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1943, Nazi-occupied Holland. Turning up her collar against the wind, Trix prepares for her rendezvous. Living a double life is desperately lonely, but the longer she goes under her alias, Felix, the more comfortable she becomes with this new version of herself – one who will stand up for what is right, and fight for those who can't. That is, until the warm brown eyes of a pilot from her past spark hope for a life after the war.

Some missions are meant to prevent war. Others are designed to start one. Former Special Forces NCO Nathan Kang thought his days running dangerous black ops were behind him... until his old commander recruits him back into the CIA for one final job: infiltrate North Korea and seek to prevent a...

In a remand centre in the Ural Mountains, Oxana Vorontsova awaits trial for triple murder. Not what you’d expect from a star linguistics student. Half a world away, her potential has been noted. Sprung from prison and trained in the dark arts of assassination, she’s reborn as the beautiful, lethal Villanelle. The price of her luxurious new life: to eliminate targets assigned to her by a shadowy group of all-powerful businessmen.

She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers. Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits. Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to. She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness. Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.

1940 A bomb drops destroying everything London railwayman Jim Tate holds dear. Fuelled by a desperate desire for vengeance, Tate passes selection for the elite Special Operations Executive (SOE), transforming into a deadly, German-speaking commando tasked with wreaking havoc in Nazi-occupied France. 1961 Tate has traded the shadowy world of espionage for a quiet civilian life as a railway engineer in Kenya. But his hard-won peace is shattered when fellow SOE operative, Adrian Snow – 'Cloak' to his 'Dagger' – arrives out of the dust with news that will drag Tate back to one chilling day in 1942

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Name Is Nobody by Matthew Richardson, read by Colin Mace. 'I know a secret. A secret that changes everything...' Solomon Vine was the best of his generation, a spy on a fast track to the top. But when a prisoner is shot in unexplained circumstances on...

Chi è Mario M? Scopri le sue origini, la sua storia, le sue avventure, il suo vissuto, com'è diventato l'uomo che è oggi! Cinque volumi per emozionarti, diversi stili narrativi, un susseguirsi di emozioni senza sosta.

Dopo aver riannodato i fili della sua vita e aver trovato la sua strada, in breve diventa il migliore nel suo campo. Anche se di tanto in tanto una sorta d'insoddisfazione gli fa rimpiangere il passato. Una sera salva un ragazzino dalla furia del padre che, scoperta la sua omosessualità, lo sta picchiando furiosamente. Non accetta che un genitore possa comportarsi in quel modo, e decide di aiutare il ragazzo, senza immaginare che quell'incontro cambierà la sua vita.

Mario crede di aver trovato finalmente la felicità da quando lui e Roberto sono di fatto una coppia. Ma non è ancora il momento. La ricomparsa di Julien è il preludio al riaffiorare dei fantasmi di un passato che cerca disperatamente di cancellare. Credeva di non poter essere più felice, invece scopre prima di essere padre di Mario Junior, figlio di Kala, concepito sull'isola dov'erano naufragati, e adottato da Julien alla sua morte.

C'è chi dice che il destino disegni le nostre vite e noi non possiamo far altro che subire. Io ho sempre creduto, invece, che ognuno di noi è il "carnefice" di sé stesso. Siamo noi, con le scelte che compiamo, a pilotare la nostra vita... Infatti spesso mi sono chiesto: "Avrò fatto la scelta giusta?" Mario ci racconta una parte dolorosa della sua vita. Anni che lo hanno forgiato e segnato in positivo, ma soprattutto con avvenimenti negativi.

Mario è un ragazzo con i suoi pregi, i suoi difetti, i suoi sogni, vive un rapporto difficile con il padre ed è alla ricerca dell'amore. Come tutti i ragazzi della sua età. Ciò che lo differenzia dagli altri è l'innato altruismo che spesso gli causa problemi. Come quel giorno a Napoli, quando aiuta Harby, agente segreto statunitense, il quale lo coinvolge in una rischiosissima missione, a seguito della quale, braccato dalla camorra che lo vuole morto, è costretto a scappare dalla sua vita tranquilla.

Mary Dumont is a third officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service working at the Admiralty Communications Centre in London in 1942 where she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to become a wireless operator-saboteur. Parachuted into France, Mary joins a small band of resistance fighters where she leads a double life, a schoolteacher by day, a wireless operator by night; all goes horribly wrong, Mary is captured and tortured by an SS major who is determined to obtain both her codes and the names of her companions.

A mystic's daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War. A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front. A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity. An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books. Each will make a journey that changes history. Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems with zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, chessmen, cyanide, butterflies, and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India, and Latin America, it is a kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry, and resistance.

She changed her identity, but terror found her. When Ana Summer was ten years old, her birthday ended in blood. A terrorist attack on her kibbutz in Israel stole her young cousin's life, and her mother's abduction shattered her world. Left behind by her grief-stricken father, Ana was sent across the globe to the remote mountains of West Maui to rebuild her life and distance herself from her past. But some things refuse to stay buried. Decades later, Ana has built a life in Hawaii — safe, isolated, and tightly guarded.

Westmorland, 1949. Someone is mutilating livestock on the fells. Who would do such a horrible thing? Ruth Tyler, a police sergeant based in Ambleside, needs to speak to the fly camper in a hidden valley.

In Moscow a serial killer is on the loose - taking his victims' hair as a souvenir, carefully removing the buttons from their clothes. For Militia Colonel Dimitri Danilov, a good cop with a bad personal life, catching this madman is a matter of pride. But then the killer brings the U.S. government into the case. The latest victim is an American embassy economist, the beautiful niece of a powerful U.S. senator, and a woman with kinky secrets of her own. Now Danilov must team up with elite FBI agent Bill Cowley.

Who have you spoken to about me? What do you know about Operation Wahasha? What have you told Detective Sara Nowak? These are the last words priest Jürgen Stiller hears before he is executed by a former terrorist known only by the codename 'Faust'. Then the killer begins the hunt for Detective...