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Fifteen years ago, three 16-year-old girls meet at Wescott, an exclusive private school in India. Two, Sabah and Noor, are the most popular girls in their year. One, Alia, is a new arrival from England who feels her happiness depends on their acceptance. Before she knows it, Sabah and Noor’s intoxicating world of privilege and intimacy opens up to Alia and, for the first time, after years of neglect from her parents, she feels she is exactly where, and with whom, she belongs. But with intimacy comes jealousy, and with privilege, resentment....

Eddie Drood, at your service. For generations my family has been keeping humanity safe from the wicked, the nasty, and the generally not-nice inhuman predators who feed on people’s fear and misery. No one kicks evil arse better than us Droods - especially yours truly.

It's a jungle out there. Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, an eternally sleepless, sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot's gone missing, and he's taken the state treasury along with him. No stranger to impossible missions and international peril, Tanner's been in over his head before. This time, however, he's in imminent danger of being buried alive. And it all has to do with the CIA, white supremacists, moderate revolutionaries...and a blond jungle bombshell named (no joke!) Sheena.

A family in England is massacred, the father left holding the shotgun. PC Lucy Davies is convinced he's innocent. A sleeper agent in Moscow requests an urgent meeting with Dan Forrester, referencing their shared past. His amnesia means he has no idea whom he can trust. An aging oligarch in Siberia gathers his henchmen to discuss an English accountant. It's Dan's wife.

The beloved thirteen-year-old from The Ingenue, book two of the Jamie Austen Spy thrillers, needs rescuing again. Bae drops out of college in a quest to be the next Jamie Austen. Can't get enough of Jamie Austen and her obsession to save girls? This time Jamie's mission is right here in the United States and it's personal. Someone has kidnapped Bae and it's a race against time to find her.

INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER An elite secret society of killers has controlled the world’s treasures for hundreds of years…until one member tears himself free to salvage his soul and protect his daughter’s life in this “astoundingly original, relentlessly paced, and purely...

Elle est une hackeuse de génie. Une justicière impitoyable qui n'obéit qu'à ses propres lois. Il est journaliste d'investigation. Un reporter de la vieille école, persuadé qu'on peut changer le monde avec un article. La revue Millénium, c'est toute sa vie. Quand il apprend qu'un chercheur de pointe dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle détient peut-être des informations explosives sur les services de renseignements américains, Mikael Blomkvist se dit qu'il tient le scoop dont Millénium et sa carrière ont tant besoin.

Recently unemployed after quitting a boring office job, Alexis Stanton finds a mysterious ad in the help wanted section that might prove to be the answer to her desire for excitement and adventure. After an intense application process, including actually fighting with her competition, she gets the job of her dreams. But is it going to kill her?

A 13-year-old boy commits suicide. A 65-year-old man dies of a heart attack. Dan Forrester, ex-MI5 officer, is connected to them both. And when he discovers that his godson and his father have been murdered, he teams up with his old friend, DC Lucy Davies, to find answers....

Het is 1974 als in Moskou de 18-jarige Tatjana Petrovna gruwelijk wordt verkracht omdat ze weigert voor de Russische geheime dienst te werken. Ruim veertig jaar later woont Anne Kramer, chef Recherche van de Amsterdamse politie, samen met Harold Brown, chef Centrale Nederlandse Inlichtingendienst. Ze zijn gelukkig met elkaar, maar Brown blijkt geen open kaart te spelen. Langzaam maar zeker sijpelt de geschiedenis van Tatjana in Moskou hun relatie binnen. De gevolgen zijn desastreus.

President Robert Thompson, ensnared in a fetish-related scandal and facing imminent impeachment, fakes his own assassination with the help of his ambitious wife and psychiatrist. His goal? To secure his legacy and vanish to an island. This satirical tale follows Thompson’s transformation from disgraced politician to mythic hero. As story plot unfolds, his psychiatrist, Petros Andros (Pete), finds himself entangled in a web of deceit, obsession, and indiscretions of his own.

John Sand may be married, but he’s not dead. In the early 1960s, John Sand just retired as a British secret agent. On his honeymoon with his new wife, Stacey Boldt - the heiress to a Texas oil fortune - they are interrupted by an unfriendly blast from the past. Now an executive with Boldt Oil in Houston, Sand finds himself, and his bride, pulled back into the world of espionage when JFK himself recruits him for a dangerous job in Cuba.

In a time of societal darkness, Mira Hastings and Grayson Stevens join a cadre of brave individuals who stand against a juggernaut of evil by putting their lives on the line to rescue ill-fated youngsters from certain death. In a bold attempt to bring down the beast, they publicly expose the greed and corruption that drives the system. Declared enemies of the state, Mira and Gray are forced underground as they flee the wrath of a vengeful government.

Vivienne Michel, una joven canadiense, trata de huir de un pasado lleno de decepciones amorosas. Inicia un viaje por Estados Unidos y termina hospedándose en un pequeño hotel de carretera. No mucho después, dos peligrosos asesinos llegan al hotel y Vivienne se ve amenazada por el terrible peligro que representan. Pero entonces entra en juego un inglés tremendamente carismático, que se enfrentará a muerte a los asesinos y hará que la joven, que se siente fascinada por el británico, recupere la esperanza en la vida.

After a 20 year career as an assassin for an unnamed government agency, Finn joined Phorcys, a private contractor providing permanent solutions when disreputable people cause problems for our government.

When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover.

Sie sind Schwestern, und sie bekämpfen einander mit allen Mitteln. Denn beide wollen sich das Imperium ihres verstorbenen Vaters sichern, eines Drogenbosses in Guatemala City. Der blutige Streit dauert bereits Jahre, und die amerikanische Drug Enforcement Administration versucht von heimischem Territorium aus vergebens, den Drogenkrieg zu beenden. Die Fehde fordert immer neue Todesopfer, zudem hat sich nun eine der Schwestern eine ganz besondere Waffe in diesem Kampf gesichert: Victor.

Duncan Cochrane quit politics to escape the sins of his past, but two years later, he's pulled back in to protect his imprisoned son, and a death row inmate who just might be innocent. To do so, he must find new sources of power and new ways to inspire the voters who turned on him.

When five people die from tainted pain medication, Governor Duncan Cochrane must lead the investigation. The clues quickly point to sabotage, threatening all the citizens of Chicago. Meanwhile, his son’s drunken confession leaks to a journalist with an agenda. To protect his reputation and his family, Duncan keeps the boy by his side, yet he also needs to campaign for reelection. Can he manage all three without sacrificing his family or his office?

Two years have passed since the murder of Duncan Cochrane’s daughter. As governor, he now holds the power to punish all criminals, yet he cannot prosecute her killer without destroying his political career. Then two new threats emerge: A sniper begins targeting people in Chicago’s most notorious housing project, Cabrini Green, and a blackmailer plans to reveal his ruinous family secret. He moves into the tenements and begins parallel manhunts for both enemies.