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Harry Bauer is a professional assassin. He is employed by Cobra, a shadow agency that provides certain, select Western governments with total deniability, while taking out the trash. Bauer is very good at what he does. In fact, he’s the best. So when the brigadier, his overall boss, tells Bauer to go to Canada, pick up a woman and escort her to DC, he is understandably pissed: He eliminates bad guys, he’s not a nursemaid.

In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die. While Tito’s rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction. Three Yugoslavs set out from Rome to relay the German battle plan – but their loyalties lie elsewhere. PARTISANS A dangerous journey with dangerous companions where no one is who they seem, where the three find intrigue and betrayal around every corner.

Will and Andy are drawn deeper into the consequences of their connection to the FBI as a terrifying string of sniper killings threatens to unhinge the entire nation.

Ali Azeem, a naive Muslim bachelor from Mumbai, thinks he has hit the jackpot when he agrees to a traditional arranged marriage with Maryam Khan, daughter of Abbas Khan, a self-made real-estate tycoon and one of the richest men in New York. Moving with her to the United States, Ali quickly enters an intoxicating, Gatsbyesque world of supertall skyscrapers, sumptuous clothing, and helicopter rides to Southampton.

Recalled home from the West Indies, Lieutenant James Merriman is promoted to the rank of Post Captain and given command of the frigate "Lord Stevenage." It is known that the French are amassing an army and a fleet to invade Ireland and join with Irish rebels. If it succeeds, then England will be ringed by enemy countries under the control of Napoleon Bonaparte, and only the navy stands between France and England.

Two years after the dramatic events in Skegness, Mickey returns to the Midlands to start a legitimate business. He’s determined to go straight and win over Hazel, the woman who helped him survive his last heist. But an obsessed police officer, a complicated love life, and his son’s desperate situation mean Mickey’s new life is anything but quiet.

Viktor and Marta’s peaceful Siberian lives are interrupted suddenly by the presence of a dark mystery sowing chaos in the region. Soon they find themselves thrust into the midst of a sinister tale involving international spies, secret soldiers, the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula, and a cold, deadly secret.

Książka Wyspiarz ma zachęcać do dedukcji na wzór Sherlocka Holmsa, wzruszać a czasem rozśmieszać do łez, zmuszać do psychologicznych rozmyślań, bawić i poszerzać nasze horyzonty.

In Indianapolis, a candy store owner is forced out of business by online social justice warriors. They harass him mercilessly, shut down his store, and threaten his friends, until even his wife and child can't take it anymore… and leave. Jason Higby thinks his life is over, and the woke have won. But Jason isn't alone. When Braxton Knox hears of his plight, he and his team go to Indy. Their purpose: bring about the kind of justice that no one else can.

Een meeslepende thriller over toxische vriendschappen en de beklemmende kracht van de wildernis Liz is opgebrand. Het zit haar thuis en op haar werk niet mee, en ze moet er dringend tussenuit. Ze heeft behoefte aan avontuur, een totale reset. Dus als het haar beurt is om de jaarlijkse vakantie met haar drie beste vriendinnen te plannen, haalt ze hen over om vier nachten te gaan wildkamperen in de prachtige bergen van Noorwegen. Na een verfrissende wandeling is Liz ervan overtuigd dat dit precies is wat ze nodig heeft om haar leven weer op de rails te krijgen.FEAT DESC

Kelly Robinson, a 24-year-old economics doctoral student, spent the day on a perilous climb to Abuna Yemata Guh, a 5th-century monolithic church carved into a sheer cliffside in Ethiopia. Inside, the chapel walls were covered with vibrant frescoes, their colors deep and rich, depicting serene biblical figures, saints, and angels. But then something happened that science couldn’t explain.

In 1938, Rick and Rose Sinclair run an antique shop. One of Rick’s shady friends offers him the deal of a lifetime on a large, beautiful hand that had been sculpted out of polished jade. The purchase drains their savings and incenses Rose, who is convinced this jade hand was stolen and that owning it will bring them nothing but trouble.

I det ensliga vita huset i skogen utanför Oslo får kvinnor ett gömställe från sina våldsamma män. Omgivna av jordgubbsodlingar får kvinnor och barn äntligen skydd och trygghet. Men någonting skrämmer. Varför är källardörren låst? Och varför finns det dolda övervakningskameror kring huset? Är det verkligen för att ingen ska ta sig fram till huset oombedd? Och vem är det egentligen som skyddas? Den unga polisen Snö får i uppdrag att utreda flera fall av saknade män. Också hon kommer till det vita huset i skogen och där går den ohyggliga sanningen upp för henne.

”Det lugna och vackra fjällandskapet utgör en effektfull kontrast till det moderna och brutala maktspel som skildras. Det rättframma och korthuggna språket ackompanjerar de bilder som frammanas, och det är lätt att svepas med. Helhetsbetyg: 4, Mycket bra ” Bibliotekstjänst DRAMATIK PÅ KALFJÄLLETVid drygt femtio års ålder står Cecilia Sandell på toppen av sin karriär. Hon har fått allt: makt, pengar och status. När forsknings- och energiföretaget, som har tagit nästan ett liv att bygga upp, expanderar till Sälen möter det starkt motstånd.

Daniel Byrne spent 10 years as a Vatican investigator, scrutinizing and debunking miracle claims - until he burned that life to the ground when one investigation shook his faith and revealed disturbing earthly conspiracies. Determined to find the truth, he steps into a new life of secrets and lies, joining a powerful group that wields hidden influence over world events.

Anthropologist Allison Pinckney is stunned when she inherits the key to a 17th-century pirate cipher that makes her the target of two brutal arms dealers. Now, to save those she loves, she must solve the cipher. With this perilous mission growing ever more dangerous, she reluctantly seeks help from ex-Green Beret Zack Tremaine, the one man she's been avoiding. Because if she gives into her long-buried feelings for him, it could cost them their lives.

When Tim O'Hara's plane is hijacked and forced to crash-land in the middle of the Andes, his troubles are only beginning. A heavily armed group of communist soldiers intent on killing one of his passengers - an influential political figure - have orders to leave no survivors. Isolated in the biting cold of the Andes, O'Hara's party must fight for their lives with only the most primitive weapons....

Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Silver PEN Award, 1987.The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.

Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra inexorablemente a enfrentarse con la mayor de las sombras: la que está creciendo en su interior.

Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn’t care about why... Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist - and the daughter of his latest kill.