Showing results for "The Spy" in Police Procedurals

Un mix di generi che, prendendo in prestito una definizione da cinema, l'autore definisce "action-spy". Veloce, scorrevole e raccontato dal punto di vista di due protagonisti più la voce narrante. In un tranquillo pomeriggio di giugno, Steven Barrimore, dirigente di una multinazionale di Dallas, viene prelevato dalla sua casa da un commando di uomini armati e ben addestrati, con un vero e proprio blitz. Perché Steven Barrimore è sparito?

Mob head Sal Tarantino doesn't want big-time casino gambling to become legal in Rhode Island. His solution is to have the next governor comfortably in his pocket, ready to veto the legislation. That means calling in the debts owed to the mob by some of Rhode Island's most prominent politicians, to clear the way for Doug Fiore, managing partner of the state's largest law firm and soon-to-be reluctant gubernatorial candidate.

New Orleans has been quarantined, an unknown virus sweeping the city, killing 100 percent of those infected. The Center for Disease Control, desperate to find a cure, is approached by BioDyne Pharma who reveal a former employee has turned a cutting-edge medical treatment capable of targeting specific genetic sequences into a weapon, and released it.

Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic—and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party's so-called zero Covid policy to the world.

A bomb explodes in a crowded New York subway station at exactly 11:59 a.m. The next day, a second blast rips through a busy department store—again at 11:59. As the bombs go off with clockwork precision, the death toll climbs and businesses shut their doors as the city hunkers down in fear. NYPD Red Detectives Kylie MacDonald and Zach Jordan face their most twisted case ever, as they race against the clock in search of one man who has vowed “to destroy New York City the way it destroyed my family.”

Перед смертью он успевает оставить загадочные и сбивающие с толку сообщения, в которых просит дочь не доверять никому, особенно его коллегам и даже друзьям. Они снова встречаются после гибели в автокатастрофе ее отца — агента ФБР. Кроме того, она явно в опасности — ее преследуют и даже пытаются убить. И вот тут-то на помощь приходит Деймон, лучший ученик ее отца и мужчина ее мечты.

Former detective Morgan Reed thought he had left the shadows of his past behind—until a viral podcast and a missing ship off the coast of California pull him back into a world where cutting-edge technology meets buried secrets. Reed soon uncovers a terrifying conspiracy linking covert government projects, advanced weaponry, and a force so dangerous, it threatens to reshape global politics.

Detective Jeremy Fisk tracks a serial sniper who has mastered state-of-the-art airborne technology to hunt his prey in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Law & Order franchise. When a leaker named Verlyn Merritt releases sensitive documents from...

NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk—introduced in Law & Order creator Dick Wolf’s New York Times bestselling debut The Intercept—must stop an assassin in the pay of a shadowy cartel in The Execution, a tense thriller that superbly blends suspense, politics, intrigue and high-flying action in the...

Hunter Harden, an LAPD investigator, refuses to be defeated by a severe injury and a career setback. His latest assignment appears insurmountable: a series of murders targeting charity CEOs, carried out with brutal precision and leaving no trace. The common thread? DonorScale, an innovative software employed by these philanthropic titans.

Marcus Floyd made a mistake five years ago. He walked away from a woman he thought he could forget. Finding out they both landed in Hawaii for work, and she is now on his team, makes it impossible to ignore his need for her. Unfortunately, she has made it clear that she wants nothing to do with him.

Die Hölle ist ein kaltes Herz. Ishikli Caner, ehemalige Auftragskillerin der türkischen Mafia, inzwischen Agentin des deutschen Militärischen Abschirmdienstes MAD, ist in Paris untergetaucht. Sie wird auf den Fall eines stummen Mädchens angesetzt, dessen Mutter in einem brutalen Schusswechsel getötet wurde. Es besitzt ein Wissen, durch das es zur Zielscheibe mächtiger Gegenspieler wird. Nicht nur der französische Staatsschutz ist hinter dem Kind her, sondern auch ein mysteriöser Killer, der im Auftrag eines skrupellosen Pharmakonzerns arbeitet.

