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Hamburg, Juni 1959. Der spektakulärste Bankraub in der Freien Hansestadt. Ein Maskierter überfällt die Hamburger Zentrale der Deutschen Bank, weniger als 200 Meter von der nächsten Polizeiwache entfernt. Alarmsirenen schrillen, die Türen schließen sich automatisch, doch der Räuber springt durch ein offenes Fenster, schießt sich auf der Straße den Weg frei und entkommt mit 20.000 DM nach einer waghalsigen Flucht durch den U-Bahn-Tunnel. Kommissar Horst Berger merkt rasch, dass dieser Überfall zu einer Serie gehört, deren Beginn schon Jahre zurückliegt.

It’s 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she’s running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there’s plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the memorial service for the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, but Allie has barely filed her copy when she stumbles over a story about HIV/AIDS that will shock her into a major change of direction.

Bari, Italy, present day. Think tank Special Ops leader Timothy Stryker and his wife Angie, a self-made CEO, haven’t exactly been seeing eye-to-eye. They take a much-needed Italian holiday, but it comes to a shocking end when Angie and their daughter are kidnapped.

Am 20. Juli 1944 sprengen die Verschwörer um Graf Stauffenberg den „Führer“ in die Luft. Doch dem Jubel über Hitlers Tod folgt gleich die Ernüchterung: Die Attentäter haben nicht genug Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung und bei der Wehrmacht. Ihre verzweifelte Lage zwingt sie zu einem Bündnis mit Heinrich Himmler und der SS. Im letzten Augenblick wendet Deutschland die Niederlage im Weltkrieg durch einen Atomschlag ab. Die Deutschen zwingen die Alliierten zu einem Frieden, der dem Reich die Grenzen vom April 1940 garantiert.

Here are three tales of Tarzan at Point Station, a remote English outpost near the Waziri homelands. Set during the advent of World War II, we see more and more European intrusion to the Bolongo River Basin. Tarzan becomes embroiled in increasingly dangerous events as cultures clash.

Der Real-Fiction Thriller geht in die nächste Runde. Die Lesestaffel basiert auf wahren Begebenheiten und anonymen Berichten. Ursprung der Geschichte ist Berlin, am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Ereignisse dort, haben eine gravierende Folge für die Gegenwart. In Berlin hat eine Zeitbombe mit unfassbarem Ausmaß zu ticken begonnen. Eine mörderisch Jagd beginnt und zieht weltweite Kreise...

After escaping Venice with their lives, Nick and Julia O'Connor have one goal: return home so they can end their nightmare vacation. But before they reach the American consulate, they're captured by Interpol and returned to Venice. Behind Nick's detention is Salvatore della Porta, the corrupt head of an ancient, enigmatic order that controls Paradise, Tintoretto's Renaissance masterpiece that's also a purgatory for thousands of souls—including Nick's soul mate from the sixteenth century.

London, 1527: Jane Seymour arrives at court to take her place with Queen Katherine. Discovering a court dividing into factions between Katherine and Anne Boleyn, Jane finds herself caught between the old world and the new. Determined to have a son, the king appears to be prepared to take whatever steps necessary to secure the Tudor dynasty. When King Henry VIII succeeds in his pursuit of Anne, Jane witnesses the unravelling of his interest as she, too, fails to deliver a son.

Jack Reilly travels to Colombia on behalf of his new employer, the Tactical Archaeological Command, a clandestine organization whose objective is to locate and, if necessary, protect historically valuable assets around the globe. The former Delta operator is sent to investigate the violent kidnapping of veteran TAC agent Lorenzo Matias. But this is more than just a missing person's case. Seconds before Matias was abducted, he sent an encrypted message to his and Jack's superiors back in the United States. It read, "El Dorado exists!"

The year is AD641 and the great Oswald of Northumbria, bretwalda over England, must battle against an alliance of the old Britons and the Saxons led by Penda of the Hwicce, the victor of Hæ∂feld nine years before, the only Saxon leader seemingly immune to Oswald's beguiling talk of the new Christianity spreading through England from both the north and the south.

