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Die Komplizen. Fünf Männer, fünf Mörder, ein perfider Plan

Was hätte Jack the Ripper im Darknet angerichtet?Im Thriller »Die Komplizen. Fünf Männer, fünf Mörder, ein perfider Plan« von Bestseller-Autor John Katzenbach wagt sich ein junger Mann in die dunkelsten Gassen des Internets - und kommt einem Serienkiller-Club in die Quere. Eigentlich sucht Collegestudent Connor Mitchell im Darknet nach Spuren des Mannes, der vor Jahren den Tod seiner Eltern verursacht hat - stattdessen stößt er auf den Chatroom einer Gruppe von Serienkillern, die sich »Jack's Boys« nennen.Im Glauben, in den digitalen Untiefen des Darknet unsichtbar zu sein, planen »Jack's Boys« ihre Taten nach dem Vorbild ihres Idols Jack the Ripper und schicken anschließend Fotos ihrer verstümmelten Opfer an willkürlich ausgewählte Polizei-Stationen weltweit, ohne dass auch nur die geringste Spur zu ihnen führen würde. Bis Conner in ihr Allerheiligstes eindringt. Ein Affront, der ihn prompt zum nächsten Zielobjekt der perfektionistischen Psychopathenmacht.Doch die Serienkiller haben weder mit Großvater Ross gerechnet, einem Ex-Marine, noch mit Connors bester Freundin Niki ... Der 17. Thriller des amerikanischen Bestseller-Autors John Katzenbach bietet wieder atemraubend genialen Nervenkitzel bis zur letzten Seite - mit einem der besten Showdowns aller Zeiten!

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Ripples on a Pond: Woody Creek, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1141min

Woody Creek is gearing up for its centenary celebrations - but for many of its townspeople, it's just another reminder of the old days, when life was more simple, before so-called progress, technology and a growing population roared through the town, altering everything in its wake. Not for Georgie, though. Long encumbered by responsibility for her half-sister, Margot, she's looking towards the future and more changes. Not having managed to move on from running Charlie's grocery store yet, as the clock ticks over to 1970, she's determined that the time has come. She's not the only one of Jenny's children who's grown up and is moving on. As a six-year-old, little Jimmy Morrison was stolen from Woody Creek by his grandfather, and is now farther away than ever from his estranged birth mother and sisters. Having inherited an estate in the United Kingdom, he's determined to make a new life for himself. If only he could shake off his one terrible attachment to Australia.... For Cara, Woody Creek has been the source of the most devastating news of her life, and a terrible mistake that cannot be undone. She's vowed never to step foot into the place again. But the old timber town has a way of getting under people's skins. And as it draws the much-loved cast of Woody Creek characters back into its grip, confessions, discoveries and truths seem set to explode in the most dramatic of showdowns.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001925/bk_boli_001925_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Die wilden Kerle 3

Was war das bloß für eine Blamage. Nachdem die Nationalmannschaft die WILDEN KERLE im Teufelstopf mit einem 25:1 hinter den Mars geschossen hat, gehen Vanessa und die Jungs tief geknickt getrennte Wege. Doch dann taucht plötzlich Fabi auf, Leons ehemals bester Freund. Mit einer direkten Kampfansage fordert er die WILDEN KERLE heraus, ihren Titel als wildeste Fußballmannschaft der Welt zu verteidigen. Würden sie kneifen, dann wären sie das, was er schon immer geglaubt hat: Nämlich feige! Doch wer gedacht hat, das Team würde sich dieser Herausforderung sofort stellen, der irrt. Denn längst haben die ehemals wildesten Kicker etwas ganz Anderes im Kopf als Fußballspielen. Zum Glück gibt es Nerv. Er ist der größte Fan der WILDEN KERLE, der mit seiner ungebremsten Energie die Mannschaft unbedingt wieder zusammentrommeln und den vergessenen Kampfgeist in ihnen wachrufen will. Für Nerv ist glasklar: Dieses Duell dürfen sie sich einfach nicht entgehen lassen, denn Fabi tritt mit niemand Anderem an als mit einer waschechten 1A Mädchen-Fussballmannschaft: Die BIESTIGEN BIESTER sind eine giftige Spezies, die es den WILDEN KERLEN einmal so richtig zeigen wollen! Im Morgengrauen in der Natternhöhle kommt es zum wildesten aller wilden Showdowns: Zwischen den WILDEN KERLEN und den BIESTIGEN BIESTERN, zwischen Leon und Fabi, zwischen Maxis Vater, dem Schicksal und Nerv.

