Assassin Thriller

Based on actual events, The Story of My Assassins tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he’s started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his aspiring murderers - a ragtag group of street thugs and village waifs - and their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why?

Shanghai, 1936. A series of assassinations of Japanese businessmen, sailors, and officials has struck fear into the International Settlement, and the Chinese government is blaming communist insurgents. Doug Bainbridge is soon pulled into the political intrigue. When a friend of Doug's is arrested for the assassination of a Japanese secret agent, Doug is certain she didn't do it. Since Chinese officials don't seem to care about Wong Mei-ling's actual guilt or innocence, Doug and his girlfriend Lucy Kinzler take it upon themselves to find proof of the real killers.

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.

Quando Carla torna a casa il suo gatto sonnecchia sul divano. Come sempre, a casa degli zii (Carla vive con loro da quando... a questo preferisce non pensare) non c'è nessuno, a parte il gatto. Ma oggi Cucco è strano. Ha le zampe bagnate. E lascia delle impronte. Rosse. Di sangue? All'improvviso in casa fanno irruzione due agenti, in divisa e senza distintivo: sarà perché sono in missione speciale? Carla non sa se fidarsi, ma non c'è tempo: la fanno salire in macchina e portano via anche il gatto. Si ritrova così al centro di un'indagine per omicidio.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In every life, there lurks catastrophe. So believes Eli Dagan, a 39-year-old man whose traumatic past led to his service as an assassin for the Mossad. He now lives in New York City, where under various assumed names he’s a contract killer.

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.

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.

“Il Coccodrillo” lo chiamano i giornali: perché, come il coccodrillo quando divora i propri figli, piange. E come il coccodrillo è una perfetta macchina di morte: si apposta, osserva, aspetta. E colpisce. Tre giovani, di età e provenienza sociale diverse, vengono trovati morti in tre differenti quartieri, freddati dal colpo di un’unica pistola. L’ispettore Giuseppe Lojacono è l’unico che non si ferma alle apparenze, e riuscirà a trovare il collegamento, apparentemente inesistente, tra i delitti.

When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe little teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career. But will the reality he unravels be less believable than memories he never questioned?