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John le Carré meets Robert Harris, with this business-and-moral-dilemma dimension of a corporate geopolitical thriller. ★★★★★ “An exciting novel that feels like a genre of its own – entertaining, thought-provoking, and beautifully written. I was hooked from page one.” August...

Blending fact and fiction, Midnight Patriots follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America. It’s 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America’s nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin’s mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him.

Desoto, Georgia is a quiet, out of-the-way place — a town where nothing of real significance ever seems to happen. At least not until a local farm boy has an unlikely encounter with a Russian spy. With the Cuban Missile Crisis looming, seventeen-year-old Haskell Hand is going through a rough patch. He’s grieving the death of his mother and contending with his father’s ever-worsening alcohol addiction. And if that weren’t enough, he’s embroiled in a feud with his twin brother, a disabled recluse known for his caustic personality and uncanny intellect.

Set in the late nineteenth century, A High Wind in Jamaica recounts the perilous fate of seven children, as they board a ship which soon becomes captured by pirates. The Bas-Thornton siblings, raised on a plantation in Jamaica, are sent home to England after a high wind obliterates their family house. But once the pirates seize their ship, the Captain flees the scene, abandoning the children to fend for themselves. As gripping as it is brutal, A High Wind in Jamaica is a poignant tale of survival, adventure and having to grow up long before one's own time.

On the wild west coast of Ireland, a neolithic burial chamber is uncovered. Inside, and perfectly preserved, is the image of a fabled Nemean lion and its cub drinking from a bubbling fountain of pure fire. The image matched the one found on an ancient scroll that warned of a Celtic Prophecy. It foretold of an approaching disaster of unimaginable scale hurtling toward the modern world… Sam Reilly needs to solve the Celtic Prophecy and find the fabled Nemean Lions, whose secret may be the only thing that can save his life.

Historische Kurz-Krimis Mord und Diebstahl - ja schon ... Aber damals waren die Verhältnisse ganz anders als heute. Oder doch nicht? 1072 in Cornwall rettet die junge Caitlin ihr Erbe vor den normannischen Eroberern. 1795 bestraft in Paris der Gendarm Michel eigenhändig einen betrügerischen...

Le commissaire impérial Antoine de Barjac et l'illusionniste Louis Comte sont envoyés dans les Combrailles pour enquêter sur la mystérieuse disparition de nombreux conscrits, sur fond de légendes locales terrifiantes. Au cœur de cette région reculée, ils devront affronter des forces maléfiques et une menace invisible susceptible d'ébranler les fondements de l'Empire.

Klim Rogov, a celebrated radio anchorman, never imagined he’d be treated like royalty in the Soviet Union when he arrived in 1927. But his assignment as a United Press correspondent in Moscow gives him access to the country’s most dangerous and powerful circles. Klim isn’t here for the champagne and privilege that ordinary Russians can only dream of. He’s here for Nina, his wife, who was kidnapped by Bolshevik agents. Every day in Moscow is a tightrope walk: one wrong word, one wrong look, and he could be branded a spy, condemned in a show trial, and lose Nina forever.

They built something the world had never seen. Then the world came for them. Hold on for Dear Life is the story about three friends who set out to fix the global financial system and nearly destroyed themselves in the process. Set in 2017, it details the peak of the ICO crypto world. HODL is the crypto world's term for holding on through the crash. It is a novel about idealism tested by success, about the specific cost of visibility, and about what you choose to hold when everything else falls away.

History buried the truth. She's about to unearth it. When a forgotten ship's log is discovered in a dusty attic on Long Island, law student Katelynn Kittle stumbles into a mystery three centuries in the making. The journal—filled with strange symbols, brittle maps, and an undecipherable cipher—pulls her into the orbit of cryptologists Mia Hamilton and Dr. Adler Kein, whose work once exposed the secrets of the Custodes Veritatis.

Fl. 1700The tides of fate demand blood. Sybil's entire life was spent scraping the bottom of the barrel, sneaking scraps, and making do with what little money her brother Walter could smuggle back to London from Nassau. But as time passes and the last delivery from her brother becomes more distant, she soon realizes that she might finally be on her own. With nowhere left to go she ventures out across the ocean, desperately hoping to retrace her brother's footsteps.

Jeremy, the daring pilot, flies dangerous missions across Europe and beyond, risking his life as he battles a waning and desperate empire. Beside him stands Amelie, the courageous ambulance driver dedicated to saving soldiers' lives at the front—Allied and enemy. She is equally devoted to...

O singular conto de Antonio Sardinha é ambientado na fronteira entre Espanha e Portugal, na região de Portugal, em plena Idade Média. Um verdadeiro thriller de terror, onde, em meio a uma guerra sangrenta, um padre, no Dia de Páscoa, se alegra em ver sua igreja cheia... mas quem eram aquelas pessoas? É ler e se surpreender!

Two action-packed archaeological adventures filled with deadly secrets, relentless danger, and pulse-pounding thrills. If you love fast-paced, globetrotting romps with amazing characters, then you'll love Charlee's story! Charlee Flynn discovers that her parents aren't really antiquities experts, they're "black market acquisitions specialists." They're thieves! And now, after an old enemy forces them to flee their Costa Rican home, Charlee must become one too.

The next instalment in the Chivalry series from a master of historical fiction. The Chivalry series follows William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, from the killing fields of France, through life as a routier and criminal, and to redemption with the Knights of Saint...

Route 66: The Whole Enchilada tells the story of the people of Santa Cuervo, New Mexico. Among its residents are a young boy and his teenage sister who struggle to flee poverty and isolation amidst the town's culture of superstition and folklore. Their odyssey to maturity, love, and prosperity are tested by deeply hidden family secrets. As Route 66 carries strangers, omens, and change into their small town, the characters are pulled into a mystery that has long been buried in the dust and silence of the desert.

In a place built for death, one woman fought to save life. An elderly doctor stands before a room of students in a lecture hall. What unfolds is a story of courage, brutality, and survival. When Dr. Gisella Perl is deported to Auschwitz, her medical training becomes the only thing that can keep her alive. Forced into the women’s barracks under the command of Josef Mengele, she faces starvation, disease, and relentless brutality. Every day, she must make impossible choices, using her skills to save the women the camp has marked for death.

The call comes at dawn. Three words. Come to Pompeii. Marcus Russo has spent his career excavating the past. He has never been afraid of what he might find—until now. The chamber shouldn't exist. Neither should what's painted on its walls. The seven-petaled rose. The geometric cross. The unmistakable iconography of Rosicrucian tradition, preserved beneath two millennia of volcanic ash—etched into Roman plaster nearly fifteen centuries before the brotherhood claims to have been born. The discovery doesn't just rewrite history. It destroys a myth that powerful men have killed to protect.

Ein mutiger Krieger, Barbarossa und Heinrich der Löwe, Macht und Intrigen. 1154: Berengar schließt sich König Barbarossa für den Zug nach Italien an. Kaum liegt der beschwerliche Alpenübergang hinter ihnen, gibt es Schwierigkeiten: Mailänder Truppen stellen sich dem Heer in den Weg, und die Gegner von Berengars Familie trachten ihm nach dem Leben.

Los Angeles, 1916: Photographer Bill Ogden has opened a portrait studio in seedy Hollywood, where he is joined by his granddaughter, Flavia — a woman in need of a fresh start after bludgeoning her drunken, abusive husband to death. Though his business is mainly legit, Bill finds himself...