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Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment when their fathers met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. More than 60 years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest.

Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world. Working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex-Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the centre of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including her own: investigating damning allegations involving the Vice President of the United States.

Bringing together a cast of fascinating characters in a riveting tale of ambition and corruption, politics, passion, and ultimate justice, Dangerous Games is a thrilling drama from number-one New York Times best-selling author Danielle Steel.

When jailed billionaire Charles Merrick hints publicly that he has stashed a fortune in an offshore cache, a school of sharks converges upon his release from federal prison. Among his swindled victims is Judge Hammond Birk, the man who saved Gibson Vaughn's life when he was a troubled teenager. Now Gibson intends to repay that debt by recovering Merrick's victims' money.

When someone disappears on Northern California’s lawless Murder Mountain, it isn’t news. The vast terrain for illegal marijuana harvests is also a notorious black hole for outsiders. But when that someone is the family friend of the persuasive and righteous Senator Steele, finding him becomes covert investigator Ryan Decker’s mission.

John Bailey has a history of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The former war correspondent has been kidnapped and tortured – twice. Finally he’s living something that resembles a normal life. But all that changes when a terrorist murders a woman in front of Bailey in London. The...

When the fingers of dead women start showing up in the Supreme Court’s mail, ex-FBI Agent Jeremy Winter is brought back to the Bureau to aid in the investigation. Agent Maggie Keeley, his girlfriend and now boss, leads the search for the serial killer. Together, Jeremy and Maggie learn the five remaining cities on the murderer’s list, but they have no idea when the killer will strike or whom he will target. When they stumble upon a clue at the scene of a young woman’s death, the case focuses on an abandoned ramshackle home in sparsely populated west Texas.

El terrorismo islamista ha cruzado una línea. Madrid acaba de ser golpeada y la amenaza no ha terminado. Tras una devastadora ola de atentados en la capital española, los servicios de inteligencia descubren una conexión inquietante: una ciudadana española ligada al Estado Islámico ha sido clave en la logística del ataque. Con el tiempo en contra y Europa al borde del colapso, la organización secreta Cervantes activa su último recurso: David Ribas.

While building his career as a private investigator in the Maine countryside, Ryan Tapia takes the case of Dr. Ed Healey, a local physician suffering from an acute case of cobalt poisoning. A mine has recently opened in Pushaw county, extracting the valuable minerals needed for batteries in...

The bestselling wild, fast-paced ride through sex, drugs, revolution, and the morally gray hustle of a man who dares to game the system that destroyed his country—it's The Wolf of Wall Street meets Scarface. "My name is Juan Planchard. I’m twenty-nine years old, and I have five million...

1978, Jonestown. 909 dead. Two children survive. Where are they now? In the chaos of Jonestown's final hours, two children vanished into the Guyanese jungle, escaping the horror that claimed nearly a thousand lives. Given new identities and a second chance, they were supposed to be safe. Forty...

As a new president takes the White House, Just Cause returns to New York City for the first time in eight years, under the command of its newest leader: Mustang Sally. But a Senator has made it her mission to shut down Just Cause and put her own parahuman militia into place. With enemies at...

Da et rystende dobbeltmord og en bortførelse på åben gade i London fører til, at et pengeskab i Langley bliver åbnet for første gang i ti år, finder efterforskerne en liste med fire navne. Tre af personerne på listen er døde. Den fjerde er Ben Koenig. Koenig har ingen idé om, hvorfor hans navn optræder på listen, men så går det op for ham, at han kender den kvinde, der har begået dobbeltmordet. Ti år tidligere fik han, uden at få at vide hvorfor, til opgave at hjælpe hende med at forsvinde.

September 1962: Philipp Gerber, gerade zum Kriminalrat befördert, ist in den Flitterwochen – mit Journalistin Eva Herden, die inzwischen für das Bonner Spiegel-Büro arbeitet. Doch die glückliche, sorgenfreie Zeit währt nur kurz: In Deutschland herrscht aufgrund der Kuba-Krise Panikstimmung, es grassiert die Furcht vor einem Einmarsch der Sowjets oder gar einem Atomschlag.

Fernsehmoderatorin Eva flüchtet nach einer misslungenen TV-Aufzeichnung mit dem Schweizer Bundespräsidenten ins leerstehende Hotel Belvédère am Furkapass, dem berühmtesten Lost Place der Alpen. Dort trifft sie ihren langjährigen Bekannten Elon. Dieser hält sich in der Abgeschiedenheit der Walliser Hochalpen vor dem amerikanischen Präsidenten und seinen Rachegelüsten versteckt. Dank ihrer Liebe retten sie nicht nur die Schweiz, sondern auch noch die ganze Welt vor dem Auseinanderbrechen.

A dead file should have stayed buried. Years after a covert operation destroyed his career and reduced his life to something smaller and quieter, former officer under non-official cover Paul Andrews is pulled back in by one impossible detail: a sealed commercial claims file tied to the operation...

A charismatic psychopath is poised to win the presidency. Only one man can stop him—his identical twin, the brother he framed for the brutal murder of their parents twenty-five years ago. When Richard Zumwalt slaughtered his wealthy St. Louis family, he stole not just their fortune … but his...

Patrícia Santos sabia muito bem quem era: uma promotora pública que acreditava na Justiça, uma esposa que amava o marido, uma mulher que seguia um plano. Sua vida parecia trilhar uma estrada segura, até que uma tentativa de assassinato muda tudo. Ao sofrer uma ameaça, é transferida para a Promotoria de Patrimônio Público, onde espera por uma rotina tediosa. Mas o pedido inesperado para ajudar o jornalista André Jardim a investigar os bastidores do escândalo Banestado a coloca novamente diante de documentos, nomes e histórias do passado que podem explicar o presente.

Greg Stillson, candidat à la Maison Blanche, est un fou criminel, grand admirateur de Hitler et d'autres maniaques de l'extermination. Quand il sera élu, ce sera l'Apocalypse. Un seul homme le sait, John Smith, car il est doué d'un étrange pouvoir qui lui attire pas mal d'ennuis : il devine l'avenir. Il n'y a rien de réjouissant à cela. Il peut prévoir les accidents, les catastrophes, les hécatombes. On ne le croit pas, ou alors on le croit trop. John Smith n'a encore rien dit de ses prémonitions. Pourtant, le candidat à la présidence des États-Unis est un dément.

A police detective in Hong Kong races to solve a vicious murder, while the city around him teeters on the brink of destruction. Hong Kong is a city ablaze—its streets filled with protesters, its government in crisis, its people torn between rage and fear of what defiance might cost. At the...