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Thirty years after they walked hand in hand to the electric chair, sentenced to die for giving the gift of the atom bomb to the Soviet Union, Solomon and Dolores Rubell are the targets of a new investigation - conducted not by the FBI, or some paranoid Senate subcommittee, but by Gerald Lerner, boyhood Communist and author of such classic chronicles of the American Jewish experience as Hot Pastrami Sandwich and Kosher and Topless.

Tatiana Romanova, una hermosa cabo soviética, deserta aparentemente con intención de entregarse a los británicos, alegando que se ha enamorado del agente 007. Pero esto no es más que el inicio de una enrevesada operación que busca terminar con la reputación y la vida de Bond, pues la agencia soviética de contraespionaje SMERSH le ha puesto en su punto de mira, ya que el espía británico ha frustrado sus planes demasiadas veces y los rusos le han condenado a muerte.

Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations - in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project to design the atomic bomb and in her passionate love affair with coworker Thomas Wheeler. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the results of her work and her heartbreak over Wheeler are intertwined. She has almost succeeded in resigning herself to a more conventional life. Then Wheeler gets back in touch - but so does the FBI. Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Rosalind to spy on Wheeler, whom the FBI suspects of selling nuclear secrets to Russia.

Austen Payne, THIRDS Squadron Specialist Agent (SSA) for Destructive Delta and TIN operative, has seen the worst the world has to offer. He has faced lethal killers, and helped bring down dangerous organizations. But nothing terrifies him more than falling in love. After years of undercover work, Austen is a master at defending himself and protecting his heart…until he meets Osmond Zachary.

Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic—and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party's so-called zero Covid policy to the world.

For 13 years, Penny Sparks has managed to hide from the political powers who murdered her family. When she unwittingly exposes her true identity, not only is she marked for death, but the people closest to her risk meeting the same fate. Jake Winters is out of rehab and coming to grips with his demons. When he meets his sister's roommate, Jake believes Penny might be that someone who can help him find life after rock star status...until her secrets blow up his world.

Governor Sandra Murphy is rethinking the sanity of allowing her mother to talk her into considering becoming the democratic party’s choice for the presidential nominee. Sandra has enough to contend with after surviving a bomb attack, thanks to the brave border control agent working alongside the clever undercover FBI agent. Now, she has to worry about a pesky reporter who seems to be everywhere, scoping stories Sandra would prefer Wynter Holmes steer far away from.

Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he's in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package.

Slye Temp operative Margaux Duke is chasing an international terrorist who murdered the last of her family. But her plans go up in smoke when her agency is in the crosshairs of the dangerous killer, forcing her to turn rogue to protect the only family she has left - her team. This is no time to get involved, especially with an enemy who steps between her and the terrorist she has to stop.

A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans’ mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK’s murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is turning up dead. Suspecting he’s next, Guidry hits the road to Las Vegas. When he spots a beautiful housewife and her two young daughters stranded on the side of the road, he sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks from the hit men on his trail. The two strangers share the open road west - and find each other on the way.

Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn’t dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind—back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya—his close friend, his rival in love. Ilya, who framed Mac for treason and sent him into hiding.

Angelica Angelotti has grown up in her parents' Italian food business. Now she is using her cooking talent to strike out on her own, moving to Paris to go to culinary school. There, among the excitement and wild emotion of the student barricades, she falls in love with her charismatic but unreliable cousin, Mario - a manic-depressive 10 years older than her whom her mother had sacked from their restaurant.

A mystic's daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War. A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front. A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity. An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books. Each will make a journey that changes history. Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems with zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, chessmen, cyanide, butterflies, and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India, and Latin America, it is a kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry, and resistance.

Jane, a brave and sensual Englishwoman, is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre. Love, hatred, and deception sweep them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to full-tilt guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan.

They killed Princess Diana - now they're trying to kill him. Some-time journalist and TV newsman Foster Grant had been getting used to the good life: Minor celebrity, a beautiful young wife, and a secret job dropping messages and collecting information for MI6. But now it's all gone wrong. His wife is unfaithful, the divorce has turned ugly and expensive, and at the precise moment he meets the woman of his dreams he discovers the secret MI6 will kill to conceal. When the most powerful forces in the land are ranged against you, where do you run to? Where do you hide?

Jack Ross is lonely. It feels like he has lost everything that gave his life meaning. His wife Sherry died 19 months ago. He retired from practicing law nine months ago. Sports injuries forced him to give up playing basketball and tennis. He is lost without the love of his life, meaningful work, and the outlet of playing sports to distract him from the pain of his loss. When his former law partner invites him to try out a new game with the silly name of pickleball, Jack is skeptical, but he agrees to give it a try.

Let us begin Banker Bingo. One banker per month will be assassinated unless the government takes practical steps to reduce the widening deficit between the rich and the poor. This is the threat made by maverick anarchist billionaire Rory Carlisle, which is intended to be carried out by ex-Baader Meinhof operative, Georg Krendler.

Alësa ha quarantacinque anni e un buco nero al posto del cuore. Ha ucciso molti uomini, forse tanti quanti sono i libri che ha letto. Ma adesso l'imprevisto ha fatto irruzione nella sua vita su una bicicletta rossa, nei panni della donna piú sbagliata di cui ci si possa innamorare. Nicolai Lilin non rinuncia alla sua cifra - la scrittura ruvida e potente, e uno sguardo spietato sulle umane contraddizioni -, ma fa un altro passo e si cimenta con i generi, mescolandoli con intelligenza.

For Metropolitan Police detective Fiona Fitzgerald, the mysterious case of the Austrian ambassador's beautiful wife's death is a stark reminder of her upbringing. High-class soirees, men with power, and bored political wives are abundant in this high-profile case. Underneath it all, Fiona understands the publicity nightmare for the Washington elite - and the lengths they will go to for damage control in order to protect their hallowed reputations.

CIA operative Titus Ray isn’t interested in getting involved in Ben Mitchell’s love life. Not until he discovers Ben is lying about being in love with the daughter of a Turkish cleric. Ben’s love life is complicated, confusing, and cunning...and then, it turns deadly. Book I in the Ben Mitchell/Titus Ray Thriller series builds on the relationship Titus developed with Ben in the Titus Ray Thriller series and continues Titus’s reluctant mentoring of the younger covert operative when he becomes involved in a dangerous love triangle.