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Diesen Mann unterschätzen Kriminelle nur ein Mal – der neue Fall für Jack Reacher. Am Busbahnhof von Gerrardsville, Colorado, beobachtet der ehemalige Militärpolizist Jack Reacher, wie eine Frau vor einen fahrenden Bus gestoßen wird. Es gelingt ihm nicht, den Täter dingfest zu machen. Doch er gerät so ins Visier skrupelloser Verbrecher, die jeden Zeugen eliminieren wollen. Nichts darf ihre Operation gefährden. Allerdings haben sie nicht mit einem Mann wie Reacher gerechnet. Als der bedroht wird, geht er sofort zum Gegenangriff über.

Worldwide best seller Camilla Lackberg weaves together another brilliant contemporary psychological thriller with the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe's past…. Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family's past and finally uncover the reasons why.

Get ready for a turbo-charged short listen from two of the world’s biggest thriller writers. Jack Reacher and Will Trent. Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene.

Former special ops soldier Alex Reeve is Operative 66. One of the UK's deadliest weapons, he is part of the mysterious C6 - an elite and top-secret security service with a remit to neutralise the country's most dangerous enemies. But now Reeve is in the firing line. Framed as a traitor, Reeve is forced to flee as every operative is instructed to kill the 'rogue asset'. On the run from his own government, alone and under the radar, Reeve must survive off grid with fearsome assassins on his trail. He doesn't know why he's a target. Or who betrayed him.

The first installment of a page-turning trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. September 1625: Plague-cart driver Matthew Neave is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry - the baby is alive. A plague child himself and now immune to the disease, Matthew decides to raise it as his own. Fifteen years on, Matthew's son, Tom, is apprenticed to a printer in the city.

A brand new series from the bestselling author of A Christmas Promise. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn. For the ordinary people of Empire Street, life will never be the same again. Kitty Fisher has plenty on her plate to keep her busy. Since her mother died when she was just a child, she's cooked, cleaned and scraped to make ends meet for her drunken father and her headstrong brothers. Rita Kennedy, living with her husband under the roof of his spiteful mother-in-law, is desperate for their own home.

When John Henry “Doc” Holiday joined the SEALs, he swore, “If knocked down, I’ll get back up, every time.” So he wasn’t ready to go quietly and just fade away when a bullet abruptly ended his military career. And you can bet that when he gets knocked down while searching for the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, all hell breaks loose as he gets back up! Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar is a thrilling listen for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Army combat veteran Ty Stone has now joined the ranks of DKI, a veteran-operated organization waging war on human trafficking. He splits his time between training in Arizona and his home in Virginia. He's doing better at the training than at winding down, struggling with his relentless PTSD symptoms if he has too much time on his hands.

Seks skud. Fem døde. En by i det centrale USA gribes af rædsel. Men blot få timer senere har politiet opklaret sagen. Med en enkelt undtagelse. Den anklagede hævder selv, at man har fanget den forkerte. Derefter beder han om at få hentet Jack Reacher. Og ganske rigtigt, den tidligere efterforsker i militærpolitiet er på vej fra sin helt særlige verden - uden telefon, uden fast adresse og uden forpligtelser. I Lee Childs overrumplende nye thriller kommer Reachers ankomst til at ændre alt ved en sag, der viser sig at være helt anderledes end først antaget.

For hostage rescue specialist Jonathan Grave, every mission is a matter of life or death. But he faces his most personal challenge yet when two boys are abducted while being driven to Resurrection House, the school Jonathan founded as a sanctuary for children of incarcerated parents. The boys were entrusted to Jonathan's care. Now they're missing. It's time to fight fire with fire. The boys' mom, Connie Kendall, is awaiting trial on drug smuggling charges. Prosecutors want her to testify against the brutal Cortez Cartel to help bring down their ruthless operations.

I Lee Childs forbløffende thriller bemærker den tidligere militærpolitimand Jack Reacher mere end de fleste – og bliver netop af den grund kastet ud i en farlig konfliktsituation, der er tæt på at eksplodere mellem hænderne på ham. For den eneste måde at finde frem til sandheden på – og redde to uskyldige menneskers liv – er ved at gøre det på den hårde måde. Som også er Reachers foretrukne.

