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Hunt for the Enemy - the breathtaking and action-packed finale to the Enemy series. The hunt is on. They've erased his past. Erased his very existence. But Carl Logan isn't finished yet. On the run in a harsh Russian winter, Logan - a once invaluable asset - has been set up for murder. His own agency, the secretive JIA, have labeled him a rogue. They're hunting him down. And they're not the only ones. But there's more at stake than just Logan's life.

Who would have thought a book of naughty poems by elves could mean the difference between war and peace? But if stealing the precious volume will keep the Republic and the Empire from tearing out each other's throats, rogue soldier Isafesira de Lochenville - "Loch" to friends and foes alike - is willing to do the dishonest honors.

Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered a van at the bottom of a murky Florida pond. Sealed inside the watery tomb are the bodies of four teenagers who disappeared 30 years ago after leaving a rock concert. To authorities, it looks like a tragic accident. To Sloan, it looks like murder. Every piece of evidence is starting to connect to a string of cold case vanishings throughout Florida. Clue by clue, Sloan navigates the warm, dark waters where natural predators feed, knowing that the most dangerous one is still above the surface - nesting and dormant.

Sixteen years ago, Ryder Creed’s sister, Brodie, vanished from an interstate rest stop. She was only 11, and Creed was 14. Now a former Marine with his own scars, Creed has dedicated his life to his K-9 business. A thousand miles away during a police raid, FBI agent Maggie O'Dell stumbles upon a clue that may explain what happened to Brodie Creed all those years ago. But to find the answers, she’ll need to make a deal with a madman. The search that follows will be as agonizing for Creed as the answers he discovers....

What begins as a simple, late-night theft of Incan treasure propels Charlee, Sean, and Sydney Flynn into a perilous quest deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where something far more valuable—and far more deadly—awaits. A new discovery points them toward the Heart of the Forest, a precious stone pulsing with otherworldly energy, said to reside in an ancient city overflowing with the amassed riches of the Inca Empire. But the Heart’s shadowed history reveals a chilling truth.

210 BC, China. The most powerful emperor China has ever known is on the brink of death. In desperation, he sends his most gifted alchemist and sorcerer on a quest for the mythical elixir of life. His fleet never returned. Now, world-renowned archaeologist Georgia Lee is compelled to hunt for a mysterious man who may hold the secret to the greatest discovery in human history. Her search takes her on a thrilling journey. But what begins as an investigation into an archaeological riddle turns into something very sinister. Georgia starts to suspect that she is the one being hunted....

A single pilot can fly the U.S. Air Force's powerful fighter plane, DreamStar - and he's a KGB mole. Captain Kenneth Francis James - a.k.a. Andrei Maraklov - has been ordered to steal DreamStar, an XF-34 fighter that has the frightening ability to respond to its pilot's thoughts and issue its own commands. It's up to Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan - the hero of Dale Brown's earlier thriller, Flight of the Old Dog - to remove the DreamStar threat.

Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed "cop for criminals", and the person the underworld calls when they can't call the police. For months now, she's built up a series of favors, all so she can set them off like dominos—proving that Nicky Simpson, YouTube sensation and wannabe gangster, was the man who destroyed her life—and killed the man she loved. And in return, Nicky has watched her carefully, waiting to see whether she's too much of a threat to keep alive. But when Nicky's life is threatened, he's forced to turn to Ellie and her team for help.

Deep below the Indian Ocean lies a rusted shipwreck with a dark secret. A very dark secret. In its hold, a fortune in Nazi gold. A rogue Russian agent, determined to grab it. An insurance investigator on a mission of mercy, and two formidable forces are about to collide. What could possibly go wrong?

Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn't it. Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour's first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmour's inexperience leads to a damning allegation. His future hangs in the balance.

Inspector David Graham wanted to get away from the crime and corruption of the big city. Now, he is content to lead a small group of officers in the tiny coastal town of Gorey. But Inspector Graham’s peaceful life is about to come to a screeching halt.

When a tech rep in charge of an avionics retrofit at a United States Air Base in Germany comes up missing, Jake Adams, a former Air Force intelligence and CIA officer, is hired to find him. Was the man selling vital technology for the new Joint Strike Fighter? Back in a changed Europe, Adams struggles to survive in a world where profits are more important than past ideologies. Conspiracy, murder, espionage and mystery lead Jake Adams from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Italy, to the chilly banks of the Rhine. Can Adams keep the technology away from ruthless German and Hungarian agents?

Rick Fuller, a once decorated SAS hero, now Manchester hit-man, likes nothing better than disposing of his employer's rivals in return for a suitcase of cash. His spectacular fall from grace, and obsession to discover the identity of the IRA terrorist who gunned down his wife, all but destroyed him. Ten years have passed since that fateful day, and Ireland has seen many changes.

In 1829 the Spanish slave ship, Midas, left Mendiland (modern-day Sierra Leone) headed for the Americas. During the Atlantic crossing, the slaves revolted, taking control of the ship. Midas became a pirate vessel, attacking Spanish slavers and merchants alike. In the present day, while hunting for the Midas, Sam Reilly learns of an escalating number of mysterious deaths, superstitiously whispered to be the fault of Medusa’s Curse, and the only clue to stopping it is deciphering a Greek myth thousands of years in the making.

On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished, water-damaged, but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case. As Slim begins to ask questions of the tiny Cornish village of Penleven, he is drawn into a world of lies, rumors, and secrets - some of which the residents would prefer to stay buried. Slim is determined to find out why.

Ein Amazon Charts-, Washington Post- und Wall Street Journal-Bestseller. Der rasante Auftakt zur neuen, atemberaubend spannenden Thriller-Serie von Bestsellerautor Robert Dugoni. Seine Zeit als CIA-Agent ist für Charles Jenkins Vergangenheit. Er fühlt sich zu alt für die "Firma". Aber weil ihm das Wasser bis zum Hals steht, lässt er sich auf einen letzten, lukrativen Auftrag ein: Undercover soll er in Moskau einen russischen Agenten aufhalten, der auf die Mitglieder der "Sieben Schwestern", einer elitären US-Spionagezelle, Jagd macht.

A missing child. A ruthless deadline. A family's desperate decision. When a young girl vanishes, trainee detective Nora Sommer is already deep undercover investigating a floating gentlemen’s club in international waters. With her mentor out of action and the authorities at a loss over the kidnapper's cryptic ransom demand, Nora has no choice but to juggle both investigations. Facing two seemingly impossible cases with the clock winding down on a desperate deadline, Nora knows she's in over her head... with too many lives at stake.

In late 1756, as the British government collapses in the aftermath of the loss of Minorca, and the country and navy are thrown into political chaos, a small force of ships is sent to the West Indies to reinforce the Leeward Islands Squadron. Captain Edward Carlisle and his first lieutenant George Holbrooke are fresh from the Mediterranean and their capture of a powerful French man-of-war. Their new frigate Medina has orders to join a squadron commanded by a terminally ill commodore. Their mission: a near-suicidal assault on a strong Caribbean island fortress.

It's 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty's Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife's untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: Become a wealthy man by selling out Britain's spy network to France.

Three top secret research scientists are presumed dead in a boating accident, but the kidnapping of their families the same day raises questions the FBI and local police can't answer, leaving them waiting for a ransom demand that will never come. Central Intelligence Agency analyst Chris Leroux stumbles upon the story, and finds a phone conversation that was never supposed to happen. When he reports it to his boss, the national clandestine services chief, he is uncharacteristically reprimanded for conducting an unauthorized investigation and told to leave it to the FBI.