Vigilante Crime

Eine geheimnisvolle Stimme, die sich die Stimme der Gerechtigkeit nennt und nur über ein Radio kommuniziert, behauptet, die Polizei bei der Verbrecherjagd unterstützen zu wollen. Aber ist das wirklich ihr Ziel? Und warum setzen entlarvte Ganoven ihrem Leben selbst ein Ende, kurz bevor die Polizei sie findet?

Der Richter, dein Henker. Als junger Student träumte Siggi Buckmann davon, die Welt ein Stück gerechter zu machen. Als alter Hase im Richteramt schiebt er nur noch Dienst nach Vorschrift. In den Behörden regiert die Bürokratie, und sämtliche Urteile, die Siggi fällt, werden in Berufungsverfahren wieder aufgehoben. Wozu sich also Mühe machen? Doch als ein Obdachloser ums Leben kommt, ohne dass die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden, beginnt Siggi, die Dinge anders zu betrachten. Vielleicht ist die Arbeit im Justizapparat ja doch zu etwas gut.

The kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of Dr. Joshua West’s nine-year-old daughter, Mattie, shatters his life. He lives for the capture, trial, conviction, and punishment of her killer. Fate, however, has its own grotesque form of justice - the killer’s release on a technicality, never to be tried again. Listen to the hard truth about what happens when law fails the innocent and leads them down a dark path from which they may never return.

PI Tommy Dapino's girlfriend goes missing. And he is mistakenly arrested for the crime. To find her before she's gone forever, he breaks out of jail and sets off on a hunt for the real perpetrator, following a mysterious, dangerous trail into the underbelly of Las Vegas. Tommy's unique skill set of grit and deception is unlike anything you've seen. Start your thrill ride alongside him today.

Esta es la historia de una venganza macerada durante quince años. Los mismos que Baldomero Cadalso ha pasado en prisión. Los mismos que Tito lleva llorando a su hija muerta. Quince años, los que dictó la justicia, que a Tito le parecen una tomadura de pelo. Por eso ha decidido imponer su ley, una ley mucho más primitiva, más efectiva y con menos agujeros que esa otra que conocemos, basada en un principio fundamental e inviolable: el que la hace, la paga.

Esta es la historia de una venganza macerada durante quince años. Los mismos que Baldomero Cadalso ha pasado en prisión. Los mismos que Tito lleva llorando a su hija muerta. Quince años, los que dictó la justicia, que a Tito le parecen una tomadura de pelo.

Hall’s latest case involves a woman who’s receiving threatening notes - though as soon as he’s hired, the woman turns up dead. But that’s not the end of the case for Hall. Even though his client is dead, that won’t stop him. He’s going to get to the bottom of this case and find out who the murderer is.

Afton Morrison, 26, is a small-town children’s librarian by day, on a murderous mission to make the world a better place by night. From the hunt for a violent sexual predator to the last stand against her tormentor, The Afton Morrison Series delves into a world of moral ambiguity and is told in four thrilling parts. Packed with suspense, grit, and action, this collection delivers an unlikely heroine in the form of a disturbed vigilante murderess....

Auftragskillerin Violetta Morgenstern ist eine Frau mit Prinzipien. Davor ist auch der Vatikan nicht gefeit... Violetta Morgenstern, Pensionärin mit Vorliebe für kreative Selbstjustiz, weiß nicht, wo ihr der Kopf steht: die Mutter dement, der Freund untreu, eine Kollegin misshandelt... Dazu ihr neuer Job im Auftrag des Staates. Diesmal soll sie mit ihrem Kollegen, dem Ex-Söldner Miguel Schlunegger, einen Kardinal aus dem Vatikan eliminieren. Der Grund: topsecret. Doch ein Attentäter kommt den beiden zuvor. Wer außer ihnen hat sonst noch Interesse am Tod des ranghohen Geistlichen - und vor allem warum?

In Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs, Arellano closely examines such narratives as well as the work of western historian and archivist Hubert Howe Bancroft, who was sympathetic to them and that of Ida B. Wells, who wrote in fierce opposition to lynching. Tracing the creation, maintenance, and circulation of dominant, alternative, and oppositional vigilante stories from the 19th century frontier through the Jim Crow South, she casts new light on the role of narrative in creating a knowable past.

One murdered girl. One unknown killer. One legendary lawman. A lone man sits his horse atop a bluff near the southern Missouri border. There's a story in the country ahead of him. A dark tale of murdered girls and a killer not caught, of an old friend asking for help, and a letter from a frightened young mother that has arrived too late to save her daughter. A letter that now rests in this man's pocket.....

Ever wish things were different? Ivy Velasquez did, so she became someone else. In the 3D virtual world Marionette City, you can be anything you want - but everyone still knows who you are. Driven by her desire for a new life, Ivy takes her future in her hands when she makes another identity for herself. A brilliant designer, Ivy works for one of the huge multi-national firms which control the online system the world relies upon for both business and pleasure.

Tomek lives a seemingly quiet life as a spacecraft engineer for the interstellar Azten Empire of Federated Worlds. But no one knows that during Tomek's frequent "vacations", he volunteers for his planet's police force, tracking down convicted criminals and delivering them to justice. Known for taking on cases that no other volunteer will touch, Tomek uses the code name Negative Zero in order to protect himself and those he loves.

Ranger Burrack and Federal Marshal Summers must battle Arizona regulator Morgan Waite and his band of vigilantes. When Burrack and Summers apprehend Cold Devil's saloon owner Jack Spain, Spain offers $10,000 to anyone who frees him. Getting wind of Spain's reward, Waite and his posse bushwhack the lawmen and leave them for dead in a terrifying landslide. But blazing gunfire will soon heat up the town of Cold Devil.

Crusading attorney Anthony Quinn believed his career was over when a criminal threw acid into his face, blinding him. Months later, desperate to regain his sight, Quinn underwent a unique transplant operation which gave him the eyes of a slain lawman. Not only did the procedure work, but it also gave Quinn the ability to see in the dark. Using this fantastic gift, he created the Black Bat, a justice-seeking vigilante able to battle those villains beyond the reach of the law.

In this third volume, the Black Bat faces a mystic swami said to possess arcane powers, boards a high speed train to foil a gang's bold attempt to rescue their captured boss, and offers his services to protect the life of a famous Broadway personality threatened with death. New pulp writers Greg Hatcher, Gene Moyers, Gordon Dymowski, and Erik Franklin have captured all the action and thrills that were hallmarks of the early pulps and delivered a quartet of amazing Black Bat exploits pulp fans will cherish.

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.