Politiske og juridiske thrillere

Terrorgruppen Skyggen har i sinde at dræbe USA’s præsident, når han kommer til Rebild den 4. juli for at annoncere, hvad USA vil gøre ved iranernes hemmelige atombombeprogram. Det er imidlertid usikkert, om besøget på nationaldagen overhovedet bliver til noget, for inden da må USA skaffe beviser for, at iranerne rent faktisk har brudt atomaftalen.Da den danske bombeinspektør Adam opdager et brudt segl på sit overvågningskamera og senere finder sin kollega myrdet i Iran, tyder det unægteligt på, at landet ikke har rent mel i posen, men snart er Adam spundet ind i et net af bedrag og løgne, der rækker langt ud over Irans landegrænser. Han har fået at vide, at han skal holde sine kort tæt på kroppen, for hvem kan han egentlig stole på som brik i et storpolitisk spil? Forfatteren Steffen Groth er tidligere leder af IAEA og professor i nuklearmedicin. Han bruger sin indgående viden til at skrive intense spændingsromaner med komplekse politiske plots og hans bøger er tidligere blevet sammenlignet med Dan Browns.

It's your first day as a lawyer, and you have to defend the country's most notorious killer . . . From the biggest selling author in Poland comes this stunning legal thriller introducing legendary criminal justice lawyer, Joanna Chylka.

"After narrowly avoiding death in London at the hands of the king's secret agents, Duncan McCallum returns to colonial America only to discover that his troubles have followed him across the Atlantic"--

Was haben die westeuropäischen Produzenten von Gummireifen mit dem Bau der sowjetischen Atombombe zu tun?Eine absurde Verbindung? Mitnichten!Der Recyclingfachmann Hermann Weber und seine Partnerin Rosa Cigara erleben wie dramatisch die ökologischen Folgen der atomaren Hochrüstung bis heute und in unserer Nachbarschaft sind.Die bisher nur historischen Recherchen des Paares erreichen eine gefährliche, aktuelle Dimension.Geschäftsinteressen der internationalen Müllmafia werden enthüllt.Alte, sehr bedrohliche Bekannte aus den vorherigen Bänden der Reihe um Hermann Weber tauchen wieder auf.

The book is about how the new republican party base Maga republicans, and Qanon republicans has Morphed the party into the Party of Doom and destruction. About how the republicans claim to be about life by their polices bring more death. How the second amendment lie that they should be able to own weapons of war. Which only seems to result in more effective mass shoots. The party of doom wants America first resulting by reneging on world contracts. They condone the white nationalist agenda. Their attack on adorable care act that could cause thousands of needless death because of poor health care. The party of doom will destroy the planet by rolling back prohibitive climate change polices. They use social media platforms to indocronize and brainwash weak mined. They want to destroy the gains the LGBTQ community has made and even destroy them. The Republicans party, which was good for America in the pass in some cases, has allowed the far right to morph the party into the Party of Doom and Destruction.

Frustrated by Abraham Lincoln's reluctance to approve his battle strategy in the American Civil War, General George B. McClellan takes the extraordinary step of marching his army into the nation's capital and placing the President of the United States under arrest. The U.S. Constitution is suspended and Congress is sent home.Now, ten years later, the United States are still under military rule. Despite a cease fire that has stopped the fighting between the Northern and Southern states, McClellan remains in power, and his government continues to hunt and arrest those who oppose the general's autocratic regime. Spies of the National Intelligence Service are everywhere, seeking out those who wish to restore the old democracy, and the countryside is under the thumb of a mounted military police force called the United States Gendarmerie.Sylvanus Cadwallader, correspondent for the Chicago Times, is on a personal mission. His brother-in-law, also a newspaper reporter, has disappeared without a trace, and Cadwallader suspects that he may have become a political prisoner of the commanding general's government. His hunt for the truth behind his brother-in-law's disappearance leads him into a web of secrets, intrigue, and danger. Accompanying him on his perilous quest are a disgraced former Union general named Ulysses S. Grant and a writer of unusual stories named Ambrose Bierce. Together they hope to learn the truth behind the man who has set himself up as the American Bonaparte.AMERICAN BONAPARTE is the first in a series of alternate history novels set in the timeline that is formed when George McClellan takes over the United States government. Famous names from history are used as prominent characters, their lives altered by the consequences of the changed events of the past. The story is a mix of mystery, action, and political intrigue as we explore the world of 1872 in an America that might have been. Later novels in the McClellan Regime series will revisit the alternate timeline at other points in the future as we approach our own time.

