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Court Gentry is the last surviving member of his family. His brother, Chance, was a police officer who lost his life years ago in a line of duty shooting. So how is it possible that Court catches a glimpse of his brother at their father’s funeral? It’s this shocking development that sends Court on a quest for the truth and a search for his missing sibling. But the dark state will do anything to keep its secrets.

What would you sacrifice to destroy the monsters who created you? Jake Morrison thought finding his father was the end of his journey. He was wrong —it was only the beginning.

Brought to you by Penguin. *Buckle up for a ride like no other. The world's bestselling hero is back, in a high-octane new thriller...* Jack Reacher is hard to find. It's not easy to track him down. And he likes it that way. But General Susan Turner, based deep inside the Pentagon, has the means...

What happens when the conspiracy you exposed was only the beginning —and the people you trusted most have been lying to you all along? Jake Morrison thought bringing down Senator Reeves and exposing the corruption would end the nightmare. Instead, it triggered something far worse. Federal prosecutor Jennifer Kline is dead —car bombed for getting too close to the truth. Deputy Director Walsh offers to testify, but his price is immunity for thirty years of crimes.

Across Britain, violent criminals are walking free – cases derailed by sharp-suited defence lawyers and soft-touch judges – and public fury is reaching breaking point. Into that anger step the New Crusaders, a shadowy group that hunts down offenders who have slipped through the net and delivers their own brand of punishment live across social media to millions of cheering followers. To some, they're heroes. To the government, they're terrorists.

CATO AND MACRO ARE ARMED TO THE HILT FOR THE EPIC 25TH ADVENTURE IN THE EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Twenty years have passed since the raw recruit Cato faced Centurion Macro on the training ground. Now scarred heroes of the Roman army's toughest conflicts...

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...

Full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of the first five Falco novels by Lindsey Davis, starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco. The Silver Pigs: One fine day, A.D. 70, Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the run from a...

Brought to you by Penguin. It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'. For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something...

A charming seaside mystery with heart, humour and a determined female sleuth. Ordinarily, there’s not too much crime to speak of in Port Erin, a sleepy seaside village on the Isle of Man. So when Quinn Flitcroft, working as an insurance fraud investigator in England, hears about a gruesome murder in her hometown, she is understandably horrified. Quinn is fairly confident that her former Isle of Man Constabulary colleagues will wrap this case up in no time.

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's...

Don’t get involved, they said. It’s none of your business. County Cavan, Ireland. 1987. Dr Jakob Kane is looking for a fresh start when he takes on a rural locum position covering for Dr James Killan, a highly regarded GP who’s in hospital after an assault. The job seems like a perfect career opportunity and chance to shake off his bad guy reputation, but Kane can’t help but wonder – who’d attack a country doctor? And why? It’s not long before Kane realises something disturbing is going on. Strange phone calls. Missing files. Morphine addiction.

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken...

As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep, and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.

'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILD From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES IN THE IMPOSSIBLE A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION In the high summer heat...

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride in Nebraska. At last, he's picked up by...

When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery.

A violent encounter forces Kane to emerge from a life in hiding, where he had hoped his wife and children would be safe. He must go on the run and fight for the lives of those he holds most dear. The forces out to kill him are skilled, well-armed, and his former colleagues in the Mjolnir Agency, a black-ops shadow section of MI6.

When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident. Except no one has seen her since, and something doesn’t sit right with the officers at Hampstead County PD.

Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes.