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The no. 1 bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now. 'Audacious and staggeringly imaginative' - Weekend Australian THE END IS HERE Jack West Jr has made it to the Supreme Labyrinth...

As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon. Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

For 35 years, the United States and Russia each had their own superhero. Three days ago, America's hero died. Today will be bad. In the face of an overwhelming attack, one young woman - unassuming and anonymous - might be America's only hope. Her codename ... COBALT BLUE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022...

There has been a murder on the Baxter research station, orbiting the New Sydney colony. One of the two victims was a scientist working on a classified government project, Joel Peterson. Lt. Commander Jack Reilly is on the case, but for him it’s personal. Joel was a friend from his academy days who he owed everything. Jack will let nothing stand in his way to find the killer.

It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for 40 years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It will amaze the world.Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr Cassandra Jane 'CJ' Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles.

Jack Reilly's luck ran out just before the war did. Resigning his commission in the Alliance shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Reilly finds himself working for a clueless captain, mixed up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins, and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call "complicated". And that's just book one. Follow Lt. Jack Reilly and his partner, Major Mitchel, through their adventures.

Jack Reilly’s luck ran out just before the war did. Released on a medical discharge shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Rielly finds himself working for a clueless captain, mixed-up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins, and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call "complicated".

Ein Thriller, der eine Gänsehaut nach der anderen verursacht! Shane Schofield sieht sich mit dem weißen Nichts der Antarktis konfrontiert, als seine Elitegruppe dorthin entsandt wird, weil Wissenschaftler ein riesiges Objekt bei einem Routine-Tauchgang gefunden haben. Dieses Objekt, welches aus Metall ist, wurde inmitten einer über 100 Millionen alten Eisschicht entdeckt. Und auf einmal verschwinden die Männer in den Tiefen des Ozeans und sind nicht mehr aufzufinden. Der weißen Hölle der Antarktis trotzend, beginnt nun ein Wettlauf um Leben und Tod.

Lt. Jack Reilly was just settling into his new life on the colony planet called New Harmony with his partner Major Mitchell, and his girlfriend Kayla. Most days in Fleet Investigations were not much more than witness interviews, low-level cases, and data work. But just as life was getting simpler, the job pulled them back to the front lines. Pirates had stolen the fleet's newest warship. Reilly and Mitchelle are called in to help figure out who the pirates are, and what they intend to do with the deadliest ship ever built before innocent lives are lost.

Lt. Commander Jack Reilly was setting into his new life, married, with a new baby, and a career in the Fleet JAG office on New Harmony, where he excelled. But a new investigation into a missing cargo ship uncovers a much bigger conspiracy against the Alliance, and questions about the loyalties of his AIs threaten to unravel his home life.

Former SAS soldier Jack West is on a mission to save the world, no matter what—or who—it might cost him. Still reeling from the loss of his daughter, and with his rivals far ahead of him, Jack must race across the globe to complete the ancient Trial of the Mountains. With the odds already against them, Jack and his crew will soon discover that a new player has entered the race, a general so feared that he had been locked away in the deepest of dungeons.

Lt. Reilly is back. He took the job that Mitchell offered him in the Military Investigations office on New Harmony, got his commission reinstated, and finally had a chance to figure out his relationship with Kayla. Yet one of his cases turned out to be much, much bigger than he expected it to be. He and Mitchell soon find themselves in the middle of a black-ops cover-up, intergalactic conspiracy and the beginnings of a new war that threatens to rip the Alliance apart from within.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

Things were looking up for Jack. He and Kayla had married, were expecting their first baby, and moved into a nice house on New Harmony. Kayla was due to give birth any day, but Jack is pulled away on a case that could threaten their newfound happiness and the peace of the Alliance. An Alliance starship, believed to have been destroyed 17 years ago during the war, has mysteriously appeared without its crew.

Captain Rebecca Tansky is facing a court-martial. Reilly and Mitchell have to investigate why she went rogue and committed treason by violating a treaty with a planet that has the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Reilly knows there is more than what meets the eyes, and they need to discover the truth before Tansky faces a firing squad and the Alliance is drawn into a conflict that they can not win.

Clive Cussler's Black Wind is the eighteenth Dirk Pitt adventure, and a masterclass in adventure writing. In the dark, final days of World War Two, two submarines set out from Japan bearing a deadly virus destined for US cities. But neither boat was heard of again... Present day: NUMA Special...

THE BRAND NEW JACK WEST THRILLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Spectacular...Part-Jack Reacher, part-Indiana Jones' SMH THE END IS HERE Jack West Jr has made it to the Supreme Labyrinth. Now he faces one last race - against multiple rivals, against time, against the collapse of the universe...

Nach 40 Jahren enthüllt die chinesische Regierung ihre unglaubliche Entdeckung. Die Reptilien-Expertin CJ Cameron wird nach China eingeladen. Sie soll den größten Zoo, der jemals gebaut wurde, begutachten. Und sie darf sie mit eigenen Augen sehen: gewaltige, Feuer speiende Drachen. Es gibt diese Fabelwesen wirklich.

Jack West findet sich in einem höllischen Szenario wieder. Er wurde entführt, damit er an einem tödlichen Spiel teilnimmt. Um ein uraltes Ritual zu erfüllen, muss er teuflische Labyrinthe durchqueren, gegen grausame Attentäter antreten und sich unvorstellbaren Schrecken stellen. Und dann entdeckt Jack, dass er nicht der einzige Kämpfer an diesem Ort ist: Es gibt 16 Kandidaten. Aber nur einer wird überleben.

Jack West und seine Freunde müssen, um den globalen Schutzmechanismus aktivieren zu können, das Rätsel um die fünf größten Krieger der Weltgeschichte lösen. Wer sind diese mysteriösen Kämpfer? Nur die Auserwählten dürfen sich der Macht des Schutzschirms bedienen – und ihn zur Rettung oder zum Schaden der Menschheit anwenden. Von Israel über Japan bis in die letzten unerforschten Winkel der Mongolei reisen Jack und sein Team, um die Welt vor dem Untergang zu bewahren.