Assassin Thriller

Island of the Assassin is about two kinds of silence in conflict. A covert killer, Kai Landrie, contracted by the CIA to target Islamic terrorists, develops moral scruples. He shares his doubts in confession with Peter Quince, a priest, who gets renditioned for receiving classified information. The result: two unconditional secrecies, sacred and profane, tragically collide.

London, 1818. MP Sir Roger Mellanby attends a performance of Macbeth at Covent Garden, featuring Hannah Granville. It is the final performance of what has been a triumphant production and both the Prince Regent and Hannah's love, Bow Street Rival Paul Skillen, are in the audience. After the show, both Mellanby and the Prince Regent make their way to the stage door for a glimpse of Hannah.

Rocco. He’s got a nose for the news...but can he sniff out a killer? A 50-something local newspaper publisher and a pampered prince of a poodle stumble upon a shocking crime in a cottage-country small town. Who killed the mayor? It’s up to Zora Flynn and her nasty small poodle Rocco to sort out a distinctive cast of characters in the town of Williamsport and find the murderer. Surrounded by rocky cliffs, pristine lakes and picture-perfect scenery, Williamsport is a charming town in cottage country. But now the murder of the mayor casts a shadow.

Marilu wakes one morning to the realization that the man next to her is not her husband. That awareness is the beginning to 10 years of memories returning. One of which leads her to believe she is a paid assassin. As she struggles with the realization of who she is and what she was, she begins a search for her daughter. Things are complicated when she runs into Brad Morrison, the undercover agent who is the brother to the man Marilu had been hired to kill.

David Diegert is ensnared into serving Crepusculous, the secret society that controls the economy. In spite of his reluctance, Diegert is coerced into completing deadly missions in which the stakes keep getting higher. Set up to take the fall for killing a target of immense importance, his fragile world falls apart. Betrayed by Crepusculous, he becomes a fugitive sought after from all sides. An unexpected ally is found in a CIA agent convinced of Diegert’s innocence. She helps him escape, only to force him into undermining Crepusculous’s plan for economic collapse.

Peppe Vitiello, soprannominato "Braciola" per il suo fisico tondeggiante, è il sovrano incontrastato della trattoria Partenope, sul lungomare di Mergellina, dove dispensa buoni piatti e battute di un'arguzia fuori dal comune. Fra le mura domestiche, invece, subisce le angherie di sua moglie Angelina, una donna burbera e dispotica che lo ritiene un buono a nulla e gli impedisce persino di avvicinarsi ai fornelli.

Vampire Alexis Black is on a mission - to rejoin the human race. Coerced into signing an ironclad contract by an angel-with-attitude, Alexis must hunt down and assassinate at least one vampire, werewolf, or creepy crawly every night for 50 years to become human again. Too bad the contract didn’t mention the badass vampire who now rides shotgun in her brain, insatiable bloodlust, or her new I-hate-everything-with-fangs sidekick. If she can fulfill her end of the bargain, her humanity is restored, if not she will be destroyed.

Come ogni anno, sui laghi e i torrenti che circondano la famosa cittadina del Maine, Cabot Cove, si svolge il tradizionale torneo di pesca. Jessica è stata tra le prime a iscriversi alla gara e, in vista della sua partecipazione, ha affittato un piccolo cottage a Moon Lake, immerso nella foresta. Una sedia a dondolo sul portico, il profumo dei pini e il riflesso del sole che si specchia nell'acqua: la situazione perfetta per trascorrere un po' di tempo in solitudine, rilassandosi sulla riva del lago, in compagnia di un buon libro, nell'attesa che i pesci abbocchino.

COVID-19 is spreading across the country. Peaceful demonstrations for Black Lives Matter after the murder by cop of George Floyd have turned violent. President Trump’s handling of the pandemic seems incompetent and chaotic. Infections and deaths continue to rise. When Attorney General Barr orders riot police and troops to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square for Trump’s photo-op with a Bible, something snaps in Jack Blair. After a psychotic episode he is thrown into prison, and his life is threatened by white nationalist boogaloo bois.

