Bøger af John Charles Gifford

It's 1955 in Montreal when the door to private investigator Eddie Wade's office swings open to reveal a beautiful, wealthy woman desperate to find her no-good rat of a husband who skipped out on her, taking ten thousand dollars in cash and all her jewels with him. Even though a little voice inside is telling Eddie to back away, he takes Chanel Steele's case without any idea his life is about to change. As the case moves forward, Eddie encounters the unexpected, spinning him in a hellish nightmare of deadly lies. Things are never as they seem. A routine missing person's investigation suddenly turns into a case of multiple murders. Uncertainty masquerades as smugness-madness as the familiar. One by one, Eddie begins to unmask those caught in a treacherous web of insanity only to discover that someone has been playing him. But will he be able to solve the case before the killer strikes again? As the case comes to a head, Eddie uncovers a dark past, and the world is suddenly turned upside down. Eddie himself is left hanging off a cliff. In this exciting murder mystery fueled by suspicion and revenge, Eddie Wade embarks on a determined quest for justice. But does he find the justice he's seeking, or the kind he's doomed to endure? Either way, his life will never be the same.

CIA officer Grady Dawson secretly enlists the aid of a wealthy New Yorker and asks him to start a foundation to support artists. Six years later, the nightmare begins.Three internationally renowned artists have been murdered in the heart of Manhattan in as many weeks. The police are baffled because there are no motives, and the killer leaves no clues. Homicide detective Barney Wolfe takes over the case and together with Dawson, they search for the killer. Driven and relentless, they soon discover the killer's identity. But will they be able to find and stop him in a city of eight million people before he kills again? After they learn who's next on the killer's list, Dawson and Wolfe use him as bait to bring the killer out into the open. A sound strategy or a fatal tactical blunder?But as the case unravels, and the two men unearth the motives behind the murders, they are suddenly confronted by an international Cold War crisis with catastrophic consequences.New York 1956 will keep you on the edge of the precipice where the dividing line between justice and revenge is blurred and the threshold leading to redemption is only a faint hope.

The year is 1956 and the world is at peacebut not for long. A rogue British MI6 agent, code name Lucky Break, is planning to assassinate the president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, with the intent of igniting a powder keg under Egypts ally, the Soviet Union, and starting World War III.Fearing that the United States will be dragged into a war that no one wants, and with the haunting specter of a nuclear holocaust looming, the CIA sends Alex Logan to Egypt to hunt down and kill the spy before he assassinates Nasser. Logan pursues him through the streets and alleyways in a cat-and-mouse chase in the ancient city of Alexandria, only to find himself consumed by his own past. But Logan has a bigger problem to solve. He has only seven days to find and stop Lucky Break in a city of four million people before he strikes and the Soviets play their doomsday card. The stakes have never been higher. In this fast-paced Cold War thriller, Logan is up against a ticking clockand impossible odds.