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Set in the mid-1930s, action takes place in England, Germany, Italy, and France. A wealthy, young English upper-class couple, James and Louise Harcourt-Heath, are recruited as spies by the British Security Service department, MI5. After unearthing the secrets of the primary Lebensborn facility, they are assigned to continue their espionage activities at the 1936 winter and summer Olympic games in Hitler’s Germany.

Penny Kessler, an intern at the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, wakes up in a hospital on the morning of July fifth to find herself at the center of an international crisis. The day before, the embassy was the target of a devastating terrorist attack that killed hundreds of Penny’s friends and colleagues.

Le roman qui affole les experts du Pentagone. Dans un futur proche, la Chine envahit Hawaï pour s'emparer de gigantesques réserves de gaz. Mais un véritable Pearl Harbor numérique empêche l'Amérique de réagir : guerre des étoiles, marine paralysée, aviation clouée au sol... il faudra le génie et l'héroïsme d'une poignée d'hommes et de femmes pour engager la résistance et reprendre la main sur la technologie.

Terrorism comes to the rural Midwest heartland — can one ordinary man stop it? Islamist terrorists frame small-town Minnesotan Nat “Hack” Wilder for the murder of his friend Amir Mohammad. Hack must survive a January blizzard, elude the police and FBI, track down the real killers, infiltrate a terrorist gathering, and stop a terrorist attack on his nine-year-old daughter’s school. This is a suspenseful, fast-paced action thriller that is often disturbing, sometimes surprisingly funny, and always PC-indifferent.

Hinter der altehrwürdigen Fassade eines malerischen Herrenhauses, dem Blauen Palais, verbirgt sich die Wissenschaft der Zukunft. Junge Spezialisten arbeiten an der Gedächtnisübertragung durch Gehirntransplantation. Als plötzlich ein mysteriöser Mann in der Weltöffentlichkeit auftaucht, dessen intellektuelle wie künstlerische Fähigkeiten alles bisher Dagewesene überbieten, vermuten die Wissenschaftler einen Zusammenhang mit ihren eigenen bahnbrechenden Versuchen - und stoßen auf ein schauerliches Geheimnis.