Триллеры
Различные книги в жанре ТриллерыShimmer
In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grownCore Communications, a data technology company,from 30 people to over 5,000. Now a $20 billioncompany made legendary by its sudden success,Core is based on a technology no other companycan come close to copying, a revolutionarybreakthrough known as “drawing blood from amainframe.” And Robbie, its 35-year-old CEO, isacclaimed worldwide for his vision, leadership andwealth.Except that all of it is based on a lie. The technologydoesn’t work, the finances are built on a Ponzischeme of stock sales and shell corporations, andRobbie is struggling to keep the company alive,to protect the friends who work for him and allthat they’ve built. Each day, Robbie tries to pushthe catastrophe back a little further, while hisemployees believe that they are all moving closerto “grace,” the day their stock options vest, whenthey will be made rich for their faith and loyalty andhard work. The details of the lie are all keyed intoa shadowy interface that Robbie calls Shimmer, anomniscient mainframe that hides itself, calculatesits own collapse, threatens to outsmart its creatorand to reveal the corporation’s illegal, fragileunderpinnings.Shimmer is the story of a high-tech crusade nearingits end. The shell game Robbie has created is finallyrunning out of room. And Robbie is the only onewho knows or who has a chance to make thingsright. Or is he?A breathless debut novel that charges theatmosphere with suspense and surprise anddelivers complex characters you can root for inspite of their flaws, Shimmer is Robbie’s raceagainst the truth.
Горький водопад
Не оглядываясь на прошлое, до сих пор преследующее Гвен Проктор, она пытается двигаться вперед. Теперь Гвен – частный детектив, занимающийся тем, что у нее получается лучше всего, – решением чужих проблем. Но вот ей поручают дело, к которому она поначалу не знает, как поступиться. Три года назад в Теннесси бесследно исчез молодой человек. Зацепок почти не осталось. За исключением одной, почти безнадежной. Незадолго до своего исчезновения этот парень говорил, что хочет помочь одной очень набожной девушке… Гвен всегда готова ко всему – она привыкла спать чутко, а оружие постоянно держать под рукой. Но пока ей невдомек, насколько тесно это расследование окажется связано с ее предыдущей жизнью. И с жизнью людей, которых она так любит…
Plaasmoord
"Plaasmoorde het nooit juis vastrapplek gekry in die ylbevolkte Noord-Kaap nie – maar dan word die drie en dertigjarige opkomende skilder Freddie Swarts en haar aangenome dogter aaklig vermoor. Speurder-inspekteur Albertus Beeslaar, pas uit Johannesburg
Onse Vaders
In ’n miljoenêrsbuurt van Stellenbosch loop ’n huisroof skeef. Die slagoffer, ’n aantreklike rooikopvrou, se vernielde lyk word deur haar kinders ontdek.Kaptein Albertus Markus Beeslaar, op besoek aan dié pragtige Bolandse dorp van gewels, geld en wyn, word teen sy sin by die ondersoek betrek. Saam met die formidabele kaptein Vuyokazi Quebeka word elke kultuur- en geldklip op dié dorp omgedop op soek na die moordenaar.Vyftienhonderd kilometer noord van Beeslaar beland sersant Johannes Ghaap in Soweto, ’n lewensgevaarlike plek vir buitestanders – soos Ghaap. Maar daar is nie tyd om behoorlik ingebreek te raak nie, want Ghaap moet gaan soek na ’n vrou en haar kind wat tydens ’n motorkaping ontvoer is en iewers in hierdie vreemde plek van miljoene sink- en bokshuisies aangehou word.In die proses moet The Father aangedurf word – ’n man met so ’n wrede reputasie dat die meeste mense glo hy is bloot ’n urban legend . . .
Blood at Bay
David Roth walks in on a gruesome accident at the Umvoti sugar mill. Then an auditor who insists that he has evidence of foul play at the mill ends up dead. Soon after, David is attacked on the yacht that he is fixing up for his uncle in Durban harbour and he becomes involved in a struggle to expose the truth without becoming the latest in a series of “accidents”. Somehow it is all linked to the deaths of several mill workers and their family members some months ago. Evidence and witnesses seems to have a way of disappearing at the Umvoti mill. And then there are the mill workers, who will lose their livelihood if the mill had to close down.
杰基 蓝-一个正义保安的小说
五个有特殊需要的孩子雇佣正义保安从这座城市最大的犯罪家族手中营救他们的寄养母亲。 杰奎琳•贝莱有个秘密。杰基是五个有特殊需要孩子的寄养妈妈。那不是她的秘密。杰基非常非常爱这些孩子。那不是她的秘密。杰基的雅号是杰基•布鲁，那是孩子们给她起的。那也不是她的秘密。杰基•布鲁秘密？她知道任何博弈游戏，的确任何这样的游戏，的结果。她利用这项才能赢得少量资金以帮助抚养和照顾这些有特殊需要的孩子们。她从不试图赢取超过她所需要的，因为她不想滥用她的这项才能。然而，有人注意到她的这项天赋。詹比尼犯罪家族已经注意到了杰基能做什么。当这个铤而走险的犯罪家族决定绑架杰基成为他们的金鹅时，孩子们雇佣乔伊正义和正义保安来营救她。事情很快变得致命了。连杰基都没预见到… 因奥扎克山勇士表演的经典歌曲的歌词的启发而作。杰基•布鲁将让你从不停的悬念中跳跃！
The Avenger
Morgan Wayne knew that the peddlers of vice and dope were untouchable.<P> He knew that the Mafia's arm was long and its hand held a killer's knife.<P> He knew the willing women they would send to tempt and betray him.<P> He knew his own nerve and strength and skill.<P> He knew the white hate within him for the crime lords and their gunmen.<P> So he walked alone into the very heart of gangland to deal justice where the law had failed.
The Word of Fu Manchu
Sax Rohmer's 1956 short story tells of Nayland Smith's second encounter with the criminal mastermind Fu Manchu – a meeting that goes in a very unexpected direction…
Ordeal by Terror
"The top drawer of the second cabinet felt empty as she began to pull it open, but she never saw its interior. The floor dropped from under her. As she fell, she clutched wildly at the handle of the cabinet’s drawer, but her grip had been too loose. It slipped through her fingers, and for an instant she fell into nothingness. Then she landed on a steep incline of smooth metal. Her feet hit first and instantly shot out from under her, and she fell backward with a thud that stunned her. She caught a glimpse of a trap door closing over her head as she slid rapidly down the incline into darkness."
A-Z Publications has provided Adelle Gernyan with a great salary and office but the mundane work assigned her doesn’t merit such treatment. Annoying colleagues, spying maintenance men and a mysterious boss add to the puzzle of her strange job. Adelle’s boredom changes to terror when she is trapped under her office building with her fellow employees. Subjected to hunger, sleep deprivation, deadly traps and the horrors of armed attack, Adelle doesn’t know that she has become part of a vicious experiment on the human mind labeled only as “The Telo-um Test”… a test with death as its final grade.
This is a griping suspense story from an acknowledged master of mystery and science fiction, Lloyd Biggle, Jr.