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America is under attack. Thousands lie dead after simultaneous strikes across the country. The day will come to be known as Bloody Monday. Jason Trapp, codename ‘Hangman’, was a covert operative whose feats became the stuff of legend. He was the tip of the spear—the man his country unleashed when all hope was lost. Six months ago, someone sold him out. The Agency listed him as killed in action. He lost everything—and everyone—he held dear. But Trapp’s not that easy to kill.

As the edge of winter slices through Washington, DC, Josie Bates testifies before Congress about the Albanian blood feud that sent Hannah Sheraton and Billy Zuni fleeing for their lives while Archer reluctantly abandons a trail that has gone cold in his search for the teenagers. Determined to stay one step ahead of the authorities who want Billy back and a blood feud that will only be satisfied when he is dead, Hannah and Billy head north. There they will hunker down in the darkest corner of earth they can find and wait for the danger to pass.

America is under attack. Thousands lie dead after simultaneous strikes across the country. The day will come to be known as Bloody Monday. Jason Trapp, codename ‘Hangman’, was a covert operative whose feats became the stuff of legend. He was the tip of the spear—the man his country unleashed when all hope was lost. Six months ago, someone sold him out. The Agency listed him as killed in action. He lost everything—and everyone—he held dear. But Trapp’s not that easy to kill.

"What happens when you have to choose between faith and logic? Temples are places of worship, oceans of tranquillity, or so everyone thinks, till a series of murders threatens to destroy the carefully cultivated reputation of the royal family of Thiruvanathapuram. And when fingers point towards...

A fabulous all-new contemporary thriller from the master of the genre – the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure When the president's...

Die Suchmaschine. Mit Holos hat Europa endlich sein eigenes Google. Was niemand weiß: Die Datenkrake, die von Politikern, Promis und Presse bejubelt wird, verfügt über gefährlich viel Geld und hochsensible Daten - und ihre Ursprünge liegen in einem geheimen Forschungskomplex. Oliver Winter. Als dem Daytrader wegen mies laufender Börsengeschäfte das Wasser bis zum Hals steht, stürzt er sich ins Dark Web. Hier dealt er mit illegalen Waren.

Colonel Matt Pontowski, grandson of a former US president, attempts to boost the morale of his pilots who know their killer A-10 Warthog aircraft are due to be phased out. When trouble erupts in Hong Kong and southern China, his wing volunteers for a dangerous undercover mission against the world's most feared and volatile superpower. A massacre is looming and millions of innocent people are at risk. Pontowski and his volunteers are now reluctant to withdraw, despite orders, as they initiate their own plans to overthrow the brutal regime that has been gaining power.

James Shelley has left his lover, Delphi, and his companion-in-arms, Jayne Vasquez, with a fortune acquired from a fallen oligarch. They believe him to be dead, and he doesn't try to set the record straight. His long-running question has been answered: There are other soldiers like him who have served the purposes of the Red - and he has accepted his place among them.

Innerhalb weniger Wochen kommt es in ganz Europa zu Extremwetterereignissen - Starkregen, Erdrutsche und Sturmfluten bedrohen das Land. Wasser quillt aus den Abflüssen, Strommasten stürzen um, Kohle- und Atomkraftwerke werden überflutet. Die enormen Regenmassen reißen immer mehr Menschen in den Tod und zerstören die Infrastruktur des Landes, während die Politik nur tatenlos zusieht.

In 1972, Apollo 17 returned to Earth with 200 pounds of rock - as well as something far more dangerous than they could have imagined. For decades, the military concealed the crew’s mysterious discovery. But now a NASA contractor has leaked the intel to conspiring foreign powers, putting in their hands the most powerful weapon of mass destruction yet created.

It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand. The assassination doesn’t go according to plan, but this is only the...

Deep in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, a remote NASA research lab rests atop a two-mile thick glacier, covering a vast underground water reservoir. But the true discovery isn't the lake buried in ice - it's what has been found within its boundaries. Something amazing. Something alive. And it may hold the answers to existence itself. When the lab is attacked and its scientists murdered, ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny realizes that there's more than science at stake - there's power, money, and what may be another step in evolution.

Innerhalb weniger Wochen kommt es in ganz Europa zu Extremwetterereignissen - Starkregen, Erdrutsche und Sturmfluten bedrohen das Land. Wasser quillt aus den Abflüssen, Strommasten stürzen um, Kohle- und Atomkraftwerke werden überflutet. Die enormen Regenmassen reißen immer mehr Menschen in den Tod und zerstören die Infrastruktur des Landes, während die Politik nur tatenlos zusieht.

A masterful political thriller thrusts veteran Washington fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks into a dark world of cyberattacks, a new era of foreign espionage, and a risky, classified plan to save the world from environmental disaster. Billionaire entrepreneur David Traynor has big dreams for...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since...

Kurz vor seiner Pensionierung erhält Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson einen verzweifelten Anruf. Die Tochter seines Freundes David wurde gekidnappt. Außer der Leiche eines Priesters, die am Tatort zurückgelassen wurde, gibt es keine Spuren. Natürlich will Jed helfen. Doch schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft wird ein Mordanschlag auf ihn verübt. Und dann erwachen sie wieder: die Stimmen in seinem Kopf, die seltsamen Visionen, die Albträume. Er hatte geglaubt, all das hinter sich gelassen zu haben, als er mit 18 Jahren in die Navy floh.

Ein Erdbeben erschüttert die Strukturen der organisierten Kriminalität in Amsterdam. Erbarmungslos kämpfen Sizilianer und Navarros Spanier um die Vorherrschaft im Drogen- und Menschenhandel, während der "Heartman" weiterhin auf freiem Fuß ist, um sich neue Opfer zu suchen... Doch Kommissar Liewens ist fest dazu entschlossen, dem blutigen Treiben Einhalt zu gebieten und die Morde an Corrado Donatis und der afrikanischen Hure Dayo Mwanajuma aufzuklären.

Wochenlang hält der "Heartman" Amsterdam in Atem. Seine Opfer: afrikanische Albinokinder. Nachdem auch eine schwarzafrikanische Prostituierte von der Bildfläche verschwindet, führt die Blutspur zum mächtigsten Mann der niederländischen Unterwelt - Gijsbert Marquering. Und es gibt nur einen, der sich freiwillig auf das Himmelfahrtskommando einlässt, Marquering zu stellen: Kriminalhauptkommissar Cornelius Liewens. Doch bald geraten die Ereignisse völlig außer Kontrolle, als auf offener Straße ein Mitglied der sizilianischen Cosa Nostra ermordet wird.

The best-selling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital - and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.