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Film producer Pero Baltazar thought he was taking a Berlin filming assignment. He needed the work, needed to get back in the saddle after fighting off a life-threatening experience in East Africa - al-Shabaab had attacked his crew, intent on a much larger terrorist attack. Suddenly he finds himself under orders from his part-time employers at the State Department and the CIA when he is handed a mysterious package. It's an assignment he doesn't want. The problem is, it is a job contracted by mysterious patrons.

The year is 1968: The Cold War is far from over, and nuclear annihilation is always only a heartbeat away. America is racing the Soviet Union to land men on the moon, a war is raging, and a pivotal presidential election looms on the horizon. A child of the early space age, Lieutenant Scott Ourecky joined the air force with aspirations of going to flight school.

For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a peculiar blank card slides under her front door—an invitation to the Found Object Society. What she discovers there is beyond comprehension: an opulent, subterranean playground filled with aisles of objects from different eras and regions of the world.

Thirty-two and a half hours: It is all the time this world has left.Kaka has rung the Dhwansnaad, bringing upon earth an evil that will ruin all. Vyas ji has barely managed to save a chosen few. Karan has lost his father. Antima has lost her courage. And no one knows what has become of Jay.In...

Family means different things to different people, but in the Gray Man’s world, family is defined by blood—the blood you share with some and the blood you shed with others. Court Gentry’s current family operates out of an office park in Norfolk, Virginia. The Ghost Town is an off-the-books direct action team run by Matt Hanley, former CIA Deputy Director. They take on the jobs the Agency needs handled “discretely,” and those jobs are rolling in. Somewhere at the top of the US Intelligence apparatus, security experts and intelligence operations worldwide are threatened.

Fifteen miles off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada, a Soviet-era diesel submarine offloads four men before being intercepted by a U.S. Navy vessel patrolling the area. The men make up a team of al-Qaeda-trained specialists skilled in the black arts of terrorist warfare and are headed by a man who has billions of dollars in oil money with which to indulge his murderous fantasies. What they do next will determine the fates of thousands of Americans.

Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain: Cameroon, Indonesia, Nepal. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker, the victim mutilated in a way that Paul has witnessed once before, years ago and thousands of miles away. To quell a scandal, the police rule the death a suicide and close the case. But Paul can't let it go....

In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: Global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off. Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it?

After Task Force Ember’s successful intervention in Ukraine, John Dempsey disappears without a trace—with no notice or explanation given to his teammates. Spotty intelligence eventually places him in Russia where he is rumored to have been captured by the Russian FSB and is now presumed dead. Mourning his loss, Ember is forced to pick up the pieces, restructure, and continue their mission of keeping America safe. As the president’s “go-to” black ops asset, Ember is directed to find and finish off the Russian spymaster Arkady Zhukov and any last remnants of Zeta cell.

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population - killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant - the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power - and the strong who possess it.

Brandon and Justine have just moved into their new house, an idyllic Craftsman bungalow in a picture-perfect enclave of East Los Angeles.

The destruction of the International Space Station and the discovery of an ancient scroll are inextricably intertwined in this debut crossover thriller from a former Navy helicopter pilot. The International Space Station suddenly loses contact with Earth. When a NASA tech devises a way to...

Sustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the phone rings, and his past is on the other end of the line. A woman with whom he once shared a life of violence and desire claims her daughter is missing - and Jason is the one man who can find her.

The newest thriller from Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author When fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while...

Si crees que sabes lo que va a pasar a continuación es porque estás exactamente donde él quiere que estés... Es Navidad y un asesino en serie deja a la vista partes del cuerpo de su última víctima por todo Cumbria. Un extraño mensaje aparece en cada escena del crimen: # BSC6. Washington Poe y Tilly Bradshaw, de la Agencia Nacional contra el Crimen, se enfrentan a un caso que no tiene sentido. ¿Por qué algunas víctimas fueron anestesiadas, mientras que otras murieron en una agonía espantosa?

CAPITAN RILEY è uno spettacolare romanzo di avventura, azione e spionaggio ambientato all'inizio degli anni Quaranta e che ha per protagonista il Capitano Alejandro M. Riley che, al comando di un piccolo mercantile e di uno stravagante e fedele equipaggio di nemici della terraferma, naviga nel Mar Mediterraneo dedicandosi alla pericolosa attività del contrabbando in tempo di guerra. Alla fine del 1941, il capitano Riley e il suo equipaggio verranno assoldati dall'uomo più potente di Spagna per recuperare un misterioso oggetto da una nave affondata davanti alle coste di Tangeri.

A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prison. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim’s family, the only thought is revenge. Another group who doesn’t believe him - the men in prison from Dixon’s last job, an armored car robbery. They’re sure he’s gone back to grab the hidden money, so they do the only thing they can: break out and head straight to Jericho themselves. Colson and his deputy, Lillie, know they’ve got their work cut out for them.

When newly divorced Sage arrives in Bali, his only plan is to drink on the beach until his money runs out and then return home to start over. So he's caught by surprise when he falls in love with the country and its people, particularly the attractive and considerate Ratri. Soon Sage can no longer see himself living anywhere else, even as his funds dwindle and his visa's expiration date nears. Increasingly desperate to stay with Ratri, Sage finds himself being recruited by a drug-smuggling ring - in a country where drug trafficking is punishable by death.

In der Goldenen Kammer der Cherokee entdeckten die Archäologen Sean Wyatt und Thomas Schultz einen Hinweis, dass es noch mehr solcher verborgenen Schätze gibt. Doch kaum gelingt es ihnen, den geheimen Code zu entschlüsseln, entwickelt sich die Suche schnell zu einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Denn auch ihr ebenso geheimnisvoller wie skrupelloser Gegner hat es darauf abgesehen, die zweite Kammer zu finden. Er weiß, dass darin mehr verborgen liegt als nur unermesslicher Reichtum.

Am 18. Februar 1812 erleidet die Emily Rose an der Südküste Australiens Schiffbruch. Die Überlebenden sind gezwungen, tausende Kilometer durch das unerforschte Land zu laufen, um die einzige Siedlung, Sydney Cove, zu erreichen. Nach einigen Kilometern landeinwärts stoßen sie auf die Überreste eines monströsen Schiffes, das weit größer ist als alles, was die britische Marine je gebaut hat. In der Gegenwart untersuchen Sam Reilly und sein Team von Meeresforschern die Ursache für ein weit verbreitetes Sterben von Meereslebewesen im Golf von Mexiko.