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Henry Bins is only awake one hour a day. Can you imagine only being awake for one hour each day? Can you imagine having to cram your entire existence into sixty measly minutes? Two minutes to shower. Three minutes to eat. Five minutes to watch TV. And in that 3600 seconds you have awake, imagine that you have to figure out...Who murdered the woman across the street?

Under en vinternatt dras den svårt nerkylde kommissarie Vincent Ruiz upp ur Themsen. Han är skjuten i benet och blöder ymnigt, men minns inte omständigheterna kring skottdramat. Under natten har han både förlorat sin tjänstepistol och sitt minne. I hans ficka ligger ett foto av Mickey Carlyle, en flicka som rövades bort för tre år sedan och som antas vara död. Den enda som tror att hon fortfarande lever är Ruiz. Men eftersom en pedofil redan är dömd för att ha mördat henne vill ingen att fallet ska öppnas igen.

In the last years of the Cold War, policy and trust for the Russians have led to disarmament treaties and hope for a new beginning. But peace is not yet within grasp. An entire American town has been wiped off the map: not by nuclear strike, but rather a space-borne particle cannon capable of reducing the entire nation to dust in hours. But who pulled the trigger? Was it the Russians, making a final bid for world domination? Or was it a third power - some aspiring conqueror hoping to pit the superpowers against each other? It’s up to Blaine McCracken to find out.

Jeffery Archer is a New York Times best-selling author, published in over 37 languages across 97 countries. Jeffrey Archer's debut novel Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less from 1976 is dramatised here in seven parts by Betty Davis; as well as his later work A Matter of Honour, which was recently rediscovered in the collection of an amateur archivist after the recording was lost on delivery to the BBC archives. The sound quality of A Matter of Honour may be affected as a result.

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But Jason Trapp is losing his taste for it. For six months, his personal crusade has taken him around the world, mopping up the last of the Bloody Monday conspirators. There's only one left, and after the crooked financier Emmanuel Alstyne meets his maker, Trapp's debt will be paid in full. He vows he's done with the business of death. Unfortunately, it isn't done with him.

After months on the run for an assassination they call justice, David Shaw and Natalie Hale have built a new life in the shadows. But when a hit squad tracks them down in the Caribbean, it's clear their enemies aren't done with them yet. Someone with deep connections wants them dead—someone with the power to erase them for good. That someone is Connor Roark. A dirty CIA officer with everything to lose, Roark has spent years operating in the darkest corners of international crime. Now, with his illicit enterprise crumbling, he's tying up loose ends.

A senior American security adviser is missing, presumed kidnapped for his top-level military intelligence. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein needs to track him down before classified information gets into the wrong hands. She needs Jon Reznick on board. The former black-ops assassin is supposed to be on vacation with his daughter, but when Meyerstein calls, it doesn't pay to keep her waiting.

Logan Ryles delivers Reed Montgomery—think Mack Bolan meets John Wick and Mitch Rapp—in a riveting series of electrifying action thrillers.

In Indianapolis, a candy store owner is forced out of business by online social justice warriors. They harass him mercilessly, shut down his store, and threaten his friends, until even his wife and child can't take it anymore… and leave. Jason Higby thinks his life is over, and the woke have won. But Jason isn't alone. When Braxton Knox hears of his plight, he and his team go to Indy. Their purpose: bring about the kind of justice that no one else can.

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But Jason Trapp is losing his taste for it. For six months, his personal crusade has taken him around the world, mopping up the last of the Bloody Monday conspirators. There's only one left, and after the crooked financier Emmanuel Alstyne meets his maker, Trapp's debt will be paid in full. He vows he's done with the business of death.

Brilliant young intelligence analyst Haley is convinced the USA is about to be bombed back to the Stone Age, resulting in chaos, death, and destruction.

Abel återvänder till Chicago, fortfarande ursinnig efter det ödesdigra mötet med Kane, bara för att mötas av ytterligare motgångar vid sin ankomst. Trots att han gjort sitt bästa för att förbereda sig för det oväntade är hans ansträngningar otillräckliga och han finner sig snart i en mycket prekär situation. Kane å sin sida kämpar på med sina egna problem. Företaget har gått med stora förluster och han överväger att säga upp sig. Han lär känna Kate och ber henne följa med honom till England, trots att de nyligen träffas.

In CapWar Experience, the explosive sequel to Brandt Legg's CapStone Conspiracy thriller series, Hudson Pound's journey takes a dramatic turn. Now in the Oval Office, he discovers the presidency is a gilded cage, and he's trapped inside with deadly predators.

“The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it.” But will it finally toll for Sean Dillon & company in the explosive new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash...

A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had in years—a mysterious migrant named Marlise, who bears a striking resemblance to a onetime classmate.

Venezuela, 1992. Unknown colonel Hugo Chávez stages an ill-fated coup against a corrupt government, igniting the passions of Venezuela’s poor and catapulting the oil-rich country to international attention. For two rival spies hurriedly dispatched to Caracas - one from Washington, DC, and the other from Fidel Castro’s Cuba - this is a career-defining mission.

London: Ein hochrangiger Politiker wird bei einem Attentat vor einer großen Menschenmenge erschossen. Der Attentäter kann festgenommen werden, nicht aber die Drahtzieher. Der Sicherheitsdienst ist hilflos, das politische Gefüge wankt und die britische Regierung scheint die Kontrolle zu verlieren. Die Journalistin Sarah, die das Attentat live verfolgt hat, und der idealistische Anwalt Daniel versuchen, die Wahrheit aufzudecken und die Strippenzieher hinter den Toren der Macht zu entlarven.

The Cold War is over, and chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian Mafia, the right-wing nationalists, and even revanchist Czarists. Op-Center...

After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience, and without the ability to function as a normal human being. Noah finds structure in the US Army and becomes an exemplary soldier, but when his self-imposed programming is put to the test by the murderous acts of his superior officer, Noah finds himself quickly made expendable. Now, an ultrasecret organization known as E & E wants Noah's talents, offering him a chance to survive - as the most deadly assassin the world has ever known.

Auf ihrer Flucht vor Michael Howard verschlägt es Samira Barzani bis nach New York, wo sie ihrer Kollegin Chloe hochsensible Daten über den Oligarchen übergeben will. Doch Lamar Johnson von der Weissen Lilie ist ihr dicht auf den Fersen... Miles kann mithilfe von Samiras Halbschwester Anne Riley endlich die Ereignisse um den Mord an Ajamu rekonstruieren. Doch um Michael Howard als Drahtzieher zu überführen fehlt den Ermittlern noch ein wichtiger Beweis. Währenddessen ereignet sich in München ein Terroranschlag - und Carol gerät als Rednerin auf der dortigen Sicherheitskonferenz mitten ins Auge des Sturms.