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Un corpo abbandonato sulla sabbia. Un segreto che ha attraversato il mare.>Quando Diego, giovane e solitario bagnino della spiaggia di Marinella, trova il cadavere di Erica all'alba, non immagina di essere finito al centro di un intrigo oscuro, fatto di omertà, potere e vecchi fantasmi.>C'è un filo invisibile che collega un senatore potente, suo figlio viziato, un imprenditore ambiguo e un uomo dell'Est che fa il lavoro sporco. E mentre il maresciallo Piras cerca di far luce sull'intera vicenda, qualcuno sta cercando di cancellare ogni traccia. Droga, violenza, corruzione e silenzi pesanti come rocce: il male ha radici profonde. Se ami i thriller ad alta tensione, con personaggi intensi e colpi di scena fino all'ultima pagina, Sabbia Sporca è il romanzo che fa per te.Un giallo contemporaneo che scava sotto la superficie dorata di una Costa apparentemente perfetta.

Vigilante Justice Librarian StyleMaggie Sloan survives an explosion and begins the slow process of healing with the help of her unusual team. When her world is shattered by a heart-wrenching murder, Maggie's team trains her to fight to win, whatever the cost. Her grief and rage transform her from prey to relentless hunter, and her brilliant observational talents threaten a complex criminal scheme.As Maggie closes in on the truth, she realizes she's on the trail of a mastermind, a dark puppeteer of serial killers, whose intellect threatens to match her own. In this gripping psychological thriller, it all comes down to kill or be killed. The Librarian is the Second Edition of Book One in the Maggie Sloan Thriller Series; it replaces I Always Wanted to Be a Spy, First Edition. The content is the same; the title and the cover have changed.

Noviembre de 1963.Se le acabó la suerte a Frank Guidry. A la sombra del prominente capo de la mafia, Carlos Marcello, la combinación de encanto, inteligencia y astucia de Guidry lo lleva los primeros puestos del negocio. Pero todo cambia repentinamente cuando una horrible tragedia golpea al mundo: John F. Kennedy es asesinado a tiros en la plaza Dealey. Guidry había estado en Dallas menos de dos semanas antes, cumpliendo una tarea para Carlos, y no puede evadir la creciente sospecha de que está involucrado en el asesinato más escandaloso de la historia. Ahora su vida está en riesgo, y Carlos cuenta con que Guidry será el chivo expiatorio. Es hora de que este utilice todas las conexiones que ha logrado y todos los favores que le deben, huya del país y mantenga un perfil bajo... porque su vida pende de un hilo.Charlotte tiene veintiocho años y es madre de dos niñas. Su esposo es amable, pero es un borracho perdido. Ella ha estado durante años tratando desesperadamente de sobrevivir y de proteger a sus hijas, pero el asesinato del presidente ha puesto de manifiesto una sola cosa: que su vida en Oklahoma no tiene futuro. La única opción de Charlotte es llevarse a sus hijas y marcharse.Guidry se encuentra con la bella ama de casa de Oklahoma, sentada a un lado de la carretera con nada más que un auto roto, dos pequeñas y un perro en el asiento trasero, y se da cuenta de que ha encontrado el disfraz perfecto para escapar.Lo último que Guidry espera en un momento como este es acabar metido en un viaje por Estados Unidos con una madre y dos niñas, pero Charlotte y él están en el punto en que necesitan y pueden ayudarse mutuamente. Y a medida que la persecución tras Guidry se vuelve más peligrosa, las cuatro vidas resultan estar en riesgo. ¿Encontrarán la senda a la libertad, o los sentimientos mutuos cada vez mayores que Charlotte y Guidry están alimentando serán su perdición?

'Houston, wir haben ein Problem!'Einer der erfahrensten und erfolgreichsten Astronauten der Welt schreibt einen Thriller über den Kalten Krieg - authentischer geht es nicht!1973. Apollo 18 startet - eine letzte, streng geheime Mission zum Mond. Auf der Mondoberfläche sollen Gesteinsproben gesammelt werden, die Unglaubliches versprechen.Doch nicht nur die US-amerikanische Crew, auch die Sowjetunion ist hinter den bislang verborgenen Schätzen des Mondes her. Der Flugkontrolleur Kazimieras 'Kaz' Zemeckis aus Houston muss alles tun, um die NASA-Crew zusammenzuhalten und gleichzeitig seinen sowjetischen Rivalen immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein. Aber nicht jeder an Bord von Apollo 18 ist ganz der, der er zu sein scheint. Es häufen sich die Anzeichen, dass einer von ihnen ein Mörder ist und Schreckliches im Sinn hat. Die Mission ist in höchster Gefahr, der Ausgang ungewiss.Voll faszinierender technischer Details -  Chris Hadfield nimmt uns mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise zum Mond'Commander Hadfield nimmt uns mit auf eine spannende Reise in eine alternative Vergangenheit. Und wer könnte besser über Astronauten schreiben als ein Astronaut selbst!' Andy Weir, Autor von ¿Der Marsianer¿'Ich konnte dieses Buch nicht aus der Hand legen, bis zum fulminanten Schluss.' James Cameron

