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

Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers. His success has elevated him into a poster boy for the police. The problem is Jejeune doesn't really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds. Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, Jejeune's two worlds collide with the grisly murder of a prominent ecological activist.

London is under attack. People are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the historic Lanchester Hotel on Park Lane. The gunmen have given the government just five hours to meet their demands before they blow up the building. Shots ring out. Some guests panic. Others text their loved ones. Still more try to escape. All are united by one thing: fear for their lives.

The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in chapter five of The Boy in the Iron Box, they soon find that even the best-laid plans can backfire. With the morale of the team fraying, Liev makes a vow. He’s not going to leave anyone behind until the last stand is seen through to its cold and bitter end. On this night, it’s Liev who lies in wait to face everything he’s feared. It’s nothing like he expected.

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS assault team rescue the hostages from the terrorist-held Iranian embassy? 30 April 1980: six well-armed terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. Nineteen Iranian nationals and four British citizens are captured. Subsequent negotiations...

When the psychotic Colombian drug lord Chano Aldana is extradited to the United States for trial, he brings his army of vicious mercenaries with him. And as Aldana’s hit men target the President of the United States, the capital is plunged into chaos that only veteran fighter pilot Jake Grafton can stop. With the help of an investigative journalist and an undercover agent, Grafton must find the deadly assassins before they can strike again. But time is running out, and the future of the country hangs in the balance.

Il existe une arme létale que chacun peut embarquer sans encombre à bord d'un avion. Aucun contrôle au monde ne peut la détecter... Un vol de nuit Buenos Aires-Berlin. Une passagère fragile psychologiquement. Un psychiatre contraint de la manipuler afin de provoquer le crash de l'appareil. À défaut, sa fille, la seule famille qu'il lui reste, mourra.

The first book in an intense thriller series featuring Inspector Hannah Kaufman. On her way to work one ordinary Wednesday morning, Inspector Hannah Kaufman is unexpectedly called to Stockholm South Hospital, where she’s confronted by a far from ordinary event. Armed men are inside the children’s hospital, threatening to kill one child an hour if their demands aren’t met. Hannah and her colleagues face a dramatic hostage situation with enormous media attention. Meanwhile, inside the hospital walls, the clock is ticking for the innocent children imprisoned with the terrorists.

With the nation on the verge of war, security takes on new meaning for Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts, whose lover just happens to be the President’s daughter. First daughter Blair Powell and her “secret” Secret Service agent lover, Cameron Roberts, intend to get married - with her father’s blessing. But being in the spotlight isn’t the safest place to be in a country still reeling from 9/11 and with the domestic terrorists who tried to assassinate Blair still at large.

Eine ungewöhnliche Einbruchserie erschüttert die gehobenen Kreise Chicagos. Auffällig dabei ist, dass alle Einbrecher bereits wissen, wann die Polizei am Tatort erscheint. Und dass alle einen Buckel haben...

December 15, 2014. A gunman took 18 hostages in the heart of Sydney. 17 hours later, the terrorist would be shot dead, 2 innocent hostages would be killed, and Australia’s iconic city would be stained forever. Louisa Hope and her mum walked into the cafe that morning and left just after 2am the next day, wheeled out on ambulance beds after being shot in the crossfire. This is Louisa's story of the moment that changed Australia forever— The Sydney Siege Cover image: AAP

Amanda Marbely, eine steinreiche Lady aus London, beerbt ihren überraschend früh verstorbenen Cousin aus Königstein im Taunus...

Op-Center chief Paul Hood was going to retire. But that's about as likely as a gun shooting flowers. A bunch of rogue U.N. peacekeepers, or "Keepers," has decided to cross over to the wrong side of the law. Armed with stolen U.N. weapons and ammo, they devise a shocking plan to gain the world's...

Bryan Hale is a damaged man. The stresses of combat flying in England's summer skies during the Battle of Britain, and night-fighting in the icy darkness of the Blitz, together with the loss of friends and a shattered heart, have left him broken and grounded. Fortress Malta, and the unrelenting Nazi siege that aims to grind it away, will be the furnace that forges him anew.

Die Sherlock Holmes Hörspiel Box 11 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Der verschwundene Kutscher", "Das Haus mit den Zwingern", "Eine Frage des Teers", "Die dritte Botschaft".

Am Pfingstsonntag, dem 13. Juni 1886, kam Ludwig II. von Bayern unter ungeklärten Umständen im Würmsee zu Tode. Auch Prof. Dr. Bernhard von Gudden, sein behandelnder Psychiater, fand im nicht allzu tiefen Wasser den Tod. Die Ermittlungsergebnisse des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes diesen Fall betreffend, wurden bis heute unter Verschluss gehalten und werden hiermit nun erstmals der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.