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Crispin the mosaicist wants to concentrate on his art. Rustem of Kerakek, a physician, is also on his own journey of self-discovery. But no man may withdraw from society that easily, and both men soon find themselves drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium. Lord of Emperors is the sequel to Sailing to Sarantium.

Une jeune fille écrasée, trois suspects, pas de scène de crime. Deux pêcheurs autour d'un cadavre, la forêt de Rambouillet pour seul témoin. La victime n'est pas une jeune femme ordinaire, mais la fille d'un politicien sulfureux. Son corps a été littéralement broyé.

Incandescent, comme l'incendie d'un entrepôt entre Argenteuil et Cergy. Incandescent, comme le cadavre d'un pendu que les flammes vont anéantir. Incandescent, comme la haine d'un chef envers son meilleur enquêteur. Incandescent, comme la jalousie, comme le désir, comme la brûlure d'un viol. Incandescent, comme la passion du policier poursuivant inlassablement la vérité. Le capitaine Alaric Autier, chef de groupe à la crim' de Versailles, tente de résoudre deux affaires, alors que sa vie s'embrase, et que son patron cherche à le réduire en cendres.

Ils n'auraient jamais dû mourir ainsi. Ils se croyaient à l'abri de la haine et de la violence qui régnaient dehors. À l'abri derrière leurs clôtures, sous la protection de la police, ils ne couraient aucun danger. Mais ils baignent à présent dans leur propre sang, elle éventrée comme un animal, lui, le député, abattu d'une balle. Leurs enfants ont disparu. Les gendarmes convoquent le capitaine Alaric Autier, de la crim' de Versailles. Ils veulent comprendre pourquoi le tueur a laissé dans la bouche de la femme une coupure de journal évoquant une affaire du policier.

Jonas is a British spy out in the cold. When his father is kidnapped by ISIS in Syria, he heads to Beirut and recruits a Swiss priest named Father Tobias. Tobias agrees to travel into the heart of the Islamic State and inform the kidnappers that Jonas is willing to negotiate for his father's life. British intelligence agents try everything in their power to stop Jonas, and he finds himself tested to the limit as he fights to keep the negotiations alive.

The Prime Minister’s pregnant superstar mistress is murdered by a criminal financier with an assassination plan that will bring down Government and Monarchy in one deadly, catastrophic afternoon. Beautiful camera girl Henri Fox has been kidnapped, taken bound and gagged down the river Thames. Guy Royce, the PM’s laconic personal security cop, must find her and the assassin quickly—and eliminate him. His kill chase will take him from 10 Downing Street, via Beverly Hills, Barcelona, and Jerusalem.

The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to rescue a friend who has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, ancient coins – remnants of a Chinese casino buried for six hundred years – are starting...

FOUR TALES OF INTRIGUE THAT PUSH 007 TO THE LIMIT. READ BY ACTOR BEN WILLBOND. In “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The Property of a Lady” Bond deciphers...

Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of unprecedented security breaches that saw him labelled a traitor...and now his neighbour on the flight to Istanbul won’t stop talking. The only thing keeping him sane is the hunch that there’s something not quite right about the nervous young man several rows ahead - a hunch that is confirmed when August watches him throw away directions to an old European cemetery seconds before being detained by Turkish police. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Dr Leo Black is one of Oxford University's rising stars. His lectures play to a packed audience of adoring students. He seems destined for tenure amongst the gleaming spires. But Worcester College has never employed a man like Leo Black before. For twenty years Leo...

British spy Leonard Flood is asked to investigate the poisoning in London of Willa Karlsson, a retired British secret service vetting officer suspected of being a Russian agent. British intelligence is terrified by the possibility that Moscow poisoned her upon her retirement since she was no longer useful to them. When Leonard discovers that he is also a suspect in the investigation and that Willa's story is less a story of betrayal than one of friendship, he must decide whether to hand her to her masters or to help her to escape.

MALLORY IS BACK You've heard his true story - now go deeper into Ant Middleton's world with his ultra-authentic thriller series. Hiding out in a small village in France, ex-Special Forces veteran turned vigilante Mallory is trying to keep out of trouble, aware that there is a darkness within him...

On the 30th April 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going? Berlin was in ruins as the Russians moved relentlessly towards the concrete bunker where the Nazi administration had been destroyed. But one man, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler’s secretary and eminence grise, had a daring plan to escape.