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In einem Stockholmer Park werden die Leichen eines Polizisten und einer syrischen Frau entdeckt. Die Ermittlungen der Polizei konzentrieren sich zuerst auf den Mord an ihrem Kollegen. Doch als Vanessa Frank hinzugezogen wird, gewinnt der Fall neue Brisanz, denn die Tote war ihre Ziehtochter Natasja. Was wusste sie wirklich über die junge Frau? Vanessa ermittelt und gerät mitten in die Vorbereitungen eines Terroranschlags. War Natasja daran beteiligt? Zusammen mit Nicholas Paredes macht sich Vanessa auf die Suche nach der Schläferzelle.

In a series of complex double-crosses a menacing mystery builds: Who is the "Sardine" behind the killing? "The Sardine Deception" is Leif Davidsen's author debut book from 1984. The novel takes place in the Basque Country, where a young Danish woman has been killed during an ETA attack. Her husband, Poul, travels to Spain to retrieve the coffin and is involuntarily drawn into political intrigues involving Basque freedom fighters, the Spanish government, civil guards and fascist infiltrated police.

Le chef des services secrets israéliens poursuit sa lutte implacable contre le terrorisme. Gabriel Allon, espion et restaurateur d'œuvres d'art, est désormais à la tête des services secrets israéliens. Une vague d'attentats terroristes les mènent, lui et son équipe de terrain, dans le sud de la France, et plus précisément au sein du cercle privilégié d'un couple de la haute société: Jean-Luc Martel et Olivia Watson. Ancienne modèle, Olivia feint d'ignorer l'origine trouble de la fortune considérable de son époux.

Il a tout prévu, tout calculé. Ça ne peut pas rater. Zwak, afghan, dix-sept ans et l'air d'en avoir treize, un QI de 160, et la rage au coeur depuis que son père a été une " victime collatérale " des Occidentaux. Devant son ordinateur, il a programmé un jeu d'un genre nouveau. Un jeu pour de vrai, avec la France en ligne de mire. Et là-bas, en Syrie, quelqu'un a entendu son appel.

Für den einstigen Top-Journalisten Max Fuller klingt das Ganze zunächst wie eine durchgeknallte 9/11-Verschwörungstheorie: Ein mysteriöser Anwalt bietet ihm die wahre Geschichte des "fünften Flugzeuges" an, das am 11. September 2001 über die Radarschirme der US-Luftabwehr irrte - und dazu auch gleich noch den angeblichen Piloten. Aber als er diesen tatsächlich ausfindig macht und ihm das Versprechen abnimmt, on air auszupacken, wird der Pilot Opfer eines merkwürdigen "Unfalls". Und Fuller weiß, dass er der nächste auf der Liste ist.

Ex-army officer Bradley Shoreham is a war game expert. As a soldier, he created a host of mock conflict exercises simulating various disasters - and now, as a civilian, he does it for a living. His scenarios may be fictional, but they're authentic: and that's exactly what the governments and corporations who employ him pay big money for. But as the participants are about to find out, his games can have real, deadly consequences....

Jack “Jackknife” McCabe is through with Special Ops. But in an America where politicians, pundits, and the president care more about polls than securing the borders of the Nation, “Jackknife” finds himself sucked back into the terror wars. To stop a nuclear holocaust in the heart of the country, he leads his family and fellow citizens in the battle against fanatic evil hiding behind Islam.

Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns to the one person capable of helping her stop the threat of pandemic in time: the love of her life, back from the dead and mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. Recruiting Cole to save millions of lives may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes...even if it destroys her.

When a bomb rips the façade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips. Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive with high level access to the CIA, makes it his mission to track him down. He begins a jet-setting search for answers as the clock ticks down to a climactic event that threatens NATO and the very security of member nations.

In this conclusion to the Curtain series, the spiritual battle lines are drawn between the forces of the light and the darkness. As the immediacy and dimensions of the threat become known in the physical world, there seem to be no good options and deliverance seems impossible, but President Strong calls America to stand before God before it faces its enemies.

Stephen Coonts’ newest novel The Russia Account pits CIA officer Tommy Carmellini against a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia, to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself - putting Admiral Jake Grafton, the head of the CIA, in the cross hairs of an assassin.

In Men of Conviction, Lionel Ross tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad; Wayne, the burglar and Dovid, the religious Jew and 'one offence fraudster'. Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.

Southern Afghanistan, 2005. NATO forces are battling the Taliban across Kandahar Province. In a terrifying twist, the rebels unearth a tactical nuclear bomb lost in the final days of the Soviet occupation. The years buried in the sand have damaged it, so the Taliban seeks the help of al Qaeda to secure replacement parts through its contacts in Saudi Arabia, the Opium Cartel, and the Russian Mafia. Doing so, however, inadvertently alerts the Americans, the Russians, and the Israelis.

In this incendiary thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker, Roland Ford is hunting down a mysterious killer, jockeying for position with the FBI, and risking everything to save a friend in terrible jeopardy. Returning hero and private...

“A twisting, heart-wrenching journey into a marriage, a gripping thriller . . . Reardon grabs his readers on page one, then deftly ratchets up the suspense until the breathless ending.”—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author Julia Swann, mother of two young boys, is on the phone...

Astronomer Megan O’Malley sees things on a cosmic scale - hidden planets, colliding galaxies, imploding stars deep in the universe. But this time, she’s sensing something much closer to home. And she can feel it underfoot, too: explosive seismic shifts along a geologic fault line that could unleash an apocalyptic disaster. O’Malley also discovers something even more terrifying: the cataclysm is intentional. Someone is determined to trigger a mega tsunami.

When Toby Haynes witnesses a double murder - and suspects his boss, Tanner Mason, as the perpetrator of the crime - he does the only thing he can think of: He calls in Nathan McBride. CIA special ops veteran McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, respond to their friend's plea. As they launch a covert investigation into Mason, the security chief for one of the nation's leading private military contractors, they discover that not everything is as it appears.

Jean Garnier lives on the fringes - a lonely nobody who has lost everything dear to him. His girlfriend was killed in an unexplained accident, his mother has just been sent to prison - he has even lost his job after the sudden death of his boss. In one last, desperate cry for help, Jean sets up seven lethal bombs, hidden all over Paris and timed so that one will explode every 24 hours. After the first detonation, Jean gives himself up to the police. He has one simple demand: his mother must be released, or the daily explosions will continue.

Temerás a quien ya no tiene nada que perder. Un thriller psicológico en el que la víctima no se rinde. País Vasco, 2007. Tras el fracaso de la última tregua, ETA prepara un nuevo golpe para demostrar su cuestionada fortaleza. Dos encapuchados secuestran a punta de pistola a Bixen Alzola, profesor de universidad y defensor de la vía pacífica como única alternativa para solucionar el conflicto vasco. Cuando su mujer, Leire, recibe la llamada de la organización terrorista reivindicando la acción, siente que su mundo se resquebraja.

The revised story of Checkmate is the first in The White House National Security series and features young scientist Dr. Cameron Talbot who invents a breakthrough technology to defend against cruise missiles. She needs support from skeptical company officers, funding from a reluctant Congress, and help from Lt. Col. Hunt Daniels, detailed to The White House NSC. With disaster brewing overseas, threats to New Delhi, the Taj Mahal, and to Cameron herself, she and Hunt find themselves enmeshed in terrorist plots and political wrangling at the highest levels.