Political / legal thriller Books

Esta novela nos presenta la historia de un joven periodista que, buscando investigar una conspiración política, se ve envuelto en una serie de peligrosas situaciones. Un thriller emocionante lleno de giros inesperados y acción trepidante, que mantendrá...

Con una prosa ágil y una trama llena de sorpresas, Manuel D. Benavides nos presenta en esta obra la historia de un joven atrapado en los laberintos de la política y el poder. Ambientada en un mundo oscuro y violento, la novela reflexiona sobre las...

Trust in Trial is a legal thriller that follows the story of a young lawyer named Jack who must navigate the complex world of corporate law to defend a client accused of fraud. Along the way, he discovers the true meaning of trust and loyalty, and learns...

In this gripping legal thriller, attorney John S. Ewart takes readers on a journey through the justice system as one man fights to clear his name. With twists and turns at every corner, the story of the Waiver case will keep readers on the edge of their...

A criminal prosecutor is bound to make a few enemies over a decades-long career, and Dana Hargrove is no exception. Who has it in for her?In 2015, the former prosecutor is in her second year as a trial judge in Manhattan. It’s a new world. Dana cut...

When journalist Peter Merrick is asked to write a eulogy for his mentor, Jesuit priest James Ingram, his biggest concern is doing right by the man. But when his routine research reveals disturbing ties to cases of abuse and clues to a shadowy deal that...

“Where the Hell is Max Bowman?”That’s what people have been asking for almost a year. What no one knows is Max has been locked away in the Community — a “retirement” home for former CIA spooks with secrets too scary to...

In 1902 Lithuania, a group of rebels armed with books triumphs against the mighty Russian Empire.Part folktale, part thriller, THE LAST BOOK SMUGGLER tells the story of Ada and her grandfather Viktoras, an old book smuggler tired of his forty-year battle...

“Bloody Truth is intrigue, thriller, espionage and counterintelligence at its best…” – D. Donovan, Midwest Book ReviewsA lot can happen in three days. Friends can become enemies, enemies can become friends, and the truth, if you...

It's 1972. The Watergate scandal has Washington on edge and Rick Putnam, a Vietnam veteran and courier for a national television network, is trying to get his life back together after the ordeal of war. He's found that pushing his motorcycle to...

Penelope Dyan brings her years as an attorney into play with the writing of "Caution Tape" the story of the mystery surrounding war hero and self-professed tough guy, Angelo Marconi . What is the mystery behind Angelo's strange and untimely death? And...

Widely viewed as a liberal, Dunstan Mitchell, bishop of the EpiscopalDiocese of Central Kentucky,has been aggressively pressing his agendafor the Episcopal Church, including ordination of openly gay clergy and theblessing of same-sex marriages. His...

Even if it was only this one last day, it was as if time stood still, the clock broken years earlier. This was our history, our family and identity. The lucky few among us had been bestowed another round, another chance. Our parting shots insinuated...

Laura Adler, Public Defender, takes on the appeal of a man only because he was a childhood friend. Half-believing there are no real grounds for the appeal, she is shocked when strange, and dangerous, events threaten her own life.The problem is many of...

Greed. Control. Brainwashing. Murder. After Sheldon McAllister is charged with poisoning her wealthy husband, she seeks out Lexi Hartt, a bright young attorney who has just escaped her father's law firm in favor of solo practice. Against her better...

She’s a daughter he doesn’t know he has. Until she calls him...from death row.From USA Today bestselling author John Ellsworth comes another book so thrilling the pages all but turn themselves. Written as a standalone novel.Michael...

With the killing fields of Gallipoli, France, Belgium and Northern Russia behind him, Captain Arthur Tulloch returns to a very different Australia in 1921, a country in a hurry to be somewhere. Natural ability finds him in law enforcement and there's...

How far would you go to protect your child from her other parent?The media are consumed with the murder of beloved actress and cover girl, Suki Kohler. Her twelve-year-old son, Micah, was found at the scene covered in blood and muttering nonsense. The...

Mack might cut your throat but with faultless etiquette. Christine Barton, a Vermont state trooper, witnesses a murder while walking her dog in a Montreal park on a bright summer morning in 1999. She takes refuge from the killer in a safe house full of...

For Sipho, born into the vicious circle of poverty, the world is full of hurdles. Amidst the deafening echoes of hunger and the gnawing fear of the unknown, Sipho refuses to succumb to despair. His spirit, resilient as a diamond forged in adversity,...

Amelia Hartliss, Special Agent - Melia to her friends and 'Heartless' to her enemies - is always landing the worst of jobs. Right now, she's been given the task of baby-sitting a candidate in the local government elections. The problem is, that of all...

Do what's right? Or do what you're told? Chris Collins had it all. Great job as Deputy Director of the CIA, a loving wife at home, and a really nice boat until...It all went away in a flash. The CIA's best Deputy Director, Chris Collins had it all. And...

