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Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it.

To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt…Portugal…Denmark…France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?

The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated in a computer, down to the last variable.

An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world’s most famous authors—from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger—to a sinister collector in Chicago. Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells the intertwining tales of two writers navigating a plot neither one of them could have ever imagined. There may be no other escape than to write their way out of it.

American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.

Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying....

As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job body-guarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune shouldn't make him break a sweat. But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target...?

It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets. For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order.

Drei Frauen treffen in einem abgelegenen Ferienhaus ein, tief in der Moorlandschaft von Northumbria an der schottischen Grenze. Es ist der erste Abend ihres langen Wochenendes, am nächsten Morgen erwarten sie ihre Ehemänner. Doch auf dem Küchentisch von Dark Fell Barn finden sie einen Brief, in dem jemand behauptet, einen ihrer Männer umgebracht zu haben. Die Frauen glauben zuerst an einen perfiden Scherz. Doch sie haben keinen Handyempfang und kein Internet.

Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town, the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace.

Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. From the book's inception, listeners will be seized by the dangers and nightmare suspense of life lived on the rim of a political volcano.

On her drive to work, Heather Moss gets a phone call that will turn her life upside-down. The caller knows where her kids are, what they are wearing, and even what Heather is doing herself at that very moment. If she doesn’t do what he wants, her two little girls will die. Then an inmate dies in the county jail. He was a witness who could have brought down notorious criminal Mario Palumbo.

A seemingly random virus known as Reaper is killing people and spreading fast through television and computer monitors all over the country. Only two people can stop the epidemic: young virologist Samantha Craig and paramedic Nick Barnes.

From the outside, the Davenports look like any other family living a completely ordinary life - until that devastating day when five-year-old Jonah is killed, and the family is torn apart. As the fury of guilt engulfs them, the Davenports slowly start to unravel, one by one. Losing her son forces Rachel to withdraw into a frayed, fuzzy reality. Her husband, Sam, tries to remain stoic, but he's consumed by regret with the choices he's made. Eden mourns her brother, while desperately fighting to regain a sense of normalcy.

Da tidligere FBI agent Molly Crawford ringer på døren hos politikommissær Per Roland, er det ikke for at besøge en gammel ven, men fordi hun jager en amerikansk seriemorder. Manden har en bizar forkærlighed for meget unge piger med sortlakerede negle, og FBI har netop sporet ham til København i selskab med et nyt offer. Molly og Roland sætter alt ind på at finde parret, inden han dræber pigen, men tiden er ved at løbe ud, og de mangler spor at arbejde med.

Rocher battu par les tempêtes, lieu de cultes primitifs sanctifié par les premiers chrétiens, le Mont-Saint-Michel est loin d'avoir révélé tous ses secrets. Au début du XIe siècle, les bâtisseurs de cathédrales y érigèrent en l'honneur de l'Archange, prince des armées célestes et conducteur des âmes dans l'au-delà, une grande abbaye romane. Mille ans plus tard, une jeune archéologue passionnée par le Moyen Âge se retrouve prisonnière d'une énigme où le passé et le présent se rejoignent étrangement.

Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint air force-navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands - and testing has begun....

A hurricane is due to hit Florida hard. Two men take the opportunity to rob an expensive home. Surprised by neighbors, the burglars kill two people...and seven-year-old girl Lemon Madras disappears. Is the little girl dead or alive? Agent Tom Lange is taken off suspension and brought in to find her.

Da Puck Bure vender hjem ti Stockholm to uger tidligere end aftalt efter en rejse ti Egypten, undrer hun sig over, at hendes mand, Ejnar, ikke henter hende i lufthavnen. Han er heller ikke i lejligheden. I soveværelset ligger der eksklusivt dameundertøj på sengen, og på badeværelset finder hun en smuk, ung kvinde i badekarret, kvalt og druknet! Hvorfor var den myrdede i ægteparret Bures hjem? Og hvem kunne have ønsket at rydde hende af vejen?

Puck Bure har glædet sig til en hårdt tiltrængt sommerferie, da hun med sin fire måneder gamle baby og en barnepige flytter ind i tante Otties idylliske sommerhus. Men her - i augustnætternes rungende mørke - kommer hun til at opleve et uhyggeligt og makabert drama, hvis hovedperson er den svimlende rige, excentriske enke Adèle Renman. Og omkring enken er en mondæn kreds af smilende fjender.