Parecia uma manhã como outra qualquer na pequena Palmyra, uma cidade histórica no litoral do Rio de Janeiro. A caminho do trabalho, o delegado Joaquim Dornelas se espanta com um movimento incomum nas ruas. Diante da Igreja de Santa Teresa e da Antiga Cadeia, no Centro Histórico, uma multidão observa o corpo de um homem atolado na lama seca do canal. Ninguém sabe como o corpo foi parar lá. Não há sinais de arrasto, marcas de barco, violência, ferimentos, nada. Apenas um band-aid na dobra interna do braço esquerdo.

Im Dezember 1988 kommen beim Lockerbie-Bombenanschlag alle 259 Passagiere einer Boeing 747 ums Leben, darunter auch Maureen, die Verlobte des US-Collegestudenten Mitch Rapp. Ein Jahr nach ihrem Tod wird Mitch von der CIA rekrutiert und schließt sich dem geheimen Orion-Team an, das gegen den weltweiten Terror in den Kampf zieht. An Krisenherden in Europa, im Nahen Osten und Asien bewältigt er den Verlust seiner großen Liebe und sucht nach einem neuen Sinn für sein Leben.

Six invités sont conviés par un excentrique collectionneur d'armes à participer à une murder party dans sa propriété campagnarde. Seulement, c'est un véritable cadavre qui est retrouvé à l'issue du jeu de rôles... La victime ? Charles Rankin, un quadragénaire aisé et coureur de jupons. Parmi les coupables possibles ? Le maître des lieux, son majordome russe, un professeur d'origine russe, lui aussi, la maîtresse du défunt, son mari jaloux, la femme que Rankin devait épouser.

On the west coast a man of utterly lethal capabilities and an intense sense of purpose loses everything important to him. As his life crumples around him he goes to extreme lengths for vengeance.

Treeka can’t tell friend from foe. As New York lies in battle-ravaged ruin, the desperate cyborg struggles to evade murderous hordes of humans infected by a maniacal doctor’s neurotoxin. And though an elite group of assassins invites her to join their underground institution, the severely injured fugitive refuses to accept the role of a paid killer.

Set in the urban area of Tokyo in the near future, the story revolves around Touka Kimizuki and her twin brother, Yuuto. Both of them are just like a typical 16-year old high schooler. But they're actually recruited by Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) to become secret agents due to their ability to kill skilled assassins while they were still in the middle school.

An interplanetary crime syndicate. A debt, long overdue. An assassin gone rogue. Love. Revenge. Betrayal. Although he knows it will mean the end of his relationship with both the crime syndicate and his long-time lover, Captain Victoria Maruska, Damian can’t let sleeping dogs lie. After overcoming his captain’s well-intended efforts to hold him back, Damian sets off to exact his revenge on the man who had once left him to die on the barren wastelands of Earth.

Brian Pallard è un giovane avventuriero senza scrupoli, uno scommettitore incallito, è il misterioso australiano che ha fatto fortuna in maniera equivoca e poco trasparente. Probabilmente è anche un donnaiolo impenitente, incapace di amare veramente una donna. Lord Pinlow è un aristocratico rispettoso dell'etichetta e delle convenzioni, un futuro padre di famiglia ligio ai doveri, un affarista ben inserito nella società che conta. È alla ricerca della definitiva affermazione, un uomo potente che rivela un buon fiuto per ogni genere di investimento commerciale.

"Il commissario Saverio Mineo odia molte cose: per esempio i guanti, la forfora, i piedi brutti, la fretta, i pigiami a righe, il suo assistente Milito e sua moglie. Ma la cosa che odia di più sono i delitti, perché lo costringono a fingere di lavorare, mentre lui vorrebbe starsene in pace a leggere "La Gazzetta dello Sport", nel suo ufficio o al limite su una panchina vista mare. In fondo, perché dovrebbe succedere qualcosa nei tranquilli paesini di Cinisi e Terrasini?"

Lorsque Arthur Surbonadier s'écroule sur la scène du théâtre londonien de la Licorne, les spectateurs retiennent leur souffle. Quel talent ! Mais, cette fois, les balles chargées dans le revolver n'étaient pas à blanc... Le mobile du crime ? Difficile d'en trouver un de prime abord tant cette crapule de Surbonadier était détestée de tous au sein de la troupe. Alors, vengeance, règlement de comptes, jalousie ? À l'inspecteur principal Roderick Alleyn, de Scotland Yard, assisté du journaliste Nigel Bathgate, de monter sur scène pour résoudre l'affaire.

A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramn Mercader—the obedient assassin. Ramn Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.