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The Spider: Spider #39 December 1936 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min

Up from the Devil's Coast swarmed a hooded horde, rioting to lay America under The Cobra's bondage. A frenzied, living Pharaoh raked Manhattan with madness and murder. Against a baffling human wall that dies but never betrays its menacing master, Richard Wentworth - feared Spider of the underworld - faces his fate alone. The most compelling of the classic pulp heroes, Richard Wentworth had a fiancé, a coterie of equally committed aides, and a tense relationship with New York Police Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick, Wentworth's best friend, but also a dedicated lawman sworn to send the Spider to the electric chair - no matter who he turns out to be. These riveting stories ran the gamut of incendiary thrillers to ultra-violent showdowns between an obsessed superhero and his depraved arch-foes. Manhattan is the backdrop for Wentworth's apocalyptic adventures. A new skyline has arisen over the penthouses, nightclubs, breadlines, and ghettos of the Big Apple. With the repeal of Prohibition, wealthy gangsters are in search for new rackets. And standing ready to keep them in check, the dreaded Spider. The stories plunge along head-first aboard an emotional roller-coaster, with scarcely a moment's pause for respite. Oriental death-traps, treacherously alluring women, and rabid, machine-gun toting gangsters are all part of a typical day for the hero; Wentworth is frequently suspected of being the dreaded Spider, his home is periodically destroyed, his servants and friends tortured. Everything Richard Wentworth holds dear is constantly at risk, yet he fights on as The Spider. Nick Santa Maria once again brings the Spider to life in "Reign of the Snake Men." Originally published in The Spider magazine, December, 1936. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Santa Maria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094801/bk_acx0_094801_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Great 1980s Sports Moments: The Players, Games and Teams That Defined a Generation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 417min

A work of 1980s nostalgia by one who grew up amidst it, this book takes an in-depth look at the entire decade, from the moments that seem like they happened yesterday to those that time forgot. You’ll read about the following… The epic Miracle On Ice, the run of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and how it impacted a nation. The NBA’s greatest individual rivalry, Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson and their finest moments on the NBA’s biggest stage. The NFL decade starts with Joe Montana leading a historic drive that upended the balance of the power. The decade ends with Montana leading another historic drive that sealed the San Francisco 49ers Dynasty. Some of the greatest pennant races in the history of baseball, a one-game showdown that is a forgotten historical treasure and a series of memorable Octobers. NCAA basketball championship games that went down to the wire. You’ll learn further how the 1980s saw the NCAA Tournament transform into the cultural celebration that is March Madness. The greatest college football games of the decade, with a special look at the games that turned a small private college in Miami into a national brand known simply as “The U”. Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and the showdowns that made fresh memories through the decade. On the men’s side, you’ll see the biggest matches of John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker and more. Historic moments in horse racing, greatness in pro hockey and thrilling moments in golf. Great 1980s Sports Moments is a sweeping look at an entire decade, both comprehensive and concise, that is a must-have for the library of any serious sports reader. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Flaherty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104234/bk_acx0_104234_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 719min

A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall. In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the wall. Then, two US television networks heard about the secret projects and raced to be first to document them from the inside. NBC and CBS funded two separate tunnels in return for the right to film the escapes, planning spectacular prime-time specials. President John F. Kennedy, however, was wary of anything that might spark a confrontation with the Soviets, having said, “A wall is better than a war” and even confessing to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “We don’t care about East Berlin.” JFK approved unprecedented maneuvers to quash both documentaries, testing the limits of a free press in an era of escalating nuclear tensions.As Greg Mitchell’s riveting narrative unfolds, we meet extraordinary characters: the legendary cyclist who became East Germany’s top target for arrest; the Stasi informer who betrays the “CBS tunnel”; the American student who aided the escapes; an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English channel; and the young East Berliner who fled with her baby, then married one of the tunnelers. The Tunnels captures the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police as US networks prepared to “pay for play” but were willing to cave to official pressure, the White House was eager to suppress historic coverage, and ordinary people in dire circumstances became subversive. The Tunnels is breaking history, a propulsive listen whose themes still reverberate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004757/bk_rand_004757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 834min

Early one morning in the summer of 1999, authorities in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia began a roundup of suspected drug dealers. By the time the sweep was done, over 40 people had been arrested and one of every five black adults in town was behind bars, all accused of dealing cocaine to the same undercover officer, Tom Coleman. Coleman, the son of a well-known Texas Ranger, was named Officer of the Year in Texas. Not until after the trials, in which Coleman's uncorroborated testimony secured sentences as long as 361 years, did it become apparent that Tom Coleman was not the man he claimed to be. Tulia is the story of the town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle to reverse the convictions that caught the attention of the nation in the spring of 2003. With a sure sense of history and of place, a great feel for the characters involved, and showdowns inside the courtroom and out. Blakeslee's Tulia is contemporary journalism at its finest, and a thrilling read. The scandal changed the way narcotics enforcement is done in Texas, and has put the national drug war on trial at a time when incarceration rates in this country have never been higher. But the story is much bigger than the tale of just one bust. As Tulia makes clear, these events are the latest chapter in a story with themes as old as the country itself. It is a marvelously well-told tale about injustice, race, poverty, hysteria, desperation, and doing the right thing in America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Boles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/evol/000004/bk_evol_000004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 922min

