Vigilante Crime

Aller guten Morde sind drei! Während seine Richterkollegen an den Folgen der schlecht geplanten Digitalisierungswelle verzweifeln, kann Siggi Buckmann über Schwierigkeiten dieser Art nur müde lächeln. Denn kaum ist er von der Hochzeitsfeier seiner Ex-Frau Britta zurückgekehrt, wird er beinahe von einem Auto überfahren, nur wenig später verfehlt ihn ein herabstürzender Blumenkübel um Haaresbreite. Während sein alter Freund Hauptkommissar Hiller an einen Zufall glaubt, ist Siggi sicher, dass es jemand auf ihn abgesehen hat.

Officer Justice is still alive and killing in book three. His undeserved heartache fuels his hatred of predators like never before. In A Bloody Broken Heart, Officer Justice shares the crushing pain of betrayal he experienced as a young vigilante. Lost love drove Justice to the edge and criminals paid for his suffering, with their lives. This manuscript was delivered anonymously to Robert Lawrence, as were Justice's two prior memoirs. The book is not for the "faint of heart", as the unexpected death is shocking, but necessary, according to Officer Justice.

Security specialist Sophie Ang goes off-grid into the remote valley of Kalalau on Kaua`i, where she stumbles across the disappearance of a young boy. As she races against time to save him, uncovering ugly secrets hidden in the heart of the jungle, the events she tried to flee on Oahu gather momentum. Special Agent Marcella Scott straps on her heels and wades in to help deal with what the cyber vigilante the Ghost has left behind, and trying to clear Sophie from a murder charge.

Almost everything has been invoked to account for Trump's victory and the rise of alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography - everything, that is, except popular culture. In The Sky Is Falling best-selling cultural critic, Peter Biskind, dives headlong into two decades of popular culture - from superhero franchises such as the X-Men and the Avengers and series like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones to thrillers like Homeland and 24 - and emerges to argue that these shows are saturated with the values that are currently animating our extreme politics.

In a hard-edged cyberpunk future, a courier is has stolen a load of the most dangerous, most dazzling drug ever invented and is smuggling it into New York City. Pursued by a hired hit woman disguised as a young girl and a federally-appointed vigilante, he must find his way through the mean streets of Manhattan to his lair. He is ruthless, amoral, and a rat. Not just figuratively, but literally: a two-foot-long, walking, talking rat. Hearing is believing.

Dawn's Revenge is a thriller set in the New Orleans French Quarter. Jack Chandler, a struggling young lawyer who takes every case that comes in the door, learns that his housekeeper's beautiful teenage daughter has been brutally raped and murdered by a ring of child molesters. The powerful sheriff of Orleans Parish condones the crime and attempts to silence Jack, who seeks to get justice in spite of attempts on his life.

Wanting to wind down after a week-long seminar, U.S. Federal Marshal Stokker Teague finds himself in a hotel bar with plans to celebrate with a few drinks. Seeing a cute female sitting alone a few tables away, he’s interested and decides to make his move to see if she’ll bite. He’s got some time to kill before his flight home in a couple of days, so why not? Diane takes the bait, but their one-night stand ends up being so much more than either of them expected.

Una semana antes que el asesino de su hijo salga en libertad, Pedro Montes recibe una llamada telefónica donde le ofrecen la oportunidad de vengarse. Han pasado cuatro años desde aquel crimen, pero él no ha podido superar el dolor de la pérdida ni seguir adelante con su vida.

Trouble is brewing in New Orleans. Shifters are moving in, and vampires are being picked off in record numbers. And vampire hunter Phoebe Kilsen is right in the middle of the war. When Phoebe's best friend goes missing along with the consort of the most powerful vampire in New Orleans, Phoebe betrays her heart and her shifter partner by teaming up with the one vampire she's never trusted.

With the help of his social worker and a newfound friend, Shaun, Matt struggles back from the brink, only to risk stumbling again following Shaun's sudden, drug-related death. Instead, Matt finds revenge and, ultimately, redemption, by stepping outside the rules created by society....

