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Luke Daniels, l'ami et élève de Cotton Malone, est en Belgique. La raison de sa présence ? Un appel à l'aide aussi mystérieux que pressant d'une de ses amies, Jillian Greenfield Stein. Depuis que le grand-père de celle-ci, ancien militaire en poste à l'Otan, a évoqué sur son lit de mort une mystérieuse organisation, Kronos, la vie de celle-ci est en danger. Traqués par des tueurs surentraînés, Jillian et Luke vont mener une enquête qui va les placer au centre d'un incroyable complot.

Hollywood, 1955. As head costume designer for Lux Pictures, Lena Taylor hears startling confessions from the biggest movie stars. She knows how to keep their secrets—after all, none of their scandals can match her own. Lena was once Elsie Gruner, the daughter of an Ohio dressmaker. Her gift for fashion design helped her win a coveted spot at an art academy in Rome. While in Italy, she became enthralled by the charismatic Julia, who drew her into a shadowy world of jazz clubs, code words, and mysterious deliveries.

Charles Krogh thought he had left the intelligence world for good, but before long finds himself immersed back in the vast invisible game without rules, the game of deception and bluff...the game without which the world can never be safe...or at peace. Nicholas Reed, brutally murdered by a stone-cold KGB killer - what did he know? Marshal T. K. Golovanov, hero of the Soviet Union and one of the most powerful men in the world - why is he jeopardising the future of his country with a female agent?

Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-20th century. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil step her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism.

When retired Southern sheriff-turned-New York City detective John Le Brun and his wife, Lordis, set sail in 1910 for a long-awaited honeymoon on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, they expect to find relaxation in paradise. However, they soon discover they’ve been lured to the island in part to tout its attributes as a burgeoning vacation retreat to wealthy investors back home. Instead of finding tranquility among the tropical isle’s quaint villages and sandy beaches, they encounter a land teeming with racial, social, and economic tension.

Armand de Saint Paul ist ein Mann mit Charme und Privilegien – bis ein tödliches Duell sein Leben in einen Albtraum verwandelt. In Ungnade gefallen und von mächtigen Feinden gejagt, sieht er sich gezwungen, aus der Opulenz des königlichen Hofes zu fliehen und außerhalb Frankreichs Zuflucht zu suchen. Kann er seine Ehre zurückgewinnen oder werden die dunklen Mächte, die im Spiel sind, triumphieren und ihn verschlingen?

In The Black Veil, Jack the Ripper terrorizes Victorian London with ritualistic killings that are linked to ancient magical artifacts. Blind occultist Miranda Griffin is plunged into a chilling mystery that blends history, literature, and the horror found in the arcane myths of Britain. Made invisible by a cursed ancient relic, Miranda steps into the darkness to uncover the truth behind the legendary Thirteen Treasures: objects that wield terrible power. Those who seek them leave bloody trails behind.

A mother’s lie crowns one son and hides another. Seimouir Dunn is laurel-crowned, the golden child marked as the seventh son of prophecy. But Pawlucee, crooked, footless, and forgotten, is the true seventh, scarred by fire yet unbroken.

At the height of the First World War, Emily Grey finds herself far away from the action, collating Swiss rubber imports in a hut in the middle of St James’ Park. Summoned to MI6’s Whitehall headquarters, Emily learns that her talent for languages is needed elsewhere and she is despatched to...

Лето 1914-го. Уже разыгрались события, которые приведут к Первой мировой войне. Премьер-министр Британии Герберт Асквит выбивается из сил, пытаясь предотвратить ее; он понимает, что иначе его страна неизбежно окажется втянута в бойню. Единственная отдушина для стареющего политика — редкие встречи и интенсивная переписка с тайной возлюбленной, молодой аристократкой, близкой к богемным кругам. А в стране уже началась шпиономания. Бдительные граждане находят в разных местах смятые листки с секретными дипломатическими сообщениями.

I saw it in a memory. I know how crazy that sounds. There were ten kingdoms of Atlantis, as Plato taught us, each ruled by one of the sons of the legendary Poseidon. I know where they all are. We are not the first advanced civilization. We aren't even the second. Others existed, and they left behind clues to help their descendants. To help us. I found those clues, including a device used by the ancients that allows me to relive their memories.

The Germans arrived with a plan to occupy a quiet French village. The French Resistance and Allied forces had other plans. Sturmbannführer Gunther Dettmer stands at the Franco-German border, poised with Hitler's war machine to unleash the western Blitzkrieg. Six hundred kilometers away, WWI veteran René Legrand tends to his fields in peaceful Sainte-Mère-Église, trying to forget his past as the French army's deadliest assassin

Un antiquísimo manuscrito desvela en sus páginas la más preciada fórmula alquimista: cómo fabricar oro. El canónigo Armenta tuvo que sufrir grandes avatares para dar con la fórmula, acechado por la Inquisición y por los rumores que le acusaban de practicar brujería. La reaparición casual del libro en Madrid, cinco siglos más tarde, pone en alerta a la CIA, al Mossad y a una poderosa mafia rusa, y activa una trepidante trama de inesperado final.

Unbeknownst even to himself, the kind, gentle, quietly brilliant Dr. Jekyll has created an alter ego—his polar opposite, the dark and dangerous, Mr. Hyde. A little bit Dexter, Hyde hunts down criminals to make them pay for their sins. But his "good deeds" go too far and, now, wanted for murder, he must lay low . . . until his love interest comes into Jack the Ripper's sights.

Cassie Woods's tenacity has helped her achieve a modicum of success in the male-dominated world of journalism in 1880s New York City. Despite her father's recent downfall, her courtship with gruff but handsome Detective O'Neill is going well. Now she has the opportunity to earn a place at the second-biggest newspaper in the city--if she can prove herself with an undercover story exposing the dangers of life in the city's garment factories.

Nell'estate del 1956, Lára Marteinsdóttir sparisce misteriosamente da Viðey, un'isola a pochi minuti di traghetto da Reykjavík. Ha soltanto quindici anni e, per raccogliere qualche soldo durante le vacanze, lavorava come domestica nella casa di un noto avvocato e della moglie, unici abitanti di quella striscia di terra battuta dal vento; per il resto, solo uccelli marini che stridono sulla costa prima di tuffarsi nelle acque dell'oceano Atlantico. Il suo diventerà il cold case più celebre d'Islanda. Cos'è successo a Lára? È stata lei a decidere di andarsene o qualcuno l'ha costretta?

Es 1943 y la neutralidad de Suecia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial está bajo presión. Laura Dahlgren, la brillante y joven mano derecha del negociador jefe del gobierno está al tanto de estas tensiones. Sin embargo, cuando la mejor amiga de Laura de la época universitaria, Britta, es descubierta asesinada a sangre fría, Laura está decidida a encontrar al asesino.

It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying.

Carrying out wartime patrols from Malta with the famous "Fighting Tenth" Submarine Flotilla, HM Submarine Rugged has orders to disrupt Axis supply convoys. Deep in enemy waters, Rugged encounters deadly mines, depth-charges, and torpedoes! Hunted down by the remorseless destroyers of the Trapani First Eleven, the crew of Rugged, fast running out of oxygen and slowly poisoned by carbon dioxide, must call on every ounce of their reserve if they are to evade the enemy and escape with their lives.

September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the king and his son, the dauphin. With 12,000 knights. And then there is William Gold. A cook's boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.