Political Mystery

In the town of Dominion, Mississippi, Reverend Sabre Winfrey, Jr. is more than a preacher. From his pulpit at the Seven Seals Baptist Church to the airwaves of his local radio station, he exerts influence over every aspect of society. By his side is his wife Priscilla, who types up his sermons and raises their five sons, favouring the youngest, Wonderboy. Handsome and adored, Wonderboy is destined to carry on his father's legacy. But, after a violent altercation with a stranger, Wonderboy's actions send shockwaves through the community.

As you will learn in Charles Ortleb's historically important audiobook, chronic fatigue syndrome is a potentially fatal illness that is contagious and linked to a deadly virus now suspected to be the cause of many immunological illnesses. The fact that doctors and nurses often come down with chronic fatigue syndrome should have made it clear long ago that chronic fatigue syndrome is contagious.

While investigating the savage murder of a religious magnate, Sister Fidelma uncovers a dark world of slavery and abuse within the abbey walls, in Peter Tremayne's thrilling nineteenth mystery, THE COUNCIL OF THE CURSED. It is AD 670, and Bishop Leodegar has called the church leaders together...

When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry - a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in "natural causes." Suspecting the FBI itself was behind the attack, Livia reaches out to former Marine sniper Dox. Together, they assemble an ad hoc group to identify and neutralize the threat. There’s Rain. Rain’s estranged lover, Mossad agent and honeytrap specialist Delilah.

Newcrest has always believed its stability came from good leadership. It didn’t. It came from ordinary people quietly doing the right thing. When a series of escalating crises begin to hit the city—infrastructure failures, political pressure, financial irregularities, and decisions no one wants to own—the people inside City Hall discover how fragile public trust really is. Every choice now carries consequences, and every delay makes the next problem worse.

A left-leaning judge liberates four of the most dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay and the CIA field officers track them back to Pakistan's northwest frontier mountain range. But the men vanish and rejoin the dark and mysterious forces trained by Osama bin Laden high in the Hindu Kush. These are men with hatred for the United States and Great Britain, and they are sworn to hit back at the USA, which imprisoned so many of their high command.

When Harry Armitage passes an investigation to Cleo involving adultery, they both think it will end in divorce. But when the client’s wife is found stabbed in her drawing room, it becomes clear that marital problems are only part of the story. As they peel back the lies and expose the sordid details of a marriage in tatters, they see firsthand how gossip and politics fuel the machinations of high society.

Ashraf Zain, an outsider and popular leader who breaks into Bihar politics after parting ways with the Bharatiya National Congress (BNC), is killed in a road accident in Begusarai. BNC blames the ruling party, SDP, over the death of Ashraf, an inspirational and visionary “minority” leader. Enter Yohan Tytler, a recently promoted CBI lead investigator, along with his associates—the analytical Sukumar Azhagu, and the 'I always play by the books' investigator Ila Qureshi.

The 25th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. The political power games going on in the California and Washington, DC, worlds. Elizabeth Thatcher, like her father, cuts through the emotions to get to the money and power motives.

After the war, the world learned a terrible truth: children are no longer only victims. They are labor. They are leverage. They are the future. Tens of millions have been left without parents, homes, papers, or any country able to say who they are. Some were torn away during evacuations. Others disappeared into camps, transit zones, and temporary centers where names can be changed, identities reassigned, and lives erased.

A numbered account. Opened in Vienna in 1937. Never claimed. Never closed. When Federal Asset Recovery Specialist Miles Harran is assigned to a dormant Swiss account case, it appears routine. A standard claim. A standard process. A standard resolution. It isn’t. The account was never meant to be resolved. It was meant to be kept. As Miles traces the record across Vienna, Bern, and Washington, the facts begin to shift: A pre-war arrangement between two men. An exit that required something in return. A system designed to hold assets—and silence.

A conspiracy runs deep. A betrayal runs deeper. Micah Miller is a former army ranger, a fallen priest, and now a mercenary with nothing left to lose. When the Vatican entrusts Micah to lead a perilous mission, he's thrown into a web of deception that leads straight to the White House. Teaming up with Safra Bennett, one of Mossad's best intelligence operatives, Micah must unravel a sinister plot before thousands die in an attack designed to plunge the world into chaos. But the deeper they dig, the more they realize that the enemy isn't just hiding in the shadows-he's controlling them.

Political speechwriter Becca Matlock is at the top of her professional game, working for the re-election campaign of New York's popular governor, when she receives the first phone call: "Stop sleeping with the governor or I'll kill him."

Haunted by the ghosts of past, present, and future spies, Aiken is trapped in a lethal battle with Havana intelligence officers desperate to discover the CIA's top spy hidden inside Fidel Castro's government. Aiken must betray Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop—exposing CIA operations that link Cuba, China, and Venezuela in a startling conspiracy—in order to rescue the woman he loves...all in a single night without leaving the hotel room of his interrogation.

TIimely and powerfully thought-provoking, A Political Conspiracy finds best-selling author Tom Abrahams (The Traveler series) return to his roots with this breathtaking novel that brilliantly unpacks a vast, global conspiracy to alter the balance of power.

Frühling 1940: Nur wenige Tage nach seinem Amtsantritt steht der britische Premierminister Winston Churchill vor einer der schwersten Entscheidungen seines Lebens: Soll er sich Hitler-Deutschland um des Friedens willen annähern oder sein Land in den Krieg führen? Innerhalb von nur 25 Tagen muss er handeln und gleichzeitig den König und das britische Volk auf seine Seite bringen.

Bo Parrott has spent forty years reading the market. He knows its rhythms, its tells, its lies. He also knows when something is wrong. As a respected investment advisor nearing retirement, Bo is preparing to leave Wall Street behind and return home to North Carolina with his wife, Selby. But the data won’t let him go. Beneath a roaring market and nonstop optimism, Bo sees familiar warning signs. The kind history remembers. The kind most people ignore until it’s too late.

A president is shot. Or at least, that’s what it looks like. Secret Service agent Miles Long was there when it happened—close enough to see what didn’t make sense. Close enough to realize the danger wasn’t the shooter. It was the performance. As the official story takes shape, Miles is pulled into a quiet unraveling of everything he thought his job stood for. Protocol replaces instinct. Appearances replace truth. And the line between protection and control begins to disappear.

In Newcrest, the first crisis didn’t end when the investigation closed. It just changed shape. As the administration tries to restore stability, new pressures begin to surface—political demands, public expectations, and decisions made behind closed doors that no one wants to fully explain. Policies intended to solve problems begin creating new ones, and the people inside City Hall find themselves navigating situations where the right choice is no longer obvious. Daniel and his colleagues discover that governance is rarely about clear rules. It is about judgment.

American Ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him into self-doubt. He is made arbiter of his nation’s fate on the one hand and of the life and death of the ruling house of Vietnam on the other. Out of every international crisis comes at least one great story.