116 Results for : prosecuted
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Snare: Reykjavik Noir, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min
After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and ever more daring strategies. Things become even more complicated when Sonia embarks on a relationship with a woman, Agla. Once a high-level bank executive, Agla is currently being prosecuted in the aftermath of the Icelandic financial crash. Set in a Reykjavík still covered in the dust of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption, and with a dark, fast-paced and chilling plot and intriguing characters, Snare is an outstandingly original and sexy Nordic crime thriller from one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzannah Hampton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030910/bk_adbl_030910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Defector: Story of a Syrian Fate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 236min
Ayman Hasan grew up in Syria. His childhood was good. At age 13, he was an attentive student, looking forward to finishing school and applying his expertise in computing. Then the war broke out, and Ayman’s life changed forever. Every day, he, his friends, and family feared for their lives. Ayman witnessed the horrors of war until he made the decision to flee, leaving his burning home behind. Apart from his experiences in Syria, Ayman also documents his dangerous journey as an illegal refugee, being prosecuted in every country he entered. He was underage, yet, he is determined to find a country where he is safe and can finish his education.Today, Ayman lives in Germany. He quickly gained his diploma, learned the language, and studied computing in Leipzig. At present, he has established multiple start-ups in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. From his new home in Germany, he penned down his story to share and make listeners aware of what happened to him and millions of other Syrians. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rodney A. Sprauve. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169778/bk_acx0_169778_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Danger Is My Line: Chester Drum, Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 372min
Drum guards a killer against an assassin with diplomatic immunity. Everybody knows George Brandvik killed Jorgen Kolding. As soon as the jury acquits him, Brandvik sells his story to View magazine, confessing to the crime in exchange for a payday. Once the magazine hits newsstands, the death threats start rolling in - semi-literate garbage which nevertheless must be taken seriously. A reporter from View hires private detective Chester Drum to protect Brandvik, and an hour hasn’t gone by before Drum saves the killer’s life, disarming a Swedish blonde before she can plug Brandvik in the gut. She is the dead man’s daughter, and her diplomatic immunity means she will be deported, not prosecuted. But before she leaves, her bloodlust must be sated. That afternoon, the reporter and his driver are killed by a car bomb, and Drum sees the Swedish girl fleeing the scene. Soon Brandvik is dead too, gunned down in his bathroom. Drum books tickets to Iceland, to learn if this waifish blonde is really as deadly as she seems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005910/bk_adbl_005910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Down Here , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once prosecuted, Burke deals himself in. That means putting together a distrustful alliance between his underground "family of choice," Wolfe's private network, and a rogue NYPD detective who has his own stake in the outcome. Burke knows that Wolfe’s alleged "victim," although convicted only once, is actually a serial rapist. The deeper he presses, the more gaping holes he finds in the prosecution’s case, but shadowy law enforcement agencies seem determined to protect Wychek at all costs, no matter who it sacrifices. Burke ups the ante by re-opening all the old "cold case” rape investigations, calls in a lot of markers from both sides of the law, and finally shows all the players why "down here" is no place for tourists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Gigante. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002754/bk_brll_002754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Act of Deceit: A Harlan Donnally Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 500min
Mt. Shasta is far from the San Francisco sidewalk on which Harlan Donnally’s life nearly ended in a crossfire - But all too close to a decades - old secret that will force him into another. The former detective swore he’d never play anyone’s postman. But a dying friend’s plea takes Donnally bearing a letter alive with tragedy toward a sister long dead - the victim of the bizarre criminality of a counterculture that had lost its way. Stunned to learn that her killer was never prosecuted, Donnally soon finds himself in battle against a broken justice system and on a trail of evil into a dangerous borderland in which the falsely pious and the wealthy abuse the young and the poor. And though each step takes him farther down a perilous path that wrenches him between his inner demons and his mission to redeem a brother’s love, he won’t stop until he knows the truth. For Donnally made a promise to a dead man, and he’ll keep it - or die trying. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John DeMita. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002604/bk_harp_002604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Madame Bovary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 842min
