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"What happens when you have to choose between faith and logic? Temples are places of worship, oceans of tranquillity, or so everyone thinks, till a series of murders threatens to destroy the carefully cultivated reputation of the royal family of Thiruvanathapuram. And when fingers point towards...

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.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Name Is Nobody by Matthew Richardson, read by Colin Mace. 'I know a secret. A secret that changes everything...' Solomon Vine was the best of his generation, a spy on a fast track to the top. But when a prisoner is shot in unexplained circumstances on...

Former CIA officer James ‘Wes’ Wesley paid the ultimate price for his patriotism when he was locked up in a French jail for an anti-terror operation gone wrong--abandoned by the Agency he served, shunned by his colleagues and friends, cut off from his family. Now he is shattered by the news that his ex-wife, Rachel, a State Department analyst, has been killed in a terrorist attack in Spain. He also discovers that his young son, Ethan, is missing. But Wes didn’t know he had a son--until now. Why was Rachel in Spain? And why did she keep his son secret from him?

The school year has begun at Euterpe Music School. Pregnancy, lesson plans, and a new album have Murder beyond busy. But that's not all...the Mayor and the FBI want her cooperation.

In Moscow a serial killer is on the loose - taking his victims' hair as a souvenir, carefully removing the buttons from their clothes. For Militia Colonel Dimitri Danilov, a good cop with a bad personal life, catching this madman is a matter of pride. But then the killer brings the U.S. government into the case. The latest victim is an American embassy economist, the beautiful niece of a powerful U.S. senator, and a woman with kinky secrets of her own. Now Danilov must team up with elite FBI agent Bill Cowley.

Was Lee Harvey Oswald a patsy, the fall guy in a sinister plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy? Was Oswald the lone nut assassin like the Warren Commission claimed him to be? Tom Regan didn't believe the Warren Commission report, but he couldn't dispute their findings without having any tangible proof, evidence that Oswald had a double and he was caught up in a vast conspiracy.

Der zweite Fall für Geheimagentin Emma Makepeace. In London wird ein MI6-Agent ermordet in seiner Wohnung aufgefunden: getötet mit Nervengift. Er hatte gegen zwei russische Oligarchen ermittelt, die verdächtigt werden, mit chemischen Waffen zu handeln. Emma Makepeace, Agentin der geheimen Regierungsorganisation »Agency«, erkennt sofort, dass der Mörder ein Profi war – und dass es einen Maulwurf in der britischen Regierung geben muss. Um die Wahrheit herauszufinden, wird Emma undercover auf die Superjacht eines der Oligarchen eingeschleust und gerät in tödliche Gefahr.

Der zweite Fall für Geheimagentin Emma Makepeace. In London wird ein MI6-Agent ermordet in seiner Wohnung aufgefunden: getötet mit Nervengift. Er hatte gegen zwei russische Oligarchen ermittelt, die verdächtigt werden, mit chemischen Waffen zu handeln. Emma Makepeace, Agentin der geheimen Regierungsorganisation »Agency«, erkennt sofort, dass der Mörder ein Profi war – und dass es einen Maulwurf in der britischen Regierung geben muss. Um die Wahrheit herauszufinden, wird Emma undercover auf die Superjacht eines der Oligarchen eingeschleust und gerät in tödliche Gefahr.

Sie ist Agentin, ihr Deckname lautet Emma Makepeace, und sie arbeitet für die Regierungsorganisation »Agency« in London. Gleich bei ihrem ersten großen Einsatz geht es um Leben und Tod: Sie soll Michael Primalov, einen jungen Arzt und Sohn russischer Überläufer, in Sicherheit bringen, bevor ein Attentäterteam ihn zu fassen bekommt. Aber die Russen haben das Überwachungssystem der Stadt gehackt. Emma und Michael können weder Bus, U-Bahn oder Auto fahren noch Handys oder EC-Karten nutzen – das könnte ihren Aufenthaltsort verraten.

Start einer neuen, actiongeladenen Thriller-Reihe. Sie ist Agentin, ihr Deckname lautet Emma Makepeace, und sie arbeitet für die Regierungsorganisation "Agency" in London. Gleich bei ihrem ersten großen Einsatz geht es um Leben und Tod: Sie soll Michael Primalov, einen jungen Arzt und Sohn russischer Überläufer, in Sicherheit bringen, bevor ein Attentäterteam ihn zu fassen bekommt. Aber die Russen haben das Überwachungssystem der Stadt gehackt. Emma und Michael können weder Bus, U-Bahn oder Auto fahren noch Handys oder EC-Karten nutzen – das könnte ihren Aufenthaltsort verraten.

C'è chi dice che il destino disegni le nostre vite e noi non possiamo far altro che subire. Io ho sempre creduto, invece, che ognuno di noi è il "carnefice" di sé stesso. Siamo noi, con le scelte che compiamo, a pilotare la nostra vita... Infatti spesso mi sono chiesto: "Avrò fatto la scelta giusta?" Mario ci racconta una parte dolorosa della sua vita. Anni che lo hanno forgiato e segnato in positivo, ma soprattutto con avvenimenti negativi.

She's an elite spy, working for an agency so secret only three people know it exists. Trained by the best of the best, she has honed her body, her instincts, and her intellect to become the perfect weapon. Before special operative Chandler was forced to FLEE, she executed the most difficult missions - and most dangerous people - for the government. So when she’s tasked with saving a VIP’s daughter from human traffickers, Chandler expects the operation to be by the numbers…until she uncovers a secret that will endanger the entire population of New York City, and possibly the world.

In a remand centre in the Ural Mountains, Oxana Vorontsova awaits trial for triple murder. Not what you’d expect from a star linguistics student. Half a world away, her potential has been noted. Sprung from prison and trained in the dark arts of assassination, she’s reborn as the beautiful, lethal Villanelle. The price of her luxurious new life: to eliminate targets assigned to her by a shadowy group of all-powerful businessmen.

Chi è Mario M? Scopri le sue origini, la sua storia, le sue avventure, il suo vissuto, com'è diventato l'uomo che è oggi! Cinque volumi per emozionarti, diversi stili narrativi, un susseguirsi di emozioni senza sosta.