Political Military Thrillers

Jonathan Slate, former Marine infantry officer and the Governor of Texas, has just won his bid for the presidency. When an assassin's bullet takes his life during his victory speech, he is conscripted from the afterlife by the Lord of Light, Lucidus. Slate is thrust into the game-like world of Somnium where he has been reincarnated into the body of a parasite and given one mission: evolve or die.

Jon Reznick has never played by the rules, a trait that has brought him into conflict with FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein in the past. But now Meyerstein has been taken by a shadowy gang, and the renegade black-ops specialist may be her only hope for rescue.

On the heels of an attempted assassination that has left her fighting for her own life, President Maggie Trousdale is once again faced with the impossible task of securing a volatile free world. When an anonymous informant provides evidence that the assassination attempt was an act of international aggression, Trousdale has no choice but to chase the enemy into the heart of economically devastated Venezuela.

A joint US-Russian Special Forces raid against a hidden laboratory yields an alarming discovery. Anatoly Reznikov, the deranged bioweapons scientist stolen from US custody a few years earlier, vanished minutes before the attack - taking his deadly work with him. In the United States, Beltway power brokers grapple with True America's surprise presidential win, finding the new administration to be anything but easy to work with.

After a meeting with a CIA source in Istanbul ends in tragedy, SEAL Team Six Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Crocker vows revenge. He suspects the men who attacked him and his contact are involved in the latest and most harrowing scheme SEAL Team Six is charged with preventing, in a region that grows more volatile by the day.

In less than a week, America will select her new president. Three candidates are tied in a dead heat. But one of them is about to step into a lethal trap.

In 2035, the southwestern United States is ravaged by drought, reeling from an environmental catastrophe that has left the landscape a chaotic, depleted ruin. California, still viably inhabitable due to its oppressive social controls, marshals state-of-the-art surveillance technology and totalitarian policies to preserve its fragile hold on rapidly dwindling resources and an increasingly unsettled population.

Ciudad Juarez, MX: A flash of light. An opened cantina doorway. One tiny hand clings desperately to the frame, and the smallest hope of avoiding a now-certain fate. Only 16 weeks into his military career, US Army PFC Zeb Dalton lies slumped across a sticky bar top in the notorious Cantina Rosa. He's here on a dare. That's all about to change as Dalton witnesses an act so inhumane it stirs long-suppressed parts of his soul. Inexperience and setting aside his own failings will prove daunting tasks as he attempts the rescue of innocents.

Nathan Stone was killed in action while serving as a covert CIA operative. Or so everyone thought. In reality he’s become a ghost, a black-ops asset with a new identity and controlled by a secret government organization. The Commission has one aim: to hunt down and assassinate anti-establishment enemies of the state. Its number-one target is Senator Brad Crichton, an ambitious politician with growing support. Stone is ready to take him out, but his plan is soon compromised....

Un agente biológico es robado de un laboratorio de seguridad biológica. Armado, podría matar a millones de personas, y sobreviene una búsqueda nacional desesperada para atrapar a los terroristas, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Luke Stone, jefe de un departamento de élite del FBI, con su propia familia aún en peligro, prometió retirarse, pero cuando la nueva Presidenta, que acaba de prestar juramento, lo llama, no puede darle la espalda.

A bold Russian aggression. A staggering breakthrough in artificial intelligence. An otherworldly existential threat. It’s a rare fight that’s too big for war hero-turned-senator Percy Mackenzie, whose ambitions have rendered him alone. Now he must play his part and hope the people he’s left behind will do the rest.

Een echte klassieker van Ken Follett, gebaseerd op historische feiten. Teheran, december 1978. Het regime van de sjah wankelt, de anti-Amerikaanse stemming groeit. EDS, een Amerikaanse computermaatschappij, heeft het merendeel van haar personeel naar veiliger oorden gestuurd. Slechts enkele topfunctionarissen zijn achtergebleven. Dan wordt van twee EDS-directeuren het paspoort afgenomen. Op grond van vage beschuldigingen worden ze, zonder enige vorm van proces, gevangengezet.