From bestseller J. B. Turner comes a pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing until the end.When a Swiss intelligence agent goes missing--taking with him thousands of classified documents that have the potential to expose covert agents and information around the world--he also threatens to expose the one secret that will change Jon Reznick's life forever.Hans Muller has found someone on Swiss CCTV footage--someone who is supposed to be dead, someone from long ago in Reznick's past. If her true identity is as Muller suspects, and if he divulges her secret, it could be dangerous for her and her loved ones, not to mention disastrous for national security.In a shocking twist of fate, the mysterious woman looks exactly like Jon Reznick's late wife, who was thought to have died in the 9/11 attacks. Reznick has to know: Is this just a case of mistaken identity, or has Elisabeth been alive all this time?Reznick jumps into an international fray with Swiss Intelligence agents and the CIA to find the missing classified documents and his own answers. Anyone who knows Jon Reznick knows he won't rest until he finds the truth...even if it upends his life as he knows it.

Jason Bourne tackles a global media conspiracy in the latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.Jason Bourne has faced many killers before, but none as dangerous or as cruelly inventive as the assassin who calls himself Lennon. Bourne thought he had Lennon cornered in Iceland, only to have the killer escape in a fiery explosion. Now Lennon’s trail leads Bourne to New York and then to Washington – and the body count rises with each deadly encounter.But who is Lennon working for? Bourne believes the assassin has a shadowy new employer called the Pyramid. The only clue to the group’s agenda is a young German woman murdered in Washington on her way to a covert meeting. But the woman’s entire identity turns out to be a lie, and news reports of her death have been strangely twisted and suppressed.Finding the truth about this woman may be Bourne’s only chance to catch Lennon – and uncover the conspiracy behind the Pyramid. But the chase comes with high stakes. Bourne’s formerlover, journalist Abbey Laurent, is digging into the mystery too, and Jason’s perilous battle against Lennon and the Pyramid will soon put Abbey in the assassin’s crosshairs.Bourne will need to use every bit of his tradecraft and his genius for mayhem to expose this web of lies and murder before Lennon kills the woman he loves.

The Syrian is a powerful contemporary novel of passion and betrayal, set against the brutal and bewildering outbreak of the Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon, 2006.Nadia, a woman who has waited 13 years for a husband who was "disappeared," finally decides to declare him dead so she can marry an American physician, Andrew Sullivan. On the eve of her engagement party, her best friend Sonia, a well-connected war correspondent, rings to tell her that her husband may still be alive in a Syrian prison. Out to get Andrew for herself, Sonia draws in the powerful head of the Syrian secret police to help her in her Byzantine manipulations. Thus begins a series of dangerous plot twists that become increasingly bloody as Nadia attempts to rescue her husband, and the border conflict with Israel escalates.

In this masterly sequel to THE SYRIAN, author and Middle East expert Cathy Sultan once again uses her unique knowledge of the region to spin a suspenseful web of intrigue and deceit, mirroring the complexities of this ancient place where nothing is as it seems. In DAMASCUS STREET, a story set in a Lebanon still struggling to cope with the political repercussions of a bloody fifteen-year civil war, Andrew Sullivan, an idealistic American physician, becomes the unknowing pawn in a deadly spy game where an intricate cast of characters lures him into a maze of deception and illusion. As he attempts to find and rescue his fiancée Nadia Khoury, who has been kidnapped by Syria's former Intelligence chief, this riveting political thriller takes surprising turns in a tale of lost innocence, passion and survival.

