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An accidental collision on a Bangkok sidewalk goes very wrong when the man who ran into Rafferty dies in his arms, but not before saying three words: "Helen Eckersley. Cheyenne." Seconds later, the police arrive, denying that the man was shot. That night, Rafferty is interrogated by Thai secret agents who demand to know what the dead man said, but Rafferty can't remember. When he's finally released, Rafferty arrives home to find that his apartment has been ransacked. He realizes he's under surveillance.

The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty's life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the almost-boyfriend of Poke's teenage daughter, Miaow. The boy's father, Buddy, a late-middle-aged womanizer who has moved to Bangkok for happy hunting, has disappeared, and money is being siphoned out of his bank and credit card accounts. It soon becomes apparent that Buddy is in the hands of a pair of killers who prey on Bangkok's "sexpats"; when his accounts are empty, he'll be found floating facedown in a Bangkok canal.

Back when Poke Rafferty first arrived in Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city. Now these men - many of whom have been living in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War - have grown old and, in some cases, frail. When a talkative stranger named Arthur Varney turns up, they accept him without suspicion, failing to see that he's actually using them to get to Poke.

A tactical nuclear weapon is stolen from an Indian research facility, setting off a chain of events that spans the globe. Those behind the heist plan to use it to take out thousands of innocent people—all to assure death of a single man who they believe is too dangerous to be left alive. What are the lives of thousands compared to the safety of the world?

After decades as a commissario in his city on the River Po, Piero Trotti has retired. But his newfound peace is brief. An old friend calls him to Siena to give him urgent news: a known hit man has returned to Italy to kill Trotti. The former inspector must admit that he isn't entirely undeserving, as his mistaken accusations and failed gambles have cost innocent lives in the course of his investigations.

Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow. Now that family is in jeopardy: the birth of Poke and Rose’s newborn son has littered their small apartment with emotional land mines, forcing Poke to question his identity as a dad and Miaow to question her identity as a daughter. At the same time, the most cantankerous member of the small gang of Old Bangkok Hands who hang out at the Expat Bar suddenly goes missing.

Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well: In the criminal underworld, if you’re offered more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he’s bending his rule this one time because he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, are in desperate need of cash to hire a kidnapper to snatch Ronnie’s two-year-old son back from her ex. The whole thing is pretty complicated and has Junior on edge.

In Bangkok, Thailand, an American travel journalist and his Thai family find themselves inadvertently entangled in a web of dirty cops and far-reaching corruption when their daughter’s ill-gotten cell phone displays photographs of some very crooked cops, all of them thoroughly dead.

A late-night poker game in Bangkok nets American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty the "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a flamboyant, vulgar, self-made billionaire with a criminal past and far-reaching political ambitions. Within hours, Rafferty, his wife, Rose, their adopted daughter, Miaow, and Poke's best friend, honest Bangkok cop Arthit, have become disposable pawns in a brutal power struggle among some of Thailand's richest, most ruthless citizens.

Commissario Trotti of Italy's Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of a brutal murder. Despite the badly disfigured face on the corpse, Trotti recognizes it as schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, an old friend. His superiors warn him off the case, but Trotti is determined to hunt down the killer. First he must find Rosanna's missing sister, a known drug addict. But the deeper he digs, the more questions he is forced to ask himself. Is a recent, unexplained suicide in the River Po connected with the murder?

April 1990, Guadeloupe: The body white female French tourist has been discovered on a nudist beach. The victim's remains offer no clues about her final hours. What turned this woman's vacation in paradise into a final nightmare? French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveau is assigned the high-profile case as a top priority. As always, the story of a murdered white woman has attracted the attention of international media.

It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent to help with the investigation. When he learns that a Russian physicist who designed a portable atomic bomb has disappeared, the race is on to find him - and the bomb - before it ends up in the wrong hands.

Das G-Team droht zu zerbrechen: Mr. High wurde suspendiert, Philippa Decker sitzt in der Todeszelle, und im Verborgenen lauert ein mächtiger Feind. Um zu überleben und sein Team zu retten, muss Cotton jede Regel brechen. Aber welchen Preis wird er dafür zahlen? Cotton wird von seinem eigenen Team gejagt! Agent Dillagio muss sich dafür verantworten, dass seine Zielobjekte entwischen konnten. Cottons Ziehmutter Sarah Granger bietet den fliehenden Agents Unterschlupf.

Alles ist verloren. Philippa Decker wurde das tödliche Gift injiziert. Doch Cotton stiehlt ihren leblosen Körper und verhindert eine unehrenhafte Beerdigung. Oder hat er einen ganz anderen Plan? Was er auch tut: Ab jetzt ist Cotton ein gesuchter Verbrecher - und seine Jäger kennen ihn nur zu gut. Eine wilde Flucht quer durch New York ist erst der Anfang!

"COTTON RELOADED: NEMESIS" - Der Beginn einer neuen Ära! Das G-Team droht zu zerbrechen: Mr. High wurde suspendiert, Philippa Decker sitzt in der Todeszelle, und im Verborgenen lauert ein mächtiger Feind. Um zu überleben und sein Team zu retten, muss Cotton jede Regel brechen. Aber welchen Preis wird er dafür zahlen? Agent Dillagio macht sich auf den Weg nach Berlin. Dort will er Cotton und Decker endlich festnehmen. Kann er dem Auftragskiller zuvorkommen, der auf die ehemaligen Agenten vom G-Team angesetzt ist?

"COTTON RELOADED: NEMESIS" - Der Beginn einer neuen Ära! Das G-Team droht zu zerbrechen: Mr. High wurde suspendiert, Philippa Decker sitzt in der Todeszelle, und im Verborgenen lauert ein mächtiger Feind. Um zu überleben und sein Team zu retten, muss Cotton jede Regel brechen. Aber welchen Preis wird er dafür zahlen? Mit Sirenen und Blaulicht wird Agent Dillagio abtransportiert. Ein Kopfschuss - kann er das überleben? Oder wird er ein weiteres Opfer des Kriegs gegen die Hand Gottes und des Rachefeldzugs von Dale Bancroft?

Cotton läuft die Zeit davon. Philippa Decker wurde zum Tode verurteilt. Noch sieben Tage bis zur Giftspritze. Cotton ist der einzige, der noch versucht, die Unschuld seiner Ex-Partnerin zu beweisen. Das FBI hat Philippa längst fallen gelassen. Als alle Hoffnung umsonst scheint, stößt Cotton endlich auf eine Spur - die ihn bis nach Moskau führt. Wird er dort tatsächlich Beweise für Philippas Unschuld finden? Oder ist er in eine tödliche Falle getappt?

"COTTON RELOADED: NEMESIS" - Der Beginn einer neuen Ära! Das G-Team droht zu zerbrechen: Mr. High wurde suspendiert, Philippa Decker sitzt in der Todeszelle, und im Verborgenen lauert ein mächtiger Feind. Um zu überleben und sein Team zu retten, muss Cotton jede Regel brechen. Aber welchen Preis wird er dafür zahlen? Die Schlinge um Cottons Hals zieht sich immer weiter zu: Der letzte Zeuge, der Deckers Unschuld hätte beweisen können, ist tot.

When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock. It won’t be the last. He’s now arrived in Galicia. It’s where Álvaro died. It’s where the case has already been quickly closed as a tragic accident. It’s also where Álvaro hid his secrets. The man to whom Manuel was married for fifteen years was not the unassuming man he knew.

Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he's enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than surprised. Jaime brushes off the detectives' pleas to find a missing and reportedly cursed Medusa sculpture, until an attempt on his life pulls him into the investigation.