Political Crime

A Western terrorist organization targets Muslims around the world, and FBI agent John Savas must put aside the loss of his son and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to stop the plot of an American bin Laden and prevent a global catastrophe.

The Iranian Connection: Code Word Orchid - an internationally-flavored novel - relates the actions of Hezbollah operatives who wish to detonate a nuclear device in New York City in order to weaken the United States' support for Israel in post September 11th months, as well as disrupt the U.S. economy.

Anti-terrorist organizations work at odds with, and then in concert with, one another to foil the deadly explosion.

Lara Mendès, jeune chroniqueuse télé, enquête sur le marché du sexe et ses déviances. Elle disparaît sur un parking d'autoroute... Désemparés par la lenteur de l'enquête, ses proches reçoivent le soutien de Léon Castel, fondateur d'une association de victimes. Sa fille Sookie, policière hors norme, a enquêté sur une triple pendaison qui semble liée à cette affaire. Qui a enlevé Lara ? Pourquoi ?

Der israelische Geheimagent und Restaurator Gabriel Allon bessert gerade ein Altarbild in Venedig aus, als die Polizei seine Hilfe verlangt: Ein krimineller Kunstsammler wurde in seiner Villa am Comer See ermordet. Ausgerechnet Gabriels Weggefährte Julian Isherwood gilt als Hauptverdächtiger. Um dessen Unschuld zu beweisen, muss Allon den wahren Täter aufspüren. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn bis in den Nahen Osten. Dabei stößt er auf ein mörderisches Komplott von gigantischem Ausmaß - und kommt dem berühmtesten gestohlenen Gemälde der Welt auf die Spur.

In the life of every country, at a moment of extreme national disruption, there is a brief period of breakdown, when everything is uncertain, events can turn on a dime. That is the moment to act, to shape events how you want them to go. That is Minute Zero.

Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco's mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket, and Cain's cold-case investigation, must wait. At City Hall, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he's received: the first, an unforgettable blonde; the second, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third, the woman drinking from a flask; and last, the woman naked, unconscious, and shackled to a bed.

ín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the investigation. As he reaches into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, then just an intern, now a respected judge. Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s, Sacheri’s tale reveals the underpinnings of Argentina’s Dirty War and takes on the question of justice - what it really means and in whose hands it belongs.

The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings. Now, after forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President.

Un relato vibrante, tenso y pormenorizado que empieza leyéndose como una novela policíaca y acaba leyéndose como una novela de terror.

A young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in a Stockholm suburb. She is identified as Rebecca Trolle, a student who went missing two years earlier. While Fredrika Bergman and her team try to find out why Rebecca met such a violent demise, more bodies are found in the same area.

Chief Inspector Hacker has seen it all in his 30 years as a detective for Interpol - but now he has a famous cold case that will try his very sole. Battle to Uncover Eagle21’s Secrets becomes a life and death struggle. Hacker’s idea of technology is stuck in the 1980s and he is unsure how to use today’s devices. His foe quickly acts with devastating results.

Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp is finally recognized for his heroic service to New York City when a group of politicians back him for the top job as Manhattan's district attorney. But a series of cases involving vigilante murders begins to reveal the true motives of those civil servants standing by his side. It's Karp versus the dirty city in one of Tanenbaum's most revealing and caustic legal thrillers - a stunning indictment of civil corruption and overreach.

Ein Rachefeldzug gegen den Chefermittler oder die Verschwörung eines unsichtbaren Gegners? Erschüttert betrachtet Paul Hjelm die verzweifelte Videobotschaft zweier seiner Ermittler. Zeitgleich detoniert in der Wohnung seiner Kollegin Donatella Bruni eine heimtückische Paketbombe. Ein tragischer Zufall? Paul Hjelm ist überzeugt davon, dass die Verbrechen ganz gezielt ausgeführt werden: Jemand muss ihn und seine geheime Opcop-Gruppe enttarnt haben.

Former Michigan detective Adam Tatum receives an unexpected offer, a golden opportunity that seems almost too good to be true. He travels to 10 Downing Street to participate in a high-stakes conference. Immediately after his visit, a bomb detonates, wounding the prime minister and placing Adam Tatum squarely in the crosshairs of suspicion. Sensing a setup, Tatum flees with his family, desperately fighting for survival in an unfamiliar country.

Anfangs wollte David Wagner lediglich den Freilandversuch eines russischen Großkonzerns in der Nähe seines Heimatorts sabotieren, bei dem gentechnisch veränderte Weizensaat zum Einsatz kommt - doch als ihm während Nachforschungen gestohlene Dokumente bezüglich weiterer Vorhaben des Konzerns zugespielt werden, befindet er sich bereits inmitten einer Verschwörung, die weit über den Einsatz von manipuliertem Saatgut hinausgeht.

We uncovered the last of the bodies in the red hour before dusk, as the sun stained the snowcaps of the Tian Shan mountains the colour of dried blood and the spring air turned sharp and cold.... Inspector Akyl Borubaev of Bishkek Murder Squad has been exiled to the far corner of Kyrgystan, but death still haunts him at every turn. Borubaev soon finds himself caught up in a mysterious and gruesome new case: several children's bodies have been found buried together - all tagged with name bands.

Das Volk verehrt sie. Doch ihr Exmann und seine Mutter, die Königin von England, verachten sie. Als eine Bombe sie in den Tod reißt, setzt die britische Regierung alles daran, den Täter zu finden. Dafür benötigt sie die Hilfe eines Mannes: Gabriel Allon, legendärer Agent des israelischen Geheimdienstes. Zusammen mit dem ehemaligen SAS-Offizier Christopher Keller macht er sich daran, die blutige Fährte des verantwortlichen Topterroristen zu verfolgen. Eine Fährte, die Gabriel an den dunkelsten Ort seiner Vergangenheit führt.

Ambition, murder, politics. Elements in the tragic collision of two lives. Anthony "JoJo" Machado, decorated marine combat veteran, and Detective Sergeant Josh Williams, East Providence Police Department. Two men inextricably linked by circumstances beyond their control. One will die. One will face the loss of everything he holds dear. Collision Course is the riveting story of blind political ambition trampling truth.

Tom Zoellner, a longtime friend of Giffords’ and a field organizer on her congressional campaign, uses the tragedy as a jumping off point to expose the fault lines in Arizona’s political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen: the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing market’s boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration.

Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.