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Deadly enemies, dangerous games... CIA agent Sam Hudson has been hunting Konstantin, a Russian deep cover operative responsible for numerous murders on US and UK soil, for years – and he finally thinks he's picked up his trail in Geneva. But just as Sam is about to get vital intelligence, his...

A disgraced former CIA operative must go back in the field with only his ex-wife as his handler in this electrifying thriller from a former intelligence officer. Meredith Morris-Dale is a CIA case officer and a damn good one...even if this last mission did go terribly wrong. Now she has been...

David Collins, a British private investigator living in LA, is hired by Geoff Hoffman, a billionaire tech magnate running for the US Senate in California. As his campaign is threatened by rumours of a past scandal, Hoffman tasks David with discovering the truth. And soon David uncovers troubling facts - ones that lead back as far as Hoffman’s Jewish grandfather during World War II. An alternating narrative contrasts the dark, depraved world of Nazi Germany with the corporate, sun-scorched landscapes of Los Angeles in 2019.

The first novel in an explosive new series inspired by Robert Ludlum's Bourne universe, The Treadstone Resurrection introduces an unforgettable hero and the shadowy world that forged him... Treadstone made Jason Bourne an unstoppable force, but he's not the only one. Operation Treadstone has...

An NPR Best Book of the Year From a veteran insider with over twenty years’ experience in the U.S. Foreign Service comes a taut, insightful thriller of global intrigue and behind-the-scenes international politics. Sam Trainor’s career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being...

'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.