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The final battle looms as ultimate secrets are unveiled. A single question haunts both sides: Who is the true "Devdhwaja" – Nagendra or Om? Tensions among allies reach a breaking point. Nagendra shocks everyone by returning from apparent death, unharmed and more powerful than ever before, suggesting he has unlocked some forbidden science or magic. Even trusted comrades shake: LSD and Parimal struggle to trust each other as buried truths emerge.

ENEMIES BY BIRTH. BROTHERS IN BLOOD. VENGEANCE WILL BE HAD. 1829. Mahikeng Mission Station. Highveld, southern Africa. 1829. Mahikeng Mission Station. Highveld, southern Africa. The warrior king is dead. Ralph Courtney and Ann Waite have escaped. From the chaos and bloodshed that consumed the...

Operation Cordelia is an espionage-comedy told through “found audio” (news reports, tapped phone calls, bugged offices, and people secretly wearing wires) about one neurotic CIA agent’s attempt to stop a mass terror attack in 1970s Berlin.

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. 1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her...

'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1547 and, after five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, Francis Crawford of Lymond - scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw - has at last come back to Edinburgh. But...

The stylish mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal. COLD WAR MOSCOW IS A PLACE SMOLDERING WITH SECRETS . . . Gabriel Dax is on route to Russia, tasked with delivering a...

Praise for The Imperial Alchemist “Wang fuses authentic history with genuine momentum—Georgia Lee is a heroine worth following, and this is a confident, fast-moving debut.” —Gary McAvoy, bestselling author of the Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers Some discoveries rewrite history. Others...

När Ebba Beckman kämpar med sina studier i Göteborg gör hon en märklig upptäckt på vinden i farföräldrarnas hus – en upptäckt som förändrar allt. Plötsligt dras hon in i en historia som varit begravd i familjen i decennier. En gammal inskription leder henne tillbaka till farfar Thore, frukthandlaren som under kriget påstås ha levt ett dubbelliv. Var han en kollaboratör med kopplingar till tyskarna – eller en hjälte inom den norska motståndsrörelsen? Ju mer Ebba gräver i familjens förflutna, desto fler frågor väcks om lojalitet, skuld och svek.

Impossible d'oublier le Dr John Archibald Cuthbert une fois qu'on l'a rencontré. Grand, raffiné, brillant mais tourmenté, ce médecin légiste écossais est le meilleur que Scotland Yard ait jamais connu. Durant l'hiver 1928, deux corps sont retrouvés sous la terre d'un parc londonien. Pour le légiste, chaque découverte dans la salle carrelée de la morgue menace de fissurer le masque du professionnel et de réveiller le soldat traumatisé enfoui en lui.

Start a BRAND NEW wartime series, inspired by the true story of the 1st Special Service Force, from Patrick Larsimont Silent as shadows, deadly in the dark In the darkest days of World War II, a top-secret experiment unites the toughest outdoorsmen: lumberjacks, cowboys, prospectors and hunters...

June 1944: One weather forecast will determine if D-Day succeeds—or becomes history's greatest military disaster. USAAF Captain Andy Lockhart stands at the heart of history's most pivotal operation, providing the meteorological intelligence that will guide Eisenhower's decision to send 150,000...

There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

The throne is never safe...especially in Rome AD 60. Rome stands at the height of its power – glittering with wealth, drowning in intrigue. On Palatine Hill, Nero Claudius Caesar rules as Emperor, a young man adored for his beauty and brilliance, feared for his temper, intoxicated by his own...

The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective. A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy...

திரு. சாண்டில்யன் அவர்கள் எழுதிய ஜலதீபம் என்ற சரித்திர நூல் 1700களின் மராட்டிய பின்னணியில் எழுதப்பட்ட ஒரு...

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

”… enkelt och följsamt språk som är smakfullt anpassat efter tiden den utspelar sig i. Karaktärerna är konsekventa och trovärdiga.” Helhetsbetyg: 4. BTJ Stockholm 1898. Liket av en sjuårig pojke flyter upp i Riddarholmskanalen. Ingen saknar honom, ingen vet vem han är. Ellen Bergman, som med hjälp av före detta ligaflickan Rakel driver Damernas juridikbyrå, börjar intressera sig för pojkens tragiska öde. Samtidigt gräver detektivkonstapel Johan Rådig i fallet trots att hans överordnade, den djupt korrupte kommissarie Berg, säger åt honom att avsluta ärendet.

Some ghosts wear boots. Some just whistle.Guatemala, 1977. Private Diego Morales didn't volunteer for the jungle — nobody in Second Platoon did. But the Petén doesn't care whose idea it was. It swallows roads, swallows silence, and, if the old stories are true, it sends something ahead of the...

Ireland, 1805. A country on the brink of rebellion.American widow Marian Devlin arrives in the west of Ireland to restore the crumbling estate left by her late husband. But the land is failing, the tenants are starving, and resentment against the ruling classes is turning violent.When a...