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Accompanied by his trusty sidekicks, Pete Pienaar, John S. Blenkiron and Sandy Arbuthnot, Richard travels across war-torn Europe searching for a man with a secret. A prophet by reputation, the man possesses key information that could guarantee British victory, and he goes by the name of Greenmantle.

Ein BND-Agent bricht während eines Restaurantbesuchs in Manila plötzlich zusammen - ohne erkennbare Ursache. Der Vorfall sorgt in Berlin für Alarmstimmung, denn in Kürze soll in Manila eine deutsche Regierungsdelegation eintreffen. Anna und ihr Team müssen deshalb herausfinden, was passiert ist. Der Verdacht fällt auf Mikrowellenwaffen, eine Technologie, die weltweit für Angriffe auf CIA-Agenten verantwortlich gemacht wird. Die Spur führt zu einem nordkoreanischen Geheimdienstoffizier - und zu einer mysteriösen Frau.

Eighteen years ago, Ken Allen played the famous fictional superspy in Near Death, a movie so bad it was never meant to be seen. Since then, Ken has faded into cult obscurity, but when his celebrated successor is killed in the same ghastly fashion as the villain in Near Death, Ken is cast as the prime suspect.

Tensions are at a breaking point. The Western markets that once relied on Russian gas have turned to Israel for their energy needs. Furious at this interference in its control over the West, Russia demands that Israel stop its defensive military strikes against Iranian weapons transported into Syria. Weapons Israel knows are meant for the annihilation of their country.

""A unique, delightful, hilarious, unputdownable romance… I’m wonderstruck by The Blonde Identity!"" — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis The New York Times bestselling YA author of the beloved Gallagher Girls series bursts onto the adult scene with a...

When federal agent Alexandra LaDuca travels to Egypt to investigate the possible sighting of a former mentor, she is thrown into the deadliest game of double cross in her career. An American woman working alone, she must rely on her wits, her training, and her skill with lethal weapons not just...

Alex LaDuca travels to Miami to continue her investigations into the murder-and-money laundering activities of the Dosi cartel, an intrigue set in motion in Hostage in Havana. Sent there by the U.S. Treasury Department to speak with a recent Cuban defector, she soon realizes this key player may...

September 12, 2001. Four members of the Klasser family are found dead outside Dallas, Texas. In the wake of 9/11, the Klassers’ neighbor, Omar Jones—an American citizen of Arab descent—is convicted of their murder.Could a sleepy hillside in Arkansas be the axis of international terror?With...

Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most.JAG Officer Zack Brewer’s prosecution of three terrorists posing as Navy chaplains was called the “court martial of the century” by the press. Now, with the limelight behind...

Da en fremtrædende dansk diplomat bliver fundet skuddræbt i Los Angeles, sender rigspolitidirektøren politikommisær Jens Møller til Californien for at tage del i efterforskningen. Sagen lukkes hurtigt som selvmord, men Jens Møllers egne undersøgelser fører ham på sporet af flere fremmede magter med relationer til den døde diplomat.

This is the story of G-Girls caught up in the danger and romance in Washington D.C. during World War II. It tells the adventures of several young women doing their part for the war effort. Most worked in relatively safe office jobs, but a select few go undercover in the glamorous but deadly game of counter-espionage.

Die Zukunft des Landes entscheidet sich auf einer kleinen Insel im Wattenmeer. Sommerpause. Der Bundespräsident macht Urlaub auf Juist. Doch es gibt ernst zu nehmende Hinweise, dass ein Mörder auf ihn angesetzt wurde. Kriminalhauptkommissar Tinus Velten wird von Berlin auf die ostfriesische Insel entsandt, um das Sicherheitsteam vor Ort zu unterstützen. Und er hat noch einen zweiten, geheimen Auftrag: Offenbar gibt es einen Spitzel in den eigenen Reihen. Velten muss ihn so schnell wie möglich überführen - sonst wird sein erster Einsatz an der Nordsee tödlich enden.

Al Isra heißt das Codewort für einen Terrorplan der Al Quaida von unvorstellbarem Ausmaß. Wann, wo und wie das Attentat erfolgen soll, stellt die Geheimdienste CIA und SIS vor ein großes Rätsel. Es gelingt Mike Martin, einem englischen Geheimagenten, sich in die Organisation einzuschleusen, aber kann er den tödlichen Plan stoppen? Ein atemberaubender Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt...

Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky’s secretary. Executed in 1929 on Stalin’s orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today.

John Cross is a small-town pastor, bent on leading his flock to follow God's calling. He's not the sort of man one would expect to have a checkered past. But the truth is that the man behind the pulpit preaching to his sheep was once a wolf - an assassin for the CIA. When John decided to follow Christ, he put that work behind him, determined to do penance for all the lives he took. He vowed never to kill again. Now someone wants the peaceful pastor to pay for his sins with his own life. And when a terrorist out for revenge walks into the church, John's secrets are laid bare.

Talia Inger is a rookie CIA case officer assigned not to the Moscow desk as she had hoped but to the forgotten backwaters of Eastern Europe - a department only known as "Other". When she is tasked with helping a young, charming Moldovan executive secure his designs for a revolutionary defense technology, she figures she'll be back in DC within a few days. But that's before she knows where the designs are stored - and who's after them.

When Kilkenny is invited to Rome to consult on the functioning of the Vatican Library, he is still grieving the death of his wife and son and welcomes the distraction of the assignment. But Pope Leo XIV has a startlingly different task in mind for him. In a private audience, Kilkenny learns of an unreported atrocity committed against the underground Church in China and its link to Yin Daoming, the long-imprisoned Bishop of Shanghai who has served thirty years of a life sentence in a Chinese laogai for refusing to renounce the Church of Rome.

Described by Len Deighton as ‘a classic writer of espionage fiction’, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He began writing in his fifties, and went on to pen over 40 bestselling books, five of which are dramatised here alongside three plays specially written for BBC Radio and two bonus documentaries.

Sheriff Lucian Wing sieht sich einer Fülle von Herausforderungen gegenüber: seiner Ehe, seinem Job und seinem geruhsamen Leben im ländlichen Vermont. Der Sheriff ist ein erfahrener Mann, der dem Gesetz mit fester Hand und erstaunlicher Toleranz Geltung verschafft. Trotzdem bleiben die Dinge nicht wie sie sein sollten, und ringsum wird es turbulent. Die Außenwelt drängt ins Städtchen, und die Bedrohungen wachsen.

Der Preis für den Sieg über Stephen Thaus war hoch und Anna Gudwin braucht eine Auszeit, um den Scherbenhaufen ihres Lebens zu sortieren. Dafür hat sie sich in die flirrenden Hitze von Texas zurückgezogen, wo sie eine Pilotenausbildung beginnt. Zwischen den Landungen bieten die Lagerfeuergespräche mit Vermieterin Dusty eine willkommene Gelegenheit, die dramatischen Ereignisse seit Annas Rekrutierung Revue passieren zu lassen.