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Spielplatz des Romans ist der Deutsche Bundestag. Spielzeit sind die Monate März bis Mai 2015. Die Episoden des Romans finden nach einer Sonnenfinsternis statt. Die umfassend recherchierten Ereignisabläufe jener Monate bilden den zeitdramaturgischen Rahmen für das Psychogramm des fiktiven Abgeordneten M. Das Changieren zwischen Zeitgeschichte und okkulter Selbsterforschung schafft eine Zone zwischen Rationalität und Irrationalem, in der das Machtstreben von M erzählt werden kann. M erfährt schließlich seine eigene Sonnenfinsternis.

As a captive in their mountain palace in Switzerland, Matt List begins to understand the power of Midas and his Ewige (Eternal Ones) to manipulate gold markets and human history. Thus began the destiny of the Army aviation pioneer to undermine the Ewige and their hold over mankind. Now, he uses the power of the financial tycoons in America to create the beginnings of a world freed from the dominion of gold and the Ewige. But will his battle with the Ewige cost him the love of Helene, the beautiful daughter of Midas? Will the ultimatum lead to the end of the carnage of the Great War?

After years of fighting terrorism all over the world, Dr. Gideon Ben Ari is finally ready for retirement. Now that his childhood friend-turned-arch-terrorist Nimer el-Haladi has secretly become a Mossad collaborator, Ben Ari contemplates finally putting his family life first. Then tragedy strikes. When news that Dr. Medani has taken over Iran’s cyberterrorism efforts, Gideon decides to join forces with his former nemesis. Brought together by a common threat, they unearth a plot that will take them from one holy land to another in an endeavor to stop the assassination of Pope Francis.

POTUS: A Political Fantasy is the story of a semi-reluctant hero acting for the people of the United States and the world, as well as the universe at large. The improbability of his election to the presidency is offset by the prodigious efforts he makes to accomplish a simple goal: the restoration of freedom for the people of the United States and the world at large, as well as establishing it for sentients in the Cosmos.

Vindicta picks up where Omega ended, pitting General Sanderson's surviving Black Flagged operatives, backed by a motley collection of allies, against a monstrous plot to reshape America in the warped image of a recently elected national populist administration—True America.

July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It’s clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American soldiers, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation. Enter Earl Swagger, an Army Major assigned this crucial and bloody mission.

There are two classes of people in the Town: L and L2. The ones with citizenship are referred to as Ls, or Citizens. They are above a certain level of financial status with knowledge or skills that the Town requires. The L2s are people without citizenship but have a clean criminal record. After interview and physical examination, they can stay and work for two years in this safest and richest corporate nation on earth. Then there are those below even the L2s, illegal aliens called the saha.

With President Anthony Cook convinced Mitch Rapp is a threat, Irene Kennedy is forced to negotiate a truce: Rapp must stay out of the country while Cook is in control of the White House. In return, they won’t make moves against him. But the new CIA director has a different plan. Going after his partner, Claudia Gould, puts Rapp right where Cook wants him. As her cover is blown and enemies from her past resurface, the race to neutralize them is on. But a new kind of killer, a shadowy group known only as Legion, is on her tail.

Nathan Hobbs, a one-time US navy captain dismissed for being drunk on duty and now the captain of a container ship, finds himself in serious trouble. Unless he can pay his gambling debts, he is liable to lose his fingers. Given this, when offered a large sum of money to accept two containers on his ship, Nathan is only too willing to agree. To his shock and horror, he later finds he has jumped from the frying pan into the fire. He has become the unwilling accomplice in a terrorist plot targeting America.

Prime Minister Angela Curtis faces a threat like never before: resign, or the British establishment will face three days of increasingly audacious terrorist attacks. But if Curtis wants to save lives—and her political career—she must confront the darkest secret from her past. When fearless reporters Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell uncover evidence linking the attacks to the biggest story of their careers, they have one last chance at exposing a traitor at the heart of government. But this traitor won't go down without a fight. Or blood being spilled.

