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'A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster' Guardian Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt Éric Vuillard’s gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two...

Lieutenant James Shelley, who has an uncanny knack for premeditating danger, leads a squad of advanced US Army military tasked with enforcing the peace around a conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. The squad members are linked wirelessly 24/7 to themselves and a central intelligence that guides them via drone relay - and unbeknownst to Shelley and his team, they are being recorded for a reality TV show.

Explosive and enthralling, David Baldacci's Divine Justice is the fourth novel in his bestselling Camel Club series. The Camel Club – that informal band of conspiracy theorists who insisted on only one thing: the truth. Their leader, Oliver Stone, is on the run. Now the most wanted man in...

A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard - then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency - disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession. For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal - Suzanne Lombard had been like a sister to him.

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...

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Ryan returns in a explosive new thriller. When brilliant and eccentric scientist Liu Wangshu disappears from his apartment in China, the Ministry of State Security is furious, and certain they know what's happened: a defection to the Americans. President Jack Ryan...

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. 

Dans un suspense haletant et très réaliste, la politique internationale prend une dimension personnelle pour deux héroïnes improbables. Alice Li, blogueuse sino-américaine, a toujo….

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. El primer contacto no fue una invasión. Fue una súplica. Cuando un ser de otro mundo cruza las puertas de la embajada de Adana, no exige la rendición de la humanidad ni trae un mensaje de paz universal. Simplemente pronuncia dos palabras que lanzan...

George Orwell's 1984 zählt zu den bedeutendsten Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts und gilt als eines der prägenden Werke der politischen Dystopie. Winston Smith arbeitet im Ministerium für Wahrheit. Tag für Tag schreibt er Zeitungsartikel und Berichte um, damit die Vergangenheit zur jeweils gültigen Wahrheit der Partei passt. Über allem steht der Große Bruder, das allgegenwärtige Gesicht des Regimes in Ozeanien.

Ein atemberaubender Thriller. In den achtziger Jahren werden in Deutschland Bluterkranke mit HIV-verseuchten Präparaten infiziert und so dem sicheren Tod geweiht. Ärzte, Pharmakonzerne und Politiker formieren sich zu einer Gemeinschaft der Vertuscher. Dr. Julius Weinert, Abgeordneter und Mitglied des Untersuchungsausschusses, unterschlägt Beweismaterial, sodass es nie zu einem Prozess gegen die Schuldigen kommt.

Both the presidency and the constitution are at stake in this tense and shockingly real political thriller. "Grossman had done lots of research on everything from political infighting to clandestine military operations . . . [H]olds reader interest right up to the inevitable conclusion."...

Februar 2017. Ein Nordkoreaner wird am helllichten Tag am Flughafen von Kuala Lumpur Weise vergiftet. Ein hochrangiger russischer Geheimdienstoffizier stirbt unter mysteriösen Umständen in einem Hotel in Washington. Und ein Reality-TV-Star zieht ins Weiße Haus ein. Zufall? Oder Auftakt zu...

Un conto alla rovescia che non lascia scampo. Il libro che chiude la saga dell’Orologiaio di Brest. Carlo Malavasi, nome di battaglia “Sergio”, è stato per oltre quarant’anni una primula rossa della lotta armata: latitante imprendibile, custode di segreti che nessuno dovrebbe conoscere...

Meet Max Starkey—disgraced CIA operative turned underworld fixer—whose past loves, rivals, and indiscretions close in on him in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Seven years after a CIA mission in Laos went sideways, Max lives in the gray spaces between criminals and justice, recovering stolen...

The New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell presents a suspenseful and brilliantly topical new thriller that looks at the cycle of political violence in the Middle East. In the near future, an unprecedented Arab-Israeli settlement is brokered by a visionary female president of the...