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Film producer Pero Baltazar thought he was taking a Berlin filming assignment. He needed the work, needed to get back in the saddle after fighting off a life-threatening experience in East Africa - al-Shabaab had attacked his crew, intent on a much larger terrorist attack. Suddenly he finds himself under orders from his part-time employers at the State Department and the CIA when he is handed a mysterious package. It's an assignment he doesn't want. The problem is, it is a job contracted by mysterious patrons.

In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, Stone's past collides with the agenda of GlobaTech Industries, the world's leading private military contractor. As war looms and a devastating terrorist attack rocks the globe, GlobaTech assembles an elite team to restore order. But when Stone's history entangles with their mission, he must decide where his priorities lie. James P. Sumner's D.E.A.D. Till I Die, the explosive first entry in the GlobaTech techno-thriller series, offers a chillingly plausible portrayal of modern warfare.

Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body - and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave.

Every adventure starts at the fringes of civilization. For expert safari guide Mbuno and wildlife television producer Pero Baltazar, filming in the wild of East Africa should have been a return to the adventure they always loved. This time they'd be filming soaring vultures in Northern Kenya and giant sea crocodiles in Tanzania with Mary, the daughter of the world's top television evangelist, the very reverend Jimmy Threte.

Tokyo. Un incendie criminel ravage le coeur de l'un des plus grands quartiers d'affaires au monde. L'enquête est confiée à Hayato Ishida, flic prodige mais solitaire qui tente de se reconstruire en marge de la Crim. Il est rejoint par Noémie Legrand, Franco-Japonaise décidée à briser les chaînes d'un quotidien frustrant. Sur leur chemin, un couple d'étudiants dans le besoin, à la merci d'une communauté où solidarité rime avec danger. Et, tapi dans l'ombre, celui qui se fait appeler Izanagi, bien décidé à mettre son plan destructeur à exécution.

Der ehemalige NYPD-Detective Thomas Austin genießt ein seltenes Date bei einem Montagabend-Footballspiel in Seattle, als der Abend eine schreckliche Wendung nimmt. Eine Gruppe gnadenloser Terroristen hat das Stadion gewaltsam in ihre Gewalt gebracht, die Handysignale blockiert und die Ausgänge gesperrt. Die Terroristen haben eine einzige Forderung: die Freilassung eines hochrangigen Al-Qaida-Mitarbeiters aus einem US-Hochsicherheitsgefängnis.

Kehidupan Tara Asten sebagai asisten pribadi Putri Viola—Putri Mahkota Kerajaan Alerva yang supersibuk—selalu penuh tantangan. Namun, Tara tidak pernah menyangka Badan Intelijen Alerva (BIA) akan menjadikannya tersangka utama dalam rencana penyerangan keluarga kerajaan. Dia dimasukkan ke...

Il raggio d'ombra si ispira liberamente a un fatto accaduto nel 1927: un evaso politico trova rifugio presso alcuni compagni clandestini, ma si rivela una spia e li fa arrestare. Tra le vittime anche un medico milanese, diviso tra moglie e amante, che per amicizia aveva dato ospitalità all'evaso e ne vedrà la propria carriera annientata.

Alors même que des tueurs sont à ses trousses, Lena, une jeune Russe, survit à une terrible catastrophe. Dix ans passent dans une quiétude relative. Sous son nom d'emprunt, la rescapée se conforte tant bien que mal dans l'idée qu'elle a semé ses poursuivants, mais les enjeux internationaux qu'elle a perturbés finissent par la rattraper. C'est dans le Sultanat d'Oman, sur un promontoire qui surplombe le détroit d'Ormuz, que convergent finalement les forces favorables et maléfiques. Lena pourra y solder son passé, en laissant libre cours aux larmes qu'elle a si longtemps retenues.

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Na fúria expansionista do Terceiro Reich, a França é tomada pelas tropas alemãs. Os alemães estão cientes de que as forças aliadas planejam libertar a Europa. A oficial inglesa Felicity Clairet sabe que Hitler depende de suas linhas de comunicação para repelir um ataque. Assim, a dias da invasão pelos Aliados, a principal meta é inutilizar a maior central telefônica da Europa, alojada num palácio em Sainte-Cécile. Mesmo ciente do perigo, a equipe Jackdaws tentará explodir a fortaleza e aniquilar qualquer chance de comunicação alemã.

