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Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one's surprise - especially Troy's - are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage is a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humour.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
An eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, a burnt-out Washington litigator just out of rehab for the fourth time, and a woman who left the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the jungles of Brazil. They are all brought together by the startling secret of The Testament.

Sean Doyle faced danger, death, and other things he'd rather forget during his time in the Counter Terrorist Unit. But times change, even if Doyle doesn't. He's older, but no wiser, and the world he knew has changed. Now, he finds himself working as a private security consultant in Baghdad, still a city in turmoil. His job is to protect the men working on a new rail line from terrorist attacks.

Reporter Reuben Bourne has broken a promise - to cast a paramilitary white supremacy group in a favorable light. Now, one basically peaceful man, one with a paradoxical attraction for violence, must confront a force of unrelenting hate. Somehow, he must survive - as he leads his family on a desperate flight into a wilderness as unforgiving as the fanatical humans who pursue him.

For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband, and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies - until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might just be Satan.

After a series of shootings at an Israeli peace rally, Washington sends for trouble-shooter and peace negotiator Maggie Costello. She follows a trail that takes her from Jewish settlements on the West Bank to Palestinian refugee camps, where she discovers the latest deaths are not random but have a distinct pattern. All the dead men are archaeologists and historians - those who know the buried secrets of the ancient past.

1937: Hitler sent an expedition to Tibet in search of the lost land of Thule. 1941: Himmler spent a huge fortune, and sacrificed the lives of hundreds to turn Wewelsburg Castle in Germany into a shrine to the SS. 2008: Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is astonished to discover that the gentle grandfather he thought he knew was a decorated war hero, serving in the Special Air Service in World War Two. And his grandfather has one more surprise.

Imprisoned in Nicaragua, an NFL star must escape to the United States to warn the government of an impending terrorist attack - before the sinister forces of the international intelligence community silence him forever.

Summoned to Rome by an old friend, a Jesuit scholar finds himself using a code discovered in the Bible to unearth an ancient, hidden chapel in the catacombs under the city. When a rogue force of Vatican security officials are alerted to his discovery, the priest flees to the Holy Land with a clue...a clue that will lead him and a team of Israeli Christians to a much larger secret in the middle of the barren Negev Desert.

Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Caspar Schulz. Once a prominent Nazi, and long believed to be dead, Schultz could soon be hailed as the author of the most shattering confessions ever to make print.

Braverman 'Bravo' Shaw, member of a secret Franciscan splinter sect, has survived a battle as old as time itself: the battle between good and evil. Working with his once-blind sister, Emma, and his confessor, Fra Leoni, Bravo went to war with the Fallen, Lucifer's advance guard, and emerged with the Book of Deathly Things - Lucifer's first and last testament.

At the lush Villa Calypso on the French Riviera, a dying billionaire launches a devious plan: at midnight each day he appoints a new heir to his vast fortune. If he dies within 24 hours, that person takes it all. If not, their chance is gone forever. Yet these are no ordinary beneficiaries, these are men who crossed him, women who deceived him and distant relations intent on reclaiming the family fortune. All are determined to lend death a hand and outwit their rivals, and retired Scotland Yard detective Jasper, in pursuit of the prize.

Der milliardenschwere Exzentriker Troy Phelan ist lebensmüde. Doch bevor er sich aus dem 13. Stock stürzt, verfasst er ein Testament, in dem er sein gesamtes Vermögen seiner der Familie bis dahin völlig unbekannten, unehelichen Tochter Rachel vermacht. Die Erbin arbeitet als Missionarin im brasilianischen Regenwald und interessiert das Erbe des Vaters nicht. Doch sollte O'Riley sie nicht rechtzeitig umstimmen können, fällt das gesamte Vermögen dem gierigen Phelan-Clan zu.

In a hidden cave in the mountains of Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery. He has been chosen to bring what has been forbidden for thousands of years out of the darkness and into the light: The Testament of Lucifer. Now an unfathomable danger has arisen: Lucifer's advance guard, the Fallen. All of humankind is at risk of being enslaved by the forces of evil. Bravo Shaw, Fra Leoni and Bravo's blind sister, Emma, are the first and last line of defence against the unleashed chaos.

Installé aux États-Unis depuis la mort de sa mère, Damien Louvel, scénariste d'une série télévisée à succès, doit rentrer en France à la suite du décès tragique de son père. Il découvre que celui-ci menait des recherches autour d'un mystérieux objet - la pierre de Iorden -, qui semblent lui avoir coûté la vie. Aidé de Sophie, une journaliste dont il tombe amoureux, Damien décide de poursuivre les étranges investigations de son père, et se lance dans une course effrénée.

While rooting around in the mysterious stone chambers of New England, historian Cameron Thorne and his fiancée Amanda Spencer-Gunn stumble upon a reinterpretation of the Biblical passage calling on Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. It is a revelation—long suppressed by the medieval Knights Templar—that threatens to destabilize the Middle East forever. It is also a secret Cam and Amanda want nothing to do with. Not that a rogue faction of puppeteering Freemasons gives a damn what Cam and Amanda want.

Après avoir quitté son petit ami durant des vacances ratées, Anna Maria Giusti rentre chez elle. Lorsqu’elle passe récupérer son courrier chez sa voisine Constanza Altavilla, elle trouve celle-ci étendue sur le sol, sa tête baignant dans une flaque de sang. Pour le légiste, cela ne fait aucun doute, la vieille dame a été terrassée par une crise cardiaque et, dans sa chute, sa tête a heurté le radiateur de sa chambre. Dépêché sur les lieux, le commissaire Brunetti ne trouve aucune preuve flagrante infirmant cette hypothèse.

Tal vez un hombre sin alma no sea un hombre. Puede que sea un monstruo, como aseguran algunos, o puede que sea mucho más que un hombre. Ni siquiera yo, que conozco toda la historia, me atrevo a juzgar a un ser único. El Gris, aquel que no tiene alma, es por definición un fenómeno insólito. ¿Cómo describir lo que siente un hombre sin alma? Tal vez ni siquiera se deba intentar.

Will Hayes is a nice guy, a good husband and a devoted father. He volunteers in his community. But things take a turn for the worse, and one obstacle after another seem to block the path to happiness, and Will must choose a path that will test his faith.

A cave deep in the Judean desert. A 2000-year-old list. Tantalising clues that Jesus Christ wrote a prophetic testament. The discovery galvanises the world. Does the testament still exist? If so, what will be revealed if it is unearthed? Within hours, scholars, fortune tellers, religious groups and reporters are searching for the testament. Among them are Michael Farber, leading international biblical scholar, and Judith Abramovich, an Israeli archaeologist.