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The prime minister is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest. Against this inflammable backdrop, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey, recently returned from an assignment in the Balkans, takes command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. His fears that things might be dull are quickly dispelled by the business of vexatious officers and difficult choices over which NCOs to promote, not to mention the incendiarists on the doorstep of the king himself.

She not only guards her clients’ confidences but also expertly hides her own pain after being disinherited by her dying mother. As fresh personal challenges begin heaping on top of professional ones, Natalie’s best friend, Camille, confides that she thinks someone is stalking her. Natalie suspects that stress, not a stalker, is shadowing Camille - but Camille’s fear only continues to grow when the widow of a local businessman starts whispering that her husband was murdered and a new client of Natalie’s seems to be concealing something.

En un derrumbe parcial en la nueva carretera que comunicará Tungus con Skardu (Pakistán) se descubre una caverna centenaria. En su interior encuentran vestigios del pasado: utensilios de labranza, distintas alforjas repletas de semillas y un decrépito arcón de madera que contiene varios códices en perfecto estado, sorprendentemente, escritos por una mujer.

Bob Dillon is a down-on-his-luck exterminator from Queens who just wants to make a killing with his radical new environmentally-friendly pest elimination technique, involving his hybrid assassin bugs (a very real group of insects). But when Bob decides to advertise, his flyer falls into the hands of a European murder-for-hire broker who mistakes Bob for a professional assassin.

Sheltered by the Catholic church for over 40 years, Pierre Brossard suddenly finds himself on the run when a new police investigation is opened. But someone else is after him too, and Brossard finds himself out-witting his many persuers while figuring out who they are - and whether they want him dead or alive.

The Three Musketeers is a swashbuckling adventure in which the king of France's guards swear by the motto "All for one and one for all" and follow it with the utmost commitment. The Musketeers find themselves having a whole host of adventures, which serve as a training period for the young D'Argtagnan, who has always dreamed of a life with the Musketeers after hearing of them as a little boy. Fun and excitement for all the family, brilliantly read by Jonathan Hyde.

Intensiivinen trilleri lento-onnettomuuksista, menetyksestä ja viimeisen yhteyden etsimisestä. Niklasin elämä romahtaa, kun hän menettää vaimonsa Evan kauheassa lento-onnettomuudessa. Kun Niklas saa tietää, että onnettomuuspaikoilta löytyy toisinaan uhrien jäähyväiskirjeitä, häntä alkaa vaivata pakkomielle siitä, että Eva olisi kirjoittanut hänelle sekunteja ennen kuolemaansa.

Siempre ha interpretado por dinero. Ahora lo hará para sobrevivir. Javier Conde despierta en el interior de un bodegón subterráneo empapelado con periódicos que llevan su imagen en primera plana. Está encadenado al suelo y tiene varios huesos rotos. Al escarbar entre sus recuerdos, Conde, popular actor de teatro, descubre que el motivo de su secuestro está relacionado con la obra en la que estaba trabajando: una adaptación de El fantasma de la ópera. Si quiere salir con vida, Conde tendrá que enfrentarse a sus peores demonios.

Argentina, en el periodo inmediatamente anterior a la sangrienta dictadura de Videla, un grupo parapolicial, bajo el nombre de la Triple A (Alianza Anticomunista Argentina), se está encarnizando con todo aquel que osa oponerse a los designios del hombre fuerte del país: José López Rega, apodado el Brujo por su afición a la magia negra.

British Museum har förvärvat en unik figurin föreställande Tin Hinan, tuaregernas femton hundra år gamla drottning. Den frilansande kustjägaren och operatören Gustav Sterner får i uppdrag att i hemlighet hämta artefakten i en medeltida stad, långt ute i Sahara. Kan han ta sig genom öknen utan att bli upptäckt och undvika den mauretanska säkerhetstjänsten? "Artefakten" är den sjätte novellen om kustjägaren och SSG-operatören Gustav Sterner, som också är huvudkaraktären i en serie spänningsromaner av Kaj Karlsson.