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It was 1970 in a defeated Rhode Island fishing town. Vietnam and Nixon dominated the national news. Both the near and distant future looked bleak. But they were five inseparable high school friends with something incredible in common: an unwavering resolve to look after each other no matter what hell life threw at them. And they were on a mission. The plan was simple: Go off the grid before they turned 18 to avoid the draft. They’d sell some grass, stack some cash, then head west and start a commune. What could possibly go wrong?

From the master of crime fiction comes an unexpectedly whimsical short story about this San Diego surfer whose life plan is working perfectly until he meets a wealthy woman at an art gallery opening (the hors d’oeuvres), falls in love, and then has to masquerade as an upstanding member of society.

Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook, from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room. Now it's payback time.

One September morning, Doug accidentally runs right into another surfer on the beach. There are rules about these things. The other guy should call Doug a jerk, Doug should say, "my bad", and they should both paddle back out and move on. Problem is, the other surfer doesn't want to move on. He wants to fight. And for once in his life, Doug wants to fight back.

It’s the summer of ’77 in New York City, and the only thing more unnerving than the scorching heatwave is the rampant murder, leaving washed-up homicide detective Richard Dietrich on edge. When Dietrich investigates a brutal mob hit the brass doesn’t want him to solve, he goes from phoning it in to getting in over his head. Caught up in a mysterious second homicide with an even more perplexing perpetrator, Dietrich starts to second guess his instincts—and his memory—as he searches for answers at the bottom of a bottle.

In Deep Hole, one of the world’s foremost crime novelists crafts a sweet, poignant romance novella that could only come from his perfectly calibrated sense of time and place. It incorporates fights and misunderstandings and rejection, and is set against the backdrop of a quiet surfing town in Rhode Island where everyone knows each other’s business—and pleasure.

Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him that something's wrong. So wrong that he violates his own cardinal rule - "You don't get personal, you don't get emotional. Whatever you do, you don't get involved" - and plunges into the case.

When Tim Kearney draws a license plate across the throat of a Hell's Angel, he's pretty much a dead man. It's his third crime and, according to California law, that gives him "life without the possibility of parole". Killing a Hell's Angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in California. That's when the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him to Don Huertero, northern Mexico's drug kingpin, for a captured DEA agent.

At loose ends after four years in the Royal Navy, young James Harrington stumbles on an advertisement for an ‘Estate Manager’ and eagerly applies for the position. However, the job is not exactly what James expects. Navy Commander Hamilton Sterrett plans to completely refurbish an old estate and former girl’s school, Ironwood, which was left vacant for decades after rumours of its libertine past forced its doors to close.

The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. Don Winslow, the Raymond Chandler Award-winning author of City in Ruins, picks the best twenty mystery and suspense stories from the previous year.

From a #1 bestselling author, a formidable assassin is assigned his most dangerous mission yet in this “home run” of an espionage thriller (David Baldacci, New York Times bestselling author). It is the fall of 1951, and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the...

Sur la côte est, la guerre des gangs a fait rage et Danny Ryan a perdu. La Mafia, les flics, le FBI veulent tous le voir mort ou en prison. Avec son fils, son père vieillissant et les quelques rescapés de sa bande, il part tenter sa chance en Californie. À Hollywood, la ville où les rêves les plus fous se réalisent. Le sien est de mener enfin une existence tranquille et paisible. Sauf que les fédéraux le traquent : ils veulent lui demander une faveur qui fera de lui un homme riche, ou mort.

Er folgt nur seinen eigenen Regeln - und dem Highway 101. Davis ist ein Juwelenräuber mit beeindruckender Erfolgsbilanz - weil er sich an seine Regeln hält. Nun ist er bereit auszusteigen und um eine Chance zu haben, dies mit heiler Haut zu tun, muss er seine Regeln brechen. Lieutenant "Lou" Lubesnick ist Leiter des Raubdezernates und einem gerissenen Serientäter auf den Fersen, davon ist er überzeugt; allerdings als einziger in seiner Abteilung. Doch eine schöne Frau und der Highway 101 bringen ihn auf die richtige Spur.

