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Henry Bins is only awake one hour a day. Can you imagine only being awake for one hour each day? Can you imagine having to cram your entire existence into sixty measly minutes? Two minutes to shower. Three minutes to eat. Five minutes to watch TV. And in that 3600 seconds you have awake, imagine that you have to figure out...Who murdered the woman across the street?

On a sullen, cloudy July day ten years since 7/7, the happy, confident and optimistic British Prime Minister is visiting a charity in East London. It's just two months after the general election which saw John Campbell's government returned to power with a clear majority, the economy is on the mend and the coalition is fast becoming a bad memory. Suddenly, a man appears out of the crowd and shoots him three times in the chest.

Schreie zerreißen die nächtliche Stille einer Parkanlage. In letzter Sekunde kann der mörderische Anschlag auf eine Frau vereitelt werden. Sie kommt mit dem Leben davon, doch durch das traumatische Ereignis verliert sie ihr Gedächtnis. Kriminalkommissarin Karin Wolf, die zum Schutz dieser Frau eingeteilt wurde, versucht Stück für Stück die Vergangenheit der Frau zu rekonstruieren, um den Täter aufzuspüren. Schon bald muss Karin feststellen, dass ihr Schützling immer noch in Lebensgefahr schwebt. Der Verfolger hat seine Jagd noch lange nicht beendet.

For David Rivers and his team, this mission was meant to be the final chapter—an audacious strike to eliminate the world’s most dangerous terrorist. But deep in the unpredictable terrain of Iran, they soon realize that the assignment is far more intricate than expected. As they close in on their target, the team uncovers a devastating secret: their mission is just one piece of a much larger plan, designed to ignite chaos and fracture the very foundations of America.

Elite CIA operative David Rivers leads his paramilitary team into rural Pakistan with a critical directive—neutralize Kamran Raza, a rogue general selling nuclear secrets to the highest bidder. But when their mission is blown apart, the unit uncovers a devised plot with stakes far beyond their wildest estimations: a conspiracy to ignite a nuclear crisis between Pakistan and India. Raza's intricate plan, a digital charade of doctored communications, could convince both nations they're on the brink of war.

President Jack Spiers and former Secret Service agent Ethan Reichenbach throw caution to the wind, committing themselves publicly as the first out male lovers and partners to occupy the White House. Jack moves Ethan into the Residence, but as Ethan settles into his new role as first gentleman of the United States, not everyone is thrilled with their choices. When it seems like the world turns against them, Jack and Ethan must turn to each other, finding the strength together to press on.

Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Siberia in April isn't in any tourist guidebook. But that is where Trapp finds himself. It's cold, dark, and the vodka tastes like gasoline. After brawling with half a dozen corrupt Russian cops, he's taken to the infamous penal colony marked on maps as IK-29, but known to inmates as the Black Eagle. The guards are brutes, their prisoners little better than animals. It's hell on earth.

David Rivers is used to his targets being chosen by the CIA. But this time, the target has chosen him. When a senator’s daughter is kidnapped in Benghazi, a Filipino terrorist named Khalil Noureddin claims responsibility and demands to negotiate with only one man: the leader of a CIA team that tried and failed to kill him over a year ago. David remembers the failure all too clearly. And while his team narrowly escaped a ruthless terrorist force, the attempt catapulted Khalil into international notoriety and caused him to vanish completely—until now.

A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had in years—a mysterious migrant named Marlise, who bears a striking resemblance to a onetime classmate.

International nuclear espionage turns allies into enemies in this electrifying thriller from the author of The Handler. Nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a crisis point. The new American administration is determined to move ahead, but there are several...

A disgraced former CIA operative must go back in the field with only his ex-wife as his handler in this electrifying thriller from a former intelligence officer. Meredith Morris-Dale is a CIA case officer and a damn good one...even if this last mission did go terribly wrong. Now she has been...

