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The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both businessmen of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book. Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten. And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...and pathos...and blood...and rare moments of an almost exalted happiness.

I broke the code—touched my best friend's sister. Broke her heart—left her behind with my baby. Broke myself—became the monster I swore I'd never be. Six months in Russian hell turned me into Shakal. The Jackal. The one who laughs while bones snap. The one who kills for the Bratva crest on his chest. My dying best friend made me swear: Protect Vanya. Blood oath sealed in his last breath. Now she owns my nights. And I own the secret she's hiding.

Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this isn’t just another job. After a fall out between the CIA and the White House over the assassination of a prominent Colombian politician, his boss is now using the Russian Mafia to cover her tracks. Fitzgerald is not going to St Petersburg to kill, he’s going to die. A page-turning, political thriller about espionage and betrayal by the acclaimed British writer, Jeffrey Archer.

Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire's son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics as a Democrat.

It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

Harper Cloud used to love the gilded glamour of Las Vegas, but on the far side of prison, she sees the cracks in the veneer. These days, she keeps her head down and focuses on the elderly patients in her care. She tries to brush off the feeling that she's being watched, but when she's followed home one night and her pursuer gets within a hair's breadth of grabbing her, she knows it's time for a change. Her new wealthy boyfriend, Derrick, doesn't judge her for the secrets in her past. He offers her a job caring for his grandfather in Maryland, and she decides to trust him.

Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father's newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than a match for one another's brilliance and ambition.

Simon Sax si potrebbe considerare un ragazzo fortunato: programmatore informatico americano, genio della matematica, a soli trent'anni sta per diventare miliardario. È infatti a un passo dal concludere un affare che gli cambierà la vita: venderà la sua grande invenzione – un sofisticato software – a una multinazionale. Eppure non è felice. Si sente solo. Il suo successo fa a pugni con una totale assenza di abilità in ambito sociale: le ragazze, per lui, sono sempre state una meta irraggiungibile.

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

After decades of brutal conflict, Terran forces finally capture Commander Gordon Monihan—a feared Spacer officer believed to be part of an inhuman hive-mind. But when Lieutenant Lucian Aris breaks protocol and removes Monihan’s helmet, he finds not a monster, but a man. Imprisoned and cut off from the neural network that once filled his mind with constant presence and connection, Monihan is plunged into a deafening silence that begins to unravel his sanity. Worse still, the Terrans subject him to a tribunal designed to prove he is not human. Every emotion is reclassified as programming.

No memory, no resources, no secret lair, and no time to find her feet: this is the story of a self-made villain, and her fall into strife. Fleeing from unknown enemies and an early death, she emerges into a city gone dark in the aftermath of a complete systems failure. Hounded by heroes, menaced by gangs, and helped by the most unlikely of allies, she claws her way up from weakness to strength and works to build a better future for those who deserve it.

When investigative journalist Reagan McAdams discovers her new husband is part of an international crime family, she flees Paris with their newborn and returns to her childhood home in New Hampshire to gather enough money to disappear forever. She’ll do whatever it takes to protect her son from his criminal father.

Nikolaj Bjerregaard ist Erbe des dänischen Rosenborg-Hotelimperiums. Um aus dem Schatten seines Vaters herauszutreten, will er mit einer exklusiven Boutiquehotel-Kette expandieren. Als er die PR-Expertin Emma Jakobsen kennenlernt, die ihm bei der Expansion helfen soll, ist die Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen sofort spürbar. Doch Emma verfolgt einen geheimen Plan. Ihr Ziel: seinen Ruf ruinieren … Als Louise Bjerregaards Traum von der Gründung eines ökologischen Lifestyle-Magazins zu platzen droht, bietet ihr Ex-Verlobter und Windparkbesitzer Mads Vinther überraschend seine Hilfe an.

When Eric finds eight-year-old Daniel alone in the woods, he has no idea where the boy came from or how he's survived the wintery New Hampshire weather. He figures once he hands the boy off to child services, his part in Daniel's drama will be over. He couldn't be more wrong.

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

Step into the twisted universe of The King of the Peso, a pioneering Original series that blends intense storytelling with unparalleled immersion into a world of corruption on both sides of the border. Picho, voiced by the sagacious Harvey Guillén, serves as our guide through the intricate tapestry of frauds woven by his intimidating con man of a father, Pietro La Greca, played with captivating charm by the one and only Peter Stormare.

Misshandelt, ermordet, in eine Schlucht geworfen – warum musste eine erfahrene, wohltätige Ärztin so grausam sterben? Ein anonymer Anruf gibt der Stuttgarter Polizei Rätsel auf: Ein kleines Mädchen hat seltsame Hinweise zu einem seit Jahren ungelösten Mordfall gegeben. Verena Sander findet schnell heraus, dass das Opfer kurz zuvor suspendiert wurde, weil sie gegen die Anordnungen eines streng religiösen Vaters verstoßen hat, um dessen Tochter zu retten.

Un escritor manipula a una fan para que se suicide, desatando una pesadilla que lo perseguirá hasta el fin de sus días. Mientras, una familia busca un refugio rural, pero encuentra un infierno acechado por una presencia siniestra. Sus destinos se cruzarán en la casa de los cien escalones, un lugar maldito donde deberán enfrentarse a sus peores miedos para sobrevivir.

Sophia De Winter ist in ihrem Leben gefangen und sieht nur einen Ausweg: Sie muss an der magischen Elite-Akademie Killmarth aufgenommen werden. Dort warten nicht nur tödliche Gefahren auf sie, sondern auch Gefühle, die sie sich nie hätte träumen lassen. Sophia ist seit ihrer Kindheit an ihren grausamen Onkel, den Sammler, gebunden, nachdem er einen Blutsbund von ihr gefordert hat. Als sie von Killmarth erfährt, einer Elite-Akademie für Magiebegabte außerhalb der Kontrolle des Sammlers, sieht sie darin ihre Chance, sich von ihm zu befreien.

Kämpfe und Abenteuer, Machtspiele und Intrigen, Liebe und Rache: Die spannende Reihe um Tankred, der mit dem Schwert in der Hand gegen Wikinger, für Gerechtigkeit und für sein Erbe kämpft. Während die Plünderer die Kirche stürmen, rettet er den berühmten Bücherschatz, bevor er aus dem brennenden Gemäuer entkommt. Um Judith zu retten, muss er nun erneut zum Schwert greifen. Im Auftrag des Königs soll der gebildete Kämpfer in einen erbarmungslosen Krieg gegen die Normannen ziehen, die sich unweit seiner Heimatstadt Maastricht verschanzt haben.