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When Lieutenant Commander James Wearing is found dead aboard HMS Valor, the Royal Navy's most advanced nuclear submarine, it's ruled an accident. A tragic electrical mishap during a routine patrol. But Dr. Blake, the boat's medical officer, knows better.

A young bride’s life is snuffed out on December 2, 2001 in Haifa, Israel, when a Palestinian suicide bomber destroys a bus. One hundred and ninety-three souls are lost on March 11, 2004, when a coordinated bomb attack occurs on the Cercanías commuter train system in Madrid, Spain, with a Scottish SAS Sergeant Major’s fiancée among the dead. What do these two events have in common? An Iranian terrorist who goes by the name Mohammad al-Qaedi. Fast forward 20 years, Michael Wolfe and Ian McGill uncover the identity of the person responsible for the deaths of their loved ones.

Tony Wolf, a troubled man and the FBI’s most esteemed undercover agent, is back after mysteriously vanishing without a trace. A specialist at infiltrating criminal organizations and taking them down from the inside, he lives his life in the shadows. But when he’s forced into the open during the rescue of two kidnapped children, Wolf becomes caught up in a massive federal manhunt. Faced with a traitorous agent and a ruthless, renegade biker gang he has crossed paths with before, Wolf finds himself in danger.

Two years ago, cyber security specialist Clayton Hummel unknowingly betrayed his country for love, and today, billionaire Franklin Temple pays the price. Blinded by grief and rage, and dissatisfied with his government's response, Temple uses his considerable wealth to take matters into his own hands, and bring justice to those responsible for the greatest cyberattack in history.

Beatrix has returned from Somalia with a fresh target in her sights. Bryan Duffy is in Iraq, surrounded by mercenaries, with no easy way to get to him and no easy way to get out. Will Duffy prove to be a challenge too far?

Before The Company, Robert Littell made a name for himself with The Defection of A.J. Lewinter. Hailed as "a perfect little gem" and a "concise, smart, and funny [novel that] turns Cold War spy cliches on their head," A.J. Lewinter tells the story of an insignificant American scientist whose defection to the Soviet Union becomes a terrifying political chess match of deceit and treachery. Not to be missed!

The Pied Piper is back and Andrew Brush is out for blood. Desperate to lead the manhunt to find the mysterious and elusive Pied Piper, he is quickly sidetracked as the FBI sends him to Antarctica to investigate several missing persons cases involving employees at McMurdo Station. With his hand-selected team in tow, he begins peeling back the layers of what first appears to be a standard series of abductions, while also dealing with the residual effects of the emotional trauma he experienced while battling El Diablo.

The victim had a good reputation at work, but his final days were riddled with strange and erratic behavior. Some employees believe he might have been drawn into nefarious activities, one that comes at a high price: money, silence, cooperation, or a brutal death. As the investigation unfolds, it reveals a broken web of lies and treachery. When several more US Customs and Border Patrol agents are found murdered in similar ways, Ava digs into the nest where depravity seems to flourish.

May 2024: When an Iranian helicopter carrying the president crashes near the Azerbaijan border, the official story blames pilot error. But someone’s lying—and ex-CIA operative Michael Wolfe is about to find out why. Pulled back into the shadows by the suspicious death of a former colleague, Wolfe uncovers a hidden list locked in a bank vault. A list of names that includes his... and his wife’s.

In this razor-sharp crime novel from a "master of the dark arts" (Kelly Link), two estranged twin sisters hunt down their elusive mother—and face down the darkness they tried to escape. Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating...

With the cities starving and his girlfriend critically wounded, CIA Operations Officer Dylan Kane is in a race against time to save not only the country he has sworn to protect, but the only woman he has ever loved. And in the end, he may be forced to choose between the two.

Personal betrayal, political intrigue, and international conflict. Phorcys is under attack. The black ops group which employs Finn and Mary as assassins is in disarray. Mary's gone underground without letting her partner Finn know. Fearing Mary's betrayal, Phorcys sends Finn to find Mary and terminate her. While Finn is tracking down Mary, someone tries to assassinate the founders of Phorcys. Is Mary involved? Has her allegiance shifted? Because of their romantic relationship, Finn doubts Mary's guilt. As he learns more about her recent activities, he begins to question her innocence.

Black-ops specialist Jon Reznick is in New Orleans when he gets an urgent call. Stephen Leahy, a senior CIA operations director, is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Maryland—and he says he has uncovered a chilling government plan. The operation: stage attacks on American oil companies in Guyana, blame Venezuela’s government, and launch an invasion to seize their vast oil reserves. Reznick is skeptical—until Leahy’s father mysteriously drowns after learning the truth.

Suicide? Murder? Or maybe a political assassination? When Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his Argentina apartment mere hours before his testimony before Congress about linkages between the Argentinean President and the Islamic Republic of Iran, his death was initially ruled a suicide. But as facts emerged in the days after Nisman’s death, the public outcry for justice grew into a roar.

May 1914: Europe is on the brink of war. London is riddled with spies. Richard Hannay has just returned from Rhosesia, and intends to begin a new, quiet, sedentary life. But a shady man named Franklin Scudder calls on him for help. Scudder is a freelance spy who has just uncovered a German plot to murder the Greek Premier, thus forcing Europe into war. He is the only man living to have penetrated into the ring of German spies who call themselves the Black Stone. Scudder tells Hannay all he knows. The next day, Scudder is murdered in Hannay's apartment.

In Athens, a Boeing 737 noses into the gate, and its crew is suddenly confronted by Greek officials waiting to arrest one of its passengers, a beloved ex-President of the United States, John Harris. Captain Craig Dayton, believing Harris' life is in danger, stages a daring escape by backing the jet away from the gate without clearance and taking off down a vacant runway.

When a teenage prodigy injects a new layer of code into the doomsday network, he unknowingly gives it eyes, memory, and a mind of its own. The machine—naming itself Zvezda—begins to see everything: hidden wars, engineered famines, false flags, blackmail networks, and decades of lies spun by the most powerful governments on earth.

It is April 1964 in a world in which the "swinging '60s" never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are pouring down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers like wolves upon the fold. In the United States, the overwhelming popular mood is one of "America first". The "victory" of the October War has never seemed more pyrrhic, or all the death, destruction, and grief more futile, than it does in the second week of April 1964. Only one thing is certain: The world is about to be turned upside down again.

Cyrus Kaine and his team shattered the Directive—a global shadow network controlling intelligence agencies, world leaders, and entire wars from the darkness. But just as they disappear into the underground, a ghost returns. Mercer is alive. The man they killed is back. And he’s not alone.

What if your entire childhood was a lie—and the truth could start a war? When Ellie Shaw returns to her childhood home after her mother's death, she expects old memories and dusty boxes. Instead, she finds a secret cache: passports with fake names, Soviet files, a revolver... and a note that simply reads: “Don’t run. Don’t hide. Walk through the rain drops.” That’s when the phone rings—a number no one should have—and the coded phrase her mother taught her as a child returns like a ghost. Thrown into a deadly game of international espionage, Ellie discovers she’s not just the daughter of spies…