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Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Sweden. Wealthy, respectable George Ashton flees for his life after an acid attack on his daughter. Who is his enemy? Only Malcolm Jaggard, his future son-in-law, can guess, after seeing Ashton’s top secret government file. In a desperate...

Everyone has a breaking point. Carl Logan might have just found his. The JIA sends intelligence agent Carl Logan on a routine mission to Russia. It should have been simple. But when Logan's cover is blown, he's transported into a world of hell he thought he would never see again. Something is different this time, though, and before long doubts begin to surface in Logan's mind as to why the assignment went so wrong. Logan has never been short of enemies.

Carl Logan was the perfect agent. A loner with no real friends or family, he was trained to deal with any situation with cold efficiency, devoid of emotion. But Logan isn't the man he used to be or the asset he once was. Five months ago his life changed forever when he was captured, tortured and left for dead by Youssef Selim, one of the world's most violent terrorists. When Selim mysteriously reappears in Paris, linked to the kidnapping of America's attorney general, Logan smells his chance for revenge.

It's kill or be killed in America. A young man beats his mother half to death. A girl burns her teacher alive and films it. America is imploding under the influence of 'X', a conspiracy theorist radicalizing innocents on the Internet. And number 1 on X's kill list? Christopher Wren. As civilians on the street open fire, Wren's only hope is to hunt down and kill X before the country rips itself apart.
But X could be anyone, even someone Wren already knows...

John Eakins returns to Greece, seemingly to pursue Byron scholarship. But his deeper concern is to find out the truth about the murder of an American newspaperman named Alexander Webb, killed during the Greek Communist rebellion seventeen years before. Eakins had been implicated in that murder. Now, his search takes him from Athens to the primitive village of Kala, where he finds Paul Stephanou, a blind man also implicated in the Webb murder.

Brought to you by Penguin. A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves...

The world believed Daniel Burke was dead. At least, the few people in the government who knew he existed did. Once part of an elite black op team, Burke faked his death so he could avenge his brother. Now that those responsible have been brought to justice, he plans to leave the country and start a new life.

Pietro Esposito, herdeiro do trono da máfia italiana, sempre teve muita admiração e respeito pelo seu pai, Matheo Esposito — Don da Cosa Nostra —, por quem foi treinado. Ele cresceu tendo-o como seu maior exemplo. Pietro nunca se importou em saber que seu pai era o chefe da maior organização criminosa do mundo, mas sabia que, como filho mais velho, seria seu sucessor.

Lorenzo é o filho caçula de Enzo Esposito. Ele se tornou um homem adulto e assumiu o seu lugar na máfia, tornando-se um perigoso e delicioso malvadão, assim como o pai. Camila Falcone — filha do renomado juiz Frederico Falcone — cai de paraquedas na vida do bon vivant mafioso, prometendo não facilitar em nada o seu estilo descontraído e cafajeste. Ela é proibida para ele, em muitos sentidos, mas nunca ligou para proibições. Ele sempre gostou do perigo. Juntos, eles são fogo e pólvora, então esse encontro inesperado promete causar uma explosão incontrolável em toda a Itália.

Addison Stern is unparalleled when it comes to spinning a story. A ruthless PR executive, Addison is the star employee of the infamous Ovid Blackwell Group where the rich and famous go to hide all their secrets. Connor Windell, on the other hand, is in the business of finding out information others would rather keep hidden. He used to be LA's top private investigator until a betrayal from his ex-girlfriend ruined his reputation and sent him into early retirement. That ex? None other than Addison Stern. Connor has one chance to redeem himself and salvage his career, but he needs Addison’s help.

Trapped together on an uninhabited Caribbean island and hunted by a killer, can Haylee and Jax survive long enough to find their happily ever after?