Assassin Thriller

Vint-i-cinc anys més tard, tornen els Germans Miranda amb set de venjança. Deu sicaris literaris amb una llarga experiència en l'ofici i que són, curiosament, germans, van rebre, fa alguns mesos, un encàrrec al qual no es van poder negar: cada un d'ells havia de perpetrar un assassinat literari, basat en experiències pròpies o imaginades. No els vam dir a qui, ni quants, ni de quina manera, ni on, ni quan s'havien de cometre els assassinats, ni si havien de ser reals, inventats o somiats.

After leading a raid in Afghanistan, elite operative John Stratton is contacted by an old friend in military intelligence with a curious message about being hunted by an assassin. When the officer vanishes, Stratton gets drawn into a desperate race to secure a missing nuclear warhead, stolen from the Pakistan military. Against an unknown enemy, he conducts a terrifying search for the bomb - from a Taliban hideout a few miles outside Bagram Air Base to the crowded streets of Manhattan.

In 2003, in the chaos surrounding the Iraq War and the fall of Baghdad, a team of top freelance assassins infiltrates and then escapes the country with a near priceless treasure. Since then there's been barely a whisper of a rumor of those men, the treasure, and what it actually means.

The latest from the author of When the Wind Blows and Kiss the Girls reveals Patterson at the peak of his power and is easily his most dynamic and compelling psychological thriller to date. Here is a chilling villain, a love story of great tenderness, and a plot of relentless suspense and heart-pounding pace.

Les Germanes Quintana tornen disposades a carregar-se qui se'ls posi al davant. Deu sicàries literàries amb una llarga experiència en l'ofici i que són, curiosament, germanes, van rebre, fa alguns mesos, un encàrrec al qual no es van poder negar: cada una d'elles havia de perpetrar un assassinat literari, basat en experiències pròpies o imaginades. Algunes de les nostres assassines han estat delicades, d'altres brutals, d'altres no se n'han sortit o se n'han sortit massa, n'hi ha que ho han fet soles i n'hi ha que han muntat un equip, però, sigui com sigui, totes han imaginat assassinats.

Eté 1989. La Corse, presqu'île de la Revellata, entre mer et montagne. Une route en corniche, un ravin de vingt mètres, une voiture qui roule trop vite... et bascule dans le vide. Une seule survivante : Clotilde, quinze ans. Ses parents et son frère sont morts sous ses yeux.

In 1945, a ruthless female assassin attempts to take down the ultimate target: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And an unlikely hero, Professor Mikhal Lammeck, may be the only one who can stop her.

Nora, la petite trentaine, prend le train depuis Londres pour rendre visite à sa sœur dans la campagne. À son arrivée, elle découvre que Rachel a été victime d'un crime barbare. Atomisée par la douleur, Nora est incapable de retourner à sa vie d'avant. Des années auparavant, un événement traumatique a ébranlé sa confiance dans la police ; elle pense être la seule à pouvoir retrouver l'assassin de sa grande sœur.

Book 3 in the Assassin Series, Return of the Assassin is the shocking continuation of the saga of El Rey, the notorious Mexican cartel super-assassin whose legacy of impossible kills has earned him the reputation as the most lethally effective hit man in the world.

A German hit man has targeted a world leader for execution. In a high octane race against the clock, an unlikely alliance must track and stop the assassin before he can carry out his unthinkable scheme. The fifth of the bestselling Assassin novels, Blood of the Assassin can be heard as a stand-alone audiobook or as the continuation of the series.

Book 2 in the Assassin series, Revenge of the Assassin is the breakneck-paced sequel to the best-selling international thriller King of Swords. When El Rey, the super assassin responsible for Latin America's most spectacular hits, returns to Mexico for one final sanction, the race is on for Captain Romero Cruz of the Federales to stop him before he can fulfill his contract to kill the president.

It was a bad day all round for Tommy Biscotti and his friends. All Tommy wanted were a few pills. What he got was a bullet in the back. Hammerhead, Tommy’s source, got two in the head. Jake Burke, Hammerhead’s sidekick, got his brains blown out. Pretty standard stuff for the low lives of the underworld. But what did it all have to do with Senator Andrew Hawke’s run for governor? Who is the assassin?

When prominent CEOs of Fortune 500 companies begin dying in a series of freak accidents, The Think Tank is tasked to investigate. Junior analyst Sloane Keller soon connects the CEOs to Chinese venture capitalist Michael Sun—a brilliant businessman with a shadowy past. With each new discovery, Sloane becomes convinced that the deaths are by design and all part of an international conspiracy. But to what end, she does not know …

Jake Harrigan is a lethal government assassin based in Washington where his wife, who he adores, works for a large defense contractor, totally unaware of what Jake does for the government. While Jake is on a dangerous mission to terminate the patriarch of a large family oil company in Dubai, who refuses to work on illegal arms deals with rogue government agents, Jake's bosses, his wife overhears those same agents and her boss discussing their treacherous plans.

When former government assassin Jake Harrigan and former agent Sarah Schaumberg form their own security firm, their first assignment is in Israel, training new recruits for Mossad, the Israeli Counterintelligence Agency. Shortly after they arrive in Tel Aviv, a rapid series of catastrophic terrorist attacks take place against Israeli-owned targets both in the United States and Israel. With their American background, Jake and Sarah are quickly seconded to help the Mossad response team.

Nothing good ever comes from a midnight phone call. For washed-up spy Harry Tower, it is the worst news at the worst possible time. His son, Sean, has gone missing in troubled Iran after writing an exposé about government corruption. Their relationship has never recovered since Harry's wife's suicide, for which Sean holds his father responsible. And Harry, with his career on the verge of disintegration, needs to find him and put things right.

Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastion—they’re too powerful. Hiding failed to keep Tru’s parents alive, but moments before their murder, Tru’s mom pointed her to Logan Dire, a famed recluse assassin who adopted and trained orphaned Tru. At seventeen, she’s still hiding. Not even her closest friends know her true name or Talent, or that she’s balancing high school with knife and stealth training.

She’s got a to-do list to die for. But can this contract killer take down the most powerful man in the world? Army veteran Rainey has a lot of blood to shed before her work is done. Left for dead on the battlefields of Afghanistan, she rose again with a divine lethal mission and an otherworldly agenda. But her latest target isn’t on the hit list - he’s in the White House. Warned not to make a martyr of a corrupt president, she must stop a world-class rival assassin so she can create the illusion of a natural death.

Kat wanted the Senior Assassin eliminated—just not yet. Now, Legacy Inc rages forward leaderless, she’s locked out of the finances required to keep the assassins in line, and the Senior Assassin’s contingency plan has been activated, placing bounties worth millions of dollars on the names of every Legacy Blood member, including her. There are only two ways to shut down the list: either her cousin Luke claims his spot as Senior Assassin and unlocks the vault, or she finds Aeron Seward and her techie—the only person to ever hack into the Legacy system.

London, 1921. The Great War has recently ended and tensions in England are high. Now, prominent Cabinet minister Lord Amersham has been shot dead outside his Regent's Park home. The signs point to a professional hit. Charged with solving one of the most sensitive and high-profile cases Scotland Yard has ever faced, DCI Paul Stark is under pressure to get the job done quickly.