Ergebnis für "Ring" in Thriller

Tiffany Blackburn couldn't believe what occurred during her recent vacation in Vegas. The careful, single mom decided to let loose and took a risk for once, allowing a man to buy her a whiskey sour. Regretting it the moment she woke up alone in a stranger's bed the next day. It only got worse, when she tried to sneak out and discovered something he left on the table. His wedding ring. Jagger Chance never failed to deliver when he was working undercover as a spy for the government. Women found him sexy and mysterious, which the loner preferred.

Angel. Hätte ich wählen dürfen, wäre ich nicht hier. Nicht auf dieser Uni, nicht in dieser Stadt. Doch mit dem Tod meiner Mutter starb für mich auch die Möglichkeit, über meine Zukunft zu entscheiden. Jetzt bin ich hier. An einem Ort, an dem mich eigentlich niemand haben will. Es ist nicht alles schrecklich. Ich habe Freundinnen gefunden und IHN getroffen. Aber er ist alles, was ich mir geschworen habe, niemals zu wollen. Er ist der Mann, vor dem ich schleunigst davon laufen sollte.

Als Cristiano Grigori mich holen kam, kam er nicht allein. Er brachte seine Armee mit, tötete die Soldaten vor meiner Tür und nahm mich mit. Er steckte mir seinen Ring an den Finger und kennzeichnete mich als Eigentum der Mafia. Sein Eigentum. Meine Brüder dachten, sie hätten die Familie Grigori ausgelöscht, aber Cristiano ist sehr lebendig. Und er hat nur ein Ziel: Rache.

Fünf Jahre. So lange habe ich gebraucht, um sie zu finden. Fünf Jahre, nachdem meine Welt zerbrach und ich ein vernarbter und gebrochener Mann wurde.

Als Cristiano Grigori mich holen kam, kam er nicht allein. Er brachte seine Armee mit, tötete die Soldaten vor meiner Tür und nahm mich mit. Er steckte mir seinen Ring an den Finger und kennzeichnete mich als Eigentum der Mafia.

Cristiano ist mein Feind. Aber er ist auch der einzige Mann, bei dem ich mich je sicher gefühlt habe. Beschützt. Aber ich darf nicht vergessen, dass er mich nur aus einem Grund geheiratet hat. Rache. Ich soll die Verbindung zu seinen wahren Feinden sein. Ich muss mich daran erinnern, dass er nicht der Held dieser Geschichte ist. Seine Hände sind voller Blut. Ich habe es mit meinen eigenen Augen gesehen.

Daidoji Shin, unrepentant wastrel with a taste for scandal and dice, coasts through his role as Crane Clan's trade envoy in the City of the Rich Frog. But when a case of poisoned rice threatens the brittle peace between the competing clans, the Imperial Governor drags Shin from his indolence and orders him to find the culprit. Despite himself, Shin uncovers an intriguing conspiracy involving more than just dead rats.

Winter Reeves is an aristocratic Patriot forced to hide her heart amid the Loyalists of the City of New York. She has learned to keep her ears open so she can pass information on British movements to Robbie Townsend, her childhood friend, and his spy ring. Bennet Lane returns to New York from his Yale professorship with one goal: to find General Washington's spy hidden among the ranks of the elite. Both believers...and both committed to a separate cause. Will their faith in God lead them to a shared destiny or lives lived apart?

The Taskforce—a highly clandestine Special Forces unit—faces public exposure. The release of the Panama Papers left a trail that could compromise the organization. Yet there's even more at stake than the Taskforce's own anonymity. A lethal attack is in motion. The chaos that ensues distracts the Taskforce from even deadlier information. The Panama Papers hold a secret more explosive than any attack, if only the Taskforce could see it...

With 22 million of her books in print, and 12 consecutive New York Times best-sellers to her credit, Amanda Quick is a phenomenally popular author of historical romances. With This Ring, set in Regency England, sends a beautiful, headstrong woman on a perilous quest for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite. To recover her family’s meager fortunes, Beatrice Poole must locate the antiquities stolen from her favorite uncle shortly before his highly suspicious death.