The refusal to settle for what life has dealt you and the consequences of trying to change it is a theme which hasn't altered much in the last 150 years, and the astonishing beauty and challenge of Madame Bovary is as electric today as it was then. Very few books have created this much outrage and adoration. The sympathetic treatment of Emma Bovary's attempts to escape the maddening boredom of being married to the wrong man, in the wrong town, with the wrong picture of her life via a series of very realistically described adulterous affairs, ensured that Gustave Flaubert had practically the whole of France involved in the hullabaloo that greeted the novel's publication in 1856. He was prosecuted for it (unsuccessfully) and then wildly fêted for it, and his establishment as one of the most popular of literary geniuses is based on it. This book, in its famous translation by Eleanor Aveling - Karl Marx's daughter - carries a warning: Madame Bovary may cause excessive emotion and great disturbance to your life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Christie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000030/bk_slks_000030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Embracing the Abyss: A True Story of Unknowingly Becoming Part of a Fraud Scandal, Receiving a Presidential Pardon, and Being Surprised by a Spiritual Awakening , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
During the onslaught of legal actions during the Savings and Loans crisis of the 1980s, John Smith came to realize the extent of his employer's wrongdoing, and that he too had been one of many deceived. He discovered that you don't have to commit a crime to be convicted of one, and after years of turmoil, he discovered the relief when the FBI finally informed him 15 years after his sentencing that he should never have been prosecuted in the first place.If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. This story is your warning, your red flare. But also, I have learned a deeper lesson: There is much more to this world than we can see or feel or even comprehend. The Abyss is not something you recognize right away. It's a part of you that you don't come in touch with very often. It's the place where you engage in the ultimate struggle for truth, where you ache for a lasting answer. When you touch the Abyss you gather the breath from deep within you, grasp it, embrace it, and hold on for dear life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dean Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175479/bk_acx0_175479_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Boy Missing: The Search for Kyron Horman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min
It’s one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn’t the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance - Kyron’s stepmother - been charged? That the seven-year-old disappeared from his grade school got the attention of parents around the world. The twists of the case - adultery, sexting, murder-for-hire - keep the story in the media spotlight. New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Morris tells the minute-by-minute, day-by-day story of the long investigation, the search for Kyron, and his family’s heartache. Based on years of research and interviews with Kyron's family, Boy Missing also examines what recourse families have as they wait for a loved one to be found and challenges a common assumption in no-body cases: that prosecutors must wait until there is a confession or remains are found. No-body cases can be prosecuted successfully. Author Jeff Guinn (Manson, The Road to Jonestown) calls Boy Missing “an important book and one readers will never forget”.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211566/bk_acx0_211566_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Trouble with Innocence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
In partnership with Texas Monthly, Michael Hall's "The Trouble with Innocence" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program. In 1978, a Texas jury found Kerry Max Cook guilty of the state's most brutal murder on record and sentenced him to death row. Cook swore that, no matter how long it took, he would prove his innocence, unearth the truth, and free himself from this sentence. Spanning decades, numerous lawyers, and meanwhile the physical and psychological abuse of prison, Cook would be prosecuted four times, only to have the veil of innocence narrowly evade him in the end. "The Trouble with Innocence" opens with the hearing that would exonerate Cook nearly 40 years after his original sentence. Exoneration, after all he had been through, was not enough for Cook, who then asked for his wrongful conviction back rather than live with this injustice. Michael Hall lays out Cook's grueling journey through the Texas justice and prison system in an attempt to answer: how could someone sabotage their own exoneration? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Ryan Grant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005467/bk_rand_005467_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Poems by Charles Baudelaire, Hörbuch, Digital, 25min
Charles Baudelaire is one of the greatest French poets. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), was deemed scandalous at the time because of its themes of sex and death, lesbianism, corruption, wine, and the oppressiveness of living. Its powerful imagery and ravaging use of the senses had many name him an unequaled master; the effect on fellow artists was "immense, prodigious, unexpected, mingled with admiration and with some indefinable anxious fear", while the regime of the Second Empire had Baudelaire prosecuted and fined for his "insult to public decency". Baudelaire's style had a tremendous influence on French poetry and also on English writers; he was a pioneering translator, and created strong ties with the Anglo-Saxon literature. We have selected for you 16 of his most striking poems in the most precise translation available: A Former Life, Beauty, Correspondences, Don Juan in Hades, Exotic Perfume, The Balcony, The Beacons, The Dance of Death, The Death of Lovers, The Evil Monk, The Irreparable, The Living Flame, The Sadness of the Moon, The Sick Muse, The Temptation, The Venal Muse. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000731/bk_cids_000731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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