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December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. The trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor. Spanning the entirety of World War II, Five Decembers is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever.

Hay secretos que sólo un presidente puede saber. Hay situaciones que sólo un presidente puede resolver. Pero hay decisiones que ni siquiera un presidente querría tomar. La presidencia de los Estados Unidos pende de un hilo. El presidente, Jonathan Duncan, está a punto de ser destituido y es presa fácil de los tiburones de Washington cuando, acorralado por la prensa, cuestionado por la opinión pública y sus propios colaboradores, se enfrenta al mayor ataque que Estados Unidos haya sufrido nunca. Sin nadie en quien confiar, el presidente Duncan deberá desaparecer para actuar en la sombra, aún a riesgo de que le consideren sospechoso y traidor.

It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe, eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty, is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card.

DALL’AUTORE AL PRIMO POSTO NELLE CLASSIFICHE MONDIALI, UNA NUOVA MISSIONE PER GABRIEL ALLON. UN OMICIDIO BRUTALE. UN CAPOLAVORO SCOMPARSO. UN CASO CHE SOLO GABRIEL ALLON PUÒ RISOLVERE. Provetto restauratore e spia leggendaria, Gabriel Allon è a Londra per partecipare a un ricevimento alla Courtauld Gallery in onore del ritrovamento di un autoritratto rubato di Vincent van Gogh. Ma quando un amico del Devon e la polizia della Cornovaglia chiedono il suo aiuto per risolvere uno sconcertante caso di omicidio, si ritrova suo malgrado a dare la caccia a un nuovo avversario, potente e pericolosissimo.

Jeffrey James Higgins presents Book 3 in the Nathan Burke Thrillers series.

Når man prøver at starte på en frisk, skal man passe på at man ikke ender i et mareridt.

Familien Maguire - Lorcan, Naiyana og deres lille søn - flytter fra Perth i Australien til Kallayee, en forladt mineby i Great Victoria Desert, for at starte på en frisk, fri af deres brogede fortid.

Byen virker som det perfekte tilflugtssted: fredelig, stille, afsidesliggende. Et sted, hvor de ikke vil blive fundet. Men livet i Kallayee er ikke så enkelt, som de håbede på. Der er lyde fra jorden, mystiske skygger og spor i støvet, som om byen er ved at komme til live igen.

Company spy Ben Calix returns to Paris to find his perfectly ordered world has collapsed. A sniper attack. An ambush. A call for help that brings French SWAT forces down on his head. Ben is out. This is a severance - reserved for incompetents and traitors. Searching for answers and anticipating a coming attack, Ben and a woman swept up in his misfortunes must travel across Europe to find the sniper who tried to kill him, the medic who saved his life, the schoolmaster who trained him, and an upstart hacker from his former team.

Blood has always flown easily for Ian Kelly. He's spent a double life as part of a secret government program. Plucked from the foster care system at a young age for exhibiting a rare personality profile, he was trained to kill and then set loose on enemies of the free world. These days, blood is thicker. With two grown kids old enough to be asking too many questions, Ian travels the globe on official murder business. But Ian tells himself just one more mission because world peace means someone has to kill the killers.

L’esplosione che ha distrutto la Galleria Kensington del British Museum sembra non avere spiegazioni. Le ultime immagini delle telecamere di sorveglianza mostrano una sfera di luce che, entrando in contatto con un antico manufatto, innesta una reazione devastante. Nessuno riesce a capire cosa abbia scatenato quel bizzarro fenomeno naturale, eppure Safia al-Maaz, la brillante curatrice della collezione araba, scopre tra le macerie un oggetto sorprendente, rimasto nascosto per millenni, un cuore di ferro con inciso un nome leggendario: Ubar, la città perduta della regina di Saba.

1979. Leading businesswoman Rebecca is struggling to build healthy relationships. Her on off partner is a philandering police officer, part of the team chasing the Yorkshire Ripper who’s striking terror across the county. Then Rebecca meets Larry, the charming American, with a troubled past. And then of course there’s Mervyn, the creepy journalist who’s desperate for a girlfriend and willing to do anything to keep her in his life. With three very different men craving her attention, and a serial killer on the loose, Rebecca finds herself in a twisted game of cat and mouse.

When the past scratches its way into the present, it can leave deep scars. A series of cryptic clues leads Department of Defense redactor Travis Brock to suspect that a grim chapter from his past is not yet over. With the help of his eidetic memory and his newly formed team, he must unearth the truth and stop a terrorist group from stealing one of the military’s most highly guarded technological breakthroughs. With it, the group plans to commit a daring act of espionage that could upend the work of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms and impact millions of people worldwide.

When Neil Fitzpatrick, a rogue Green Beret soldier, is recruited by the Irish Republican Army to help prepare a terrorist attack, Paul Stavros, his former teammate, is sent to stop him and bring him home. Fitzpatrick, the American son of an Irish rebel who was forced to flee his birthplace, is a Special Forces demolitions expert. Fitzpatrick knows his trade and has a personal agenda with the IRA. Alarm bells erupt when the US government learns that Fitzpatrick has gone over to the IRA.

After decades, the Mexican civil war is all but over, but a review of captured documents reveals a secret—the now-deceased guerrilla leader of La Fuerza was, for over a decade, stealing from his own revolution. Billions of dollars are missing—enough to sustain the war effort, if discovered, or maybe even topple the struggling Mexican government. Private contractor Seamus O'Malley, leading an elite team, is tasked with locating and retrieving the cash.

This box set puts together Book 1 and 2 of the series - Interlopers and Pictures of Lily - in a single accessible volume.

The next pulse-pounding Michael Gannon thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of James Patterson's Michael Bennett series It's springtime in Key West, and Michael Gannon is busy supporting his son’s dreams of making it in minor league baseball. But a late-night encounter with...

When DJ and the team get a mission to a dangerous part of the world, there is suspicion their new employer is not telling them the whole truth. Things become much harder than they were promised. Still, they pull off the job with the skills and cunning we have come to expect from Slaughter and crew.

The chief of the Secret Intelligence Service has been assassinated, and the British government brought to its knees, by a terrorist organization intent on unleashing a weapon of apocalyptic proportions. In desperation, a deniable team is assembled to hunt down the terrorists. Called back from obscurity to lead them is Jack "Gorilla" Grant, a freelancer with a Smith & Wesson 39, and cutthroat razor. And he's ready to even the score in his own brutal fashion.

Amid the gristly serial killings of a deranged psychopath, a father stands accused of filicide—the murder of his own daughter... His alleged crime is strikingly similar to the ones causing terror in the Bradford community by the predator known as The Ripper. The lead investigator of the Bradford Murder Squad, DI Turnbull, is back—his task to distinguish fact from fiction and untangle evidence that points in alarming directions. Did this man murder his own daughter? And if he did, is he indeed Ripper2?

British spy Leonard Flood is asked to investigate the poisoning in London of Willa Karlsson, a retired British secret service vetting officer suspected of being a Russian agent. British intelligence is terrified by the possibility that Moscow poisoned her upon her retirement since she was no longer useful to them. When Leonard discovers that he is also a suspect in the investigation and that Willa's story is less a story of betrayal than one of friendship, he must decide whether to hand her to her masters or to help her to escape.

Southern France, 1944: What should be a simple assignment with a Special Operations Executive officer gets complicated quickly as Billy navigates the tensions between Resistance groups in the process of gathering information on Vichy officials and other collaborators who escaped with the retreating Germans. Unexpectedly, the SOE officer has many enemies in the Resistance, linked to the failed Vercors uprising. With sacrifice and betrayal afoot, Billy doesn’t know who he can trust, or how close to death this case may bring him.