Paris, 1986. Un expert-comptable tombe de la fenêtre de son appartement. Tout laisse à penser à un suicide, l'homme était nerveux et agité, mais sa fille refuse obstinément d'y croire. Une amie lui donne le contact de son oncle, Wouters, un pilier de la PJ, commissaire désabusé proche de la retraite, qui décide de l'aider. Rapidement, il décèle des coïncidences troublantes : une série de cambriolages dans le sillage du mort, un " accident " sur le chantier en face de son immeuble, mais surtout, sa proximité avec certains membres du parti socialiste...

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Ved et tilfælde ser Jane Kinnear sin elsker, Anil, blive myrdet, og pludselig er hun i morderens søgelys. Politiet skynder sig at få hende bragt til et sikkert hus, og det går snart op for hende, at den mand, hun troede, hun kendte, faktisk var kilde hos MI5 og lå inde med vigtige oplysninger om et overhængende terrorangreb.

In una notte di dicembre, in un lussuoso piedàterre di Washington, un senatore viene assassinato con fredda determinazione. Unico indizio: una macabra poesiola, firmata Jack & Jill, in cui si annuncia che quel delitto è soltanto il primo di una lunga serie, destinata a colpire personaggi influenti della capitale. Ma chi sono Jack & Jill? E qual è il loro piano? Nella stessa notte, vicino a una scuola elementare nella zona più popolare di Washington, viene rinvenuto il corpo di una bambina.

Keneen voit luottaa? Annika Malm on jäänyt Norjaan rikosylikonstaapeli Stein Storesenin luo toipumaan Ringeriken verilöylystä. Traumatakaumista ja vainoharhoista kärsivä Annika ei luota hoidostaan vastaavaan neurokirurgiin ja epäilee tatuoitujen miesten varjostavan häntä. Mistä voi tietää, onko kyse todellisesta uhkasta vai vaurioituneen mielen harhoista? Samoihin aikoihin Stein saa Turun poliisilta tiedon tyttärensä Ninan kuolemasta.

At first glance, the murder of Peggy Frampton looks like a burglary gone wrong. But DS George Cross, with his meticulous methods, thinks otherwise. The victim, a former mayor of Bristol, is now an online influencer whose forthright opinions attract the kind of attention that most people would like to avoid. There's no shortage of suspects. Cross's investigation will lead him from Peggy's unfaithful husband to her gambling-addicted son, to a scorned former lover with a grudge. But she also has political enemies in her past.

Wie is de politieke gevangene zonder naam? De Israëlische inlichtingendienst komt te weten dat er een Zweeds staatsburger wordt vastgehouden in Moskou, mogelijk al decennia lang. Hans Edelman heeft al snel door dat dit een van de moeilijkste zaken van zijn carrière zal worden. Samen met zijn collega David Karlén begint hij aan het onderzoek zonder te weten wie De Zweed is, waar hij vandaan komt en waarom hij gevangen gehouden wordt. Gaandeweg komen ze dichter bij de waarheid en moeten ze zichzelf de vraag stellen wat ze bereid zijn op te offeren om een leven te redden...

Kolme vuorokautta suoraan helvetistä. Annika Malm on palannut tositoimiin muuttuneena niin kasvoiltaan kuin koulutukseltaankin. Salainen erikoiskoulutus vaarallisiin tehtäviin tarkoittaa, että korkeimman kansallisen tason suunnitelmia laadittaessa Annika hoitaa kyselemättä likaisen työn. Ongelma on vain siinä, ettei hän ole koskaan piitannut määräyksistä.

Kuumuutta hohkava Turku. Mielipuolinen sarjamurhaaja. Kaksi vahvatahtoista naista. Hirvensalon rannasta löydetään julmasti tapetun koiran ruho. Sadistinen tapaus on vasta alkusoittoa: pian löytyy paloitellun naisen jäänteet. Komisario Anna Mäki joutuu elämänsä hirveimpään rikostutkintaan. Kumpaankin ruumiiseen on kirjoitettu tussilla merkintä K18, mutta muita johtolankoja murhaaja ei ole jättänyt.