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Jack Steele survived the First Gulf War, Bosnia, and his years as a UN peacekeeper. As a British Army captain and tank commander, he witnessed the brutal realities of modern conflict. Fluent in Russian, German, French, and Bosnian, Steele has spent his life navigating the dangerous fault lines between East and West.

As Tom Dugan and Alex Kairouz, his partner and best friend, struggle to ransom their ship and crew from murderous Somali pirates, things take a turn for the worse. A US Navy contracted tanker with a full load of jet fuel is also hijacked, not by garden variety pirates, but by terrorists with links to Al Qaeda, changing the playing field completely. With a possible link between piracy and terrorism now in play, the US and British governments order the halt of all negotiations for captive ships, and enraged pirates ratchet up the mistreatment of the captive crews.

Il tempo per alcuni è una corsa incessante, per altri un passo lento e incerto. Per qualcuno, invece, si è arrestato per sempre. E la storia d’Italia è un filo spezzato: un orologio fermo alla stagione del piombo e del sangue. In questo silenzio immobile sono immersi Vera Coen e Andrea Malchiodi. Ha il destino scritto nel nome, Vera. Lavora come giornalista per un quotidiano locale e considera la ricerca della verità una missione. Ma a quarant’anni si ritrova con un lavoro insoddisfacente e precario, i dubbi di aver sbagliato tutto ad affollarle la mente e una scoperta sconvolgente.

A terrifying trend sweeps America—a young woman walks into a bustling mall, douses herself with gasoline and lights a match. She's the first to burn. She won't be the last. Hour by hour, America locks down beneath an endless human firestorm. The media report nothing else - creating an information smokescreen just as a new President of the United States prepares for inauguration. Freelance CIA agent Chris Wren doesn't care about politics—until he sees America's most infamous serial killer standing next to the President-elect. His name is 'the Apex', and he is Wren's father.

Jamie and Alex are at the Olympics. Posing as athletes. The entire world is watching. When they discover that terrorists intend to launch an apocalyptic attack, it's a race against time. Alex is hurt in the bobsled event. Jamie may have to stop the attack on her own.

When Gina Temple decides to go Christmas shopping for her girlfriend, Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon, in the Norfolk town of King's Lynn, it seems like an easy enough task. If only life were that simple. A split-second event, months in the planning, tips their safe world upside down.

La intervención de un teléfono móvil permite a los servicios secretos británico y estadounidense ponerse sobre la pista de un atentado, que se presume muy sangriento, de al-Qaida. Poco más se sabe del mismo, y los intentos por descubrirlo son estériles.

Lebanon, 2006. The Israel–Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart and the country is on the brink of chaos. The CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist. They turn to young Lebanese-American CIA agent, Analise, who has the perfect plan. However, Analise begins to suspect that Mossad has a motive of its own. She alerts the agency but their response is for her to drop it. Analise is now the target and there is no one she can trust.

Following her harrowing pursuit of sinister cybercriminal Dantalion, and her life-changing decision to pursue personal vengeance over her case, Ericka Blackwood hit rock bottom. The only way she can find redemption is through the relentless hunting down of her former quarry. But Ericka is not the only one seeking Dantalion, whose scope has extended from orchestrating murder via the Dark Web and entered the world of international terrorism.

Jacob Michaels, computer network security-tester extraordinaire, tries to settle into a quiet life of work to polish his cyber security skills after the death of his mother. Jacob is unaware that his growing reputation makes him a person of interest. Cyber-criminals are hunting for new recruits. They target this brilliant programmer to seduce him into joining their cause. More people are hunting him than just the Russian cyber kingpin.

NATO Counterstrikes…and Western tanks storm into Germany. Can they break the Warsaw Pact? With the Soviet conquest of Germany nearly complete, the alliance falters. NATO scrambles to salvage the situation before it’s too late. American and Korean forces must hold the line. But can reinforcements arrive before it’s too late?

A bioengineered virus is merely the opening gambit in an evil mastermind's plan, and only Agent Zero and his team—including his daughter Maya—stand between humanity and its doom. As cities fall into quarantine, they expose a conspiracy that could end millions of lives within two days. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Agent Zero's mission against the clock is one he cannot afford to fail—as he battles not just for survival, but for hope in the darkest of times.

The British government is being blackmailed by criminals who got their hands on a quantity of plutonium left over from the Cold War. There is only one man who knows their identity and can prevent a disaster, but he is on the run for a murder he didn’t commit and has no intention of being found. As the authorities attempt to track him down, the clock is ticking, and they are running out of time. They pin their hopes on the fact that a bunch of amateurs won’t have nuclear technology and the worst they will manage is a dirty bomb.

Meet The Phoenix—rescued from a watery grave and given a new identity, this stone-cold killer is an ideal fit for the Olympus Project, a secret organisation fighting injustice. In this first story, he undertakes three solo missions to prove he can match the Project's high standards. Always a loner, can Phoenix then work as part of a team to prevent a terrorist attack in Central London?

The brand new thriller featuring Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht of the Stockholm police. Shortly after a crowded New York-bound flight takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found on board. Anonymous hijackers demand that the Swedish government revoke its decision to...

When CIA operative Peter Black receives a frantic call from fellow agent Olivia Wren, he is dragged into a war he never wanted. Within hours, Olivia is dead—slain in a ritual killing so grotesque it bears the fingerprints of Los Narcosatánicos, a cartel that has fused the narcotics trade with satanic ceremony. Vowing vengeance, Peter crosses into Mexico, plunging into a world where migrant caravans vanish, children are branded like cattle, and cartel lords cloak themselves in blood-soaked superstition.

The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal...

Some betrayals detonate in code. Others explode at ground zero. Blackout operative Maverick Adams's surf session on Lantern Beach is cut short when an FBI agent blasts into his world, arresting him for crimes he didn't commit. When he learns that his digital fingerprints implicate him in a recent terror attack, he knows someone in his inner circle has set him up. FBI Special Agent Sheridan Mendez has never failed to bring down a target, and Maverick Adams won't be her first.

In the thrilling conclusion to the Jack Del Rio series, Endgames, the former FBI special agent has fallen off the grid and is content to let the rest of the world believe him dead. He has taken the name John Rivers and lives a secluded life on the Navajo Reservation...But the shades of his past are not yet done with him yet. Surviving elements of his enemies from London and Washington D.C. want to see him actually filling out a grave and are coming for him.

Tief unter einem Gletscher in den Alpen offenbart sich eine uralte Bedrohung: eine biologische Massenvernichtungswaffe aus der Zeit Hannibals. Durch Zufall gerät sie in die Hände von Terroristen, die damit Amerikas Untergang besiegeln wollen. Nur ein Mann kann das Unheil noch abwenden: Der Anti-Terror-Agent Scot Harvath.