Crime world fixer Levi gets mixed up with a widow who believes her husband was murdered - and the police are covering it up. A riveting thriller about power, corruption, and deadly politics. Levi is a fixer for one of the New York Mafia families. However, things take an unexpected turn for this mafioso when Rivka Cohen walks into his life. The police are calling her husband's death a suicide even though she has evidence that he's been murdered.

In the intense and thrilling Opposite of Collision, Richard M. Timberlake delivers an unforgettable saga of espionage, resilience, and the unlikely bonds forged in the shadows of global conflict. Set in the volatile landscape of the early 1990s, a shadowy terrorist faction is poised to launch devastating attacks against the United States. This riveting narrative takes listeners from the enigmatic alleys of Eastern Europe to the perilous deserts of the Horn of Africa.

Anfangs wollte David Wagner lediglich den Freilandversuch eines russischen Großkonzerns in der Nähe seines Heimatorts sabotieren, bei dem gentechnisch veränderte Weizensaat zum Einsatz kommt - doch als ihm während Nachforschungen gestohlene Dokumente bezüglich weiterer Vorhaben des Konzerns zugespielt werden, befindet er sich bereits inmitten einer Verschwörung, die weit über den Einsatz von manipuliertem Saatgut hinausgeht.

World leaders are being assassinated by toxic gas. An obscure group of Chinese terrorists claims responsibility, but are the Ten Brothers - a secret circle of China's political, military and business elite - using terrorists as a cover to justify the assassination of China's President and the overthrow of Beijing? Once again, ex-CIA operative Tori Swyft finds herself embroiled in the middle of an explosive conspiracy. Can she survive long enough to thwart the Ten Brothers?

Tensions rise as an unparalleled new weapon in the world of military tech is about to be unleashed on American soil. Mossad operative Avner Ehrlich is enjoying a much-needed respite from operational activity as an attaché for the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. But wherever Ehrlich goes, trouble tends to follow… When a cargo of top-secret AI-driven drones disappears mid-flight, Erlich is called back into active duty. Codenamed "Wasps," just one drone's radioactive capabilities make them the ideal weapons of destruction against the global superpower. And twelve of them are now missing.

In top-secret talks in Barcelona, ex-spy Dr Tori Swyft seals a landmark Arctic deal with Beijing that sends Washington, DC, and Moscow reeling. The next morning, she wakes beside two dead bodies. A nameless voice phones her, taunting her and revealing a shocking video that shows Tori as the murderer. Yet she has no memory of what happened. With Spanish police converging at her door, Tori flees, in a race against time to find The Voice and prove her innocence - before it’s too late.

Special Agent Wesley Tucker ist erst seit ein paar Monaten beim US-Geheimdienst DSS, und schon hat er seinen ersten Auslandseinsatz - in Berlin. Seine deutschen Wurzeln helfen ihm bei seinen Aufgaben, die zunächst nur aus reiner Routine bestehen. Aber dann wird ihm eine Mordermittlung übertragen: Ein amerikanischer Staatsbürger wurde brutal abgeschlachtet.

Die Fortsetzung des Amazon Bestsellers "Die heilige Waffe". Lange verschollenes Wissen. Ein Relikt ungeahnter Macht. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Als Hinweise auf die lange verschollene Bibliothek von Alexandria auftauchen, sind Ex-Cobra Offizier Tom Wagner und Archäologin Hellen de Mey nicht die einzigen, die das verborgene Wissen wiederfinden wollen. Eine grausame Macht zieht im Hintergrund die Fäden und nichts ist, wie es scheint. Und das dunkle Geheimnis, das die Bibliothek in sich birgt, ist eine Gefahr für die gesamte Menschheit.

Gestohlene Heiligtümer, eine unbekannte Macht mit einem teuflischen Plan und Verbündete, von denen nicht klar ist, auf welcher Seite sie stehen. Die brennende Notre Dame, der Raub des Turiner Grabtuchs und Terroranschläge auf die legendären Meteoraklöster sind erst der Anfang. Europa hält in Angst den Atem an. Tom Wagner ist auf einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um eine Katastrophe zu verhindern, die Europa in ihren Grundfesten zerstören könnte. Und er kann niemandem trauen.