Showing results for "Espionage" in Psychological

Determined to escape the iron shackles of the Twelve, Eve and Oxana are trying something new. Something risky, even for them. They're going freelance. Their first client, sent their way by MI5, is Majid Ismailov. An international power player and an important friend to Britain, Majid is also a passionate racehorse owner with his eye on the racing calendar's most fiercely contested prize - the Prix de Arc de Triomphe, run annually in Paris.

Gabon, 2012. Un mystérieux jet privé atterrit discrètement au sud du pays. Trois ans auparavant, Emma Marsiac, espionne du Mossad, disparaît dans le chaos d'un attentat à Bagdad. Son agent traitant, Julien, est renvoyé à Paris où il retrouve Gabriel, le mari d'Emma, récemment propulsé au cœur d'un scandale politico-financier en tant que directeur adjoint de l'hôpital de Mercœur. Lorsque le directeur général de l'établissement est découvert défenestré, Gabriel est introuvable. Julien soupçonne un lien entre ces événements et l'attaque de Bagdad.

Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King -- a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale. May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage...

Ex-intelligence agent James Ryker has done many things in the past he’d prefer to forget. The last time he saw Gregor Minko - son to one of Ukraine’s most dangerous and politically influential arms dealers – Gregor was a scared 6-year-old boy in need of protection. But Ryker had to walk away. The boy wasn’t the mission. Twenty years on Ryker is approached by two strangers in Antibes, France, asking for his help in finding Gregor – now going by the name of Gregor Rebrov. With a back catalogue of ‘crimes against the Russian state’, Gregor has escaped from a gulag in Siberia.

Da Alice og Leo flytter ind i et nyistandsat hus i The Circle, et indhegnet kvarter med eksklusive huse, er det svaret på alle deres drømme. Men alting er ikke, som det ser ud... Efterhånden som Alice lærer sine naboer at kende, opdager hun en frygtelig og uhyggelig hemmelighed om sit nye hjem og begynder at føle en stærk forbindelse med Nina, den terapeut, der tidligere boede der. Alice bliver besat af at prøve at afdække, hvad der skete to år tidligere. Men ingen har lyst til at tale om det. Hendes naboer har hemmeligheder, og det hele er ikke så perfekt, som det ser ud...

The New York Times bestselling "master" (Stephen King) of American thriller writing returns with an electrifying new novel about a mother seeking to reconnect with her children after a terrible trial tears their family apart. Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was...

Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn’t know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. But now Spencer is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can’t fully remember.

Fans of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler and Scott Mariani will love this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat international thriller from the pen of prizewinning author Tom Harper. It has everything you could want: great plot, great pace, great suspense and a great twist... 'In the tradition of The Da Vinci...

Ian Kelly rents a cottage on the water to pull him and Samantha away from the heat. Now, he's hearing rumors that his landlord, Walter Ponce, may have chained a man to the riverbed.

"Lauf!", fleht ihre große Schwester Samantha. Mit vorgehaltener Waffe treiben zwei maskierte Männer Charlotte und sie an den Waldrand. "Lauf weg!" Und Charlie läuft. An diesem Tag. Und danach ihr ganzes Leben. Sie ist getrieben von den Erinnerungen an jene grauenvolle Attacke in ihrer Kindheit. Die blutigen Knochen ihrer erschossenen Mutter. Die Todesangst ihrer Schwester. Das Keuchen ihres Verfolgers.

Mark Strain had it all - beautiful wife, a baby on the way, and a skyrocketing career as a D.C. lobbyist. But when Mark is violently abducted from his home by masked men, everything he knows is turned upside down. They say Mark committed treason. They say he's a traitor to the United States. They say he's a spy.

Katharine Lawrence has no idea what hit her. The attack came out of nowhere. Only hours earlier she had been enjoying a girls-only weekend with an old college friend. Now she finds herself lying bound and gagged on her kitchen floor, staring with terrified eyes at her friend Lisa while two masked gunmen search her house for - what? She doesn't know. She knows only that, unless they can escape, whatever it is they are searching for could end up getting both her and Lisa killed.

Zehn Jahre ist es her, seit ihre Mutter ermordet wurde. Wie immer verbringt Gwen den Todestag mit ihrem Vater. Danach reist er geschäftlich nach Paris. Tags darauf stehen zwei Unbekannte vor Gwens Tür und erzählen eine unglaubliche Geschichte: Ihr Vater ist eigentlich CIA-Agent. Und bei einem Einsatz spurlos verschwunden. Wurde er entführt? Wollte er dem Geheimdienst den Rücken kehren? Die CIA stellt die Ermittlungen rasch ein. Gwen hat eine einzige Spur: Den Namen eines Kontaktmanns in Paris. Von dort führt ihr Weg zu einem internationalen Netzwerk aus Waffenschiebern, Drogendealern und Menschenhändlern. Und Gwen erkennt: Wenn sie in dieser Welt überleben will, muss sie so hart und grausam werden wie die, die ihren Vater in ihrer Gewalt haben.

Max Emerson is rich and powerful: a patron of the arts and the owner of a multinational business. But Max's business is money laundering, and, for the first time in his fortunate life, he's in trouble. Hackers are targeting his company. The FBI is pressuring him to betray one of his crooked clients. And a dark secret from his own past looks in danger of resurfacing.

When a teenager is shot dead after chasing a criminal in the street, investigating journalist Cynthia Bonsant is led to the popular social media platform Freemee, a competitor to Facebook whose lifestyle app claims to give you everything you need to succeed in life. But there is someone who warns against its evils: Zero, the world’s most-wanted activist, known for exposing the toxic truths behind social media giants and their pursuit of total control.

Black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro may be one concussion away from death. But when pirates seize the cargo ship she’s on, she must decide whether to risk her life to save her fellow passengers. Sentro’s training takes over, and she’s able to elude her captors, leaving bodies in her wake. But her problems are just getting started. Her memory lapses are getting more frequent, symptoms of serial-concussion syndrome. As she plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with the pirates, she pushes herself to survive by focusing on thoughts of her children.

He’s a well-traveled consultant arriving home at a metropolitan airport. He’s also become accustomed to extra scrutiny for his brown skin and many-stamped passport. But when he’s whisked away, isolated, and chained in a stark white room without explanation, his reality crumbles. Because what he doesn’t know is the most damning evidence against him.