Ergebnis für "Black Jack" in Thriller

Schüsse auf einer entlegenen Marinebasis. Der Schütze tötete sich selbst. Hauptverdächtiger der Militärpolizei? Ein Außenseiter namens Jack Widow. Die ganze Nacht per Anhalter unterwegs. Kein Schlaf. Widow hält an einem Diner in einer kalifornischen Bergstadt, in der es nur noch zwei Betriebe gibt: eine kleine Waffenfabrik und eine vergessene Marinebasis.

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories....

Die Navy SEALs haben ihn ausgebildet. Eine geheime Abteilung des NCIS hat ihn rekrutiert. Seine Feinde fürchten ihn. Als der Elite-Agent Jack Widow vom gewaltsamen Tod seiner als Sheriff in einer Kleinstadt arbeitenden Mutter erfährt, ist das der Auslöser für den explosiven Serienauftakt von Bestsellerautor Scott Blade.

Im zweiten Band der elektrisierenden Jack-Widow-Reihe geht der ehemalige NCIS-Agent Jack Widow im tiefsten Winter undercover, um eine unvorstellbare terroristische Bedrohung zu stoppen. Mitten im winterlichen Wyoming muss der CIA-Agent Alex Shepard verzweifeln: Ein paar Tage zuvor hatte er einen verdeckten Agenten in die Red Rain Indian Reservation geschickt, um zu einer unglaublichen terroristischen Verschwörung zu ermitteln. Doch als der Mann sich melden soll, hört Shepard nichts mehr von ihm.

Annapolis. The U.S. Naval Academy. Here begins Widow's journey—a path from a promising naval career to a crossroads of life and death. Rewind to Widow's final days as a twenty-two-year-old midshipman, where a dying woman's request catapults him into a whirlwind of lies and buried truths. Her last request? For Widow to solve the mystery of her sister's cold-case murder. Aided by The Shadow Club—a secretive cabal of the world's sharpest investigators—Widow is lured into a world where justice is a shadow play of vengeance and power.

Auf dem Weg durch die schwüle texanische Landschaft begegnet Jack Widow an einer staubigen Bushaltestelle Claire Hood, einer sichtlich aufgewühlten Großmutter. Claire hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, auf eigene Faust ihre entführte Enkelin zu retten. Dann geschieht etwas schier Undenkbares. Claire fällt tot um–ein natürlicher Tod. Direkt vor Widow.

When he showed up with a gunshot wound and asked me to lie to the police, I knew I had a decision to make. I could risk my entire career to protect him, or I could do the right thing and turn him in. The choice should have been easy, but it wasn’t. Not when his brother was my friend. Lines were blurred, and suddenly the morals in my life were tipped upside down. We’d been taught to trust those in uniform, but what if the monster standing before me—swearing to keep me safe—wasn’t the bad guy at all?

A man, who believes he is a government operative for a covert black-ops division of the CIA, awakens in the aftermath of the bombing of a federal building in Chicago. Disoriented and struggling to reconcile his last memory—an operation in Croatia pursuing a target wanted for espionage—he soon finds himself accused of domestic terrorism and mass murder. Either his mind is unraveling, or he's been expertly framed.

A serial killer returns after years of inactivity in this gripping new thriller. The green-paint-bathtub killer had Reacher running blind back in the day. The New York FBI team says Reacher was the serial killer then and is still the serial killer. But FBI agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar believe a copycat may be on the loose....

Deep inside Wyoming, in the dead of winter, CIA Agent Alex Shepard is desperate. A few days ago, he sent an undercover agent to the Red Rain Indian Reservation to investigate an unthinkable terrorist plot. However, when his man skipped his daily check-in, Shepard feared the worst.

1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body - the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window - generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defence, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional soldier, but sweeping other people's secrets under the carpet isn't part of his skill set.

Pulled off an undercover assignment, Widow returns home to a small town in Mississippi - a place he tried to forget. Taken to be a worthless drifter by the locals, Widow uses his skills to uncover the truth about his mother's last investigation. What was she looking for? What he discovers is an unsolved mystery of missing girls and townspeople harboring a deadly secret - a secret they'll die to protect.

The only thing more inconvenient than being kept in a gilded cage... is being forced to marry a fed to escape it. My name is Bianca Castello. I'm a mafia princess who's being forced to marry a Fed. Apparently, the sexy stranger is desperate enough to make a deal with my brother in exchange for a favor. And favors are hard to come by in this world. But Jack Connelly's an outsider. He hasn't heard the rumors. He doesn't know the things I've done to protect my family or the reason why every single made man refuses to touch me.

Black-eyed Nick played a trick and poor old Fred lost his head. It’s 1876 and a dead body is found near the mansion of Lady Agatha Aston in Grosvenor Square, London. The newly formed Detective Branch at Scotland Yard is baffled by the series of grisly murders that seem to come straight from the pages of a "penny dreadful". Who is the demon stalking the streets of London? Lady Agatha takes matters in hand, ably supported by golf fanatic friend, Betty Stevens, former school hockey captain, "Sausage" Gossage and Talleyrand, her unlucky-in-love Basset hound.

A snowy night. A lonely country road. The Black Hills of South Dakota. Widow takes a wrong turn and witnesses the aftermath of a heinous crime. The only trace he sees of the criminals is a pair of taillights. A simple crime turns Widow into a local sheriff’s one and only suspect, but nothing is as it seems.

Widow walks the side of the road at night when a pair of headlights is headed his way. It’s the first car in hours. With a thumb out, he hopes to get a ride. But when the car drives erratically at high speeds, Widow dodges, nearly being rammed to death. The driver barrels the car into a tree. It turns out the driver had a heart attack. Waiting for help to arrive, the driver enlists Widow’s help. The driver is a US Marshal. He was on his way to stop an attack on one of his witnesses. She’s been in the witness relocation program, hiding, living a new life.

A secluded Montana ranch. A family under siege. A seductive wife. And Jack Widow. Once Quiet is a taut action thriller where Widow must fight against his insatiable feelings for a married woman in order to stop a sinister enemy that lurks in the shadows. Lately, Widow has enjoyed a quiet life on the road with no troubles, but a lifestyle like his costs money. A low bank account balance causes Widow to take temporary work on a dying, secluded cattle ranch in Northern Montana.

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself in the middle of an international legal battle over a Cuban oil spill that sets him on a deadly mission. Three summers after the Deepwater Horizon environmental catastrophe, oil is spewing into the ocean again, this time from a drilling explosion in Cuban waters just 50 miles from the Florida Keys. The slick is headed straight for the United States, but the Cubans refuse American offers to assist with the cleanup, and threaten to fire on "hostile" U.S. vessels entering their waters.

John Norton er afdelingschef i den engelske efterretningstjeneste MI6, leder og koordinator for Mellemøsten og Nordafrika i det, der i daglig tale bliver kaldt "Araberhuset". Han er på en så hemmelig rejse i Sydafrika, at ingen, ikke engang hans chef i MI6, ved det, men nu har nogen forsøgt at slå ham ihjel ved at skubbe hans bil ud over en klippekant. Hvem? Et halvt år før: John er på ferie i Skotland, og et lig, der strander et helt forkert sted i den lille bugt, vækker hans nysgerrighed.

Hitchhiking all night without sleep, Jack Widow stops in a diner in a California mountain town with only two industries left: a small arms manufacturer and a forgotten Marine base. Wanting to drink coffee in peace, Widow can’t ignore his cop senses warning him about a man seated at another booth. The man is Arabic, Islamic, and a decorated Marine, which is unusual in a small town. But there’s something else. Something off. Something troubling.