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When ex-army officer and UNESCO archaeologist Max Hunter is sent to Normandy on the trail of England's missing crown jewels, he thinks he's in for a few easy weeks. But when the ancient Mont Saint-Michel abbey is attacked by gunmen, Hunter and his research assistant Lauren Lane are forced to flee for their lives with a mysterious treasure chest hidden for centuries inside the abbey. After evading the assassins, Hunter and Lauren find something inside the chest with world-changing consequences.

Ruslan Akulov, the legendary Ukrainian assassin known as Wolf Six, wakes to find the plane he’s on plummeting, and with no real memory of how he got there. Surviving the crash, only to be detained by a small-town sheriff and accused of two murders, that for once he didn’t commit, Akulov must piece together the fragments of his concussed memory to understand how his last mission in Canada as a black asset for the CIA went so catastrophically wrong. Yet far darker forces are hunting him.

Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man's heart while he's eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister's best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of the range that everyone is expected to follow.

An old SAS comrade finds himself embroiled in a dangerous game. A shadowy group of cyber terrorists have developed a highly dangerous computer virus known as the Prometheus Code. A virus that has the power to completely destabilize European financial systems at the click of a button. Kane's friend Cameron Jordan comes into possession of the Prometheus Code and finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of secret agents, assassins, and government agencies in this edge-of-your-seat action thriller.

CIA-Agent Mitch Rapp hasst es, jemandem einen Gefallen zu schulden – erst recht, wenn dieser Jemand der mächtigste Verbrecherboss der Welt ist. Als Damian Losa ihn kontaktiert, hält er es jedoch für eine Frage der Ehre, ihm zu helfen. Ein hochgradig süchtig machendes Rauschgift, im Auftrag der syrischen Regierung entwickelt, verbreitet sich rasant in Europa und droht, Losa aus dem Geschäft zu drängen. Rapp soll im Nahen Osten für ihn das Übel mit der Wurzel ausrotten.

When Alexandra May, the secretary to the British ambassador, vanishes in Berlin, Sam Taylor is sent to find her. But this isn’t just a missing person case—Alexandra’s disappearance threatens a critical deal. Soon, Sam becomes a target of Russian agents and uncovers the embassy’s betrayal runs deeper than anyone imagined. Forced to team up with the mysterious Caretaker, a deadly operative from a covert unit, Sam must navigate corrupt diplomats and brutal assassins to expose the real traitors.

Former assassin David Slaton discovers a cryptic message: on a memory stick, a photograph of the man who will soon assume command of DGSI, France's elite counterterrorism force. With that country reeling under a wave of ISIS attacks, Zavier Baland will be trusted to make the Republic safe again. The problem - Slaton has seen Baland's face before. He is Ali Samir, a terrorist Slaton is certain he killed 15 years earlier. Unable to reconcile this frightening disconnect, he attempts to raise the alarm.

Ein moderner Indiana Jones auf den Spuren des Nibelungenschatzes. Frank Stebe wird von einem ehemaligen Forschungskollegen zu Hilfe geholt, dieser steht vor einem Rätsel: Schiffstyp und Fundstücke eines in der Ostsee aufgespürten Wracks ergeben keinen Sinn. Als Frank selbst dann ein antikes römisches Schwert samt Reitermaske aus der Tiefe holt, wird seine gewagte Theorie allmählich zur Gewissheit – und die uralte Sage vom Nibelungenschatz zu einer gefährlichen Realität. Denn nicht nur in Wissenschaftskreisen schlägt ihm Misstrauen entgegen; von anderer Seite droht eine viel größere Gefahr.

As a young man Monte Calhoun was as wild as they come, thinking the measure of a man was how hard he could drink and how straight he can shoot. But several years of schooling back East have changed him. Monte has become The No-Gun Man. The East Coast has civilized him, and he’s bringing some of that civilization home to Superstition, Arizona...even if it means refusing to avenge the murder of his own father.