Born to Battle examines the Civil War’s complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - battles in which the Union would slowly but surely divide the western Confederacy, setting the stage for the final showdowns of this bloody and protracted conflict. Grant is widely regarded as the man most responsible for winning the war for the Union; Forrest is known as the Confederacy’s most fearsome defender in the West. Both men had risen through their respective hierarchies thanks to their cunning and military brilliance, and despite their checkered pasts. Grant and Forrest were both lower-born officers who struggled to overcome particular, dubious reputations. In time, each became renowned for his intelligence, resourcefulness, and grit. Beginning with the Union victory at Tennessee’s Fort Donelson in February, 1862, Hurst follows both men through the campaigns of the next 20 months, showing how this critical period - and these two unequaled leaders - would change the course of the war. An utterly American tale about class and merit and their role in one of the most formative wars in the nation’s history, Born to Battle offers an impassioned account of two visionary Civil War leaders and the clashing cultures they fought - in some cases, quite ironically - to protect. Hurst shows how Grant and Forrest brought to the battlefield the fabled virtues of the American working class: ingenuity, hard work, and intense determination. Each man’s background contributed to his triumphs on the battlefield, but the open-mindedness of his fellow commanders proved just as important. When the North embraced Grant, it won a stalwart defender. When the South rejected Forrest, by contrast, it sea ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004989/bk_blak_004989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Cool War: The Future of Global Competition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 354min

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the worldThe Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool War. Just as the Cold War matched the planet’s reigning superpowers in a contest for geopolitical supremacy, so this new age will pit the United States against a rising China in a contest for dominance, alliances, and resources. Already visible in Asia, the conflict will extend to the Middle East (U.S.-backed Israel versus Chinese-backed Iran), Africa, and beyond.Yet this Cool War differs fundamentally from the zero-sum showdowns of the past: The world’s major power and its leading challenger are economically interdependent to an unprecedented degree. Exports to the U.S. account for nearly a quarter of Chinese trade, while the Chinese government holds 8 percent of America’s outstanding debt. This positive-sum interdependence has profound implications for nations, corporations, and international institutions. It makes what looked to be a classic contest between two great powers into something much more complex, contradictory, and badly in need of the shrewd and carefully reasoned analysis that Feldman provides. To understand the looming competition with China, we must understand the incentives that drive Chinese policy. Feldman offers an arresting take on that country’s secretive hierarchy, proposing that the hereditary & “princelings” who reap the benefits of the complicated Chinese political system are actually in partnership with the meritocrats who keep the system full of fresh talent and the reformers who are trying to root out corruption and foster government accountability. He provides a clear-eyed analysis of the years ahead, showing how China’ss rise presents opportunities as well as risks. R ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Feldman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003526/bk_rand_003526_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

A current pro player takes fans on a pseudonymous trip through one of the most infamous years of football - the very long, sometimes funny, often controversial 2013-2014 season - sharing raucous, behind-the-scenes, on-the-field, and in-the-locker-room truth about life in the National Football League. "Well, to hell with being safe. I'm going to be honest." Johnny Anonymous' life goal was to be nothing greater or less than the Best NFL Back-Up of All Time™. For two years, he was content earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to stand on the sidelines doing absolutely nothing. But early in his third year, a starting lineman is injured, and he suddenly finds himself on the field. For most players, this moment is a dream come true. But not so for our author, one of the incredibly rare birds in football who reach the highest echelons, but who actually hate America's favorite game. That's right. Johnny Anonymous hates football. He hates what it does to his body, his brain, his life. Luckily, he can see the humor in his own situation, but also in the machinations of the NFL. Part truth-telling narrative, part whip-smart commentary that only a true insider could bring, part hilarious, NFL Confidential gives football fans a look at a world most would give anything to see, and gives non-fans a wild ride through the strange, and sometimes disturbing customs and realities of football today. Here is a truly unaffiliated look at the nation's biggest, most lucrative pastime over the course of one of its most transformative seasons. From hard-to-stomach diets, showdowns in the weight room, shenanigans in the locker room, the looming dread of being cut from the team, the racial issues that still exist in modern-day football, the rock-star lifestyle that players find themselves able to afford and sometimes enjoy a little too much, the notion of being lauded in a league plagued by controversy, and the sharp contrast between ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005033/bk_harp_005033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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