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Cartago, siglo VI a. C.: Ariadna, hija de Pitágoras, recibe un pergamino con una noticia que encarna la peor de sus pesadillas. El mensaje incluye un pentáculo invertido, el símbolo que encierra la esencia del mal. De inmediato se desata una vertiginosa espiral asesina tras la que se adivina una mente poderosa y despiadada. España, Actualidad: Elena, Daniel e Irina investigan los límites del cerebro y la posibilidad de incrementar su capacidad.

When an encrypted letter written by Thomas Jefferson is found hidden in the attic of an old farmhouse in Virginia, the information could offer a clue as to who killed a US Special Forces soldier 220 years after the letter was written. Paul Marcus, who five years earlier broke an encrypted paper written by Isaac Newton, is tasked to see if he can unlock the secret Jefferson had originally meant for only one person. More than two centuries later, a relative of the first man to declare war on America - a nemesis of Thomas Jefferson - vows to fill a family vendetta.

England, 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after, a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of Seven Dials. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of theft and a beautiful heiress flirts with her inferiors. A strange destiny links each of these events to the American boy Edgar Allen Poe, brought to England by his foster father and sent to the leafy village of Stoke Newington to be educated.

Somewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. One hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past.

England 1727. Tom Hawkins will lieber verdammt sein, als Landpfarrer zu werden wie sein Vater. Er liebt die Frauen, das Bier und das Glücksspiel - und landet eines Nachts im berüchtigten Londoner Schuldgefängnis "The Marshalsea". Schnell erkennt Tom, dass in diesem "Teufelsloch" nur überlebt, wer sich nützlich machen kann: Er verdingt sich als Ermittler in einem hinterlistigen Gefängnismord - eine Idee, an der sein düsterer Zellengenosse Fleet sogleich Gefallen findet. Doch Tom ist auf der Hut, gilt Fleet doch selbst bei den abgebrühtesten Bütteln des Marshalsea als Ausgeburt der Hölle.

Johann und Elisabeth fliehen aus dem unheimlichen Bergdorf und schlagen sich durch in Richtung Wien. Schnee, Eiseskälte und gefährliche Wegelagerer machen ihre Reise zu einem riskanten Unterfangen. Als sie trotz der Gefahren ihr Ziel erreichen, scheint eine sichere gemeinsame Zukunft in greifbare Nähe gerückt - bis Feinde aus Johanns Vergangenheit auftauchen. Zu allem Übel bricht plötzlich eine rätselhafte Krankheit aus, die sich wie ein Leichentuch über Wien legt.

Wer ist der wahre Papst? Die Historikerin Marlene Schönberg erhält einen geheimnisvollen Anruf. Ein Mann erklärt, er besitze Informationen über eine Reliquie, die den Vatikan ins Wanken bringen könne. Als Marlene den Mann besuchen will, steht sie vor dem Gefängnis in Marseille. Robert Garnier wird verdächtigt, seinen Vater vor dem Papstpalast in Avignon getötet zu haben.

November 1943: Die deutsche Abwehr plant das wohl spektakulärste Unternehmen des Zweiten Weltkrieges. US-Präsident Roosevelt...

London 1666 - vier Tage lang verschlingt ein Feuer die Stadt. Im Armenviertel Southwark lebt der Straßenjunge Geoff, der mehr schlecht als recht versucht, seine Familie durchzubringen. Seine Schwester Jezebel, die sich in einer verruchten Spelunke als Schankmagd verdingt, birgt ein Geheimnis - und verschwindet eines Tages spurlos. Auf der Suche nach ihr stößt Geoff auf ein Netz aus Intrigen, Schuld und ungesühnter Rache - ein Gemisch, das schließlich den größten Brand der Geschichte entfachen sollte.

Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead - the victim of a savage stabbing - and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan's safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it's about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa.

St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts - mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war - and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since Antietam, when he lay delirious among the dead and dying, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless spirits. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated cities as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains west with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz.

A watertight packet is discovered by a diver in the waters surrounding Block Island. Unrecovered detritus from the last German U-boat sunk off the coast of Rhode Island, it contains secret codes suggesting that a Nazi spy ring operated in the United States during the darkest days of World War II. If confirmed, it could prove a major embarrassment to the FBI - whose late director, J. Edgar Hoover, once assured the government there were no spies in the country - so the bureau sends one of its best, Unit Chief Todd Oliver, to Newport to investigate.

Mayan legends tell of a location where the secret to surviving the end of the world may be found. One part of that legend is recorded on a stone tablet in the dusty attic of Lord 'Ratty' Ballashiels' crumbling manor. The other twin part disappeared from a Berlin museum when the Nazis took power. When Ratty seems about to sell his tablet to the adopted son of Josef Mengele, his friend, the archaeologist Ruby Towers, is appalled. Soon it is clear that more than archaeology is at stake.

The year is 1968: The Cold War is far from over, and nuclear annihilation is always only a heartbeat away. America is racing the Soviet Union to land men on the moon, a war is raging, and a pivotal presidential election looms on the horizon. A child of the early space age, Lieutenant Scott Ourecky joined the air force with aspirations of going to flight school.

Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. When his manipulative boss begins swindling the unsuspecting parents of his students, Max must retrieve his passport to return home. Max sneaks into her office only to stumble upon a burglary in progress. Max barely escapes but accidentally takes a strange diary bound in leather and embossed with a strange seal. Little does Max know that this diary has been hidden for over half a century, and its secrets could topple some of Japan's most powerful people and rewrite the history of the royal family.

A 2,000-year-old skeleton discovered in Jerusalem, and believed to be the body of Jesus Christ, threatens to destroy the Church and plunge the world into chaos. In a hidden tomb in the ancient city of Jerusalem, the skeleton of a man who died two millennia ago is uncovered by Israeli archaeologist Sharon Golban and her team. The body bears the unmistakable marks of crucifixion; an inscription written in Aramaic identifies the remains as belonging to the "King of the Jews".

Au pied du Puy-Violent dans le Cantal, dans la chaleur d'août 1914, les hommes se résignent à partir pour la guerre. Les dernières consignes sont données aux femmes et aux enfants : même si on pense revenir avant l'automne, les travaux des champs ne patienteront pas. Chez les Landry, le père est mobilisé, ne reste que Joseph tout juste quinze ans, en tête à tête avec sa mère et qui ne peut compter que sur Léonard, le vieux voisin.

Arthur Malory, a seemingly ordinary Englishman, has a burning interest in the Holy Grail, a passion inherited from his father. Thrust into a life-or-death quest to find the precious artifact, he will discover not only his own amazing heritage but the power that the Grail possesses--a power that informs the resurrection of Christ and explosively merges spiritual and scientific thought.

When former CIA code breaker Paul Marcus receives the call, he thinks it's a hoax. He's asked to analyze a cache of papers found locked in an old trunk. They were the last manuscripts written by Isaac Newton. Using Newton's math and notes, Marcus begins to see a pattern leading to a prophecy so frightening, to reveal it will change world events.

1977 : Martin Radford, jeune historien londonien dont la carrière universitaire a été brisée par un scandale, arrive sur l'île de Madère. Il y rencontre Leo Sellick, un millionnaire sud-américain, qui habite une superbe villa, naguère propriété du mystérieux Edwin Strafford, mort en 1951. Homme politique de premier ordre, promis à un brillant avenir, Edwin Strafford a été en 1908, à l'âge de 32 ans, ministre de l'intérieur du cabinet Asquith, aux côtés de Lloyd George et de Churchill, avant de démissionner brutalement en 1910 et de quitter la vie politique sans explication aucune pour disparaître dans l'anonymat.