Risultati per "Jack" in Hard boiled

Parigi 1830. L’inchiesta su una tragica, illogica morte del figlio di un personaggio illustre suscita sempre non pochi timori nelle alte sfere del potere. Alla Süreté viene perciò convocato e istruito in tutta fretta Valentin Verne, giovane ispettore della Buon costume. A Valentin, che sotto la sua apparenza eterea cela una durezza, una determinazione tagliente quanto il filo di una lama, non resta che accettare il nuovo incarico.

"Puoi lasciare l'esercito, ma l'esercito non lascia te. Non sempre. Non completamente." E infatti Jack Reacher deve tornare in servizio, richiamato dal dipartimento di Stato e dalla CIA. Qualcuno ha colpito il presidente francese mentre teneva un discorso a Parigi. Un solo colpo, sparato con estrema precisione da una distanza eccezionalmente lunga, un colpo che sarebbe stato letale se non l'avessero fermato le barriere protettive.

Hollywood, 1951. Jack Shannon—hobo, rising star, wounded vet, studio publicist—is in exile. Blackballed by the majors for his unauthorized effort to solve the mystery of a sexpot actress’ disappearance, he’s now a stuntman—a drug-store cowboy working from Tinseltown’s Poverty Row, where the budgets are tight and the jobs scarce.

Tom Keeler finds himself in the town of Promise, Indiana. He just needs to drop off a package, then he can get back to the Florida sunshine. But nothing’s ever that simple. The package gets stolen; things get complicated. Linda Cartwright’s a happily married woman, and then someone tried to kill her on her own front lawn. Why would they do that? Good question. Keeler’s interested, but Cartwright won’t talk about it. When Cartwright’s attacked a second time, Keeler begins to suspect that she’s in over her head. She’s a tough lady, but even tough nuts crack.

Syndebuk er tidligere udgivet under navnet ”En dyr affære”.

Alting begynder et sted … og for den militære elitepolitimand Jack Reacher var stedet Carter Crossing, Mississippi, helt tilbage i 1997.

En afsides jernbane. Et gerningssted. Et røgslør.

En ung kvinde er død, og bevismaterialet peger entydigt på en soldat fra en nærliggende militærbase. Soldaten har imidlertid magtfulde venner i Washington.

Fra en helikopter højt over den øde californiske ørken bliver en mand kastet ud i natten ... I Chicago erfarer en kvinde, at et elitehold af tidligere militære efterforskere er ved at blive udslettet en efter en ... Og på gaden i Portland bliver Jack Reacher – soldat, politimand, helt – revet ud af sin strejfertilværelse af en kodebesked, som kun ganske få andre ville kunne forstå. Lige fra de første chokerende optrin i Lee Childs højenergiske nye roman bliver Jack Reacher sendt som en kniv i hjertet på en sammensværgelse, der slår hans gamle venner ihjel – og er på vej mod noget endnu værre.

Jack Reacher. Helt. Enspænder. Soldat. Søn af en soldat. I militærpolitiet var han et af hærens helt store håb. Men i enhver politimands liv kommer der et vendepunkt. En særlig sag. En rodet, kompliceret sag med mulighed for at ødelægge en karriere. Få en ordenshåndhæver til at sige fra. Og få ham til at tvivle på ord som tapperhed, ære og pligt. En sådan sag står Jack Reacher nu overfor.

P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car—and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him. Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into the past, he is determined to take one last shot at hunting him down. That is, until he is offered a job he can't refuse: to bust a beautiful woman out of a hellish Mexican prison.

It's been six weeks since Jack McBride's life went to hell: The resolution of his first case as chief sparked a county-wide drug war, his brother Eddie rode into town with a pocket full of cocaine and trouble on his mind, his estranged wife returned from her one-year sabbatical determined to win him back, and Ellie Martin ended their brief affair.

Og lige straks møder han et stort ét på en mennesketom vej i Arizona. En jeep er kørt direkte ind i det eneste træ i miles omkreds, og under den nådesløse ørkensol er intet, hvad det ser ud til at være. Få minutter efter er Reacher på vej ind i den nærliggende flække af en grænseby, som har kendt bedre dage. Ved siden af sig har han den tidligere soldat og nuværende FBI-agent Michaela Fenton, der forsøger at finde sin tvillingebror. Han er muligvis kommet i selskab med nogle farlige personer. Som Reacher meget vel kan få brug for at aflægge besøg. Deres leder har sat sig tungt på byen.

