Annamaria Raffo Bücher

Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighbourhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help - and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their store -- agents who seem more than willing to let the gang have their way. But Pike is falling for Dru, and won't back away whether she wants his help or not. As the violence escalates, the gang targets Pike, who, with Elvis Cole's help, learns that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem. It soon emerges that everything Pike thought he knew about them, their relationship to the gang, and the reasons they fled New Orleans have been lies. Now, a vengeful and murderous force from their past is catching up with them, pitting Pike and Cole against the combined forces of South American crime lords, rogue federal agents, and contract assassins on the bloody hunt for twelve million dollars in missing stolen cash.

England, 1660. König Karl II. erlässt mit einer Akte der Verzeihung ein Generalpardon. Ausgenommen sind die Königsmörder, jene Hochverräter, die das Urteil zur Enthauptung seines Vaters Karl I. unterzeichnet haben. Dazu gehören auch die Oberste Whalley und Goffe, die im Bürgerkrieg auf der Seite Oliver Cromwells kämpften. Sie können rechtzeitig in die neuen Kolonien in Amerika fliehen. Die Flüchtlinge treffen dort auf eine Gesellschaft, die durch einen puritanischen Fanatismus geprägt ist und sich gerade vom Mutterland jenseits des Atlantiks abspaltet. Hier könnten sich die beiden unter Gleichgesinnten in Sicherheit wiegen, wären ihnen nicht ebenso fanatische Häscher auf den Fersen.

After his acclaimed stand-alone bestseller, THE TWO MINUTE RULE, Robert Crais returns with the eagerly awaited new Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel. For Elvis and Joe, two of the most beloved characters in crime fiction, the action is getting a little close to home. The dangerous and enigmatic Joe Pike has always defied close examination, but in this breathtaking new thriller, that's all about to change... Joe Pike owes a bad man a big favour. And the favor is to protect the life of Larkin Conner Barkley, a spoiled rich girl who happens to be a federal witness in a case against the mob. When Pike and the girl come under intense fire, he hatches a plan: disappear into the anonymous underbelly of Los Angeles, turn the table, and hunt down the hunters. Enlisting the help of Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals; even the cops aren't who they seem. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Pike's biggest threat may be the girl herself - a vapid soul determined to destroy herself, unless Joe can fill the void in her bruised heart.

Gennaio 1558, Kingsbridge. Ned Willard torna a casa e scopre che il suo mondo sta per cambiare radicalmente. La cattedrale rimane l'unico simbolo di stabilità in una città dilaniata dal conflitto religioso. Figlio di un mercante protestante, Ned desidera sposare Margery Fitzgerald, figlia del sindaco cattolico, ma il loro amore è ostacolato dalle divisioni religiose. Costretto a lasciare Kingsbridge, Ned viene assunto da Sir William Cecil, consigliere di Elisabetta Tudor, futura regina d'Inghilterra. Dopo la sua incoronazione, Elisabetta I affronta l'opposizione dell'Europa cattolica, in particolare di Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia. Per proteggersi dagli attacchi dei nemici, Elisabetta crea una rete di spionaggio, e Ned diventa un membro chiave del primo servizio segreto britannico. Per quasi cinquant'anni, il suo amore per Margery sembra destinato a rimanere irrealizzabile, mentre gli estremisti religiosi seminano violenza. In gioco ci sono non solo le convinzioni religiose, ma anche gli interessi dei tiranni che cercano di imporre il loro potere su chi crede nella tolleranza e nel compromesso.

Sühnetag. Nach den Alex-Cross-Romanen: eine weitere große Serie des Bestsellerautors! Jacob Dunnings, der 18-jährig

Sie ist schön, sie ist mutig, und sie hat einen tollkühnen Plan: Felicity Clairet, genannt „die Leopardin“, britische Agentin im besetzten Frankreich. Um ihr Ziel zu erreichen, muss sie ein Team zusammenstellen, das nur aus Frauen besteht. Dabei kann sie nicht wählerisch sein. Denn für ihr Vorhaben bleiben ihr genau zehn Tage Zeit. Und der Feind ist der Leopardin bereits auf der Spur.

Washington D. C. in Gefahr - ein neuer Auftrag für Kurt Austin Kurt Austin untersucht mit seinem Team zwei mysteriöse Vorfälle im Atlantik. Zwei Schiffe sind ohne Grund in Flammen aufgegangen. Als Austin erkennt, dass der ebenso größenwahnsinnge wie skrupellose afrikanische Diktator Djemma Garand dahinter steckt, ist es längst zu spät. Denn die Vernichtung der Schiffe war nur ein Test, mit dem Garand sich von der Macht seiner neuen Waffe überzeugen wollte. Nun soll sie auf das wahre Ziel gerichtet werden – Washington D. C.!

Two minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. But not everyone plays by the rules. When an aging ex-con finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn't taste too sweet. His son is gunned down in a drive-by shooting. It seems like a random crime, but when the victim is a cop - especially a cop with a con for a father - the motives are never simple. When the hit is exposed as a revenge killing, and the question of police corruption is raised, it becomes a father's last duty to clear his son's name and catch the killer.