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The Camel Club returns in the breathtaking follow up to Divine Justice from the Number One International Bestselling author. On the night of the State Dinner honouring the British Prime Minister, Oliver Stone witnesses an explosion as the motorcade leaves the White House. A bomb has been detonated in what looks like a terrorist plot directed at the President and the Prime Minister.

To solve this case, only an outsider will do...Ingo Finch faces his biggest challenge yet. New York, 1904 - over a thousand are dead after the sinking of the General Slocum, a pleasure steamer full of German immigrants out for a day on the East River. The community is devastated, broken, in uproar. With a populist senator preying on their grievances, a new political force is unleashed, pushing America to ally with Germany in any coming war. Nine months later, Ingo Finch arrives in Manhattan, now an official British agent.

The world population is hurtling toward nine billion; some say more than the planet can support. Two titanic blocks rule that population – East and West – bound together in a global economy - and a secret, war to the death. Never has so much been at stake, never has the prize of absolute power been more seductive. And never have the leaders of these titanic blocks been quite so insane. Insane enough to invoke the Son of Hell, to bring the war out of the shadows and fire down from Heaven; and count the dead not in dozens but millions.

Islamic State is here, all around us. There is no defence. Only attack. On the Syria/Iraq border, a British hostage is beheaded by IS terrorists. When the executioner breaks down, he is led into a nearby tent, where a masked figure is waiting for him. This mysterious person is treated with a mixture of respect and terror. They call him the Caliph.

To some he was Orphan X. Others knew him as the Nowhere Man. But to veteran spymaster Jack Johns, he was a boy named Evan Smoak. Taken from an orphanage, Evan was raised inside a top secret programme designed to turn him into a deadly weapon. Jack became his instructor, mentor, teacher and guardian. Because for all the dangerous skills he instilled in his young charge, he also cared for Evan like a son. And now Jack needs Evan’s help....

In a world where anarchy and crime are surging, the man who calls himself Rogue begins his search for the truth – about who he is, what he’s done, and above all else, why? Friend and foe draw near. Offering aid. To find answers. To seek truth. But who can be trusted? And who secretly plots to destroy him? LA private detective Dave Martial seems genuine, but who is the man really? Then there is Special Agent Elroy Jones, and the enigmatic Dr. Elizabeth Grant who seems to know more about him than he knows of himself. Are their motives pure? Or is there more than lies beneath the surface?

It’s a trip that agent Paul Chavasse will never forget. His destination: the isolated republic of Albania on the Adriatic coast, at a time when the regime is at its most repressive and the people live in daily fear of the ruthless secret police. His job: to find a double agent whose cover has been blown and put him out of commission, permanently. But what Chavasse doesn’t know is that deep within the twisting channels of the perilous coastal marshes, someone has set a trap for him - someone who holds the keys of hell.

Adrian Hell is an assassin with a legendary reputation. When he’s hired to take out a corrupt businessman, he quickly realizes that the job isn’t as straightforward as it first appears. The more Adrian learns about his target, the more he becomes one himself. Caught in the middle of two powerful enemies, Adrian must use every tool in his deadly arsenal to survive.

Bei der alljährlich stattfindenden Regatta "Störtebeker Opti-Cup" für die jüngsten Segler verschwindet ein Kind spurlos. Vor aller Augen scheint er unbemerkt über Bord gegangen zu sein. Nur sein Boot, eine winzige Schaluppe, dümpelt etwas abgetrieben in der Nordsee. Die Suche nach dem Jungen bleibt ergebnislos. An einem Unfall kann kein Zweifel bestehen. Als die zerfetzte Schwimmweste gefunden wird, ist allen klar, dass der nur zehn Jahre alte Junge tot ist.

killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed in all directions. But the bodies keep falling, and the crimes remain unsolved, the culprit at large. No mere whodunit, The Suburbs of Hell - its story inspired by a real-life serial killer - is a profoundly disturbing psychological drama with a devastating conclusion, the final work of one of Australia's greatest writers.

Faces from his past and doubts about his future compel Adrian to pick up his guns once more and do what he does best. But when he finds himself in the middle of a large-scale conspiracy that threatens everyone’s freedom, he realizes his will to do the right thing might not be enough....

For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with a little help from their mates.

Welcome to the 11th novel in the Pseudoverse, Hellfire. Ripped from the headlines of a real-life cover-up, Hellfire is a fiery barrage of hell-bound robots, AI, and undercover spies sent to reign down hell on earth for reasons unknown to us until the climax. Our sarcastic and beautifully flawed protagonist is thrust upon this world from God-knows-where to begin a life in a world she knows nothing about. The CIA, NSA, and Israel acknowledged this inspirational cyberwarfare story that will have you clinging to the edge of your seat.

Ein schmutziger amerikanischer Wahlkampf und eine akute Terrorwarnung: Ludwig Licht wird von der CIA nach Pennsylvania gerufen, um zu retten, was zu retten ist. Denn der demokratische Kandidat Ron Harriman wird beschuldigt, eine Affäre mit einem Sechzehnjährigen gehabt zu haben, der sich daraufhin das Leben nahm. Brisante Enthüllung oder perfide Verleumdung? Ludwig Licht entdeckt bald, dass die Wahlkampf-Affäre nur die Spitze eines Eisbergs darstellt. Denn eigentlich geht es um eine Terrorgruppe, die das ganze Land zerstören will.

Caroline Kayser arbejder for et olieselskab i København. Fra Nairobi indløber en melding om, at medarbejdere på selskabets afdeling dér er involveret i voldtægt af landsbypiger. Caroline sendes til Kenya for at kvæle anklagerne og redde sit firmas omdømme. Løser hun ikke opgaven, bliver hun fyret. Men hvor langt er hun villig til at gå? Kan hun vende det blinde øje til mord, voldtægt og korruption?

Um einer Gefängnisstrafe wegen Fahnenflucht zu entgehen, verpflichtet sich Michael Miller für die CIA dubiose Zielpersonen aus Ostblockländern und dem Mittleren Osten in den Westen zu schleusen. Sein größter Coup wird jedoch die Befreiung von 141 deutschen Geiseln aus der Islamischen Republik Iran im Auftrag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. – Packender Agententhriller nach wahren Begebenheiten.