Contemporary Political Mysteries

A former FBI cryptologist and now Tangipahoa Parish Deputy Sheriff, Haley Browder, has begun a nice quiet lifestyle living and working on a bayou north of New Orleans. That is, until an FBI Agent, Serena Keith, is discovered murdered and dumped in the swampy bayou. Haley is recruited by the FBI in DC to decipher the murdered agent's cryptic investigative notes that were prepared just before her murder.

Der neue Roman der Booker Prize-Gewinnerin Eleanor Catton, ein rasanter Öko-Thriller um idealistische Umweltaktivisten, die auf einen charismatischen Milliardär ohne Moral treffen. Mira Bunting ist die Gründerin einer Guerilla-Gardening-Gruppe namens Birnam Wood. Als nicht gemeldeter und sich an der Grenze des Legalen bewegender, philanthropischer Zusammenschluss von Freunden pflanzt und erntet das Kollektiv, wo es niemand bemerkt: an Straßenrändern, in vergessenen Parks und vernachlässigten Hinterhöfen.

In Men of Conviction, Lionel Ross tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad; Wayne, the burglar and Dovid, the religious Jew and 'one offence fraudster'. Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.

A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful" novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences (Esquire). It's early one morning on a hot day in...

"Read this now, because everyone you know will be talking about it by early 2019." —Washington Post From the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear, a taut, timely story about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down. On an...

Experience the extraordinary last days and countdown to humanity's evolution beyond money, narrated by the author. How one man's refusal to bow to the system becomes the catalyst for a global metamorphosis. F-Day is a high-octane political thriller loaded with a powerful message - and a heady dose of realism. Prepare to have your world view blurred as you sit in the passenger seat of what could some day become mankind's greatest single journey.

Four years ago, Lindsay experienced the unspeakable right before me, and I couldn’t stop them. But that’s all changed now. When her father, Senator Bosworth, contacted me to ask - demand - that I protect her, it was a second chance. A shot at redemption. An opportunity to right an unspeakable wrong. Controlling Lindsay as she seeks her revenge on the monsters who hurt her won’t be hard. Containing my own out-of-control feelings for Lindsay and keeping up this ruse of cold-blooded distance will be; even harder than admitting to her what really happened that night four years ago.

Turns out there was a second video from that awful night four years ago. Mine wasn't the only tape. Too bad mine wasn't the worst. Drew can’t protect me no matter how hard he tries, but the roles are flipped now. I have to help him, but I’m not wired that way. Not anymore. Three men think they’re above the law. They’re right. But I’m willing to go beneath the law to make sure they never harm anyone else. Their threats don’t scare me. When you have nothing left to lose because someone took it all away, you create the most dangerous creature imaginable: me. Game over.

New Orleans detective Ethan Delancey has a mission to solve a senator's murder. Putting Laney Montgomery - the sole witness, who now has a cold-blooded killer on her heels - under his protection? Pure instinct. Every hour pushes her deeper into danger. The only way to ensure her safety - and capture a criminal - is to keep her close. Neither expects the flare of desire that pushes them over the line between professional and personal.

Das Leben der amerikanischen Ärztin Samantha O'Neal gerät jäh aus den Fugen, als eines Nachts fünf schwerbewaffnete Araber in der Notaufnahme des Krankenhauses auftauchen und ihre medizinische Hilfe erzwingen. Um ihre Flucht nicht zu gefährden und die Versorgung ihres Verletzten zu gewährleisten, nehmen sie Samantha als Geisel und verschleppen sie in den Jemen. Einzig und allein der geheimnisvolle Abdul, der ebenfalls zu den Entführern zählt und zu dem sie sich magisch hingezogen fühlt, steht ihr bei.

Years ago, police detective Kevin McClain was captured and tortured when he was an airborne ranger in Somalia. Now, years later, the mutilation murder of a homeless man brings back a flood of unpleasant memories. At the same time, FBI agent Felicia Knight is busy tracking down a terrorist cell purportedly set to strike in our nation’s capital on the eve of the presidential election. What neither McClain nor Knight realizes is the two cases are secretly connected by a sinister plot more diabolical and far-reaching than either of them can imagine.

Sam Capra returns as he embarks on a one-man mission to find his brother from the New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Abbott, in this "fast-paced, high-octane" read (Publishers Weekly). Two brothers. One dead, executed by extremists on a grainy video. The other forged into a top undercover...

Evil men conspired to have a starship destroyed to hide the evil they had done. They intended for its crew to disappear forever without a trace. They flew an unmarked ship into space docks and marked it for destruction. They thought that was the end of it, but in all of that chaos, the anoza found me. They chose me to save the Five Moons. I didn’t know any of that when I bought a ship that was never meant for sale. I didn’t know any of that when I first stepped foot upon its decks and changed everything.... But I know it now. And save the Five Moons? Damned straight I will. I am Dallas Blake, outworlder to the nines.

My own people, Anoza not humans, came in the night to kill me, to kill my unborn child, to finish an ancient evil. Only Dallas Blake, wounded and bleeding, stood against them, but he did. It was all that we could do to just fight for our very lives, but that was not the end of it. The evil ones had kidnapped my father. How much worse could this get? To rescue my father, the five moons would be pitted against unknown forces with technology a million years more advanced.

"Hans käpp föll ner på gatan. Han vinglade till på stolen. Solen lyste rakt ner i hans gamla förvridna ansikte och i det silvervita håret, hans mun var halvöppen. Yrkesinstinkten fick henne att rusa tvärs över gatan och fram till den gamle och kontrollera hans puls.” I samma stund som en äldre man faller ihop framför henne tar sjuksköterskeinstinkten över. Terese Lindholm ser till att få mannen till ett sjukhus så snart som möjligt. Vad hon inte vet är att hon precis räddat livet på mångmiljonären Jonathan Davies.

Set in a near future America, the world is a bit different. Powerful houses run the politics, and hence, the country, from behind the scenes. Sworn fealty to a powerful house can bring the average person a decent paying job in a world where society is scrambling to hold itself together. Sheila, a smart lass from Tennessee, sees through this BS and is trying to open the public's eyes to this power shift.