Harlan Cobens aktueller Thriller über einen unschuldig verurteilten Vater für den Mord an seinem Sohn. David, Cheryl und ihr dreijähriger Sohn Matthew sind die perfekte Familie – bis sie eines Nachts durch eine schreckliche Tragödie brutal auseinandergerissen werden. Fünf Jahre später verbüßt der traumatisierte David eine lebenslange Haftstrafe für den angeblichen Mord an seinem Sohn. Da zeigt ihm seine Schwägerin Rachel während der Besuchszeit das vor Kurzem zufällig aufgenommene Foto einer Menschenmenge. Im Hintergrund ein ungefähr achtjähriger Junge mit einem unverwechselbarem Muttermal: Matthew.

In the streets of our cities, the evil people seemingly walk freely. It seems that the laws of the land slide off of them like water off a duck's back, but imagine, if you can, the presence of hunters. Hunters of evil. Hunters who not only can but enjoy removing the evil element from the streets. Would you sleep better knowing there are such hunters out there? Would you walk the streets of your city just a little less afraid? It's something to think about, is it not? Hunters who remove the threat with a finality that the law never can.

Justice is a word with which Master Thief Rayla Rousseau is very familiar. After all, as Thief à la Femme and one of the fourteen members of the all-female thieving crew known universally as Robins of the Hood, procuring justice for those who can’t get it through legal means is what she does. So, when one of the Robins’ own discovers the Arsenault Museum has stolen her ancestors’ artwork, the sisterhood is all over it. Unfortunately, the museum’s security has the lady thieves baffled—a first for the four-decades-old Robins.

Recruited by the group after killing his persecutory neighbor, Victor Dickens finds himself residing in a fully furnished apartment, free of charge. Assisting in the Silent Minority’s efforts to bully the world’s bullies, he visits abusive jocks and fear-mongering celebrities. Interacting with fellow introverts Beth and Orson, for the first time in his life, Vic attains friendship.

Edgar Wallace’s classic vigilante detective series The Four Just Men – involving four wealthy and resourceful individuals determined to take the law into their own hands – has maintained its popularity for over a century In this, the opening volume, the mysterious Four Just Men punish by death those who are beyond the reach of the law. When Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon’s proposed Aliens Extradition Bill threatens the safety of a Spanish resistance leader, the men warn Sir Sir Philip that he must either withdraw the legislation, or face death.

As dusk falls the night before the trial of notorious crime boss Thomas Unwin, the prosecution’s star witness is brutally murdered, his killer escaping in plain sight from a secure hotel. Detective Rick Turner spent months building the case against Unwin, and he’s not willing to give up now. But Unwin has one final trick up his sleeve to turn the trial in his favour: he has Rick’s girlfriend, Jess, kidnapped in a plan to coerce Rick into throwing his own testimony.

Before he was trying to save the world, he just wanted to save his own ass. Bill Ryder has a problem: the vampires under his rule don't respect him. Unfortunately, in the world of the supernatural, that makes him as good as dead.

Jack Taylor has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Garda, is ancient history.

When eight immigrants arrived at the Baltimore Federal Courthouse to be sworn in as new citizens, they didn’t give a thought to the trial next door of five terrorists charged with blowing up a federal building. Baltimore Sun reporter Mark Shrader did care about that trial. His wife and unborn child had been killed in that explosion, but in spite of his pleas to cover the case, he was instead ordered to write a Sunday-Supplement article on the new citizens. Then the terrorists escaped their guards, invaded the immigrants' courtroom, and took them all hostage.

At hyre en morder har aldrig været farligere... ”Jeg venter på, at der kommer nogen og dræber mig. I aften vil være et godt tidspunkt.” Sytten, verdens mest berygtede lejemorder, har sagt op. Men hvem, der end måtte ønske at blive Snigmorder Atten, må finde og dræbe ham først. Så da en kugle rammer glasset få centimeter fra hans ansigt, ved han, hvem der skød – gør han ikke? Men skytten er ikke den hårdkogte dræber, han forventede. Det er Mireille – et mystisk, tavst barn, efterladt alene i skoven med instruktioner om at trykke på aftrækkeren.