Leader of the opposition, Sir Alex Bolton, is being blackmailed. After dancer Bella takes pictures of him with a spy camera, people in high places plan to make sure that nothing prevents Sir Alex from becoming Britain's next prime minister.While Bella is shacked up with her new lover Martin, her bank robber ex-boyfriend Joey shows up at their doorstep after getting an early release from prison. A stash of 3 million pounds is hidden somewhere, and the fellow bank robbers he ratted on are after him and the money.After Chief Inspector Preston and Detective Sergeant Johnson are called to investigate, bodies start to pile up at an alarming rate, and they must navigate the investigation while under pressure to avoid a PR nightmare.

Journalist Grace Marks, needing a story to boost her career and finances, is intrigued by a surge in minor crime in New Zealand suburbs. She discovers it's organised, but why? Her investigations lead her to Will Manilow, CEO of Erebus Optics, whose security company uses innovative technology from America.Manilow's business is booming but he's suspicious of his American owner's motives. While searching through their internal website he stumbles over a document that outlines what they are planning, and what's at stake. Saving the document to a flash drive inadvertently triggers an alert deep in America.As Grace interviews Manilow to get to the bottom of the story, Marla Simmons, an agent with specialist IT skills, is flying to New Zealand to sanitise the document while two of her ruthless colleagues keep a wary eye on events, ready to intervene.As events spiral out of control, can Grace uncover the truth in time or will the document be sanitised along with everyone who has seen it?

A defecting oligarch meets a grisly death in London over a game of chess. CIA investigator Jayne Robinson goes to Moscow on a high-risk mission to find out why. And the US president's on alert as Russia grabs part of Ukraine.

Fra bestsellerforfatterne Hillary Clinton og Louise Penny kommer en roman med uovertruffen spænding og uovertruffen insider-ekspertise. Den canadiske krimiforfatter Louise Penny spurgte Hillary Clinton: Hvordan vil du beskrive dit værste mareridt i din tid som udenrigsminister? Svaret var en terrorstat. Et land ude af kontrol, som befinder sig i en tilstand af kaos, frygt og håbløshed. Det blev startskuddet på et samarbejde mellem en af verdens bedste krimiforfattere og en af USA’s mest markante ledere. I Tilstand af terror møder vi en idealistisk, men grøn, udenrigsminister, som har tilsluttet sig sin rivals administration; en præsident, der er indsat efter fire år med et amerikansk lederskab, hvor USA har været usynlig på den internationale scene. En række terrorangreb ryster den globale orden, og udenrigsministeren må samle et hold i forsøget på at afsløre en dødbringende konspiration. En sammensværgelse, der er omhyggeligt designet til at udnytte, at den amerikanske regering har mistet føling og er uden magt dér, hvor magten betyder mest.Tilstand af terror er en hæsblæsende thriller om internationale intriger, i en verden af diplomati og forræderi, og giver et sjældent indblik i det globale drama, der udspiller sig bag kulisserne og som kun en politisk insider vil kunne kende til.

The Assassination of Too Big to Fail, the second of three novellas, is a futuristic fictional thriller. Someone attempts to blow up the Benson Oil headquarters. You will wonder who did it and why while you follow the various plot twists and read about many predictions.

In 2057, when the world is starved of oil and the whole globe is in the unrelenting grip of the World Council, NYCPD detective Nick Garvey has his plate murderously full, contending with: the assassination of the Vice President and four Secret Service agents; the vicious power struggle between President Lenora Allison and the Supreme Leader of the World Council, Jason Beck; the off-duty avenging of the brutalization of his estranged daughter by her live-in thug; the kidnapping of his granddaughter when he gets too close to the truth about Jason Beck's world-domination dirty tricks; and his confrontation with President Lenora Allison which leads to their joint setup in front of a firing squad; but other than that...

