Showing results for "Vendetta" in Literature & Fiction

Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons...

Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.

No one needs to push Nikki Boyd to excel on the Tennessee Missing Person Task Force. The case of her own missing sister, still unsolved after 10 years, is the driving force in her work. When a Polaroid photo of a missing girl shows up at a crime scene, Nikki quickly recognizes similarities to the past. The closer she gets to the abductor, the more she feels that this case is getting personal and that she is not the hunter at all - but actually the one being hunted.

Five years ago, Myra's pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver - the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. Myra was left to grieve while the murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime. But not for much longer. As the air turns crisp in the Virginia hills around Myra's lovely old farmhouse, the Sisterhood has gathered for a little creative planning, and what they have in mind is a gift for Myra of long-awaited and very sweet revenge.

France, 1969. When a rare gap opens in barrister Charles Holborne's court diary, he and Sally seize the chance for their long-postponed honeymoon. With baby Leia in tow, they seek peace in a friend's farmhouse deep in the rural heart of Gascony — a picturesque land of vineyards, sleepy village squares and distant Pyrenean peaks.

Two years ago, and with assassins after his head, Bourne knew he had to let Abbey Laurent walk away from his dangerous world. Now Abbey is back — and she’s married to a top government official. But she’s convinced someone is trying to kill her husband, and she wants Bourne’s help.

Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and virtually unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organisation? As his colleagues pick up the pieces, Dreyfus must face his conscience. 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “All the Steve Berry hallmarks are here: scale, scope, sweep, history—plus breathless second-by-second suspense. I love this guy.”—Lee Child Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American...

When Adele's brother, Peter, gets banged up for GBH, she reluctantly agrees to run his nightclub, The Golden Bell. Strong opposition from Peter's thuggish number two, Glynn, who isn't best pleased about answering to a woman, isn't the only challenge she faces. The Manchester club scene of the 1990s is a dangerous place, at the mercy of illicit protection rackets and rampaging gangs, and, despite Adele's efforts to keep everything legal, the club is beginning to feel like a poisoned chalice.

London, 1558. Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth's intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil, and archrival Robert Dudley.

Eliza was once a globe-trotting classical pianist; now, her time is consumed by the dramas of the judgmental 'momfluencers' at the café across from Mara's school, where she spends hours anxiously watching her lonely daughter during playtimes. When she's sent a suggestive photo of her husband Richard with another woman, it's the last straw. She turns to mysterious marriage therapist Ellen Early for help. But Eliza has no idea just how far Ms. Early is willing to go to get results ...

The Elves have established a glorious Imperium to stand guard against those who serve the Under Realm. Now, rumors spread to the capital city of Lorthal about an army of Rusca amassing in the Far North. The Imperium must stand strong in these trying times and elect a new High Warden to lead their armies against those who threaten their safety. Fordi, an Elf captured by the Rusca, is being escorted by his captors to a secret stronghold deep within Imperium territory. Along their way, the Rusca are ambushed by the Elven hero known as the Shadow.

Bari, Italy, present day. Think tank Special Ops leader Timothy Stryker and his wife Angie, a self-made CEO, haven’t exactly been seeing eye-to-eye. They take a much-needed Italian holiday, but it comes to a shocking end when Angie and their daughter are kidnapped.

John Candish è un criminale dedito principalmente allo spaccio di sostanze stupefacenti. La persona che lui ha sempre amato sopra ogni cosa, sua moglie Adrien, muore senza che lui potesse salutarla. Da quel momento in avanti John perde la lucidità di un tempo e inizia a combinare un disastro dopo l'altro. L'occasione giusta arriva quando Henry gli chiede di fare da guardaspalle a una donna dalla bellezza folgorante e dal passato oscuro, che lui ha intenzione di spedire in Italia con una precisa missione.

The agents of Supernatural Protection & Investigations (SPI) are paid to keep the peace. But that's not so easy when an endless evil threatens to tear that peace to pieces. A vampire gangster's nephew is abducted off his yacht by a bunch of low-rent Creatures from the Black Lagoon. A slew of banks are knocked over by what looks like the cast of Night of the Living Dead. All of this may seem like the movies, but, I promise you, it's not.

The echoes of the Fae Invasion have died out in the Midwest when a new thunder rumbles across the plains. Tukor, former warband leader of the Red Arrow Clan, now rides with a motorcycle club of humans and orcs against his former masters. It’s hard to tell which challenges Tukor more though; being the new chief of all the orcs in the free city of Wichita Falls, Texas, or being engaged to the tough and lovely human woman Misty.

Mario crede di aver trovato finalmente la felicità da quando lui e Roberto sono di fatto una coppia. Ma non è ancora il momento. La ricomparsa di Julien è il preludio al riaffiorare dei fantasmi di un passato che cerca disperatamente di cancellare. Credeva di non poter essere più felice, invece scopre prima di essere padre di Mario Junior, figlio di Kala, concepito sull'isola dov'erano naufragati, e adottato da Julien alla sua morte.

Der Luxusliner Sternentraum wird auf seiner Kreuzfahrt von einer Gruppe Bewaffneter aufgebracht und gekapert. Die fast dreitausend Passagiere und Besatzungsmitglieder werden als Geiseln genommen. Die Geiselnehmer stellen jedoch keinerlei Forderungen, weder wollen Sie Geld noch andere Leistungen. Vielmehr scheinen Sie an ganz bestimmten Zielpersonen interessiert zu sein und setzen alles daran, ihrer habhaft zu werden.

In una baraccopoli di immigrati vicino a Foggia viene scoperta una fossa comune con cinque corpi sepolti parecchi anni prima, una testa in decomposizione (quella di un mafioso della Sacra Corona Unita, Gianni Palano) e il cadavere ancora caldo di Paula, una prostituta rumena, a cui il killer ha intagliato una stella sulla fronte accanto al foro di entrata del proiettile, quasi volesse lasciare una firma.

Reeling from the news dropped on his desk days earlier, Sheriff Elven Hallie is left questioning everyone and everything in his life. But when a former deputy is burned to death, Elven must push aside the turmoil in his personal life to catch the killer. As if that wasn’t enough, new faces from the Starcher clan enter his county with vengeance in their eyes for Corbin’s death. Paranoid, angry, and directionless, Elven must lean on those closest to him to bring a ruthless murderer to justice. But that’s easier said than done when it’s those closest to him who he trusts the least.