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What makes a devoted employee and mother of three risk everything in the pursuit of truth? Caroline Barber is a civil servant, doing her best to hang on to her job while keeping her demanding family happy. Her world is shattered when she discovers her boss—a senior politician—dead at his desk. Unable to accept the official suicide verdict, Caroline sets out to uncover the real reason the minister had to die and discovers a web of secrets and lies spun by some very powerful men.

Ina Farkas havde glædet sig til en velfortjent ferie, da Trickster-holdet pludselig får brug for hende igen. Hun skal til Dubai for at få fat i hemmelig information fra en grådig saudisk prins, og for at kunne gøre det må hun spille glædespige for den rige prins. Men hvorfor har Ina ikke mødt alle i den krypterede Trickster Chat endnu? Hvem er de mennesker, hun arbejder for, og har de altid gode hensigter?

When Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg discovers an undeveloped roll of film left behind by her predecessor in the FBI, she isn’t sure what to make of the strange photos he took. A map of Scotland, an out-of-print book, a rare bird, a cluster of Post-It notes, an office party … do these images have something to do with crimes he committed as a Russian double agent known as “Skylark”? Ingrid starts digging and becomes convinced that—far from being a traitor—her predecessor was just another victim of the mysterious Skylark who has killed many times to protect his identity.

Ten years ago, "Eva Maria Staal" kept a gun in her purse. It was a present from her boss, Jimmy Liu, the international arms dealer extraordinaire with a taste for high-class male escorts. Together, Jimmy and his devoted assistant traveled the world’s most dangerous hotspots, closing deals with ruthless warlords and corrupt generals, and trading Stinger missiles in Karachi, AK-47s in Chechnya, and hollow-point bullets in Islamabad. But burdened by her conscience, Eva Maria finally got out, married an optometrist, and had a baby. Now, assailed with memories of her secret life, she must reconcile her suburban present with a repressed but ineradicable past.

Hunter Harden, an LAPD investigator, refuses to be defeated by a severe injury and a career setback. His latest assignment appears insurmountable: a series of murders targeting charity CEOs, carried out with brutal precision and leaving no trace. The common thread? DonorScale, an innovative software employed by these philanthropic titans.

Peter Lime è un fotografo. Un paparazzo, per la precisione, appena arrivato in Costa Brava con l'obiettivo di scattare una foto che cambierà per sempre il corso della sua vita. Allo stesso tempo, un'altra immagine, questa volta di un'enigmatica donna, riemerge dal passato del fotografo danese. Apparentemente non vi è nessuna connessione tra le due foto, ma un efferato omicidio spinge Lime ad interrogarsi su un possibile collegamento, la cui ricerca lo porterà da Madrid alla Danimarca della sua infanzia e dall'ex Repubblica Democratica Tedesca fino ad una gelida Mosca.

Washington, D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland and her husband, U.S. Senator Nick Cappuano, have been looking forward to a quiet Thanksgiving with their son. But any thoughts of a restful holiday are dashed when Sam and Nick return home to a gruesome scene: her seventeen-year-old niece Brooke, barely conscious and covered in blood on their front stoop.

Minutes after Vice President Nick Cappuano and Lt. Sam Holland get the call that President Nelson has been found dead in the residence on Thanksgiving, they’re still processing that Nick has been asked to come to the White House to take the oath of office. As they go through the motions to ensure a peaceful transition of power, Sam has a million and one concerns about her husband, her family, the Nelson family, the country, and the enormity of what Nick is about to take on.

I'm Hailey Anne Monroe. I’m 28 years old. An artist, who found her muse on the canvas because I wasn’t allowed to have friends or even keep a journal. And yes, if you haven’t guessed by now, I’m that Hailey Anne Monroe, daughter to Thomas Frank Monroe, the man who was a half-percentage point from becoming president of the United States. If you were able to ask him, he’d probably tell you that I was the half point. But you can’t ask him, and he can’t tell you. He’s dead. They’re all dead, and now, I can speak.

Skrupellose Saboteure wollen den Mars-Flug der Androklus-Rakete verhindern. Der französische Geheimdienst hat einen Tipp bekommen, dass ein anonymer Auftraggeber eine Klimaanlage bauen ließ, die sich beim Abschuss der Mars-Rakete automatisch abschaltet. Das würde den sicheren Tod des Astronauten bedeuten. In letzter Sekunde greift Lennet ein - der fähige, junge Geheimagent des FND.

Die deutsche Journalistin Rosa-Li Sauer fährt nach Kolumbien, um vor Ort über illegale Adoptionen zu recherchieren und gleichzeitig gute Bekannte zu besuchen. Doch kaum ist sie bei Ralf eingetroffen, der als Büroleiter für eine deutsche Hilfsorganisation arbeitet, muss sie erfahren, dass Ottmar Schmidt, ein Mitarbeiter dieser Organisation, mitsamt seiner zweijährigen Tochter entführt worden ist. Rosa-Li begibt sich auf Spurensuche, recherchiert unter Kolumbiens Killern, Guerilleros und Paramilitärs und stößt auf eine grausame, deutsch-kolumbianische Intrige.