Political Crime

Detective Leone Scamarcio, the son of a former leading mafioso, has turned his back on the family business and joined the Rome police force. He may be one of the last honest men in Italy. But when Scamarcio is handed a file of extremely compromising photographs of a high-profile Italian politician and told to "deal with it", he knows he’s in for trouble. When a young man is found stabbed to death in Rome, and a young American girl disappears on a beach in Elba, Scamarcio’s job gets a whole lot more complicated. Worst of all, every lead seems to implicate the prime minister.

Engaged to be married, mysterious journalist Dylan Hunter and CIA officer Annie Woods are eager to put their violent past behind them for good. But then an intrepid investigative reporter is brutally, mysteriously murdered. A visionary presidential candidate is targeted for destruction. And a horrific day of unspeakable terrorism rocks Washington, DC. Soon, Hunter's investigation puts him in the crosshairs of a power-hungry billionaire and a cold-blooded assassin.

El asesinato de la mujer del ministro se mantiene en secreto. El momento del país es delicado. Si la noticia salta a los medios, tal vez no llegue a firmarse nunca el documento que cambiaría para siempre la relación entre el ejército y las empresas de seguridad privada. Defensiva, la compañía líder en el sector, es la principal sospechosa del crimen. El tiempo se agota.

1962-2001: corre lungo quarant'anni di storia italiana il racconto di questo romanzo. È la storia di due poliziotti, David Montorsi e Guido Lopez, uno giovane e incorrotto, l'altro logorato dal mestiere. Ma è anche la storia di due uomini di Stato: Enrico Mattei che col suo jet solca le speranze del popolo italiano, e Henry Kissinger, signore della pace e della guerra, burattinaio che muove i fili del mondo.

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964. It argues that MI5 acted with neither statutory authority nor statutory powers, and with no obvious forms of statutory accountability. It was established as a counter-espionage agency, yet was beset by espionage scandals on a frequency that suggested if not high levels of incompetence, then high levels of distraction and the squandering of resources.

Gonzalo Gil is a disaffected lawyer stuck in a failed career and a strained marriage, dodging the never-ending manipulation of his powerful father-in-law. The fragile balance of Gonzalo’s life as a father and husband is pushed to the limit when he learns, after years without news of his estranged sister, Laura, that she has committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Resolutely investigating the steps that led to her death, Gonzalo discovers that Laura is believed to have murdered a Russian gangster who kidnapped and killed her young son.

Cambodia—seething hotbed of desperation and vice. The Khmer Rouge fighters are long dead but their murderous legacy has left a population gripped by violence. Into this cauldron of psychosis and trauma steps Carl Meissner, a 32-year-old unemployed investigative journalist recently fired over his reporting of a pedophile scandal involving a prominent Sydney judge. Carl has been hired by a wealthy Sydney businessman to find his missing twin brother, last sighted in Cambodia. Forced to face his own demons, he sinks into Cambodia's dark underworld.

Sprawling and illuminating, Dan Gretton’s I You We Them is an unprecedented study of perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the “desk killers” who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the last century. From Albert Speer’s Nazi complicity to Royal Dutch Shell’s role in the murder of the Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Gretton probes the depths of the figure “who, by giving orders, uses paper or a phone or a computer to kill, instead of a gun.”

The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII. Some historians and journalists are starting to regard the Cold-War-era American Communist Party as nothing more than a quaint club of polite if misguided ideologues. In The Venona Secrets, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel intend to create a new impression of treacherous Americans "who willfully gave their primary allegiance to a foreign power, the USSR."

Wenn die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit ihre Schatten in die Gegenwart werfen, ist Cold-Case-Expertin Maria Just gefragt. Polizeihistorikerin Maria Just bereitet eine Ausstellung über ungelöste Mordfälle im Polizeimuseum von Kopenhagen vor, als mitten in der Stadt der Generalsekretär des Roten Kreuzes auf bestialische Art ermordet wird. Die Polizisten Mikael Dirk und Frederik Dahlin ermitteln bei ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall unter hohem Druck von Presse und Politik.

Am Schluss stehen wir alle vor uns selbst. Paula Bloom kehrt nach ihrer Ausbildung in Camp Ritchie, Maryland, als amerikanische Besatzungsoffizierin in ein zerstörtes und gebrochenes Deutschland zurück, das sie vor neun Jahren über Nacht verlassen hatte. Als Tochter eines amerikanischen Geschäftsmannes führte sie im Berlin der Nazizeit ein Leben im goldenen Käfig. Ein Leben, das eine Lüge war. Jetzt glaubt Paula, dass sie niemals vergeben kann. Nicht den Deutschen. Und nicht sich selbst.

