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Brought to you by Penguin. Robert Langdon is back in the long-awaited new race-against-time thriller from the global bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s been invited to give in Prague, Robert...

Petra McBride is at a crossroads. Her work with Police Scotland’s Complex Crimes Unit has come to an end, she’s been forced to abandon her academic career, and she’s homeless. It looks like she has no options.

He followed a memory he should have buried. Evil was waiting. When archaeologist Michael Rempart learns that Irina—the woman he once believed dead—is alive in St. Petersburg, he abandons everything to find her. Fifteen years have passed since they were young and in love. Time has hardened them both. But Irina is more than changed. Shadows move behind her eyes. Her thoughts slip into voices not her own. And whenever Michael is near her, reality fractures.

The #1 Bestseller. Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former élite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. When Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life. The document is alleged to contain the formula for the elixir of life, discovered by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades before.

A 4,000-year-old mystery lurks in the hills of Georgia. While investigating a strange series of ancient symbols, an archaeologist vanishes, and a professor he entrusted with the secret is murdered. Former government agent Sean Wyatt learns of his friend's disappearance and the murder. Now he must unravel the clues to the ancient mystery that holds incredible power.

When Father Michael Dominic uncovers a sealed Renaissance letter hidden deep within the Vatican Archives, he awakens a five-hundred-year-old secret buried by Pope Clement VII at the height of the Medici dynasty. Joined by investigative journalist Hana Sinclair, Michael follows a trail of clues through forgotten chapels, papal confessions, and ancient astronomical alignments, each step drawing them deeper into a mystery the Church once swore to silence.

Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and the future of religion. Fatima, Portugal...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and...

Amid a mountain of rain-soaked donations to the Ohnita Harbor Public Library rummage sale, Gabriela Domenici finds a small box that contains an odd-looking cross. The carved center turns out to be ivory, and a clue links the cross to Catherine of Siena, a medieval saint. Gabriela turns to her expertise as an authenticator of historic documents to lead the quest to discover the truth about this mysterious object. But the cross isn’t the only secret in town: first, a beloved Ohnita Harbor resident is found floating in the harbor; then, someone else is murdered on the library lawn.

In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: The Soviet Union. The Soviets have hit the ground running, and Cronley's job is to help frustrate them, harass them, and spy on them any way he can.

‘This 5-star thriller is a non-stop action-packed adventure… Reads like the latest blockbuster film… I was left breathless, my heart pounding as I turned the last page’ NetGalley review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You’ve cracked the Da Vinci code, now uncover the Vatican secret… The deepest...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE “A master of the brainy, twisty thriller. . . . The Secret of Secrets is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is also a meditation on the nature...

On the last day of his life, fourteen-year-old Jeff Skelly went off in search of six boys who were doing their best to avoid him. He never returned. Forty-two years later, his remains were uncovered, launching the hunt for his killer. Who else would die to protect the secret.

Disappearances, deaths, threats.... The local police are beginning to suspect all these crimes are linked. They're being committed by the sinister and mysterious Volkov family. There's just one problem: They can't prove it. In order to take down the Volkovs and put a stop to these crimes, they call in a young, ambitious policeman, Antonin Jelennski. Antonin travels hundreds of miles, leaving his fiancee behind, to go undercover and infiltrate the Volkovs' organization. He pins down incriminating evidence, but he finds far more than they ever expected.

When a brutal attack leaves a priest close to death and screaming of dark prophecies, Professor Alex Harker once again finds himself pulled into the shadowy world of the Magi. On dubious pretenses, Harker must join a desperate search for the missing child he has sworn to protect. But as he edges closer to the truth, he realizes the child’s importance pales in significance to the cataclysmic events unfolding around him.

For over five hundred years, the Voynich Manuscript has remained one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the literary world. Its strange botanical drawings, arcane symbols, and cryptic language have defied the best minds of every generation. But when long-lost fragments emerge from the shadows, they point to a secret codex that could unlock not only the manuscript’s meaning but a dangerous truth long buried by history. Drawn into the chase is Father Michael Dominic, a brilliant Vatican archivist who has dedicated his life to preserving the Church’s most sensitive records.

Doc Holiday and his team mistakenly think their mission is accomplished when they alert President Prescott of the return of a deadly enemy they once thought they’d seen the last of. But then they learn the president fears his “Book of Secrets” may never be seen again. This time, there’s no need to summon “The President’s Dozen”. They - and a couple of new members (and a pair of familiar allies) - are already up to their necks in danger when the mysterious and deadly threats are identified and understood. So hold on to your seat, because here they go again!

A long-lost diary, a rare book of ghost stories, and unrelenting nightmares combine to send archeologist Michael on a forbidden journey into the occult and his own past. When archaeologist Michael Rempart returns to his ancestral home after years of self-imposed exile, he expects memories. He does not expect nightmares. Visions stalk his sleep. Voices whisper from the dark. And a long-lost diary tied to the legendary writer Lafcadio Hearn reveals a secret buried deep within his bloodline—one that leads halfway across the world to Japan…

In the fourth century of the Christian era, the Emperor Constantine ordered the Bishop of Jerusalem to make fifty copies of the Holy Scriptures in Latin. His mother, Saint Helen, had gone to Jerusalem where she reportedly found true cross of Christ and brought with her an earth shaking secret to her son. The Emperor passed that secret on to the Bishop of Jerusalem and swore him and all of his successors to secrecy forever on pain of death and the loss of his soul.

A massive security breach in China. CIA operations compromised in Turkey. Undercover ops breaking down the world over. A techno-terrorist group dubbed “Archon” has unleashed a terrifying new technology that can break any encryption. Humanity’s secrets are about to be laid bare, and global order tilts toward chaos. Up against a doomsday clock, CIA officer Colt McShane hatches a desperate plan: infiltrate Archon, capture one of the terrorist group’s leaders, and force them to divulge the kill switch.