcement discouraging Flynn from re-examining the official line that DeSalvo was the murderer. The sympathetic Flynn, with his train wreck of a private life, compensates for the author not probing more deeply serious questions about the real-life strangler case. Those seeking a rich, compelling look at the possible return of a serial killer would do better to turn to Peter Straub's Blue Rose and its sequels.
