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Seventy years after the end of World War II, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon find themselves in deep waters as they try to stop a war that would engulf the entire continent of Asia. A search for an art collection worth half a billion dollars leads the Oregon to Salvador Locsin, the vicious Filipino rebel leader. But with access to a powerful serum designed to create an army of supersoldiers, Locsin's insurgency threatens more than just the Philippines.

A brutal crime. A broken man. A choice that will change everything. 
Expat John Hayes is living the dream—an exciting career in India, a beautiful wife, and a perfect life. 
Until the unthinkable happens. 
When his wife is savagely attacked and left for dead, John turns to the police for justice. But in a country where corruption runs deep and the powerful walk free, he’s met with silence and indifference. 
With no one to turn to, John must make an impossible choice: walk away—or take matters into his own hands. 
If you love gritty vigilante thrillers, fast-paced action, and...

Successful novelist Kit Carradine has grown restless. So when British Intelligence invites him to enter the secret world of espionage, he willingly takes a leap into the unknown. But the glamour of being a spy is soon tainted by fear and betrayal, as Carradine finds himself in Morocco on the trail of Lara Bartok - a mysterious fugitive with links to international terrorism.

Chloe Bennett AL LÍMITE De las etapas tranquilas siempre debes desconfiar. No son más que una trampa. Podría decirse que a Chloe Bennett le va bien. Al fin ha encontrado la calma que tanto ansiaba tras la pérdida de Sarah dos años atrás. Su relación con Colin va viento en popa, han renovado para una temporada más su programa de radio, tiene una idea para un próximo libro, está más unida a su madre que nunca, y Jon, que ha conocido a alguien especial, vuelve a ser su mejor amigo.

Il nuovo romanzo di Marco Vichi è anche una nuova, sorprendente avventura. Una storia che racconta come il passato non è qualcosa di immutabile e irrimediabilmente concluso, ma è anzi materia viva. Una dimensione in movimento, che chiede ancora di essere descritta, definita, capace com’è di ribaltarsi sul presente sgretolando convinzioni che si credevano immodificabili. A un tratto, nel modo più inatteso, tutto può cambiare: quando meno ce lo aspettiamo, una svolta improvvisa ci porta dove non avremmo mai immaginato di poterci spingere.

In August 1963, a Royal Mail train traveling between Glasgow and London was forced to make an unscheduled stop. Led by a charismatic jewel thief, a gang of fifteen unarmed men boarded the train, incapacitated the driver, and made off with more than 2 million. Divided equally, it was more than enough money for them to disappear forever—if they could all keep quiet. Incensed by the brazenness of the crime, Scotland Yard investigators employed every means they could think of to get the thieves to turn on one another.

Las calles parecen más oscuras, los días más grises y los crímenes más violentos. La recién ascendida detective tiene poco tiempo para adaptarse a su cargo durante una extraña temporada de lluvia que azota la metrópolis. Armada con su instinto y entrenamiento deberá perseguir al hombre sin escrúpulos que ha teñido de rojo la vida de muchos mientras se adentra aun más en la extraña conspiración que parece perseguirla.

Detective Alex Cross is called into action on Christmas Eve - and he'll be lucky to see the New Year. Christmas celebrations with his family are cut short when Detective Alex Cross receives a phone call. A drug-crazed man has taken his own family hostage and their lives depend on Alex. But it's not just them. As the suburban nightmare unfolds, a greater threat arises - a terrorist attack like Washington has never seen. And Alex is caught in the middle.

Following the arrival of the town’s new preacher, Death returns in lupine form to stalk the Lazy L and the town of Texumma. Eight years of peace comes to a bloody end as howls echo along the banks of the Red River once again. Bitter vengeance backs Death’s play as the death toll rises. Will anyone survive the full moon?

Dawn's Revenge is a thriller set in the New Orleans French Quarter. Jack Chandler, a struggling young lawyer who takes every case that comes in the door, learns that his housekeeper's beautiful teenage daughter has been brutally raped and murdered by a ring of child molesters. The powerful sheriff of Orleans Parish condones the crime and attempts to silence Jack, who seeks to get justice in spite of attempts on his life.

Deputy Sheriff John Cronin and his granddaughter, Jesse, are preparing for Jesse’s upcoming wedding to her Marine when the Cartel decides to murder some South Texas cops as a payback for arresting their drug smugglers. They send a hit squad to kill Cronin, Jesse, and everyone close to the family. The only problem? They missed the old man.

My life pretty much took a hard left a year ago when I first met Lemon. She’s wise beyond her years and as abrasive and sarcastic as they come. The second she busts my VP’s balls -- literally -- I know I’d never be able to forget her. A year later, I’m still infatuated with the vicious woman. When she runs off to charge hell with a water pistol, I’m right behind her wondering how we’re gonna get out of this one alive. But I have a smile on my face and a determination to give this woman anything she wants. Even if it means some things in my club are going to have to change.

The Florida Keys are experiencing something never seen before; a serial killer. After every clue has been exhausted, Key West police and Monroe County sheriffs are no closer to solving this mystery than when they found the first victim, so they call in Florida Division of Law Enforcement detective Charley Thomas to help. After weeks of investigation, Charley hasn’t come up with a single clue. The sheriffs are starting to wonder if it’s an inside job.

Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who has leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck.

Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband Gabe are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their only suspect – her. On the run and out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the truth.

After terrorist mastermind Musa Khan launches deadly suicide attacks in Washington, D.C., and Trenton, New Jersey, it's a race against time for Chuck McCain and Kevin Clark to find and stop the next three cells before they can spill even more American blood. With rogue CIA agent Aaron Richards training the terrorists, Chuck and Kevin have their work cut out for them!Heart-stopping action and tight plots, combined with a great cast of characters, have people talking about David Spell’s novels. The former police officer knows how to tell a story and puts the reader right into the middle of ...

Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were.

A mysterious stranger carrying a swordstick walks the gaslit alleys and night houses of Victorian London.What is he seeking?London in 1853 - a mist-shrouded city where the grand houses of the wealthy lie a stone's throw from the vilest slums and rookeries of the poor.Who is this man so determined to fight for justice against all the wrongs of Victorian society? What are the origins of the mysterious William Quest?In a pursuit from the teeming streets of London to the lonely coast of Norfolk, Inspector Anders of Scotland Yard is determined to uncover the truth.To an explosive climax where ...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virgina in quest of peace, but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.

While continuing to buy mining assets from companies in Ecuador's Amazon jungle, the new Chinese owners were adding refined cocaine production to their mineral processing plants. Their surreptitious activity took business away from the local Los Choneros drug cartel, reduced the revenue for the Indigenous farmers and blocked the government's need to be involved. The purified and pre-cut cocaine was hidden in the copper and gold concentrate shipped to China for distribution to the West.