William Diehl Books

Young Thomas Culhane grows up in the small Californian town of Eureka. But, although he is adopted by one of the town's wealthy families, he knows he must escape Eureka to make his own way in the world. Then World War I intervenes and Culhane ships to Europe to join the American forces in Europe, where he proves himself a hero. On his return to Eureka, he soon becomes deputy sheriff to the town's legendary lawman. In the early 1920s, he steps into his boss's shoes after the sheriff is killed in a shootout. Some twenty years later, Sheriff Culhane is a powerful man about to run as state governor. One hundred miles south of Eureka in Los Angeles, Verna Wilensky has been electrocuted in her bathtub. At first her death looks accidental. But as the police investigate further, and discover that she had almost $100,000 in her bank account, they begin to dig deeper. Who was this woman, where did she come from, how did she get all this money, and what was her connection to Eureka, to Thomas Culhane and to the bloody events of the 1920s that saw Culhane's political star begin to rise? Bestselling author William Diehl has written a compelling crime novel set in the golden state of California and revealing its seamy and corrupt underbelly.

Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop. Vail is certain to lose, but Vail uses his unorthodox ways to good advantage when choosing his legal team—a tight group of men and women who must uncover the extraordinary truth behind the archbishop's slaughter. They do, in a heart-stopping climax unparalleled for the surprise it springs on the reader...

As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler's henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse game with the Third Reich's perfect spy, a man of a thousand faces. In an arena that encompasses presidents and gangsters, spies and sirens, the deadly present and the dark past, Keegan pursues his elusive quarry into the cutting edge of world events--and into the secret inner workings of a terrifying mission known only as "27." "The best book of its kind since THE DAY OF THE JACKAL...Edge-of-the-seat stuff." PEOPLE

Italy, 1944: A squad of American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and slaughtered . . . and a fortune in gold vanishes.Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious brothel.Atlanta, 1975: The last survivor of the fatal World War II ambush in Italy is executed at point blank range in a parking lot.Blowing away a crazed, gun-wielding drug dealer on a crowded city bus gets police detective Sharky bounced from the narc squad into the dreaded dregs of the department--vice. That's where he stumbles on a high-priced call girl and her pimp who are fleecing rich johns in an even higher-priced blackmail scam. Together with his "machine" of hard-bitten vice squad veterans, Sharky closes in for a big sting. He doesn't count on falling for Domino, his alluring target. Or falling into the middle of the murderous design she's a part of--involving a hot presidential candidate, the shadowy multimillionaire who's backing him, and the ice-cold assassin they're using to wipe out the past . . . before it blows their future to hell."Every chapter crackles with sex, violence, and corruption."--The Washington Post"Fast-paced, attention-holding, hard-hitting."--Chicago Tribune"A slam-bang ending that should shock the most jaded thriller reader."--The Associated Press

After years of imprisonment and military inactivity, special agent Christian Hatcher is summoned by Sloan, his old commander, for one last assignment--to rescue a general's son long thought dead from Vietnam.

When Linda Balfour, A Young Mother, Is Found Butchered In Small-Town Southern Illinois, A Coded Inscription Stamped In Blood On The Back Of Her Head Brands Her Mutilated Body. For Chief Prosecutor Martin Vail, The Bloody Insignia Drags Up Memories He'D Like To Forget - Memories Of Bishop Rushman, Slashed And Dismembered Ten Years Ago By An Altar Boy, Aaron Stampler. But If Stampler Is Locked Away, He Cannot Have Murdered Linda. With His Career - And His Life - On The Line, Vail Needs Answers Fast Before The Killer Signs Someone Else'S Life Away.

William Diehl stunned readers with Primal Fear and Show of Evil, the national bestsellers featuring Chicago lawyer Martin Vail. Now, in his gripping new novel of suspense, Diehl enters uncharted territory, pushing Vail and the legal system he represents to the brink of destruction. After an ultra-right-wing militia seizes truckloads of highly volatile weapons, the president turns to Illinois attorney general Martin Vail. His job: nail the terrorists in their tracks. Vail plunges into his new, near-impossible mission, one that soon explodes into a personal nightmare as his most chilling adversary, Aaron Stampler, returns--seemingly from the dead--to exact a vengeance that could bring Vail to his knees. . . .

Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia. This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex-cops that Jake has organized. This time, he'll settle the score once and for all....

Barcelona. 22 cm. 493 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Traducción de Francesca Carmona. Traducción Primal fear .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8422659638

Een gehate advocaat uit Chicago krijgt uit wraak een zaak toegewezen die hij onmogelijk kan winnen: de verdediging van de bijna ter plekke gearresteerde moordenaar van een geliefde bisschop.

Napínavý příběh se odehrává ve zdánlivě pokojné oblasti nejatraktivnějšího amerického státu Kalifornie, vzdálené asi sto šedesát kilometrů severně od Los Angeles. Když odtud kdysi dávno odcházel mladý Thomas Culhane do bitev první světové války, zákon zde neznamenal naprosto nic. O dvě desítky let později zahajuje policejní detektiv Zeke Bannon vyšetřování případu smrti, která původně vypadala jako nešťastná nehoda. Píše se rok 1941 a Verna Wilenská umírá ve vaně po zásahu elektrickým proudem. Měla pověst osamělé ženy ze střední třídy. Navzdory tomu zanechala tučné bankovní konto s téměř sto tisíci dolary. Měsíc co měsíc jí na ně déle než dvacet let přicházely šeky, a to většinou z banky ve městě San Pietro. To bylo dříve známé jako Eureka a proslulo rovněž jako ráj podvodníků a gangsterů. Nyní se z Eureky stalo město jiného ražení, neboť šerif Thomas Culhane kandiduje na guvernéra. Zdá se však, že existuje něco, co může jeho nemalé ambice vážně ohrozit... Staré tajemství se při vyšetřování případu Wilenské pomalu začíná nořit na světlo. Hrozí způsobit skandál ve vrstvách kalifornské elity, ba dokonce až změnit osud státu. Autor v příběhu nabitém dějem dokonale prolnul minulost se současností, což je pro něho jako pro moderního spisovatele typické.