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Twenty-year-old Deza was supposed to be just another hot girl emcee, but when a bonus track strikes a surprising social chord, it rockets her album to the top of the charts - and her record label promotes her to headline their first-ever all-female national tour. As Deza attempts to live up to her new reputation, her inexperience generates tour drama. And when her female DJ quits, the label replaces her with the last thing Deza needs: the sexy guy DJ she flirted with at a club.  

October 2016: In America, the election is a few weeks away. Journalist Grace Elliot has just landed a scoop that she believes will make her career. A porn star is willing to talk about her affair with the man some hope and many fear will become the next president of the United Stares. But no one will touch it. Instead, Grace is sent to Europe, where she discovers a story so big, so explosive that it could decide the American election and launch a new Cold War.

When Angel Ramos, one of Jon Reznick’s oldest buddies from special forces, is found brutally slain in a Los Angeles dumpster, Reznick races to California to hunt down his killers. Angel always had Reznick’s back when they were on missions together, but recently his demons had caught up with him. Angel was a recovering junkie and his teenage daughter had vanished into the dark corners of Hollywood’s seedy underbelly. Reznick’s old friend had been desperately trying to get his little girl back when he was viciously tortured and murdered.

Jon Reznick doesn’t trust the CIA—but when operative Daniel Black shows up near his home in Maine, he listens. A high-value target has been taken out by a sniper in Mallorca. The kill was clean. Professional. And just the beginning. Reznick is sent in under deep cover to hunt for the assassin and retrieve a cache of Cold War-era surveillance tapes—evidence so explosive it could bring down presidents. As bodies begin to fall and the sniper’s true mission comes into focus, Reznick realizes the stakes are far higher than anyone imagined.

Die von MaHe gelenkte und beschützte Menschheit steht am Abgrund ihrer Existenz. Von Alma, der Erde in einem Paralleluniversum, ergießt sich ein endloser Strom kleinster Energieteilchen auf den Planeten. Sie durchbrechen die Membran zwischen den beiden Paralleluniversen und materialisieren sich in menschlichen Zellen. Dadurch verwandeln sich die Menschen zunehmend in Hüllen der Alphabeten, den Bewohnern von Alma. Eine in der Urzeit von außerirdischen Titanen auf Alma zum Leben erweckte künstliche Intelligenz hat nur ein Ziel – die Ausrottung allen menschlichen Lebens.

"Vieles in seinem Leben hätte anders sein können, wenn er andere Entscheidungen getroffen hätte. Falls nicht ohnehin schon alles von vornherein feststand." So räsoniert der serbische Auftragskiller Vuk, der für den Balkankrieg zu einer hoch spezialisierten Kampfmaschine ausgebildet wurde. Vuk soll für die iranischen Mullahs eine ungeliebte und mit der Fatwa belegte Schriftstellerin während einer Pressekonferenz töten, nachdem der grausame Krieg auf dem Balkan sich dem Ende zuneigt.

Ein authentischer Polit-Thriller mit höchstem Spannungsfaktor: Kurz nach den Terrorangriffen von 9/11 kreuzen sich auf der Suche nach einem gefährlichen Dschihad-Kämpfer erneut die Wege zwischen den früheren Gegenspielern Vuk, einem bosnischen Serben, der einst als Auftragskiller gearbeitet hat, und dem dänischen Polizisten Per Toftlund. Vuk ist mittlerweile im Auftrag der CIA unterwegs, während Toftlund die dänische Task-Force beim Kampf gegen den Terror anführt. Eine spannende Jagd beginnt.

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.

Niamh and Conor Ryan are the perfect power couple: smart, successful and beautiful, they have an enviable relationship and an idyllic family life. But then the unthinkable happens. Their oldest son, Tom, is the victim of a hit-and-run. What was Tom doing out walking so late at night? Did he really have problems sleeping, or was he secretly meeting someone? Is it a coincidence that his friend, Lauren, committed suicide nearby - or is there something more sinister going on?

Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body - and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave.