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The Second World War rages on, but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle.

Barbarossa und Heinrich der Löwe, ein Reich vor dem Zerbrechen und ein unvergesslicher Held: Berengar ist ein brillanter Stratege und ein junger hitzköpfiger Kämpfer an der Seite der mächtigsten Männer des Reiches - und auf einer persönlichen Mission, die ebenso gefährlich ist wie seine Schlachten. Die faszinierende Erfolgsserie ist perfekter Hörstoff für Fans von Bernard Cornwell und Daniel Wolf. Italien, 1159. Das Reich ist ein Pulverfass. An der Seite von Kaiser Barbarossa und Heinrich dem Löwen zieht Berengar, Hitzkopf und Stratege zugleich, gegen die rebellierenden lombardischen Städte.

Sergeant Frank Hardy is an ex-soldier from Her Majesty's 57th Regiment who is scraping out a living in a small New Zealand settlement by driving a coach and playing rigged card games. But he's haunted by nightmares of things he's seen and done in wartime. When he's asked to find two missing Scandinavian settlers, he refuses - until he catches a glimpse of the cousin of one of the missing men.

Sergeant Frank Hardy and his wife Mette travel to the southernmost point of New Zealand to chase gold thieves and to retrieve a manuscript for Mette to translate. But they have chosen to travel on an ill-fated voyage. Twenty miles from Bluff, on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the SS Tararua hits a reef and sinks, with massive loss of life. This real event was the second-worst maritime disaster in New Zealand's history, in a country heavily reliant on shipping at that time. But the couple has more than a shipwreck to deal with.

The temperance movement has taken hold in New Zealand, and the country is locked in the depths of a depression as a new land war threatens. When Sergeant Hardy and his new wife find themselves in financial straits, Hardy takes on Dead Shot, a thoroughbred stallion from a town near the front. But the horse has been targeted by a brutal Australian gang trying to take over the racing world. Murder soon follows. When Hardy's wife disappears, apparently kidnapped by the gang, Hardy must track down the mysterious leader of the gang and take him out of commission.

After Sergeant Frank Hardy watches the invasion of a peaceful Māori village by the Armed Constabulary, with crops destroyed and innocent men imprisoned, he lays down his rifle and swears never to shoot in anger again. Then he learns that a contract killer has come from America to avenge the death of a crooked detective from San Francisco. The killer is targeting the Hardy family. Can Frank save his wife and children without relying on his weapons?

Back from the Bardo is a historical novel, action adventure and psychological thriller written over a forty-six year period. Back from the Bardo by James Cage is a unique and unforgettable listening experience.

Oog om oog, tand om tand? In het antieke Rome, 72 jaar voor Christus, gelden er andere wetten, al helemaal als het gaat om een slaaf die zijn meester vermoordt. Het enige dat de daders hebben achtergelaten is het verminkte lichaam en het woord ‘Sparta’. Terwijl detective Gordianus de Vinder de daders probeert op te sporen, vindt namelijk de bloedige opstand van Spartacus plaats - Rome is in rep en roer. Uiteindelijk wordt het ongenadige bevel om alle slaven van de vermoorde meester binnen drie dagen te doden als straf.