Showing results for "Assassin" in Crime Fiction

From his plush hideaway in Bangkok, underworld don Shakti Pillai is wreaking havoc amongst India’s wealthy. He wields modern technology to extract information and extort money from billionaires while continuing to take on contract killings for anyone who can afford his price. Fed up with the police force’s inability to stop the don, some of India’s biggest business magnates pool in their crores and hire a mercenary to get rid of him. They recruit the best in the game, an assassin known only as Venus.

Former FARC revolutionary Sofia Lozano has become the world’s most cunning assassin, and now she’s selling her services to the highest bidder. But when the CIA learns that Sofia’s newest client is an international terrorist syndicate with plans to kill countless civilians, her name is placed on David Rivers’ kill list. As David and his team track the elusive operative from Colombia’s triple canopy jungles to its Pacific mangrove swamps, his team stumbles onto a larger conspiracy: a narco-sub loaded with cocaine and evidence of a terrorist attack-in-progress.

A political assasin is ready to make his move. The police department's only clue is a single, perfectly typed bomb threat. And worse yet, the police aren't sure they can trust their own people. In a few short days, the corruption of one cop--and the madness of an assasin--could blow the whole...

Meet Harry, aspiring tech entrepreneur. He’s a would-be Steve Jobs trapped in a cubicle gig at an angel investor firm, so close and yet so far from his dreams. His marriage is foundering, his career is stalled out, and all he wants is to create an app like Uber, or Tinder, something to make real change in the world, and change his own life forever. Now meet Peter, a deeply troubled computer genius who lives in a basement apartment, chugging red wine, nursing old grudges and writing code. When Harry meets Peter, it’s both of their lives that will change, when they invent an app for murder.

A hit woman’s work doesn’t stop for the holidays. As the advent calendar winds down, Paige slips into a palatial house, ignoring a blizzard of texts from her ex-husband. No surprise—Julian always gets maudlin this time of year. The real shock comes when the target is not alone. His young daughter is there too.

London is gripped by the bloodiest outbreak of gang warfare ever seen. Shootings in the street, kidnappings, bombs and car chases have become commonplace. The gutters are running red with blood and the Police are powerless to stop it. Frank Harrison had ruled gangland unopposed for more than two years and yet someone is out to wipe him and his men from the face of the earth. Who and why? The answer, when it comes, will test not just Harrison's courage but his sanity too.

Les Germanes Quintana tornen disposades a carregar-se qui se'ls posi al davant. Deu sicàries literàries amb una llarga experiència en l'ofici i que són, curiosament, germanes, van rebre, fa alguns mesos, un encàrrec al qual no es van poder negar: cada una d'elles havia de perpetrar un assassinat literari, basat en experiències pròpies o imaginades. Algunes de les nostres assassines han estat delicades, d'altres brutals, d'altres no se n'han sortit o se n'han sortit massa, n'hi ha que ho han fet soles i n'hi ha que han muntat un equip, però, sigui com sigui, totes han imaginat assassinats.

Nell’Inghilterra degli anni Trenta, nella sua antica e nobile magione di campagna, Adrian Gray riunisce i suoi sei figli. Ogni anno, in occasione del periodo natalizio, Adrian Gray e i suoi sei figli si ritrovano nella sua magione di gentiluomo di campagna. Nessuno dei figli sembra intrattenere buoni rapporti con il padre e tutti covano segretamente qualche motivo per volerne la morte. Così la mattina di Natale, quando al tavolo della colazione la sedia del padre resta vuota, nessuno di loro appare dispiaciuto. Un capolavoro poliziesco dell’età d’oro del giallo inglese.

When I gave up life as a hitman, I thought everything was going to be better. I was going to become a PI, help people, and live normally…and then I met Jeremy, the most perfect man to have ever saved my life (I mean, he might be the only one who has saved my life, but he’s still the best at it). From that point on, it was all over for me - I knew we were meant to be. The issue is that he doesn’t…quite seem to realize that. But when he’s targeted by criminals (literally, someone just shot at his head), he needs to rely on someone, so why not me?

