Contemporary Political Mysteries

In the quaint community of Poetry, Texas, Belinda Bauer spies an opportunity. The tiny town is filled with loggers and railroad men in need of wives, so she sets herself up as a marriage broker. At her invitation, potential brides begin to arrive in Poetry. Unfortunately, Belinda doesn't have a clue what she's doing and all the brides marry the wrong men! One client is particularly unhappy. George Kaufman, the local barber, has lost more than one prospective wife to Belinda's fumbled attempts. For some reason, she just can't seem to find George's "perfect match," though it's not for lack of trying. Is there a poetic ending in store for George, and for Belinda, herself?

Divided into three books, Security Through Absurdity is the story of corporate shenanigans, an uneasy home life, and a quixotic presidential campaign. These situations propel Jocelyn through a believably bizarre journey and into dangerous psychological territory. In a matrix of life-threatening situations, she is forced to question the very fabric of her Gen-X American upbringing. Bubbles Will Pop is the second book in Jocelyn's journey.

Paris, 1981: Die Hauptstadt der ehemaligen Kolonialmacht ist für viele vietnamesische Flüchtlinge der rettende Hafen nach einer langen Irrfahrt über die Weltmeere. Auch der namenlose Ich-Erzähler und sein bester Freund Bon haben es aus ihrer Heimat nach Europa geschafft. Auf der Suche nach einem Job geraten sie an die vietnamesische Drogenmafia. Als Dealer machen sie ein gutes Geschäft, und der Ich-Erzähler, ein ehemaliger kommunistischer Spion, profitiert von einem Wirtschaftssystem, das er eigentlich ablehnt.

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.

Control the scandal, control your life. I'm a simple girl. Celebrity attorney. Disinherited daughter of a tech billionaire. The dirty little secret behind the scandals. I never wanted to be famous. A quiet life was enough for me. But that was before my new client made me famous. Now I'm surrounded by the media, and my face is on the cover of every magazine. What does a girl do when she's had enough of others dictating her life? She takes back control. However, my past isn't willing to give me up that easily. But I have a plan.

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...

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.

On an unnamed island country 10 years after the collapse of a US-supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student-activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who's been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. Why didn't Lena speak up then, and will her family's support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman's death is wrong?

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.

In the New Russia, the past is never far away. The Pegasus Project is an epic drama that sweeps from the open riches of Texas and current social and political issues of the MidEast to behind the closed doors of The Kremlin. When Broadcast Journalist Alexandra Bishop is invited to Moscow for an energy conference that can reshape the balance of power from the Mid East and West to Russia, the lives of those who live in a world of change are held in the balance of a man with a vision, a man who believes in destiny and a woman who falls in love.

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.

Spanien in den dunklen Tagen des Franco-Regimes: Ein Auftrag der Politischen Polizei führt die eigenwillige Alicia Gris zurück in ihre Heimatstadt Barcelona. Unter größter Geheimhaltung soll sie das plötzliche Verschwinden des Ministers Mauricio Valls aufklären. In seinem Besitz befand sich ein geheimnisvolles Buch, das Alicia auf schmerzliche Weise an ihr eigenes Schicksal erinnert. Es führt sie in die Buchhandlung Sempere & Söhne.

Justin Wolfe sets out on a tour to promote The Big Solution, his book that outlines a simple economic platform that would turn a corrupt system on its head. Despite the urging from his best friend, Federal Reserve Board hopeful Evan White, Wolfe has no intention of running for office. But when his ideas begin to catch fire with the masses, the two friends find themselves swept up in a presidential campaign that threatens not only their public standing, but their very lives.

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.

In this darkly atmospheric suspense, a Philadelphia police detective visiting Poland gets involved when murder is suspected, and the local police turn away. Adam Kaminski, with a delegation to Philadelphia's sister city, is meant to be a polite observer only. But a good man doesn't walk away when he sees wrong being done, and he's not about to start now.

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.