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For years, ex–Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America’s enemies at every turn. And then...news of a potentially devastating coalition: What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance?

1900: Aufbruch, Fortschritt, Optimismus – die Heirat der englischen Industriellentochter Claire mit dem Berliner Unternehmersohn Friwi ist ein Sinnbild des modernen Europas. Doch während Friwi in China und Afrika für Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Weltmacht kämpft, streitet Claire für die Rechte der Frauen. Wird sie Kaspar je vergessen, der sich in Paris und St. Petersburg der Revolution verschrieben hat? Noch wetteifern bei Segelregatten nur die Jachten der Könige um den Sieg.

Henry Farber, a well-meaning psychiatrist, is forced into hiding when the nation’s chief executive—a narcissistic autocrat in his disastrous second term—is found dead on the consulting room couch. From an isolated bungalow, Farber sets out to clear his name while offering an intimate view of a flawed populist leader.

Set against industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970's, the normal healthy camaraderie of the City Hospital is lost as the dispute sets nurse against nurse and doctor against doctor. Operations are cancelled, waiting lists spiral out of control and patient's lives are put at risk. Kate and Paul are saddened that so many of their colleagues are prepared to become involved. Hadn't they agreed to abide by the Hippocratic Oath with its simple message 'First do no harm'?

Eine Geschichte von Liebe und Freundschaft über alle Grenzen hinweg. In einem Europa, wie es einst unsere Zukunft hätte sein können. Karlsbad, 1871. Die Zeit der Kriege scheint für immer vorbei, im böhmischen Kurort treffen sich Gäste aus ganz Europa. So auch Vicky, Tochter einer Londoner Industriellenfamilie, die den Ärmelkanal untertunneln will, um England mit dem Kontinent zu verbinden; Paul, ein Berliner Ingenieur, der hofft, am Bau einer Prachtstraße namens Kurfürstendamm mitzuwirken; und Auguste Escoffier, angehender Meisterkoch aus Paris, dessen Name zum Inbegriff der französischen Kochkunst werden soll.

Recruited by a foreign power in postwar Paris and sent to Washington, Winston Bates is without training or talent. He might be a walking definition of the anti-spy. Yet he makes his way onto the staff of the powerful Senator Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee. From that perch, Bates has extensive and revealing contacts with the Dulles brothers, Richard Bissell, Richard Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Joe Alsop, Walter Lippman, Roy Cohn, and even Ollie North - to name but a few of the historical players in the American experience Winston befriends - and haplessly betrays for a quarter century.

Has a young Australian woman declared cyber war on the United States? (The Justice Department thinks so.) Or was her Angel Worm intended only to open the prison doors of those unfortunates detained by Australia's harsh immigration policies? Did American suffer collateral damage? Can she be extradited to a country with the death penalty? Is she innocent? Can she be saved? Enter her mother, the actress Celine Baillieux.

Moving between Oxford, New York, Washington, Geneva and Burkina Faso, The Kennedy Moment is story of ordinary people from different countries drawn into a global conspiracy. Out of their forgotten ideals and midlife frustrations comes the audacious idea. Suggested in the first instance as a joke, it is a joke that none of them can forget. At a second get-together, this time in New York, they devise their plan.

Dritter Teil der Trilogie des gegenwärtigen Scheiterns. Familiäre Verwerfungen und politische Radikalisierung: mit bissigem Witz erzählt Christoph Peters von den tiefen Rissen, die unsere Gesellschaft durchziehen. Es ist der 9. November 2022. Der russische Angriff auf die Ukraine überschattet das private wie das öffentliche Leben. Am Abend wird die erste Einzelausstellung des aufstrebenden Künstlers Fabian Kolb in der berühmten Berliner Galerie Konrad Raspe eröffnet. Fabians Familie, Eigentümer der letzten Krefelder Krawattenmanufaktur, ist eigens für dieses Ereignis angereist.

