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The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month 'Stunning . . . one of the most compelling reads of the year' – Daily Express Expertly researched and visionary in scale, international number one bestseller Ken Follett’s Never is more than a thriller. It imagines a scenario we all hope never comes...

'Ken Follett can't write a bad book, and Never is his best' – Stephen King Expertly researched and visionary in scale, international no. 1 bestseller Ken Follett’s Never is more than a thriller. It imagines a World War Three scenario we all hope never comes true, one which will keep you...

Mehr als ein Thriller - Ken Folletts neuester, actiongeladener Roman führt tief in die Verstrickungen unserer globalisierten Welt und stellt die Frage "Was wäre, wenn..." "Eine fesselnde Geschichte, und nur allzu realistisch" - Lawrence H. Summers, ehemaliger US-Finanzminister. In der Sahara folgen zwei Geheimdienstagenten der Spur mächtiger Drogenschmuggler. Sie riskieren ihr Leben - und ihre Karriere. Nicht weit entfernt macht sich eine junge Witwe mit Hilfe von Schleusern auf den Weg nach Europa. Als sie sich gegen Übergriffe verteidigen muss, hilft ihr ein Mitreisender. Doch auch er scheint nicht zu sein, was er vorgibt.

Crime world fixer Levi gets mixed up with a widow who believes her husband was murdered - and the police are covering it up. A riveting thriller about power, corruption, and deadly politics. Levi is a fixer for one of the New York Mafia families. However, things take an unexpected turn for this mafioso when Rivka Cohen walks into his life. The police are calling her husband's death a suicide even though she has evidence that he's been murdered.

It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention. In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him and ultimately have a hand in the coup that will bring him down.

Mehr als ein Thriller - Ken Folletts neuester, actiongeladener Roman führt tief in die Verstrickungen unserer globalisierten Welt und stellt die Frage "Was wäre, wenn..." "Eine fesselnde Geschichte, und nur allzu realistisch" - Lawrence H. Summers, ehemaliger US-Finanzminister. In der Sahara folgen zwei Geheimdienstagenten der Spur mächtiger Drogenschmuggler. Sie riskieren ihr Leben - und ihre Karriere. Nicht weit entfernt macht sich eine junge Witwe mit Hilfe von Schleusern auf den Weg nach Europa. Als sie sich gegen Übergriffe verteidigen muss, hilft ihr ein Mitreisender.

DS Mark (Max) Lomax is a former Special Demonstration Squad officer - a Special Branch unit dedicated to infiltrating political and extremist groups. Following a botched stakeout of a north London gangster, he finds himself on enforced leave and is called back into his old world of half-truths and conflicting agendas. As he digs into the death of the civil servant, Max is obstructed at every turn, forcing him to turn to the people he once betrayed for help. With political reputations on the line, the case becomes less about uncovering the truth, than burying it for good.

When customer complaints on Christmas Eve about tenfold inflated bank balances herald not early gifts, nor a botched system upgrade, but the most sophisticated cyber attack in history, National Bank Chief Operating Officer Rob Tanner finds himself in the eye of a ‘Black Swan’ storm no one predicted, but anyone could have anticipated. Tanner enlists the help of brilliant American cyber security expert Ashley Markham, but the attacks only worsen.

My wife just shot our waiter between the eyes when he came in with breakfast! But, he had it coming to him as he had a gun on the tray and was going to give us eggs Benedict with a Glock! Join Marsha and I as we work really hard to protect the Sea Empress and her passengers from threats from every direction. There have been so many shots taken at this ship by terrorists that the cruise line thought their business would sink. That is why we were hired to provide security.