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The Trade
by William H. Hallahan“Hallahan graduates to the Ludlum-Follett class of writers with this crackling good thriller” (Publishers Weekly). In this brilliant thriller set against the chilling background of the international arms trade, a former American intelligence agent is killed in the Paris Metro. He dies talking of the Doomsday Book. This deadly document is the inspiration for twenty years of plotting by some of the most influential elements of Germany’s arms business. It contains a sinister plan that, if unleashed, could plunge the United States, Russia, and China into a World War III. US agent Charlie Brewer and Colin Thomas, a shrewd, gritty international trader in everything from hand grenades to jet fighters, find themselves desperately dueling with the brilliant daughter of Germany’s leading intelligence officer as they slowly penetrate a shocking worldwide conspiracy. “Puts William Hallahan up above Le Carré, Deighton and Co.” —The Bookseller
The Trade
by Shirley PalmerAs a wildfire rages in the canyons around Malibu, Matt Lowell stumbles upon a newborn baby who dies in his arms.
The Trade Mission
by Andrew PyperOn the heels of his acclaimed bestselling debut Lost Girls, Andrew Pyper brings his darkly musical language, chilling suspense, and psychological complexity to a story of survival in the Amazon jungle. On the delirious eve of the new millennium, Marcus Wallace and Jonathon Bates, two twenty-four-year-old overnight dot-com millionaires, are on a trade mission in Brazil. Their product is Hypothesys, a virtual "morality machine" that promises to help people "make the best decisions of their lives." But when the decision is made to take an ecotour up the Rio Negro deep into the Amazon jungle, the Hypothesys team members are forced to make choices for themselves -- choices that carry fatal consequences. In the dead of night, their boat is boarded by paramilitaries who kill the Brazilian crew and kidnap Wallace and Bates, their two older colleagues, and their enigmatic interpreter, Crossman. Blindfolded and thrown into a pit for a prison, they must fight to find the will to survive. But when the increasingly unstable Wallace engineers a violent escape, their own natures emerge as a threat potentially more dangerous than the boundless jungle that surrounds them, or the gunmen who relentlessly pursue them. A rare combination of literary skill, contemporary insight, and outstanding storytelling, The Trade Mission is an electrifying read that confirms Andrew Pyper's mastery of psychological suspense.
Trade-Off (The Steven Hunter Thrillers)
by James BeckerIn this thriller series debut, a British policeman hunting for a killer in rural Montana finds himself up against a deadly conspiracy. Seconded to the FBI, British policeman Steven Hunter is assigned to a baffling case when a gruesome murder is discovered in rural Montana. Someone has lodged a human femur into the victim&’s skull. With local authorities out of their depth, it&’s up to Hunter to find out who committed this heinous act, and why. But someone high-up doesn&’t want the case solved. With a corrupt government moving in the shadows and a deadly killer on the loose, Hunter faces the deadliest test of his career. Now he must stay one step ahead of powerful, mysterious enemies in order to solve the case and stay alive.
The Trade Off: A Novel
by Sandie JonesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick The Other Woman comes The Trade Off, an electrifying new novel of suspense that begs the question: Would you tell a story, if you knew it was a lie? Or tell the truth and sleep at night?For Stella, deputy editor of The Globe, the choice has always been clear. It doesn’t matter how low she has to stoop—getting the best story is what she’s built her reputation on.For Jess, The Globe’s rookie reporter, the story stops when the truth does. But she knows that the dirty tricks of the tabloids will be hard to overturn.And when a celebrity is hounded by The Globe and pays the ultimate price, Jess wonders just how much Stella and the paper are responsible. Determined to show the world what the tabloid is capable of, Jess will do whatever it takes to uncover the truth, but she needs to watch her back, because someone else is prepared to kill to bury it.RISK or REWARD. JUSTICE or REVENGE. INNOCENCE or GUILT.