Diciotto passeggeri. Sette fermate. Un delitto. Un grande giallo. È la vigilia di Natale, e un treno diretto da Londra alle Highlands, tra le impervie montagne scozzesi dal paesaggio mozzafiato, deraglia all'improvviso poco dopo Edimburgo, rovinando i piani per le feste delle persone a bordo. Con il convoglio bloccato da una terribile tempesta di neve nel bel mezzo del nulla, un assassino si aggira indisturbato per le carrozze: il mattino seguente uno dei passeggeri viene ritrovato senza vita.

Set during the dark days of World War II, Agatha Christie’s N or M? puts two most unlikely espionage agents, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, on the trail of a pair of Nazi spies who have murdered Britain’s top agent. World War II is raging, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at...

Nel 1888 cinque donne vennero barbaramente uccise nel quartiere londinese di Whitechapel. L'oscuro autore di quei crimini è passato alla storia - e alla leggenda - come Jack lo Squartatore.Dopo più di cent'anni la sua identità è stata svelata. Non da uno storico né da un investigatore, ma da una scrittrice. Utilizzando le più sofisticate tecnologie del XXI secolo, unite alla sua straordinaria intuizione e conoscenza criminologica, Patricia Cornwell ha risolto un enigma che si credeva indecifrabile. Dando finalmente un volto e un nome al più famoso serial killer di sempre.

Negli anni Venti la popolazione più ricca d’America erano gli indiani Osage dell’Oklahoma: nel momento in cui gli idrocarburi stavano per diventare la risorsa più importante del pianeta, sotto il loro suolo furono trovati enormi giacimenti. Giravano in auto di lusso, vivevano in case faraoniche, mandavano i figli a studiare nelle migliori scuole d’Europa. Poi, a uno a uno, iniziarono a morire ammazzati. Sparati, avvelenati, vittime di agguati e imboscate, sempre in circostanze misteriose.

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero" (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Thumbing across the scorched west Texas desert, loner Jack Reacher has nowhere to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is pretty...

Each year, a down-and-out America looks to the Gauntlet games for sheer spectacle and - for one lucky state - a better chance at survival. In 2023, former-police-detective-turned-paramedic Lara Evans is poised to enter the punishing endurance competition, determined to bring glory and a major economic boost back home to Oregon. But treacherous tests of physical and mental prowess - and a pack of cutthroat rivals - are far from the greatest obstacles Lara faces. Saving a hit man’s victim has made her a target, and the murder of a fellow contestant has branded her a suspect.

Irene ha ucciso, forse. Ne è convinto il tribunale che l’ha condannata a quindici anni di detenzione, ne era convinta l’opinione pubblica anche prima che la sentenza venisse pronunciata, e persino lei si ritiene colpevole benché la sua memoria di quel giorno sia molto sfocata. Del resto Irene aveva il migliore dei moventi, dato che la ‘vittima’, se così si può chiamare, era l’assassino di Giulio, suo figlio. Caso chiuso. Ora, scontata l’intera pena, la donna è di nuovo libera e può provare a ricostruirsi una vita nella sua città, Genova.

Lilah's enemies love to taunt her. For some reason, they don't seem to understand how much such things amuse her. For the first time, she faces an opponent just as cold, and highly calculated. Lilah. Ghost. A battle between killers.

Depuis des millénaires, deux organisations de tueurs s’affrontent dans l’ombre : les Sphinx et les Assassines. Le temps du dernier combat est venu... Arrivée en Égypte, sous le nom d’Elisie Ross, Amytis étudie l’archéologie le jour et traque les Sphinx la nuit.

Rien de tel qu'un séjour au Mitchell's Inn pour se refaire une santé... Le Mitchell's Inn est un hôtel de charme perdu au cœur de la forêt. Ses pensionnaires croient avoir choisi la destination idéale pour se détendre au coin du feu, loin de la frénésie new-yorkaise. Là-bas, pas de portables ni d'Internet. Mais la tempête fait rage et, après une coupure d'électricité, on découvre Dana, venue pour une escapade romantique avec son fiancé, morte au pied de l'escalier. Chute accidentelle ? Drame conjugal ?