Thomas Lehr wachst Ende der 50er Jahre als jungstes von vier Geschwistern in der Schule eines kleinen deutschen Dorfes auf. Er wird von seinen Eltern und der Kirche auch mit korperlicher Strafe streng katholisch erzogen. Anfangs lebt er in der Welt der Zehn Gebote, glaubt an aufrichtige Liebe, Ehrlichkeit und Gehorsam. Fur seinen Vater, der Schulleiter ist, muss Thomas als Zehnjahriger Bier und Schnaps kaufen, was ihm gro?e Schuldgefuhle bereite ...
Tatort Deutschland: Luk Krieger ist Agent einer geheimen Spezialeinheit zur Terrorbekampfung. Als im Zentrum von Berlin eine Bombe explodiert und ihn beinahe in den Tod rei?t, nimmt er gemeinsam mit der Polizistin Anne Cole die Ermittlung auf. Alles deutet zunachst auf einen islamistischen Anschlag hin. Doch dann gibt es neue Spuren und Krieger schwort sich, die Verantwortlichen zur Strecke zu bringen. Im Kampf gegen Korruption und Machtmissbrau ...
Deeper and deeper New York had sunk in the toils of the Underworld czar – until its entire population had been regimented by the Black Police into a Kingdom of Crime! Everywhere marched the evil emperor's cohorts, collecting the taxes that meant death; and the law was at a standstill. In that moment of desperation, one man had a heaven-sent inspiration. For now Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, resolved to fight the Underworld with its own ...
The Spider heard the first dread rumors in the secret councils of the Underworld. A keen-witted, ambitious criminal leader named El Gaucho – backed by a powerful army of brutal killers – was pillaging the West. Looting, ravaging, slaughtering wantonly, the master-mind of crime was ruthlessly following a plan which would make him King of America! Richard Wentworth – the debonair aristocrat who is in truth the deadly Spider, protector of the oppre ...
Deep-hidden in evil, Satan's Suicide Club sat in council – and men died. What dreadful force drove these men, leaders of society with everything to live for, to end their lives at the behest of that sinister being who sardonically called himself Professor Mephisto? And why did men and women suffer the tortures of the damned rather than defy this mysterious being? Richard Wentworth once more assumes the cloak of the Spider to free these lost ...
Savannah Hudson always looked for a surprise from her husband, Sheldon, when he returned home from his travels. It was a tradition that began at the start of their twenty-three-year-long marriage. But when her husband returned from his latest trip, Savannah finds surprises she never expected: one pretty red thong and lots of questions. But before Savannah can get answers, her husband goes into cardiac arrest. Now, as Sheldon fights for his life, ...
Through the chill darkness a deluge of death swept over New York – and men died mysteriously with their brains battered in as the terror struck! For a new, frightful master of the underworld had risen, to paralyze the police and empty the city's treasure coffers. Over a long period, Richard Wentworth, with the Spider's weird weapons, had fought those master criminals whom the law could not reach. But never before had he been compelled ...
Weird, haunting, the murder-melody rang in the ears of New York – and all those who heard its sinister song died in the throes of raving madness! For a monstrous musician had mastered the city, holding the police and Underworld alike at bay. One by one, the men marked to die received the music-score with the printed notes that were tiny skulls – and none dared raise a hand to stay the red harvest. Yet Richard Wentworth, in the grim black garb of ...
Meet Gregory George Gordon Green, commonly known among his friends as «Gees.» He's a private detective working between the two World Wars with the odd habit of becoming entangled in mysteries involving the supernatural. Supposedly the creation of «Jack Mann,» Gees' adventures were actually written by E. Charles Vivian, the closest author England produced in the period from 1920-1940 to a pulp practitioner. Great Britain had few fiction ...
