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Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The first lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them - and the line between friend and foe impossible to define...or defend.

Välj inläsare! Jakten på Amos Decker, som är den första delen i Baldaccis serie om Amos Decker, finns även inläst av Reine Brynolfsson. Amos Decker är en före detta NHL-spelare som sadlat om till polis. Fotbollskarriären avslutades abrupt i hans första NFL-match i och med en brutal tackling av en motspelare. Han är fortfarande hemsökt av en bieffekt från hjärnskadan han ådrog sig vid olyckan: diagnosen hypertymesi - han minns allt som händer honom, inklusive saker han skulle föredra att glömma. Idag är Amos Decker en bruten man.

Seven seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage Rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leader's lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him. Coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together.

Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet - a war on two fronts. Casino king Jerry Bagger from The Collectors is hunting Annabelle Conroy, the beautiful woman who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues Reuben, Milton, and Caleb marshal all their resources to protect Annabelle.

As a young conscripted soldier, Rufus Harms was jailed for the brutal killing of a schoolgirl. Yet after 25 hard years of incarceration, a stray letter from the US Army reveals new facts about the night of the murder - and the evil secret shared by some of Washington's most powerful men. Fearful for his life, Harms seizes his one chance to escape. But within hours the only people who knew about the appeal have been hunted down and eliminated. As the unknown assassins close in on Harms, ex-cop turned criminal attorney John Fiske is drawn into the web.

Alte Sünden werfen lange Schatten. Amos Decker besucht seine Heimatstadt, als er von einem alten Mann kontaktiert wird: Meryl Hawkins war der erste, den Decker jemals hinter Gitter gebracht hatte. Der verurteilte vierfache Mörder wurde aufgrund einer Krankheit vorzeitig entlassen und beteuert seine Unschuld. Sein letzter Wunsch: Decker soll seinen Namen reinwaschen. Doch erst als Hawkins mit einer Kugel im Kopf aufgefunden wird, kommen Decker echte Zweifel. Der Memory Man ist fest entschlossen, den Fall wiederaufzurollen.

John Puller ist der beste Ermittler der Militärpolizei. Sein neuer Fall trifft ihn persönlich: Seine geliebte Tante deutet in einem Brief dubiose Machenschaften in ihrem Heimatort an. Sofort macht sich Puller auf den Weg zu ihr nach Paradise, Florida - und findet sie leblos auf, ertrunken. Anders als die Polizei vor Ort mag Puller nicht an einen Unfall glauben. Und tatsächlich häufen sich bald die Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen von gigantischen Ausmaßen.

Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then-senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them.

The Camel Club by best-selling sensation David Baldacci is the exciting first instalment of a breathtaking series. The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst.

Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive, but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma. It would seem their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae, agrees to raise the children on her Virginia mountain farm. But before long their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain.

John Carr, även känd som Oliver Stone och en gång USA:s skickligaste lönnmördare, står i Lafayette Park framför Vita huset, kanske för sista gången. Presidenten har personligen bett Stone att tjäna sitt land igen genom ett riskfyllt hemligt uppdrag. Men Stones uppdrag förändras drastiskt innan det ens har börjat. Samma kväll som den brittiske premiärministern gästar Vita huset detonerar en bomb i Lafayette Park, en uppenbar attack mot både presidenten och premiärministern. I de kaotiska efterdyningarna får Stone ett nytt, mer brådskande uppdrag.

Amos Decker, David Baldacci's unique special agent, who suffered a head injury that resulted in giving him the gift of a remarkable memory, takes on another case in The Fix. Walter Dabney is a family man. A loving husband and the father of four grown daughters, he’s built a life many would be proud of. But then the unthinkable happens. Standing outside the FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, Dabney shoots school teacher Anne Berkshire in cold blood before turning the gun on himself. One of the many witnesses is Amos Decker; a man who forgets nothing and sees what most miss.

Walter Nash is a mild-mannered, happy and successful businessman with a loving family. He has never lifted a weight or fired a gun in anger, and he has no special physical or investigatory skills. The dark world is not a place he knows – until the FBI comes calling on the very day of his estranged Vietnam veteran father’s funeral. They tell him that the company he works for is actually a criminal organization. And they need his help in a risky endeavour to bring it all down.

Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to take the train across the country because of a slight 'misunderstanding' at airport security, he begins a journey of self-discovery and rude awakenings, mysterious goings-on and thrilling adventures, screwball escapades and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart....

FBI investigator, Amos Decker and his colleague, Alex Jamison, are summoned to seek answers in the local community of London, North Dakota, which sits at the very heart of the fracking industry. Enriched with oil money, jealousy and a deep-set rivalry lie beneath a veneer of glitz and opulence. Decker soon realizes that the nearby ‘eye in the sky’, the Air Force Station, may hold the vital clues and that this town holds secrets so explosive that they could destabilize the entire country . .

Der Teenager Tyler erhält die schreckliche Nachricht, dass sein Vater, ein Soldat in Afghanistan, tot ist. Doch dann taucht eine E-Mail seines Vaters auf, eine E-Mail, die lange nach seinem Tod geschrieben wurde. Ratlos bittet Tyler Sean King und Michelle Maxwell um Hilfe. Die beiden Ermittler erkennen rasch, dass hinter dieser Geschichte etwas weit Größeres steckt als zunächst angenommen. Ihre Suche nach der Wahrheit führt sie in die höchsten Ebenen der Macht, dorthin, wo ein Menschenleben nichts zählt - und das erfährt das Duo bald am eigenen Leib.

Sean King war Agent des Secret Service. Sein Auftrag: Schutz eines Präsidentschaftskandidaten. Sein Fehler: Für den Bruchteil einer Sekunde lässt er sich ablenken, und die Kugel des Mörders findet ihr Ziel.

Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, he has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear, leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths; an air-crash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was booked on suddenly fell from the sky; and a veteran FBI agent who leaves no stone unturned.

John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance 30 years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father - a highly decorated army veteran - may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrives on the scene, he realizes that there is far more to this case than he first thought. He knows that nothing will prevent him from discovering what really happened to his mother - even if it means proving that his father is a killer.

Danny Buchanan is a top Washington lobbyist who once earned a vast fortune serving the interests of giant corporations. But then, appalled by the desperate poverty he witnessed on his global travels, he decided to use his political genius to help the world's poor. With the aid of his loyal assistant, attractive and committed Faith Lockhart, Danny now works tirelessly, and in secret, to redress the balance of power. But Robert Thornhill has rather different ideas about what constitutes public service.