I femte bind af Lee Childs bestsellerserie kommer Jack Reacher i vanskeligheder i Texas. Jack Reacher er ved at blaffe sig gennem den glohede ørken i Texas, skal ikke noget bestemt sted hen og har masser af tid til sin rådighed. Carmen Greer er på vej ud ad den samme landevej, og Reacher får et lift af de mere specielle. Carmen har en vild historie at fortælle – om sin mand, om familiehemmeligheder og en mere end almindeligt uhyggelig hjemby. Og så har hun også en plan. Som Reacher indgår i. Og inden solnedgang kan køreturen have kostet dem begge livet.

Den femte passager var Susan Mark. Hun var ensom, ikke på talefod med sin søn og en stor gåde. Sammen med en politikvinde og en hoben uudgrundelige forbundsansatte prøver Reacher at finde frem til, hvor dyb en afgrund Susan Mark egentlig var endt i, hvor mange liv der allerede var blevet ødelagt, og hvilke farer der her og nu truer ham selv. For et labyrintisk kapløb er begyndt hen ad Manhattans gader, hvor brutale og kompetente soldater på alle sider fører skyggekrig.

Reacher finds himself caught in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse between US Military Intelligence and the KGB in this thrilling tale of espionage …

They call him Keeper, but lately Jack Marconi has specialized in losing things. Last year, he lost his wife in a mysterious traffic accident, and ever since, he's felt like he's losing his mind. As the warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, home to 2,500 of New York's most hardened criminals, Marconi can't afford to drop focus, even for an instant. But he's been slipping up on the job, and he's tormented by flashbacks to the Attica uprising. All of which makes him ripe for the role of patsy when a convicted cop killer named Eduardo Vasquez stages a daring breakout on his watch.

Detective Jack Yu returns in a pulse-pounding fifth investigation in New York's Chinatown - can he save an old gangster friend from a ruthless killer? Chinatown gang leader "Lucky" Louie was shot outside of a Chinatown off track betting establishment on the 13th of January and lay in a coma for 88 days, waking on Easter Sunday. The number 88 is a double-helix double-lucky Chinese number; religion and superstition all lean Lucky's way. But Detective Jack Yu, Lucky's boyhood blood brother, fears his friend's luck is about to run out.

Norman Conquest is off to the theatre, when our fast-talking, hard-hitting adventurer finds himself accused of assaulting a pretty young lady on the underground. It’s only when our hero '1066' discovers that the young lady is the victim of a mysterious blackmailer known as 'The Voice' that he marches into yet another hell-for-leather action packed adventure in search of the baddies.

Set in Los Angeles and starring Jack Webb as the stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama of all time, having made extensive runs on both radio and television. Webb, also the producer of the show, took the series to new highs, insisting on realism in every facet of the program. The dialogue was clipped and sparse, taking its cue from hard-boiled crime fiction à la Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

His Fifth Precinct cases have taken him to West Coast Chinatowns and back, and along the way NYPD detective Jack Yu has processed a dozen dead bodies, been beaten by Triad thugs, been mauled by a pit bull, and been shot twice.

He's also killed two men. He is en route to an appointment with the department shrink when an Asian body turns up in the Harlem River. Quickly assigned to the case, Jack finds a corpse with no identification and faces questions as to how - and why - the dead man wound up in the water.

Who killed Sophie Washington? Early one cold November morning in the run-down seaside resort of Whitley Bay, the body of a young girl is discovered. Found abandoned five minutes walk from her home, her face has been mutilated beyond recognition. DI Jack Brady, just back on active duty after recovering from a vicious shooting incident, is on the edge.

Wer diesen Anhalter mitnimmt, sollte nichts Böses im Schilde führen... Jack Reacher bemühte sich, harmlos auszusehen, was ihm mit seiner großen, massigen Gestalt und der gebrochenen Nase nicht leicht fiel. Umso dankbarer war er, als endlich ein Auto anhielt, um ihn mitzunehmen. Die Frau und die beiden Männer im Wagen waren Kollegen - zumindest vermutete Reacher das. Er wusste nichts von ihrer Verwicklung in den Mord, der nicht weit entfernt verübt worden war.