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A hiker finds a journal deep inside a glacier that was lost during World War II. On its frozen pages are etched the secret locations of treasures lost since the 1940s. But something more ominous is scribed in the journal, something that threatens the Presidency of the United States.

On a critical mission to Afghanistan to investigate the opium trade, Rex Dalton stumbles across spine-chilling deceit and corruption that snakes through the highest echelons of power in Afghanistan, America, and Europe. When urgent requests to his superiors to eradicate the drug empire fall on deaf ears, Dalton, with his military dog, Digger, at his side, takes matters into his own hands, stirring up a hornet's nest so deadly that even he, one of the world’s most lethal assassins, might not survive.

Harrison Sinclair, director of the CIA, has been killed in a car accident. His son-in-law, Ben Ellison - an attorney and ex-agent - instantly hears rumors of sinister forces within the Agency. The hunt for the truth will rush Ben headlong into a web of conspiracy beyond his control, where he is compelled by an artful, inescapable maneuver back into the employ of the CIA, and lured into a top-secret espionage project in telepathy that will endow him with "extraordinary powers"....

In this rousing novel, the action sweeps from the Oval Office to a Navy SEAL assault on a remote Indonesian Island, from the court-martial of an admiral to the impeachment hearings of a peacenik President.

Sometimes an operator has to make his own moves. No matter how deadly they may be. Alexander King has moved his team out on its own, and the first order of business will be to deal with a secret from one of its member's past. A past that Sam Harrison thought had long been buried.

Der Irak lässt mit Hilfe von Nordkorea nukleare Sprengköpfe in einem unterirdischen Bunker produzieren. Zumindest laut den Informationen, die Israel den Vereinigten Staaten zuspielt. Mitch Rapp taucht in die Straßen von Bagdad ab, um den drohenden Atomkrieg abzuwenden. Ärger droht auch vor der eigenen Haustür: Politiker boykottieren mit allen Mitteln die Ernennung von Irene Kennedy zur neuen CIA-Chefin. Sie wollen den Geheimdienst entmachten und ihre Interessen vorantreiben. Privat steht Mitch nach einer Begegnung mit der Vergangenheit ebenfalls vor einem Scherbenhaufen.

In today's high-octane business world, you need all the advantages you can get. Success isn't just about making the right decisions or adopting smart strategies. Success also depends on knowing what's going on around you. As a business leader, imagine if you could almost always tell when people were lying to you, or if you could successfully persuade colleagues, workers, or bosses to always go along with your ideas. The truth is, you can.

Antiterror-Spezialist Mitch Rapp zieht einen Techniker des IS aus dem Verkehr, der mit Hilfe eines Experten das komplette Stromnetz der Vereinigten Staaten lahmlegen will. Doch Rapps Einsatz erfolgt zu spät: Amerika versinkt in völliger Dunkelheit. Landesweit bricht Chaos aus. Wasserversorgung und Lieferketten brechen zusammen, die Bevölkerung droht zu verhungern, es kommt zu Plünderungen und Revolten.

The Op-Center team heads for Spain, where ethnic conflicts threaten to break out into a conflagration. As the novel's intelligence chief Bob Herbert puts it, this clash "will make the Spanish Civil War look like a brawl." The intelligence team's efforts to defuse the crisis are foiled when an...