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New York City faces a fate worse than death, the President suspects a traitor in the White House, and an intelligence analyst discovers a diabolical plot.

In this timely liberal political thriller, CIA analyst Alex Everett struggles to fit the pieces together in his first field assignment—a corrupt, egotistical right wing U.S. president, a tortured Marine in the Middle East, an ultra-conservative senator with a dirty little secret, enormous amounts of laundered money, and the CIA stalking one of their own most experienced agents.

The original captain and cook have mysteriously disappeared. A sinister cargo is hidden in the yacht's bilges when Captain Frank Brown is hired by the owners to sail the schooner across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean.

In a distant country, recently imprisoned filmmaker Vasant Rai is offered a chance at freedom. But the choice, he learns, offers itself at a very steep price. Ravi Mangla's The Observant is a sharp-eyed literary thriller about freedom of expression under tyrannical regimes, authority and its adherents, and the demands of survival.

Saul Epstein was used to trouble. When you’re the world’s most successful investigative journalist, and you devote your life to exposing the crimes of the great and the powerful, you learn to expect trouble. That’s why Saul was a recluse, that’s why he had no intimate circle, no close friends….

A failed black-ops mission in Eastern Europe has retired NYPD detective and Navy SEAL Michael Keough recalled back to Washington. It’s there that a random encounter with a gunman leads Keough to uncover a conspiracy targeting the highest levels of the United States government. The case has local law enforcement, the FBI, and the Secret Service on high alert to stop a potential presidential assassination. But Keough is not convinced of the gunman’s true intentions—and the deeper he digs, the more disturbing the plot becomes.

When a professional assassin is given the task of eliminating newspaper tycoon Giles Cranberry, it’s just another job that requires one single shot. Why, then, is an extra body lying on the ground? He quickly realizes that there are other forces at play, forces that want to destroy his reputation and ultimately his life. He has to use every ounce of his cunning to avoid the dangers that lie ahead and avoid being captured, either by his unseen foe, or the police.

Fat Tony, as Mayor, has a vise grip on all political and business activity in this town. Full of racism and corruption, his political machine operates with impunity. Accepting bribes and using the police to abuse black citizens who dare enter the community has been a winning formula for this crooked mayor anticipating reelection in this mostly white enclave.

Anti-Russian rebels receive a shipment of chemical weapons. The Ukrainian military capture them. The man at the center of the operation says one name during his interrogation: Jason Drake. The only problem: Jason Drake is either missing or dead.

A shadowy group of biohackers called the Firemen threaten to worsen the COVID pandemic by releasing an even more lethal version of the pathogen. But what drives the Firemen, and how do their motivations relate to the wealth of the Roman Empire and to the third basic human instinct? The answers may lie with prediction scientist Dan Clifford. Unemployed and struggling with two years of pandemic isolation, he is rebuilding both his career and personal life.

This story takes us through the life of a young man who gets caught up in the dark world of dirty politics. Sam finds himself and his friends being tracked down by government officials 20 years after writing what he thought was a benign yet radical term paper exposing flaws in the structure of a government. Suddenly connected to four students with a similar theory, Sam finds himself faced with an individual that will silence him at any cost.

In the heart of Iran, a dark family secret has been passed from father to son, mother to daughter, generation to generation–a line unbroken by time. And Dr. Shahzad Yavari, the professor of geopolitics at Tehran University, is destined to become the next recipient of this legacy.

Im Jahr 2000 wird die Studentin Angelika R. vor ihrem Studentenwohnheim in einer österreichischen Universitätsstadt ermordet - mit einem einzigen Stich ins Herz. Der Täter wurde nie gefunden. Sechzehn Jahre später taucht plötzlich ihre Mutter bei Jan Halder auf, einem Kommilitonen, in den Angelika verliebt war. Die Mutter bezichtigt ihn, mehr zu wissen, als er damals ausgesagt hat, und möglicherweise selbst der Mörder zu sein. Jan, inzwischen ein mittelmäßiger Autor in der Schaffenskrise, ist gerade in eine Kleinstadt gezogen, um sich neu zu sortieren.

He just saved his son. Together, can they save their country? Lawson Holland has returned from rescuing his son Tony in Afghanistan, hoping to finally live a normal life. But when war breaks out close to home, Holland, Tony, and company are caught up in it. The resulting fight will decide the future of their country, but it may cost them everything.

The mutilated body of C.I.A Section Chief Ned Bakke has been discovered in the car trunk of a sitting Supreme Court Justice. Who put the body there? Was Bakke’s murder a warning? And if so, by whom? Jake Cleveland and Wolf Johannsen fear this may be the work of a powerful cabal of men who have infiltrated the United States government at the highest levels.

Brock “BJ” Janoff and his older brother Jonas run a private investigation firm in Venice, CA. BJ is randomly approached by a stranger on the street with a proposition he can’t refuse–one million dollars to deliver a single envelope to a hotel lobby. They pay him up front, which sounds good on the surface, but now BJ’s life is in danger if he doesn’t deliver the envelope in time.

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But Jason Trapp is losing his taste for it. For six months, his personal crusade has taken him around the world, mopping up the last of the Bloody Monday conspirators. There's only one left, and after the crooked financier Emmanuel Alstyne meets his maker, Trapp's debt will be paid in full. He vows he's done with the business of death. Unfortunately, it isn't done with him.

Als Wladimir Putin im Januar 2000 Staatspräsident wird, verlässt der reich gewordene Rohstoffhändler Anton fluchtartig Moskau. Hinter ihm liegen acht atemraubende Jahre im postsowjetischen Raubtier-Kapitalismus, vor ihm gähnende Langeweile im gutsituierten Milieu New Yorks. Doch auch mit vierzig ist Anton noch immer ein unverbesserlicher Romantiker auf der Suche nach dem nächsten Kick. Da macht ihm ein Headhunter ein verlockendes Angebot. Anton soll im an Bodenschätzen so reichen Kasachstan mit Geld aus anonymen Quellen einen Stahlkonzern aufbauen.

Im kalt-stürmischen Februar 1990 wird in Dresden ein junger Mann, ein ehemaliger Grenzsoldat, vermisst gemeldet. Zeitgleich ermittelt das KDD-Team um Tobias Falck, Edgar Schmidt und Stefanie Bach in einem Fall von Kunstraub. In der Dresdner Galerie der Alten Meister ist ein wertvolles Gemälde durch eine Fälschung ersetzt worden. Kurz darauf wird der Fälscher ermordet. Handelt es sich womöglich um alte Stasi-Machenschaften? Die westdeutsche Ex-Kommissarin Sybille Suderberg, die mittlerweile Privatdetektivin im Osten ist, spielt dabei eine undurchsichtige Rolle.

Nach "Turmschatten" der zweite Band der aufsehenerregenden Thrillerreihe von Peter Grandl – noch aktueller, noch brisanter, noch packender! Zehn Jahre nach der spektakulären Geiselnahme: Der Hochbunker beherbergt mittlerweile einen jüdischen Kindergarten. Als dieser Ziel eines rechtsradikalen Attentats wird, rückt der Turm erneut ins Zentrum von Medien und Politik. Zehn Kindern und zwei Betreuerinnen gelingt zunächst die Flucht in die geheimen Katakomben des Turms. Doch dort lagert verschollenes Nazigold, für das mancher bereit ist, zu töten.