Mission Mystery

Terminus, 1871. Fiona Telfair won't give up her gears and gadgets for the ball and chain of marriage. But her future as a tinkerer comes under attack when nutcracker automatons raid the trade hall masquerade party and kidnap her fellow inventors. With her brilliant engineer father among those taken, Fiona's only hope of rescuing him lies with the captivating rail baron who rescued her from the fray.

Earth is rising in the House of Voltar.... And there’ll be hell to pay! That’s right. The invasion is on...and it’s coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn’t be hotter, and the plot couldn’t be more diabolical. Earth is coming to Voltar - and the Voltarians won’t know what hit them. Murder, blackmail, drugs, psychoanalysis, PR firms, sex-crazed teenyboppers, riots in the streets, women in chains. These are the powerful secret weapons of war.

The Kidds—treasure hunting family extraordinaire—are heading to China, on a journey that will lead them beyond the Great Wall and into the underbelly of Berlin in this action-packed adventure from the world’s #1 bestselling author. Bick and Beck Kidd are desperately trying to secure the...

One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year "Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York...

Als Tochter einer Kommunistin hilft Nela beim Wiederaufbau in der Sowjetischen Zone. Je näher sie ihn kennenlernt, desto besser versteht sie ihn und beginnt, ihre eigene Ideologie zu hinterfragen. Als Nela jedoch entdeckt, dass ihr Vater sie bei den Treffen als Kurierin zwischen Ost und West benutzt, steht sie vor einer Entscheidung: Soll sie weiter dem kommunistischen Weg ihrer Mutter folgen, oder wird sie – trotz aller Gefahr – geheime Missionen ihres Vaters übernehmen?

The Allies have tightened their grip on Europe and a team of elite operatives embark on a series of daring missions, culminating in a high-stakes kill/capture operation deep in enemy territory—one that, if successful, could bring a brutal war to a quick end. Their target: Benito Mussolini, the man whose terrifying reign has fueled a nation’s suffering. But as shifting allegiances, double agents, and deadly secrets emerge, the mission is jeopardized when a handful of OSS operatives are forced to fight for their lives against thousands of Fascists and German SS troops who want them dead.

Ihr neuester Fall führt die YOUNG AGENTS auf die Spur einer Schutzgeldbande, die mit Hilfe von Computerviren internationale Unternehmen und Banken erpressen will. Nun ist Tech-Genie Balu gefragt: Er schleust sich als Hacker in die Bande ein. Zu spät wird klar, dass hierbei sein Kontakt zur Außenwelt abgeschnitten wird. Jetzt müssen Tim und Abena alles tun, um ihren Kameraden zu retten.

Father Black has a mission to complete – and it has nothing to do with God’s work. When an assignment goes wrong and a member of a Royal Family is killed, Marine Connor Black puts America in the crosshairs of a bloody war. With his career seemingly over, a secret organization covers up the death with one condition – Connor owes them. Ten years later, it comes calling. Tasked with killing a psychotic drug lord, Connor’s conscience is torn since, on leaving the Marine Corps, he tries to atone for his sins by taking his vows as a priest.

After being separated by an unforgivable lie, a dying father tells his son about the con men who cheated him of all he had - and the small North western town called Mission that spurned him. Now it is time for revenge. What follows is a twisting story of guile and brutality, mud and gold, as the old man's enemies are played by a young man who has nothing to lose and everything to gain

The awakening of humanity has been slowed by an extraterrestrial race working with a group of humans seeking to keep worldly power for themselves. These “Managers" hinder the spiritual development of our race. However, there is hope. Humanity’s cosmic awakening is being supported by multiple extraterrestrial races working closely with the author and humans around the globe. These helpful Beings of the Stars are of light, in the light and for the light. They intend to remind us that we are all one.

After my infamous half-a-night stand with the mysterious Rayne, I moved on with my life. Success as a lawyer demands long hours and giving a hundred and ten percent to the job. I do carve out enough time to hang out with friends some weekends, but it's depressing to watch them pairing up while I'm relentlessly single. Then one morning, the man I can't forget shows up bruised and bedraggled at my office door.