Trade Secrets
by Ray GartonOne rainy night, Gerry Brady discovers a beautiful woman with heartbreaking eyes hiding in his garage. The moment he sees her, he is struck by an involuntary thought he does not understand: I've found you. She is a woman in danger. He does not understand why he feels so powerfully drawn to her, but he feels compelled to help her, even though doing so puts his life and the lives of his friends in jeopardy.Gerry's relationship with Kendra draws him into a conspiracy too horrifying to believe...a conspiracy rooted in his own past. As he falls in love with a woman he doesn't know, he learns more about himself than he ever suspected.TRADE SECRETS is a riveting, emotional thriller that features the most memorable and terrifying villain Ray Garton has ever created.
Trade Wind Danger
by Carolyn KeeneSan Francisco has tons to offer tourists like Bess, George, and me. Fresh crabs, cable cars, hikes -- and stalkers! Well, maybe stalkers! is a little harsh, but this older couple, Ed and Harriet, keeps popping up everywhere. Coincidental or not, Ed and Harriet's appearances are smelling fishier than San Francisco Bay to me. So the investigation begins. But who knew it'd lead to more sleuthing -- in Hawaii?
Trader of Secrets
by Steve MartiniDefense attorney Paul Madriani is embroiled in a case as perilous as any he has ever faced: one that involves an angry killer who will stop at nothing short of vengeance, and two missing NASA scientists who are holding secrets that a hostile government desperately wants to purchase-in blood if they must. Madriani's daughter, Sarah, has evaded the man known as Liquida, who has stalked her all the way across the country. For her own safety, she is being kept under armed guard on a farm in Ohio. But one morning, itching for a predawn run to shake off the tension that has grown in the hours she's spent waiting for word from her father, Sarah slips from her ring of protection. What she doesn't know is that at the same moment her assailant is outside, waiting patiently in the dark. Meanwhile in California, two men in a parked car argue over millions in cash that could be slipping through their fingers and a scheme involving government technology for sale that could rock the world. Paul Madriani, his companion Joselyn Cole, and his longtime law partner, Harry Hinds, track Liquida, not knowing that their quest will carry them deep into the vortex of international terror.It is a journey that will lead them toward a bizarre and cruel twist of nature-and the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. From the nation's capital to California, from Bangkok to Paris and the jungles of Mexico, Madriani and his party race against time to find Liquida and the scientist who is the "trader of secrets" before he can unleash the weapon that could set the world ablaze.
Trader's Wife
by T. C. BlackPregnant Sara Klein is awakened by Federal agents who confiscate the contents of her husband Mark's office. Told that Mark has vanished with millions of dollars of his client's money while on a business trip for his brokerage firm, she is accused of being an accomplice to his crime. An ex-employee of the same firm as Mark, Sara turns to her associates for help, but they have been told not to have any contact with her. Stalked by a menacing Russian matron who wants Mark and her missing funds, Sara scrambles to find her husband, misappropriated capital and the truth--a quest that could destroy both her and her unborn child.
Trafficked
by Kim PurcellHannah has struggled ever since her parents were killed and her beloved uncle vanished. So when she's offered the chance to leave Moldova and become a nanny for a family in Los Angeles, it seems like a dream come true-and at first it is. But after weeks of working sixteen-hour days and not being able to leave the house, she still hasn't been paid. As things go from bad to worse, Hannah realizes that things are not at all what they seem and she finds herself doing things she never imagined herself capable of. But as she begins uncovering the family's crooked history, she may be exposing more than she bargained on-and putting her life in danger. .
Traffyck
by Michael BeresWhen a Kiev video store is torched, the wife of the now-deceased owner-and primary suspect in the arson case-hires private investigator Janos Nagy. As he delves into the woman's past, Janos discovers things are far more than meets the eye, and as the case is pursued further, a human trafficking plot unfolds from Kiev across the Ukraine. With mixed involvement of Eastern European and Russian mafia, the Ukraine Secret Service, and both orthodox and nonorthodox church rivalries, the race to untangle the threads of the international trafficking ring turns quickly to a matter of life and death.
