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Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world—but one hot summer day, when a Russian defector walks into her post, Amanda is given the ultimate chance to prove herself.

Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley. This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself, Smiley decides to investigate.

A gripping escape novel written while the Nazis were at the height of their in power, The Seventh Cross was an international best seller in 1942. It is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. Seven prisoners escape from Westhofen concentration camp. Seven crosses are erected in the grounds, and the commandant vows to capture the fugitives within a week. Six men are caught quickly, but George Heisler slips through his pursuers' fingers, and it becomes a matter of pride to track him down no matter what.

When White House correspondent Sofie Morse gets a call from the office of First Lady Lara Caine asking her to come in for a private meeting, her curiosity is piqued. Sofie, like the rest of the world, knows only that Lara was born in Soviet Russia, raised in Paris, and worked as a model before moving to America and marrying the notoriously brash future president. Now Lara wants Sofie to write her official biography. After decades of silence, she is finally ready to speak candidly about her past: about her father's work for the KGB, and about her ill-fated relationship with Sasha.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate.

For Kay, living on her husband Bror's country estate, the Nazi invasion is a time of uncertainty. Bror is desperate to preserve the legacy of his home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy; Kay cannot do the same. She is lured by British Intelligence into a world of resistance. Tasked with protecting an SOE agent, Kay learns the art of subterfuge. Caught on opposing sides, will Kay and Bror find their way back to one another?

Ever since it was first drilled more than 150 years ago, oil has been both a blessing and a curse. It has enabled economic growth, provided an efficient energy source, fuelled our entire infrastructure - and caused wars, pollution and global warming. These seven dramas, set between 1951 and 2045, and taking us from postwar Iran to futuristic Lancashire, examine the role oil has played in shaping our world: recounting incredible stories of wealth, power, politics and corruption.

The world has grown even more dangerous for the survivors of the EMP strikes that crippled the United States. Ronny is a prisoner of AILS, a terrorist group planning to remake the world to suit their twisted vision. He’ll do whatever it takes to stop them, even if it costs him his life. Ruth and the others remain on the offshore drilling platform. But AILS has set their sights on the facility, and are coming to take it by force. If their plan succeeds, there will be nowhere left to hide.

Gerade aus der Elternzeit zurück und wieder im Team des schwedischen Sondereinsatzkommandos, muss Kommissarin Amanda Lund zu einer Mission auf dem Balkan. Ein schwedischer Polizist ist dort verschwunden. Er wurde entführt. Amanda, die bereits in der Region im Einsatz war, übernimmt die Verhandlungen im Kosovo. Zur gleichen Zeit untersuchen Amandas Stockholmer Kollegen den Hintergrund des Entführungsopfers. Was hat den Polizisten zur Zielscheibe gemacht? Schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass es um weit mehr geht als um schnell erbeutetes Geld. Die Gründe sind persönlicher.

Autumn Carpenter patrzy. Każdego dnia obserwuje życie McMullenów. Z zazdrością przygląda się idealnej rodzinie wychowującej troje pięknych dzieci. Każde urodziny, każda podróż, każdy dzień - Autumn zawsze jest z nimi. Tyle że nikt o tym nie wie. Nikt nie podejrzewa, że coś w tej rodzinie należy do niej. Pewnego dnia okoliczności zmuszają ją do podjęcia ryzykownej decyzji. Musi jeszcze bardziej zbliżyć się do rodziny McMullenów. Wtedy zdaje sobie sprawę, że pozory mylą. Idealne życie to mrzonka, rodzin bez skazy nie ma.

When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family’s Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies and a complicated history that leads her to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin’s notorious gulags.

Die schwedische Polizeiausbilderin und Verhandlungsführerin Amanda Lund ist für ein Jahr in Afghanistan stationiert, sie soll die Sicherheitskräfte vor Ort schulen. Gerade erst hat die 35-Jährige einen Angriff der Taliban überlebt, da erhält sie einen neuen heiklen Auftrag: In Kabul wurden zwei Diplomaten der schwedischen Botschaft entführt, Amanda soll als Unterhändlerin fungieren. Der Druck ist immens, denn in Schweden erwartet man afghanischen Staatsbesuch.

Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the communityand reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share his Fifth Avenue mansion. Mary, her uncle's favorite, is to inherit her uncle's fortune at his death. As this mystery opens, that lamentable event has just occurred. Leavenworth has been shot to death and circumstances point to one of his young wards.

Czasy kampanii napoleońskiej w Prusach Wschodnich. Émilie de Berier, tajemnicza Francuzka, szantażowana przez politycznych wrogów z Polski, pragnie odzyskać porwaną córkę. Lekkoduch pułkownik Antoni Podolski, dziedzic rodzinnego majątku, szuka szpiega, który wykradł dokumenty francuskiemu generałowi. Jego i Émilie łączy wspólna podróż do Warszawy zajętej przez Wielką Armię Napoleona. Choć nie pałają do siebie sympatią, ich ścieżki nieustannie się krzyżują. Szukając pomocy u księcia Józefa Poniatowskiego, obydwoje zostają wplątani w wir wielkiej polityki.

Jazzmyn Storm is a spy with a secret she can’t remember...and a man who haunts her dreams. When she wakes up in a U.S. hospital, Jazzmyn discovers she’s missing almost a month of time. Time she spent on a covert assignment in Romania. As she starts to uncover what really happened during those missing weeks, she realizes the truth may be more surprising than she ever imagined. What happens when the people you thought you could trust betray you? That’s bad enough in any relationship, but when you’re a spy it can be deadly.

On Earth, Grover Baines (a NASA scientist) is murdered in 1979 when he stumbles upon a secret third Voyager flight. Unlike the two other probes, Voyager 3 was a small manned craft loaded with reproductive material in hopes of finding a suitable planet for habitation on Alpha Centauri. Years later, in 2001, a fourth Voyager is sent on the same mission. Though technology has advanced dramatically in the 24 years since the first three Voyagers were launched, this mission manages to remain secret amid the attacks on the Twin Towers.

Als die Chefin des US-Repräsentantenhauses, Pelosi, Taiwan besucht und China mit Krieg droht, liegen die Nerven beim BND blank. Manfred Mor setzt alle Hebel in Bewegung, um Deutschland so schnell wie möglich von der Taiwanischen Halbleiterindustrie unabhängig zu machen. Anna soll nach Taiwan reisen, um einen Wirtschaftsspion zu treffen. Doch auch Nadine Dietz taucht auf und versucht Anna, mit einer Ehrlichkeitsoffensive für ihre Sache zu gewinnen. Der Lohn ist ein Kontakt zu dem Mann, der Tatjana Gudwin noch vor kurzem getroffen hat, ehe sie in Berlin verschwand.

Nach dem versuchten Mordanschlag auf Klaus Gudwin im Keller der Villa beginnt für Anna Gudwin eine fieberhafte Suche nach der Täterin. Denn diese wird es erneut versuchen, so viel steht fest. Während Manfred Mor wie üblich ein doppeltes Spiel zu spielen scheint und keine große Hilfe ist, wartet Jody Reed mit einer heißen Spur auf: Eine "Schwarze Witwe" - die Tochter eines gefallenen tschetschenischen Widerstandskämpfers - will sich an dem BND-Agenten rächten, der den Tod ihres Vaters zu verantwortet hatte.

In this brief crime novel, set in the days of Lincoln's presidential election, a man responds to a cry for help from a woman who lives in the same block of apartments. She claims that a ring has been stolen from her finger and asks the man to assist her in recovering it.

Felicitas gerät in eine obskure Agentur, die gefälschte Testpersonen an Marktforschungsinstitute vermittelt...