Assassin Thriller

The Prime Minister’s pregnant superstar mistress is murdered by a criminal financier with an assassination plan that will bring down Government and Monarchy in one deadly, catastrophic afternoon. Beautiful camera girl Henri Fox has been kidnapped, taken bound and gagged down the river Thames. Guy Royce, the PM’s laconic personal security cop, must find her and the assassin quickly—and eliminate him. His kill chase will take him from 10 Downing Street, via Beverly Hills, Barcelona, and Jerusalem.

1914. Tensions are reaching boiling point in Europe and the threat of war is imminent. Johnny Swift, a young and brash diplomatic clerk employed by the British embassy is sent to infiltrate the "Young Bosnians", a group of idealistic conspirators planning to murder Franz Ferdinand. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in a bid to liberate their country from the monarchy’s grip. Swift has been having an affair with his employer’s wife, Lady Elizabeth Smyth.

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.

Jack Steel and Christie Thorton are blackmailed: Become assassins or you and everyone you love will die.... The Jack Steel series is now in development for a major motion picture. Deadly Blackhood Ops specialist Jack Steel has it all; his loving partner Christie, his daughter Rachel, and a protection agency he's proud of. But it's all torn apart when a madman seeking revenge blackmails Steel and Christy. Their skills are pushed to the limit when they must become assassins to save those they love.

La Città degli Angeli ha la sua buona dose di psicopatici, e nessuno lo sa meglio del dottor Alex Delaware, il brillante psicologo che collabora con la polizia. Constance Sykes, un noto fisico piuttosto eccentrico, è la tipica donna che Alex Delaware sa di dover temere. Rimasto invischiato in una strana causa per la custodia di una bambina, intentata dalla scienziata contro la sorella, scoprirà che i rapporti tra fratelli sono più foschi e insondabili di quanto credeva.

CIA operatives Max Wayne and his brother Tom race through Europe and the Middle East to avenge the death of Tom's girlfriend. It's do-or-die to get payback and stop a deadlier attack before it reaches Times Square on New Year's Eve.

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.

Jay Sullivan is a pathetic mess, tortured by his daughter’s kidnapping, and is nothing like the legendary assassin he used to be. Could a clue out of nowhere be the redemption he needs? Or is he destined to remain an alcoholic nomad walking through life alone? So when, after five years of nothing, a clue finally turns up - he decides its time. Time to brush off the old suit. Time to ready his fists again. Time to return to what he once was. Even if he is an alcoholic mess who can barely throw a punch anymore.

Agatha Raisin s'apprête à dire adieu aux hommes, mais c'est sans compter sur Tristan Delon, le nouveau pasteur du village de Carsely, qui jette son dévolu sur elle. Mais derrière son visage d'ange, se cache quelque chose de plus sombre, et lorsqu'il est retrouvé mort dans son bureau, Agatha prend à coeur de démasquer l'assassin.

Isabel Ryans has fled Espera, leaving behind her identity as teen assassin the Moth. Now she’s trying to adjust to the reality of the outside world. But her grief and trauma are catching up with her, and surrounded by civilians who will never understand what life is like in the walled city, she feels more alone than ever. When a journalist is murdered nearby, suspicion falls on Isabel. And inside Espera’s walls, the abolitionist movement is gaining strength. When Isabel’s search for the killer leads to a reunion, she’s forced to decide whether she can really leave the city behind.

To pass the next training phase, Cassandra must kill a certain target, but the line between friend and foe quickly blurs.

Al Qaeda links up with a renegade Mafia chieftain to threaten America with an unimaginable scenario of terror in a new novel featuring Tommy Carmellini - a tale of high drama and nonstop action from perennial best-selling author Stephen Coonts.

The New York Times best-selling author and master of the modern mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, Keller. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently.

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.

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.

San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton hadn’t seen his estranged friend Denny in years. Not until he dies in Frost’s arms uttering a final inexplicable word: Lombard. Denny appears to be the latest victim in a string of murders linked by a distinctive clue: the painting of a spiraled snake near the crime scenes. Is it the work of a serial killer? Or is Denny’s death more twisted and personal? To find the answer, Frost reaches into a nest of vipers - San Francisco’s shady elite - where the whispered name of Lombard is just one secret.

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 Act III of Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt’s Mister Max trilogy, the solutioneer sets off to rescue his missing parents! Ever since Max’s parents were spirited away on a mysterious ship, he has longed to find them. He’s solved case after case for other people in his business as “solutioneer”. And he’s puzzled out the coded messages sent by his father. He doesn’t know exactly what’s happened, but he knows his parents are in danger - and it’s up to Max to save them. Max and his friends (and a few old foes) don disguises and set sail on a rescue mission.

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.

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?