Assassin Thriller

Winner, Best Mystery/Thriller eBook, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Bronze Medalist. Honorable mention, Readers' Favorite 2014 International Book Awards, thriller category.

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.

Martin Wheeler - AKA Jaxon Rasner - is hiding from his past. After nearly a decade of living in obscurity, a team of killers is sent to end his life. Making matters worse, his estranged daughter is brutally abducted. Marked for death, he must return to the life he left behind as he races for survival throughout the Outer Ring, where he has no choice but to embrace the killer within.

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.

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.

Hambourg, 1947. La ville en ruines, occupée par les Britanniques, est confrontée à l'hiver le plus froid du siècle. Tout est bloqué par le gel. Les aliments et tout le nécessaire pour vivre sont rationnés, le marché noir est florissant. À l'heure où le chacun pour soi l'emporte sur les rares élans de solidarités, les réfugiés et les sans-logis suite aux bombardements se retrouvent à aménager des trous de cave, à vivre dans la promiscuité des bunkers et des baraques.

Guy believed he’d found the answer to overcoming that bleak dysfunctional fatalism they all felt. Bottling up emotions isn’t good, he reasoned. So, he would do what ordinary people did and he would set up an emotional support group. It was only when the newest member joined the group that things started to happen. The tables were turning and the assassins found themselves being targeted. This wasn’t good, but at least it gave an opportunity to get away from the hotel that served the worst tea imaginable.

Wolf is in Panama waiting for the details of his next assignment. When his handler contacts him, he is immediately distrustful and suspicious of the plan. He sees it as a suicide mission with no way out. Within hours, bodies start to pile up, a double-cross and betrayal are tripped up, and a final showdown that leaves the target alive and Wolf on the run.

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.

It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.

El Secreto de los Assassini es un thriller histórico lleno de aventuras, de las que los tres protagonistas: Hércules Guzmán Fox, John Lincoln y Alicia Mantorella van a contarnos recorriendo medio mundo desde las pirámides de Egipto pasando por una Turquía en guerra hasta la Acróipolis griega, para llegar a conseguir.

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.