Showing results for "William Boyd" in Thriller & Suspense

Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is stunned, and his few months...

One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying...

Bond. Is. Back. It’s 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond—British special agent 007—is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash...

William Boyd's Restless is a brilliant espionage audiobook and a vivid portrait of the life of a female spy. Full of tension and drama, and based on a remarkable chapter of Anglo-American history, this is listening at its finest. "I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a...

Ruth lever et stille og roligt liv som enlig mor og underviser. Men en dag beslutter hendes mor, Sally Gilmartin, at betro hende en hemmelighed. Moren giver datteren et manuskript, hvor hun fortæller sin livshistorie. Den respektable, ældre enke er ikke den, som Ruth, og alle andre, hidtil har troet. Hun er født Eva Delectorskaja, er russisk emigrant som i 1939 blev rekrutteret til den hemmelige, britiske efterretningstjeneste.

William Boyd's Restless is a brilliant espionage audiobook and a vivid portrait of the life of a female spy. Full of tension and drama, and based on a remarkable chapter of Anglo-American history, this is listening at its finest. "I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a...

“[We] can’t get enough of Christie’s plush and murderous thrills.” —Entertainment Weekly From the Queen of Mystery—this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing. Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In...

Gabriel Dax' Nächte sind kurz. Seit seiner Kindheit leidet er unter Albträumen: Erinnerungen an jene verhängnisvolle Nacht, in der seine Mutter und sein Elternhaus einem verheerenden Brand zum Opfer fielen. Seiner Schlaflosigkeit zum Trotz ist der gefeierte Reiseschriftsteller aus Chelsea auf der ganzen Welt unterwegs – einer vom Kalten Krieg zerrissenen Welt. In Zentralafrika bietet sich ihm die exklusive Gelegenheit, den ersten Ministerpräsidenten des erst seit Kurzem unabhängigen Kongo zu interviewen.

“Vail is in the mold of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and Robert Crais’s Joe Pike….This guy has movie written all over him.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Fans of Sam Spade and Jack Reacher will feel right at home with this new tough guy.” —Boston Globe “We have a new American hero in Steve...