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Zwei der erfolgreichsten Bestsellerautoren aller Zeiten haben einen unvergesslichen Thriller geschrieben. Der verheerendste Vulkanausbruch der Geschichte droht, Hawaii zu zerstören. Doch ein Geheimnis, das seit Jahrzehnten vom Militär gehütet wird, ist noch weit bedrohlicher als der Vulkan.

China's invasion of Taiwan is a reality at last, but not in the way anyone foresaw. From their hiding place on Xiuguluan Mountain, a US-Taiwanese spec ops team prepares to wage guerilla warfare. Their mission may demand the ultimate sacrifice, but could change the course of the war. NATO nations are not the only ones threatened. With Russian troops on its northern border, Japan needs a geographic buffer, and takes back territory it ceded to Russia at the end of the Second World War.

Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to rescue a friend who has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, ancient coins – remnants of a Chinese casino buried for six hundred years – are starting to surface in Japan's clandestine underworld. Mason knows the coins and kidnapping are linked. Someone has finally unearthed the long-buried ancient casino, and its riches – both financial and archaeological – are now up for grabs. But hidden forces are desperate to conceal the discovery and take it for themselves, kidnapping and killing to silence anyone in their path.

Joel Adler, ehemaliges Mitglied der geheimsten Spezialeinheit Schwedens, lebt nach einem verheerenden Einsatz in Somalia ein einsames und ruheloses Leben. Der Krieg war sein Arbeitsplatz und die Jahre als Elitesoldat haben ihn körperlich und mental geprägt. Als Joel eines Morgens in seinem Hotelzimmer aufwacht, liegt seine Zufallsbekanntschaft Tess neben ihm – ermordet. Kurz darauf klingelt das Telefon, während gleichzeitig die Polizei an die Tür klopft. Die Stimme am anderen Ende der Leitung stellt Joel ein Ultimatum.

The Scots have decided to take advantage of the Civil War in England and King David invades. The only opposition to his mighty army of 26,000 men is the Warlord of the North and an ancient Archbishop of York. With cruel invaders rampaging through northern England and ravaging the land, enemies must join together to fight off the enemy who threaten to take half of the land.

China has unleashed a new weapon of mass destruction on the world, and the US-led Coalition has no way to counter it. Sheltering in bunkers in the mountains south of Taipei, Taiwan's government considers suing for peace. Taiwanese fisherman, Lin Hungyu, may have the answer. But his neighbors think he is mad and the military won't take his calls.

Former US Air Force officer Nick Flynn joined the clandestine Quartet Directorate to continue its long-standing mission: to act decisively against serious threats to the free world. And with the backing of Russia’s authoritarian president, no threat is more deadly than that of Pavel Voronin and his mercenary Raven Syndicate. Twice they have almost succeeded in bringing the United States to its knees, only to be stopped at the last moment by Flynn and his team of highly trained operatives.

A year after his older brother made the ultimate sacrifice, Sergeant Major Luke Carter, decorated hero of 22 SAS, is sent to Perth on a recruiting job. His orders: select two candidates from the SASR for a highly sensitive mission on foreign soil. But when a sudden crisis threatens to derail the plan, Carter and his new colleagues find themselves forced into action on a high-stakes operation. One that has the potential to change the course of the war in Ukraine. So begins a deadly game of predator and prey, moving from the streets of Minsk to the cliffs above the Black Sea.

The year is 1992. Europe is in flames. Scandinavia is under siege. Only Norway holds out against the Soviet war machine. And now the pride of the Soviet Navy, the Red Banner Northern Fleet, sallies out to finish the job.

Natasha is completely alone, although she's surrounded by people. Freshly arrived in England on a train full of refugees from a vicious war in mainland Europe, she's left everything behind—including her fourteen-year-old son. It's not long before she runs into trouble. Natasha finds herself in peril, surrounded in a dark London alleyway by men who wish her harm. Also in the alleyway is a man in a robe. A preacher with a most unusual skill set for a man of the cloth.

US intelligence says there's something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project. Analysts are stumped, until the knot is untangled by one particularly bright young woman at the Office of Naval Intelligence - Katie Ryan, the youngest daughter of President Jack Ryan. Like her father, she sees patterns where other don't, and she's determined that the Russians are about to launch a super missile sibmarine, the Belgorod.

Key Isabella might be small, but it has become a hub for the drug trade into the United States. For the Black Berets—the world’s fiercest mercenaries—the issue of a billion-dollar heroin smuggling operation hits a sore spot they can’t ignore. Arriving in the West Indies, the five-man team of American heroes is tasked with overthrowing Key Isabella’s evil dictator without anyone finding out they’re involved. To make matters more difficult, they soon bump into the additional problem of a police force just as violent and corrupt as the nation’s tyrannical leader.

Holly Lin. Kindermädchen am Tag, Auftragskiller bei Nacht. Holly Lin hat ein neues Leben. Eine neue Identität. Etwa ein Jahr ist es her, seit sie ihren Job als Auftragskillerin der Regierung an den Nagel gehängt hat. Nun lebt sie in einer kleinen Stadt in Texas, verbringt ihre Nächte als Barkeeper und sortiert tagsüber Bücher in der örtlichen Bibliothek ein. Doch das alles ändert sich schlagartig, als sie auf eine blutüberströmte Frau trifft – mit einem Baby in den Armen.

It is the near future. The Islamic Jihad is over. The Jihadis have beaten the West. Israel stands alone . . . Can what remains of Western civilization oppose their total world domination? What might arise from the dust of the crushed West to resist the martial efforts of the whole Arab world? This is the controversial novella of the final crusade and one soldier’s dark destiny as part of it.

Een hartverscheurende roman voor de lezers van De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama en De tatoeëerder van Auschwitz. Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal. Vrijwel niemand komt levend uit de hel die Auschwitz heet. Mala, gevangene 19880, begrijpt dat op het moment dat ze de trein uit stapt. Als tolk voor de ss heeft ze een iets hogere status dan de andere gevangen, een positie die ze gebruikt om zo veel mogelijk levens te redden. Edward, gevangene 531, is een kampveteraan en een politiek gevangene. Hij zit in het ondergrondse verzet. En hij heeft een ontsnappingsplan.

David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work.

Christian is on the brink of a new life, counting down the final 48 hours of his military service while battling the scars of combat and PTSD. He's ready to swap the chaos of war for the calm of civilian life. His farewells to battle buddies Halls and Smith are heartfelt; these are the men who have been with him through life's most perilous moments.

Under a sweltering July full moon, the daughter of a Russian vodka magnate is savagely murdered in Washington, DC. Detective Captain Alexander Strange arrives at the crime scene and knows he's seen this brutal style of killing before—25 years ago, as a Force Recon Marine in a Central American jungle.

Far into the future, the world has been torn asunder by meteors. The Cataclysm. The dust and debris from the deep space rocks have settled into the Earth and contain incredible power. The dust can change the environment around it, it can be used to power infrastructure, it can even be used to power weapons. All former nations have been sub-divided into kingdoms, empire, and republics.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton’s life is turned upside down with news almost too good to be true, everything he believes about his world changes in an instant, and the life he dedicated to serving his country and the preservation of freedom suddenly fades out of focus as a new reality becomes the center of his existence. But before the dream of his new life can materialize, one final mission demands his devotion like never before.