Se acerca el invierno y a Jack Reacher lo buscan desde el corazón mismo del poder: el Servicio Secreto de los Estados Unidos lo necesita. La misión es tan secreta como urgente, y el más mínimo fallo puede poner en riesgo la democracia más sólida del planeta. Entre pistas ambiguas, profundas desconfianzas y la presencia fantasmal de su hermano, Reacher deberá afinar al extremo sus sentidos y mantener su cabeza despejada –si su corazón se lo permite– para investigar las intrigas de Washington y de las fuerzas de seguridad.

Raven und seine Wikingerkrieger haben gelitten. Gute Männer sind den Schlachtentod gestorben, hart erkämpfte Reichtümer sind wieder verloren. Aber für die Nordmänner gibt es etwas, das für sie wertvoller ist als alles Gold und Geschmeide dieser Welt – Ruhm! Und so segeln die eingeschworenen Kämpfer nach Konstantinopel, jener sagenumwobenen Stadt, die sie Miklagard nennen. Auf ihrer Reise von den windgepeitschten Marschen der Camargue zu den Resten dessterbenden Roms müssen sie sich n neuen Gefahren und Kämpfen stellen: Der Weg zu Gold und Ehre ist mit Blut gepflastert.

Unversöhnlich, unerbittlich, unschlagbar: Jack Reacher, der eigenwilligste Ermittler der amerikanischen Thrillerliteratur. Jack Reacher betritt den Stützpunkt seiner ehemaligen Einheit bei der Militärpolizei und ahnt nicht, was ihm bevorsteht. Er ist nach Virginia gereist, um seine Nachfolgerin Major Susan Turner kennenzulernen, doch wenig später wird klar, was für ein großer Fehler das war. Denn wie jeder ehemalige Soldat der USA ist Reacher Reservist. Prompt erhält er seinen Einberufungsbefehl und wird außerdem des Mordes angeklagt und verhaftet.

May, 1940: 10th Panzer Division has decimated France and is driving on Calais a short distance from Dunkirk. Lieutenant John Randal, a veteran of the US 26th Cavalry Regiment, volunteers to serve with the British forces and arrives on the continent three days before the town falls.

Major Randal parachutes into the middle of Italian East Africa with orders to raise a guerrilla army. Everything that can go wrong does. Blood Wings is a story of unconventional warfare and the ability to improvise, adapt, and press on against overwhelming odds. As in the first two Raiding Forces military adventures, Major Randal takes on a long-range, independent mission against incredible odds.

August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys’ parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt’s care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d’Hiver - a massive, bleak structure in Paris where thousands of France’s Jews are being forcibly detained.

In this sequel to Those Who Dare, US Major John Randal, Commander of Strategic Raiding Forces is back, leading a crew of British Commandos, Royal Marines, and Royal Navy raiders on bigger and bolder missions to foil Hitler's Third Reich. Off the Gold Coast colony in Africa, the Germans are operating a naval intelligence ring that gathers information about British convoys in the southern sea lane. Couriers carry the data to nearby Rio Bonita, a tiny Portuguese island protectorate, whence they are broadcast to Nazi U-boats and surface raiders from a clandestine radio station onboard one of three interned enemy ships.

Fra en helikopter højt over den øde californiske ørken bliver en mand kastet ud i natten ... I Chicago erfarer en kvinde, at et elitehold af tidligere militære efterforskere er ved at blive udslettet en efter en ... Og på gaden i Portland bliver Jack Reacher – soldat, politimand, helt – revet ud af sin strejfertilværelse af en kodebesked, som kun ganske få andre ville kunne forstå. Lige fra de første chokerende optrin i Lee Childs højenergiske nye roman bliver Jack Reacher sendt som en kniv i hjertet på en sammensværgelse, der slår hans gamle venner ihjel – og er på vej mod noget endnu værre.

In Guerrilla Command Major John Randal leads the Abyssinian guerrilla army he has raised against the Italians in central Abyssinia in the final phase of his private guerrilla war...This is the story of an extraordinary military campaign that has been lost to history.