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Wanneer het huis van zijn oudste vriendin, Ellie Cox, verandert in de ergste moordscène die Alex ooit heeft gezien, gelooft hij dat hij de gevaarlijkste moordenaar tot nu toe achtervolgt. Zijn onderzoek leidt Alex naar het Nigeriaanse criminele milieu van Washington D.C. Daar doet hij een verbluffende ontdekking: verantwoordelijk voor de moorden is een bende tieners, die wordt geleid door de machtige Afrikaanse maffiabaas Tijger. Net als Alex en zijn team denken dat ze de ongrijpbare moordenaar op het spoor zijn, verdwijnt Tijger in het niets.

Als Alex Cross krijgt te horen dat zijn nichtje op brute wijze is vermoord, begint hij aan een meedogenloze zoektocht naar de moordenaar. Hij zweert dat hij gerechtigheid voor haar zal vinden, ongeacht de gevolgen. Al gauw leidt zijn zoektocht hem naar een van de meest beruchte clubs van Washington. Als je geld hebt, is daar alles mogelijk... En zo komt hij oog in oog te staan met zeer machtige en gevaarlijke mensen, die lid zijn van de club en er alles aan zullen doen om hun geheimen te bewaren.

Get ready for hours of white-knuckle reading enjoyment with the next three installments of the David Wolf series all in one package!

Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska - and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses protection. Cutter and his deputy Lola Teariki have been assigned to shadow him on his trip to this icy outland to make sure that he's safe. But they quickly discover that no one is ever really safe in a place like this. And no one is above suspicion....

It is February 1813. With convoys from Canada and the Caribbean falling victim to American privateers, Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he knows will not be won, but which neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. England's youngest admiral desires only peace. But peace will not be found in the icy Canadian waters, where a young, angry nation asserts its identity and men who share a common heritage die in close and bloody action.

Shipwreck hunters Maggie Riley and Cole Thatcher are no strangers to the mysteries hidden beneath the seas. They've uncovered artifacts with secrets that powerful interests would do anything to control - and they're about to do it again. As the newly engaged couple prepares to set sail, Cole suspects they are being followed. While he tries to unravel a coded message that hints at a treasure jealously guarded by an ancient society, a bomb is discovered on the couple's yacht.

A fast-paced thriller from the author of the international bestselling "Shepherd series". The gruesome killing of more than 300 white squatters in a South African village is still unsolved when the alleged assassin enters a storage facility in the US and takes several hostages. No demands and an obvious play for time leave hostage negotiators on edge. When the FBI is called in, they bring Dr. August Burke, a young man with James Dean looks and a brilliant mind capable of seeing behavioral patterns where others can't.

Detective David Wolf’s slow winter in the Colorado Rockies is interrupted by two events: a mountain lion attack in a remote trailer park, and a wealthy man coming into headquarters to report the robbery of three valuable paintings. Leaving the big cat incident to animal control, Wolf follows his duty and pursues the two thieves, even if the victim is a cagey billionaire with his hands in the pockets of an equally shady newcomer in town running for sheriff.

When a drug runner on pre-trial release disappears before his court date, nobody in the Sluice-Byron County Sheriff's Department is surprised. What is shocking, though, is Detective David Wolf finding the mule’s foot, tracking ankle bracelet still attached. It looks like somebody has come to retrieve their man, and to make a statement in the process.