William Diehl Bücher
4. Dezember 1924 – 24. November 2006
William Diehl begann seine schriftstellerische Laufbahn im Alter von fünfzig Jahren, nachdem er bereits als Fotojournalist erfolgreich war. Sein erster Roman wurde zu einem Bestseller und diente als Vorlage für eine erfolgreiche Verfilmung, was seinen literarischen Durchbruch markierte. Diehl nutzte seine Erfahrungen aus der journalistischen Arbeit als Inspirationsquelle für seine packenden Thriller, die oft in atmosphärischen Umgebungen angesiedelt sind. Seine Werke zeichnen sich durch fesselnde Handlungsstränge und eine authentische Darstellung von Spannung aus, die Leser in ihren Bann zieht.
Eine Mordserie erschüttert ganz Boston. Drahtzieher soll ein geheimnisvoller Mann sein, den keiner kennt und alle fürchten. Frank O'Hara eröffnet die Jagd auf den mysteriösen Unbekannten und hetzt ihn von Boston über die karibischen Inseln nach Japan und wieder zurück in die Staaten. „Ein scharfsinniger Thriller! William Diehl ist der Meister des Genres.“ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Primal Fear
- 393 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop. Vail is certain to lose, but Vail uses his unorthodox ways to good advantage when choosing his legal team—a tight group of men and women who must uncover the extraordinary truth behind the archbishop's slaughter. They do, in a heart-stopping climax unparalleled for the surprise it springs on the reader...
27
- 501 Seiten
- 18 Lesestunden
As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler's henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse game with the Third Reich's perfect spy, a man of a thousand faces. In an arena that encompasses presidents and gangsters, spies and sirens, the deadly present and the dark past, Keegan pursues his elusive quarry into the cutting edge of world events--and into the secret inner workings of a terrifying mission known only as "27." "The best book of its kind since THE DAY OF THE JACKAL...Edge-of-the-seat stuff." PEOPLE
Italy, 1944: A squad of American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and slaughtered . . . and a fortune in gold vanishes.Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious brothel.Atlanta, 1975: The last survivor of the fatal World War II ambush in Italy is executed at point blank range in a parking lot.Blowing away a crazed, gun-wielding drug dealer on a crowded city bus gets police detective Sharky bounced from the narc squad into the dreaded dregs of the department--vice. That's where he stumbles on a high-priced call girl and her pimp who are fleecing rich johns in an even higher-priced blackmail scam. Together with his "machine" of hard-bitten vice squad veterans, Sharky closes in for a big sting. He doesn't count on falling for Domino, his alluring target. Or falling into the middle of the murderous design she's a part of--involving a hot presidential candidate, the shadowy multimillionaire who's backing him, and the ice-cold assassin they're using to wipe out the past . . . before it blows their future to hell."Every chapter crackles with sex, violence, and corruption."--The Washington Post"Fast-paced, attention-holding, hard-hitting."--Chicago Tribune"A slam-bang ending that should shock the most jaded thriller reader."--The Associated Press
