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Brought to by Penguin. 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD __________________________________ They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance. Cross is met with...

Ex-spy Kendal was one of the best, but now she’s wearing the toughest disguise of her career: Mom. “An incisive feminist thriller and heaps of fun.”—Margot Douaihy Kendal Carter is out in the cold and she wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s been four years since her daughter Rosie...

'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD __________________________________ They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance. Cross is met with shocking news that his...

Brought to you by Penguin. Isaac Bell returns for another thrilling mission in a new book from the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler. Charismatic, handsome, and fiercely loyal, Isaac Bell is a no-nonsense private detective at the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Travelling all over early 20th...

For Kay, living on her husband Bror's country estate, the Nazi invasion is a time of uncertainty. Bror is desperate to preserve the legacy of his home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy; Kay cannot do the same. She is lured by British Intelligence into a world of resistance. Tasked with protecting an SOE agent, Kay learns the art of subterfuge. Caught on opposing sides, will Kay and Bror find their way back to one another?

Jane Seymour of Wiltshire is not meant to go to Court. Not a child like her, with her lack of beauty and no title. But family connections are enough to have her named to the bridal retinue of Mary Tudor. At the French Court, the plain and docile Jane meets the girl who will grow into her rival in years to come: the already charismatic and conniving Anne Boleyn. Soon back home in the English countryside, Jane wants nothing more than peace and quiet—and the devotion of her childhood protector, William Dormer. 

Chefen för de hemliga ryska operationerna i Östersjön uppsöker den svenska ambassaden i Kairo och meddelar att han vill hoppa av. Hans bakgrund och kunskap är av största vikt för Sverige och han måste snabbt och diskret föras till Stockholm. Uppdraget kan bara anförtros en man - Carl Hamilton. Hans instruktioner är glasklara, alla medel är tillåtna i nationens intresse. Jan Guillous serie om Carl Hamilton blev omedelbart en stor framgång, som med åren kom att växa till Sveriges största romansuccé genom tiderna. I nationens intresse är den tredje delen i serien och utkom 1988.

From award-winning editor and former editorial director of Mulholland Books, Josh Kendall, comes a gripping page-turner--a love story wrapped in a spy thriller, set in East Africa. If there is one thing former soldier-turned-private security contractor Lachlan Smith knows, it is this: do as you...

‘Tense, gripping and packed with twists’ Lucy Clarke Someone is watching your every move… Holly Lawrence always wanted to be a spy, but the experience proved more dangerous than anything she imagined. Now, Holly lives in hiding under an assumed name. She avoids relationships and trusts no...

Bloomsbury presents All I Said Was True by Imran Mahmood, read by Tanvi Virmani. Longlisted for the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 'A thoroughly compulsive ticking-clock thriller’ TM LOGAN 'The very definition of a compulsive page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER...

Wedded contract killers Quinn and Natalia Barrett fear their intended final operation may have served as the trigger, and now find themselves on the run from a past neither can escape. Adam Young’s worst fears have seemingly become genuine. His country has fallen under attack. His son has once again gone off the radar, and while preparing his family for the worst Adam believes is approaching, he struggles to untangle the various kinks existent in his multidimensional household.

A young seminary professor, Augustine Knox, is drawn into a deadly race to save priceless parchments from antiquities thieves and discovers a two- thousand-year old connection with another who faced death for the sake of the truth. I, Saul consists of two riveting adventures in one, transporting you between the stories of Augustine Knox and Saul of Tarsus.

Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet general when an American friend deposits a dead Russian spy in his frozen apartment. The race to take possesion of the dead spy's secert soon begins and threatens Pavel's friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his budding love for his upstairs neighbour, Sonia.

'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD __________________________________ They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance. Cross is met with shocking news that his...

But once Margaret begins to unravel the secrets of Bletchley Park, Betty finds herself thrust—untrained—into the deadly world of counter-espionage. And as the pair begin a critical game of cat and mouse with each other, the situation rapidly becomes ever more desperate. With a highly dangerous newcomer suddenly arriving on the scene, the fate of Britain's most vital war secret hangs entirely on the outcome of the two women’s deeply personal conflict. But which one of them has really been the cat, and which one the mouse?

In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, Stone's past collides with the agenda of GlobaTech Industries, the world's leading private military contractor. As war looms and a devastating terrorist attack rocks the globe, GlobaTech assembles an elite team to restore order. But when Stone's history entangles with their mission, he must decide where his priorities lie. James P. Sumner's D.E.A.D. Till I Die, the explosive first entry in the GlobaTech techno-thriller series, offers a chillingly plausible portrayal of modern warfare.

When her childhood best friend shows Ella that you can't always believe what you see, Ella finds herself thrown into the world of the German Resistance. On a dark night in 1941, Claudia is taken by the Gestapo, likely never to be seen again, unless Ella can save her. With the help of the man she loves, Ella must undertake her most dangerous mission yet and infiltrate the Nazi Party.

On a moonlit night in 1943 an Indian princess was parachuted in to occupied France to join the Resistance as a radio operator code-named Aurora. Daughter of a Sufi mystic, she had declined the Special Operations Executive firearms training because she did not want to kill anyone - yet she landed in Brittany knowing that she had a 50 per cent chance of arrest, interrogation and torture by the Gestapo, and death - which for captured agents could sometimes not come soon enough.

Romanen för oss rätt in i den ryska maktens hjärta, där oligarker och hovmän utkämpar ett evigt krig. Och där Baranov, som blivit regimens främste spinndoktor, förvandlar ett helt land till en politisk teater, där allt som verkligen betyder något är att uppfylla tsarens önskningar. Men Vadim Baranov är inte som sina ärelystna medtävlare: han är en poet som förirrat sig in bland vargarna. Djupt indragen i det dunkla system han själv varit med om att skapa gör han allt för att undkomma det.

New York, due di notte. Un vagone della metropolitana corre semivuoto sotto la città. A bordo, sei figure stanche, una delle quali è Jack Reacher, l'eroe solitario che ha scelto una vita da vagabondo per le strade d'America. Mentre cerca di ammazzare la noia, Reacher nota qualcosa di strano in uno dei suoi compagni di viaggio, una donna seduta in fondo al vagone. Tutto nel suo comportamento sembra corrispondere alle caratteristiche contenute nell'elenco stilato dai servizi segreti israeliani per individuare un terrorista suicida.