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Jane Seymour of Wiltshire is not meant to go to Court. Not a child like her, with her lack of beauty and no title. But family connections are enough to have her named to the bridal retinue of Mary Tudor. At the French Court, the plain and docile Jane meets the girl who will grow into her rival in years to come: the already charismatic and conniving Anne Boleyn. Soon back home in the English countryside, Jane wants nothing more than peace and quiet—and the devotion of her childhood protector, William Dormer.

¿Podemos imaginar que una sequía pudiera hacer estallar en pedazos el pacto federal mexicano porque un estado, por supervivencia, se negara a dar agua al vecino, o a la mismísima capital de la República? Francisco Martín Moreno da la voz de alarma respecto a la posibilidad de una nueva sequía, como las que han azotado al valle de México desde la época prehispánica. Con su prosa vigorosa y su incansable imaginación, nos revela que la sequía fue el gran detonador de la guerra de Independencia, como también lo fue de la Revolución de 1910.

Maggie Trousdale has been vice president for only 48 hours before she’s thrust into the executive office. As smoke rises over Turkey from the wreckage of the former president’s plane, America demands answers. Nobody knows what brought the aircraft down, Turkey has restricted all access to the crash site, and the White House is in chaos. But as the nation unravels, President Trousdale discovers a cryptic message left by her recently deceased predecessor. The attack on Air Force One may not have been a matter of foreign aggression.

Wenige Worte machen die aufstrebende Wiener Nachrichtensprecherin Nadine Just über Nacht berühmt: Vor laufender Kamera kündigt sie ihre Ermordung an – zwei Stunden später ist sie tot! Ebenso ergeht es dem Blogger Gunther Marzik nach einer ganz ähnlichen Ankündigung. Während die österreichische Medienwelt kopfsteht, fluten Nachahmerbeiträge und Memes das Netz.

"Die Filiale" ist der erste Band von Veit Etzolds großer Thriller-Reihe um Laura Jacobs, die als richtige Frau im falschen Job in einen mörderischen Finanzskandal verwickelt wird. Laura Jacobs kann es kaum glauben, als sie den Brief ihres Arbeitgebers öffnet: Eben noch hat sie bei einem Banküberfall auf ihre Filiale ein Blutbad verhindert – jetzt hält sie die Kündigung für den Mietvertrag ihres Zuhauses in der Hand! Die Bank, der neben Lauras Haus eine ganze Reihe von Immobilien in Berlin gehört, will die Grundstücke an einen Investor verkaufen.

Verena Mammoli è scomparsa misteriosamente in Egitto. Centra forse qualcosa suo marito, l'archeologo Idris Fami? Ma è davvero un archeologo? E se dietro questa vicenda ci fosse il traffico internazionale di manufatti antichi? È l'inizio di un intrigo internazionale senza esclusione di colpi che-dai crimini della 'Ndrangheta alle manovre di oscuri commercialisti—ci immerge in un mondo di mezzo di complotti, omicidi e affaristi senza scrupoli. Al centro di tutte queste trame, l'unico uomo che può provare a risolverle: l'indomito avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi.

Sur une route perdue de l'Ouest américain, un homme roule à tombeau ouvert. Cet homme, c'est Frank Guidry. À ses trousses, un tueur à gages mandaté par le mafieux Carlos Marcello, qui veut se débarrasser d'un témoin indésirable dans le crime du siècle : l'assassinat de JFK. Guidry sait que la première règle, quand on est en cavale, est de ne pas s'arrêter. Et que la seconde est de ne compter que sur soi-même.

No deserto do Saara, dois agentes de inteligência de elite—um francês e uma americana—arriscam a própria vida enquanto seguem o rastro de um poderoso grupo de extremistas. Do outro lado do mundo, a primeira mulher a ocupar o cargo de presidente dos Estados Unidos faz de tudo para lidar diplomaticamente com ataques estrangeiros, comércio ilegal de armas e campanhas de difamação de um adversário populista. Mas, à medida que pequenos atos de violência se sucedem e começam a ganhar escala, o início de uma nova guerra mundial parece uma certeza.

When Iran's deadly nuclear game is revealed, CIA agent Frank Williams realizes there is only one man made for the job of traveling to the other side of the world to neutralize this threat—his disgraced former partner, agent Jim Duffy. Williams travels to Duffy's Maine hideaway and presents the facts of the case: The world's largest heroin dealers have carved a path straight to America's doorsteps and may possess six of the deadliest weapons known to man. Duffy doesn't want to yield to the Agency that cast him aside. But a sense of duty and a love of country will not let him stand by.

