Historical Mystery Spy

As Europe slides toward war, the faculty of a midwestern university fight a crusade of their own - the campaign against Communism. The local publishing magnate has accused economics professor Jonathan Hogan of being a Red, and the scholar is forced to defend himself in front of the university's elders. They spare him, for Hogan is no Communist - merely a free thinker, open and honest in an age when conformity is the norm.

Un thriller tra le macerie della Seconda guerra mondiale in cui nulla è dato per scontato; un gioco di specchi orchestrato come nelle migliori spy storySarajevo, 1943. Mentre la Jugoslavia è dilaniata dalla guerra, una giovane e bellissima fotografa - vera e propria eroina per il suo popolo - e un ufficiale tedesco vengono rinvenuti brutalmente assassinati. Assegnato al caso è il capitano dell'intelligence militare Gregor Reinhardt, già detective della polizia di Berlino, poi allontanato dai nazisti.

Königsberg, 1945. Die Rote Armee rüstet sich zum Sturm auf die Stadt, in der eine junge Frau fieberhaft versucht, ihre gefährliche Mission zu vollenden. Doch dabei gerät sie in die Schusslinie der SS.

November 1943: Die deutsche Abwehr plant das wohl spektakulärste Unternehmen des Zweiten Weltkrieges. US-Präsident Roosevelt...

An arctic storm traps three soldiers at a secret American military base located under the ice in Greenland. When the rescue team finally reaches them, two of the soldiers have died in what seems to be an accidental fire and the third, Private Connor Murphy, is left severely burned—with no memory of the previous seven days.

Ein französischer Diplomat verschwindet 1896 spurlos aus dem Münchner Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten. Vermutlich hat er Informationen zu einer neuen Erfindung besessen, die es ermöglicht, telegrafische Falschmeldungen zu produzieren. In den unruhigen Zeiten, auf die Europa zusteuert, birgt diese Technik eine zerstörerische Macht. Die Ermittlungen führen Gryszinski auf eine verhängnisvolle Reise mit düsterem Ausgang. Zwanzig Jahre später hält ein grausamer Krieg die Welt im Klammergriff. Gryszinskis Sohn Fritz ist mittlerweile erwachsen und wird als Meldegänger an der Front in Verdun eingesetzt.

Norte da África, Segunda Guerra Mundial. As tropas britânicas na região estão sofrendo perdas significativas. Não há dúvidas de que alguém está informando o inimigo sobre os movimentos e planos estratégicos do exército britânico. O espião é conhecido por seus compatriotas alemães como Esfinge, mas para todos os outros é o empresário europeu Alex Wolff. Após cruzar o deserto, ele chega ao Cairo, no Egito, munido de um rádio, uma lâmina letal e um exemplar do livro Rebecca, de Daphne du Maurier. Violento e implacável, ele está disposto a tudo para cumprir a missão que recebeu.

BKA-Hauptkommissar Philipp Gerber ermittelt in einem der skandalumwobensten Kriminalfälle der jungen BRD. Frankfurt am Main, 1957: Die Ermordung der Edelprostituierten Rosemarie Nitribitt hält die BRD in Atem – und bringt den amerikanischen General Hiram Anderson in ernsthafte Schwierigkeiten. Philipp Gerbers früherer Chef gehörte zu deren Liebhabern und wurde zur fraglichen Zeit in der Nähe ihrer Wohnung gesehen. Nicht nur Andersons Tochter, Gerbers Ex-Verlobte June, bittet den BKA-Mann um Hilfe, auch von Adenauer persönlich erhält er den Auftrag, zu ermitteln.

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come.

Leningrad in Angst und Schrecken – Leutnant Rossel jagt einen rätselhaften Serienmörder. Winter 1953: In der weißen Hölle eines sibirischen Gulags ist der ehemalige Leutnant Revol Rossel dem Tod näher als dem Leben, als er überraschend gerettet wird – ausgerechnet von dem Mann, den er mehr als jeden anderen hasst: Major Nikitin. Seinetwegen wird der virtuose Geiger Revol nie wieder eine Violine halten können.

