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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg “My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its...

Someone is murdering high-ranking Vietnamese government officials, so the head of Saigon's homicide division, Captain Chyang Fang, a troubled Chinese Vietnamese man, is given the task of finding the killer. Hated by almost everyone in Saigon and an outcast in both Chinese and Vietnamese circles, Fang has to rely on his wit, biting sarcasm, and not-so-capable assistant, Sergeant Phan - a man who would rather play on his smartphone than work - to find the killer who leaves toy cobras on the bodies of his victims.

Appalled at his family's extravagant lifestyle, Crown Prince Nasir vows to end their careless and destructive rule, and sets in motion a top-secret operation to destroy the Saudi oil industry and bankrupt the monarchy. Nasir turns to France with their Hunter Killer guided missile submarines...

Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the property of a rich citizen.

Their operations are deniable. Their skill is deadly. SAS hero Danny Black is recruited to an assassination squad directed to hunt down and kill terrorist cells in a gripping thriller from the man who knows what it's like at the front line. The suicide bomb strikes central London. The trail...

Pike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil in this blistering, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces Officer Brad Taylor. Pike Logan and the Taskforce were once the apex predators, an unrivaled hunting machine that decimated...

Die Zukunft von Kolt »Racer« Raynor, Kommandeur der Delta Force, liegt in den Händen von Männern, die ihre Gründe haben, ihn verschwinden zu lassen. Und so gerät Kolt in einen Kampf mit einigen der am besten ausgebildeten Killer, denen er jemals begegnet ist–den US Navy SEALs. Doch dann sendet ein Spion einen verzweifelten Hilferuf aus Nordkorea.

Commanding a combined US-South Korea force, the newly promoted US Navy hero Dan Lenson wonders if his embattled group can possibly keep sea lanes open in the Central Pacific as he tries to turn the tide and buy time for the Allies to regroup. But when his own flagship comes under ferocious attack, he must leave it to assume command elsewhere - without knowing when he'll be able to return. In the meantime, SEAL operator Teddy Oberg, escaping from a hellish POW camp, heads west through desolate mountains toward what he hopes will be freedom.

Kurt Reid may be innocent of the murder he's charged with (and of grand larceny, for that matter), but he's got no time to be thrown in jail and defend himself. Instead, Reid flees to pre-Communist China and Shanghai, the exotic city of mystery and death. Reid takes refuge in a tea house where he meets a Russian woman, Varinka Savischna, whom he manages to rescue from certain death. As beautiful as she is smart, she recruits him in her crusade against Chinese intelligence services.

The Japanese military has turned the once-thriving Chinese city of Nencheng into a reeking pile of blood and ash. And now the Japanese Rising Sun threatens to scorch the ancient - and oil-rich - Kingdom of the Silver Lake. Can the Chinese survive the onslaught? Do they have a prayer? The answer is about to fall out of the sky. He is The Falcon Killer.

Nach einem gemütlichen Abendessen mit ihrem Verlobten kommt Jolina Gereke mit dem Auto von der Straße ab. Überzeugt davon, dass ein psychopathischer Mörder versucht, mit ihr in Kontakt zu treten, wendet sie sich an das LKA. Als kurz darauf weitere Tote auftauchen, wird klar: Ein Serienmörder hinterlässt blutige Botschaften. Zusammen mit Bachmann und der Polizeipsychologin Juliane Klawitter lässt Jolina sich auf das mörderische Spiel des Psychopathen ein, das tief in ihre eigene Vergangenheit zu reichen scheint.