Assassin Thriller

When Gwendolyn Bloom's father vanishes, she sets off on a journey she never bargained for. Traveling under a new identity in a world of assassins, spies, and criminal masterminds, she uncovers a disturbing truth. To bring her father back alive, she must become every bit as cruel as the men holding him captive.

Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent 11 week son the New York Times best seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the listener’s attention until the very last minute. In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying.

The most riveting novel yet in Christopher Reich’s New York Times best-selling series - featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma, a dangerous woman with a mysterious past who has gone rogue in the high-stakes, serpentine world of international spies. In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Nearly 30 years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed.

Ian Bridges works as a hitman and is on permanent stand-by for West End gangster John Broad. He does maybe three or four jobs a year and spends the rest of his life desperately trying to find Mrs Right so he can settle down, but can't and it feels like the world is conspiring against him. He's about to find out he's right.

Set in fogbound wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set out to reveal the true identity of Ishmael, the group's heavily protected and enigmatic leader.

He is deadly and acts without remorse. He inflicts pain and death in service to his master. Now he's killed someone close to Dan and those he loves. It's become more than a mission for Dan; it's personal now. The assassin may want to lure Dan into his trap to kill him, but Dan has other ideas. One assassin must track another to his lair in a desperate attempt to eliminate him before anyone else dies.

Démis de ses fonctions de commandant à la PJ parisienne, le lieutenant Lucas Dorinel vit son exil brestois comme une petite mort. Jusqu'à ce qu'un message obscur "Les Bêtes seront sacrifiées" lui rappelle ce que la mort, la vraie, a de plus terrifiant. Car le message le conduit à un cadavre. Sauvagement mutilé. Celui d'un homme incarcéré huit ans plus tôt pour le meurtre d'un enfant. En s'adressant directement à lui, l'assassin réveille en Lucas à la fois son instinct de flic et sa violence. Le meurtrier et lui sont faits de la même étoffe.

Newlyweds Emma and Colin are suspicious when prosecutor Tamara McDermott is a no-show at a Boston dinner party. Matt Yankowski, head of HIT, Emma and Colin’s small, elite Boston-based team, is a friend of Tamara’s, and he needs them to find her. In London, a woman who was supposed to meet Emma’s art-detective grandfather to talk about forgeries is discovered near death. Her husband, who stayed behind in Boston, has vanished. The couple’s connection to Tamara adds to the puzzle.

As most of New York City sleeps, Athena Paradis, one of the most glamorous and desired women in the world, steps onto the red carpet at an exclusive nightclub. Suddenly a shot rings out, and Athena dies amidst hundreds of cameras and spotlights. When Henry Parker begins to investigate the famous starlet's death, another public murder shakes the city to its core. Both murders appear to be more like executions. And Henry discovers a shocking link between the two murders, and to a man who seems to be taking his cue from one of the most notorious killers in history.

Un assassino spietato e una ragazzina. Esiste una coppia più letale? Una casa, una famiglia, una vita normale: queste sono solo alcune delle cose che Will Robie non potrà mai avere, un obiettivo impossibile da raggiungere, quasi quanto quelli che il lavoro gli impone.Narcotrafficanti, terroristi, ricchi sceicchi e criminali di ogni genere: se gli Stati Uniti ordinano, lui esegue, e questi individui spariscono dalla faccia della terra. Ma cosa succede quando entra in gioco la coscienza e non premere quel grilletto innesca una serie di pericolose reazioni a catena.

It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaiso, a monster who has tortured and killed more than one thousand dissidents at a soccer stadium in Valparaiso. McGarvey manages to cross the border over the mountains from Argentina without being discovered, and even makes his way to the general's remote compound. But the odds are stacked against him.

Em uma gélida madrugada de Natal, o atropelamento de uma jovem desaparecida há dez anos é apenas o início de uma sequência de crimes brutais. Nos dias que se seguiram, mulheres grávidas começam a desaparecer sem deixar vestígios, com seus corpos sempre sendo encontrados empalhados e posicionados em cenas teatrais montadas por um psicopata cruel, que todos passam a chamar de O Homem de Palha.

Maura Nelson, who has a sophisticated background in science, medicine, and programming, has stumbled upon a way to execute someone using only the computers in her home office—silently, anonymously, leaving no trace of violence, so that her target appears to have died of natural causes. Maura tests her method by eliminating Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, but this experience affects her so deeply that she doesn’t want to continue alone. She entices Jack Plymouth into a partnership to rid the world of those they decide “need to be dead.”

Homicide detective Ryan Clark has a problem. A prominent businessman has been assassinated by a drive-by shooting. Two weeks earlier another man, in the same industry, was shot and killed. He suspects the assassinations are related and calls an old friend with the FBI.

Als ein mysteriöser Angriff mit einer Ultraschall-Waffe die Einleitung zu etwas Schlimmeren zu werden droht, macht sich Agent Null auf eine weltweite Verbrecherjagd, um die endgültige Zerstörung aufzuhalten, bevor alles zu spät ist. Agent Null, der versucht, nach dem Amtsenthebungsverfahren des Präsidenten und Saras gefahrenvollen Erlebnissen etwas Luft zu schnappen, will sich vom Dient zurückziehen und seine Familie wieder vereinen.

He tried to think how many men he had killed and could not remember. "How many do you need to kill before you lose count?" he wondered. Sir Stephen Mendal, head of MI6, looked up from the report. Apparently an unknown secret organization had been recruiting ex-MI6 agents, specifically those that specialized in "wet work", the nasty side of the business. One of these old employees had just been shot dead by the authorities whilst robbing a bank in Switzerland. He had to know more. What was this organization up to, and why employ such specialists? He decided he needed a spy.

Valentina has a problem. An assassin competitor shows up unannounced and unappreciated. Never a good situation to find oneself in. The Conclave members are infighting and providing her additional jobs. Now, if those jobs weren't in conflict, life might have been a touch easier to handle. With an assassin on her tail, two powerfully rich competitors vying for her services, and worries about her missing sibling, she is determined to make it all work out in the end. Or several people are going to die.

Victor ha un talento naturale per l'omicidio. Sicario abile e spietato si trova costretto a lavorare per conto di un misterioso agente della CIA: tre sconosciuti, tre colpi. Ma il lavoro non è veloce e pulito come avrebbe voluto. Man mano che il killer elimina le sue vittime, si rende conto che il gioco si fa sempre più complesso, intricato e letale. Nel suo mestiere non è sempre facile tracciare una linea netta tra nemici e alleati, ma Victor si accorge di essere nel mezzo di una guerra segreta.

Mehmet battles for daily survival in the murky Istanbul of 1951 while being forced to learn the craft of theft and violence alongside the other street children. Come evening, he curls up under a stinking jetty in a waterway off the Bosporus Strait. Desperation fills him as he yearns to break free from the life inflicted on him by his drunken, womanizing father, little knowing that his rotting body lies at the bottom of those same waters.

When the CIA is tipped off that one of its most wanted men is going to be in Bologna, Italy, Ferg and the First Team are tasked to apprehend him at any cost - but under no circumstances can Italian authorities be made aware. There is just one problem: No one has seen the man in over 10 years, and he is only known by a decades-old code-name: T-Rex. This assassin has been involved in the murder of at least a dozen prominent western leaders, and the grapevine reveals he's been called out of a long, silent hiding for one more major strike. Ferg and the Team arrive in Italy, where they recruit the help of a beautiful French Samaritan named Jane Foucoult.