Showing results for "The Conspiracy" in Crime Thrillers

Robert Bellamy, an American naval intelligence officer, is called in on a special undercover assignment by the NSA: investigate the mysterious crash of an experimental meteorological balloon in the Swiss Alps and locate the ten known witnesses to the incident. As he crisscrosses the world searching for clues, Bellamy uncovers a murderous governmental plot and a powerful international cabal of corporate CEOs. After narrowly escaping death, he goes into hiding, hunted by an unknown lethal force.

While on official UNESCO business in The Vatican Museum, Dr Max Hunter finds himself pulled into a dark conspiracy of Biblical proportions! Summoned to the inner sanctum of the Vatican in the middle of the night, Hunter discovers his friend and colleague, Professor Marco Vitali, has been brutally murdered, using his dying moments to draw a message on the floor in his own blood – a clue for Max to follow!

While Jake’s law practice is finally beginning to take off, at home, his marriage is crumbling. He has broken a solemn promise to Elena, his wife, not to defend drug dealers due to her traumatic experiences as a child in her native Colombia. When given the chance to admit what he’s done, Jake continues with the lie, again and again. Now with Jake facing imminent arrest and trial, Elena no longer believes in his innocence, and in fear for her safety takes off with the kids.

Defense attorney Leland Monroe lost it all: his big-city job, his reputation, and, worst of all, his loving wife. Now he’s back in his hometown to hit restart and repair the relationship with his troubled son. But the past is always present in a small town. Leland returns to find his high school sweetheart hasn’t had the easiest of lives - especially now that her son faces a death sentence for murdering his father.

Lady Trent's sleuthing skills are put to the test in a Victorian mystery about mischief, murder, and a lost heir. With the aid of her partner Dylan Tremayne, Lady Serafina Trent aims to help her neighbors—the Haydens—determine who the true heir is to their sizable estate. After some...

In the South African veld poaching gangs are resorting to extreme levels of violence to hunt down valuable rhino horns. Battling to defend the dwindling rhino population, a veteran anti-apartheid freedom fighter is forced to break his lifetime loyalty to the ANC as he confronts corruption at the very highest level.

Fans of mysteries, thrillers, and suspense will enjoy these fast-moving stories of murder, greed, and treason, the cast of colorful characters, and their setting in and around historic St. Paul, Minnesota. This bundle includes First Case, The St. Paul Conspiracy, and Deadly Stillwater.

Having thwarted murderous poachers in The Elephant Conspiracy, the Veteran, Thandi, and Mkhize are back battling to save lion prides from being killed for their claws, teeth and bones. As the demand for lion parts soars, impoverished local communities are being incentivized to poach, and the fight against this illegal plunder becomes ever more vicious.

When beloved mayor turned state senator Carlton Osborn is found dead on his boat, the prime suspect is the only other person on board: his pregnant teenage girlfriend, Amber Vega. Struggling to restore his self-confidence after a string of personal and professional losses, Spencer Dunn isn’t eager to defend a young woman who is almost certainly guilty yet refuses to follow his legal advice. But once Spencer starts digging, he realizes this case isn’t as simple as the police are making it out to be.

Alice Ingold has been kidnapped. Call the police. Alert the media. You can’t play this game without all the pieces. Beautiful, blond, and immensely privileged, Alice Ingold is the perfect victim for a true-crime obsessed culture—and for a masked duo with a singular purpose. Instead of a demand for ransom, her captors have a riddle, and they’re inviting the entire country to solve it.

Following a tip-off from a contact in the Dutch Security Service, HARPA Director James Gates tasks his deputy, Amy Fox, to raid a container ship and secure a cache of smuggled biblical relics. Among the haul, they hope to find an enigmatic statue made by John the Apostle and the answer to a riddle about the Apocalypse.

Dr Max Hunter, Special Agent Amy Fox and the rest of the HARPA Team are on the most important mission of their lives to rescue their teammate Quinn Mosley, HARPA Director Jim Gates and his wife Susanna, and Hunter's UNESCO manager Professor Juliette Bonnaire who have all been kidnapped by a mysterious organisation claiming to be the Illuminati. The group's leader, Oriax, says he will trade their friends' lives for the Sword of the Archangel Michael and gives them a 24 hour deadline to meet his demands.

La autora bestseller del New York Times, Karin Slaughter, regresa con otro thriller electrizante en la querida serie de misterio de Will Trent, esta vez enfrentando a Will y Sara contra un misterioso grupo que planea desatar una epidemia mortal. Gillian Flynn dice que Karin Slaughter es...

An intelligent and propulsive international political thriller in which political fixer Peter Rena is hired by the president to investigate the bombing of an American military base overseas When a shadowy American diplomatic complex is attacked in North Africa, the White House is besieged by...

“A talented new writer who instinctively grasps the broad rules of superior action thrillers and adapts them with pace, grace, humor, and a keen eye for cinematic effect.” —Daily Telegraph (London) “Toyne’s writing is stellar and downright fun. Get your Dan Brown game face on and step...

The Lolita Conspiracy: Brandon Beck hanged himself, or did he? On a cold dark night in February, Harry Starke runs into someone he hasn’t seen in almost twenty-five years. The Last Straw: Cassie Morgan was just seventeen-years-old when she died at the hands of a sadistic killer. Homicide Detective Harry Starke caught the case and he knew right from the beginning that it was going to be a bad one. One Dark Night: One dark night in late summer of 1998, teenagers Hunter Flagg and Samantha Goodkind were murdered, shot to death in Hunter’s pickup.

Ein hochrangiger amerikanischer Sicherheitsberater verschwindet spurlos. Für FBI-Vizedirektorin Martha Meyerstein steht fest: Diese Entführung ist eine Bedrohung der nationalen Sicherheit. Nur einer kann helfen – Jon Reznick. Der ehemalige Auftragskiller will eigentlich mit seiner Tochter Urlaub machen. Doch als Meyerstein ihn ruft, bleibt ihm keine Wahl. Widerwillig lässt er sich auf die Mission ein – und stößt dabei auf eine Verschwörung von ungeahntem Ausmaß. Während die Regierung auf eine iranische Terrorzelle fokussiert ist, verfolgt Reznick seine eigene Spur – allein und gegen jede Vorschrift.

It's been 17 months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim, and Operation Maypole is still no nearer catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, and the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just 11, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after 16 years, he's back on the streets again.

Traind discret si retras in Tokio, John Rain incearca sa-si evite vechea existenta de asasin, pana cand este abordat cu o oferta greu de refuzat. Rain si vechiul lui prieten Dox, alaturi de doi mercenari, sunt recrutati de colonelul Horton, faimos pentru operatiuni clandestine. Misiunea lor: eliminarea unor inalte oficialitati din guvernul american aparent asociate unei iminente lovituri de stat.

Ein brutaler Mord, ein verschwundenes Meisterwerk und ein Geheimnis, das nur Gabriel Allon lösen kann Der Kunstrestaurator und legendäre Spion Gabriel Allon ist heimlich nach London gereist, um an einem Empfang in der Courtauld Gallery teilzunehmen, bei dem die Rückgabe eines gestohlenen Selbstporträts von Vincent van Gogh gefeiert wird. Doch als ein alter Freund der Polizei von Devon und Cornwall ihn um Hilfe bei einer rätselhaften Mordermittlung bittet, sieht er sich mit einem mächtigen und gefährlichen neuen Gegner konfrontiert.