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A ringing phone awakes Dan Lennigin, college student, in the middle of the night, and the caller baffles him with a stream of panicked gibberish. It is a code, meant for someone else’s ears, and it draws Dan inexorably into a tangled international conspiracy. Minutes after the call, an operative for antiterrorist agency Lucifer is killed, and his superiors come for Dan. He is the only one who heard the warning, and now that he knows what is happening, he can’t say no. Ever since his vacationing father was murdered by hijackers, Dan has dreamed about taking revenge on the world’s terrorists. But this threat is no fantasy.

"The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far-reaching plot rooted in the highest corridors of power. Code name: Tantalus. Tantalus - all the more daring because it is so obvious - strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, horrible, and unknown even to the superpowers. Only one man, Christopher Locke, an unsuccessful college professor, can expose the trail that begins with the brutal execution of every person in an obscure South American town. But even as Locke navigates the labyrinth leading to The Committee and Tantalus, The Committee is hunting him down.

Four old women return from a Bahamas vacation with four more suitcases than they had when they left. They leave them behind at baggage claim, and a stranger picks them up - disappearing with the extra suitcases and the hundreds of pounds of cocaine they hold. The grandmothers are smugglers, supplementing their social security with criminal income, but one of them is tired of the deception. She goes to the DEA to inform on her employer, a vicious drug lord named Trelana, and when he learns she has snitched her age does not buy mercy.

Imprisoned in Nicaragua, an NFL star must escape to the United States to warn the government of an impending terrorist attack - before the sinister forces of the international intelligence community silence him forever.

February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January—a surgeon turned piano player, with a talent for attracting trouble—is playing at an opulent masked ball when, little to his surprise, a quarrel breaks out between two guests, and his services are requested at a duel. Young planter Bastien Damoreau has accused a recent arrival to town of passing himself off as white—an insult not to be borne.

"Wir leben in schwierigen Zeiten. Und es ist nicht immer einfach, gut zu sein." Dies muss Marshall McEwan feststellen, als er nach fast 30 Jahren wieder in seine Heimatstadt Bienville, Mississippi, zurückkehrt. Nach wie vor wird das Wohl und Wehe der Stadt durch den "Bienville Poker Club" gelenkt - ein zwielichtiger Zusammenschluss der Reichen und Mächtigen, der noch aus den Tagen des Bürgerkriegs stammt. Genau dort fängt Marshall mit seinen Nachforschungen an, als Buck Ferris, Archäologe und Ziehvater von Marshall, unter mysteriösen Umständen zu Tode kommt.

Krätze eiskalt - ein Krimi als Familiendrama. Zwischen Finnland und Deutschland Ein gewisser Felix, Spross aus reichem Fabrikantenhaus, zieht sich in ein einsames finnisches Blockhaus zurück, muss dort aber feststellen, dass er als Entführer seines Großonkels verdächtigt und via Interpol gesucht wird. Alles Unsinn, da ist er sich vollkommen sicher - bis plötzlich besagter Großonkel vor ihm auf der Schwelle der abgelegenen Hütte steht... Das Drama nimmt seinen Lauf.