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An espionage thriller that has been called the first great spy novel, it has sustained its popularity, being embraced by each new generation. The first in a series of five novels it features the spy Richard Hannay, an action hero with a stiff upper lip who gets caught up in a dangerous race against a plot by German spies to destroy the British war effort. When Richard Hannay offers sanctuary to an American agent seeking his help in stopping a political assassination, he takes the first step on a trail of peril and espionage.

Natalie King has been hired to do a psychiatric evaluation for the children’s court. A simple custody dispute. But nothing is ever simple. Malik claims his ex-wife, Jenna, is crazy and compulsive; Jenna claims Malik has been abusing their daughter, Chelsea. But what if all the claims are true? Or none? How can Natalie protect the child? And with both parents saying they’re desperate to keep their daughter safe - what if one of them is desperate enough to kill?

In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London's seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill - he ripped with a butcher's glee - and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.

Ein Anschlag auf das Kölner Polizeipräsidium versetzt das BKA in höchste Alarmbereitschaft. Während Ansgar David vom BKA versucht, die Hintermänner des Anschlages zu finden, überzeugt der amerikanische Geheimdienst den ehemaligen Topagenten Peter Walsh davon, einen letzten Auftrag anzunehmen, um einen gefährlichen Islamisten in Deutschland zu verhaften. Es scheint Berührungspunkte zwischen den beiden Fällen zu geben, doch zunächst ahnen Walsh und Ansgar nichts davon. Je enger sie jeder einzeln das Netz um die Verdächtigen ziehen, desto größer wird die Gefahr, in die sie sich begeben.

Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose 93 kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. But Nick is suspicious and asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data.

It has been 10 years since Juliette de Marny's father asked her to swear revenge upon Deroulede for the death of her brother in a duel. At last, she finds herself in Deroulede's house, with an easy opportunity to betray him to the citizens of France for conspiring against the people. But Juliette realizes, too late, that she is in love with Deroulede.

Neapolis, 22 a.C. Dalla vasca delle murene di una lussuosa villa situata nella meravigliosa località di Pausilypon affiora una carcassa umana. È del ricco e spregevole eques romano Lucio Popilio Lepido, ospite del proprietario della villa, il cavaliere Publio Vedio Pollione, più feroce del morto. Pollione e Lepido non sono gli unici equites di Pausilypon: altri cinque loro sodali, con cui hanno sancito un patto segreto, si sono dati appuntamento nella dimora per un simposio. A pochi giorni – non è un caso – dall'arrivo in città dell'imperatore Augusto. Accanto al corpo di Lepido, un messaggio oscuro.

Nic Morgan non aveva passato dei bei mesi, ultimamente. Anzi, poteva ritenerli un vero schifo. La moglie Lucy, l’amore della sua vita, era morta in un incidente d’auto a soli ventotto anni. E, quel che era peggio, non era sola; alla guida, infatti, c’era il suo amante. Per Nic, il modo più tragico di scoprire un tradimento. Oltre al danno, la beffa: i suoi problemi personali si ripercuotono sul lavoro e, di colpo, Nic viene allontanato da San Francisco, destinazione Corno d’Africa, dove la situazione che si trova a fronteggiare è a dir poco critica.

A sexy regency romance that's perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Elizabeth Boyle, and Tessa Dare. The earl doth protest ... For businessman Heath Hextall, inheriting an earldom has been a damnable nuisance. The answer: find a well-bred, biddable woman to keep his life in order and observe the...

Un caso di spionaggio industriale per Ralph Core. A Ralph Core, ora direttore del Worldwide Chronicle, la vita al quotidiano londinese comincia ad andare stretta. Ogni giorno che passa fa crescere in lui la voglia di tornare a viaggiare per il mondo a caccia di materiale per i suoi libri e i suoi reportage. Purtroppo l’occasione di partire gli si presenta quando una persona a lui vicina scompare nel nulla. Inizia così un’indagine in crescendo che lo porterà da Guadalupa a Panama, fino a Merida, in Messico.

1296 AD: the whole of Western Europe trembles on the brink of war. South of the Pyrenees, the Christian and Moorish kingdoms fight and scheme against each for control of Hispania. To the north, the rival kings of England and France feverishly enlist allies as they battle for supremacy on the Continent. Even as the armies clash, spies and double agents fight their own bloody war in the shadows. From the safety of old age, En Pascal of Valencia recalls his own exploits in this brutal and treacherous era.

En una casa de campo en la Patagonia, a quince kilómetros del vecino más próximo, un prestigioso político despierta en el suelo. No tiene un solo rasguño, pero su pecho está empapado en sangre y junto a él hay un cuchillo. Lo último que recuerda es que viajó hasta allí para pasar un fin de semana con Fabiana Orquera, su amante. No se imagina que ya nadie volverá a verla. Ni viva, ni muerta.

Richard Hannay, Buchan's hero in this 1915 thriller, stumbles across a dark plot to attack England by the German Reich (of World War I vintage) but has to flee when his discovery becomes known. He then engages in several hot pursuits and narrow, if theatrical, escapes, but all's well that ends well.

"Balandú es el último pueblo río arriba, no llega a las quinientas personas. Más allá no hay nada, sólo las montañas, altas, casi inexpugnables. Una inmensa cordillera que inunda un mundo desconocido, de cientos de kilómetros cuadrados que se extienden hasta el mar. A ese horizonte ignoto lo llaman Ninguna Parte, así que Balandú, Tierra de Paz, está al sur de Ninguna Parte. Ni siquiera la guerrilla, ni el narcotráfico se interesan por este lugar.

Estas dos últimas semanas han sido casi un sueño hecho realidad, piensa Sam Numit mientras observa a Eric Clapton y Bob Dylan hablar en el otro extremo de la plaza y a B.B. King dormir tendido en una hamaca al lado de la enorme roulotte central de producción. Sam Numit le dirige una mirada singular a su compañero, mitad ternura, mitad admiración: Sonny Boy Johnson, uno más de tantos negros olvidados en Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee...