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Nach seiner Niederlage an der Berliner Mauer hat George Smiley den britischen Geheimdienst verlassen. Das westliche Agentennetz liegt am Boden, als ein russischer Spion unter ungewöhnlichen Umständen zu den Briten überläuft. Und der Mann, den er in London töten sollte, ist verschwunden. Smiley übernimmt die Befragung einer Kollegin des Vermissten. Doch Moskaus Schatten sind lang, und Smiley verfolgt wider besseres Wissen den Doppelspion, der für seine Niederlage verantwortlich war. Doch der ist ihm wie es scheint immer einen Schritt voraus.

A corporate finance manager, Brad Tillman, is grieving the death of his best friend, Al, who was a victim of an unfortunate traffic accident. As Brad helps Al’s widow to go through his things, he finds a document in Al’s briefcase that suggests he had been looking into the possible manipulation of votes in an election. With this discovery, Tillman’s entire world changes. The company Tillman works for has developed and implemented a completely secure voting system that makes such a thing impossible. Now someone knows what Brad has discovered, and he has become a target.

Jerusalén, año 2003. Un asombroso hallazgo arqueológico puede cambiar el rumbo de las negociaciones de paz entre Israel y Palestina. Se trata de una tablilla de arcilla en la que está inscrito el testamento de Abraham y que dispone cómo ha de repartirse la Tierra Prometida. Una tablilla escondida por el arqueólogo israelí que descifró su contenido antes de ser asesinado. Ahora, su hijo y una intrépida mediadora de paz estadounidense deberán encontrarla para dar una solución definitiva a uno de los conflictos más persistentes de nuestro tiempo. Pero no son los únicos que la buscan.

La profecía se cumple. El fin del mundo se acerca... Dos muertes en lugares opuestos de Estados Unidos. Una cadena de asesinatos en diversos rincones del mundo. Ambos hechos no parecen tener relación entre ellos, pero el instinto de Will Monroe, un joven periodista de The New York Times, le indica lo contrario. En efecto, sus indagaciones le llevan a descubrir que las víctimas tenían algo en común: cada una de ellas había llevado a cabo un acto anónimo de excepcional bondad.

Rita Collins, a reporter and writer for a local Washington DC television station, faces apparently unexplained rejection by her husband, who has suffered amputation of both legs during the Iraq War. He refuses both her affection and any attempts at rehabilitation.

Auf einer Konferenz in London wird der geniale Ryan Greene ermordet. Der Attentäter hat es auf die Forschungsergebnisse des jungen Wissenschaftlers abgesehen, doch im allgemeinen Tumult verliert er seine Beute wieder. Ragnar, ein Freund des ehemaligen Soldaten Simon Stark, gelangt in den Besitz der Arbeit. Eine lebensgefährliche Verfolgungsjagd beginnt. Denn die brisanten Forschungsergebnisse könnten die Welt verändern.

When a justice of the Supreme Court is killed by the police officer assigned to protect him, the country is shocked. Hayley Chill’s superiors suspect the assassination is part of a major conspiracy. In Maui, where one member of the Supreme Court owns a vacation home, a busload of children is taken hostage with the justice’s death as ransom. Together with a deputy US marshal, Hayley embarks on the monumental task of rescuing the children while also protecting the justice. But with danger around every corner and no one to trust, has Hayley finally bitten off more than she can chew?

Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling an international conspiracy in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of Congressional hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho.

When a justice of the Supreme Court is killed by the police officer assigned to protect him, the country is shocked. Hayley Chill’s superiors suspect the assassination is part of a major conspiracy. In Maui, where one member of the Supreme Court owns a vacation home, a busload of children is taken hostage with the justice’s death as ransom. Together with a deputy US marshal, Hayley embarks on the monumental task of rescuing the children while also protecting the justice.

Nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a crisis point. The new American administration is determined to move ahead, but there are several stumbling blocks, not the least of which is Lieutenant Colonel Kasem Khalidi, the former Iranian Quds Force intelligence officer the CIA has hidden away in one of its safe houses. As always, John and Meredith Dale are caught in the middle.

In the North Pacific, the crew of a deep-sea recovery ship, the MV Challenger, are mercilessly gunned to death. Only one man survives, adrift in the ocean, and hundreds of miles from land. In the deserts of Iraq, a clandestine meeting between one of the world's foremost assassins and his ruthless benefactor sets in train a cascade of horrific events that will shape the world for good.

SĄ TYLKO DWA WYJŚCIA. WOLNOŚĆ ALBO ŚMIERĆ. Szymon Rafalski nie poszedł w ślady ojca: zamiast gangsterką trudni się dziennikarstwem w podrzędnej gazecie – co i tak wpędza go w liczne kłopoty. Łącznie z utratą przyjaźni i szacunku najlepszego kumpla, aspiranta wydziału kryminalnego. Przypadkowe spotkanie ze znajomym z przestępczego środowiska sprawia, że w Rafalskim budzą się ambicje. Widzi przed sobą szansę na zdobycie cennych kontaktów i tematu na niebanalne dziennikarskie śledztwo.

Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unravelling an international conspiracy. But as the sparks of Congressional hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she died. Desperate to understand what happened, he gives Avery a file, a burner phone, and a fearful warning that there are highly dangerous people involved.

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine, as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for the anti-war group Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman she begins an affair with? The two foreigners become entangled in sinister plots and ever-widening webs of corruption, until a desperate attempt to escape the country brings their relationship to a crisis point.

Becca Palmer has just lost her job as assistant to Simon Jones MP - the highly-regarded Policing Minister, tipped as a future Prime Minister. But Becca claims that Simon was more than her boss, that she is in love with him.When a heartbroken Becca leaves the Home Office, she heads to Westminster Bridge, intending to take her own life. Which is where hostage negotiator Alex Lewis meets her for the first time. It is his job to try to talk her back from the edge.

FBI-agent Sean Reilly modtager et højst uventet opkald, en desperat bøn om hjælp fra en gammel ven, han ikke har hørt fra i fem år. Uden tøven tager han af sted, men før han får set sig om, befinder han sig i et dødsensfarligt kapløb med tiden, med kidnappere, med en brutal mexicansk narkobaron og endda med sit eget lands myndigheder. Jagten er sat ind på hemmeligheden bag et stof med en så unik og kraftig effekt, at det vil kunne ryste hele den vestlige civilisations fundament.

England, 1566: Herolden William Harley, Clarenceux King of Arms, er i

besiddelse af et dokument, der kan tilintetgøre dronning Elizabeth og

kaste landet ud i en sønderrivende konflikt mellem katolikker og

protestanter.

Knust af flere års skuffelser arbejder den politiske rådgiver Maggie Costello endelig for en leder, hun sammen med resten af Amerika har sat sin lid til; Præsident Stephen Baker, som mener han kan gøre verden til et bedre sted. Men pludselig dukker en fjende op til overfladen - en mand ved navn Vic Forbes. Han afslører først en skandaløs hemmelighed om den nye præsident, og derefter en mere. Han truer med at offentliggøre en tredje – en der vil ødelægge Baker helt, og tvinge ham væk fra Det Hvide Hus.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE.

New York 2008. Tom Byrne er faldet i unåde siden sine dage som idealistisk ung advokat. Hans lidenskab for spil har kostet ham hjem, hustru og hæderlighed.

Så da han af FN bliver bedt om at påtage sig en moralsk tvivlsom opgave, tøver han ikke. En formodet selvmordsbomber, skudt og dræbt af sikkerhedsvagter, viser sig at være en harmløs gammel mand – og Tom får til opgave at lukke munden på familien.

Året er 1563. England er en bekymret nation. Katolske sammensværgelser mod den unge dronning Elizabeth har efterladt landet i en tilstand af frygt og mistænksomhed.En sen nat får den respekterede budbringer William Harley, kendt som kongens overherold, besøgaf en uventet gæst ? katolikken Henry Machyn, der er desperat efter at gemme et manuskript til enkrønike, der indeholder en så farlig hemmelighed, at han frygter for sit liv. Snart er staten, i form af Francis Walsingham og hans skruppelløse håndlangere, i gang med fuldstændigt at ødelægge William Harleys fredelige hjem i deres søgen efter Machyns krønike.