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It's late summer on Guadalcanal, and the Japanese are getting deadlier and more aggressive by the day. Hemmed in and short on supplies, the US Marine Corps fights ferociously to maintain their tenuous hold on Henderson Field. Major Al Decker, part of an elite unit known as the Marine Raiders, has put together a small crack team of battle-hardened men. Tasked with surveillance, hit and run attacks, and any other dirty job that’s required, it’s Decker’s Raiders that must venture out into the deadly tropical jungles and face down marauding Japanese soldiers around every corner.

For readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler: an epic adventure spanning land and sea... time and distance... courage, revenge, and everything in between. GOLDEN LION He saw his father executed in battle. He spent his youth avenging that death. And now Henry 'Hal' Courtney is a...

Virginia Abrams believed the war had taken all it could from her when her husband was killed in the Philippines. One year later, she's in a dark, unexpected quandary—pregnant and on the run to avoid a ruthless political family that wants to erase all connections between her and the man who assaulted her.

"Brick is a masterful narrator, raising the tension in the action scenes while keeping the listener engaged in the slower historical segments." — AudioFile Magazine In this audiobook, Steve Berry and Macmillan Audio team up again to bring listeners an expanded, annotated Writer's Cut edition...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick “Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…superbly rich and sophisticated.”—New York Times Book Review...

Internationally bestselling author William Boyd offers his most exhilarating novel yet, following a reluctant spy drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession. Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother’s life. Every night, when sleep finally comes...

During the election of a new Pope in the mid-18th century, famed violinist Antonio Vivaldi learns of a ring of art forgers who are replacing the Vatican’s priceless treasures with expertly-painted fakes. Desperate, the composer hides a message in a special melody, hoping someone, someday, will take down the culprits....

The saga of the legendary Courtney family continues in this fourteenth installment in Wilbur Smith’s bestselling series—the sequel to 2009’s Assegai—a thrilling tale of espionage, adventure, and danger, set in Africa and spanning from the Great War’s end to the dark days of World War...

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. 1920s England. Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her...

The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Grail Quest series, in a bright and bold repackage. The year is 1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army may be led by the King, but it is the archers, the common men, who are England's secret...

Harry Fox wants revenge. For a life stolen. For a family shattered. The only way to get it is by finding lost relics of Charlemagne. Harry is getting closer to recovering the relics of the great king when a man returns from his past. A man with an offer Harry cannot decline. A chance to locate the true prize of a Roman legend. A prize hidden by one of humanity’s most enigmatic objects – the Antikythera.

1368. War is coming between France and Spain, and England, and in Italy the pope and the Visconti princes are battling for bloody supremacy. The worst years of Sir William Gold's life are about to begin. Leaving the side of his commander, Sir John Hawkwood, William embarks on a journey to serve the Count of Savoy, finding fame and favour in his service. But when his wife and children are struck down by the plague, William uses the poisoning of the Duke of Clarence as an excuse to escape on a witch hunt across Southern France and embark on a pilgrimage that he'd always pledged to do.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, but the heat is on at the Galliano Club. Lido, New York. 1926. Widow of a hitman who worked for Al Capone, Hanna Gorski leaves Chicago to hunt for her sister’s killer. The trail leads to Lido and a letter written by Luca Lombardo, bartender at the Galliano Club. To Hanna’s surprise, Luca is in jail on trumped up charges of attempted murder and kidnapping. His opponent has money, status, and connections. Everything that a poor immigrant like Luca doesn’t. The secrets of his past could come out at the trial.

Barbara O'Connell discovers more of her family history than she can imagine. Hidden in her house, she finds her father-in-law's diary of events in SE Asia in the 1960s. The secrets in this diary lead Barbara and her colleagues on a chase to save a kidnapped friend and the final resolution of Nazi gold sitting in a Swiss safety deposit box. The gold is only one part of the story revealing the remains of a spy.

After surviving war, betrayal, and an assassination attempt, Lord Peregrine Fitzroy has been pressed into service as a double agent—caught between the Queen and a shadowy organisation threatening to bring England to its knees. His only advantage? The sharp mind and shrewd instincts he once learned to hide from the ton.

Ciarli ha sedici anni quando decide di partire alla ricerca della madre naturale, che l'ha abbandonata in tenera età. In una terra ricca di contrasti, tra il vuoto di un deserto indefinito e le claustrofobiche capitali nomadi, incontra la natura predatoria dell'uomo, la violenza, la menzogna e l'inganno, ma anche i vincoli preziosi della solidarietà e dell'amicizia, fino a quando dovrà fare i conti con la più cruda delle realtà.

Nell'atmosfera misteriosa e inquietante di un monastero, adagiato sulle colline toscane e in prossimità del fiume Mugnone, un giallo ambientato nella seconda metà degli anni Ottanta. Dal fiume Mugnone, infatti, riaffiorano a pochi giorni di distanza i cadaveri di due adolescenti, orrendamente sfigurati. Il richiamo ad altri due identici delitti irrisolti di tre anni prima porterà Riccardo Rosco a richiedere l'aiuto della sua ex ispettrice Porzi.

À la veille de la première croisade, une mission diplomatique tourne mal et plonge un novice bénédictin de 17 ans dans un périple vertigineux autour de la Méditerranée du XIe siècle. Mare Nostrum est un roman d’aventures à la croisée des genres entre histoire, fantastique, romance et quête existentielle.

En los albores del siglo XVII, Juan de Mesa, uno de los más grandes escultores e imagineros del Barroco, está concluyendo la que será, con el paso de las centurias, su obra culmen: la imagen del Jesús del Gran Poder. La personalidad de Juan es totalmente contrapuesta a la de su insigne maestro, Martínez Montañés, que observa con recelo cómo su discípulo más dilecto le ha sobrepasado.

El reportaje que María, una joven periodista, realiza sobre el Homo antecessor, la pondrá tras la pista del robo de huesos fósiles en Peña Laja, un yacimiento arqueológico con importantes restos de homínidos. Seguirá el rastro de una trama que llegará mucho más lejos de lo que nunca hubiera podido imaginar; que la guiará desde la oscuridad que habita en las entrañas de la Tierra, hasta la cegadora luz de la última tecnología científica. Un apasionante viaje a la sima de los tiempos donde se reencontrará, gracias a los misterios del ADN, con el corazón de la Humanidad.