![]() |
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
||
|
Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready find out what's troubling Vigàta this week. What he discovers is unnerving. A woman on her way home from work has been held up at gunpoint, chloroformed and kidnapped, but then released just hours later – unharmed and with all her possessions – into the open countryside. Later that day, Montalbano hears from Enzo, the owner of his favourite restaurant, that his niece has recently been the victim of the exact same crime. Before long, a third instance of this baffling overnight kidnapping has been reported. As far as Montalbano can tell, there is no link between the attacker and the victims. So what exactly is this mystery assailant gaining from these fleeting kidnappings? And what can he do to stop them? Montalbano must use all his logic and intuition if he is to answer these pressing questions before the kidnapper finds his next victim . . .
Jack Reeca s hurting. Wounded three times by his old enemy, psychopathic killer David Walker, hea s got his life back a " just a " with the help of two fun-loving seA+/-oritas. But when Jack starts diving for Brinks Mat gold bars in MA!laga Lakes, and is befriended by beautiful rock sensation, Caviar, his Andalusian farm attracts attention from all the wrong quarters, including David Walker. The psycho has made a fresh kill, and is now branded a the Rabbit Mana and a the Costa Killera . And then Caviar goes missinga | With the action swinging from southern Spain to the Black Sea coast of Turkey, the intimacies of kidnapping and revenge are fully explored. Ita s the Stockholm syndrome, and ita s often sexual, sometimes humorous and frequently violent. Desmond McGratha s insight into the minds of killer captive and pursuer is breathtaking, and in an epic showdown worthy of a Clint Eastwood Western, we see how an armed man whoa s frightened of nothing can harbour a secret terror a " of the beast inside himself.
Sophia, Safa, Ella, Ajola and Caoimhe have been friends since school.
They are difficult, unlikeable women; funny, sharp and clever ones –
the sort that would have probably ended up burned at the stake a few
hundred years ago.
A huge oil storage facility to the north of London is destroyed by a mysterious fire. Seven old tramp steamers appear in the isolated port of Kimchaek on the east coast of North Korea, purpose unknown. ln Beirut a deep cover Mossad agent stumbles upon a fragment of information that might threaten the entire western world, if only the authorities could figure out the true meaning. A luxury yacht is hijacked in the Caribbean and the owners brutally murdered. While the intelligence agencies of the West grapple with a problem they do not understand three airmen and their small band of fellow travellers set out to solve that problem in their own inimitable way. Spanning the world the high octane a Kimchaek Conspiracy a travels at the speed of light round the globe.
Dead Against It is the third book in Katie Gray’s `Dead Series`. Pippsy and Jack Standage move home and business to an immaculate house in Buckinghamshire. They are dismayed when shortly after their arrival two `heavies’ appear on their doorstep. The men demand access to the loft and remove trunks and boxes apparently belonging to the previous owner. This is only the beginning as the men return to clear more boxes two days later. A brother and sister engage them to investigate their mother’s new husband, who they suspect is planning to kill her. The mysterious removals from the loft and the suspicions of the brother and sister become linked up. The discovery of two skeletons and nefarious goings on at a run–down Priory all provide Pippsy and Jack with their strangest case yet.
From International Number One Bestseller Andrew Gross, The Last Brother is the thrilling historical novel about three brothers and the Mafia in 1930s New York. 1930s New York City. Three brothers grow up poor on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father forces them to find work to support their family. Each brother takes a different path. Twelve-year-old Morris Rabishevsky apprentices himself to a garment manufacturer with the aim of running the business. Sol, six years older, heads to accounting school but is forced to drop out. Scarred by a family tragedy, Harry falls under the spell of the charismatic Louis Buchalter, who in a few short years becomes the most ruthless mobster in town. Morris convinces Sol to go into business with him, but Harry can't be lured away from the glamour, power and money of the mob. As their business grows, Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that control the garment maker's factories, setting up a fatal showdown that could bring them together or shatter their family forever.
In A Conflict of Interest we follow the further adventures of Mark Ordish alias Alpha One Zero. He is still with the Kurdish Peshmerga Brigades, but this time they are working with Iraqi forces in capturing villages still in ISIS hands in their approach to Mosul. In the assult on Mosul the Kurds for political reasons are excluded from the main attack, and are tasked to seal any escape avenue to the north. To Mark, and his American colleague the various interests of the surrounding countries is only delaying the inevitable, but this is the frustration, and dangers that they face along with suicide bombers, and improvised explosive devices. This books is dedicated to all Royal Marines - past, present and future.
A plane carrying gold ingots crashes into the sea. A boat with its illegal cargo of drugs founders on the rocks. _ese two events shape the future of our tough modern-day hero, Jack Harry Reec, whose skills as a diver and willingness to take risks bring him big pro_ts _e action takes him from Jersey, his native island, to Spain where he lives life to the _ll, enjoying good food, excellent wine, and the beautiful scenery with his new girlfriend and his long-time male friend. But the relaxed and self-indulgent lifestyle does not last long. Along the dangerous road he has followed, he has enemies of violent, brutal men with horrifying and bloody results. An ex-Falklands veteran. Jack is already haunted by death. Now he is ruthless in his pursuit of vengeance for the latest tragedies. We follow his quest to a rid his soul of angera . Carefully and patiently, he plots a terrible revenge on his enemy. But the _nal stage of his plan may be jeopardised. Will there be a Private Execution? _is at time, shocking action drama is a genuinely exciting story, full of surprises and tension right until the end. Desmond McGrath was born in Jersey and is __y-six. He has dived the oceans of the world for twenty-_ve years. He rited at forty-nine and _lls his time writing songs and plays for television. Some say he has lived life in the fast lane, having spent some time in Spain and America, where in California there is a warrant out for his arrest. He denies the charges! He is happily married to wife, Barbara, and has one daughter, Angela and three grandchildren, Kimberly, Tara and a Jack Harry Reeca . At present he is writing the second Reec book, _e Executioner.
You told each other everything. Then she told you too much. Kit has risen to the top of her profession and is on the brink of achieving everything she wanted. She hasn’t let anything stop her. But now someone else is standing in her way – Diane. Best friends at seventeen, their shared ambition made them inseparable. Until the day Diane told Kit her secret – the worst thing she’d ever done, the worst thing Kit could imagine – and it blew their friendship apart. Kit is still the only person who knows what Diane did. And now Diane knows something about Kit that could destroy everything she’s worked so hard for. How far would Kit go, to make the hard work, the sacrifice, worth it in the end? What wouldn’t she give up? Diane thinks Kit is just like her. Maybe she’s right. Ambition: it’s in the blood . . . Give Me Your Hand is the latest blistering thriller from Megan Abbott.
Morgan Jones' heart-stopping thriller, The Good Sister, sees one father go further than he ever knew possible, to rescue a daughter who doesn't want to be saved. A missing daughter. A desperate father. A journey to save them both. Sofia Mounir's world is not her own. Her mother is sick, her father broken, the London they live in is dying of greed and self-obsession. So she flees, to Raqqa: heart of the caliphate, foundation stone of a just world that she will help to build. From violence and sacrifice will grow something beautiful, and she will be part of it. Her faith will be equal to everything asked of her. Until it isn't. Until it becomes clear that not all her new brothers' and sisters' intentions are as pure as her own. Until even her faith becomes a liability. Where do you turn, when the future you've longed for wants you dead?
IT'S A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND MURDER. A REALITY DATING SHOW TAKES A
DEADLY TURN...
'You Haunt me like a beautiful jewel, hung in ghastly night' - William Shakespeare Sam had kept his final promise to his late wife Annie, but sitting on the steps outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, he can hear a woman shouting behind him; their meeting will alter the direction of their lives forwver. But was their meeting by accident? Or had fate, or a force beyond their control, drawn them together? Both bear scars from their past: Sam's due to a betrayal of love and trust - caustic memories that eat away at his soul; Penny's because of guilt from early childhood, loney and friendless - blame which won't allow her to believe in herself. When their friendship takes on a momentum of its own, Sam becomes drawn into her life as an actress - and the lives of her two meddling, eccentric aunties. But behind the scenes, simmering revenge and betrayal is being acted out .... a plot that could not only destroy Penny's career and sanity, but Sam's reputation as a man who, come hell or high water, never ever turns his back on friends.
|
You may like...
Common Entrance 13+ History for ISEB CE…
Martin Collier, Rosemary Rees
Paperback
R1,193
Discovery Miles 11 930
|