Political Adventure

Dark Star is the invisible angel of justice, fighting the Home World Security Agency in the name of truth, justice, and the old home-world way. The Earth is ruled by a dictatorship: a one-world government and a chairman dictator gone insane with power. This is the story of Starship Captain Beryl Stone, the mysterious Dark Star. Dark Star turns the enemy inward against itself. He uses psychological methods, trickery, and technology to evoke justice while maintaining his secret identity.

Rome, AD 51: Vespasian brings Rome's greatest enemy before the emperor. After eight years of resistance, the British warrior Caratacus has been caught. But Agrippina, Emperor Claudius' wife, pardons Caratacus. Claudius is a drunken fool, and Narcissus and Pallas, his freedmen, are battling for control of his throne. Separately,they decide to send Vespasian east to Armenia to defend Rome's interests. Meanwhile the East is in turmoil.

Venezia, 1755. Giacomo Casanova è tornato in città, e il precario equilibrio su cui si regge la Repubblica, ormai prossima alla decadenza, rischia di frantumarsi e degenerare nel caos. Lo scenario politico internazionale è in una fase transitoria di delicate alleanze e il disastroso esito della Seconda guerra di Morea ha svuotato le casse della Serenissima. Il doge Francesco Loredan versa in pessime condizioni di salute, e l'inquisitore Pietro Garzoni trama alle sue spalle per ottenere il consenso all'interno del Consiglio dei Dieci e influenzare così la successione al dogado.

Jack Reacher lever i nuet. Uden fast adresse. Uden forpligtelser. Og med et brændende ønske om at bekæmpe uret - og gøre op med sin egen traumatiske fortid. Susan Duffy fra det amerikanske narkopoliti lever for fremtiden, vel vidende at hun har begået en forfærdelig fejl ved at sende en af sine egne kvindelige agenter ind i en dødsfælde i et skarpt bevogtet palæ i Maine.

Era el detective más caro y exclusivo del mundo. Sus servicios solo estaban al alcance de importantes corporaciones a las que les habían robado sus secretos y necesitaban urgentemente recuperarlos. No tenía ni oficina, ni sede conocida y sólo unos pocos sabían contactar con él. Usaba personalidades diferentes para cada caso, siendo una sombra para sus clientes e invisible para sus enemigos. Ninguno de sus encargos tenía nada de vulgar o corriente, pero cuando aceptó su último trabajo, no podía imaginar que las cosas se iban a complicar tanto: la chica, el cliente y el objeto a recuperar.

Tutto comincia al largo di Bali, con una mongolfiera e quattro bottiglie di champagne. Allan Karlsson si appresta a festeggiare il suo centunesimo compleanno con il fidato complice Julius, quando è costretto a un ammaraggio d'emergenza nel mezzo dell'oceano. Salvati da una nave nordcoreana che trasporta clandestinamente uranio per conto di Kim Jong-un, i due vengono fermati con l'accusa di spionaggio. Dopo lo sbarco, Allan si finge uno specialista di tecnologia nucleare per riuscire a fuggire con una valigetta dal contenuto esplosivo.

When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club on a remote tropical island is a good place to hide - or die. For notorious ex-hacker Emily Kim, the outcome of each fight makes little difference. Black-market blood sport is the perfect self-imposed penance. But when she stumbles on a plot to overthrow the corporate empire that provides the ubiquitous global feed, Emily discovers her old friends have been targeted. Warning them will force her out into the open, back on-grid, and directly into danger. Emily can’t escape the past. But can she seize the future?

Tony Acero, a Mexican-American veteran of four combat tours, has a problem on his hands. His undersized 13-year-old son Luke is floundering at his new Kansas prep school. To save the young teen from his downward spiral, and to cheer up older brother Matt, Tony proposes to take both sons on a elk hunt in Colorado. Meanwhile in Boston, rootless young brothers, Pel and Moom Adams, are plotting a Colorado expedition of their own. Radical anarchists, the brothers have contracted with a trio of hardened Chechen terrorists to carry out a plot that will shake America to the core.

