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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.

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...

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.

A gripping 1930s-set whodunnit and love letter to Golden Age crime, this sequel to A Queer Case features amateur sleuth Selby Bigge, who must solve a murder at Lady Malcolm’s Servants’ Ball in London’s Royal Albert Hall. Perfect for fans of Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey novels. London...

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.

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.

Burrawang, New South Wales, 1868. Patrick Kittrick has wagered everything on two hundred acres of raw Australian bush. He has bled for every cleared acre and every planted row. Now his neighbour, Mervyn Craddock, means to take it from him. When asking fails, Craddock reaches for darker methods...

It's 1643 and England stands divided: King against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother. For Captain Stryker, scarred veteran of the brutal wars in the low countries, the rights and wrongs of the Royalist cause mean little. Stryker's loyalty is to his band of soldiers —...

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.

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.

Bloomsbury presents Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by Cynthia Farrell. The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a...

A bookclub historical crime novel for fans of Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters and Alis Hawkins. Bass Rock, Edinburgh, late 1600s On a cruel and windswept volcanic island, where only the toughest survive, a fragile society is about to be put to the ultimate test. Life on...

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.

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.

One relic. Two global powers. A race against time and in this race, there's no silver medal for second place. Harry Fox doesn’t take sides. He finds relics, sells them, and stays out of trouble. But when Italian agents force him into a search sanctioned by the Pope himself, neutrality is no longer an option. Harry has little choice but to dive headlong into chasing this relic. However, Harry and the Pope are not the only two interested in finding this royal treasure.

¿Quién financió realmente el ascenso de Hitler? Mientras la historia oficial señala a Hitler como el gran protagonista de una tragedia mundial, detrás de él operó una red de banqueros, industriales, políticos y espías que ayudó a moldear el destino del siglo XX.

The Ninth Templar: Guardian of the Grail What if Christ wrote his own gospel…and the Knights Templar discovered it beneath Solomon’s Temple? Their betrayal on Friday the 13th of October in 1307 was not about cancelling debts or seizing their treasury, it was about burying discoveries that...