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After a harrowing escape from a gun battle at a hilltop Colombian monastery, Jet must risk it all in order to evade pursuers as they hunt her and her loved ones across South America.

When dreams and nightmares collide, there’s no place left to run. Dawn breaks over Bison Creek, a sleepy little Wyoming town, to reveal a scene of mayhem. Two bodies lying inside the police station. Both brutally killed. One of them a cop. A man covered in blood sprawled on the steps outside. Conscious but disoriented. Beside him, a gun and a stained Ka-Bar knife.

Helping desperate clients reach safety is what gives his job meaning. But he now finds himself demoted, signed off sick for stress, and facing redeployment to the firm’s subterranean billing department.

Escaping the communism he had been forced to live with and forced into a 64 million dollar heist as he made his way to freedom, Hayden Rochsoff, a reputed Russian Rebel Army operative, finally finds exemption in Canada. But his unrelenting past haunts him, and he finds himself forced to pick up his arms again. This time, to save the one he loves from life in the Russian sex trade.

With a four-legged companion and no food in the pantry, Grant Walton faces an uphill battle. His wife is still missing; downtown is a smoldering crater; and radiation is killing more people every day. Torn between searching for his wife and gearing up for what's sure to come, Grant is forced to put more than his morals to the test. Leah Walton escaped a nuclear bomb that flattened her hospital and vaporized her friends. Now she's racing to find her husband miles away. She'll have to rely on the kindness of strangers to survive and hope none of them kill her in the process.

An Ancient Treasure: While visiting the scenic country of Malta, Jonathon Payne and David Jones bump into an old friend who has come to the islands to search for a long-lost treasure of the Knights Hospitallers, an organisation that dates back to the First Crusade in AD 1099. A Vengeful Criminal: When Ivan Volkov - the ruthless leader of a Russian crime syndicate - is betrayed, he is willing to do anything to get retribution. Protected by a team of hackers and henchmen, he travels to the Mediterranean, where he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake.

To the townspeople of Blayne, Utah, population 202, Nick Mercer was just a friendly thirty-something woodworker living in a small cabin at the end of a dirt road. But Nick also kept a fully stocked bug-out bag complete with a take-down sniper rifle, assorted passports and a pouch full of uncut diamonds hidden in the wall near his back door along with concealed surveillance cameras spread around his property.

Sharpe's Escape takes place in the summer of 1810, once again in the Peninsular War. The French are mounting their third and most dangerous invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe with his company of redcoats and riflemen meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco. But there, despite a stunning British victory, the French are not stopped and the army have to fall back.

Trapped in a tropical paradise with no memory of how she got there, Abby is thrust into a fight for her life. Hunted by a madman and chased by unsettling dreams of her past, she meets up with Eric. Together, they set out to escape. Yet, they discover this deceptive paradise is harder to leave than they ever imagined. Can they escape their hunter, or are they only pawns in his game of life or death? One mystery leads to another until their escape throws them into even greater danger, as Abby’s frightening past finally catches up with her. Her escape is only the beginning.

As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria's Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. Who to trust becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option.

In 1959, British agents masterminded the escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. Three years later, Paul Chavasse is doing it all over again.... A vitally important scientist, holding intelligence that could shift the balance of world power, is being held in China. British secret agent Paul Chavasse, responsible for extracting the Dalai Lama from under Chinese noses, is the perfect man to slip through the border, locate the scientist and bring him back to the West.

Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can’t let injustice go—and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he’s brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the prison. But when a malfunction in the security system releases a horde of prisoners, a fierce struggle for survival ensues.

On a brief visit to Cairo to support an investigation her fiancé, a Jewish American journalist, has undertaken, Salma is caught up in the machinations of a new, radical Islamist group with a vendetta against her father, a man with his own dark side. A former lover and Islamist, kidnaps her. He forces her to flee with him from Cairo to Aswan in the far south of Egypt. As they navigate the backroads, Salma, a privileged Egyptian American, finds herself hiding under a burqa, running desert sandstorms and relying on the goodwill of poor villagers.

Escape from Plum Island follows First Sergeant Mike Allen, a former insurance guru turned Special Operator, as he is plunged head-first into the vanguard of Spec Ops. Sergeant Allen is tasked with leading a Special Reconnaissance mission into one of the deadliest battle grounds known to man.

After years behind bars, Thor resolves to get out. But as the latest inmate to attempt the most recent high profile prison break from PA’s York County Prison, he, once again, has to face his curse. Just feet from freedom, he has an epileptic seizure and is caught by the guards. Even so, in the ensuing days, he refuses to give up information regarding the design to escape.

Hauntingly beautiful, Sophia is a survivor. After a tragic accident that changes the course of her life, she is struggling to find her way. When Sophia stumbles across a picture of a Caribbean beach in a magazine, she convinces herself that this is the answer to all of her problems.... Secret desires, personal devastation, and obsession torment her dreams. She runs away to heal her weary soul on a topical island.

Una habitación. Un cuerpo. Cinco sospechosos. Tres horas para encontrar al asesino. Una camarera. Una limpiadora. Una actriz. Un abogado. Un estudiante. Todos son sospechosos. Encerrados en una habitación de un hotel, sin escapatoria, y sin ninguna pista de cómo llegaron ahí. En la bañera, el cuerpo de un hombre al que todos ellos conocían. Alguien lo asesinó. Alguno de los que están dentro de la habitación. Tienen tres horas para averiguarlo. O todos ellos morirán.

The crisp autumn air buzzed with excitement as five friends—Ethan, Lisa, Jordan, Mia, and Ryan—packed into an SUV, eager for a weekend escape from the chaos of city life. The plan was simple: a remote cabin by the lake, no responsibilities, and nothing but laughter, drinks, and late-night stories around a bonfire. The self-proclaimed group leader Ethan had planned the trip, promising an "off-the-grid" adventure. Lisa, his girlfriend, was all for it—an escape from work stress sounded perfect.

A mountain guide finds a hidden valley where no one has eyes. However, the blind think that he is deformed. Zebarra is a mining engineer in Ecuador near the towering Andes. Up until a year ago his chief sport was mountaineering. His last climb was an attempt to climb the remote and forbidding peak of Parascotopetl, the 20,000-foot crag unconquered by man. It is unconquered still. 3,000 feet from the icy summit his party turned back and fled for their lives all escaping except for one, a guide named Nunez who slipped and fell over the precipice disappearing in to the vast chasm.

What's a woman to do when she finds her boyfriend with her best friend? It's simple! She leaves them, and she doesn't say anything about the small fortune that she just inherited. Shelby Finn has had more than her fair share of trouble, but she thinks things are about to change for the better. Unfortunately, she couldn't be more wrong.