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Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman.... They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - and on to the moment of truth and a deadly decision for all of them.

They were orphans, Chris and Saul - raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot.

France, 1944. Betty a vingt-neuf ans, elle est officier de l'armée anglaise, l'une des meilleures expertes en matière de sabotage. À l'approche du débarquement allié, elle a pour mission d'anéantir le système de communication allemand en France. Après une première tentative catastrophique et coûteuse en vies humaines, Betty va jouer le tout pour le tout en recrutant une brigade unique en son genre : le Réseau Corneille. Une équipe de choc, six femmes à la personnalité hors du commun. L'aristocrate, la taularde, l'ingénue, la travestie... chacune va apporter sa touche très personnelle au grand sabotage.

Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of Five, Six and the MoD, its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.

Jack Widow is in New York City for his birthday. He’s living the good life without a care in the world. Not until his hotel phone rings at midnight. A woman with a seductive Russian accent speaks, making a desperate plea for her life. She needs help. She claims she’s being held captive by a group of dangerous men. And they’re going to kill her.

A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army".

A hacked database known as the Files has upended the intelligence community. Careers are being destroyed. Dirty deals are showing up on the front page. Assassinations are spreading from Europe to the U.S. The new head of Treadstone sends Jason Bourne on a mission to find out who has the Files and get them back–or destroy them. But Bourne isn’t alone in this race. The Chinese want the Files. So do the Russians. And the only woman who may be able to help him is a treacherous spy known as Johanna–Bourne’s former lover–who sees the Files as the key to her own vendetta against Treadstone.

Londres, 1757. Un matin de juin, Lord John Grey émerge de son club de gentlemen, le Beefsteak, l'esprit tourmenté. Aristocrate à la lignée impeccable et officier supérieur de l'armée de Sa Majesté, il vient d'être témoin d'un fait bouleversant dont les implications pourraient détruire sa famille. Ses efforts pour éviter le scandale sont toutefois interrompus par une affaire plus urgente encore : la Couronne le charge d'enquêter sur le meurtre brutal d'un camarade d'armes soupçonné d'espionnage.

In this much-anticipated new spy thriller series by Jack Mars, listeners are taken on an action thriller across Europe as presumed-CIA operative Kent Steele, hunted by terrorists, by the CIA, and by his own identity, must solve the mystery of who is after him, of the terrorists’ pending target - and of the beautiful woman he keeps seeing in his mind.

March 1945—the Nazis have tested their first atomic bomb, the West doesn’t want the world to know—and the Soviets are racing to claim it. Desperate to keep nuclear technology out of Stalin’s hands, the Office of Strategic Services sends Scott Arlington on a one-way mission behind enemy lines. His objective: intercept the Nazi scientists, prevent the Soviets from seizing the German atomic facility, and erase all traces of the program—by any means necessary.

Jon Reznick doesn’t trust the CIA—but when operative Daniel Black shows up near his home in Maine, he listens. A high-value target has been taken out by a sniper in Mallorca. The kill was clean. Professional. And just the beginning. Reznick is sent in under deep cover to hunt for the assassin and retrieve a cache of Cold War–era surveillance tapes—evidence so explosive it could bring down presidents. As bodies begin to fall and the sniper’s true mission comes into focus, Reznick realizes the stakes are far higher than anyone imagined.

In the aftermath of Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel, Mossad's London station chief Eli Amiram is fighting battles on all fronts. When his ambitious rival plans an assassination on British soil - supposedly authorized by Trump supporters - Eli suspects a deeper conspiracy. Meanwhile, British intelligence asset Petra is hunting for redemption. Tasked with recruiting Wasim Al-Arikhi - whose sister she failed to save from becoming a suicide bomber - Petra's drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Can Wasim be trusted or has she become a target?

Before he was the feared black ops government assassin Orphan X, operating in the shadows and spoken about in whispers, Evan Smoak was a teenager, undergoing the most rigorous of training. At 17, Evan is sent off by his handler, ex-CIA station agent Jack Johns, to take the most intense U.S. military training course. But that is only part of the challenge before him—Evan has to get there and back, safely and quietly, maintaining operational security.

For David Rivers and his team, this mission was meant to be the final chapter—an audacious strike to eliminate the world's most dangerous terrorist. But deep in the unpredictable terrain of Iran, they soon realize that the assignment is far more intricate than expected. As they close in on their target, the team uncovers a devastating secret: their mission is just one piece of a much larger plan, designed to ignite chaos and fracture the very foundations of America.

Secret societies at war. An assassin with nothing to lose. In the near future, Jack Voss is a retired mixed martial arts champion. He was the best in the business for years. Then one day, without warning, he decided to walk away from it all. Soon, a mysterious package from an estranged mother will thrust him into a world of secret government agencies, mercenaries, corrupt wealthy moguls, and a conspiracy that will unravel everything we thought we knew about our world.

When Air Marshal Alex Hawkins is trapped aboard a commandeered plane, bound for hostile territory, he covertly communicates with ground control in a last ditch effort to save all on board. But will Hawkins’ stealth and wit be enough to avert disaster? Lone Strike is the fifth novel in a new series by action thriller author Vin Strong. The series begins with Lone Survivor.

When one Richard Hannay—intrepid, inquisitive, and on the hunt for intrigue—encounters an old acquaintance in Constantinople, he has an inkling that something thrilling is afoot. Charged with an item of great mystery and import—a washbag, no less!—he soon finds himself in a very dangerous pursuit: from the luxurious confines of the Orient Express to the decks of the Titanic herself, all with the very fate of Europe in his care.

The BRAND NEW high-octane thriller from MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rob Sinclair

Cuando unos documentos ultra secretos, perdidos tras el hundimiento del Lusitania, amenazan con desestabilizar Europa, los servicios secretos británicos entran en alerta máxima. Pero no son los únicos tras su pista. Una organización clandestina, liderada por el escurridizo y temido Mr. Brown, planea utilizarlos como arma de propaganda bolchevique.

Une opération de la CIA menace de plonger le Kremlin dans le chaos. Les agents Sia Fox et Maximiliano Castillo ont reçu pour mission d’entrer en Russie, sous prétexte d’une transaction commerciale, pour y recruter l’un des grands argentiers de Vladimir Poutine. Sia travaille pour un cabinet d’avocats londonien qui escamote et dissimule les avoirs financiers des super-riches. Au Mexique, l’entreprise familiale de Max – une couverture de la CIA depuis les années 1960 – est un haras, où l’on élève de père en fils des pur-sang de classe mondiale.