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Elliot is hiding in his world of boats from a past that has wounded him. He is anti-authoritarian, lacking direction and broke. Emma is terrified of life outside the studious, ordered world of Oxford. But circumstances propel her into the dangerous world of international subterfuge. Kai is a Chinese triad gang leader, who is all too familiar with violence. However, he is now questioning his life, and seeking redemption. The three of them meet in Hong Kong, a place where money is king, corruption is rife, and the secret societies of the triads are flourishing.

Armed with critical intelligence and surrounded by a team of ruthless operators, elite assassin Reed Montgomery is ready to deliver a death blow against the criminal empire that destroyed his family. His greatest enemy, Aiden Phillips, leads that empire, and Reed is ready to rip him down. But Aiden didn't come this far or rise this high just to go down without a fight. He'll shelter behind an army of killers, using humans as shields while targeting Reed's closest allies and friends.

Here, the ancient Arab traditions are restored through a legendary man-hunter chasing through the wilderness of the desert and the land of emptiness, thirst, fear, death, wandering, and burning sands, government opponents that he manages to kill, one after the other, by killing one of his guests in the tents of his tents and capturing the other.

Grayson Pierce, agente segreto della Sigma - una sezione occulta del dipartimento della Difesa statunitense -, è stato mandato a Copenhagen per seguire un'asta di libri antichi, che pare aver suscitato l'interesse di alcune organizzazioni terroristiche.

La política municipal del ayuntamiento del cambio gaditano es el contexto de las aventuras de Rafael Bechiarelli.

El detective de Cádiz recibe el espinoso encargo de investigar, de forma no oficial, la violenta muerte de Gabriel Araceli, el concejal de vivienda y dirigente de la coalición Poder Popular, que gobierna la ciudad.

Nuestra señora de la esperanza es una novela en la que el Carvalho gaditano se enfrentará a las conspiraciones políticas, las guerras sucias, las corruptelas, los rumores, las denuncias..

La tercera entrega de la saga policiaca del agente William Warwick contiene todas las emociones a las que el bestseller Jeffrey Archer nos tiene acostumbrados: acción, romance, corrupción, sorpresas, traiciones y giros inesperados. En este nuevo volumen, William Warwick recibirá el encargo de investigar un caso de corrupción dentro del propio Departamento de Policía. Warwick y su equipo seguirán los pasos de Jerry Summers, un detective cuyo estilo de vida está muy por encima de sus posibilidades. La trama se complicará cuando una de las colaboradoras de Warwick se enamore del sospechoso...

Memento Mori se constituye como una empresa puntera en servicios funerarios y construye sobre el antiguo tanatorio una pirámide que cambiará la faz de la ciudad. Todo en su interior está automatizado, en un alarde de modernidad sin límites.

Hasta que empiezan a suceder extrañas muertes.

Claudia ha sido la primera mujer tanatopractora del país y es una autoridad mundial en el ámbito funerario, aunque su profesión no le ha facilitado las relaciones personales. Firme defensora de la eutanasia, el hastagh #LaMuerteEsMía le servirá para orquestar...

Este apasionante thriller distópico nos traslada a La isla, una sociedad apartada del mundo y controlada por el misterioro Adalid, que la gobierna con mano de hierro. Sin embargo, la irrupción de un terrorista conocido como Madre empieza a insuflar aires de rebeldía en el pueblo. Nuestro protagonista, el ejecutor Fauno Rohen, será el encargado de eliminar a Madre, pero quizá lo que encuentre no sea lo que espera.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.

Manuel Amaro es un autor español nacido en 1976 en Andújar (Jaen)...

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a tribe has attacked an isolated government outpost. A group of idealistic young volunteers enters the rain forest to prove the tribesmen were provoked. One is killed, and another, Fiadh Connor, goes missing. Fiadh's father, billionaire Cuchulain Connor, hires Breed to find her. Connor helps Breed get a ride with Brazil's Minister of the Interior who is mounting an expedition to relieve the besieged outpost. He and his entourage will travel up the Amazon on a Navy gunboat with a platoon of Brazilian Marines.