Stedet er Rom og tiden er år 63 f.Kr. Syv mænd kæmper om magten i republikken: Cicero er konsul, Cæsar hans ubarmhjertige unge rival, Pompejus er republikkens mægtigste general, Crassus dens rigeste mand, Cato er politisk fanatiker, Catilina psykopaten og Clodius en ambitiøs playboy.Historierne om disse virkelige historiske figurer – deres alliancer og forræderi, deres grusomheder og forførelser, deres storslåethed og deres forbrydelser – det hele er flettet sammen i denne farverige roman. Fortælleren er Tiro, som er Ciceros betroede sekretær, og han kender alle sin herres hemmeligheder, noget der bringer ham i en vanskelig og til tider livsfarlig position.Beskrivelser af bl.a. fundet af et lemlæstet barnelig, henrettelser, en skandaløs retssag og den romerske mafias hærgen gør Lustrum til et fascinerende studium af magtens anatomi, dens evigt tillokkende karakter og dens enorme rædsler.Robert Harris (f.1957) debuterede med romanen Fædrelandet i 1992 og har siden skrevet en række romaner, bl.a. Pompeji og Imperium og den politiske thriller Skyggen. Harris har bl.a. abejdet for BBC og the Observer som politisk kommentator.

Within 24 hours after George Burton is sworn in as President of the United States the oligarchs and the Deep State begin to take him and his fledging administration down. Across the country the establishment is determined to "Resist" the rise of the NAPA and Leftist revolutionary groups take to the streets, calling for an insurrection. In every state and every major city in the country, race riots breakout. The rioters begin burning their neighborhoods, causing billions of dollars of damage. Soon they begin attacking the police and fire departments who are trying and restore law and order. Law enforcement is overwhelmed when leftist city governments tie the hands of the police or weakened them to the point where they are unable to respond. The rioters begin attacking white people, light skinned Hispanics and Asians across the country, considering them as irredeemable oppressors supporting "Light Supremacy." Everyone with a light skin complexion is singled out and beaten or killed. Within one week hundreds of thousands of people are dead and millions more must flee their homes. At first President Burton is helpless. But he is actually preparing for a massive effort to restore law and order across the United States. He must first purge the Deep State, the Armed Forces and the Intelligence agencies of leftists who oppose his presidency. On the seventh day he does not rest, but unleashes the Armed Forces and attack U.S. cities. He is determined to restore order and punish those who are responsible for this insurrection. When it is over millions are dead. Not since the Civil War has so much blood been spilled on American soil. Now President Burton must begin the task of rebuilding the country and punishing those responsible. He orders the convening of a Constitutional Convention and out of it a new America and Republic are born.

Is the assassin manipulating the world price of platinum and how many has he murdered? Many such questions challenge Inspector Eyethorne OBE and her Fiancée who haven't yet decided upon a name for their detective agency and neither have they had the time to fix a wedding date. Their pan-European investigations reveal that the answers are connected and despite Special Branch directing operations, they find themselves being pursued by ruthless gangs across London. Their only options are high-level escapes. Cabinet minister Maurice 'bloody' Hamilton enters this toxic mix and he's out to make a killing; in both senses of the word.

"Burlake excels at dialogue and setting a mood... Strong writing lends excitement to this mystery with a side of history." -Kirkus¿"The hunt for Nazi gold powers this humane, history-minded thriller." - BooklifeIn a current day suspense thriller, The Hunt for Raubgold is a story of mystery, intrigue, and the quest of millions who have searched for Raubgold-the gold Germany confiscated in World War II. In book three of the bestselling Amy Prowers series, Katherine Burlake reveals where the past becomes the present.Nothing brings out the blood in a search as much as the word gold. This gold is different. It represents the souls of the millions of people who were killed inWWII. The war ended seventy-five years ago, but the search for the gold has never ended.Governments, treasure seekers, and political splinter groups have failed, since World War II, to find all the gold confiscated from concentration camps andother countries Germany occupied. Today the gold could be worth over a billion dollars to whoever finds it.Is it somewhere in Germany or another country?Was it destroyed during the war or lost?Is the missing gold only a myth?Amy Prowers's husband was obsessed with finding it. Did he leave clues behind before his mysterious death? A bag hidden for 20 years is uncovered by an avalanche that destroyed a wall in her home. In it is a map and journal. Now Amy intends to find the gold and vindicate his search.