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One of the most popular suspense novels of all time. A well-dressed man stalks the high-class neighborhoods of New York City. He is armed with an ice axe. His victims are strangers. And one cop, Captain Ed Delaney must solve a series of bizarre, gruesome murders that defy logic or method. This shocking story has captured the imaginations of millions like no other modern thriller.

When customer complaints on Christmas Eve about tenfold inflated bank balances herald not early gifts, nor a botched system upgrade, but the most sophisticated cyber attack in history, National Bank Chief Operating Officer Rob Tanner finds himself in the eye of a ‘Black Swan’ storm no one predicted, but anyone could have anticipated. Tanner enlists the help of brilliant American cyber security expert Ashley Markham, but the attacks only worsen.

Se acerca el invierno y a Jack Reacher lo buscan desde el corazón mismo del poder: el Servicio Secreto de los Estados Unidos lo necesita. La misión es tan secreta como urgente, y el más mínimo fallo puede poner en riesgo la democracia más sólida del planeta. Entre pistas ambiguas, profundas desconfianzas y la presencia fantasmal de su hermano, Reacher deberá afinar al extremo sus sentidos y mantener su cabeza despejada –si su corazón se lo permite– para investigar las intrigas de Washington y de las fuerzas de seguridad.

The year is 1927, and the Big Easy is abuzz at the gruesome death of Charles St. Claire. The evidence points to St. Claire’s widow, glamorous movie actress Remy Lelourie. Handsome police detective Damon Rourke is as ready to believe her guilt as everyone else - even if she is his former lover. The only trouble is that Rourke has an obsession with finding the truth, and the truth in this case is tangled up in family ties that go back generations.

Before Kimball Hayden became a Vatican Knight, he was the commander of the Pieces of Eight, a kill squad that worked as part of a black-arm force of the CIA. He kills with impunity and acts with the cold fortitude of a machine. But when he begins to question the morality of his actions and the motives of his superiors, he is placed within the crosshairs by high-end principals who want to see him dead.

After falling in love and making a quick exit from her nine-year career in the USAWMD (United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction), ex-spy Sally Sin does her best to become Lucy Hamilton, a stay-at-home mom in San Francisco. No one, not even her adoring husband Will, knows about her...

Uniontown is bracing for a vicious primary election season when terror strikes its historic downtown. Two young women are found murdered in separate locations near East Main Street—staged, carefully positioned, and disturbingly untouched. With no forensic evidence, no signs of struggle, and no sexual component, the murders seem almost ritualistic, calculated by someone who kills for pleasure, not compulsion. Lieutenant Richard Vance of the Uniontown City Police feels the city slipping toward panic as a third body surfaces near the old Fayette Bank building—this time in broad daylight.

When a high-level intelligence official is nearly assassinated in the heart of New York, Navy SEAL-turned-black ops operative John Ryder is pulled back into a war he thought he left behind. The attack bears the signature of The Fourth Estate, a ruthless shadow organization manipulating governments, wars, and economies from the shadows. But the deeper Ryder digs, the more personal the mission becomes.

SIN SALIDA, SIN PERDÓN, SIN MIEDOEsta es una carrera contrarreloj para evitar un ataque terrorista con el telón de fondo del G-7 en Bombay. El exoperativo español David Ribas no puede huir de su pasado. En España se aprueba una orden para asesinarle y el terrorista marroquí Nabil Abderrahman lo busca para vengarse por la muerte de su padre. Todos los actores confluyen en Bombay, donde va a celebrarse la cumbre del G-7, con la asistencia de importantes dignatarios internacionales.

With the annual G7 Summit over, the leaders of the world’s top seven countries feel confident about their plan to strengthen the global economy after the devastation COVID-19 caused a decade ago. That is, until they receive a disturbing video from the terrorist group, Mortifer, and the world is thrust into chaos. Capital cities across the globe are brought to their knees by attacks with a new biochemical weapon, one unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. Each leader struggles to maintain control of his or her own country - and personal life.

On a flight to Washington D.C., the past 12 years of Michael Warren’s life begin to unravel. An environmental lobbyist, Michael is on his way to testify before a Senate Committee, and destroy the plans for a housing development built on land tainted with the same toxic waste that killed his six-year-old daughter, Dominique. A cassette handed to Michael by a stranger on the plane changes everything.

El carisma político de un joven profesional lo lleva sorpresivamente a la Presidencia de la República. Sus propuestas, sin embargo, son demasiado candorosas como para poder conducirlas a buen fin. Y en medio de una intriga poselectoral enrarecida por la tensión entre el nuevo presidente y la coalición de partidos que lo ha llevado al poder, aparece un misterioso personaje con un proyecto providencial que podría resolver la difícil coyuntura política y económica que aguarda al nuevo gobierno.

In a world where limitless violence defines the very nature of life on the depraved streets, respect is seized at the tip of the blade and the muzzle of the weapon that punctuate life and death when the line between the two is all but invisible. Follow Anya as she battles ultimate deceit, boundless depravity, and the endless thirst for more of everything the dark side of humanity has for sale when money is no object and human life is but a whisper between echoing eternities.

Lust...Nowhere on Earth is the very essence of the word nurtured, encouraged, and exploited more than deep inside Sin City. Russian SVR assassin-turned-American-agent Anya Burinkova must relive the horrors of her training at the hands of her former Soviet masters to claw her way into a terrifying world where human life is little more than a commodity for sale to the highest bidder in this journey behind the glittering lights, and into the depths of the real Las Vegas that few ever see and even fewer survive.

After a physical altercation with an aggressive date, Sloane's best friend Maddie drives home, vowing never to go on another blind date again. Headlights flash off and on through her car's back windshield. Someone is following close behind, trying to run her off the road. When Maddie's car careens into a nearby tree, the chase comes to an end. But for Maddie, the end is just the beginning.

In Lara Elena Donnellys glamourösem Spionagethriller opfert ein Doppelagent all seine Ideale, um seinen Schmuggler-Geliebten zu retten, bevor ein Regierungsputsch ihre dekadente Stadt übernehmen kann.