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Following their terrifying ordeal as hostages of domestic terrorists, NYPD Detective Gemma Capello is back in the negotiator chair, while Detective Sean Logan, healed from injuries sustained saving Gemma’s life, has resumed leading an A-Team tactical unit—just in time for their next...

My dreams of going pro are at my fingertips. But in one moment, one hit, those dreams come crashing down around me. The money, the fame, the life I wanted to give my mother. All gone. Once I was Kingston "The King" Reyes. Women and men had chanted my name, worshiped me. Now, I work as a postal worker by day… and at night, I crawl into the dark, seedy underbelly of sin. An illegal underground fight club, where I still reign with my fists, but where every fight could be my last.

Twenty years ago, KGB and CIA agents worked together to bring down The Matarese, a dynasty of killers who threatened the world. But the terrifying group has regained its power. CIA officer Cameron Pryce is hot on the trail of the new Matarese alliance. His only chance to terminate its ruthless...

Cotton Reloaded - Folge 2: 00:04 Uhr, New York. Eine Maschine der American Airlines im Landeanflug. Der Sinkflug stoppt, und die Maschine beginnt wie von Geisterhand gesteuert über Manhattan zu kreisen. 01:00 Uhr, HQ des G-Teams. Jeremiah Cotton und Philippa Decker erfahren, dass Terroristen die Bordsysteme des Flugzeugs gehackt und die Kontrolle übernommen haben. Sie fordern die Freilassung von Seif al-Bakkay, einem Top-Terroristen.

Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own translation business. He's armed with curiosity and an appetite for local food and wine. Rick's maternal uncle is a Roman cop with one eye to his nephew's welfare and another to how Rick might be useful, perhaps widen his career choices. So Commissario Piero Fontana pulls Rick into an investigation: the murder of Count Umberto Zimbardi.

Januari 1958, een donkere periode in de Koude Oorlog. De ruimtevaart staat nog in de kinderschoenen, maar op Cape Canaveral is de countdown begonnen voor de Explorer-raket, waarmee de VS de slag om de heerschappij van de ruimte hoopt te kunnen winnen van de Sovjet-Unie, die al beschikt over de Spoetnik. Vier vrienden van Harvard bevinden zich in het centrum van deze machtsstrijd. Ze beseffen allen dat het falen van de lancering van de Explorer rampzalige gevolgen voor de VS zal hebben. Een man ontwaakt op de vloer in de toiletten van het station van Washington D.C.

War is brutal. Colonel Wes Stauer gets it. He ought to. He was once one of war's most brutal practitioners - not to mention one of its most effective and least bloody. Brutal yes; stupid no. Now, not only must Stauer command his crack outfit of former comrades and pull off yet another miracle mission, he must also harness and direct the brute within himself - a beast he will need in order to destroy an intelligent enemy who is as implacable as Stauer himself. Okay, almost as implacable.  

Silvesterabend. Während es im Hause van Dusen festlich wird und die ersten Dinnergäste eintreffen, fallen draußen vor dem Haus plötzlich Schüsse. Im nächsten Augenblick fällt der Strom aus, und die gesamte Appartementanlage versinkt im Dunkel. Ein polizeilich gesuchter Mörder ist in das Haus eingedrungen. Doch warum? Und zu wem wollte er? Van Dusen schaltet sich in die Ermittlungen ein. Doch selbst er kann einen Mord nicht verhindern. Ihm bleibt nicht viel Zeit, den Täter zu finden, denn er hat noch eine andere Aufgabe zu erledigen, von der kaum jemand im Haus etwas ahnt.

When a DVD is delivered in the dead of night, DCI Cara Elliott hits play on a horrifying showreel of violence… This is death, on demand. Avid viewers are paying for the killings, with twisted specifications. A request, an abduction, a murder. And always in a forty-eight-hour pattern. But when the killer finds out they’re being investigated, they reveal their next target. In forty-eight hours, a police officer will be the one in front of the camera. The hunters have become the hunted, and the clock is ticking…

12:04 AM, New York. An American Airlines flight making its approach to landing. The descent is stopped and the aircraft begins to circle over Manhattan as if it were guided by an invisible hand. - 1:00 AM, G-Team HQ. Agents Jeremiah Cotton and Philippa Decker learn that terrorists have hacked the onboard systems and taken control of the airplane. They are demanding the release of Seif al-Bakkay, a high-level terrorist.

Meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland task force … who’s about to get a serious promotion.

Nick Flynns neuer Auftrag wird beinahe zu seinem letzten. Während eines Treffens mit einem hochrangigen iranischen Dissidenten gerät Flynn in einen Hinterhalt und entkommt dem Tod nur knapp. Flynn ist entschlossen, die tödlichen Geheimnisse von MIDNIGHT aufzudecken. Aber es ist ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit, um zu verhindern, dass die zerstörerische Waffe gegen die Vereinigten Staaten eingesetzt wird und Millionen Menschen tötet.

The final countdown has begun for John Rourke, and the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. As the all the pieces for the endgame are put into place, Rourke and his hated enemy, Dietrich Zimmer, will do battle on an epic scale. But just as John Rourke finally manages to back his rival into a corner, an attack from an unforeseen enemy may cost him his very life.

All 8 parts of this explosive FBI serial available in this box set! FBI Special Agent Lara Grant thought that she’d put her past behind her—finally—with her last case. But now a serial bomber is targeting Manhattan’s elite power players, offering them a choice between saving hundreds of...

In this sequel to Dale Brown’s New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran—a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon. Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy...

There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband.

ANCOS ES WURDE ERSCHAFFEN UM UNS DAS LEBEN ZU ERLEICHTERN EINE FEHLENTSCHEIDUNG HAT ES VERLETZT JETZT IST ES BEREIT, ZURÜCK ZU SCHLAGEN. Das rasante Wachstum hat Stephanie und ihr Team bei Fastlane blind gemacht. Nach Jahren des Erfolgs hat eine einzige Fehlentscheidung ausgereicht, um alles zu zerstören. In den Tagen nach der Katastrophe in Berlin müssen die Gründer des Technologiekonzernes Fastlane sich der Wahrheit stellen. Tausende Menschen mussten ihr Leben lassen, weil sie der Meinung waren, alles unter Kontrolle zu haben.

The terrorist tactics of the Fuezas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional Puerto Riquena were being stepped up. The bombings would increase each day, culminating in the big blast, Operation Luz. Racing against the clock, Mark Hardin stalks the streets of Spanish Harlem - his quarry, El Chico, ruthless leader of the fanatic F.A.L.N. Each step brings him closer to the creations of this time table of death and destruction.

The so-called "crime of the century"—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—was almost preordained to happen. Like all presidents from decades before him, JFK played it loose with security—open cars, Secret Service agents at a distance, and a desire to be seen. Yet conspiracy buffs are certain the security setup on November 22, 1963 was unusual and suspicious. It wasn't.

Tick. Tock. BOOM. FBI Special Agent Lara Grant had thought that she’d put her past behind her—finally—with her last case. But now a serial bomber is targeting Manhattan’s elite power players, offering them a choice between saving hundreds of lives or seeing their darkest secrets exposed...