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Jon Hamm returns as intrepid private eye Jack Bergin in this thrilling, hard-boiled Audible Original series. Set against the backdrop of the real-life battle to bring the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, Bergin investigates a brutal murder at the request of an old flame (Ana de la Reguera), and uncovers a deadly conspiracy to forcefully evict a Mexican-American community.

Dermot McEvoy sweeps his listeners into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by the ghost of Bobby Kennedy, whose death he feels responsible for.

During the scorching hot summer of 1988, Michael Dukakis leads George Bush senior in the polls. And while political conventions and campaigns continue to be in session, Hawk and the rest of the "button gang" sell their buttons first to Democrats in Atlanta, then Republicans in New Orleans. As always, the gang sells to either side of any persuasion, offering a unique underview of the American political process, amoral hucksterism, and a corrupted form of capitalism.

Robert Finlay is looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life. But fate has other plans. Finlay's traumatic past is about to return to haunt him. A policeman is killed by a bomb blast, and a second is gunned down; both were former army colleagues from Finlay's own SAS regiment. And so begins a game of cat and mouse, a wicked game in which Finlay is in embroiled in a fight against a determined and unidentified enemy.

US Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly are investigating a counterfeiting ring when cool and ruthless LA Detective Travis Bailey warns them of a plot to murder their prime witness. Unwittingly, they are involved in a phony stake out in which Kelly is seriously wounded. Deeply suspicious and determined to avenge his partner, Carr puts his life and career on the line in order to build a case against Bailey, and sets out to prove that he is the mastermind behind a series of robberies from the area's wealthy residents.

En spänningsladdad politisk deckare skriven av före detta partiledaren Jonas Sjöstedt. En spansk EU-parlamentariker och en kvinnlig tjänsteman hittas mördade i en lägenhet i Bryssel. När polisen kommer till mordplatsen möts de av scen som påminner om en slaktplats. Parlamentarikern har torterats och mördats genom garrottering – en fruktad spansk avrättningsmetod som inte använts sedan Francos tid vid makten.

"- Det här som jag säger nu är mycket känsligt. Ni måste lova att inte sprida uppgifterna vidare." David, Johannes och Carina sitter på ett möte inför Västsaharakonferensen när de hör nyheten. Agenten Ali från den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten har hoppat av och tagit kontakt med Polisiaro. Han har ett viktigt avslöjande att förmedla på konferensen: han kan bevisa att högt uppsatta officerare i den marockanska säkerhetstjänsten organiserar och tjänar stora pengar på narkotikasmuggling. Men alla är inte lika entusiastiska över situationen.

Kleine Flunkerei, große Wirkung: Weston Kogi kommt nach langen Jahren in England zur Beerdigung seiner Tante nach Alcacia, Westafrika, zurück und macht den Fehler, sich ein bisschen aufzuspielen und die Leute glauben zu lassen, er sei in London ein Police Detective. Ist er aber nicht, nur Wachmann in einem Einkaufszentrum. Er wird von zwei rivalisierenden Rebellengruppen mehr oder weniger gezwungen, den Mord an einem Konsenspolitiker aufzuklären, bzw. den Mord jeweils der anderen Rebellengruppe anzuhängen.

Der Kampf um bezahlbaren Wohnraum – Denglers zehnter Fall. Georg Dengler fühlt sich in Stuttgart so wohl wie schon lange nicht mehr, und auch mit Olga läuft es besser denn je. Trotz der aufziehenden Corona-Pandemie lässt er sich von ihr überreden, in Berlin zu ermitteln. Dort scheint ein Immobilienhau seine Mieter mit kriminellen Methoden rauszuekeln. Doch Dengler muss erkennen, dass die Sache größer ist, viel größer.

FBI Special Agent Drew Cady is reluctantly drawn into investigating the assassination of a sitting United States senator. Strangely, the senator’s death is linked to a murdered Baltimore junkie with an identical MO - a single stab wound to the heart and a typed eulogy left at the scene. As Agent Cady deals with a professional hit man known only as the Canadian, as well as a breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug, a misanthropic hacker, and a Mexican drug cartel, he peels back the layers of deceit and comes to realize that even the reddest of red herrings can bite.

When Geoffrey Tate, one of the world’s richest individuals and the CEO of Yukon, the country’s preeminent artificial intelligence company, is shot and killed by his young trophy wife, it’s going to grab headlines. And seasoned Newshound reporter Nik Byron intends to be the one generating them. But Nik’s investigation quickly leads him down a treacherous path he didn’t foresee.

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

Russell Mullins has left intelligence work. When his wife died of cancer, Rusty quit the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a private protection company in Washington, DC, and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and chief liaison with the US Treasury. Mullins and Luguire form a strong friendship. So when a police detective calls in the middle of the night with word of Luguire’s suicide, Mullins doesn’t buy it.

His doubts are reinforced by Amanda Church, a former Secret Service colleague now in the Federal Reserve’s cybersecurity unit. She uncovered a suspicious financial transaction initiated by Luguire only days before his death.

Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector O lead an investigation into a crime of passion committed by the young man who has been selected as the best possible leader of a transition government.

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.

Das G-Team droht zu zerbrechen: Mr. High wurde suspendiert, Philippa Decker sitzt in der Todeszelle, und im Verborgenen lauert ein mächtiger Feind. Um zu überleben und sein Team zu retten, muss Cotton jede Regel brechen. Aber welchen Preis wird er dafür zahlen? Cotton wird von seinem eigenen Team gejagt! Agent Dillagio muss sich dafür verantworten, dass seine Zielobjekte entwischen konnten. Cottons Ziehmutter Sarah Granger bietet den fliehenden Agents Unterschlupf.

Alles ist verloren. Philippa Decker wurde das tödliche Gift injiziert. Doch Cotton stiehlt ihren leblosen Körper und verhindert eine unehrenhafte Beerdigung. Oder hat er einen ganz anderen Plan? Was er auch tut: Ab jetzt ist Cotton ein gesuchter Verbrecher - und seine Jäger kennen ihn nur zu gut. Eine wilde Flucht quer durch New York ist erst der Anfang!

"COTTON RELOADED: NEMESIS" - Der Beginn einer neuen Ära! Das G-Team droht zu zerbrechen: Mr. High wurde suspendiert, Philippa Decker sitzt in der Todeszelle, und im Verborgenen lauert ein mächtiger Feind. Um zu überleben und sein Team zu retten, muss Cotton jede Regel brechen. Aber welchen Preis wird er dafür zahlen? Agent Dillagio macht sich auf den Weg nach Berlin. Dort will er Cotton und Decker endlich festnehmen. Kann er dem Auftragskiller zuvorkommen, der auf die ehemaligen Agenten vom G-Team angesetzt ist?

Cotton läuft die Zeit davon. Philippa Decker wurde zum Tode verurteilt. Noch sieben Tage bis zur Giftspritze. Cotton ist der einzige, der noch versucht, die Unschuld seiner Ex-Partnerin zu beweisen. Das FBI hat Philippa längst fallen gelassen. Als alle Hoffnung umsonst scheint, stößt Cotton endlich auf eine Spur - die ihn bis nach Moskau führt. Wird er dort tatsächlich Beweise für Philippas Unschuld finden? Oder ist er in eine tödliche Falle getappt?