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John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn't want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British Secret Service, and a man in his position needs extra attention like he needs a hole in the head.

When an ex-Delta Forces operative dies in a car wreck in Miami, the FBI dismiss it as a tragic accident. But Jon Reznick isn't so sure—especially when he learns that his teetotal former colleague was apparently drunk at the wheel. Reznick's one-man investigation quickly enters dangerous territory when it becomes clear that this was merely the first in a series of mysterious deaths.

Starling House is home to some of the nation’s deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison. When the latest arrival is found brutally murdered, DCI Matilda Darke and her team investigate, and discover a prison manager falling apart and a sabotaged security system. Neither the staff nor the inmates can be trusted. The only person Matilda believes is innocent is facing prison for the rest of his life. With time running out, she must solve the unsolvable to save a young man from his fate, and find a murderer in a house full of killers....

JET - Ops Files chronicles the early years of Maya, who would go on to become the Mossad's deadliest operative: the assassin known as Jet.

Harry Fox just wants to know the truth. About his father's amulet. About his mother's death. But two Viking drinking horns with an incredible secret are about to change his plans.

Caressa Horvath, raised in the corrupting atmosphere of a traveling carnival, marries an anthropologist named Jacob Bowman, who takes her on a journey to North Africa. Jacob gets himself killed by a band of Bedouin who spare Caressa’s life. The only one of her party left alive, Caressa is forced to join the caravan on a harrowing journey across the African desert.

For fans of The Martian, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from number one New York Times - best-selling and Pulitzer Priz - winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope - something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do.

The US Speaker of the House is assassinated in a terrifyingly precise execution in the heart of Washington, DC. In a quieter corner of the nation's capital, the rare book room of the Library of Congress, a reclusive, wealthy scholar drops dead under mysterious circumstances that leave no clues. Following on the heels of the natural death of the Speaker of the House, the city and the nation begin to tremble.

The plans for Max Damage and Minnie Zhinov to tie the knot are fraying rapidly when the CIA stages a raid on the offices of Damage Incorporated looking for a computer that may or may not have a direct link into a classified database. To make matters worse, as Minnie is preparing for her wedding at the residence of her new best friend, starlet Hayden Cunningham, a pack of identical warrior women descend on the Hollywood mansion and kidnap her. When Max discovers the culprit is none other than Minnie’s father, the self-styled dictator and chess master of a Soviet splinter state, he gathers ...

Sir Augustus Wall had seen a lot of death. From the fields of Flanders to the alleys of Cairo, he's solved several murders and sent many men to their grave. But he's never had a body delivered to his antiquities shop encased in a 5,000 year-old coffin.

When financial prodigy Tyler Rush stumbles upon a clandestine poker game where the world’s elite manipulate global events, he’s drawn into a treacherous world he never knew existed. Watching him closely is CEO Mike Hayward, a man hungry for global dominance, who sees Tyler as a pawn in his ruthless plan to unlock the Einstein Code—an AI algorithm that promises to reshape the future of intelligence and power.

The jungles of Thailand seemed like a good place to escape the past that threatened to catch up with Conor McColl. But with a trail of dead bodies in his wake, he shouldn’t have been surprised when a beautiful deadly Russian assassin set her sights on him. It seems there isn’t anywhere in the world he is safe anymore.

"Women on A Mission" by Jill Dill Vincent is general fiction offering murder, mystery, comedy, history, traveling, and light romance. Listeners will embark on a journey and witness how a group of women who know nothing about eighteen wheelers or motorcycles set out to capture hit men. How did they end up trying to assassinate Emperor Fernando Bacelis of the country Terra D'Amore? Find out in this exciting tale with adventurous women.

Saturday 09: 11 Hours: A blast rocks a London hospital and thousands are dead or injured… 10: 09 Hours: Joe Ledger arrives on scene to investigate. The horror is unlike anything he has ever seen. Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the DMS and within hours is attacked by a hit-team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak.

Hired by the parents of a missing computer genius to track him down and bring him home Jonah Parish succeeds only to see the young man assassinated right in front of him. Jonah sets out on a personal quest to track down the people that killed the boy and to find out why? Assisted by Jack, Lori and an Interpol assassin hunter Jonah tracks the killers from England to France from France to the USA and back to England. In the middle of this hunt for the boy's killers Jonah finds a mysterious computer algorithm with amazing powers and seemingly bankers, gangsters and government agencies want the...

Ein Ehepaar macht Urlaub auf der Insel Madeira, bewandert Bergpfade und Levadas, macht Ausflüge zu den lokalen Sehenswürdigkeiten und besucht zahlreiche Orte. Als Ausgangspunkt für die Entdeckungstouren dient das Berghotel "Encumeada" am gleichnamigen Pass an der Wetterscheide in der Mitte der Insel. Es passieren merkwürdige Dinge, die ihn an seinem Verstand zweifeln lassen. Mysteriöse Visionen aus einer parallelen Wirklichkeit plagen ihn.

After more than a year of Covid-19 lockdown in Denmark Conor McColl just wanted to play poker with his LAPD cop friend, Harry Miller, in Las Vegas. But when Harry is kidnapped by an ex-con that he had arrested years ago, Conor is dragged into a white supremacist plot to take over several state capitols and launch a nationwide insurrection. One of Conor’s shadowy former employers now wants him to infiltrate the neo-Nazi group and bring them down by doing what he does best. Eliminate the leaders. One by one.

For nearly a century, treasure hunters have searched for the lost treasure of notorious gangster, Dutch Schultz. When Dane Maddock and Bones Bonebrake take up the search, they find themselves in a race against a dangerous enemy and in the crosshairs of deadly assassin. Maddock and Bones must unravel the clues and survive a game of cat and mouse where failure could mean death.

When Lonnie Bowers returns to the Reservation, he finds a grandfather he doesn't want, a brother he despises, and a sister addicted to crystal meth. He'd like to walk away. The Indian side of his heritage has never brought anything but pain, so why would he want more? But it's not that simple; not when it's in his power to strike a blow against La Familia, Mexico's largest producer of methamphetamines. Lonnie's had the best training any agent could have, but he never reckoned on the charismatic, twisted power of Nazario Moreno, and nobody told him that to stay alive--he'd have to pray.

Jake und ich sind seit unserer Jugend zusammen. Er ist stark, verlässlich und hat ein Lächeln, das mich jedes Mal zum Schmelzen bringt – der perfekte Ehemann und Vater. Wir haben zwar ein paar Geldprobleme, aber die Ankunft unserer Untermieterin Kara lindert meinen Stress. Jake war nicht überzeugt von der Idee, aber wir hatten keine andere Wahl.