Showing results for "Loyalties" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Intelligence analyst Lexie Martin is important. Or, that’s what she’s been told by the director of Halcyon Division, the secret organization she works for. Problem is—Lexie doesn’t feel important. She feels...devastated. Struggling to equilibrate after the unexpected implosion of her personal life and reeling from her failed assignment overseas, Lexie’s barely treading water.

Alessandro De Luca comes from a rival mafia family, and I'm supposed to hate his guts. Except that now, I'm waking up married to him. Alessandro sees me as a pawn in this arranged marriage. I mean nothing to him... So why do I still feel like he owns my heart when he claims me every night?

The Ludlows are a hard-charging family, and patriarch Carl Ludlow treats his offspring like employees—which they are. But his daughter, Fina, is a bit of a black sheep. A law school dropout, her father keeps her in the fold as the firm’s private investigator, working alongside her brothers...

Abridged edition: Eve Dallas returns to face her most ingenious foe - a "secret admirer" who taunts her with letters... and kills without mercy....

An unknown bomber is stalking New York City. He is sending Eve Dallas taunting letters promising to wreak mass terror and destruction among the "corrupt masses". And when his cruel web of deceit and destruction threatens those she cares for most, Eve fights back. It's her city...it's her job...and it's hitting too close to home. Now, in a race against a ticking clock, Eve must make the pieces fit - before the city falls.

The murder of a young Tibetan nun at the hands of Chinese border guards at the rooftop of the world offers a unique parable for the tale of modern Tibet. Chinese police are instructed to take any measures necessary to protect the border of Tibet. When a group of climbers witness the murder of a young Tibetan nun who is fleeing to India, two men have a choice: turn a blind eye and preserve their climbing careers or alert the world to the grand scale of human injustice played out daily in Tibet.

In einer Welt, in der nur eine Währung existiert, wird Callisto Oscuro von Männern heimgesucht, die es einzig auf ihre Unschuld abgesehen haben. Aufgrund einer Tradition, die ihr gesamtes Leben bestimmt, muss sie einen Ehemann aus den drei von ihrem Vater handverlesenen Männern wählen. Domenico lockt sie mit seinem tödlichen Charme. Lucifer erweckt ihre tiefsten Leidenschaften. Und Gianni besitzt die Macht, ihr zerbrechliches Herz zu beschützen oder zu zerstören. Doch während sie alle darum kämpfen, sie zu besitzen, drohen Callistos Begierden ihre tiefschwarze Seele zu verschlingen.

Aiden Gabor was still a teenager when Department of Justice agents approached him with an ultimatum: spend his life in prison for racketeering, embezzlement, extortion, and conspiracy to commit murder, or become an undercover agent. Conflicting Loyalties is a sharp, honest memoir in three parts: the bloody life of a mob soldier from outside la famiglia; the death-defying, paranoid existence of an informant bringing down corrupt politicians and police departments from the inside; and unexpectedly finding peace late in life through the Baha’i faith while coping with an ALS diagnosis.

When a bomb goes off in the West End, Home Secretary Victoria Osborne has a desperate sense of having failed to protect the public. A young Muslim reporter, Ahmed Khan, also has a deep-seated sense of anger and responsibility. He persuades his editor to let him go back amongst childhood friends in Leeds to try to find information.

Known by his friends as T-Lova, Terry Maddox is an intelligent and crafty individual who is determined to rise to the top of the underground drug trade, along with his best friend, Jihad, and their crew. Mack is an ambitious yet ruthless hustler who runs South Philly with his partner Shawn. Detectives Todd and Latrice Reed are siblings who are hell-bent on solving a slew of murders in hopes that it will prevent more casualties, and bring the killers to justice. Marty Frankel is a high-powered commodities trader who loses everything of value in his life due to his loyalty.

Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career—a cold murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow. Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague of Ian Rutledge’s, is sent to Avebury, a...

When Grace Carter's boys are arrested for murder, she's forced to call on her most trusted and loyal connections to keep the boys out of prison. She'll even ask for help from those she would usually avoid like the plague. DI Leigh Moss has the power to save Grace's boys, but she's determined to bring Grace and the Carter clan down once and for all. Leigh might owe Grace her life, but her loyalty now lies with her job and protecting the streets of Liverpool. Until Leigh needs Grace's help, too.

January 1954. Mists cover the hills around Selchester. Someone at the research facility known as the Atomic is leaking secrets to Soviet Russia, and when nuclear scientist Bruno Rothesay goes missing, the British Intelligence Services are convinced he's the mole. Hugo Hawksworth isn't so sure. Then a body turns up, and Hugo's instincts are proven correct. But if Rothesay wasn't selling secrets to the Soviets, who is?

When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Detective Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. With corrosive wit, Laidlaw relates an emotional quest through Glasgow's underworld, and into the past. He discovers as much about himself as the loved brother he has lost in a search that leads to a shattering climax.

Rachel Maguire finally has it all. Matriarch of the powerful Maguire family, whose name is feared and revered throughout the city of Manchester, she is wealthy, contented and more in love than ever with her husband, Danny. Working in conjunction with their onetime arch enemies, the Law Family, life for the Maguires has never been more peaceful. However that peace is about to be shattered in the most brutal way possible and Rachel finds herself hunting a faceless enemy, one that will stop at nothing to see her family fall.

All I want is to leave my past of criminal hacking behind. Oh, and ditch the blackmailer who has been dogging my every move for the last three years. The plan: Hack my way into being part of Class Alpha, a training program for a secretive organization that rescues hostages the government can't or won't go after. Save the world and make enough money to pay back my blackmailer—solves all my problems, right? The complication: Sweet, nerdy, and unbearably sexy Eric "Harvard" Physick.

Die Bilder auf seiner Haut haben nichts mit jener Religion zu tun, der sie entstammen. Sie erzählen seine Geschichte. Woher er kommt, was er getan hat. Von seinem Status. Auch der Bär auf seiner Hüfte, denn das ist das Tier, das seiner Familie ihren Namen gab. Woher ich von dem Tattoo weiß? Nun, ich habe ihn geheiratet. Es heißt, dass die Russen und Iren in Detroit sich nicht in die Quere kommen. Aber wer das sagt, kennt meinen Vater schlecht. Mein Name ist Erin Medwedew. Ich bin der Pfand des Friedens zwischen der Familie meines Mannes und der meinen. Ich lebe in einem Minenfeld.

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Der zweite Fall für Charlotte Schmidt und Daniel Zumsande Die Hamburger Journalistin Charlotte Schmidt ist für ihre kritischen Texte bekannt. Ein neuer Auftrag führt sie in eine Idylle, die trügt. Charlotte recherchiert über häusliche Gewalt und interviewt zwei Frauen einer Beratungsstelle. Doch am nächsten Morgen wird eine ermordet aufgefunden. Die Journalistin hat offenbar in ein Wespennest gestochen. Aber warum – und ist sie auch in Gefahr? Welche Rolle spielt außerdem der LKA-Kommissar Daniel Zumsande, der die Tote kannte und nun von den Ermittlungen ausgeschlossen wird?

US-Präsident Anthony Cook fühlt sich von Mitch Rapp, Amerikas mächtigster Waffe gegen den Terror, persönlich bedroht. Ein Deal wird eingefädelt: Rapp verlässt das Land, solange Cook im Amt ist, im Gegenzug verzichtet dieser auf Maßnahmen gegen ihn.