1977 : Martin Radford, jeune historien londonien dont la carrière universitaire a été brisée par un scandale, arrive sur l'île de Madère. Il y rencontre Leo Sellick, un millionnaire sud-américain, qui habite une superbe villa, naguère propriété du mystérieux Edwin Strafford, mort en 1951. Homme politique de premier ordre, promis à un brillant avenir, Edwin Strafford a été en 1908, à l'âge de 32 ans, ministre de l'intérieur du cabinet Asquith, aux côtés de Lloyd George et de Churchill, avant de démissionner brutalement en 1910 et de quitter la vie politique sans explication aucune pour disparaître dans l'anonymat.

Tot comença amb un robatori d’uns papers del Monestir de Sant Cugat mentre a Matadepera s’està debatent sobre el procés sobiranista, a primera vista que podrien tenir en comú els afers de l’Església amb la política?, potser molt o potser res, però i si afegim un descendent del Compte Borrell, un milionari recalcitrant amb set de diners i poder, un retrat força cru sobre les altes esferes de la societat catalana, i si a més hi afegim embolics de faldilles, assassinats i segrestos.

A New World Order is upon us ...In the shifting desert sands of Egypt, rumours abound of a lost papyrus that will reveal the true purpose of the Pyramids of Giza. Could these ancient monoliths be the source of a new kind of energy, one that comes at no cost to the planet? CIA agent Curtis O'Connor and archaeologist Aleta Weizman are determined to find out.Close by, a shadowy and powerful group known as Pharos meets in Alexandria, its membership a closely guarded secret.

There's power in stories. But power can be deadly. Detective Cora Gorderheim is a detective no longer. Stripped of her badge by the corrupt chief inspector, Cora's job now is to protect her sister, Ruth, the new Wayward storyteller. Ruth must tell her tale of the Tear widening if people are to know the truth of what's happening in the Union of Realms. But Lowlander Chambers Morton wants the Wayward to change their election story, and will stop at nothing to achieve this – including murder.

Das Regime bestimmt über dein Leben... Jenna Williams, Halbkoreanerin, glaubt auch zwölf Jahre nach dem Tod ihrer Zwillingsschwester nicht daran, dass sie ertrunken ist. Als CIA-Agentin wird sie auf eine geheime Mission nach Nordkorea geschickt. Vielleicht erfährt sie dort mehr über das Schicksal ihrer Schwester? Die 60-jährige Bäuerin Frau Moon wird in der nordkoreanischen Provinz zur Stimme des Widerstandes. Niemand weiß, dass es etwas in ihrer Vergangenheit gibt, das sie mehr quält, als es das Regime je könnte.

There's power in stories. And power comes at a price. Detective Cora Gorderheim has found the man who strangled the Wayward storyteller. But he was just a small part of a much bigger tale. Someone powerful ordered a murder on Cora's patch. That someone still lurks in the shadows. But as she continues her investigations, Cora is warned not to pry into the great and the good of Fenest. Too stubborn to know better, Cora keeps digging and begins to piece together a conspiracy that reaches from the gutter dwellers of the Union of Realms right to the top: the Chambers.

John Tyler has gone rogue, pursuing an international vendetta against those responsible for killing his brother. But he's lured back by the CIA for one final mission. Simple, for a man like Tyler: journey to an old Soviet-era hotel in the frozen wastes of Siberia to obtain information from a Russian scientist about a double agent within NATO. But strange things are afoot, events related to the hotel's grisly past and the KGB's Cold war experiments into psychic phenomena.

There's power in stories and this is a story of power. Dead bodies aren't unusual in the alleyways of Fenest. Muggings, brawls gone bad, debts collected - Detective Cora Gorderheim has seen it all. Until she finds a Wayward man with his mouth sewn shut. As Cora pieces together the dead man's story, she's drawn into the most dangerous story in the Union of Realms: the election. All she wants is to catch the killer, but nothing is that simple in an election year.

May 1915. Kingdom Lock and his faithful sidekick, Siddhartha Singh are gunned down on the streets of Basra and suspicion falls on German spy, Wilhelm Wassmuss. Major Ross believes Wassmuss is behind the assassination of a Turkish officer, the death of whom has been blamed on Lock. Meanwhile, Lock has discovered that Amy Townshend is pregnant and that the child is his. But the general's daughter stubbornly refuses to break off her engagement.

Russian President Petrov is determined to restore his country’s dominance on the world stage at any price. In order to develop deadlier nuclear weapons, he recruits Ilana Rabinovich, a beautiful but lethal scientist, to infiltrate the Mossad and steal their research. What no one expects is for the Israelis to then assign her an even more dangerous mission of their own: to penetrate the US nuclear facilities in the deserts of Los Alamos. If the information falls into the wrong hands the results could be devastating.