"Krähen im Park" ist das große, messerscharfe, wimmelnde Porträt des Lebens in unserer Gegenwart – von einer verunsicherten Gesellschaft, die sich auf ihre alten Formen nicht mehr verlassen kann, die neuen aber noch nicht gefunden hat.

Christoph Peters hat einen Roman geschrieben, wie es ihn seit Wolfgang Koeppens "Das Treibhaus" nicht gegeben hat: eine schonungslose Bestandsaufnahme der politischen Kultur eines ganzen Landes. Siebenstädter hat schon alles gesehen. Als Moderator einer Politsendung im Radio kennt er sich aus mit den Spielregeln der Berliner Spitzenpolitik, dem Schattenreich der Hinterzimmer, mit der Gnadenlosigkeit eines Betriebs, dem es nur um Machterhalt geht. Siebenstädter ist so beliebt wie berüchtigt, einer, der an gar nichts glaubt und sich prädestiniert fühlt, die Lügen der Eliten aufzudecken.

This novel offers a unique point of view on the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2014, through four intertwining narratives: a guilt-ridden doctor trying to exorcise his demons by exposing himself to war; a young woman tending to her ailing father as the bombs fall around them in Russian-occupied Slovyansk; a mysterious sociopath playing a cat-and-mouse game; and a forensic expert solving a murder case while trying to save her marriage with a discharged soldier.

What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance? The Taliban is trying to exploit a Mexican drug cartel to which they supply opium as a means to bring the fire of jihad to the hearts of the infidels. It is up to Moore, and his team, to infiltrate and dismantle the drug cartel, even as they hunt for those who would bring the ultimate terror and destruction to the streets of America. In a story that races from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.–Mexico border, Tom Clancy once again delivers....

Former special-ops soldier and now an analyst for the think tank Vektor, Max Anger would kill to move on from the scars of his past - if only for the sake of Pashie, his girlfriend and fellow operative, who wants out of the battle zone. For them, a normal life is just one more dangerous uncertainty. Especially now that evil is hitting closer to home. Sofia Karlsson of the Swedish police wants Max’s help in a high-profile and high-stakes murder investigation: the hunt for a serial killer stalking the streets of Stockholm, who’s eliminating his victims in gruesome ways.

Deutschland, Herbst 1977: Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) entführt den Arbeitgeberpräsidenten Hanns-Martin Schleyer und tötet seine Begleiter. Man will die im Gefängnis einsitzende Terroristengruppe um Andreas Baader und Gudrun Ensslin freipressen. Nach über 40 Tagen endet die Entführung mit der Ermordung Hanns-Martin Schleyers. Peter-Jürgen Boock, eines der maßgeblich beteiligten RAF-Mitglieder, gehört in den ersten drei Wochen der Entführung zu den Bewachern Schleyers.

""Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family."" -- Washington Post From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett...

Zum 90. Geburtstag des großen Schriftstellers und Bestsellerautors John le Carré. Julian Lawndsley hat seinen Überflieger-Job in London drangegeben für ein einfacheres Leben als Buchhändler in einem kleinen englischen Küstenort. Kaum ist er ein paar Monate dort, stört ein abendlicher Besucher seine Ruhe. Edward, ein polnischer Emigrant, der auf Silverview lebt, dem großen Anwesen am Ortsrand, scheint viel über Julians Familie zu wissen und zeigt großes Interesse an den Details seines neuen kleinen Unternehmens.

Following his breakdown and indiscriminate sacking of staff at his company, Carlow Mason's preoccupation with power and money ends when his beautiful investment broker wife, Laura, leaves him, and Geoff Mason, his business associate of 20 years, coerces him into applying himself and millions to the task of changing the system by which Britain is governed.

Britannia, 45 AD: Vespasian's brother, Sabinus, is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods – not just one Roman Legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on midsummer's day. Vespasian must strive to save his brother whilst completing the conquest of the south-west of the haunted isle, before he is drawn inexorably back to Rome and the heart of Imperial politics.

By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.