Traficada: Diário De Uma Escrava Sexual (Portuguese Edition)
by Claudia Figueira Sibel HodgeChamo-me Elena e era um ser humano. Agora sou escrava sexual. Se estiver a ler este diário, estou morta ou consegui fugir... ~~~~ Traficada: Diário de uma Escrava Sexual é um romance curto realista, cativante, que leva às lágrimas, inspirado em testemunhas de vítimas reais e na pesquisa ao submundo do tráfico sexual. Foi classificado como um dos 40 Livros Mais Relevantes Sobre os Direitos Humanos pelos Institutos Acreditados Online. Estima-se que todos os anos 800.000 pessoas são traficadas por fronteiras internacionais - 80% das quais são mulheres e raparigas. (Fonte: Departamento de Estado Norte-Americano, Relatório sobre o Tráfico de Pessoas: 2007)
La tragedia del girasol
by Benito OlmoBenito Olmo, el nuevo talento del género negro y criminal, presenta una brutal aventura protagonizada por el irreverente inspector Manuel Bianquetti. «Lo que tenía ante él respondía más bien a un sentimiento enfermizo, que colapsaba la parte más racional de su cerebro y le nublaba el juicio y la capacidad de pensar por sí mismo, convirtiéndolo en un títere en manos de aquella mujer. "Como un girasol -se dijo-, condenado hasta el final de sus días a seguir el movimiento del sol que le da la vida; el mismo sol que al cabo de unas semanas se la quitará, achicharrándolo".» Suspendido de empleo y sueldo, el exinspector de policía Manuel Bianquetti se ve obligado a malvender sus servicios como investigador privado hasta que recibe un encargo aparentemente sencillo: proteger a un importante empresario durante su estancia en la ciudad. Sin embargo, lo que parece un trabajo rutinario desembocará en un reguero de muertes que obligará a Bianquetti a dar rienda suelta a su instinto de investigador para sobrevivir, llevándole a descubrir que, a menudo, el sol que más calienta también es el que más quema.
Tragedy at Beechcroft
by A. E. FieldingTragedy at Beechcroft, first published in 1935, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains somewhat of a mystery itself) features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Pointer, who is called to the Beechcroft estate to investigate an 'accidental' death and an apparent suicide, but which are, in fact, murders. A host of characters, from the sinister to the silly, populate the Beechcroft household in this inventive, highly readable mystery.At first it had seemed just a tragic accident, a conjuring trick gone horribly wrong when a real sword substituted for a prop results in the death of a woman. Moments later the amateur magician, the ladies' husband, overwhelmed with grief committed suicide. But when certain aspects don’t seemed to add up, one of Scotland Yard’s finest, Chief Inspector Pointer, is sent to the scene of the tragedy, Beechcroft, to investigate. Was it truly an accident and suicide? Or was it something more sinister, a double murder? And if so, why? And more importantly, by whom? These are the questions Pointer must unravel as he investigates the . . . Tragedy at Beechcroft
Tragedy at Ravensthorpe (A Clinton Driffield Mystery)
by J. J. Connington'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator In Clinton Driffield's second case he must tangle with a plethora of crimes including robbery, murder and a disappearance - not to mention a Family Curse, and a less than sympathetic victim ...
Tragedy at Ravensthorpe
by J. J. Connington'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' Spectator In Clinton Driffield's second case he must tangle with a plethora of crimes including robbery, murder and a disappearance - not to mention a Family Curse, and a less than sympathetic victim ...
Tragedy at Two
by Ann PurserShe's worked through all the days of the week, scrubbing up both messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. But crime is a persistent stain, and when Lois's daughter's boyfriend is left for dead in a ditch, Lois must find a twisted path that leads to arson, local delinquents, secret assignments, and blackmail-before she can discover who's been tinkering with the truth.
Tragedy at Two
by Ann PurserShe's worked through all the days of the week, scrubbing up both messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. But crime is a persistent stain, and when Lois's daughter's boyfriend is left for dead in a ditch, Lois must find a twisted path that leads to arson, local delinquents, secret assignments, and blackmail-before she can discover who's been tinkering with the truth.
