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The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises antiterrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail of bullets which follows, he knows that this is only the beginning of a nightmare. Stride is the one man who might find the twisted genius who holds the world hostage - if only his every move were not anticipated by the enemy....

Astronomer Megan O’Malley sees things on a cosmic scale - hidden planets, colliding galaxies, imploding stars deep in the universe. But this time, she’s sensing something much closer to home. And she can feel it underfoot, too: explosive seismic shifts along a geologic fault line that could unleash an apocalyptic disaster. O’Malley also discovers something even more terrifying: the cataclysm is intentional. Someone is determined to trigger a mega tsunami.

When Toby Haynes witnesses a double murder - and suspects his boss, Tanner Mason, as the perpetrator of the crime - he does the only thing he can think of: He calls in Nathan McBride. CIA special ops veteran McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, respond to their friend's plea. As they launch a covert investigation into Mason, the security chief for one of the nation's leading private military contractors, they discover that not everything is as it appears.

John Dempsey und sein Ember-Team müssen den islamischen Extremisten Al-Mahadscher aufspüren. Der Terrorist will dem Großen Satan (den Amerikanern) durch eine Serie von hinterhältigen Anschlägen zeigen, dass man in diesem Land nirgendwo mehr sicher ist. Von den Wüsten des Iraks über den Dschungel Guatemalas bis in die US-Vorstädte kämpft das Team gegen die Zeit. Doch für John geht es um mehr als die Rettung von Menschenleben: In einer der bedrohten Städte leben seine Frau und sein Sohn.

Attempting to infiltrate a shadowy private military company, an old foe of Dante Jacoby's dies spectacularly in Saint Petersburg. The CIA asset takes a whole cadre of mercenaries with him to the grave. At risk of humiliation, the Kremlin prefers to suppress what happened rather than admit a sole U.S. operative slaughtered nearly a dozen of their own. Dante himself is oblivious. That is until he gets in a war of his own in sun-soaked Santa Cruz, aligning two separate worlds through sheer bad luck.

Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns to the one person capable of helping her stop the threat of pandemic in time: the love of her life, back from the dead and mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. Recruiting Cole to save millions of lives may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes...even if it destroys her.