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THE STUNNING SECOND WORLD WAR THRILLER FROM THE CELEBRATED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SIMON SCARROW - COMING MARCH 2021. 'Taut and chilling - I was completely gripped' Anthony Horowitz 'A wonderfully compelling thriller, reeking of authenticity, and a terrific depiction of the human world...

John Milton's life is about to change. The former government assassin follows a lead to Manila that he hopes will transform everything. But things don't go to plan. He never expected to wake up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body. And, unfortunately for him, Milton doesn't remember a thing about the night before.... Thrown into a gruesome Filipino prison, he puts together the clues of his betrayal. With no allies and even less hope, Milton must use his wits to escape and take revenge....

A relentless, edge-of-you-seat action novel full of twists and turns from multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan. Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will not be disappointed. 'Hard as nails' -- Mirror 'Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff' -- Irish Times 'Great...

British M16 Agent and former SAS trooper Jack Tate is trying to escape his past when he witnesses a terrorist attack of unthinkable scale. An electro-magnetic pulse knocks out the US power grid, killing anything with a computer processor, throwing the whole country into chaos. Under the cover of the blackout, a clandestine operation aims to assassinate prominent public figures on US soil. Looting and violence spreads across the country. And Jack Tate’s past comes back to haunt him. 

Erschreckend realistisch! Zuerst ging das Licht in Italien aus. Dann brechen in ganz Europa die Stromnetze zusammen, die Kraftwerke schalten sich ab. Der totale Blackout. Der italienische Informatiker Piero Manzano vermutet einen Hackerangriff und versucht zu den Behörden durchzudringen –...

As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German, and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder.

Ein einziger Schlag, und die Welt, die Gordon Van Zandt kannte, existiert nicht mehr: Ein Super-EMP-Angriff trifft Nordamerika, Europa und den fernen Osten. Die Stromnetze brechen zusammen, elektrische Geräte versagen, Autos bleiben stehen, Telefone verstummen. Mit der Infrastruktur fällt die...

Some betrayals detonate in code. Others explode at ground zero. Blackout operative Maverick Adams's surf session on Lantern Beach is cut short when an FBI agent blasts into his world, arresting him for crimes he didn't commit. When he learns that his digital fingerprints implicate him in a...

When the lights go out…the lies begin. A sudden nationwide blackout plunges America into chaos. Planes fall from the sky. Hospitals go dark. Cities grind to a halt. And for civil engineer Jake Bendel, it’s just the beginning. What looks like a catastrophic infrastructure failure quickly reveals something far more sinister—a coordinated attack powered by advanced drone technology and a level of precision no one thought possible. As the government scrambles to contain the crisis, Jake uncovers a terrifying truth: This wasn’t an accident. It was a test. Now the system is coming back online…

John Milton a eu plusieurs vies : assassin, fugitif, justicier. Mais après des mois de sobriété durement gagnés, il a réussi à se remettre sur les rails… jusqu’à ce qu’un black-out dans une chambre d’hôtel à Manille vienne tout changer. Milton se réveille sans le moindre...

Ein Anschlag zwingt Amerika in die Knie. Der Kampf ums Überleben beginnt. Ein einziger EMP-Angriff legt das Energienetz der Vereinigten Staaten lahm. Kein Strom, keine Motoren, keine Ordnung – die einst mächtigste Nation der Welt fällt binnen Stunden in sich zusammen. John Beck ist kein...

In Turning Point, the Ryman family faces a life altering decision - should we stay or should we go? The oldest and strongest emotion in man is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. Will Americans flee the urban centers, the proverbial golden hordes, for the countryside? Will it be safer than the cities? Turning Point will lead the Ryman family into a complex, inexplicable world where danger lurks around every bend.

Society is broken, lying in the rubble of a global economic crash. Unemployment, suspicion and terrorism are interwoven like threads in a tapestry. On a dark night in Edinburgh, an explosion rocks Jack's world to the core and he is soon enveloped into the shadowy fringes of the law as he seeks to discover the truth behind what happened. Confronting the culture of fear that has evolved in the country fraught with terrorism and rioting, Jack faces the brutality and prejudice of the new United Kingdom.