Der Irak lässt mit Hilfe von Nordkorea nukleare Sprengköpfe in einem unterirdischen Bunker produzieren. Zumindest laut den Informationen, die Israel den Vereinigten Staaten zuspielt. Mitch Rapp taucht in die Straßen von Bagdad ab, um den drohenden Atomkrieg abzuwenden. Ärger droht auch vor der eigenen Haustür: Politiker boykottieren mit allen Mitteln die Ernennung von Irene Kennedy zur neuen CIA-Chefin. Sie wollen den Geheimdienst entmachten und ihre Interessen vorantreiben. Privat steht Mitch nach einer Begegnung mit der Vergangenheit ebenfalls vor einem Scherbenhaufen.

Three months before the invasion of Iraq, a member of a Masonic fraternity known as the Rosicrucians escapes from a British Intelligence holding station. Orchestrated by the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, this event is somehow linked to the highly classified CIA file only known as Gladio B. Tasked to destroy an unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, the chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee plans to bring the criminals to justice. But he is running low on both time and allies, as mass annihilation threatens the whole planet.

SOF intelligence assets are dying. Operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan have been compromised. Sue O’Connell and her teammates have to find the leak and find it fast. The hunt for the cyber hackers takes the SOF contingent to Turkey, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan. Back home, Sue’s brother in the BBI finds himself stuck on a similar problem as adversaries in the US are using cyber operations to steal Pentagon secrets. Even Sue’s mother, retired CIA case officer Barbara O’Connell, faces a cyber challenge. And every time they defeat one threat, another is uncovered.

When mercenaries attack in Eastern Ukraine, the world is thrust into turmoil. Russian President Luchnik is quick to respond, launching a full-scale military invasion to quell this “national emergency” in the former Soviet country. The United States, reluctant to put boots on the ground in yet another regional conflict, takes a different path. President Serrano hires Sentinel Holdings, a private military contractor, to hold back the Russian threat. Don Riley, head of the CIA’s Emerging Threats Group, sees trouble ahead.

Europa in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft. Die Digitalisierung ist weit fortgeschritten, Maschinen erledigen die meiste Arbeit, während ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, das sogenannte "Freiheitsgeld", dafür sorgt, dass jeder ein menschenwürdiges Leben führen kann. Als der Politiker, der das Freiheitsgeld eingeführt hat, tot aufgefunden wird, wirkt es zunächst wie ein Selbstmord. Doch dann wird der Journalist ermordet, der einst als sein größter Gegenspieler galt.

Fans du "Bureau des légendes", découvrez le "Service Action", l'unité spéciale de la DGSE en charge des opérations les plus secrètes, clandestines et illégales de la République. Août 2020, Beyrouth. Le lieutenant-colonel Coralie Desnoyers, chasseur alpin et sniper d'élite, sauve le président de la République d'un attentat. Quelques semaines plus tard, elle devient la première femme à diriger le Service Action. Elle doit s'imposer comme patronne de ce groupe dans un monde dominé par les hommes, tout en accomplissant les missions à très hauts risques de "l'Action".

DC Heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury—a dissection. Private detective Kirk Miner and FBI agent Jack Mulville investigate, and they immediately suspect Leeds’ former lover, who harbors a grudge against all the victims. Then when prominent people in the US government begin to experience these same deadly cardiac emergencies, it falls to the unlikely team of three to snuff out a catastrophic plot that only the medically astute can divine.

In 2014, environmentalists want to ban fracking, which has powered America to become the top oil producer in the world. Saudi Arabia is worried that too much supply will depress oil prices. One man has a plan that will make him billions. Into this world, 24-year-old Sebastian has the seemingly good fortune to be offered a dream job working for Edouard de Tocqueville, one of the most powerful bankers in the City of London. But, dazzled by the opportunity laid out before him, Sebastian fails to see the devastating consequences of his actions.

Jon Reznick is not a man to cross. A brutally effective black-ops veteran, Reznick has a history of taking the law into his own hands. So when a group of masked men murders his closest friend, he swears to exact vengeance. The now-deceased Bill Eastland had been Reznick’s last living tie to his father, leaving him devastated…and furious. Whether or not the FBI approves, he swears to hunt down whoever issued the hit on his friend.

Memory man FBI agent Amos Decker returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive gated community in Florida. Things are changing for Decker. He’s in crisis following the suicide of a close friend and receipt of a letter concerning a personal issue which could change his life forever. Together with the prospect of working with a new partner, Frederica White, Amos knows that this case will take all of his special skills to solve.

Your every word is monitored. Your every movement watched. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. And if you stay within the wall, the Loyalist Party will protect you. Kate Buchanan uses her illegal predictive engine to monitor the "chatter," flagging perceived threats to America. When the program suggests that nuclear war is imminent, and people around her start to die, Kate can no longer hide. She needs help, and it comes from the most unlikely place—Gideon Frome, a ghost from her past.