After nearly ten years in the army, Hamish Campbell is ready to settle in and call a place home. His sights are set on Dalmore House, the Campbell family estate seized by the Crown after the '45 uprising. To have any chance at all of regaining it, he must not only find the money to pay off the estate’s debts but also persuade the man who has charge of it to relinquish the property into the hands of a Jacobite’s son.

CIA agent Sam Hudson has been hunting Konstantin, a Russian deep cover operative responsible for numerous murders on US and UK soil, for years—and he finally thinks he's picked up his trail in Geneva. But just as Sam is about to get vital intelligence, his source is ambushed, and he barely makes it out alive himself. Back in the States, the higher-ups want him to drop his obsession with Konstantin, but Sam can't let a man who's killed so many slip away again.

La conmoción por el asesinato de Claudia Ochoa repercute en su ciudad y en todo el país, pero el misterio se cierne sobre el caso. La justicia parece alejarse cada vez más. Pilar Rosso se propone ir al hueso, desbrozando la espesa selva de complicidades que protegen a el (o los) que están atrás del crimen.

Jackson Ford’s a disgraced former governor who recognizes a second chance when the president’s chief of staff dangles it. The president needs an ambassador in a third-world nation. Someone to help local tyrants stamp out insurrection while keeping violence out of the election-year news. Ford is a tough idealist, but this administration makes it clear that they don’t want idealism. When a rebel leader shows up outside the embassy gates with a wounded child in his arms and soldiers closing in, Ford can watch the girl bleed out or invoke the wrath of dictators and the president.

Caribel trabaja como prostituta en un burdel de lujo. Es una mujer culta e inteligente, que se maneja con frialdad en su oficio con el único objetivo de acumular dinero y retirarse al cabo de unos años. Hasta que una noche oye un ruido raro procedente de la habitación de una compañera y al ir a investigar encuentra el cuerpo de esta ensangrentado.

Secrets…lies…and more secrets. From his boyhood in Washington, DC, through his Ivy League education and subsequent career, secrets and lies are always at the center of Timothy’s life. In Best Man, Timothy tells the story of his life as a series of betrayals. Timothy’s work in international trade leads to his discreet service for the government, and the combination allows him to use his penchant for treachery as the basis of a successful career. Deception is his constant, but the lisenter must answer the underlying question. Who has been betrayed? And by whom?

Vinder af Edgar Award 2012 - "Lev om natten er en knivskarpt fortalt, stilsikker og medrivende amerikansk tragedie." - Information Joe Coughlin er ung i de brølende tyvere, hvor sprutten flyder og kuglerne flyver i Bostons hårdkogte gangstermiljø. Selv om han er søn af en højtstående politimand, er det længe siden, han har været på den rigtige side af loven. I forbudstidens Amerika når brutaliteten i gangsternes magtkampe nye højder. Joe kan ikke stole på et eneste menneske, heller ikke dem, han elsker - en lektie han må lære på den hårde måde.

It started in London and spread across Great Britain within days. Nobody knew where it had come from—or did they? The country is divided, and mankind is turning on itself in a time when pulling together may be the only way they can salvage the lives they’re fighting so fiercely to protect. Two friends escaping confinement take to the road in a tense and dangerous adventure where they must evade detection at any cost.

Nathan Grant is at it again, this time hunting down a group of international assassins as they try to take out some of America's highest-ranking diplomats. After breaking with his bosses at the CIA, Nathan is left to solve this mystery on his own. What he uncovers is a conspiracy stretching all across the globe and involving corrupt politicians, notorious drug cartels, and ruthless weapons smugglers. Only Nathan Grant could possibly tie these many threads together and get to the truth.

«Recordad a Konstantin» es el grito de batalla que recorre Estados Unidos. Un vídeo colgado en Internet certifica que este joven ruso ha sido torturado y ejecutado por el gobierno de su país.