AD 1045. Godwin of Wessex, one of the most powerful earls in the country, prepares for the marriage of his daughter to King Edward of England. The mood is jubilant, his family's relationship with the Crown secured through matrimony. But one man seeks to undermine him at every opportunity.

The relics of Christendom have been plundered during the long Moorish conquest of the Iberian peninsula. Newly minted Templar Sergeant Arnau de Vallbona must recover one of the most elusive to save his priory at Rourell in Spain. Travelling to Majorca on a stealth mission to retrieve the bones of St Stephen, Arnau soon discovers the raid is more complex than it first appears: the mighty Almohad dynasty has laid claim to the island, and will fight them every step of the way.

Marrakesh, 1893: His military career in disgrace, Harry Delhaze turns to a life of drink and gambling. But then he’s offered a way out–a small fortune to help the Sultan of Morocco quell a rebel uprising. It sounds like easy money. Instead, Harry is forced to battle the wild bandit armies of ruthless prophet-warlord, Bou Hamra, through the snows of the Atlas Mountains and the baking deserts of the Sahara. And he finds himself in the fight of his life.

Siamo nel 1963. I Beatles cantano Please, Please Me; in Italia le elezioni vedono uno spostamento di voti dal centro a sinistra e le trattative per formare il governo stentano. In una Milano di case di ringhiera, tram e osterie, si muove sulla sua Vespa Carlo Passi, trentenne diviso tra passione e cinismo. Lavora in un quotidiano nato da poco che sta cambiando il modo di fare giornalismo. È stato appena lasciato dalla bellissima collega Enrica Sala che lavora alla tv di Stato.

After enjoying two weeks of well-deserved R and R at Pearl Harbor, Art Turner, his crew, and his boat are once again asked to go out and do the impossible…and to make it snappy, already! Webster Clayton has uncovered a Japanese plan to send a major invasion force to Guadalcanal. In order to soften up the marines there, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto intends sending in a battleship to bombard Henderson Field and obliterate the Cactus Airforce.

È il IX anno del regno per Tutankhamon. Un oscuro presagio minaccia le Due Terre: le acque del Fiume non accennano a ritirarsi e sono tornate a tingersi di rosso. Gli dei sembrano avere abbandonato il loro figlio, salito al trono del Falco dei viventi ancora bambino. Ora, a sedici anni compiuti, Tutankhamon continua a nutrire scarso interesse per gli affari di governo – lasciati a funzionari come il fidato Ay – e preferisce di gran lunga la caccia.

After a career-ending injury forces Hans Pepperman to lose his spot on the 1936 Olympic boxing team, he trades his athletic aspirations for a degree in mechanical engineering and secures his dream job working for the famous Willy Messerschmitt. Tasked to solve the stalling issues of the BF109 fighter plane engine, Hans finds himself smack in the middle of the Abwher Intelligence Service’s radar. Pro-Germany but anti-Nazi, he reluctantly agrees to help flush out the spy leaking secret information on the BF109 engine to foreign agencies.

In this new series of short stories, Sherlock and Watson embark on some of their classic adventures. Using the best of their wit, knowledge and cunning, the famous duo solves a selection of confounding mysteries.

When WWII ended, the allies discovered that a huge amount of gold bullion plundered by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had gone missing. Some believed the gold had been hidden in a train box car in Poland. Others that it was secreted in Lake Toplitz in the Austrian Alps. And a few thought it was buried in the Republic of Ireland, which was neutral during the war.

Seventeenth-century India. Chhatrapati Shivaji's dominion has been firmly established over the Deccan peninsula. Troubled by the mounting European threat along the Konkan coast, the Maratha empire turns to Kanhoji Angrey, master mariner, excellent swordsman and astute strategist, to lead its navy. For the next few decades, until his death in 1729, no matter who rules the land or lords over the trading settlements, none can defy Kanhoji's hold over the waters of the Konkan coast.

