Resultados para "Power" en Negra y suspense

This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

I've been told all my life that love is a weakness in our world. That couldn't be further from the truth, but that's only half of what I need to finish the job. Power—it's the only thing some people understand besides money. I'm not worried; power is one thing I'm not lacking in this fight. That's what comes with being the sole heir to two criminal empires and making friends in all the right places. Now that all the pieces are set, it's finally time to shake things up in this criminal world and bring an end to the era of the Five Families.

Mary Jane, a struggling comedienne, stumbled into the wrong club at the wrong time. She didn't notice the gangster gripping the gun and the two scary men on his sides. She just jumped on the stage, tested the microphone, and went into her routine. That's where things got interesting. Noah was the gangster that gripped the gun. The beast of Din City. The boss of the streets. The one who ruled them all from the North to the South. Not liking to murder women, he'd now been thrown into an uncomfortable situation. She'd accidentally become a witness to something she shouldn't have seen.

Joyce hizo un recuento autobiografico de su juventud en Irlanda, donde trozos conmovedores alternan con partes de gran humor y satira. Los acertados bocetos psicologicos de los personajes, asi como el interes de los pasos en la formacion de un gran artista, hace de esta otra obra fundamental.

Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to make a difference. As the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, Jake has crafted a comprehensive energy plan that employs innovative new technologies to make America the world's leader in energy production while simultaneously boosting the economy and protecting the environment.

Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue his research. Instead, he finds himself aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician with his eye on the US Senate. Tomlinson is in need of an edge that will allow him to defeat his opponent at the polls, and Dr. Ross can contribute just that: MHD. MHD, or magnetohydrodynamics, is a new innovation that will allow electricity to be generated efficiently and cheaply. But MHD is still in its infancy, and there are deadly risks.

Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross.

A thug pulls a knife on a mean London street.... Rookie cop Olivia Johnston-Denny steps up. When irresistible American congressman Jackson T. Paine intervenes, her life is changed forever. Olivia is a fiery Scot. Jackson's a cool Oklahoma boy. Feel the heat of the chemical reaction.

From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars.

Robert Sulzberger appeared to have a perfect life—a respected position in the City Council, a lovely family, a house with all the trimmings—but behind the façade, his life was crumbling. Drawn into a world of crime and corruption, Sulzberger couldn't find a way out. He couldn't escape. And when he tried to walk away, he found himself behind bars. The trial captures the media's attention, and the dark forces of politics are thrown into the limelight. As the son of a convicted serial killer, Tex Hunter knows just how dangerous those forces can be.

J'ai toujours cru que deux fragments d'une même âme pouvaient se retrouver dans deux corps différents. La mienne appartient à Maxime depuis toujours. Inséparables, fusionnels, nous avons grandi ensemble, affrontant le meilleur comme le pire. Comme Bonnie and Clyde. Et puis il y a huit ans, je suis partie sans un mot.

L'univers entier se ligue contre Angie : son merveilleux petit-ami est en fait marié, le job de ses rêves lui passe sous le nez et elle risque l'expulsion pour loyers impayés. Karma désastreux ? Bienvenue dans la vie d'Angie. Aussi lorsque le manager de son frère Bo, chanteur d'un groupe célèbre mais avec qui elle a coupé tout contact, lui propose un deal inespéré, elle n'a pas trop le choix.

Que feriez-vous si du jour au lendemain votre vie se retrouvait parasitée par votre parfait opposé ? Le laisseriez-vous entrer ? Mes amies me conseillent de me lâcher... Serai-je assez audacieuse, ou inconsciente, pour pactiser avec le Diable en échange de ce que j'ai toujours rêvé d'obtenir ?

Anne Le Clair, a successful young attorney, has managed to remain free from her family’s gothic past - until now. When she inherits her murdered aunt’s antique necklace, however, she finds no escape from its secrets.

The Deadly Crusader finds himself in the thick of an electrifying plot to bring to bring an energy-starved America to its knees. Nuclear plants and oil tankers are sabotaged, refineries are set afire - and he is being blamed!

Hawk sets out to tackle the power-crazed power barons and short-circuit the monstrous scheme - and meets a gorgeous environmentalist with unnaturally “natural” charms.

Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security? This is what Harold’s widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out.

Jean Kuhn era um homem impiedoso e o mais temido do submundo. Ele assumiu a cadeira de Capo da Ndrangheta após a morte do seu irmão mais velho. Disposto a governar com autoridade e justiça, ele criou suas próprias leis e mantinha sua organização com punhos de ferro. Ele nunca cogitou a ideia de se casar e ter filhos, se satisfazia apenas com suas amantes. Entretanto, o destino tinha outros planos para ele.

Pietra Romano foi criada diferente das outras garotas, desde cedo foi forjada em segredo para comandar o império da família. Seu pai, um dos Caporegimes, da Camorra a ensinou que a arma mais poderosa de uma mulher é ela mesma. Teodoro Muccino é o melhor torturador da máfia, um homem cuja crueldade assusta até os mais insanos. Conhecido pela sede violenta de se divertir sujando as mãos com o sangue dos seus inimigos.

Nery Muccino, sendo o caçula da família que comanda a Camorra e braço direito do Capo, sabe do que impérios são feitos: sangue e suor. Seu temperamento calmo e apaziguador mascara seu lado mais protetor e sombrio, aquele que se mostra quando os seus estão em perigo. Emy Portman é uma garota comum, com sonhos de se casar e construir uma família. Mas terá sua vida pacata virada de cabeça para baixo ao descobrir a verdade sobre o homem a quem ama, há oito anos.

One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York—the same night her grandmother dies—or before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared. But for our purposes Allie’s story begins at the end, when she is finally ready to tell her version of what happened with a white supremacist named Matthew Strong.