Showing results for title "World" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Navia Watson is struggling to survive. She has just left school and can't hold a steady job. Just when she feels that there is no hope, her best friend makes her an offer that she can't refuse. All she has to do is be a temporary stand-in secretary for her friend's position as the secretary for some billionaire for only a week. One week for some quick cash - how hard can it be? She is in for the surprise of her life when she walks into Jason Black's office.

The crew of an oceanic research vessel goes missing in the Pacific along with their mini submarine. An evangelical media star holds a rally next door to a cinematic convention in LA. The cops know there's going to be trouble, but what they didn't foresee was the presence of a Glaswegian photographer with an indecipherable accent and a strong dislike of hypocrisy or of a terrorist who seems to have access to plutonium as well as Semtex.

If you weren't a believer in fate before, you would be after reading this story. Single dad romance will make you believe in the power of fate. A sweet and emotional Romance about love after loss and a second chance and a Happily Ever After. It all started when a moody and rude Luren collapsed in the middle of the road. The path takes her directly to the hospital, where she meets an entirely inaccessible sexy, and hot dr. Jones. Fate intervenes from a completely different direction to put maybe everything on the right track. And this is where adorable little girl Riley comes to the fore ...

Can a mystical journey heal a heart of darkness Tom Logan awakens from a drug-induced coma clutching a mysterious black diamond, his only clue to finding his missing brother in the rugged Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Enter Amber Armstrong, a passionate poet-turned-police-officer who ignites sparks in Tom’s heart. Tom and Amber venture into the unknown together, discovering a hidden valley brimming with precious, uncut diamonds and a utopian society long concealed from the modern world. With the help of an old Bible, they attempt to unravel the valley’s secrets, but danger looms in ...

马丁所缔造的世界，可不是凭空而来，只要稍稍留心，便会发现，历史在《冰与火之歌》中无处不在……馬丁所締造的世界，可不是憑空而來，只要稍稍留心，便會發現，歷史在《冰與火之歌》中無處不在……

During World War II Alan Caillou was on a British Intelligence deep penetration patrol in the Western Desert of Africa when he was captured by the Italians in February 1943. This is the story of his capture and subsequent escape after being sentenced for execution for being a spy; brilliantly told as to his experiences during that time. It can be considered not only as an escape book but as a prison book as well. For fans of such prison war films as The Great Escape, Stalag 17, and King Rat. "Something very much out of the ordinary run." - Times Literary Supplement "This book is a record ...

The sirens blare. The searchlights scan the grounds of Douglass Branch Penitentiary, but brutal serial killer Waylon Prichard is gone. Austin Branch, the namesake of the prison's founder and trained tracker, pursues the killer, but soon discovers an impossible phenomenon that will make his pursuit of Prichard more difficult—and far more dangerous. And it's not just the killer he has to worry about anymore. What he discovers is far more devastating to the entire world.

Asphalt was his home as Jensen Grimes tallied miles on his Indian motorcycle to escape from a dangerous life that was too much to bear. Never in his wildest dreams had he fathomed the motorcycle club, Chrome Poppies, would turn into a bloodbath. He was running from them and running from the law, after the body count escalated to exorbitant levels. When Jensen makes it to a small mountain town in central California, he thought he was in the clear until a precocious young girl, Emilie Dillon, begging for money appears in his life.

December 1940: While London burns and bombs fall every night, Toby Whitby must save a man from hanging. Ralph Pemberton, a mild-mannered man with a weak heart, has been accused of looting. His fingerprints place him at the scene, and he refuses to offer an alibi. While Ralph waits in jail for the judge to pass sentence, Toby Whitby must try to find what Ralph was doing while the bombs were falling and the city was burning.

Come travel into the 1930s and through the doors of St. Margaret's School for Girls. The place used to be an almshouse, until its previous occupants burned to death 13 years before. The townsfolk are at a loss as to what started the fire. Some said it was an act of the devil. Some said it was a resident who had too much to drink. The building, miraculously, survived.

