Showing results for "The Candidate" in Thriller & Suspense

An incredible historical truth stretching from Hitler’s infamous bunker in Berlin to the White House in Washington threatens the very heart and soul of American democracy.

Nick Thorneycroft is a British headhunter working in Luxembourg. His company asks him to recruit a high-flying executive for the company's Russian business. The best candidate turns out to be smart, beautiful...and mysterious. Soon the effects of Russia’s political upheaval, and the arrival of an ex-girlfriend who won’t leave him alone, make Nick’s Luxembourg life increasingly perilous; worlds collide in this gripping, atmospheric tale.

Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the city of Venice faces an uncertain future. The election of a new Mayor, therefore, has never felt more important. As the candidates jostle for position and alliances are made and promises broken, Andrea Mazzon, a controversial writer and historian, emerges as a strong candidate. Nathan Sutherland, meanwhile, has more important things on his mind as he investigates the case of an elderly British academic who has disappeared whilst researching the fate of his grandfather during the Great War.

Buried deep within the consciousness of Sergeant Raymond Shaw is the mechanism of an assassin, a time bomb ticking toward explosion, controlled by the delicate skill of its Communist masters. Shaw returns from the Korean War to an idolizing and unsuspecting country. What follows is at once a spy story, a love story, and a sobering, yet outrageously funny satire on demagoguery in American politics.

Lázaro, uno de los empresarios más respetados de España, decide presentarse a las elecciones generales como candidato de un partido que apuesta por la ecología, la transparencia y una nueva manera de hacer política. Inesperadamente, las encuestas le dan como ganador. Sin embargo, dos días antes de las elecciones, la prensa destapa una denuncia por una agresión sexual ocurrida diez años atrás.

לעורכת דין תמרה אורלב, ג׳ינג׳ית יפהפייה בת 34, יש סוד אפל, המאיים על חלומה הנכסף ביותר, ואולי אף על חייה. "תמרי, את תהיי שופטת, יש לך צדק שנוסע בדם," לוחשת לה אמה לפני מותה, ותמרה, סנגורית פלילית מבריקה, שיודעת להפוך כתבי אישום חמורים לזיכויים מצלצלים, נחושה לקיים את צוואת אמה.

Un candidat decideix presentar-se a les primàries del seu partit. L'aparició de la seva exdona, la traïció de més d'un amic i els intents de la premsa per desemmascarar-lo s'interposaran en el seu camí, però això no aturarà el Candidat en la cursa per aconseguir, a qualsevol preu, el seu objectiu. Xantatges, espionatge, cinisme, misteriosos robatoris i moltes, moltes mentides...Tot s'hi val en la lluita del poder.