Vigilante Crime

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.

Mob rule had taken over the border town of Whetstone, New Mexico. Black-hooded vigilantes were stringing up those they considered to be "undesirables" for even the pettiest of crimes. Someone somewhere had to bring peace back to the beleaguered town - but who in hell was it going to be?

A man holds 12 children hostage at gunpoint. Across the street, James Hawker dangles from a skyscraper, watching the terrorist through a sniper's scope. Hawker has a shot, and he wants to take it, but the police brass say no. By the time he gets permission, it will be far too late. The terrorist opens fire, killing two of the children before Hawker can take him out. When the smoke clears, the madman is dead, and Hawker's career is toast. No longer a cop, he's about to become America's deadliest defender.

When a body turns up at a Texas Uni Campus, police initially believe it's the result of an initiation gone wrong, the victim covered in graffiti while suspended above a fire pit. As more bodies are found, each the result of a sadistic game played by a vicious killer, it soon becomes clear that a new evil has risen. With the death toll mounting and the police left clueless, Sam is quickly dispatched to help locate the monster. But things take a turn when a student makes a confession so shocking, it leaves many questioning the very force meant to protect them.

Almost two years after returning from America, and walking away from the fight, Sam Pope is living a quiet, peaceful life. Working alongside his close friend to help underprivileged kids, Sam is searching for redemption. To him, the fight is over. But when an ambitious reporter delves too far into a shady corporation's dealings, desperation turns violent, with heart breaking consequences for a close friend of Sam's. Racked with the guilt of his past, Sam faces a grueling battle to not return to his old ways. But when good people are hurt, and bad people walk free, someone has to fight.

Vigilante assassin Silence Jones is accustomed to hunting people who escaped justice. But nothing can prepare him for the depths of deceit he’s about to face. People are being murdered across the United States, and law enforcement is powerless to stop it. The victims’ only connection: They’re all survivors of a military training disaster years earlier. As Silence feverishly chases the killer around the country, he uncovers a sinister cover-up and the dark forces willing to do anything to maintain the secret.

Two pulp adventure stories set in 1940s Chicago: In the first story, the city is under the control of a ruthless crime boss who seeks to unite all illegal activities under his control. Unexpected competition arrives in the person of a masked killer, The Inferno, who uses flame as a weapon. Opposing them both is The Eclipse, a masked vigilante. In the follow-up story, a new crime lord has stepped in to take the place of the fallen gang leader. He sets his sights on obtaining a powerful new weapon that will guarantee him a stranglehold on the city.

Eiskalte Rache. Vanilleeis mit Kirschsauce: Die zwölfjährige Claudia stirbt einige Stunden nach dem Genuss ihres Lieblingsdesserts im Kreis ihrer Familie. Wer hatte einen Grund, das Mädchen zu vergiften? Diese Frage zerstört die Patchwork-Familie und drei Menschenleben, denn auf jedem von ihnen liegt ein schrecklicher Verdacht. Claudias Mutter braucht sechsunddreißig Jahre, um endlich die Wahrheit zu erkennen. Sie schmiedet einen perfiden Plan.

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.

Carl Ramsey has done the unthinkable: he turned down a lucrative job. When the deed is too despicable even for outlaws like the Mobius crew, someone nasty had to be behind it. Carl and his friends decide to hunt down their potential employer and turn him over to the authorities. But as amateur vigilantes, they mire themselves in a moral quagmire of conflicts of interest. With victory (and a tidy payday) in their sights, can they live with the awful truth they uncover?

They are a well-oiled killing machine, given the legal authority by their government to assassinate US criminals. The agents' targets are clueless as to who they are, when they're coming, or where these assassins will ultimately take their lives. Conspiracy theorists speculate on their existence. The local authorities turn a blind eye to their aftermath. That's exactly how the Hunter Cell wants it to be. Now the threads of the Cell's perfect system are unraveling. A simple embezzlement contract in the Pacific Northwest turns into a nationwide manhunt. Faceless vigilantes are interfering with it and other contracts across the board.

When Carter McCoy learns he hasn't got long to live, it's time to take care of something he has wanted to do for years—kill the man responsible for his daughter's death. But Carter has no experience killing, and isn't even sure he can do it. Breanna needs to escape her toxic home life, or end up living a life of regret. When she happens upon the old man with a rifle, she sees a light at the end of her dark tunnel. Carter may be the answer to her problems, if he lives long enough to help her.

MG Martin lives and breathes geek culture. She works as a writer for the comic book company she idolized as a kid. But despite her love of hooded vigilantes, MG prefers her comics stay on the page. But when someone in LA starts recreating crime scenes from her favorite comic book, MG is the LAPD’s best - and only - lead. She recognizes the golden arrow left at the scene as the calling card of her favorite comic book hero. The thing is…superheroes aren’t real. Are they? When Detective Kildaire asks for her comic book expertise, MG is more than up for the adventure.

En la España de los 1979, un joven profesor de matemáticas se encuentra, al leer un periódico, con la noticia de que está oficialmente muerto. Decide, entonces, cambiar radicalmente su vida: toma la decisión de dedicarse a robarles a los ladrones de altos vuelos: probablemente, una de las actividades más peligrosas que existen. No sin dificultades logra un nuevo DNI y demás documentos oficiales, se inicia en las artes del robo y aprende a manejar armas. Traficantes de drogas, de personas o atracadores se convierten en sus objetivos principales.

In a life of crime, loyalty means everything - even if you don’t always see eye to eye. But when Vaughn Sadler speaks up to get Franny Doyle sent down, he’s broken every rule in the book to win checkmate. Holed up in prison, Franny has more than one score to settle - but she’s starting with Vaughn. Because you don’t grass on your own, no matter what. And though she may be behind bars, she will get revenge - whatever the cost.

As a cop, Joe Collins knew there were bad people out there - serial killers, monsters that needed to be caught... and eliminated. His vigilante brand of justice makes for exciting listening in this new mystery series that will etch itself into your imagination like a tattoo.

Holmes and Watson are plunged into the secret underworld of 1925 London, where a serial killer of musical (gay) men is afoot. The killer has a little list, and Sherlock is on it. Why? And what have the Bloomsbury Group and the Diogenes Club got to do with anything? Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 71-year-old who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting. He's not quite as sharp as he used to be, but he's still pretty sharp, and a bit of a vigilante in his old age.

For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are the most stringent in the nation. And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.

Sie sind gierig, sie sind jung, sie sind skrupellos - und sie haben nichts zu verlieren. Für Maraja, Tucano, Drane und Dragò beginnt der Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in Neapel früh. Maraja ist noch keine achtzehn, als er nach dem Mord an seinem Bruder Blutrache schwört. Doch eigentlich will der Clan vor allem eins: Die nächste Million mit Kokain machen. Als es zu Lieferschwierigkeiten kommt, muss Maraja Allianzen mit den Rivalen schmieden - und unterschätzt die Gefahr aus den eigenen Reihen.

This city was a sewer of drugs and corruption. Someone had to do something about it. And, improbably, minds far wiser than her own had selected Alley. On the hellish streets of Acadia, salvation comes in the form of an angel. One who doesn't care much about collateral damage. Alley is a 15-year-old girl with a genius IQ, a self-medicating mother, and an unusual obsession with a 1980s movie star. Alley's never truly questioned why her unemployed mother is wealthy enough to afford a luxury apartment. She's more concerned with collecting '80s memorabilia.