Showing results by publisher "Audible studios" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A powerful international organization wants to tip the balance of global power by infiltrating the White House. At the direction of its mastermind, alias Pecos Bill, presidential candidates have become unwitting targets of a world-class sharpshooter. A martial arts expert, a greedy corporate attorney, and a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist form a shaky alliance initially intent on solving a missing persons case, only to get caught up in a bigger political plot in which they must uncover the assassin’s identity....

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who believes that the voices she hears are from God.

Wilson Hitchings is ready to assume his rightful place at Hitchings Brothers, one of the oldest mercantile banks in China. His first task takes him to Hawaii, where he must persuade his cousin Eva to close Hitchings Plantation, a gambling establishment started by her father, the black sheep of the family. The senior members of the bank believe that the casino is tarnishing the venerable Hitchings name. Little do they know how right they are.

Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who has leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck.

Everyone has a breaking point. Carl Logan might have just found his. The JIA sends intelligence agent Carl Logan on a routine mission to Russia. It should have been simple. But when Logan's cover is blown, he's transported into a world of hell he thought he would never see again. Something is different this time, though, and before long doubts begin to surface in Logan's mind as to why the assignment went so wrong. Logan has never been short of enemies.

Meg Hart has taken great pains to create her perfect All-American family. It looks effortless, but that’s because she’s been smart about it. However, on a brisk spring morning weeks before his graduation, her son McClane goes missing. And as the investigation deepens, the police zero in on her as their perfect suspect. Tragedy has struck this family before, and all signs suggest that she is the source. Add in her elusive husband’s strange behavior and inconsistencies in her story, it becomes clear that she has plenty to hide.

Abel, recherché par la police et les dirigeants américains, est contraint de se battre pour survivre. Traqué au cœur du pays navajo, Abel Valdès Villazón, le leader du groupe écologiste Gaïa, révèle un scandale d'Etat, espérant ainsi provoquer la chute du gouvernement américain. Mais cette affaire dissimule un complot bien plus vaste qui implique Pékin et le milliardaire Cornélius Fox. La Maison Blanche lance toutes les forces du pays aux trousses de Gaïa, tandis qu'une bombe atomique explose dans le désert du Nouveau Mexique.

England im Jahr 1845: Unter dem Kommando von Sir John Franklin brechen die modernsten Schiffe ihrer Zeit - die "Terror" und die "Erebus" - auf, um die legendäre Nord-West-Passage zu finden: den Weg durch das ewige Eis der Arktis in den Pazifik. 130 Männer nehmen an der Expedition teil. Keiner von ihnen wird je zurückkehren. Dies ist ihre Geschichte.

For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a peculiar blank card slides under her front door—an invitation to the Found Object Society. What she discovers there is beyond comprehension: an opulent, subterranean playground filled with aisles of objects from different eras and regions of the world.

James Culdee, a career US Navy noncom who has served his country with distinction for 20 years, is suddenly and unfairly forced into a disgraceful retirement. Devastated, Culdee retreats into alcoholism until he is rescued by his daughter, Miranda, a charter boat skipper whose sloop, the Seamark, has been stolen. When Miranda learns that the Seamark has been sighted in the dangerous and primitive Flyaway Islands of the Philippines, father and daughter sail off in pursuit, on a voyage that will carry them across the Pacific.

Simon Templar heads to New York - to sip cocktails, listen to jazz, and have a good time. But he has a way of making enemies, and a quiet night in Cookie's Cellar sets him on a trail involving drugs, smuggling, dead bodies, a beautiful singer called Avalon Dexter, and finally the loathsome Cookie herself. The battle is on. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication.

Fifteen miles off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada, a Soviet-era diesel submarine offloads four men before being intercepted by a U.S. Navy vessel patrolling the area. The men make up a team of al-Qaeda-trained specialists skilled in the black arts of terrorist warfare and are headed by a man who has billions of dollars in oil money with which to indulge his murderous fantasies. What they do next will determine the fates of thousands of Americans.

Europe has spiraled into chaos. A conspiracy years in the making combined with general unrest led to upheaval and revolution. In the midst of the murderous disorder, mercenary Michael Valentine is in Europe with a small team of his Exodus personnel, trying to track down the evil and highly dangerous Katarina Montalban. She has initiated a mysterious plot to do away with those who stand between her and ultimate power. The team is on their own, with few friends and few resources - and racing against the clock.

As she hunts for a drug lord killing her fellow witches, all Nessa Lansa's instincts point to the Grizzly motorcycle club. That might be because their leader, Bear, is the strong, silent shifter type: warm brown eyes and more muscle and alpha male than any woman can ignore. Which makes Nessa's plan to seduce and betray him all the more dangerous... Bear doesn't trust the curvy, blue-eyed witch. But Nessa can heal the injuries that sap his strength.

Soldier of fortune Prophet Drews always worked alone - until Tom Boudreaux became his partner. But when Tom walked away three months ago, ostensibly to keep Prophet safe, Prophet learned the true meaning of being alone. Everyone knows that Prophet, a Navy SEAL turned CIA spook turned mercenary, can look after himself. Which means he must've driven his lover away. Even with half a world between them, Prophet can't get the man out of his head.

La esperanza puede convertirse en el peor asesino. Un laboratorio de Manhattan está a punto de encontrar la cura para una de las enfermedades más aterradoras de las últimas décadas. Los resultados de las pruebas están siendo un éxito, pero el ensayo está provocando muertes inesperadas. En menos de un mes, alguien ha asesinado a dos de los cuarenta pacientes sometidos al tratamiento y a uno de los doctores responsables de la clínica. Y seguramente no se detendrá ahí.

Entrevientos no ha cambiado. Sigue siendo una de las minas de oro más remotas de la Patagonia y del mundo. Sin embargo, para Noelia Viader se ha convertido en un sitio totalmente diferente. Hace un año era su lugar de trabajo y hoy es una cruz roja en el mapa sobre el que repasa los detalles del atraco. Tras catorce años alejada del mundo criminal, Noelia retoma el contacto con un mítico ladrón de bancos al que le debe la vida. Juntos reúnen a la banda que planea llevarse de Entrevientos cinco mil kilos de oro y plata.

Des milliers de juifs ont quitté la France ces dernières années à cause de l'antisémitisme, pour "monter" en Israël. Tous les personnages de ce livre sont ces nouveaux immigrants. Ils ont entre trente et soixante ans, des hommes et des femmes, célibataires ou mariés, ils se sont installés à Tel Aviv pour réinventer leur vie entre plages et fêtes. Mais comment vivent-ils, au juste? La France leur manque-t-elle? Deviendront-ils un jour des israéliens? Ou resteront-ils des "expats" ? "Bande de Français" est le premier roman qui raconte cet alya, ses joies et ses drames, ses passions amoureuses et ses petites combines, à travers une intrigue criminelle.

In a pawnshop alleyway, James Hawker finds a body mutilated beyond recognition. She was beautiful once, he knows, but life in this hardened Los Angeles neighborhood took its toll. Starnsdale was once a working-class community, but now it is a battlefield ravaged by warring gangs who kill without thinking and care nothing for the ordinary citizens crushed beneath their feet. The toughest gang is called the Panthers - and Hawker has come to hunt them down.

Film producer Pero Baltazar thought he was taking a Berlin filming assignment. He needed the work, needed to get back in the saddle after fighting off a life-threatening experience in East Africa - al-Shabaab had attacked his crew, intent on a much larger terrorist attack. Suddenly he finds himself under orders from his part-time employers at the State Department and the CIA when he is handed a mysterious package. It's an assignment he doesn't want. The problem is, it is a job contracted by mysterious patrons.