Benito Mussolini approda a Genova per una visita ufficiale. Siamo nel maggio del 1938 e il Duce conta di fermarsi in Liguria per quattro giorni. Il commissario Boccadoro, ricevuta la soffiata da un detenuto, segue attentamente gli spostamenti di Mussolini nella città, cercando di mettere insieme i pezzi di un probabile complotto dai contorni difficilmente afferrabili. Mescolando personaggi reali alla più pura finzione letteraria, con Nero dominante d'Amaro costruisce un thriller politico dalla rigorosa ambientazione anni Trenta.

Profesorul Kalitin este un chimist sovietic fără scrupule, obsedat de crearea unei otrăvi mortale, care să fie imposibil de depistat și fără antidot. Când înțelege câți oameni mor din cauza lui, este copleșit de vinovăție, iar la destrămarea URSS fuge în Vest. Deși primește o nouă identitate, e deconspirat și implicat în ancheta asupra uciderii a doi agenți occidentali. Iar pe urmele sale pornesc doi ucigași din forțele speciale, care vor să-i administreze chiar otrava creată de el.

Charles Krogh thought he had left the intelligence world for good, but before long finds himself immersed back in the vast invisible game without rules, the game of deception and bluff...the game without which the world can never be safe...or at peace. Nicholas Reed, brutally murdered by a stone-cold KGB killer - what did he know? Marshal T. K. Golovanov, hero of the Soviet Union and one of the most powerful men in the world - why is he jeopardising the future of his country with a female agent?

London, 1921: Ex-Secret Service spy Jack McColl is in prison serving time for assaulting a cop. McColl has been embittered by the Great War. He can't stomach spying for the British Empire anymore. He's also heartbroken. The love of his life, radical journalist Caitlin Hanley, parted ways with him three years earlier so she could offer her services to the Communist revolution in Moscow. Then his former Secret Service boss offers McColl the chance to escape his jail sentence if he takes a dangerous and unofficial assignment in Russia, where McColl is already a wanted man.

Il contenuto sepolto di un treno nazista... Un vicecomandante delle SS ormai anziano... I segreti di una famiglia ebrea di un candidato alla poltrona presidenziale... L'investigatore per i crimini di guerra ed ex ufficiale della CIA Joe Johnson è più che incuriosito quando scopre l'esistenza di misteriosi collegamenti tra il candidato presidenziale e i fondi a cui la sua famiglia attinge. Assieme a una giornalista e a una vecchia amica, Johnson comincerà un'indagine più grande e personale di quanto si fosse aspettato.

Historical fact-based fiction about the famous spy who played a key role in Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. This narrative takes place between July 1861 and July 1862 and is the first in a series about the Confederate Secret Service and the women who were its most effective agents. Belle Boyd was the first woman in American History to be formally commissioned an army officer.

Vienna-June 1804. At the glittering debut of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, a Spanish diplomat meets with Captain Thomas Grey, agent of His Majesty's Secret Service. In exchange for a gigantic bribe, the Spaniard discloses Spain's most closely-held secret, the terms of its San Ildefonso Treaty with France. Spain's neutrality in Napoleon's war on Britain is only a ruse to keep the British navy from attacking the last great treasure-armada, now gathering in South America.

Crystal ball reader Isadora wants to prove she's up to the leadership responsibility to keep Philadelphia staff safe from Hitler's occult attacks until their team leader can return from special assignment in D.C., but a Nazi spy murdered the temp secretary D.C. sent and assumed her identity. The spy's mission is to steal an ancient book of spells coveted by Hitler. After finding the book, the spy's obsession is to avenge her spy lover's disappearance by leaving this U.S. facility in paranormally induced flames.

Cold War Marseille is a city of shadowy alliances and loose morals, where a good man can lose sight of which side he is really on and evil men profit from the misery and confusion of others. It is therefore the perfect town for Ernst Ludwig, an East German terrorist who is sadistic beyond measure. But when Ludwig kidnaps and murders the wife of Alex Moran, the US intelligence agent hot on his trail, he sets off a blood feud whose violent shock waves will span decades and reach all the way across the globe.

Somewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. One hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past.