Management Thrillers

Une femme est retrouvée assassinée dans un champ de maïs du Nebraska, attachée à un poteau, victime d’un tueur cinglé. Il ne faut pas longtemps à la police pour se rendre compte qu’ils ont affaire à un tueur en série et que sa folie meurtrière ne fait que commencer. La détective Mackenzie White, jeune, coriace et plus futée que la plupart de ses collègues machos et vieillissants, est appelée à contrecœur sur l’affaire. Bien que les autres officiers ne veuillent pas l’admettre, ils ont besoin de son esprit jeune et brillant.

Women are being murdered in upstate New York, their bodies found mysteriously hanging in chains. With the FBI called in, given the bizarre nature of the murders - and the lack of any clues - there is only one agent they can turn to: Special Agent Riley Paige. Riley, reeling from her last case, is reluctant to take on a new one, since she is still convinced a former serial killer is out there, stalking her. She knows, though, that her ability to enter a serial killer's mind and her obsessive nature is what will be needed to crack this case.

In Watching, 22 year old psychology major - and aspiring FBI agent - Riley Paige finds herself in a battle for her life as her closest friends on campus are abducted and killed by a serial killer. She senses that she, too, is being targeted - and that if she is to survive, she must apply her brilliant mind to stop the killer herself. When the FBI hits a dead end, they are impressed enough by Riley’s keen insight into the killer’s mind to allow her to help.

Night of the Assassin is the gritty, edge-of-your seat prequel to King of Swords. A no-holds-barred, breakneck-paced thriller, Night of the Assassin charts the early years of El Rey - known as the King of Swords - a super-assassin responsible for some of the world's most spectacular and daring executions. Framed against the backdrop of present-day Mexico's brutal narco-trafficking violence, Night of the Assassin chronicles the making of a monster - a cold-blooded, ruthless killing machine.

In Before He Hunts, victims are turning up dead in FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White’s home state of Nebraska - all shot in the back of the head, and all bearing the card “Barker Antiques.” The same card her father’s murderer left on his body years ago. With a sudden urgency in the present, the time has finally come for Mackenzie to face her ghosts, to face her darkest past, and to find her father’s killer. But her trip back down memory lane may take her to places she’d rather not see, and to discoveries she’d rather not find.

Personne ne s’étonne de retrouver des prostituées mortes à Phoenix. Cependant, quand la police s’aperçoit que ces meurtres sordides sont liés, ils réalisent qu’un tueur en série sévit dans la région et que l’affaire les dépasse. Devant la nature étrange des crimes, le FBI comprend qu’il devra faire appel à son agent le plus brillant : Riley Paige.

Chloé a l’impression que sa vie est enfin devenue parfaite quand elle revient s’installer dans sa ville natale avec son fiancé. Sa carrière au sein du FBI est plutôt prometteuse et son mariage se profile à l’horizon. Mais très vite, elle se rend compte que la banlieue n’est pas toujours ce qu’elle paraît. Chloé en découvre la face cachée - les rumeurs, les secrets, les mensonges - et elle se retrouve hantée par ses propres démons : la mort mystérieuse de sa mère quand elle avait dix ans et l’incarcération de son père.

In Cause to Save, serial killer Howard Randall has escaped, and the entire city of Boston is on edge. Women are turning up gruesomely murdered, and everyone suspects Howard is at it again. When Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black - is herself stalked - and when people close to her are brutally killed, one by one - it seems the city’s worst fears are confirmed. But Avery is not so sure.

The G-20 Financial Summit is planned for San Jose Del Cabo. The world's pre-eminent finance ministers will attend, along with the presidents of the U.S. and Mexico. Captain Romero Cruz of the Mexican Federal Police uncovers an assassination plot against the attendees. In a roller-coaster race against the clock, Cruz must track and stop El Rey, the "King of Swords" - a faceless super-assassin responsible for a string of the world's most spectacular killings, before he turns the G-20 into a slaughterhouse.

The founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future, in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate...

In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the US Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and he’s in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends, one of whom was his former lover.

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so well... and once was. But there’s something about her father....

I wrote the following book to help you understand what your mother or grandmother and I have attempted to accomplish. Our mission is to convert evil to good or do good. In helping the helpless, I made enemies, formidable enemies. At times, I felt like evil was ever-present in and around us. My enemies pursued, overtook, and were close to killing me when unknown persons kept me alive. I survived and helped a few others from impending death by my enemies with hope, love, and eliminating my enemies before they eliminated me.

Schauer, Spannung und Schwarze Romantik: 10 Meisterwerke des Genres. Mit dabei: In der Gruft (H.P. Lovecraft), Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde (R.L. Stevenson), Die schwarze Spinne (J. Gotthelf), In der Tiefe des Maelstroms (E. A. Poe), Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow (W. Irving), Die Affenpfote (W. W. Jacobs), Der Vampyr (J. Polidori), Der Sandmann (E.T.A. Hoffmann), Der Garten des Bösen (N. Hawthorne).

At minus five degrees, even the densest blood materials start to turn: the beginnings of a human heart will still into black ice. Callum has been given an opportunity: Jozsef's house is the perfect place to live - plenty of room, a sought-after London location and filled with priceless works of art. All that Jozsef asks in return is for some company while he's ill and the promise that if it all gets too much, someone will be there to help him at the end.

Generation Blend ventures deep into the technology age gap and provides real-world solutions to combine the best that younger and older workers have to offer. It explores how generational attitudes toward technology affect issues as diverse as recruitment and retention, employee training, management decision-making, collaboration, knowledge sharing, work/life balance, and ordinary workday activities.

LA PORTA ACCANTO (Un Mistero di Chloe Fine) è il primo libro di una nuova serie thriller di Blake Pierce, autore del best-seller "Il Killer Della Rosa", che ha ottenuto più di 1000 recensioni da cinque stelle. Chloe Fine, 27 anni, tirocinante nella Squadra Ricerca Prove dell'FBI, si ritrova costretta ad affrontare il proprio oscuro passato quando la sorella gemella, piena di problemi, ha bisogno del suo aiuto e un cadavere spunta nel suo paesino di provincia.

Dall'autore di thriller best-seller, Blake Pierce, ecco un nuovo capolavoro di suspense psicologica. Keri Locke, detective delle persone scomparse alla divisione Omicidi del LAPD, è ancora sconvolta dal rapimento di sua figlia, accaduto anni prima, e che ancora non è stata ritrovata. Sempre ossessionata dal desiderio di ritrovarla, Keri seppellisce il dolore nell'unico modo che conosce: buttandosi nei casi delle persone scomparse a Los Angeles. Una telefonata di routine da parte della preoccupata madre di una studentessa del liceo che è sparita da solo due ore dovrebbe essere ignorata.

Un matin, Bob, le pire manager du monde, est retrouvé mort dans son bureau, une paire de ciseaux entre les omoplates et le crâne fracassé par son imprimante. L'inspecteur Dargémont, grand professionnel de la police nationale, est dépêché sur place afin de faire la lumière sur cette sombre affaire. Il lui semble clair que le coupable se trouve parmi les salariés de la société, "Le Calbut breton".

Eine spannende Reise in die Ursprünge des Kriminalromans: Diese Sammlung von zehn klassischen Geschichten vereint die größten Meister der klassischen Spannungsliteratur. Von Edgar Allan Poes düsteren Visionen über Sherlock Holmes' messerscharfe Logik bis zu Chestertons moralphilosophischen Detektivrätseln – hier begegnen sich Wahnsinn, Mord, Mysterien und meisterhafte Erzählkunst.