The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries Ser.)
by Ernest J. GainesErnest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims—an honorable, just, and unsparing man who with his tough love had been handed the task of keeping the black children of Bayonne, Louisiana in line to protect them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own son makes a fateful mistake, it is up to Brady to carry out the necessary reckoning. In the telling, we learn the story of a small southern town, divided by race, and the black community struggling to survive even as many of its inhabitants head off northwards during the Great Migration.
The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor
by Agatha ChristieAn aging, heavily-insured country squire whose estate is in financial ruin is thought to have committed suicide. Hercule Poirot investigates, in the guise of a representative of the victim's insurance company, to uncover the identity of the real murderer.
The Tragedy of X
by Ellery QueenWhy was the streetcar conductor murdered? Why won't Longstreet's partner talk? Here is a mystery you may be able to solve!
The Tragedy of X (Drury Lane Mystery #1)
by Ellery QueenRetired Shakespearean actor Drury Lane solves a mystery from afar Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part of his life in the theater. A majestic old-fashioned ham, he made his name in London, where his record-breaking run as Hamlet defined the role for a generation. When hearing loss forces him to retire, he turns his attention to human drama—specifically crime. Using his powers of disguise, knowledge of human nature, and an occasional dash of theatrical combat, Lane is the most fantastic detective of all time—onstage or off. In The Tragedy of X, a man is poisoned in the middle of a crowded New York streetcar, and not one of the dozens of witnesses can provide any useful evidence. The police are stumped until they receive a letter from Lane, claiming to have solved the crime by reading newspaper reports. He knows the killer’s name—but now he has to catch him.
The Tragedy of Y (Drury Lane Mysteries #2)
by Ellery QueenA Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide&’s been staged—and suspects the members of an eccentric New York family . . . A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping for a profitable catch. Their prize flops on the deck, limp, cold, and bloody: the corpse of a man. His name was York Hatter, and he had disappeared from his house on the fashionable Washington Square several days before. He hadn&’t left a note and he wasn&’t carrying any money. The police assume he killed himself—but they are very wrong. The Hatter family is famously eccentric, and when a murder attempt is made on York&’s invalid stepdaughter, any one of them could be the culprit. Solving the case will fall to Drury Lane, the retired Shakespearean actor who has turned his genius to solving crimes. But he may find that these Hatters are so crazy and so deadly, they even put Hamlet to shame.
The Tragedy of Z (Drury Lane Mystery #3)
by Ellery QueenInspector Thumm’s daughter, Patience, investigates a political murder with the help of actor Drury Lane Patience Thumm has just traveled the world. She turned heads in London, sipped absinthe in Tunis, and debated philosophy on the Left Bank of Paris. When she returns home to New York with a smuggled copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in her bag, her father, the NYPD’s Inspector Thumm, is quite unprepared to handle her. At first, it seems they have nothing in common—but the two soon discover a shared appetite for murder. When a corrupt senator is stabbed to death in his study, Patience can’t resist hunting for the killer. With the help of her father’s old friend Drury Lane, the legendary Shakespearean actor, she will find that all the exotic cities of the world can’t offer anything as exciting as a New York homicide.
Tragedy on the Line (The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories #11)
by John RhodeA body on the tracks and a pair of missing wills have Dr. Priestley puzzled . . . Gervase Wickenden&’s estate is close to a railroad line—and that&’s where his mangled body is found after an unfortunate meeting with a train. The timing is a bit odd though, considering this happened only two days after Wickenden changed his will. And now, neither version of the will can be located . . . The heirs ask Dr. Lancelot Priestley to look into the matter of the missing documents, but he soon stumbles on something else entirely: evidence that the train was not the actual cause of death. It&’s up to him to deduce the facts behind this fatal so-called accident, in a compelling British mystery by a Golden Age master. &“You can never go far wrong with a Dr. Priestley story.&” —The New York Times