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A city still scarred. A signal that could end everything. Twelve years after the VEGA incident, London teeters on the edge of chaos. When investigative journalist Maya Dalton finds encrypted files hinting at a top-secret operation—Protocol Silence, a plan to blackout global communications—she becomes a target. DS Bhatti warns her: a kill order is out. Meanwhile, Alex Rennie, living under a false identity, receives a chilling message: “Protocol activated. Berlin. 48 hours.” Forced out of hiding, Alex reunites with Maya and plunges into Berlin’s hacker underworld, where the ghosts ...

To infiltrate international drug cartels, he had to become a player...‘Undercover’: The true story behind Operation Julie, one of Britain's largest drug busts and how the same detective infiltrated a cartel planning to smuggle cocaine into Britain. Forget ‘Breaking Bad’ this is the extraordinary story of the 1970s Welsh LSD ring that supplied the world, told by a cop in deepest cover on the case. In the dim chaos of a Liverpool nightclub, a sharp question cut through the noise: “Are you guys cops?” For Steve Jackson, the words chilled him to the bone.

A killer with a signature, a city on edge, and detectives racing against time. For three years, the 'Rose Slayer' has haunted Los Angeles, leaving behind a chilling pattern: middle-aged women, living alone with their cats, executed with a single shot, a red rose left as a macabre calling card. But when the seventh victim is found with her fingers severed and her laptop missing, Detectives Bill Pawson and Sean Wells realize the killer is evolving—and the stakes are higher than ever. Their investigation takes an unexpected turn when all the victims are linked to a popular online book community.

Jimmie Grant was once part of a Florida biker gang with the handle of 'Night' but he and his mother were relocated to Montana under the witness protection programme after he helped the FBI in foiling an attempt on Matt Deal's life when Deal was a detective in Florida. Grant changed his name to Walter Williams and passed the Montana bar exams and is now a public defender. In the small town where Matt Deal is now sheriff, they meet again.

Retired UK cop Steve Regan and his son Marco find themselves in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the Mob after Marco is recruited by his father's old friend, Dr Marco Lusardi. With the Mob on their tail, Steve and Marco must use their wits and cunning to survive. But as they delve deeper into the web of lies and deceit, they soon find that the stakes are higher than ever before.

In Cut Bank, Montana, Matt Deal now Sheriff Deal, and Bianca, the niece of Deal’s late friend Mickey Fretwell, investigate mysterious disappearances and rumours of corruption. But when a local P.D. officer is brutally murdered, they uncover a sinister plot linked to the powerful O'Hara family.

Who knew death could be so eclectic? Relish this mesmerizing murder mystery mash-up of short stories. Murder and mystery have been the staple of literature and films for years. This anthology of short stories will thrill and entertain you. Some will also make you laugh out loud. Others will stop and make you think.

There’s a killer lurking in all of us. Sometimes you just don’t know it. Take Phil Mercer, for example, what dark secret from his past changes a decent man, and respected professional into a man with murder on his mind? Down to earth Northerner, Phil Mercer, begins to question why so-called university friends failed to help him establish a practice at London’s Criminal Bar.

Trust no one. Watch everything. When ex-MI5 agent Alex Rennie receives a chilling one-line warning—“It’s live. Get out.”—it’s already too late. Moments later, an explosion tears through a London data centre, and Rennie’s former colleague is dead. Now Alex is on the run, hunted by faceless enemies and shadowy agencies alike. His only ally? Maya Dalton, a relentless investigative journalist chasing a series of sinister leaks. Together, they uncover a terrifying secret: a rogue AI named VEGA, designed for mass surveillance, has broken free—and it’s eliminating anyone who ...

In the depths of the criminal underworld, British detective Steve Regan thrives in the double-dealing world as a no-nonsense undercover cop for the national crime squad. But when a cocaine-smuggling operation stretches from Bolivia to Miami, Regan is thrust deep into the crosshairs of a ruthless cartel led by the enigmatic Enrico Bruno.

Set in the near future, Matt Deal—an ex-pat Brit married into a powerful Florida family—watches his life shatter after a nightmare unfolds. His fifteen-year-old daughter, Mercy, is left in a vegetative state following a brutal assault on a Destin beach. She was the only thing holding his fractured marriage together. Now, nothing will ever be the same.

Join Regan in this prequel to the Steve Regan Undercover Cop Thriller series by tagging along with Steven Hanrahan as a young C.I.D. detective in 1970’s Liverpool until his world is shattered by a tragic event involving a fatal car crash. The young detective is hand-picked for a dangerous undercover assignment. On accepting the role, he moves to London - the "Smoke," adopting a new identity.

The Sicilian Mafia. The Thai Mafia. Even the CIA. Undercover cop Steve Regan is back, deep in the shadows of Thailand, hunting the elusive Texan drug lord, Les Watkins—the mastermind behind Southeast Asia’s deadliest smuggling ring. Using himself as bait, Regan strikes a dangerous $50,000 deal with the Thai mafia, hoping it will lead him to his target. But nothing is as it seems.

Steve Regan is back, and this time, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Tasked with posing as a hitman to take down a liberal Australian politician, Regan quickly realizes his “last assignment” is just the beginning. What starts as a murder-for-hire case spirals into the discovery of a sinister white supremacist plot with global implications—one that could topple the UK government.

Don’t mess with Deal.... Mayhem will follow. At the funeral of two of his hit men, Mike Russo, capo of the New Jersey Mob puts out a contract on Detective Matt Deal for his part in the killings. At the same time another funeral is taking place in Florida. Deal will soon learn just how badly his world is broken...and it’s about to get worse. The long awaited sequel to book one in the series - Mercy. Fans of Jack Ryan or lethal killers like Reacher or Scot Harvath will devour this novel.

En marzo de 1978, en la culminación de Operación Julie quince acusados, incluyendo doctores, químicos investigadores, un escritor y vendedores de drogas "profesionales" fueron sentenciados a un total combinado de ciento veinticuatro años de prisión. La Operación Julie es, hasta el momento, el punto de referencia para todas las operaciones encubiertas y entrenamiento británico. En 2011, la BBC dijo que esta operación policíaca única y masiva fue el comienzo de la guerra a las drogas.

Mobocracy means mob rule, the opposite of democracy. The series is set in the near future...anarchy and mob rule are prevalent with law and order breaking down in the United States. Even Washington, DC is under siege from lawless groups of rioters. In Florida, Matt Deal has now been appointed the chief of detectives reporting to newly elected Sheriff Fretwell, his old friend. A British stranger starts making inquiries about Deal.

¿Quién iba a decir que la muerte podría ser tan ecléctica? Disfrute de esta fascinante colección de cuentos. Tanto en la literatura como en las películas, el tema de la muerte y el misterio han sido fundamentales durante años. Esta antología le entretendrá y le emocionará al mismo tiempo. Algunos de los cuentos le harán reír a carcajadas. Otros le invitarán a hacer una pausa y reflexionar. Considere esta colección de cuentos de muerte y misterio la versión impresa de un aperitivo, o quizá desee llamarle entremés, bocadillo, mezze o antipasti. Puede ser leída para llenar el...

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The series opens in the near future. Matt Deal's 15-year-old daughter, Mercy, is the glue in his rocky marriage. His life is changed forever after Mercy is brutally assaulted on a Destin beach leaving her in a coma. Trusting the local detectives to bring the rapists to justice, Deal concentrates on his Florida gym business, only to have his world further explode on learning the rape suspects may escape justice. Deal is isolated and at his wits’ end after his mob-connected father-in-law sends death threats blaming him for all these ills.