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It's evening, you're back late from work - and the house is in darkness. You step inside, and the phone rings. You answer it - and your world turns upside down. Your 14-year-old daughter's been taken, and her kidnappers demand half a million pounds in cash. They give you 48 hours to raise the money, and warn you that if you call the police, she'll die. Trying desperately to remain calm, you realise that your husband - the man you married only two years previously - is also missing.

A threat has been made. An ultimatum delivered. Innocent people are in mortal danger. The gripping new bestseller from the master of the race-against-time thriller.8am: an explosion blasts through a cafe in central London. Minutes later a call is made to a local radio station: ‘We’ve just detonated a bomb. Another will explode shortly. The British Government has until 8pm tonight to meet all our demands, or a far greater attack will take place somewhere in the country that will bring fire down on all your heads.

It's a typical cold November night in London and Detective Sergeant Dennis Milne, a very atypical policeman, waits in the Traveller's Rest Hotel parking lot for the arrival of three men. Cynical and jaded, Milne earns money on the side by doing what he does punishing the bad guys. But this time he's been duped. Instead of blowing away drug dealers, he kills three innocent people, their deaths starting an investigation that sees him and his conscience heading for trouble.

When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers, goes tragically wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the undercover police officers involved: 'Stegs' Jenner. But Stegs is no ordinary cop. Something of a maverick, he has in the past played the role of a criminal just a little too well. Now suspended from duty, and with his close friend killed in the shootout, he determines to go it alone....

When writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his friend's girlfriend, Jenny, back at her apartment in London's West End, he's feeling guilty before anything's even happened. But guilt quickly turns to shock when a sequence of events put him in the centre of a mystery and a deadly race against time.

You come home to find your wife missing - and the body of a woman you've never seen in her place. A phone in her hand starts to ring. A voice says you have 24 hours to clear your name; 24 hours to save your wife. But there's only one way to do it. You must kill someone for them. Someone you've never heard of. A complete stranger. And the clock is ticking.

When former soldier Dan Tyler wakes up in a strange room on a bed covered in blood, with no idea how he got there, he thinks he's stepped into someone else's nightmare. But he's wrong. This is reality.

When Max I Versson, codirector of a small firm of freelance bodyguards, is introduced to North London nightclub owner Roy Fowler, he immediately senses that the man is trouble. Fowler wants security for a meeting with a group of businessmen who want to buy his nightclub. Five grand for a couple of hours' work is too tempting to turn down, so Iversson - against his better judgment - takes the work....

Siete víctimas, tres asesinos y el secreto que los une. Tres meses después de encontrar los restos de sietes mujeres en una granja remota en lo que los medios han bautizado como el Campo de Huesos, las víctimas siguen sin ser identificadas. Un testigo que puede ser clave ha desaparecido. El agente Ray Mason y la detective privada Tina Boyd deben encontrarlo antes de que lo hagan los asesinos. En una carrera a contrarreloj repleta de cadáveres y traiciones a cada paso, Ray está dispuesto a arriesgarlo todo para dar caza a los culpables. Pero a veces el precio a pagar es demasiado alto…

Has visto demasiado. Ahora, ningún lugar es seguro. Cuando Jane Kinnear presencia el asesinato de su amante, su vida da un giro de ciento ochenta grados y se convierte en el próximo objetivo. La policía la traslada a una casa segura, donde no tarda en descubrir que su amante era un informante de los servicios secretos con datos cruciales sobre un inminente ataque terrorista. El inspector Ray Mason, del Comando Antiterrorismo, es un hombre con un pasado polémico, pero su eficacia en obtener resultados ha hecho que le asignen la responsabilidad de prevenir el ataque.

Syv ofre. Tre mordere. Én dødbringende hemmelighed. Et hus langt ude på landet, hvor resterne af syv uidentificerede kvinder netop er blevet fundet. En politimand, der er parat til at risikere alt i jagten på deres mordere. En mand, som har set mordene og nu er på flugt, fordi han frygter for sit liv. Således begynder kapløbet om at finde frem til vidnet, før morderne gør det. For Ray Mason og privatdetektiv Tina Boyd venter en farlig vej, hvor lig og bedrag lurer bag hvert et sving.

