Espionage

Caspian Anderson is a translator for the United Nations—or so he’s led everyone to believe. No one suspects that mild-mannered Caspian, with his baggy clothes and sensible car, is actually an elite assassin for the US government. And that’s just how he wants it. For ten years, Caspian has worked under the code name Elias for Onyx, a black program deep within the Department of Homeland Security. His latest mission takes him to Switzerland to kill a target tied to a human trafficking ring. There, Caspian stumbles onto a web of conspiracies involving high-level political figures.

Der letzte Orphan – der neue Thriller Bestseller von Gregg Hurwitz! “Töte. Oder werde getötet.” Betäubungsmittel für Großwild, Luftunterstützung, ein Einsatzteam in voller Kampfmontur, ein Konvoi mit Spezialfahrzeugen, Fesseln und eine Kapuze. So sieht eine persönliche Einladung der US-Präsidentin aus ... wenn der Gast Evan Smoak, Deckname Orphan X, heißt. Vor Jahren war er der beste Auftragskiller der US-Regierung, bis er sich entschied, als "Nowhere Man" seine eigenen Ziele zu jagen. Erstes Gebot: "Lass keinen Unschuldigen sterben." Doch die US-Präsidentin verlangt genau das von ihm.

If life were fair, ace pilot Jose Carriles should have ended up a desk jockey like his former friend Corin Timony, back on the lunar colony of New Destiny. Instead, he’s the pilot of the Mosaic—a massive ship taking the Interstellar Union’s first-ever mission to outside our solar system. Timony should have been the best spy at the Bazaar, the lunar colony’s international intelligence arm. Instead, she’s been demoted to admin duties like monitoring long-range communications. She has no one to blame but herself—and maybe Carriles.

Kidnapped from her charity-run medical centre in Yemen by Houthi terrorists on Tehran's orders, Dr Emily's life hangs in the balance. The clock ticks down as MI6 scrambles to recover her before she becomes a bargaining chip for the release of an Iranian oil tanker impounded by the British.

Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter - an Austrian-born cockney Jew, whose parents were interned during the war as enemy aliens - stands over the body of Friedrich, contemplating the age-old question: who did it?

A man, who believes he is a government operative for a covert black-ops division of the CIA, awakens in the aftermath of the bombing of a federal building in Chicago. Disoriented and struggling to reconcile his last memory—an operation in Croatia pursuing a target wanted for espionage—he soon finds himself accused of domestic terrorism and mass murder. Either his mind is unraveling, or he's been expertly framed.

A special agent... A journalist... Only they can stop a genocide. Out of the chaotic political turbulence in Europe emerges a frightening new transnational extremist movement called Destiny, modelled on the Nazi Final Solution for the systematic removal of Europe’s Jews. In response, Israel’s government instructs the countries formidable spy agency, Mossad, to sabotage Destiny. The agency implements Operation Aleph Bet to neutralise Destiny’s leadership.

When Alex takes on a mission to reclaim stolen Bedouin land, he finds himself imprisoned and branded a criminal. Meanwhile, Caitlin faces her own dangers, becoming the target of an extremist plot. But the rules of warfare change forever when Caitlin condenses an electromagnetic pulse into shootable ammunition and deploys an AI chatbot–quantum computer that can use the internet to control secure Israeli communications and provide strategic intel.

In TARGET ONE, Jacob Snow—elite soldier-turned-CIA agent, haunted by his tortured past—is one of the CIA’s greatest assets, and is dispatched when the stakes are highest. When an ancient Egyptian relic goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Jacob knows this is no run-of-the-mill robbery: the relic holds a secret—one that could destroy everything. Jacob seeks out a mysterious and beautiful archeologist, whose brilliance is needed on the case.

Un importante, pero macabro hallazgo arqueológico desentierra un misterio que ha sido celosamente guardado por la iglesia: en una mazmorra, construida en los tiempos de la conquista, son encontrados los cadáveres de siete frailes quienes fueron abandonados y torturados a muerte.

Hiver 1967. Alors qu'une tempête de neige fait rage, trois soldats américains se retrouvent piégés dans l'incendie d'une base nucléaire secrète au Groenland. Un seul survit. Brûlé sur la quasi-intégralité du corps, l'homme n'a aucun souvenir de l'accident. Pour le faire parler, la CIA convoque Jack Miller, un psychiatre new-yorkais réputé, lui-même encore fortement marqué par la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Miller sent bien que le rescapé en sait plus qu'il ne veut le dire.

Списанный разведчик Влад Лисовский в очередной раз сумел доказать, что разведчики бывшими не бывают. Даже оказавшись вдали от родины, друзей и службы, он остался тем, кем был всегда, — "драконом". Одним из тех, кто уходил на неизвестные планеты и возвращался обратно. На этой планете нет промышленности и прогресса. Это странный, холодный мир, где неугодные граждане и списанные бойцы спецподразделений живут, а точнее, выживают, как могут. Но даже на этом насквозь промерзшем куске камня, несущемся по своей орбите, он, забытый, брошенный на произвол судьбы, продолжает оставаться самим собой.

Ezekiel Tanner left his life as a government spy to become a criminal for hire. Wallace Constantine took a break from his accounting job for a nostalgic vacation. Their paths should never have crossed. But when Ezekiel turns up to a quiet village in Greece for an easy job, he finds Wallace instead of his targets. And later, when an explosion rocks the city of Athens, Ezekiel is nearly killed, and Wallace gets the blame. The unlikely pair need to work together to pick up the pieces.

Eigentlich wollte ich aus meinem Job als Militärberater aussteigen, doch mein Chef hatte noch eine Idee für einen letzten lukrativen Undercover-Einsatz: Eine Milliardärstochter aus den Fängen von durchgeknallten Umweltaktivisten befreien und nach Hause bringen. Ärgerlich nur, dass die junge Frau das mit der Umwelt verdammt ernst meinte. Noch ärgerlicher: Für ein paar Sendeminuten auf CNN oder CBS war sie auch bereit, noch ein paar ganz andere Ideale zu opfern. Und dann lief die ganze Undercover-Aktion auf einmal aus dem Ruder, und ich war plötzlich mittendrin …

The Red Mutation is a geopolitical thriller that discloses the Chinese use of bioterror to achieve world domination. When the head of China’s Hunan Institute of Virology bioengineers a Covid-like virus mutation that kills an entire village with a single nanoparticle, China’s leaders believe they have created the perfect assassin: hidden, silent, and deadly. Indeed, the most powerful weapon ever devised by man.