Wenige Worte machen die aufstrebende Wiener Nachrichtensprecherin Nadine Just über Nacht berühmt: Vor laufender Kamera kündigt sie ihre Ermordung an – zwei Stunden später ist sie tot! Ebenso ergeht es dem Blogger Gunther Marzik nach einer ganz ähnlichen Ankündigung. Während die österreichische Medienwelt kopfsteht, fluten Nachahmerbeiträge und Memes das Netz.

"Die Filiale" ist der erste Band von Veit Etzolds großer Thriller-Reihe um Laura Jacobs, die als richtige Frau im falschen Job in einen mörderischen Finanzskandal verwickelt wird. Laura Jacobs kann es kaum glauben, als sie den Brief ihres Arbeitgebers öffnet: Eben noch hat sie bei einem Banküberfall auf ihre Filiale ein Blutbad verhindert – jetzt hält sie die Kündigung für den Mietvertrag ihres Zuhauses in der Hand! Die Bank, der neben Lauras Haus eine ganze Reihe von Immobilien in Berlin gehört, will die Grundstücke an einen Investor verkaufen.

Verena Mammoli è scomparsa misteriosamente in Egitto. Centra forse qualcosa suo marito, l'archeologo Idris Fami? Ma è davvero un archeologo? E se dietro questa vicenda ci fosse il traffico internazionale di manufatti antichi? È l'inizio di un intrigo internazionale senza esclusione di colpi che-dai crimini della 'Ndrangheta alle manovre di oscuri commercialisti—ci immerge in un mondo di mezzo di complotti, omicidi e affaristi senza scrupoli. Al centro di tutte queste trame, l'unico uomo che può provare a risolverle: l'indomito avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi.

Colonel Dan Blake's 18-year career in the British Army comes to an abrupt end when he fails a psychiatric evaluation when in line for the top job in counterterrorism at MI5. Finding himself unexpectedly unemployed, Blake travels to Moscow to visit his one real friend, Edwin Mallory, himself a high-achieving Cambridge peer 18 years into a high-flying career with MI6. In Mallory's Moscow circle, Blake meets oil billionaire Sheikh Mohammad al Hussein. The meeting leads to a job offer for Blake's unique skill set.

Jacopo Brancas, detto Ticchie, è stato trovato morto dalla polizia. Ticchie, un classico topo di biblioteca, stava studiando "Historia Fiorentina", un vecchio manoscritto al cui interno si celerebbero delle sconvolgenti rivelazioni sulla morte del grande pittore Masaccio. Il tutto dovrebbe essere collegato a un quadro dell’artista, ‘La Sagra’, andato misteriosamente perduto. L'indomito avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi si trova assegnato al caso e dovrà, ancora una volta, usare tutto il suo ingegno per risolvere l'enigma.

Il primo attentato di matrice islamica mai realizzato in Italia sconvolge Milano, durante una gara podistica di fine estate. Il paese si paralizza, piange e sopporta gli strilli di politici, giornalisti e sciacalli. La nazione si distrae così dall'ultimo trauma: Paolo Bonomelli, politico stimato e in grande ascesa, è appena stato travolto da uno scandalo sessuale.

This thriller begins with Special Agent Rick Clark recovering from a traumatic loss that has turned his world upside down. Determined to discover the truth behind the grisly murder of his dear friend, he departs for Peru where his key witness has mysteriously fled. With the help of the Peruvian intelligence services and a charming Peruvian special agent, Clark hunts down clues that bring him into direct confrontation with those who possess the means and the will to crush any opposition. Mercilessly and completely. This is a powerful story about courage, commitment, and personal loss.

Lance Bear Wolf and his Shadow Tier operators must stop the rebirth of The French Connection and its terror funding connection to the Taliban. By any means necessary. When the resurgent Sinaloa cartel attacks Wolf and his wife, Elle Parker, on the Crow Indian reservation, the safety of his people becomes Job One—until the president of the United States orders Shadow Tier to stop the Taliban's opium trade. The president's underlying message: The drug war is a failure. Fix this now, or your funding disappears.

During the blizzard of 1978, a woman is discovered face down at the edge of her Delaware estate, a dog half-dead by her side. Nearby, a CIA officer lies buried under two feet of snow. Their secret meeting—sabotaged. When Emma Quinn gets a call in her Manhattan apartment—your grandmother, found dead—she has no reason to suspect foul play. But she is drawn into an intrigue that harks back to the beginnings of the Cold War—and forced to confront the truth about her family and history as we know it.