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Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He's an assassin - a man with no past and no surname. But when a Paris job goes spectacularly wrong, Victor finds himself running for his life across four continents, accompanied by a woman too beautiful to trust, pursued by enemies too powerful to escape.

e's never going to stop... Stalking the streets of Prague, James Ryker is on the hunt for justice when he hears a news report of a murder in rural England. Big problem. He knows the victim. Ten years ago, in Qatar, Ryker led a team of assassins to kill him. He thought they had. So how has a man...

A hitman must be anonymous, amoral... and alone. Victor is the face in the crowd you don't see, a perfect assassin with nothing to live for. But when an old friend turns to him for help, he finds he can't refuse. For once his objective isn't to kill but to protect. Hunted through the streets of London by ruthless enemies, Victor needs to be more than just a bodyguard...but his every move leads danger closer to the very person he's vowed to defend. Published in the US as No Tomorrow.

AD 1215: The year of Magna Carta - and Robin Hood's greatest battle. King John is scheming to reclaim his ancestral lands in Europe, raising the money for new armies by bleeding dry peasants and nobles alike, not least the earl of Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood - and his loyal man, Sir Alan Dale.

French Intelligence Officer Sophie Racine is tasked with travelling into the heart of a warzone in Ukraine. Her mission is to assassinate Sasha Vasilev, a Russian mole who took the French secret service apart piece by piece and gave their secrets to the Kremlin. Ex-SAS trooper and MI6 officer Aidan Snow is also in Ukraine. Sent by British Intelligence, he must extract Mohammed Iqbal, an innocent citizen caught up in the conflict in rebel-controlled Donetsk.

Jack Lark is The Devil's Assassin who stalks the streets of Bombay in this exhilarating and dangerous adventure by Paul Fraser Collard. History 'blazes across the pages' (Anthony Riches) in this series that will appeal to readers of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow. Bombay, 1857. Jack Lark is...

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless in battle, Silus unearths a conspiracy that runs deeper than his worst nightmares.

Assassin David Slaton clashes with the Russians in this action-packed espionage thriller from USA Today bestselling author Ward Larsen. Assassin's Run revives globe-trotting, hard-hitting assassin David Slaton for another breathless adventure. When a Russian oligarch is killed by a single bullet...

Brought to you by Penguin. They thought they found heaven on earth. They discover a living hell. When Brandt 'Doc' Savage and his girlfriend Kira land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they've found a perfect utopia. An escape from their tumultuous pasts. But they...

Dexter and John investigate a racially motivated group called American Renaissance that threatens to rip apart their Missouri town. While Dexter O’Kane, an antique dealer and owner of Antique Adventures, is looking for a website designer, he encounters Nelson Darby who needs the work. John Wood, Dexter’s partner in crime, has reservations about Nelson and the baggage he brings to the shop.

Detective Isaac Bell tracks a killer across the nation’s oilfields in this adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling historical series. As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly, the case...

Does anyone’s life turn out as they had planned? After graduating from high school at 14 years of age Rose planned to spend the summer hanging out with friends then head off to college in the fall. Her mother, on the other hand, had different expectations. Rose would spend the next three years as a house slave. After that she was free to do whatever she wanted. So Rose did the only thing she could. She ran away from home. With what seemed like very little effort Rose landed on her feet finding work as a maid then as kitchen help in an upscale restaurant in Carmel Valley.

Former NYPD detective Bart Sullivan has built a sanctuary for his family in the peaceful hills of North Carolina. Nobody can bother them here. But no matter how hard he tries, Bart is unable to silence the ghosts of his dark past; indeed, these ghosts are determined to track him down and make him answer for what he’s done. When a mysterious letter arrives, Bart learns a devastating secret: Maria, the woman who once saved his life during his undercover years, is dead—and she left behind a shocking secret.

In Angel the Assassin, Larry's father is a former military sniper who takes Larry at age 12 to be trained by ex-military snipers in the hills around Los Angeles, California. A vulnerable trans child, Larry/Lisa is supported by her mother. Lisa becomes a strong, successful, courageous, loving, and dangerous woman. When drug runners kill her father, Lisa vows revenge. After her first hit, she is recruited by the CIA to assassinate drug lords traveling to many countries around the world.

David Diegert is ensnared into serving Crepusculous, the secret society that controls the economy. In spite of his reluctance, Diegert is coerced into completing deadly missions in which the stakes keep getting higher. Set up to take the fall for killing a target of immense importance, his fragile world falls apart. Betrayed by Crepusculous, he becomes a fugitive sought after from all sides. An unexpected ally is found in a CIA agent convinced of Diegert’s innocence. She helps him escape, only to force him into undermining Crepusculous’s plan for economic collapse.

When Kirk McGarvey investigates the mysterious death of his parents so many years ago, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head to head and mano a mano with Vladimir Putin. After Mac calls Putin out, the Russian dictator decides he wants him dead. Battling Russian hit squads as well as enemies at home, McGarvey must fight like the devil to save the himself, his friends, and the US of A in this engrossing international thriller from David Hagberg.