Joseph R. Garber Livres

Red-eyed and jet-lagged, an American businessman arrives in Singapore from Manhattan, unaware that he has been marked for assassination. Twice. A world away in New York he was Jack Taft, Vice President, Logistics LBTech, Inc: a small cog in a mighty wheel of the international electronics and armaments industry. A decent company man, an ordinary man, and no hero. Now, in the Big Brother Utopia of Singapore he's suddenly become a fugitive pursued by police whose orders read 'shoot to kill'. A firestorm of bullets sets him on the run. A dozen hitmen confront him in the street. A relentlessly lethal policeman stalks him through the swamps. Death is inches away unless he learns to fight back...

You think YOU had a killer workday. . . Get ready for the FASTEST thriller of the summer Each morning in his 45th floor executive office, David Elliot savors the quiet moments until the workday begins. Until today, when his boss walks in and aims a gun at him. For the rest of the day, he will be trapped in his midtown office building, and everyone David Elliot meets will try to kill him. He has 24 hours to find out why. . . In "Vertical Run," you can escape into a world on fast forward, a drama that plays out with electrifying intensity. No one who reads this book will ever see the office the same way again. "Vertical Run" is available now -- run for it A Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Brothers and Peters Entertainment Company "From the Paperback edition."

Hrdinou románu je veterán války ve Vietnamu, který je jednoho dne vystaven záhadnému útoku, jehož příčinu pochopí až v samém závěru akce

Dave Elliot genießt jeden Morgen die Stille seiner Chefsuite, bis er an einem Tag das Gefühl hat, bedroht zu werden. In nur 24 Stunden muss er herausfinden, warum, während er einen verzweifelten Kampf gegen einen überlegenen Gegner führt.

Kaum in Singapur angekommen, wo er die asiatische Niederlassung eines US-Konzerns kontrollieren soll, entdeckt Jack Taft, dass der Chef des örtlichen Verbrecher-Syndikats genauso hinter ihm her ist wie der Polizeiboss des kleinen Landes. - Thriller.