QUAND TOUT LE SYSTÈME EST POURRI. AUTANT JOUER SELON SES PROPRES RÈGLES. Denny Malone est le roi de Manhattan North, le leader charismatique de La Force, une unité d élite qui fait la loi dans les rues de New York et n hésite pas à se salir les mains pour combattre les gangs, les dealers et les trafiquants d armes. Après dix-huit années de service, il est respecté et admiré de tous. Mais le jour où, après une descente, Malone et sa garde rapprochée planquent pour des millions de dollars de drogue, la ligne jaune est franchie.

Denny Malone es un condecorado sargento de policía y el auténtico líder de la Unidad Especial de Manhattan Norte. Él y sus hombres son los más listos, los más duros, los más rápidos, los más valientes y los más canallas. Día y noche, durante los dieciocho años que ha pasado en el cuerpo de policía, Malone ha combatido en primera línea de fuego por las calles de Nueva York, una ciudad en la que nadie está limpio, ni siquiera el propio Malone.

Art Keller, ancien agent de la DEA, est recruté par le sénateur républicain O'Brien pour participer à une opération officieuse au Guatemala : aider le cartel de Sinaloa, dont la mainmise sur le Mexique assure un semblant de stabilité à la région, à se débarrasser d'une organisation rivale sanguinaire, Los Zetas. Quand O'Brien propose à Keller de prendre la tête de la DEA, il y voit l'occasion de lutter contre les organisations qui sèment la mort en Amérique.

Brandspezialist Jack Wade untersucht für die "California Fire & Life" einen Versicherungsfall. Die Villa des einflussreichen Immobilienbesitzers Nicky Vale ist in Flammen aufgegangen, die Leiche seiner Ehefrau Pamela wurde in den Trümmern gefunden. Der Fall ist klar: zu viel Alkohol und eine brennende Zigarette – zumindest steht das im Polizeibericht. Damit will sich Wade nicht zufriedengeben. Er kennt die Sprache des Feuers, und er hegt den Verdacht, dass Nicky Vale nicht die ganze Wahrheit sagt. Doch sämtliche Ermittlungen führen in Sackgassen. Als die Situation außer Kontrolle gerät beschließt er, Feuer mit Feuer zu bekämpfen.

Del autor número 1 en ventas internacionales de la Trilogía Cartel (El poder del perro, El cartel y La frontera) llega la primera novela de una saga criminal épica sobre los sindicatos del crimen irlandeses e italianos en Estados Unidos durante las décadas de 1980 y 1990. Providence, Rhode...

Das Hörbuch mit allen sechs Geschichten aus "Broken" – gesprochen von Dietmar Wunder, der deutschen Stimme von James-Bond-Darsteller Daniel Craig! Sechs packende Geschichten voller Verbrechen und Korruption, Schuld und Gerechtigkeit, Verlust und Verrat, Rache und Vergebung von Bestsellerautor Don Winslow. In Broken schickt er einige seiner beliebtesten Charaktere wie Ben, Chon und O aus "Zeit des Zorns" in eine Welt voller Schwerverbrecher und Kleinkrimineller, besessener Polizisten, denen Job und Leben zusetzen, Privatdetektive, Kopfgeldjäger und Flüchtiger.

"Jeg skulle have dræbt ham lige på stedet," tænker Art Keller, da han flere år senere mindes sit første møde med Adán Barrera i en træningshal i Culiacán, Mexico. Dengang var Adán kun en splejset dreng og yngste skud på stammen i Barrera-familien. Men netop den familie skulle blive drivkraften i sammenslutningen af de mexicanske klaner, Federación, som er hovedleverandør af den narko, der oversvømmer gaderne i USA. Den sammenslutning, som narkoagenten Art Keller skulle vie sit liv til at bekæmpe.