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Sherlock Holmes wird widerwillig in die Untersuchung einer Serie grausamer Morde verwickelt, bei denen erfolgreiche, wohlhabende Männer mit einem Eisenbahnnagel getötet werden – eine Methode, die an die biblische Geschichte von Jael erinnert. Als er und Dr. Watson tiefer graben, stoßen sie auf eine Gruppe ehemaliger Studienfreunde, die vor einem Jahrzehnt in den kanadischen Rocky Mountains ein dunkles Geheimnis teilen. Die Spuren führen zu einem Hotelvorfall und einem möglichen Rachefeldzug, der die Elite Londons in Angst versetzt.

In 1906, an Egyptologist uncovered a map carved in stone inside an ancient temple. Convinced that it pointed to a lost city of gold somewhere deep in the desert, he set out on another expedition the following year. He was never seen again. In present day Yale, a professor is brutally murdered on the university campus, and a mysterious artefact is stolen from its vaults.

Ombord på HMS Belos har man nu bärgat den mystiska containern och Camilla Emilsson får se dess innehåll. Poliserna på 39-9960 beordras att ligga standby under en nattkappsegling med en bana som sträcker sig från Kalmar upp till Blå Jungfrun. Samtidigt opererar en ubåt från främmande makt i sundet vilket får förödande konsekvenser för besättningen ombord på segelbåten ”Sjöhäxan”. I den actionfyllda dramaserien Sjöpoliserna Kalmarsund får vi följa de tre sjöpoliserna Mirja, Janne och Christer.

It's the hottest summer on record. Norfolk is parched. One steaming night an old thatched barn at Wild Thyme Farm is torched. The battle to put out the blaze rages. Detective Sara is on the scene when there's a horrifying discovery: there's a body in the embers. Sara and her team have been investigating a series of fires breaking out all over the county—but this is the first body. Accident or murder?

One of Tom Clancy's most storied characters, Dominic Caruso, is the only one who can stop America's secrets from falling into enemy hands in this blockbuster new novel written by Clancy's longtime coauthor. Over the course of three decades, Tom Clancy created a world alive with prescient action...

A thrilling new novella from best-selling author Greig Beck - starring the formidable Alex Hunter. When the coalition of Allied Forces established an international zone in Iraq, they meant to bring peace to the region. They were succeeding - until the moment something hulked into the zone and detonated a nuclear bomb. The last images from the area prior to the blast are not of drones or the trail of an ICBM. Instead they show a solitary figure carrying the enormous weapon to the soon-to-be ground zero on its back.

Hailed as the finest combat aviation novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Flight of the Intruder spent 28 weeks on the New York Times hardcover best-seller list and became one of the top-20 best-selling first novels of all time. An instant classic, the book was translated into more than 20 languages and made into a major motion picture. Its hero, Jake Grafton, became a household name and the star of many more Coonts’ best-sellers. Without question, the strength of the book lies in its flying scenes when Jake Grafton straps himself into the cockpit of his A-6 Intruder.

Fesselnde Landser-Geschichten in Romanheft-Länge. Der vorliegende Band 10,5 cm erzählt von den Männern der Marine-Flak-Abteilung 226 auf Norderney. Mit ihren schweren Flugabwehrgeschützen des Kalibers 10,5 cm bildeten sie ein stählernes Bollwerk gegen einfliegende britische Bomber. Erleben Sie hautnah, wie deutsche Marinesoldaten im entbehrungsreichen Dauereinsatz den Luftraum verteidigen …. Über die Reihe "Landser im Weltkrieg“. "Landser im Weltkrieg“ erzählt fiktionale Geschichten vor historischem Hintergrund realer Schlachten und Ereignisse im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

تنقلب الأحداث بطريقةٍ مرعبة في الجزء الثالث من الرواية الأشهر "كش ملك" وتتكشَّف الحقائق بسهولة فبين حقيقة الفارسيّ ابن "بوران" وتتلمذه على يد السامرائي، وبنود...

In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny…a search that someone else seems very interested in stopping.

Helicopter pilot Sara Denning joins an all-male navy battle group with little fanfare - and that's just the way she likes it. Her philosophy is simple - blend in, be competent, and above all, never do anything to stand out as a woman. But somewhere along the way, she lost herself - her feminine, easy-going soul now buried under so many defensive layers, she can't reach it anymore.

It is summer 1943. Two of the Allies’ most important plans are at grave risk: Operation Overlord’s invasion of France and the Manhattan Project’s race to build the atomic bomb. A furious President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan — and Donovan turns to Dick Canidy and his teams behind enemy lines. They’ve certainly got their work cut out for them....

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. When "The Final Problem" was first published, the struggle between Holmes and his arch nemesis, seemingly to the death, left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but it also led to his immortality as a literary figure.

Mi guardo intorno e vedo il nulla. Proprio ciò che cercavo. Questa cittadina di confine non ha niente da offrire: nessun negozio decente, nemmeno un posto dove bere un buon caffè. Qui non ci viene nessuno in vacanza: qui ci si arriva solo se si ha un motivo. Io un motivo ce l’ho. E se non ce l’ho, lo trovo. Sempre. Per questo, quando osservo la scena che ho di fronte, non posso non farmi qualche domanda. Una strada deserta dell’Arizona, un fuoristrada schiantato contro l’unico albero nel raggio di miglia e miglia, nessuna traccia del guidatore. Domande che esigono una risposta.

Ever since he took the vows of the samurai, Robert Sand has been ready to die. But now, for the first time in his life, he has a reason to live. Her name is Ann, and he sits beside her, awaiting takeoff for Geneva, when terrorists seize the plane. Holding guns on the passengers and crew, they douse the cabin in liquor and light a fire that will burn until it reaches the gas tanks. The terrorists flee as smoke fills the plane, but one lingers—a Japanese killer with a vendetta against the black samurai.

England, 1351. The Pestilence has ravaged the land. Villages lie abandoned but for crows and corpses. Highways are patrolled by marauders and murderers. In these dark and dangerous times, the wise keep to themselves. But Gerard Fox cannot afford to be wise. The young knight has been robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished. To regain his lands and reputation, he sets forth to petition the one man who can restore them. Fate places Fox on the wrong road at the wrong time as he hurtles towards a chance encounter.

Full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of the first five Falco novels by Lindsey Davis, starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco.

“[Steve Berry] has a genuine feel for the factual gaps that give history its tantalizing air of the unknown.”—The New York Times Book Review After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone—former Justice Department agent turned...

When a dead body is discovered stuffed inside a car trunk in the forest outside Rocky Points, Colorado, Chief Detective David Wolf finds himself involved in a case that will rock the local community. But as details emerge, the tension rises higher when it's clear the driver's last client was Tom Rachette, Wolf's loyal detective. Worse yet, Detective Rachette is no longer answering his phone. At the same time, Wolf gets a cryptic email that jars loose war memories he'd rather forget. And it soon becomes clear he must face his past head-on if he wants to save his friend.

It's May 1945, the war’s just over, and Harry Kaspar, an American captain in Germany, is about to take a new posting in the US occupation running a Bavarian town named Heimgau. When Harry loses the command to Major Membre, he'll do almost anything to win the job back. When Harry discovers a horrific scene - three German men tortured and murdered.