Brazen navy hero Lt. Moses Redding incites an international incident on the eve of Mideast peace talks. He's banished to command the 200-year-old USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," on a Mediterranean PR cruise-purgatory for a man of action.Onboard is the alluring but high-spirited Dr. Miriam Hannah. She's a naval historian and the top aide to Vice President Virginia Mitchell, point person on the peace talks. A battle of the sexes ensues between the mutually attracted, but conflicted lovers.While terrorists abduct VP Mitchell in a plot to destroy the talks and ignite a world-wide jihad, the haunted Constitution mysteriously intervenes in Redding's personal transformation. He returns the favor by ordering the crew trained in her antique weapons, unaware how vital that soon will be.

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Sein Job: das Land zu schützen. Sein Gegner: der Terror. Seine Entscheidung: die härteste seines Lebens.5. September 1977: Der Terror in Deutschland nimmt immer brutalere Ausmaße an. Auf offener Straße wird der Arbeitgeberpräsident Hanns Martin Schleyer entführt. Roland Manthey, Chef des Verfassungsschutzes und mächtigster Staatsmann im Krisenfall, weiß auch ohne das Bekennerschreiben, wer dafür verantwortlich ist. Die RAF fordert die Freilassung ihrer inhaftierten Mitglieder im Austausch gegen die Geisel. Eilig beruft Manthey einen Krisenstab ein, der vor der größten Bedrohung in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik steht. Während das verängstigte Volk den Atem anhält, sucht Manthey fieberhaft nach der Geisel. Doch als die Ereignisse eskalieren, steht er vor der schwersten Entscheidung seines Lebens ...Als Sohn des damaligen Verfassungsschutzleiters hat Stephan R. Meier die RAF-Zeit hautnah miterlebt und entwickelt daraus einen hochspannenden Politthriller.

"While he walked through the rubble, he stumbled on a mound and heard a moan. Unknowingly, he'd stepped onto my arm and broke it. I was barely conscious and had made my peace. I assumed I would meet the Lord that day. But my anguish got your dad's attention. He turned around, searched through the debris, and found me buried in mud. My being dark-skinned and all, I was well concealed. Your dad pulled me out of that grave and said, 'Soldier, you need a shower. Let's see if I can find you one.'" The Culmination, a new beginning is the third book in The Contract thriller series. After an assassination attempt on an Air Force base in northern California, tensions mount. Heads of state meet to craft a denuclearization agreement. The meetings between these nuclear powers take a murderous turn. A nefarious conspiracy re-emerges and leads the characters into the heart of the Middle East, where they encounter the unexpected and find a reason for hope.

The Convent's AssassinA nun has been murdered.In the room a sleeping body offers its uncovered throat. In a split second, the murderous arm rises and strikes its target two times. The weapon pierces the throat to the right and to the left. The body convulses for a moment before surrendering to death. The door closes and the shadow slips back into the darkness.The deceased is Mother Notre-Dame-Des-Pins, the Mother Guardian of the Convent. One could say that she was a mean and cruel woman. Many lives were held captive in her hands. All feared destruction by her vengeful nature. She had to die. However, who possessed the courage to administer justice?Was the killer a nun or her young paramour?Or rather, these two lovers surprised in action by the terrible woman?Or perhaps this good chaplain with a heavy conscience?Just what goes on behind the closed doors of Convents?Set in the 1950s, this spell-binding murder mystery holds its secrets until the very end.

"The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi--Greg Iles's epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present. Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably compromised, and his father, once a paragon of the community that Penn leads as mayor, is about to be tried for the murder of a former lover. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn's experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his father has frozen him out of the trial preparations--preferring to risk dying in prison to revealing the truth of the crime to his son"--