Eine unheilvolle alte Allianz bedroht das Gleichgewicht der Weltmächte. Präsident Jack Ryan kämpft an allen Fronten: Während es innenpolitisch in den USA hoch hergeht, rückt in Osteuropa Russland in die Ukraine vor. Dann gelangen zwei russische Atomraketen in den Iran. Hängt beides miteinander zusammen? Und was hat die neue iranische Rebellenbewegung damit zu tun? Die gibt sich zwar zunächst als Verbündeter aus, macht sich jedoch schnell höchstverdächtig. Langsam entwirren sich die Fäden eines perfiden Komplotts.

Völlig unvorbereitet wird Geheimagent Mitch Rapp vom amerikanischen Präsidenten ins mediale Rampenlicht gezerrt. Nach jahrelanger Arbeit im Schatten kennt plötzlich jeder Terrorist auf der Erde sein Gesicht und seinen Namen. Rapp zieht sich hinter die Kulissen zurück. Doch es dauert nicht lang, bis ein Team der Navy SEALs auf den Philippinen in einen tödlichen Hinterhalt gerät und er zur Rückkehr an die Krisenherde der Welt gezwungen ist. Ein Verräter in der eigenen Regierung führt die Welt an den Rand der Vernichtung.

In the Middle East, refugees fleeing dictatorship and terrorism pour across the borders into Europe, destabilizing countries already in the throes of economic crisis. But not all who seek refuge share the same reasons for so doing.... In the UK, the nationalist far right gathers strength - fueled by a government unable or unwilling to protect its own. England is on the brink. All it will take to send it tumbling into the abyss...is a single push. And in the midst of it all, two men have arrived in London, dark harbingers of death to come.

Three books in one! Korea x2 (Book One): A CIA director is killed by a North Korean assassin. Three Air Force Pararescuemen and a CIA officer join with the South Korean 707th Brigade, a team of female assassins, to form a team known only by President Reagan and CIA Director Casey as "the Silent Six." Their task: the destruction of the North Korean gangster regime. Also features Silent Six (Book Two) and Putin's Gold (Book Three)!

Spannender internationaler Polit-Thriller zum Nahost-Konflikt - fiktiv und doch erschreckend nah an der Realität. Washington, 2018. Als der US-Präsident nach alarmierenden Nachrichten über den Ausbau des iranischen Atomprogramms von den Israelis zu einem Militärschlag gegen Teheran herausgefordert wird, zieht er die Notbremse: Um die nukleare Bedrohung zu verringern, will er einen Abrüstungsvertrag mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen unterschreiben. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt ahnt er jedoch nicht, dass er selbst der ultimativen Krise gegenübersteht: Der palästinensische Top-Terrorist "Der Falke" hat es geschafft, einen Atomsprengkopf in das US-Holocaust-Museum zu schmuggeln.

It is April 1964 in a world in which the "swinging '60s" never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are pouring down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers like wolves upon the fold. In the United States, the overwhelming popular mood is one of "America first". The "victory" of the October War has never seemed more pyrrhic, or all the death, destruction, and grief more futile, than it does in the second week of April 1964. Only one thing is certain: The world is about to be turned upside down again.

Kolt »Racer« Raynor und sein Delta-Force-Team sollen den amerikanischen Präsidenten während einer NATO-Mission in Griechenland beschützen. Als der Präsident gerade eingetroffen ist, passiert das Unvorstellbare: Die Kugel eines Attentäters reißt den griechischen Premierminister aus dem Leben. Raynor erkennt den Mörder an seiner grausigen Handschrift: eine Kugel durch das linke Auge seines Ziels. So tötet nur Rasim Miric.

Die Zukunft von Kolt »Racer« Raynor, Kommandeur der Delta Force, liegt in den Händen von Männern, die ihre Gründe haben, ihn verschwinden zu lassen. Und so gerät Kolt in einen Kampf mit einigen der am besten ausgebildeten Killer, denen er jemals begegnet ist–den US Navy SEALs. Doch dann sendet ein Spion einen verzweifelten Hilferuf aus Nordkorea.