Secrets have a way of giving in to the truth... Mira once led a wonderful life—a respected professor at the University of Chicago, surrounded by a loving family, outstanding students, caring friends, and a supportive faculty. Her husband owned a technology company that was the envy of the AI world. The world should have been their oyster. Should have been. Instead, Mira wakes up inside a bunker, bewildered and drugged, with the world above ravaged by an unknown scourge. Day by day, hour by hour, she discovers that the enemy isn't some distant adversary, from a faraway land. It's much ...

MI6 Agent Katrin Nissen is Winston Churchill's last hope to convince his government to let him mine the coast of Norway to prevent Hitler from reaching the iron ore reserves that will fuel the Nazi war machine. The proof Churchill needs is to be found in a beef processing plant in the coastal town of Kolding, Denmark. The strategy is simple. As the army gears up for the invasion, food supplies will move with them, and Churchill will be able to chart their path to the coast as they prepare to invade Norway.

A street cleaner walks into the middle of Trafalgar Square and blows himself up. No mere act of terrorism. The explosion rips open a crater to reveal the underground headquarters of ARKANE — the ultra-secret British agency tasked with investigating the supernatural. Within moments, armed commandos rappel into the breach, blow open ARKANE’s vault, and steal a single box containing an ancient relic linked to the Indian god Shiva.

1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world’s nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War. A horde of journalists, spies and opportunists have also gathered in the city, and the last thing the British diplomatic community needs at such a time is the mysterious death of a senior member of their delegation.

If you weren't a believer in fate before, you would be after reading this story. Single dad romance will make you believe in the power of fate. A sweet and emotional Romance about love after loss and a second chance and a Happily Ever After. It all started when a moody and rude Luren collapsed in the middle of the road. The path takes her directly to the hospital, where she meets an entirely inaccessible sexy, and hot dr. Jones. Fate intervenes from a completely different direction to put maybe everything on the right track. And this is where adorable little girl Riley comes to the fore ...

Abril de 1915. La Primera Guerra Mundial sigue su implacable marcha. Entre las tropas británicas enviadas al frente, se hallan los hermanos Reavley. Joseph, el mayot de los tres, ejerce de capellán en las trincheras, mientras que Judith es conductora y traductora del general que está al mando del ejército británico.

Boxed set of the first three Vampire Crimes Special Unit mystery novels, featuring characters created by J.R. Rain in the Vampire for Hire universe, including: MOON HUNT (Book 1) Only a vampire can solve these crimes—an undead private eye named Samantha Moon. Private investigator Sam Moon is working undercover for the Fullerton Police Department’s new top-secret Vampire Crimes Special Unit (VCSU). With the increasing number of supernatural-type crimes in and around Orange County, Detective Sherbet needs Samantha’s special talents to help solve and prosecute the real and growing ...

Es octubre de 1918 en el Frente del Oeste. El capellán Joseph Reavley lleva cuatro años en las terribles trincheras de Flandes. Aun así, se siente incapaz de afrontar la visión del cuerpo mutilado de la enfermera Sarah Price. En medio del horror y de la muerte, alguien ha violado y asesinado a la joven. Y para estupor de Joseph, acusan del asesinato a su hermano Matthew, agente de los servicios de inteligencia británicos.

En julio de 1917, tras cuatro años de guerra, el agotamiento se está adueñando del capellán Joseph Reavley y de su hermana Judith, miembro del Cuerpo de Ambulancias.

Baya is not sure whether she wants the life her mother has planned for her. She has been prepared her entire life for three trials. That’s all…only three ancient tests in three days. A lifetime worth of work over in a matter of days. Easy right? Then, she will officially be a woman and in line to become the ruler of the world, or she’ll be dead. But, what if she doesn’t want either of those options? If she can survive the trials, that’s when the real challenges will begin.