The gripping thriller "Ice Connors" follows the harrowing journey of Isaac "Ice" Connor, a battle-hardened Navy SEAL haunted by a tragic mission gone wrong. As Ice struggles to leave his past behind, a deadly conspiracy unfolds within the highest...

Brüssel im Jahr 2047: Der 31-jährige Journalist und Umweltaktivist Patrick Ladeaux erhält seltsame Briefe mit abstrakten Aufzeichnungen über chemische und physikalische Vorgänge. Was ihn zunächst ratlos zurücklässt, entpuppt sich sehr bald als eine...

Pauls doesn´t expect what´s coming when he takes a consulting job for the rehabilitation of the Tanzanian railway. Soon after his arrival in Dar es Salaam, he realises that bribery was involved in the awarding of the contract. At the same time, he learns...

This book kept you guessing right till the end and I absolutely loved it I hope you like it to! Melanie Smith 5-Stars Very good plot and suspenseful. Roller coaster throughout book whether he did it or not. Never suspected the ending. Good read...

Un crime sinistre repose au fond de l'océan...Lors d'un voyage sur un yacht de luxe, l'enquêtrice des fraudes Katerina Carter suspecte le propriétaire de cacher un sombre secret. Mais elle a plus d'un tour dans son sac et va essayer de mettre ses amis en...

The turbulent first half of the 20th Century finds the Chernov family coming to terms with the secrets revealed, as well as the responses to those secrets.  New York, Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, and Jerusalem, between the years 1904 through 1948, are the...

Dan Davidson is as strong and sensitive a soul as one could hope to be. Incidents from his childhood, young adulthood,marriage, and career as a United Methodist minister demonstrate a truly extraordinary man. Nevertheless, as Dan's career progresses from...

In the year 2025, four months following the cataclysmic events of Episode Two, a rogue search & recovery operation is carried out by a select faction of Shadow State operatives known as the Storm Renegades commando units. Their objective: locate and...

Congress and the world are shocked by the brazen attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House. The villains will not give up until the job is done. Author Christopher Emery provides another powerful Washington mystery that includes assassination,...

For 13 years Presner has worked the graveyard shift at Tyson's 24-Hour News and Smoke. He is also an attorney (non-practicing), a playwright (unproduced), a weightlifter (non-Olympian), and a reader of detective novels (not literature). Presner is...

The year is 2018. Slavery still reigns supreme in the United States after the Confederacy defeated the Union in the Civil War. For Harrison, a thirty-five-year-old slave living in the Crops in Baltimore, day to day life is filled with monotony,...

One passenger on a train approaching the capital looks a little different from the locals. When he arrives in the city, he gains access to the Presidential Palace and persuades the President to back off from his planned military attack on a neighbouring...

Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply...

A relic, stolen from the heart of an ancient city. An echo of nationalist violence not seen since the dark days of the Second World War. Budapest, Hungary. When a priest is murdered at the Basilica of St Stephen and the Holy Right relic is stolen, the...

NAME: Patrick CoonanCODENAME: DeltaOPERATION: Red MushroomANNOTATIONS: A breakdown in the strategic balance during the last decade of the Cold War prompts the Kremlin into launching an elaborate plan to insert a "dirty bomb" in the island of Manhattan,...

A team of eminent British scientists are closeted on Belleisle, off the remote Cornish coast, working on the Theory Of Everything - the quest to identify the mysterious factor that links together the fundamental forces governing the universe and...

"A brazen political thriller for our times. Timely, spellbinding and entirely plausible." -BestThrillers.com"A fine sequel and tense thriller with an added element of moral, ethical, and psychological reflection that adds depth, elevating this book to a...

"An enjoyable zigzagging plot, though it's the rather sensational Holly who leaves the strongest impression." -KIRKUS REVIEWSYoung lawyer Holly Park is hired to defend teenager Naomi Linser - charged with murder in the stabbing death of the local...

Probate attorney Hollis Morgan is branching out into criminal law. Pardoned after serving time for her then-husband's white-collar crime, she knows something about the workings of the criminal mind. Hollis' first criminal case quickly gets...

Two poor Kenyan men visiting the U.S. are found dead, one in jail, one on the street. Both used forged UN documents to enter the country. Valentin Vermeulen's superiors have no interest in the plight of undocumented immigrants, but they want him to...

Ritu Roy, a constable with an all-female United Nations peacekeeping unit in Darfur, Sudan, has been shot dead. Her superiors call it a random shooting. Her best friend thinks otherwise. She s found a bullet casing from a sniper s rifle, an uncommon...

It should have been the perfect missionjust six weeks of shift work with a little sabotage on the side. Plenty of free time for Phantom agent Satiah and the man she loves to enjoy the secrecy of plain sight. At least, that was the plan. Satiah, just by...