Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Thrillers - Political

A polished and gripping political debut that Michael Connelly calls "an edge of your seat thriller," Shining City is set in DC amid a harrowing Supreme Court nomination fight.

"Amazing. . . . Pulses with momentum. . . . A debut that will be remembered for years." --Michael Connelly

Peter Rena is a "fixer." He and his partner, Randi Brooks, earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. They get their biggest job yet when the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme Court. Judge Roland Madison is a...

Michael Brewer was just a normal college kid who loved playing soccer for Georgetown University-that is, until he had a serious accident on the soccer field during a practice session. Shortly after receiving medical care for his injury, Michael realizes that the accident has left him with a strange, extraordinary ability that he is reluctant to reveal. His world is turned upside down when he discovers that certain government agents, with less-than-honorable intentions, have found out about his secret, and will stop at nothing to grab him and use his ability for their own purposes....

CIA officer Nicholas Lowe had a brilliant future, until a failed operation in El Salvador nearly ruined his career. Ten years later, with the murders of CIA officer Tyler Broadman and Broadman's fiancEe, the alluring Helena Hernandez, Nicholas returns to the field and assumes control of a CIA covert operation to maintain a U.S. military presence in Panama post-1999. To complete the operation, Nicholas immerses himself in the shady world of drug trafficking, money laundering, and political corruption, but Helena's murder takes center stage.

Who murdered Helena Hernandez?

When we finally unravel the mystery of dark matter, will it save our world? Or destroy it?

Take an epic journey to a not-so-distant future, controlled by a handful of the Uber-elite. Where wealth, science, and the human spirit get one last chance to determine humanity's ultimate destiny.

Despite the tragic events at Hanssen Scientific, Monique Durand and her newfound companions continue their search for the source of her compelling visions. Are they somehow linked to the secrets of dark matter, as Professor Hanssen is so desperate to believe? Or...

Dr. John O'Keefe, a brilliant young professor of organic chemistry and petroleum engineering, is working on a secret new catalytic process for refining oil that promises to deliver the United States from its dependence on foreign oil while at the same time yielding a safer, lower-priced and more Eco-friendly product than traditional gasoline. This new product promises to have major positive impact on both the economic recovery and international strength of the U.S. But, obviously threatened by the potential of reduced oil sales and profits, international oil producing nations are...

Some say the Cold War never truly ended

A rising threat is upon us-- the New Cold War

Spies of old are back, bearing secrets from the past

The battle to reveal the truth might be the most treacherous warfare of all

Julia Bagal's life has hit rock bottom. A murder in her duplex, a missing body, and then, her hated supervisor is strangled. Only this dead body was found in Julia's cubicle.

Now, sitting in a police station, she is scared she might be a suspect...or worse yet, the intended victim.

She...

From Pat Frank--author of the classic apocalyptic sci-fi novel Alas, Babylon--comes a political thriller set, and written, at the dawn of the Cold War, now back in print.

In Pat Frank's riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel, young, outspoken Jeff Baker comes out of World War II determined to work for the State Department. When he lands his assignment in 1949, he becomes the third secretary of the US embassy in Budapest, an observation post behind the Iron Curtain.

Jeff's experiences as a soldier fighting on a hill in Italy left him scarred and instilled in...

In this high-level thriller, three criminal justice professors journey with a group of students to Paris to investigate the French criminal justice system. Two days after landing in the famous "City of Lights," the group is caught up in a massive terrorist attack designed to bring France to its knees. Tensions and tempers rise as the Americans attempt to escape their unknown attackers. Professors and students alike soon find themselves fighting for their very lives.