La Maison des tocards est la branche du mi5 où atterrissent les agents secrets en disgrâce qui ont tellement foiré qu’on ne peut plus leur confier de vraies missions de renseignement. Ces espions ratés, ces rebuts de la profession dénommés “tocards”, sont condamnés à passer le reste de leur “carrière” à végéter dans ce trou sous les ordres toujours aussi saugrenus de Jackson Lamb, enchaînant les missions sans intérêt, bouffant de la paperasse tout en rêvant de pouvoir un jour sortir du placard et retourner au coeur de l’action.

Trouble follows the Garcia sisters, and this time a close family friend is in the hot seat. Once again they band together to come to his aid. But even with the trash-talking ghost of their dead sister, Tessa, making another appearance from the "other side", they have their work cut out for them to keep their friend and sibling from wearing an orange jumpsuit. After Emily Ruiz Santiago is killed in a shootout with police during a bank robbery in El Paso, Dr. Kate Garcia gets a call from a Houston lawyer.

Après plusieurs missions humanitaires éprouvantes, Úrsúla accepte de remplacer au pied levé le ministre de la Justice en attendant les prochaines élections. Elle découvre très vite que son administration n'est là que pour bloquer toutes ses initiatives. Aussitôt après sa première intervention publique, elle devient la proie d'un cyber-harcèlement menaçant et doit engager un garde du corps. Elle est également poursuivie par un sdf agressif, qui sort d'un hôpital carcéral.

Esper and Kubu take an outlaw vacation to a remote planet whose tiny colony seems idyllic. It’s far enough for the Convocation wizards dogging them to lose their trail. The plan is simple: Stay out of trouble, let the heat die down, and slink back quietly to civilized space. But these two aren’t good at keeping out of trouble. Before long, they’re exposed to the rotten core beneath this purported utopia. Bitter feuds lurk just below the surface. Feigned friendships mask deadly rivalries. Cliques control what passes for a government on the colony.

Professor and college chaplain Olympia Brown learns that one of her students is being recruited by a shadowy religious cult. She and colleague Father Jim Sawicki join forces to infiltrate the group and rescue the girl before she becomes another victim of their deadly mission. Assisted by Olympia's resident house-ghost, the spectral Miss Winslow, the two unorthodox clerics encounter a menacing tangle of religious hypocrisy woven against the dark side of human nature as they race against the clock to expose the cult's bloody underbelly.

When a coordinated EMP attack takes out the nation’s power grid, a small town finds itself at ground zero of an all-out foreign invasion. With limited options and no time to prepare, the citizens have no choice but to turn to a mysterious drifter, Jack Bunker, for help. The former combat engineer has the skills to keep them alive, but he won’t be able to do it alone, not against an overwhelmingly superior force.

Core World problems... Rigel IV glistens beneath a giant, blue-white sun. Its vast surface is covered in tall cities shining like hope itself. Law enforcement protects the people. Or at least...most of the people. Because even core worlds have a seedy side. Esper finds a home of sorts among the endangered, the unprotected, the ones that the law turns a blind eye toward. And when one of her protectees gets kidnapped, Esper will stop at nothing to bring her home. Well, almost nothing. Because Esper’s work has pushed her to the edge of a moral precipice.

Explosions rock London, Paris, and Washington. Casualties number in the thousands. The president orders his covert agencies to retaliate with full force. It's time to launch Operation Blowback. The Defense Intelligence Agency's Bridget Davenport was in the strike zone when the terrorists attacked. Claiming responsibility is Al-Souri, a jihadist who has consolidated multiple extremist cells in Syria. He plans to establish his own rule and wage all-out war against the West. For Blowback to succeed, Bridget needs a covert operative to infiltrate Al-Souri's forces.

An explosion in the heart of Paris launches a French-American investigation that propels Doyle O'Gara, a computer scientist at a technology supplier to the CIA, from the periphery of the war on terrorism into its moral nerve center and toward a disastrous miscalculation that transforms his life. As the suspense-filled investigation leaps from one surprising clue to the next, Doyle O'Gara hurtles toward a dilemma of conscience that defines him and the country he serves.