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Three Wednesdays, Book II in the Jake and Dora series, takes place during an extremely volatile time period in our nation's history. This novel interweaves Jake and Dora's two parallel lives after they parted company at the end of Sheltering in Place, and the reader wonders if they will ever meet again. On January 6, 2021, when Joe "Jake" Jacobson, in a dusty little town in Georgia, sees someone he used to know breaching the United States Capitol building on the television news during that now-infamous insurrection, a chain reaction of memories coalesces.

Sydney scientist, Marcus Hall, is developing a radical 5G Wi-Fi receiver for CSIRO. With access to secretive Lamarr computer chips—this technology promises billions to repair Australia’s ravaged economy. On a caffeine boosted whim, he inadvertently discovers a therapeutic breakthrough in neuroscience. Or so he thinks…His seemingly trustworthy lab partner, Henry, is an unlikely Australian spy. His official duty is keeping tabs on the project and their Lamarr chips. But the whole project is now classified top-secret.

In a world shrouded in shadows, where doubt is the only weapon, can one spy expose the truth? #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor delivers his latest high-octane thriller. A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia’s most lethal fighters...

When she’s incarcerated under the authority of a shadowy new defense act, Riley is sent to one of a growing number of American Renewal Centers (ARCs)—institutions modeled after psychiatric facilities—for mandatory reeducation. Forced therapy, involuntary medication, solitary confinement, restricted rations, and more are all in the ARC program’s bag of dirty tricks designed to break down dissidents. Give in, and you go free. Resist, and … Riley declares a one-woman war against the gaslighting and manipulation in a struggle to take down the ARC program and its white-coated collaborators.

Thomas stole a serum, trying to better his life. When someone steals it from him, it leaves him questioning the people who hired him. What is the serum? Did he just help them release a deadly virus? Rick was just a janitor. During the outbreak of a deadly virus, his wife speaks her mind and gets the two of them kidnapped. Now she's dead. Thomas and Rick separately search for answers. They join a group searching for the same thing as they are. The group knows who released the virus. Did this man do it? Or was it someone else? Why would someone intentionally release a deadly virus?

When an MI6 operation in Belarus goes wrong and a key asset is killed, Agent Blackhawk has to go under cover to break a crime and espionage ring in Eastern Europe. Then an expert in biological warfare disappears from a British safe house in Denmark and needs to be found before a Russian assassination team finds him. The attacks are coming from all sides—but will she and her team all survive?

Politthriller-Spannung aus Schweden - fesselnd und mitreißend erzählt. Klara Waldéen ist Juristin und arbeitet als EU-Referentin in Brüssel. Ihr Leben gerät aus den Fugen, als ihr Ex-Freund, der erfolgreiche Politologe Mahmoud sie in seine brisanten Recherchen einbezieht. Mit Der Schwimmer, Der Bruder und Der Freund liegt die rasante Trilogie von Joakim Zander nun erstmals als Gesamtausgabe im Hörbuch vor. Neben Ulrike Hübschmann begeistern Reinhard Kuhnert, Dirk Petrick und Roland Wolf mit ihrer lebendigen Lesung.

Islamisten verüben in der Münchner U-Bahn einen grauenvollen Anschlag, der weltweit für Entsetzen sorgt. Mehr als 200 Menschen sterben. Besonders brisant: In der U-Bahn sollte sich der Bayerische Staatsminister des Inneren, Martin Himmel, befinden, der sich jedoch verspätet. Galt der Anschlag ihm? Schnell hat Kommissar Torge Prager einen Verdächtigen: Laid Abaaoud, einen Syrer. Doch Torge kann den Verdacht nur bestätigen, wenn er das Gesetz bricht. Eine Frau glaubt an Laids Unschuld: Oberregierungsrätin Antonia Himmel, die Tochter des Ministers.

From Brad Thor, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code of Conduct, comes a lightning-paced short story, pitting Scot Harvath against a threat unlike any he’s faced before… A deadly betrayal is at the center of The Athens Solution. When a game-changing weapon falls into the wrong...

South Africa, Zimbabwe, China and Britain: In the shadow of the Cold War, a deadly secret connects three continents—and time is running out. When a mild-mannered scientist accidentally uncovers a web of international espionage during a routine visit to Beijing, he's thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. His only ally? A magnetic anti-apartheid activist who may have secrets of her own.

