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The second installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author James Clavell’s Asian Saga, Tai Pan, Part One contains the first half of the sweeping epic of the founding of Hong Kong. “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Conclave, Precipice and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy comes a sweeping new political thriller about the general who built an empire—and paid the ultimate price. Agrippa is Robert Harris’s monumental return to the world of...

Jack Monroe never expected a murder to follow his wedding celebration-but when his friend working at Los Alamos turns up dead, he is thrust into the world of espionage. A Soviet mole has stolen classified research which can shift global power for years to come. To avert disaster, Monroe must track the spy, recover the secrets and confront his friend's killer. A tense, character driven Cold War thriller filled with international intrigue, moral conflict and danger Mission 38 is perfect for fans of classic espionage and reluctant-hero spy fiction.

Benjamin Luna never expected to inherit anything. Least of all, a nine-hundred-year-old secret that men have killed for nine centuries to keep. Behind a fortune built on blood lies a truth that could shake the foundations of faith, history, and power itself. The men hunting him have kept that silence since the Crusades. To survive, he’ll have to finish what his family spent nine centuries hiding. A gripping historical thriller of mystery, betrayal, and relentless suspense. What would you do if you inherited one of history’s greatest secrets?

She left the South as a privileged young woman. The West would make her a survivor. After the Civil War destroys the world Gilliana knows, her wealthy Atlanta family heads west hoping to escape the devastation and uncertainty of the South. Instead, bandits murder her father and brother and take Gilliana, her mother, Martha, and her younger sister, Ella, captive. Before they can be sold to a brothel, they are taken by Native warriors, and Gilliana and Ella become slaves. In captivity, Gilliana learns to survive.

একজন ডিটেক্টিভের কাছে আমরা মনে মনে বেশ নায়কোচিত গুণাবলীর প্রত্যাশা রাখি। শখের গোয়েন্দা ইন্দ্রনাথ রুদ্র-ও দামী...

Bloomsbury presents Gallows Court by Martin Edwards, read by Helen MacFarlane. ‘A true master of British crime writing’ RICHARD OSMAN A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 LONDON, 1930 The night is sooty, sulphurous, and malign. A spate of...

The Sunday Times number one bestselling author returns to Ancient Rome in his latest thriller. Narrated by Simon Russell Beale. Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir...

WAS WÄRE, WENN DIE TITANIC NIE EINEN EISBERG GERAMMT HÄTTE? Am 15. April 1912 ging die "unsinkbare" Titanic unter und riss 1.500 Menschen mit sich. Was aber, wenn dieser Untergang kein Unfall war? Schnitt in die Gegenwart: Senator Everett Van Wick überlebt dank eines Arztes aus einer Kleinstadt ein Attentat. Doch nun weiß der Arzt zu viel und wird selbst zur Zielscheibe. Stichwort EDEN BLACK. Was als einfache Rettungsaktion beginnt, wird bald zu einer Verschwörung mit hohem Risiko, die vom zurückgezogenen Vater des Senators angeführt wird.

Spies Infiltrate Havensbooke Hall. . .and Another Mystery Adventure Begins Stephen Blake's life goal is to protect people, especially those closest to him, but war in 1914 England doesn't follow any rules. When Blake is informed that a noted German spy may have taken up residence at Havensbrooke...

Lo único que el exiliado Callejas pretendía era escapar de la exaltación política que se vivía en la Miami tumultuosa de la década de 1960 para largarse a vivir a Ámsterdam, un paraíso cultural para intelectuales bohemios y amantes de la marihuana.

Dla Teofila Kłoska świat skończył się we wrześniu 1939 roku. Rzucony w środek wojennego chaosu, szybko uświadamia sobie, że jako żołnierz kampanii wrześniowej walczy nie tylko z najeźdźcami. O wiele groźniejsze od Niemców i Sowietów są zmagania z wewnętrznym wrogiem – strachem, rozpaczą i zwątpieniem.

Dla jednych świat skończył się we wrześniu 1939 roku, dla innych był zaledwie przedsionkiem piekła. Sowiecki reżim zgotował tysiącom ludzi okrutny los – bydlęcymi wagonami wywieziono ich do obozów pracy przymusowej i kołchozów. Jednym z tysięcy zesłanych był Teofil Kłosek. Tam, gdzie przetrwanie to codzienna walka, a zachowanie człowieczeństwa graniczy z niemożliwością, rozpoczyna się kolejny etap jego tułaczki.

Bloomsbury presents War at the Edge of the World by Ian Ross, read by Peter Noble. AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE. Centurion Aurelius Castus – once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube – believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in the cold, grey wastes of northern Britain...

Bloomsbury presents Imperial Vengeance by Ian Ross, read by Peter Noble. THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS NO MERCY IN ITS QUEST FOR POWER. Aurelius Castus is one of the leading military commanders of an empire riven by civil war. As the Emperor Constantine grows ever more ruthless in his pursuit of power...

Der Denker, der zum gefährlichsten Eroberer der Welt wurde. Kublai Khan – Der Enkel des großen Dschingis Khan steht vor einem Imperium am Rande des Zerfalls. Als das weite mongolische Weltreich seines Großvaters ins Chaos stürzt, beginnt ein gnadenloser Wettlauf um die Macht. Von den brennenden Ruinen Bagdads bis zu den glitzernden Toren Chinas erzählt Conn Iggulden in atemberaubendem Tempo von Belagerungen, Verrat, gewaltigen Reiterheeren und einer Familie, die ihre Macht mit Blut verteidigt.

A Dashing War Hero Falls in Love with a Penniless Orphan. When Colonel Henry Fitzwilliam arrives at Rosings Park and reconnects with his cousin Anne’s lady companion, Ophelia Hampton, he can hardly believe she is the same person as the unprepossessing eight-year-old he teased as a teenager. Now, despite himself, he is enchanted by the accomplished but penniless orphan. To his dismay, Sir Thomas Wainwright, a landholder in the district, has also shown a marked interest in the young woman.

Paris, 1945. Alors que la guerre vient tout juste de se terminer, un cadavre est découvert dans un hôtel borgne de Pigalle. L’assassin, arrêté sur les lieux, est un vagabond, dont la dernière adresse était le camp d’Auschwitz. L’homme qu’il a tué d’une balle dans la tête était...

In the frozen depths of 1959 Soviet Russia, former OSS operative John Kobczyk is pulled from his quiet life as a baker in Buffalo, NY for one final mission. Posing as a hockey coach in remote Kirov, he finds himself entangled in a deadly game where nothing is as it seems. With the help of a mysterious local baker named Taisiya, John races against time to uncover the truth. But in a world where loyalty can be bought and sold, the price of trust may be higher than he's willing to pay.

The past is gone. Move on or die. The radiation should have killed him. Instead, it gave Alexander Chandler extraordinary abilities—and turned him into the Navy's most valuable asset. For more than eighty years, Alex and his team of "Notables" have fought in every shadow war, every covert mission too dangerous for regular operatives. Now one of their own has gone rogue. Burton Shott is systematically eliminating every Notable on the planet as revenge for decades of personal loss.