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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.

Accident or suicide? That's the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long-lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness, and death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work. Probing the family's past, he uncovers a toxic mix of rigid fundamentalism, teenage rebellion, and a family secret so horrific that 20 years later, someone is still desperate to prevent the truth from coming to light.

La aparición del cuerpo decapitado de una joven en el Parque Ecológico de Plaiaundi, con las yemas de los dedos abrasadas con ácido sulfúrico, pondrá de nuevo en jaque a la unidad de investigación criminal de la Ertzaintza.

La agente de la Ertzaintza Eider Chassereau y el suboficial Jon Ander Macua se enfrentan a lo que podría ser el caso más importante de sus carreras. La aparición de dos cadáveres desollados, con un siniestro vínculo entre ellos, les llevará hasta Lorena, una prestigiosa tatuadora donostiarra que aún se recupera de una relación que acabó con una orden de alejamiento por amenazas y agresión.

From the jungles of Indonesia to the very heart of New York City comes a plague that kills 100 percent of its victims. Medicine's greatest nightmare, this modern Black Death is caused by the most virulent and uncontrollable mutant virus humanity has ever witnessed. And medicine can do nothing to stop its merciless spread.

Tercera entrega de la Serie "Black Rock". ¿Cuál es la peor condena que le puede caer a un preso de Illinois? Ni la cadena perpetua, ni la inyección letal. El peor castigo es el destino a la prisión de Black Rock, una fortaleza de negros muros cuya localización exacta nadie conoce.

Memories fade. But some never let go. And some demand justice. Jack Widow, a drifter with a violent past, doesn't look for trouble. But trouble finds him on a desolate Nebraska road at midnight when an elderly man in pajamas appears in the darkness—barefoot, confused, and firing a shotgun at ghosts only he can see. Widow takes him home to his family, thinking that's the end of it. It's not. The old man has dementia, and every night at midnight, the same memory drags him back sixty years—to darkness, to violence, to something that won't let him rest. Widow starts asking questions.

The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary connement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class - married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But they will meet again....

Paul Temple erhält Besuch von einer gewissen Miss Hardwick. Diese ist die besorgte Tochter eines spurlos verschwundenen Wissenschaftlers, dessen revolutionäre Erfindung das Interesse krimineller Kräfte geweckt hat. In falschen Händen könnte sie zu einem Desaster führen. Wenig später ist die junge Frau tot. Temples Ermittlungen führen in ein schottisches Dorf. Der schreibende Detektiv findet heraus, dass ein großer Unbekannter, der sich »Z« nennt und der Anführer einer gefährlichen und skrupellosen Spionagegruppe ist, hinter allem steckt.

Across Britain, violent criminals are walking free – cases derailed by sharp-suited defence lawyers and soft-touch judges – and public fury is reaching breaking point. Into that anger step the New Crusaders, a shadowy group that hunts down offenders who have slipped through the net and delivers their own brand of punishment live across social media to millions of cheering followers. To some, they're heroes. To the government, they're terrorists.

The gripping new thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Jeffery Deaver Twist left. Unique Investigator Colter Shaw is searching for the answer to his father’s final, posthumous riddle. It will lead him to evidence that will topple the secretive espionage company, BlackBridge. Twist...

A #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. From the #1 bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield, an edge-of-your-seat thriller set about China's secret role in the 1970s Space Race between the US and the USSR. Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz...

Mechant trip !!!Lors d'un reportage saveur touristique au Mexique, un journaliste qubcois doit composer avec une machination et des attaques qui menacent gravement sa scurit et sa vie intime. Dans ce roman, qui runit romance et criminalit, le personnage principal, un reporter qubcois pure laine, nous amne dcouvrir la dure ralit qui svit au Mexique. Une histoire qui outrepasse le regard idyllique propag par les guides touristiques. Le soleil, la mer, les margaritas, les tacos, les guacamoles ? Non ce n'est pas toujours aussi beau. Vous en conviendrez en lisant ce livre !

Wer ist der unheimliche "Marquis", dessen Gesicht niemand kennt und der hinter einer unheimlichen Mordserie in London steckt? Da Paul Temple gerade in New York weilt, bittet ihn Sir Graham Forbes, sich dort nach dem letzten Opfer zu erkundigen. Doch ehe der Detektiv die Ermittlungen beginnt, hat er schon eine Warnung des großen Unbekannten in der Hand. Paul schreckt nicht davor zurück und so wird seine Wohnung verwüstet. Die Spur führt zu einem Archäologen, der von seiner letzten Expedition etwas mitgebracht hat, das der Menschheit großen Schaden zufügen könnte.

Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon. Legendary spy, assassin, and art restorer Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge...

The next gripping action thriller from best-selling author Andrew Warren! A must-read for fans of Lee Child and Vince Flynn! 💥 The past demands revenge. The future needs a hero. Thomas Caine returns to active duty with the CIA’s Special Activities Division. Under the command of Director...

The first in a BRAND NEW action thriller series from the Wilbur Smith Prize-Shortlisted author Alex Shaw.Perfect for fans of Tom Wood, Vince Flynn and Mark Greaney, this is an explosive action thriller you won’t be able to put down 💥📚 ‘Another excellent stripped-back, razor-edge...

‘Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around!’ Stephen Leather The target doesn’t exist When cyber terrorist Fang Bao abruptly reappears after years in hiding, MI6 agent and former SAS trooper Jack Tate is sent to bring him in – but when Fang is assassinated by an unknown...

When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team—Saw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to miss—are mobilized to prosecute the threat.

Joe didn’t go looking for trouble, but sometimes trouble found him. Joe Clayton thought the dangers of his undercover career were behind him. He was wrong. One grey October morning, while working in a quiet Bristol street, he hears the voice of the man who has sworn to destroy him. Minutes...