In Hamburg sterben Menschen, die der Umwelt schaden. Jede und jeder könnte das nächste Opfer sein. Ein sensationeller Fall für das Hamburger Ermittlerduo Erdmann und Eloğlu von Erfolgsautor Hubertus Borck. Ich sehe, was du tust. Dafür wirst du bestraft. Eine Frau stirbt qualvoll bei einem Brand in einem Müllkeller. Kurz vor ihrem Tod entdeckt sie eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft über sich an der Decke: »Ich sehe, was du tust«. Einige Wochen später verbrennt ein Mann in einem Bordell auf der Hamburger Reeperbahn. Der Jurist, der für Gerechtigkeit kämpfte, setzte gegen das Unkraut in seinem Garten regelmäßig Chemie ein.

Long Fei, an agent of the KMT, planned a secret rendezvous with Bai Wei, the daughter of Plum Blossom Party’s leader, to locate the Plum Blossom Painting, which contains a list of the Plum Blossom Party members. It’s said that Fei failed in his mission, and from then on, the painting was nowhere to be found, the identity of the party’s members an even bigger mystery. 10 years later, following the unauthorized release of a nuclear submarine design, the odd occurrence of a woman in disguise at Tiger Beach, and the haunting of a crematorium, the Plum Blossom Party reemerges from the depths.

Eine Stadt im Dunkel. Ein Mann im Schatten. Nachdem Evan Smoak in letzter Sekunde die Pläne von Menschenhändlern durchkreuzt hat, wird er selbst zur Zielscheibe. Der „Nowhere Man“ konnte zwar die 17-jährige Ana Reznian vor einem schrecklichen Schicksal bewahren, tappt jedoch selbst in die Falle. Er landet in einem höllengleichen, menschenverachtenden Gefängnis, wo jeder Fluchtversuch brutal bestraft wird. Solange, bis jede Chance auf Flucht ausgelöscht ist.

When local teenagers discover a body at the disused Denbigh Asylum, it seems that his murder might be linked to a modern slavery ring trafficking young people from the Indian subcontinent. However, social media then reveals that the victim was involved in a toxic relationship which may provide a clue to his death. When there is another murder, the focus of the investigation switches again. With time running out, Ruth and the Llancastell CID team must find the killer before they flee the country and disappear.

September 2021: Das Internationale Olympische Komitee tagt in Shanghai, um die Sommerspiele 2032 zu vergeben. Kurz vor der Abstimmung wird der mosambikanische IOC-Funktionär Charles Murandi tot aufgefunden. Prompt wird der deutsche Journalist Thomas Gärtner festgenommen, denn er hat sich zuletzt im Hotelzimmer des Toten aufgehalten. Doch der will sich an nichts erinnern können. Und während die Polizei auf Ungereimtheiten stößt, die Kanzlerin im Flugzeug nach Shanghai von dem Mord erfährt und ein anderer Journalist die Chance auf eine große Story wittert, ahnt niemand, wo der Schlüssel zur Lösung des Falls wirklich liegt.

Auf dem Petersplatz werden die Proteste von Erzkonservativen immer lauter: Die Kirche muss endlich zur alten Ordnung zurückkehren! Gleichzeitig betritt der älteste Ritterorden der Welt erneut das Spielfeld der Macht – was plant der Großmeister der Malteser, und worauf bereitet sich in einer Villa am Comer See der Enkel des Diktators Mussolini vor? Geschichtsprofessor und Vatikanbewohner Don Cavelli ahnt wie so viele andere noch nichts von der dunklen Verbindung dieser Ereignisse.

Nick, Selena and the team are caught up in a devious plot that takes the world to the brink of nuclear war. Who is funding Moscow's militaristic adventures and why? Can the team find a way to stop a confrontation between Russia and the United States before it starts? The stakes for Nick, Selena, Elizabeth Harker and the world have never been higher. If they fail, civilization will be destroyed.

Maureen Finn is at a White House ceremony honoring the memory of her father, Sean. Robert Novak is in New York, watching the event on TV—his gaze fixed on Maureen. Soon afterward, Novak approaches Maureen and hands her a photo of her dad in the company of Lee Harvey Oswald. When he tells her that her father was involved in the Kennedy assassination—and asks her to lend her professional skills to his investigation—she’s horrified and angry.

When a top British agent is murdered in Hamburg, spymaster Tweed is desperate to know why his man was killed – and who he should target for revenge.The investigation quickly leads Tweed to a devastating conclusion – one of his four European sector chiefs is a traitor. Tweed’s terrible problem is that he does not know which one. With time running out, Tweed realises he may also be tracking a mass murderer – and that an appalling scandal in London will break if he does not find the killer.

Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the tail end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled over into tirades against all luxuries that tempted people towards sin. These sermons led to the infamous ‘Bonfire of the Vanities'—a series of fires lit throughout Florence for the incineration of everything from books, extravagant clothing, playing cards, musical instruments, make-up and mirrors, to paintings, tapestries and sculptures.

Hillary Broome begins team teaching an ethnic studies class with her friend, Professor Grover Zale, expecting to deepen her understanding of systemic discrimination. But another professor’s lessons stir violent tendencies in a student with criminal ties, leading to a series of hate crimes targeting Zale and Hillary. She’s survived other horrors, but nothing like the death she faces now.

British filmmakers Amy Wilde and Jon Curtis just want to make an entertaining documentary about Electra, a pop icon famous for her signing with strong opinions about capital punishment and the sale of land mines. Unfortunately, for Amy and Jon they’ve chosen the wrong singer at the wrong time. The Brandenberg Sect, a secret group of top Western politicians and businessmen decide Electra has to go. She is a thorn in the side of the establishment and her popularity is proving to be too dangerous for their future plans.

Amy and Jon are on the run in Croatia. They are desperate to reveal to the world the truth about pop icon Electra’s death in their explosive biopic and documentary. They have had their lives stolen. The Secret Service is after them, together with the police, and agents of the Brandenberg Sect who have fingers that reach to all corners of the globe.

Ein schwedischer Staatsbürger wird in Moskau gefangen gehalten, so teilt es der israelische Geheimdienst dem schwedischen Nachrichtendienst mit. Der Fall landet auf dem Schreibtisch des erfahrenen Ermittlers Hans Edelman und entpuppt sich schnell als der kniffligsten Fall seiner bisherigen Karriere. Edelman und sein junger Kollege David Karlén beginnen mit ihren Nachforschungen, ohne zu wissen, wer "der Schwede" ist und warum er festgehalten wird. Ihre Suche nach der Wahrheit wird zu einem gefährlichen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

Pocos saben que, antes del asesinato del candidato a la presidencia en el norte de México hace algunos años, se efectuó otro atentado en su contra en una ciudad distinta del Pacífico. Este hecho significativo no habría sido olvidado si no es porque en ese periodo el país observó el levantamiento de la guerrilla y sufrió otra debacle económica.

London in the early nineties is a hotbed of political activism and intrigue, and times are changing fast - too fast for DCI Rick Bailey, who is starting to think he cannot keep up. But then a young woman goes missing in the run-up to Christmas, and he's convinced Alice's disappearance is related to an unsolved murder that has haunted him for the last three years. He stumbles upon a suspect connected to all the clues, among them a care worker facing betrayal, a cemetery worker hearing music that does not play, an activist running from himself and a blind man who sees more than anyone else.

This dystopian novel asks what may have occurred if we insert two very passionate and driven fictional characters into the national narrative after the January 6th Capitol attacks. Unwilling to tolerate the push back of “anti-lifers” and “anti-democrats” against the country’s struggle with COVID and Trumpism, Congressman Jim Depich and college student Mary Lou Kramer thrust America into a violent and retributive spiral that dismantles science and democracy in an effort to rescue them from perceived foes.

America’s newest enemy launches an audacious plan to incapacitate the country. A never-before-seen danger is about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting public. And the world faces a crisis unlike any before. Can intelligence analyst Haley put the puzzle together in time from the safety of her office—or is she meant to risk it all as a field asset? Is Axe, a former Navy SEAL, capable of overcoming a foe with nothing to lose?

He may have prevented the world from falling into ruin, but Alex knows his work is not done yet. There’s still a controlling intelligence out there, pulling together the strands of a new and even more destructive conspiracy. Battling with personal tragedy on one hand, and the intrusion of new-found celebrity on the other, Alex must re-emerge from self-imposed exile to reunite with Mariam–the woman he loves–and Amaury–his truest friend–to face the fight of their lives.

In the heart of Ancient Egypt, a young street girl named Layla dreams of a life beyond her meager existence. Fate propels her into a whirlwind journey through bustling markets, hidden caves, and vast battlefields. Along the way, she encounters Amir, a prince with dreams of his own, and their destinies become irrevocably intertwined. As they navigate a world of power, betrayal, and shifting allegiances, they discover a love that challenges the very fabric of their society. Dive into an epic tale where legends are born, empires rise and fall, and love emerges as the most potent weapon of all.