Political Suspense

Mike and his wife Lisa - both covert assets of the International Market Stabilization Institute, a privately funded organization operating outside official channels to protect North America's financial interests - are sent to Russia after an attempt on their superior officer's life. It is a mission fraught with peril and one that becomes exponentially more dangerous when their covers are blown within hours of setting foot in Moscow.

An old flame has returned to Chief Inspector Frederick Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don't ruin her husband's political career. But he also wants to know why Kitty has been spotted with Danny Ryan, whose twin brothers, in addition to owning one of London's hottest jazz clubs, are said to have inherited the crime empire of fallen mobster Alf Marx. Before Rork can find out, he meets a gruesome end.

When those inside the corridors of power need help outside the law, they know who to call. Jonathan Grave, covert rescue specialist, always gets results. No names. No feds. No trace evidence.

QUAND TOUT LE SYSTÈME EST POURRI. AUTANT JOUER SELON SES PROPRES RÈGLES. Denny Malone est le roi de Manhattan North, le leader charismatique de La Force, une unité d élite qui fait la loi dans les rues de New York et n hésite pas à se salir les mains pour combattre les gangs, les dealers et les trafiquants d armes. Après dix-huit années de service, il est respecté et admiré de tous. Mais le jour où, après une descente, Malone et sa garde rapprochée planquent pour des millions de dollars de drogue, la ligne jaune est franchie.

Adam Hayes hat beschlossen, seine tödlichen Fähigkeiten nicht länger in den Dienst der Geheimorganisation Treadstone zu stellen. Stattdessen will er nur noch Aufträge übernehmen, die er selbst moralisch vertreten kann. Doch die Vergangenheit lässt sich nicht so einfach abschütteln. Als er nach einem Angriff auf sein Flugzeug bei einer Mission in Burkina Faso notlanden muss, findet er sich allein auf unwegsamem Territorium wieder. Ihm auf den Fersen sind nicht nur die Extremisten, die ihn beschossen haben. Auch sein ehemaliger Arbeitgeber ist plötzlich an der Verfolgung beteiligt.

In the aftermath of World War III, world leaders resolve as never before to eliminate war. The global conflict killed millions and wiped out entire countries. All nations agree to eradicate the most serious threat to world peace: religion.

There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission. The pay? $20,000 a piece. The mission? Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis (under a pen name by Lawrence Block), is the rarest of Block's books - and still a work of chilling relevance all these years later, with Castro and Cuba once again commanding headlines.

Jonathan Grave long ago lost faith with the so-called war on drugs, a futile campaign that enables cartels to make billions under the protection of corrupt officials on both sides of the border. But when a twelve-year-old dies after consuming fentanyl disguised as candy inside the dormitory at Resurrection House, the school he created for the children of incarcerated parents, Jonathan knows it's time to use his special talents to change the game.

Elena McMahon walks off the presidential campaign she has been covering for a major newspaper to do a favor for her father. Elena's father does deals. And it is while acting as his agent in one such deal - a deal that shortly goes spectacularly wrong - that she finds herself on an island where tourism has been superseded by arms dealing, covert action, and assassination. The Last Thing He Wanted is a tour de force - persuasive in its detail, dazzling in its ambiguities, enchanting in its style.

Sur les rivages de la mer de Chine méridionale, le sultanat de Brunei, petit pays d’or (noir) et de jungle, mène, dans un décor des Mille et Une Nuits, une existence prospère et en apparence paisible. Pourtant, un coup d’État d’un nouveau type va s’y dérouler et le livrer "clefs en main" à une grande entreprise californienne du numérique. Flora est la petite-fille d’un célèbre mercenaire qui a passé sa vie à renverser des pouvoirs établis. Fascinée par son exemple, elle s’engage dans le milieu dangereux des agences de sécurité privées. Elle se retrouve plongée au cœur de cette opération de subversion sans précédent.

In Primary Command (The Forging of Luke Stone - book number two), a ground-breaking action thriller by number one bestseller Jack Mars, elite delta force veteran Luke Stone, 29, leads the FBI’s special response team on a nail-biting mission to save American hostages from a nuclear submarine. But when all goes wrong, and when the President shocks the world with his reaction, it may fall on Luke’s shoulders to save not only the hostages - but the world.

Années 1970. Une lettre de suicide, celle du député Alex Fisher, menace d'ébranler les mondes parallèles des familles Clifton et Barrington. Car si la lettre pourrait se révéler salvatrice pour Emma, elle pourrait tout aussi bien être le coup de grâce pour son frère Giles. Sans compter que ce dernier doit choisir entre sa carrière politique ou le sauvetage audacieux de Karin, captive derrière le rideau de fer ! Pendant ce temps, Sebastian fait face à un dilemme similaire.

The hostages are young: a bus full of teenagers on a church mission. The ransom demands are explicit: deliver three million dollars - with zero involvement from law enforcement - or all captives will be executed. But rescue specialist Jonathan Grave doesn't believe in ultimatums. For him and his elite team at Security Solutions, it's all about protecting the innocent. Now Grave must face the chilling possibility that someone within the U.S. government has a deadly secret to protect - one that could jeopardize national security like never before...

Valeria McGregor was a better shot, a better fighter, and smarter than everyone she'd ever gone up against as an agent for the DEA. Then she'd uncovered illegal activity within her own organization and was fired as part of a cover-up. That was how she'd joined the secret group who reports only to the president. Valeria fully plans to find the men and women hell bent on ruling the world from the shadows, but she also has revenge on her mind.

A banker, linguist, and demolitions expert who has successfully infiltrated German intelligence, FBI Special Agent Thomas Cochrane is handpicked by Roosevelt for an impossible mission: to find Hitler's spy before he carries out a plan that will remove the president from office at a critical moment in the century's history.

It's one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built—and it's about to set off World War III. Silent at less than five knots and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch, it's the 240-foot Russian Kilo Class submarine. Strapped for hard cash, the Russians have produced...

Former CIA operative turned mercenary for hire Ryan Decker’s specialty is rescuing kidnap victims. Hired by an influential US senator to liberate her daughter from a human-trafficking ring, Decker never anticipated sabotage or that the assault could go so disastrously wrong. The hostage is dead. His team is wiped out, and so are their families, including Decker’s own wife and son - eliminated one by one by the Russian mafia. And he’s survived to take the fall.

Biding its time for decades, China has patiently lain in wait for its chance at global dominance. Long content to needle the West while secretly amassing intelligence, technology, and resources, the war chest is now full, and the gears of the colossus are grinding into motion. New arenas of modern battle emerge as China wages an all-out cyber assault on the West. And the more familiar tactics of brute strength play out in its bold attacks against sovereign neighbors. The scope of the Chinese menace draws the US into the melee.

New York City faces a fate worse than death, the President suspects a traitor in the White House, and an intelligence analyst discovers a diabolical plot.

From the author of The Frozen Lake comes an enthralling novel of love, betrayal, and idealism as three very different young women go up to Oxford in the years immediately before World War Two. Vee - the clergyman’s daughter. Boyish, alluring, she plans to use her time at Oxford to put right everything that went wrong in her loveless childhood.