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

When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, Boston homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate the case. Amidst the blood and terror, Houston discovers similarities, likenesses the killer’s positioning, his choice of victims, and his code of ethics between the crime scene and his own training as a US Marine scout and sniper. And with the staging of the scene set for prime shock value, Houston has to wonder what it is this murderer intends to accomplish.

When Bob Lee Swagger is approached by a woman who lost a son to war and has spent the years since risking all that she has to find the sniper who pulled the trigger, he knows right away he'll do everything in his power to help her. But what begins as a favor becomes an obsession, and soon Swagger is back in the action, teaming up with the Mossad, the FBI, and local American law enforcement, as he tracks a sniper who is his own equal and attempts to decipher that assassin's ultimate target before it's too late.

L'équipe doit repartir en mission. Mais pour Eagle, dont le cœur semble fermé à double-tour, c'est un autre challenge qui l'attend au milieu de l'océan. À chacun de ses pas, chacune de ses actions, chacun de ses souffles, il devra choisir la bonne issue et briser le cercle vicieux de son enfance.

Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was once the most hunted woman on Earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. But Kathy Reilly of The Washington Post doesn’t know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have vanished from history.

Aimer, c'est savoir partir... et revenir. Cheyenne : Je voudrais qu'il me revienne. Qu'il vive avec moi cette relation si parfaitement imparfaite qu'elle fout en l'air les autres possibilités. Non, personne ne pourra prendre sa place. Je sais que ce sera lui ou rien. Nous ou moi. Dès que je l'ai vu dans la cour de la maternelle, même si je ne le savais pas encore, il a occupé cet espace en moi prévu pour lui et lui uniquement. Sniper : Sans elle, je ne vaux rien, avec moi, elle n'a aucune chance…

Im Londoner Zoo kommt es zu mehreren unheimlichen Todesfällen. Unbarmherzig schlägt der Schütze aus dem Hinterhalt zu. Ein besonderer "Tierfreund" macht Jagd auf die arglosen Gäste, so scheint es. Inspector Anthony Stafford nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. An möglichen Verdächtigen besteht kein Mangel. Scotland Yard läuft die Zeit davon. Der Mörder scheint die besseren Karten in diesem blutigen "Spiel" zu haben. Können Anthony und Chief Inspector Graves die Pläne des Wahnsinnigen durchkreuzen?

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS survive working deep undercover among the terrorists of Northern Ireland? It is the 1970s, and a mean and dirty war is being waged on British soil. Sectarian violence is an almost daily occurrence and the terrorist groups, who finance their...

In einer Kleinstadt in Indiana schießt ein Heckenschütze scheinbar wahllos in eine Menschenmenge. Die Spur führt zu James Barr, der Jahre zuvor seinen Job als Scharfschütze bei der Army verlor, weil er ein ähnliches Massaker angerichtet hatte. Sein Vorgesetzter damals: Jack Reacher. Und nach Reacher fragt Barr nun, als man ihn festnimmt. Ausgerechnet Reacher - hatte dieser doch damals geschworen, Barr eines Tages ein für alle Mal hinter Gitter zu bringen.

Shark est le plus énigmatique des Alphas SEALs, quand il repart en mission avec l'équipe, il ne se doute pas un instant qu'il va devoir affronter l'épreuve la plus dure de sa vie. Au cœur de l'Amazonie, traqué par ses ennemis dans une lutte farouche et sans merci, il doit faire face à l'alchimie puissante qui s'installe entre lui et sa protégée. Lexie, kidnappée alors qu'elle rentre tout juste d'un reportage de guerre, est en choc post-traumatique. Arrivera-t-elle à apprivoiser l'animal sauvage en lui ?

Spezialagent Chance Vaught soll während einer Mission in Mexiko für die Sicherheit des Teams der US-Drogenkontrolle sorgen. Doch die Autokolonne gerät ins Fadenkreuz eines Scharfschützen, der irgendwo in der Ferne lauert. Vaught ist in höchster Not. Auch der Navy SEAL Gil Shannon kann ihm nicht helfen. Er ist offenbar bei seinem letzten Einsatz ums Leben gekommen. Die Männer und Frauen sind dem Geisterschützen hilflos ausgeliefert. Nach und nach holt er sich seine Opfer ...

It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the master sniper, is about to carry out his final mission – even as Germany’s enemies overrun it, even while a tired, disorganized team of American and British agents tries everything in its power to stop him. Because for Repp, this is the job at which he cannot fail. For this time, he possesses the ultimate killing tool. And with it, he will commit the ultimate crime.

Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose 93 kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. But Nick is suspicious and asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data.

The harrowing call comes from the NYPD: Willy's ex-wife Mary has been found dead in her Lower East Side apartment, and Willy is asked to identify the body. Torn from his beloved Vermont, Willy returns to the city of his hard-drinking youth with misgivings that deepen when he sees Mary's sad corpse on a gurney. Because of a fresh puncture mark in her arm, the police think she overdosed. But Willy has doubts. Driven by loss and guilt, Willy searches deeper and deeper into his past, to a long-ago Vietnam where he was a merciless loner known as the Sniper.

In the two weeks CIA assassin Fortune Redding has been hiding in Sinful, Louisiana, she's been harassed, poisoned, and shot at...and that was the easy part. But now she's about to face her biggest challenge since setting foot in the tiny bayou town. When mayoral candidate Ted Williams is murdered, everyone is surprised. Ted was a blowhole and a Yankee, but those usually weren't good reasons to kill someone.

With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft.

In this follow-up to the highly successful Kill Zone, former marine sniper Kyle Swanson faces his most deadly enemy yet, a legendary enemy sniper working with a fringe Islamic organization that has created a terrifying new weapon of mass destruction.

In the aftermath of great floods, a doctor on a relief mission in Northeastern Pakistan discovers the remains of a collapsed bridge that reminds him of a bridge near his childhood home in Ohio. He snaps a cellphone picture and sends it to his sister just before his entire team is slaughtered. His sister is Beth Ledford, a Coast Guard sniper,who suspects that the answer to the mystery of her brother's death is in that cellphone picture.

Sniper Elite: Origins is three original stories set in the world of the hit video game that explore the beginnings of Karl Fairburne, the Sniper Elite. In Water Line, Karl Fairburn is a new recruit fighting on the front line. Battle weary, low on morale and holding a bridge in a rear-guard action to delay the German onslaught. This is where he comes to understand his place in the war. The beginning of his training for life behind the lines starts in Home Ground. Karl is recruited into the SOE to learn sabotage, espionage and assassination.

Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was once the most hunted woman on Earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. But Kathy Reilly of The Washington Post doesn’t know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have vanished from history.

True Crime: Secrets of a Sniper pulls the trigger on some of the most chilling and calculated crimes in modern history. This six-part series dives deep into the world of long-range killers—exploring infamous cases like the DC Sniper attacks, psychological profiles of these shadowy figures, and the tactical challenges they pose in urban environments. From trained assassins to lone wolves with a grudge, we uncover the motives, methods, and aftermath of those who kill from a distance. Step behind the scope and into the mind of the sniper—where silence speaks louder than a shot.Click here to ...