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A Spanish woman trying to retire as an assassin, a French Foreign Legion deserter from Madagascar, a mysterious (perhaps CIA) woman from America, a billionaire military contractor, and a man wandering the seas alone on a sailing ship bump into each other in the Indian Ocean, and not all of them survive.

As the world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East and the West, Mary Ashley—a bright, young political science professor—is appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Iron Curtain country. Her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, and Mary becomes the target of a mysterious murder plot by unseen and powerful enemies. Thrust from her comforting life in Kansas, she finds herself lost amongst the political turmoil in a foreign country where she is seen as the enemy, and no one is to be trusted.

She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers. Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits. Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to. She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness. Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.

Adela regresa con un nuevo caso y un giro radical en su vida, cada vez se siente más sola, pero ahora ha vuelto a descubrir el amor. Su tío Cosme descubre que el ayuntamiento planea derribar la mayor parte de Pan Bendito para construir una zona de lujo y enviar a los vecinos a edificios prefabricados a treinta kilómetros de la ciudad. Mientras Adela y Cosme intentan parar el caso de corrupción urbanística, el comisario le encarga un nuevo caso. El asesinato de un asesor de la embajada de Israel en Madrid ha destapado un turbio asunto de venta de armas e intereses creados.

Li chiamano "i Brocchi". Sono gli uomini di Jackson Lamb, un branco di perdenti, di cavalli azzoppati. Sono gli agenti segreti di serie b, quelli di cui l'Intelligence si vergogna, masticati e rigettati dal sistema per via di qualche incancellabile colpa e ora parcheggiati lontano da Regent's Park in una specie di prigione per falliti, a svolgere compiti infami e a smistare scartoffie in attesa che si sfiniscano da soli e mollino il colpo. Quando un ragazzo musulmano viene rapito, con la minaccia di decapitarlo in diretta sul web, i Brocchi fiutano l'occasione per riscattarsi.

Nuria Badal ist als junge Polizistin in einem bedrückenden Barcelona tätig, in dem Terrorismus, Korruption und Extremismus freies Spiel haben und sich gegenseitig anfachen, während eine neue und schreckliche Bedrohung sich über der Stadt zusammenbraut. Durch einen entsetzlichen Unfall im Dienst, für den sie sich verantwortlich macht, gerät Nuria in eine ungeheuerliche politische Verschwörung. Mitgerissen von einer Spirale der Gewalt und des Verrats, setzt sie alles aufs Spiel, um die Zukunft des Landes zu retten.

Non esistono le coincidenze per una spia, Catherine Standish lo sa bene. Ha lavorato nell'intelligence abbastanza a lungo da aver visto tradimenti, doppi giochi e pugnalate alla schiena. Ma perché prendersela con lei, l'ultima ruota del carro, un'ex alcolista che non è neppure una vera spia? Smista carte alla Casa del pantano, il gradino più basso dei Servizi segreti, la discarica in cui vengono spediti gli agenti in disgrazia, che hanno commesso errori imperdonabili o ecceduto nei vizi. Perché è stata rapita? Chi è il vero bersaglio: lei o il Pantano?

Die Einwohner der idyllischen Hansestadt Stralsund ahnen nicht, dass der skrupellose russische Ex-General Kostrakowitsch ihre Stadt zum Schauplatz brutaler Kämpfe um eine der grausamsten Waffen aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges machen wird. Doch als ihm ungewollt die Krankenschwester Kathrin, der Gelegenheitsarbeiter Thomas und der Ozeanologe John in die Quere kommen, gerät die Situation außer Kontrolle. Am Ende steht der Waffe nur die Kriminalpolizistin Johanna im Weg.

David Hewson's The Killing 3 is the novelization of the third series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the...

Nicolae Polscaru, a three-and-a-half-foot-tall dwarf, is tossed into a Hollywood swimming pool by four drunken screenwriters, who take bets on how long he can tread water. Minor Jackson, his OSS training still fresh a year after World War II's end, beats the bullies senseless and pulls Nicolae from the water. A friendship is born. Jackson is broke, his spying days over, and Nicolae offers him a job.

David Hewson's The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body...

Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter, Janet, for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton follows the tracks of the bomber to a powerful senator's son.

Sarah Price wants a career in politics. But she has a secret past that won't stay past, threatening her job on a San Diego congressman's reelection campaign. Casey Cheng wants a story. An ambitious local television reporter, Casey needs to get her career back on track after being seriously injured in a mass shooting. When she investigates the man who nearly killed her, she finds a connection to a group of online harassers called #TrueMen - and realizes her shooter may not be the only killer they have inspired.

"A València apareixen els cadàvers de dos polítics que havien estat involucrats en trames corruptes amb un conseller d’alta volada de la Generalitat, que va fugir a l’altre punta del món abans de ser condemnat per aquests tractes il·legals. Ara totes les sospites recauen sobre l’exconseller que pot haver torn at a fer justícia, però ningú no sap on és. Ni tan sols la seva família. El fill és un aspirant a novel·lista que vol escriure la seva gran obra a partir de la història del pare. La muller és una dona de classe alta vinguda a menys que viu en la inòpia des de la fugida del marit."

What do you get when you combine the toughness of Jack Reacher, the spycraft of Jason Bourne, and the beauty of a Charlie's Angel? You get Jamie Austen, America's beloved heroine. In the first book of the international number-one best-selling spy series, Jamie goes to Belarus. A busload of 300 girls goes missing and she's the only one who can save them. A gripping pause resister that has everything Terry Toler is known for. Suspense. Mystery. Intrigue. A little romance. And an ending you won't see coming.

Cairo. December 1917. Following a tip-off from notorious spy Fredrick Fredricks, Fiona Figg and Kitty Lane of British Intelligence find themselves in the hustle and bustle of Egypt. But ancient mummies aren’t the only bodies buried in the tombs of Cairo. When a young French archeologist is found dead in a tomb in the desert with his head bashed in, and an undercover British agent goes missing, the threat moves closer to home. As they dig deeper, soon Fiona and Kitty uncover a treasure trove of suspects, including competing excavators, jealous husbands, secret lovers, and belligerent spies.

Ein Terror-Anschlag erschüttert San Sebastián. Das Ziel: die Sommerakademie von Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Ashrami Rafiki. Die Opfer: über 1.500 junge Frauen aus aller Welt. Mit dieser schrecklichen Vorahnung schreckt Terror-Profilerin Zara von Hardenberg aus einem Alptraum hoch. Die beste Profilerin von Europol kann sich jedes Detail merken, entdeckt jeden noch so kleinen Hinweis und ahnt die nächsten Schritte ihrer Gegner voraus - doch sie kann keine Regeln brechen. Und um einen solchen schrecklichen Anschlag zu verhindern, werden legale Mittel nicht ausreichen.

La extraña desaparición de un avión en la ruta Bogotá y Medellín desencadena una serie de inesperados acontecimientos en la primera novela del guionista y director Dago García. Victoria Albornoz es una reconocida reportera que decide investigar el caso cuando descubre que Roberto, su amante, era uno de los pasajeros; Lorenzo Pieschacón es un policía en decadencia que por azares del destino queda implicado en el caso, y el pastor Martín Quiñonez, pierde el avión e intenta capitalizar el hecho a su favor.

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.

Karina Cardinal's Saturday starts out with a bang, and it's not the home renovation marathon she's watching on HGTV. It's the FBI banging on her door, hunting for a fugitive. As if she could easily hide one in her modest condo. Especially one named Mike Finnegan.