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Meet Tommy Martini, the monk with an anger management problem. His meditations are interrupted by a legacy from his uncle, a crooked priest. Arriving in a New Age Arizona town to claim his inheritance, Brother Tommy meets a charismatic, smoking-hot cult leader who claims that women are being impregnated by alien beings while they sleep. Tommy’s own sleep is disturbed - by cartel hitmen, Mafia bill collectors, and women intrigued by his vow of chastity.

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.

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.

The runaway international No.1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy’s spectacular career – became a blockbuster film – and introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON… Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia’s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The...

A classic Poirot mystery read by Hugh Fraser. An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of...

Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He's an assassin - a man with no past and no surname. But when a Paris job goes spectacularly wrong, Victor finds himself running for his life across four continents, accompanied by a woman too beautiful to trust, pursued by enemies too powerful to escape.

‘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...

Former FARC revolutionary Sofia Lozano has become the world’s most cunning assassin, and now she’s selling her services to the highest bidder. But when the CIA learns that Sofia’s newest client is an international terrorist syndicate with plans to kill countless civilians, her name is placed on David Rivers’ kill list. As David and his team track the elusive operative from Colombia’s triple canopy jungles to its Pacific mangrove swamps, his team stumbles onto a larger conspiracy: a narco-sub loaded with cocaine and evidence of a terrorist attack-in-progress.

One man's war against the cartel takes him to the border. Where justice has a price. Haunted ex-cop John Sole is still hunting the cartel that butchered his family. His search drags him into Creosote, a dusty Texas border town built on secrets. There he finds Isabella, a café owner fighting to...

Joe Pickett, having recently been fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law’s ranch when he receives a call. Governor Rulon - a devious but down-home politico - has a special request. Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in cold blood in a far-off corner of Yellowstone National Park, had immediately turned himself in at the nearest park ranger station - except that the crimes were committed in a thin sliver of land with zero residents and overlapping jurisdiction, the so-called free-fire zone.

Jede Menge Action und Spannung garantiert der Thriller "Der Tempel" des australischen Bestseller-Autors Matthew Reilly! Professor William Race wird darin unvermittelt zusammen mit Soldaten der US-Armee auf einen geheimen Einsatz nach Südamerika geschickt. Er soll ein altes Schriftstück entziffern, welches wahrscheinlich den Aufenthaltsort einer Inka-Statue verrät. Die Zeit drängt, denn mithilfe des alten Artefakts könnte der kürzlich gestohlene Prototyp einer gefährlichen Waffe funktionstüchtig gemacht werden.

Tortured, then murdered, a university student dressed up as Santa Claus is left hanging from a meat hook on Christmas Eve - a gift intended for one particular cop. Detective Emile Cinq-Mars, local hero and old-style cop, wants the truth - and his gripping search takes him through a bone-chilling Montreal winter and into the heart of the city's colourful criminal underworld, where rival biker gangs, the Russian Mafia, and meddlers from the CIA all vie for a piece of the frozen city.

Buckle up for Underdogs, an adrenaline-fueled action-thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series. Perfect for fans of Lee Child and James Patterson. ‘He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real’ – DAILY MAIL 'A writer at the top of...

Oskyldigt dömd kan Tracy Whitney se fram emot femton år i ett kvinnofängelse där våldet och förnedringen härskar. Men tanken på hämnd räddar henne från undergång, och den ger henne ett helt nytt lov. Snart sveper äventyrerskan Tracy fram genom världens mest fashionabla miljöer, med sin skarpa hjärna och sin skönhet som enda vapen. Hennes stöldkupper blir ständigt djärvare, hennes bedrägerier alltmer raffinerade. Interpol satsar alla resurser på att stoppa henne, en detektiv är henne ständigt hack i häl, besatt av sin strävan att krossa henne.

Los autores Fernando Ángel Moreno y Gabriel Díaz ponen patas arriba el género del thriller franquista con esta obra de apariencia sobrenatural en la que un agente del gobierno en el Madrid de los años sesenta intenta desentrañar el misterio de la inexplicable muerte de un niño. En su investigación se cruzarán desde conspiraciones a espías en una historia tan negra y ácida como la propia España que fue y sigue siendo.

All Bob Hoon ever wanted was a good whisky, and some peace and quiet. But, when Hoon hears that his friend and MI5 agent, Miles Crabtree, has gone missing in the United States, he is dragged back into action once more. The hunt leads him to the Florida Everglades, and into conflict with the violent locals, the terrifying wildlife, and a Sheriff with a sinister agenda of his own.

Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin.... Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. But the date of his death is surprising, and reveals that Captain John Hallows cannot possibly have been Leonora's real father.

Berlin. May 1945. A city without institutions in a continent that has become a wasteland. Thousands of former Nazis have been killed in Allied purges, and many more incarcerated in the very concentration camps they themselves established. But the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has a problem. One of those former Nazis is actually a British spy, Edward Kayne, who has intercepted a top-secret document that Churchill insists is vital to settling the peace.

El Oro de Moscú descansa en la bóveda acorazada mejor protegida de Madrid y del mundo entero. Solo una persona sería capaz de romper el sistema de seguridad que la custodia: La Gata, una ladrona profesional con un gran problema. Un miembro de su equipo ha caído. Ahora la Gata tendrá que confiar en un hombre que lleva más de setenta años tramando una venganza. Solo con su ayuda conseguirá acceder al oro.

هذا الجزء من رواية "روكامبول"، يظهر فيه الكثير من أنواع العذاب والشقاء البشري، الذي يتجسد خلف قضبان السجن، كما تتعدد فيه طرق التفريق بين الغني والفقير، حتى وراء...