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The Taskforce—a highly clandestine Special Forces unit—has confronted countless attacks, but never one of this magnitude. ISIS has set in motion an attack that no airstrike can defeat. It's off the radar, can penetrate all parts of the Western world and is barbaric beyond measure. Only the Taskforce and Pike Logan know about this unanticipated threat. If they can't prevent it, unimaginable chaos will consume the Western world.

Sent undercover by Britain's famed yet clandestine Temporal Agency to Istanbul, Detective Sir Seaton Begg and Doctor Sinclair are on the hunt for the Red King, the leader of a secretive group of assassins who are plotting to change the shape of the world. Begg and Philips are thrust into a city that is in transition from the ancient to the modern, reflecting the state of the world in the early 1930s, and they are hard pressed on all sides by assassins and betrayals.

1774: Rob Courtney is growing up in Fort Auspice, Nativity Bay, a trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, and has always dreamed of going to sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies and the mysterious Captain Marston calls into the fort, Rob's passion is ignited, and he stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by its charms and makes friends with a group of fast-living men and ends up in terrible debt.

DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team from the Met who must hit the streets in search of a lead. They soon have two wildly different suspects.

Elite Ukrainian assassin Ruslan Akulov, aka Wolf Six, is a ghost. A weapon for hire forged in the fires of conflict and tempered by experience. Known by both the underworld and international intelligence agencies, he works alone, guided only by the next mission and his unwavering commitment to his personal kill code. So when a routine contract in Argentina turns from simple to chaotic in the squeeze of a trigger, Akulov is thrown into a complex web of deceit and dangerous tests of loyalty.

A body is found in a newly dug grave in a rural Somerset churchyard. The murder matches a series of brutal attacks blamed on a serial killer in Devon, and a DNA profile neatly points to the same suspect. Fresh from another bruising encounter with the Professional Standards Department, Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon knows the scene is wrong and the evidence staged—someone else has engineered this killing to silence the victim.

Un nuevo caso del asesino a sueldo Will Robie, el protagonista de Los inocentes , una de las novelas más aclamadas de David Baldacci. Will Robie es un maestro en el arte de matar. Eficiente e implacable, es el hombre a quien recurre el gobierno de Estados Unidos para eliminar a los peores entre los peores: los enemigos del estado, monstruos dedicados a hacer daño a innumerables víctimas inocentes. Sin embargo, hay alguien capaz de igualar los talentos de Robie: su colega Jessica Reel, una asesina tan profesional y letal como él.

Kai droomt ervan lichtkunstenaar te worden, maar zijn droom verandert in een nachtmerrie wanneer hij via zijn vriend Finn toegang krijgt tot de mysterieuze lichtacademie.

De tweelingzussen Cira en Luna verschillen als dag en nacht, maar delen een stervormige moedervlek. Op hun verjaardag verdwijnt Cira's vlek en krijgt Luna er twee, terwijl de mysterieuze Tayen steeds opduikt.

When a covert operator with links to Charlie Cooper is killed, the trail leads to a secret outfit few believe is real: Hemlock. No witnesses. No records. No proof it ever existed. Just rumours, half-forgotten files, and a growing body count. As Cooper digs deeper, the evidence keeps...

In Delani’s dorp wordt gespeculeerd over een steenrijke familie die de Lazarusprijs zou hebben betaald voor onsterfelijkheid. Op Halloween ontdekt Delani meer over de mysterieuze Hugo Winters—kloppen de geruchten echt?

A true crimes podcaster stumbles upon a cache of journals which could reveal the identity of Calgary's most prolific serial killer.

Tammy Pierre is called upon to help solve a murder that appears to involve Obeah — a form of voodoo practiced in Trinidad. Her father’s Trinidadian roots give the police reason to bring her in, but a black candle ritual offers little else to go on. Then, as one after another victim is found, their only connection leads her to the island, a convent once used as an orphanage, and the strange figure then known as Sister Constance. On her return to London, Tammy keeps digging, despite warnings and an intimidating surveillance of her apartment.

Ich bin seit über zwanzig Jahren mit meinem sanftmütigen, liebenden Ehemann Lachlan verheiratet. Er ist mein Ein und Alles, und ich könnte nicht glücklicher sein. Bis meine beste Freundin etwas sagt, das mich alles infrage stellen lässt …Sie findet es merkwürdig, dass Lachlan in der Nähe von gleich zwei unaufgeklärten Mordfällen gelebt hat: Der Mord einer Frau in dem kleinen schottischen Dorf, in dem er aufgewachsen ist, und der grauenvolle Tod unserer Nachbarin. Sicherlich nur ein Zufall, oder?

Elayna Miller kills people for a living, but only when they really deserve it... Once one of the CIA's most talented agents, Elayna Miller struck off on her own for moral reasons. Now surrounded by a like-minded team, she selects her cases carefully and only kills those who really have it coming. FURY GIRL is the second novel in the Elayna Miller series. If you enjoy fast-paced, intelligent storytelling with well-rounded, complex characters, you'll love FURY GIRL.

Ich war die andere Frau. Die Geliebte. Alle gaben mir die Schuld am Tod von Dr. Drew Devlin. Und ich habe den Preis dafür bezahlt, den falschen Mann geliebt zu haben. Ich habe alles verloren – Freunde, Familie, mein Haus und sogar meine Freiheit. Drews hinterhältige Frau Fern hat mein Leben zerstört. Und sie denkt, sie kommt ungeschoren mit einem Mord davon. Aber da liegt sie falsch. Es ist Zeit für Rache. Für mich … und für mein Baby.

Sie schwört auf ihre Unschuld. Aber jeder hat Leichen im Keller. Nora Davies hatte keine Ahnung, dass ihr Vater jahrelang Frauen im Keller ermordete, während sie oben in ihrem Zimmer Hausaufgaben machte. Bis eines Tages die Polizei vor ihrer Tür stand. Jahrzehnte später sitzt ihr Vater immer noch hinter Gittern, und Nora selbst ist eine erfolgreiche Chirurgin mit einem ruhigen Privatleben. Niemand weiß von ihrer Vergangenheit, und sie wird alles dafür tun, damit es auch so bleibt.

1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite, recruited from an elite boarding school, is sent to France, tasked with gathering intelligence on an enigmatic Iranian businessman implicated in the Lockerbie bombing. But what Kite uncovers is more terrifying than anyone expected…

A novel of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of River God. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time. On the banks of the Nile, a hero will rise. Across the lush plains of Egypt, Taita, a freed eunuch slave, wears his authority lightly. Not only is...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. Sixteen-year-old Philippa Somerville has left Constantinople intact. Returning to England as wife in name only to Francis Crawford of Lymond, she wastes no time in seeking the truth about her...