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When information vital to Britain's national security is stolen, both M and Bond suspect that the Union is behind it. The trail leads Bond from one of England's most exclusive golf clubs to the cosmopolitan city of Brussels and finally to an expedition up the icy heights of the legendary mountain Kangchenjunga, the third tallest peak in the world.

In the Australian desert, a nuclear bomb explodes. There are no survivors and no clues about who has made it or detonated it. In England, two police officers are shot dead when they apprehend a cargo vessel in Portsmouth dock. Vast quantities of heroin are later found on board.

It begins at a movie studio in Nice where a police raid goes horribly wrong, killing innocent men, women, and even children. It continues in an English prison, where a dead man discloses an intriguing secret about the brutal criminal organization called the Union. The trail leads James Bond to Paris, where he meets the tantalizing movie star Tylyn Mignonne and embarks on a voyage of sensual discovery.

When a British businessman and his family are killed in Japan by a virulent form of West Nile disease, James Bond suspects a mass assassination. Investigating with the help of beautiful Japanese agent Reiko Tamura and his old friend, Tiger Tanaka, Bond searches for the killers and the one surviving daughter, Mayumi.

The intricately organized criminal conspiracy called the Union has vowed its revenge on the man who thwarted its last coup. Now, the Union's mysterious leader sets out to destroy James Bond's reputation and sanity by luring the agent into a dangerous alliance of deceit and treason with a Spanish militant intent on reclaiming Gibraltar.

Elliot Carver - the ultra-rich media mogul - has found a way to "create" news and broadcast it all over the world as it happens. Now he has devised the ultimate plan: to start a war between Great Britain and China. The conflict will reach every television in the world and garner the highest ratings in history. A man who can start a war anytime and anywhere he pleases - and then profit from it - will be the most powerful man in the world. But Carver didn't count on James Bond.

From North Korea to Iceland, Bond circles the world in his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic proportions. Crossing paths with beautiful allies and deadly assassins in a high-octane, action adventure of intrigue, revenge and betrayal. Never has Bond been so vulnerable, nor so dangerous....

Chicago Special Agent Annie Marino examines the case of a dead young woman who possesses a tattoo Annie has come across before—that of bloody bear claws. Several deceased women with the tattoo have turned up over the past few years, all suspected of being involved in a vast human trafficking operation. Annie’s neighborhood friend, Jason Ward, is a young writer engaged to be married into an upper-class family from a posh Chicago suburb. Jason believes his future brother-in-law, a war veteran, is definitely a bully—but does he also have ties to the Russian mob?

Someone is poisoning British soldiers in Cyprus; the same killer has murdered a British intelligence agent in Athens. James Bond himself barely escapes with his life.... But the secrets behind these and other deaths first start to come to light in Texas, where Bond goes in search of the assassin of M's friend and lover. Fearful of an international scandal that could engulf both his service and his country, he learns instead of the existence of the Decada.

Greed, revenge and world domination are just some of the ingredients in this James Bond adventure. After oil tycoon Sir Robert King is killed in a bombing at MI6 headquarters, his daughter, Elektra, inherits his fortune and the attentions of her father's killer. His name is Renard. A bullet lodged in his brain has rendered him unable to feel physical pain, and he has but one reason left to live - revenge.

Nach seiner Niederlage an der Berliner Mauer hat George Smiley den britischen Geheimdienst verlassen. Das westliche Agentennetz liegt am Boden, als ein russischer Spion unter ungewöhnlichen Umständen zu den Briten überläuft. Und der Mann, den er in London töten sollte, ist verschwunden. Smiley übernimmt die Befragung einer Kollegin des Vermissten. Doch Moskaus Schatten sind lang, und Smiley verfolgt wider besseres Wissen den Doppelspion, der für seine Niederlage verantwortlich war. Doch der ist ihm wie es scheint immer einen Schritt voraus.

Miles ergibt sich nach Sams Verhaftung wieder einmal dem Alkohol. In seiner dunkelsten Stunde erkennt er jedoch, auf welcher Seite sein junger Partner wirklich steht und dass er ihn nicht im Stich lassen darf. Nach einer erneuten Flucht finden Carol und Samira Zuflucht bei Samiras Bruder Eraydin. Schnell schließt der Journalist sich den beiden an, nur um sogleich selbst zu spüren, wie eng die Schlinge um den Hals der beiden Frauen ist.

"Cohé nennen wir den Vogel auf Martinique. Seine Federn sind schwarz und blutgefleckt. Er bevölkert unser Leben wie ein Phantom, denn man kann ihm nicht auflauern, weil er sich kein Nest baut, sondern seine Eier in den Schoß der Erde legt. Deshalb nennen ihn unsere Zauberer auch Vogel der Finsternis, der im Flug die Seelen der Sterbenden auffängt, um sich daran zu laben. Wenn ein Kämpfer auf dem Schlachtfeld stirbt, kann der Cohé seinen letzten Atem erhaschen und ihn seinem Meister wiederbringen."

Auf seiner Jagd nach Emmanuel Besongua bemerkt Daniel zu spät, dass der Rebellenführer den Spieß längst umgedreht hat. Als Gefangener des Tyrannen blickt er schließlich dem Tod ins Auge - bis eine unbekannte Macht die Geschehnisse im Kongo komplett auf den Kopf stellt... In Boston erschüttert ein weiterer Mord die Stadt. Auf der Suche nach den Drahtziehern setzt sich für Miles und Sam allmählich ein Bild zusammen, dessen Tragweite bis in den Kongo aber auch in Miles Vergangenheit zurückreicht.