Det kan tage et helt liv at få hævn for en forbrydelse. Da resterne af en 21-årig kvinde, der forsvandt sporløst i Thailand i 1990, bliver fundet i jorden på en gammel katolsk skole i Buckinghamshire, tager det langvarige mysterium en helt ny drejning.

Alastair Sheridan har det hele. Penge, et godt udseende, en smuk kone og børn og, i Storbritanniens kaotiske, politiske verden, en reel chance for at blive premierminister. Men Alastair har også en hemmelighed. Han er seriemorder med smag for unge kvinder. Kun en lille håndfuld mennesker ved, hvilket monster han er, og den vanærede kriminalassistent Ray Mason er en af dem.

Da Operation Kirurgisk Indgreb, en politiaktion, der skal fange colombianske narkohandlere i at sælge et stort parti kokain til undercover-betjente på et hotel i Heathrow, går frygteligt galt, falder mistanken hurtigt på en af de involverede betjente: Stegs Jenner. Men Stegs er ingen almindelig undercover-betjent. Som lidt af en enspænder med en række disciplinære anmærkninger har han altid levet på kanten. Da hans nære ven er død i en skudepisode, beslutter han nu at gå selv.

Regel nummer et: hold dig i live. Sean Egan har arbejdet undercover de sidste ti år og er vant til at leve på kanten. For nylig har han infiltreret en af Londons farligste forbryderbander, og de har lige meddelt ham, at de vil have ham med på et helt særligt job: den dristige bortførsel fra politiets varetægt af en seriemorder kendt under navnet Natteluskeren. Morderen: Yderst voldelig, men meget intelligent. Natteluskeren har oparbejdet sit ry ved at torturere fem unge kvinder til døde.

Ingen at stole på. Ingen steder at løbe hen. Ingen steder at gemme sig. Da forfatteren Rob Fallon går i byen en aften og ender sammen med sin bedste vens kæreste, Jenny, føler han skyld, allerede før der er sket noget. Men skyldfølelsen forvandler sig hurtigt til chok, da to mænd bryder ind i Jennys lejlighed, bortfører hende og forsøger at slå Rob ihjel. Da Rob melder det til politiet, er der ingen, der tror på ham. Og da han taler med Jennys far, siger han, at hun er på ferie i udlandet. Rob ved, at Jennys liv er i fare, og han begynder at stille spørgsmål.

A race-against-time short story from the best-selling author of Relentless, Siege, and Ultimatum, Simon Kernick. MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven year old son has been abducted by a ruthless gang of kidnappers. All they have left behind is the brutally murdered body of the Horton’s nanny. The gang’s demands are simple: Tim must sacrifice his own life in order to save his son’s. It’s the ultimate dead man's gift....

THE UNDERCOVER COP Having worked undercover the last ten years, Sean Egan is used to life on the edge. He’s recently infiltrated one of London’s most dangerous criminal gangs, and they’ve just informed him that they want him for a very special job: the daring abduction from police custody of a serial killer known as The Night Creeper. THE KILLER Brutally violent yet highly intelligent, The Night Creeper has earned his reputation by torturing five young women to death.

Operation kirurgsnitt är avsedd att lura colombianska narkotikahandlare att sälja en stor mängd kokain till två polisinfiltratörer på ett hotell vid Heathrow, men den slutar i katastrof och misstankarna faller snart på en av de inblandade poliserna, Stegs Jenner. Men Stegs är inte som andra poliser. Han är något av en enstöring med flera disciplinära prickar i registret och har alltid levt på gränsen. När hans kollega och nära vän dör i skottdramat på flygplatsen bestämmer han sig för att köra sitt eget race.

Ex-snuten Dennis Milne lever under ny identitet på Filippinerna när han plötsligt snubblar över en ledtråd som skulle kunna lösa mordet på en gammal vän. Han bestämmer sig för att återvända till den stad han en gång kallade för sitt hem och ta reda på vem som ligger bakom mordet. Milne anländer till ett kallt och fientligt London strax före jul. Men han är inte längre polis, han behöver inte längre se till att gatorna är lugna och att lagen följs.