Showing results for "Sniper" in Crime Fiction

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.

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...

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 ...

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 jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After 12 years, with 95 confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it's not to reunite with his family, it's to bury them - victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan's own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone.