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1941. Quincy Kane, former star of the Boston Police Department and scourge of organised crime, finds himself guarding the most important man in the country: President Roosevelt. Kane's trusted position reflects his meteoric rise in the Secret Service. Then Imperial Japan attacks the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Two years ago, cyber security specialist Clayton Hummel unknowingly betrayed his country for love, and today, billionaire Franklin Temple pays the price. Blinded by grief and rage, and dissatisfied with his government's response, Temple uses his considerable wealth to take matters into his own hands, and bring justice to those responsible for the greatest cyberattack in history.

New Orleans has been quarantined, an unknown virus sweeping the city, killing 100 percent of those infected. The Center for Disease Control, desperate to find a cure, is approached by BioDyne Pharma who reveal a former employee has turned a cutting-edge medical treatment capable of targeting specific genetic sequences into a weapon, and released it.

Nacidos el mismo día del siglo en partes opuestas del mundo, el destino y la búsqueda de un sueño acaba por hacer que estos dos hombres se crucen. Ambiciosos, poderosos, implacables, ambos se enzarzan en una incansable lucha por construir un imperio, azuzados por el incombustible odio que sienten el uno hacia el otro. Durante más de sesenta años y tres generaciones, entre guerras, matrimonios, golpes de suerte y desastres, Kane y Aben batallan para conseguir un éxito y un triunfo que solo uno de los dos podrá alcanzar.

Mancano solo 6 giorni, 13 ore e 37 minuti... Florentyna Kane è riuscita in un’impresa che sembrava impossibile, è diventata la prima presidente donna degli Stati Uniti. Ma il giorno stesso in cui deve prestare giuramento a Capitol Hill, forze imperscrutabili sono già al lavoro per ucciderla. L’FBI viene a conoscenza della congiura, ma solo cinque persone ne conoscono i dettagli. Un’ora dopo quattro di loro sono morte. L’unico superstite è l’agente Mark Andrews. Solo lui conosce la verità e solo lui può salvare Florentyna da quello che sembra un destino segnato.

Jack Sigler, call sign King, and the elite Chess Team operatives have been relentlessly hunting for their abducted former leader, Tom Duncan. An urgent call from George Pierce's shadowy Cerberus Group catapults them to the treacherous Southern Ocean, where they clash with ferocious prehistoric nightmares in a fight for survival.

In Kris Calvin’s debut mystery, One Murder More, a beautiful legislative aide is found stabbed to death in California’s Capitol building. Maren Kane, a lobbyist for a fledgling Sacramento-based toy company, is in the midst of a legislative fight that could make or break her career. She doesn’t have time for a coffee break let alone involvement in a murder investigation.