Unexpected paths (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How far would you go to keep a secret Former KGB officer Olga Lubova has nothing to live for anymore. Her family is long dead. Her wife has been murdered. She is in hiding from an enemy she didn't expect. A pandemic rages around the world. What is the point in living The waters of Lake Geneva in Switzerland beckon her to a relatively quick death. All she has to do is take a step, and her life would be behind her.Before she can take that step, someone intervenes with a plan of her own. Natalia Bukharin, now an adult, was Lubova's charge as a child, when Lubova was her au pair/bodyguard. Natalia convinces Lubova to write a memoir of her ground-breaking life as a high-level KGB officer. With reluctance, Lubova takes the project on, knowing the lake will still be there when she completes it.In her travels through her past, she discovers a terrible secret. Not one that might shatter the security of a country but one that would shatter someone who is more important to her than her own family was.One thing the KGB taught her well: Some secrets are meant to be kept.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How far would you go to keep a secret It's a secret for a reason.Mai Fisher's mother died when Mai was five years old.Or did she Nearly 30 years after Mai's mother and father were executed as spies by the Taiwanese Secret Police, Alexei Bukharin learns that Katherine Maitland, Mai's mother, may have survived by defecting to the People's Republic of China.He and Nelson, his former partner, now the head of the United Nations Intelligence Directorate, will get to the bottom of the rumor. Whatever the truth is, they decide Mai should never learn that truth, even if that means eliminating anyone who knows the secret.Then, post-9/11, Mai has to review the personal papers of Roisin O'Saidh, her business manager and victim of the collapse of No. 2 World Trade Center. But in a secret room in the attic of a Maitland house in Dublin, Mai and Alexei find the diaries of Roisin's predecessor, Roisin's mother Eithne O'Saidh.Mai realizes these diaries will show her who her mother was and delves into them.Alexei, however, needs to find out what Eithne knew about Katherine Maitland's 'death,' the secret he has sworn to keep from Mai at any cost.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Past and present. Fathers and sons. Retribution and RevengeIt's an old game: spy versus spy.This was supposed to be a simple information exchange, but retired U.N. spy Mai Fisher finds herself in a cab with a man possibly hired by a Balkan warlord to kidnap her. Her escape leaves her wet, cold, and determined to find out who burned her.After almost 40 years as a spy for the U.N. Intelligence Directorate, Alexei Bukharin wants a calm life with his wife, Mai Fisher, and to finish raising his college-student granddaughter Natalia. However, a Russian spy, affected by something in Alexei's past, has other plans for them-especially for Natalia.Mai and Alexei put aside retirement to find out who betrayed Mai and who is interested in Natalia. Along the way, they uncover a Russian mole in the FBI and the reason behind Russian intelligence's targeting of Natalia-a decision Alexei made decades ago about his son's future.Past and present collide. Fathers and sons remember. Will retribution and revenge prevail. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Family secrets must be protected at all costs.Private investigator Cody Britto is reluctant to take another case in the small, Shenandoah Valley city of Ewington, Virginia. His previous case there, where he helped to discover who stuffed a baby's body in the wall of a house in the 1940s, has certainly improved his professional standing. His PI business is in demand, and his bank account isn't complaining.The down-on-his-luck, possible client is a local auto mechanic, Justin Stirling, who wants Cody to find Julia Alder, the woman, who, 30-some years before, skipped out on their elopement. Stirling is convinced the woman's family may have harmed her. For Cody, it's a no-brainer--she didn't really want the guy.The murder of his prospective client only a few days after he's requested Cody's help is too much of a coincidence for Cody to ignore. Yet, when it becomes evident he's taking Justin case, almost everyone in Ewington tells him to steer clear of Julia's reclusive, very rich family, the Alders.With his now-girlfriend Marilyn Shuck--aka highly successful romancewriter Marilyn Hendrix--helping him, Cody soon discovers the Alders' shocking, centuries-old secret, one he's reluctant to believe, until he and Marilyn face the consequences of their curiosity.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Renovating a room in an historic house uncovers a 70-year-old secret that one woman wants to reveal and another woman wants to keep hiding.