When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking syndicate from the inside. Meanwhile, in Florida, insurance investigator Randall Knight is called to a private roadside zoo, where a new tiger cub of suspect lineage brought a virus that wiped out all the zoo’s tigers. The disease is just one species jump away from erupting into a deadly global human pandemic.

A top-secret drone crashes in the lawless Horn of Africa. The CIA is prepared to write off the loss, until evidence surfaces that the wreckage of their prized aircraft is hidden in a hangar outside Khartoum's main airport. The hangar is owned by a shady cargo airline that flies ancient DC-3s across Africa and the Middle East. The name of the company does nothing to still concern: FBN-Fly by Night Aviation.

Paul Rago is a Montana man entering retirement. As he flew to his daughter's wedding in Naples, Italy, his plane is hijacked over the Mediterranean. During his ordeal at the hands of Hezbollah terrorists, he forms an allegiance with two other hijacked passengers. One is an Italian beauty and the other is a retired university professor from South Carolina. Naturally, things begin to happen as they decide to make their escape and head into the Syrian Desert.

A former Legionnaire had been working as an investigative journalist in Paris. He meets a mysterious American, of Jewish and Latino descent, by chance when the latter sails into a quiet fishing village nestled in a remote Andalusian bay in Spain. The yachtsman, also a former French Foreign Legionnaire, explained that he had been working in private security, and he tells a story that dates back to the dark days of Nazi Germany and it at first seems to be fictitious. However, the journalist began to question what he had been told.

The 25th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. The political power games going on in the California and Washington, DC, worlds. Elizabeth Thatcher, like her father, cuts through the emotions to get to the money and power motives.

Torin Ten-Trees and his closest companions, Bryn and Grimsa, set out to join The Gatewatch and become trollhunters. When a troupe of meddling dwarves throws them off course, they are captured by trolls, and taken as prisoners to a secret gathering deep underground. There, they learn that an ancient giant has crowned himself king of the trolls, and he plans to utterly destroy The Gatewatch. Their perilous journey back to the land of sun and stars will stretch their strength to the limit, strain their wits, and demand an unspeakable sacrifice. Will it be enough to defeat the Troll King?

When a formal gathering of NATO leaders is interrupted by a bomb blast, a US general becomes the subject of an international manhunt. Tasked to find him is an ornery sergeant on his way out the army, along with three individuals with unique skills of their own. When several attempts to nab the team members are thwarted, they become suspicious that the general is receiving inside information.

Odessa has targets in their sights and the clock is ticking as they prepare to unleash a blitzkrieg upon their sworn enemies. Their operatives are embedded at the highest levels of government in the United States and Europe. Exposing them is the key to preventing a biological disaster that can threaten the Western world's water supply and kill millions. Gunner Fox and the Gray Fox team face off with an enemy thought to be extinguished nearly a century ago.

In Time Game, his fifth Loomis novel, Special Agent Loomis and her team are investigating the death of three guards killed in an armored car robbery containing $25 million dollars bound for an Indian casino hosting a poker championship. Jeannie, however, has been requested by the Marin County Sheriff’s Department to assume the role of task force manager in pursuit of a vicious serial killer who preys of women using his charm and seduction.

Meet Cindy Mayfield, ex-Forest Recon Special Operations marine. She is a correctional officer at California Medical Facility assigned to the hospital team. She’s beautiful and professional, but because she was kidnapped by a serial rapist when she was a girl, she now makes her own rules. As the murders occur, indicators point to Cindy Mayfield, but the real plot has its roots in a shadowy, top secret CIA-funded project called MK-Ultra.

In this taut thriller, religious extremists the world over are overshadowed by, efficient and well-funded terrorists calling themselves the Crusaders. One knight of the Temple, Colette of Yerevan, goes to ground when vindictive FBI agent Miriam Bloome wipes out her unit. Now she must hide among the heathens, and find her way before she's declared an apostate and targeted by the frightful agents of the reborn Inquisition.

Revelations 2025 is about the battle for America’s soul. Russell Williams left the US Army as a sniper with the 3rd Ranger Battalion after eight years in 2019. He found employment in building the wall on the southern border. After two bitter elections, the president gets his wall, and at the end of his second term, it’s 100 miles east of El Paso.