Political Fiction

A disgraced former CIA operative must go back in the field with only his ex-wife as his handler in this electrifying thriller from a former intelligence officer. Meredith Morris-Dale is a CIA case officer and a damn good one...even if this last mission did go terribly wrong. Now she has been...

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sachs' tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

The novel begins in the decade of 1990s. The world had changed overnight. The wall of Berlin had vanished, and the great and mighty Soviet Union was vanishing. But in India, the report of the Mandal Commission was creating new frontiers. Meanwhile Advani started his rathyatra.

Navy pilot turned submarine officer Jerry Mitchell is now the navigator aboard USS Seawolf. On a reconnaissance mission deep in the Barents Sea, Mitchell and his crew prepare to watch the Russian navy as it trains for battle. Although they are outside Russia's territorial waters, the U.S. boat is ambushed by Russia's newest attack submarine, Severodvinsk. Its aggressive new captain, Aleksey Petrov, harasses the American intruder with dangerously fast, insanely close passes.

Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive? In Andrei Makine's most daring and ambitious novel since Dreams of My Russian Summers, in the midst of an insane African war somwehtere along the border between Angola and Zaire, two young people--Elias Almeida, a black revolutionary, and Anna, a Russian student--will struggle to stay together while forces beyond them work to tear them apart.

La journaliste Anne-Marie Bérubé se rend à une conférence de presse dans un hôtel de Gatineau, où on doit présenter un nouveau programme de lutte à l’évasion fiscale. Un attentat meurtrier survient et prend tout le monde par surprise. La nouvelle fait le tour de la planète en un temps record. Qui a orchestré l’attaque ? Qu’est-il arrivé à Anne-Marie ? A-t-elle été blessée ? Est-elle morte ?

Saddam Hussein is gone. Yasser Arafat is dead. A New Iraq is rising. Now White House advisors Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy find themselves facing a terrifying new threat triggered by an ancient mystery.

As a presidential campaign narrows into a dead heat, the Secret Service learns of a catastrophic terrorist plot to assassinate one of the candidates - but which one? Who do they want dead? And can U.S. forces stop the terrorists before millions lose their lives?

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in 18th-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition.

La suite du grand roman "La Grève : Atlas Shrugged" d'Ayn Rand, qui s'est vendu à 10 millions d'exemplaires ! Ce best-seller international est un des livres préférés des hommes d'affaires, et pour cause, puisque beaucoup de personnages héroïques sont des entrepreneurs qui aiment profondément leur métier et excellent dans leur travail. La liberté de penser, de s'aventurer dans le nouveau et l'inconnu, de gagner, d'échanger, de réussir et d'échouer et de poursuivre son propre bonheur individuel est le signe de l'État florissant pour les grands penseurs du pays.

In the pulse-pounding final installment of the Marcus Ryker series, the leaders of Communist China are secretly plotting to invade Taiwan and challenge American supremacy in the Pacific. And no one in Washington has any idea what’s coming. Marcus Ryker has been tasked with hunting down Abu Nakba, the most wanted terrorist in the world. The latest intel sends him and his team to Pakistan. There, they discover a horrifying secret inside a state-of-the-art lab. Marcus orders the lab rigged with explosives, but the plan goes bad, and a massive explosion rocks the city.

“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award-winning author...

Published in 1888 to immediate popularity, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The novel’s protagonist, aristocrat Julian West, falls into a deep, hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 to find a very different Boston from the one he knows. In Dr. Leete he finds a guide who explains the humane and efficient society in which he now finds himself - its transformation made possible by political and technological advances.

En abril de 1982, ante la recuperación de las Malvinas por parte de las Fuerzas Armadas argentinas, tres soldados reservistas de la clase 1962 son reincorporados a filas y enviados a las islas. Llenos de expectativa, de curiosidad, de sed de aventura, Carlitos, Antonio y el Conejo se internan en ese territorio desconocido que se irá tornando cada vez más inhóspito a medida que las lejanas negociaciones diplomáticas fracasen y se desencadene la guerra con los británicos. Se enfrentarán

A missing young girl. A horrifying conspiracy. Jack Widow will kill to save her. Under a sweltering Texas landscape, Jack Widow waits at a dust-covered bus station, when he meets Claire Hood, a grandmother, clearly in distress. Claire is on a solo mission to rescue her abducted granddaughter. Minutes after meeting her, the unthinkable happens. Claire drops dead - natural causes. Right there in front of Widow. Widow isn’t the type of guy to let wrongs go. He picks up her bus ticket and takes her place on a quest that will give him a reason to kill.

Minutes after Vice President Nick Cappuano and Lt. Sam Holland get the call that President Nelson has been found dead in the residence on Thanksgiving, they’re still processing that Nick has been asked to come to the White House to take the oath of office. As they go through the motions to ensure a peaceful transition of power, Sam has a million and one concerns about her husband, her family, the Nelson family, the country, and the enormity of what Nick is about to take on.

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . . The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years...

The English philosopher and physician John Locke (1632 - 1704) is widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. His work had a significant effect on the development of epistemology and political philosophy. The Second Treatise on Civil Government places sovereignty in the hands of the people, as Locke's fundamental argument is that people are equal and invested with natural rights in a state of nature in which they live free from outside rule.

The Queen of Blood An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in this first book of a mesmerizing epic fantasy series, filled with political intrigue, violent magic, malevolent spirits, and thrilling adventure. The Reluctant Queen Filled with...

Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. A prominent lawyer, he has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies...and to argue an explosively controversial case that could seriously damage his political career. For Delano is a town with a dark secret - a smoldering hotbed of racial hatred and moral outrage, held in the thrall of a sinister white-supremacist group called The Elect... a breeding ground for violent, evil forces that will stop at nothing to keep the candidate out of office.