Der angesehene Archäologe Henry Voigt und seine Freunde nehmen an der Einweihungsfeier eines neuen Museums in Uganda teil, in dem der Dolch des Mondes ausgestellt wird, als ihn ein mysteriöser Anruf erreicht: Er soll auf einer Auktion in London ein altes Buch ersteigern. Doch hinter diesem Auftrag scheint viel mehr zu stecken. Hinweise auf einen uralten Geheimbundtauchen auf und scheinen auf die Spur zu einem gewaltigen Schatz zu führen. Dann erfährt Henry, dass sein alter Freund Frank entführt wurde und nur im Tausch gegen das Buch freigelassen wird.

The Lemon Man is Patrick Callen, a bicycle-riding hitman with mild OCD in Dublin, Ireland, whose carefully ordered life is totally upended when he becomes the accidental caretaker of a baby boy. Now he's got to balance his daily to-do list of errands and murders-for-hire with his unexpected domesticity, which impacts him and his work in ways he never expected...and that could get him killed.

When Jonathon Roth and his family are invited by their neighbors, the Beasleys, to join them at a luxury retreat in Cozumel, who can refuse? It’s the perfect winter getaway. Relaxing on the beach, gourmet food, sightseeing, and free accommodations. But if it sounds too good to be true, it is. Villa Sara de Calakmul, owned by mysterious tycoon Jacob Calakmul, is more isolated compound than private resort. Armed guards patrol the jungle perimeters. Pictures of previous guests—long disappeared—adorn the walls.

Er will ein Spiel mit dir spielen. Und der Einsatz ist dein Leben. Genialer Nervenkitzel mit furiosem Finale! Als Officer Cole Hudley das Gebäude des Radiosenders SiriusXM betritt, um der berüchtigten Talkshow-Moderatorin Jordan Briggs einen Strafzettel zu überbringen, ahnt er nicht, dass sein Tag eine tödliche Wendung nehmen wird. Denn als ein Fremder während der Live-Sendung anruft und ein scheinbar harmloses Entweder-Oder-Spiel mit der Moderatorin spielen will, detonieren plötzlich mehrere Bomben rund um New York City.

Haunted by the death of his best friend and hunted by the FBI for war crimes he didn’t commit, Finn lands on an island paradise that turns into his own personal hell in this gripping follow-up to Steel Fear and Cold Fear—from the New York Times bestselling writing team Webb & Mann...

One of Ian Rankin's top ten books of 2021. When you have a problem that can't be solved, you call John Tyler. Nine people are trapped on an anthrax-infested, government-controlled island off the west coast of Scotland when the door to their decontamination chamber suddenly stops opening. The only man who can fix the door – the onsite technician – is dead. Was it an accident? Or was he murdered? On an island populated by an international team of scientists with a military-grade bioweapon readily available, the motive to kill is strong, and death is laced into the very soil.

El corredor es un alarido de metal y literatura cuya virtud primordial es llevar al oyente a un paroxismo, a esa exaltación propia de los derviches y pilotos cuyos bólidos están avizorando, en fracciones de segundo, la pared donde habrán de estrellarse, el fuego donde serán desgarrados por engranajes y ángulos enfurecidos.

Even the finest samurai occasionally needs to hone his skill. Robert Sand is in Japan, pushing his body to the limit under an aged sensei's guidance, when he gets the message that practice is over. A French arms dealer named Valbonne has gotten ambitious, and is about to start selling something rather more deadly than a bootlegged Kalashnikov. He is building an atomic bomb.

In the course of both their official careers and their top-secret missions, the Sisterhood—and their menfolk—have acquired enemies. Myra has been feeling uneasy of late, and her fears are justified when her adopted daughter, Nikki, is seriously injured. With Nikki in a coma, and Nikki’s partner, Jack, convinced that the organization’s online security has been breached, the women of the Sisterhood are more vulnerable than they’ve ever been. On their trail is a vicious felon with scores to settle and a network of accomplices willing to do his bidding, for a price.

In "Black River" we re-join the mysterious and gutsy Ann Sheldon as she continues to try to forget her past and start afresh. Wanting to steer clear of any more trouble, as well as the local police inspector, Gil Maduro, Ann tries to relax and embrace her new life. When a young girl goes missing from a camp however, the services of Gil Maduro are called upon, and Ann soon joins him on an investigation which will take them deep into the Amazon as well as into even deeper trouble. The pair encounter dangerous enemies along the way and Ann struggles to keep her true identity secret.

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella o Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny con Tom Ripley. Jonathan es un hombre honesto y pobre que lleva una existencia apacible y gris, junto a su mujer y su hijo. ¿Por qué Tom Ripley le pide que asesine a dos mafiosos?