Düsseldorf, Februar 1929. Am Zaun einer Großbaustelle wird die Leiche eines kleinen Mädchens gefunden. Gewürgt, missbraucht, erstochen, mit Petroleum übergossen und angezündet. "Wer tut so etwas?", fragt einer der Polizisten erschüttert. Die zynische Antwort lautet: "Meistens der Vater. Oder der Onkel." Doch dieser Fall ist anders. Kommissar Wilhelm Berger sieht sich rasch mit einer ganzen Reihe brutaler Überfälle auf Männer, Frauen und Kinder konfrontiert. Ist hier ein Wahnsinniger am Werk? Ein Verdächtiger wird schließlich gefasst und gesteht alles.

An action-packed historical novel featuring Danish warrior Styrkar, and his journey through the violent Norman Conquest as he fights for vengeance. The champion of a dead king has nothing left to lose... And nothing more to fear. Hastings, 1066. Styrkar the Dane stumbles wounded and delirious from the corpse-strewn battlefield of Senlac Hill. He has watched his king butchered at the hands of foreign knights, seen his countrymen defeated in battle, and he will not stop until there is a reckoning.

It’s business as usual on the set of another cheap sword-and-sandal production by Pharos Pictures—until the lead actress suddenly falls into a deep, mysterious sleep. Jordan Harper can talk down high-strung starlets and knock sense into stuntmen, but this…this is the kind of uncanny problem that he’d usually bring to Mrs. Hope. Unfortunately, the preternaturally capable secretary is on a business trip with the studio head. Harper must get to the bottom of the mystery on his own before another cast member succumbs—or worse, they blow the budget.

She's out of retirement – and out for revenge! When Georgina Garrett wakes in the night to find intruders in her house, she knows she must do everything she can to keep her children safe. But just when she thinks the ordeal is over, she realises something is terribly wrong. She arrives at her crime-lord husband David Maynard's London house to find a bloodbath. Six of David's best men lie dead and he is nowhere to be found. Georgina may have walked away from the game but she's still the best player on the street.

It only takes one defeat to topple an empire. With Britain still in the grips of World War Two, Georgina Garrett has her own battles to fight. She has made many enemies over the years, and with every victory she's only grown stronger. But following a bitter betrayal, Georgina must find a way to claw herself out of the depths of despair and back to the top position within London's criminal underworld. She'll do whatever it takes to secure her freedom and defeat those who'd rather to see her dead.

Benito Mussolini approda a Genova per una visita ufficiale. Siamo nel maggio del 1938 e il Duce conta di fermarsi in Liguria per quattro giorni. Il commissario Boccadoro, ricevuta la soffiata da un detenuto, segue attentamente gli spostamenti di Mussolini nella città, cercando di mettere insieme i pezzi di un probabile complotto dai contorni difficilmente afferrabili. Mescolando personaggi reali alla più pura finzione letteraria, con Nero dominante d'Amaro costruisce un thriller politico dalla rigorosa ambientazione anni Trenta.

Father Michael Dominic is called to France for an unusual assignment. A 14th-century bishop was found in a crypt buried under the burnt remnants of Notre-Dame—but he’s wearing the ring of a cardinal, and two parchment scrolls had been hidden in his garment sleeve. Who was this 700-year-old custodian of carefully guarded secrets?

Young Pawah’s life changes when he travels to Waset on his parent’s hard-earned savings to become a scribe at the temple of Amun. Facing discrimination in Waset for being the son of a farmer among the wealthy elite, Pawah discovers the ease with which he garners sympathy and subsequent "pity gifts" of gold with lies and deceit.

Anno Domini 1040. Christianity has swept unstoppably across Scandinavia, leaving few enclaves of the old ways clinging on to their fading world as King Olof of Sweden works to convert his people. A young warrior, Halfdan, has witnessed the ‘mercy' of the Christian lords, watched his people attacked, his village burned and the Odin stone toppled as heretical. Watched his father cut down by an ambitious Christian jarl and his zealous priest. Among the ashes of his world, he vowed an oath of vengeance before all the gods.

Dragonetz failed his liege, Eleanor of Aquitaine and is in exile, branded an oathbreaker. But she plans to be Queen of England and gives him one chance to redeem himself. His mission will take him alone into the hostile court of the Welsh princes, Rhys and Meredith, relying on song and sword to win their trust. Unlikely to survive, he intends to die alone.