Daidoji Shin, former louche layabout turned amateur investigator, and his long-suffering bodyguard, Kasami, are called away from the comforts of the City of the Rich Frog and into Unicorn lands to investigate a seemingly open-and-shut case of murder. But it's never that straightforward....

Mara sa che la sua unica possibilità è la fuga: da chi vorrà incolparla di omicidio e da chi lo ha commesso per incastrarla. Mara ha scontato tredici anni in una struttura psichiatrico-giudiziaria per il tentato omicidio del marito e dei due figli. Adesso si è creata una quotidianità che la tiene lontano dal mondo, che le impedisce di nuocere ancora. Fino al giorno in cui – nella sua torre d’avorio – si apre una breccia. Il misterioso omicidio di un vicino riporta a galla antiche paure. E, insieme a quelle, anche una donna che per Mara non doveva esistere più.

As the war approaches its end, Prince once more has to risk everything. Berlin, 1939: a German intelligence officer learns a top agent is quickly moving up the British Army ranks. He bides his time. Arnhem, 1944: British paratroopers have been slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. A shell shocked officer is convinced that the Germans knew they were coming. But who betrayed them? Back in London, Richard Prince, detective and spy, is approached by MI5 about a counterintelligence operation.

Tomás Nevinson has left the secret service and returned to his old job working in the British Embassy in Madrid. Assumed dead by his wife Berta, Tomás attempts to resume his previous life and heal from his psychological wounds. But when he is contacted by his old boss, Bertram Tupra, Nevinson reluctantly becomes involved in a plan to locate and eliminate a woman believed to have helped orchestrate the 1987 Hipercor bombing. Detonated by the ETA, a Basque separatist group, the bomb killed 21 people and injured 45.

Fifteen years ago, in order to win a contract in the kingdom, a desperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide a bribe to a wealthy Saudi businessman. Now a powerful player in the defense industry, he panics when the Panama Papers burst onto the public scene. Providing insight into the illicit deeds of offshore financing, they could prove to be his undoing.

When Cristiano Grigori came for me, he didn’t come alone. He brought his army to kill the soldiers at my door and took me for himself. He put his ring on my finger and marked me as mafia property. His property. Cristiano is my enemy. He’s also the only man with whom I’ve ever felt safe. Protected. But I have to remember that he married me with one purpose in mind—revenge. I would be the bridge to his real enemies. I can’t let myself forget that he isn’t the hero of this story. His hands are covered in blood. I saw that with my own eyes.

Claire leads a busy, fulfilled and happy life, a life she wouldn't trade for anything...but that is about to change for ever. When Claire fails to prevent a young woman's suicide, the incident seems to trigger something in her - forgotten images of a long-lost sister and a childhood she had always remembered as being close to perfection. Realising that this was not the case, Claire runs the risk of uncovering the dark secrets that are locked away in her memories.

Cold case detective and newlywed, Ronan O’Mara, is sitting on top of the world. When he returns to work after his honeymoon, he finds more waiting for him than a stack of dusty cold-case files. Hidden in the mail on Ronan’s desk is a letter from Tank Hutchins, aka The Riverside Ripper. Convicted of murdering a woman three years ago, Tank claims he is innocent and asks Ronan and Tennyson for their help in proving who really committed the crime: his twin brother, Tim.

1865 - Marietta Hughes never wanted to be a spy, but the family legacy of espionage is thrust upon her as the War Between the States rolls on. Unknown to her, the Knights of the Golden Circle - a Confederate secret society bent on destroying the Union her brother died for - has been meeting in a hidden lair beneath her home. Faced with the secrets of her late husband and his brother, whom she thought she could trust with anything, Marietta's world tilts out of control. Can she right it by protecting a Union agent infiltrating the KGC?

Scarlett: When Cristiano Grigori came for me, he didn’t come alone. He brought his army to kill the soldiers at my door and took me for himself. He put his ring on my finger and marked me as mafia property. His property. My brothers thought they had wiped out the Grigori family, but Cristiano is very much alive. And he has one purpose. Revenge.