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Vingt ans après, ils courent, chevauchent et ferraillent toujours, sur les routes de France ou d'Angleterre. Leurs bras, comme leurs langues, n'ont rien perdu de cette vigueur étincelante qui les faisait déplacer les montagnes et réussir l'impossible. Leur amitié, dans les moments critiques, ressoude leurs quatre lames comme limailles autour d'un seul aimant. Mais les temps ont bien changé.

From a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as the System, the world's most lucrative and least-known cartel, maintains a stranglehold on the world's diamonds. The company selects the stones a customer can buy and decides how much he must pay for the privilege. One dealer is tired of the game, and so he sets out to destroy the System forever.

Picardie, France, 1964, the exclusive Clos du Lac sanitarium: A man is discovered standing in the therapy pool. But he's not there for his health; someone has chained him to the bottom and left him to die very, very slowly. Inspector Lucas Rocco believes it's an unusual and elaborate method of execution. But nobody seems to have heard or seen anything, the staff are resolutely unhelpful - or dead - and ministry officials sent from Paris to 'assist' attempt to impede Rocco's efforts to find answers.

Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them…and then removing that problem as well. So far he's rid of the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights?

You are about to listen to one of the rare stories to come to light involving "Sigerson", the name Sherlock Holmes went by during the years when the world thought he was dead - his Great Hiatus! This story also has the distinction of being the true first sequel to Horace Holly's She. The only heretofore known sequel, Ayesha: The Return of She, records events that occurred two decades after She. This new tale, then, is a record of the events that took place between the previously published adventures.

A historical novel about smugglers set on Mersea Island in the 17th century inspired by a series of seances held by the Allingham family while on holiday on Mersea. Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London, in 1904, to a family immersed in literature. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923, when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era.

What could possibly connect the famous sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and a WWII German U-boat loaded with a mysterious cargo? In this tribute to the 100th anniversary of the famous disaster, Chris Angus takes the reader on an adventure that includes shipwreck survivors, stolen treasures, a race across the Arctic and a century-old journal that holds the key to the connection and solving the mystery.

World renowned neurosurgeon Jon Ritter is on the verge of a medical breakthrough that will change the world. His groundbreaking surgical treatment, using transplanted non-human stem cells, is set to eradicate the scourge of Alzheimer’s disease and give hope to millions. But when the procedure is slated for testing, it all comes to an abrupt and terrifying halt.

Adrian Dodds is a man without hobbies, friends, or family, who works a very peculiar job. Though he looks like a pencil pusher, he is a British counter-intelligence agent. In his own quiet, bureaucratic way, Dodds is vital to the security of the United Kingdom. His latest assignment is debriefing Viktor Pavel, a Soviet aeronautics genius who escapes his handlers to become the Cold War’s most high-profile defector.

Peterson is bewildered by the satellite photos in front of him. As head of the CIA, he is never supposed to be surprised, but what could be happening in Chad alarms him. The pictures show a small research installation, nestled in the African jungle, where a West German company claims to be building a base to launch communications satellites for use by developing African nations. But Peterson’s analysts tell him that the ordinary, innocent-looking silo is just the size necessary to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile into outer space.

A series of child abductions in Peru leads an FBI agent and an archaeologist to uncover the ultimate secret of the Inca Empire. On a Peruvian Andes mountaintop, archaeology professor Nina Ramirez and her students make two stunning discoveries: The five-hundred-year-old mummy of an Inca girl, the victim of ritual sacrifice, and in another grave, the corpse of a recently kidnapped boy wearing the same ancient costume. Child abductions are being reported throughout Peru, and when an American boy is snatched in Lima, FBI agent Adam Palma is assigned to the case.

Nothing seemed to stop the little monsters. I shot a second time, wounding or killing another, and then dropped the gun to the ground. I pulled a slender blade from under my belt, and whipped it at the little men. Another couple of strikes against my legs brought me level with the filthy floor of the alley, my fine clothes being soiled by the trash of the Big City-and although I sliced and diced deeply into the bodies of several of my attackers, I knew that I was doomed to lose this particular battle in the end. There were just too many of them: they would either kill or severely injure me.

El rastro de un joven español se esfuma por el sur de Inglaterra tras dejar un mensaje de socorro en el teléfono móvil de su madre. Ella, que apenas ha abandonado su pequeño pueblo en contadas ocasiones, decide ir en su busca. Hace un año, su marido desapareció en las tranquilas aguas de la Albufera y no está dispuesta a vivir de nuevo una angustia como aquella.

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.

Una bomba che esplode in un centro commerciale, un disastro aereo dai retroscena inquietanti, una Milano di intrighi e corruzione, multietnica e oscura. Questo lo scenario in cui si muove Sauro Badalamenti, di professione investigatore assicurativo che, suo malgrado, si trova fra le mani una doppia indagine che lo costringerà a scavare nel cuore nero della città. Un piano diabolico, segreti e perversioni lo condurranno nell'oblio di una Milano mai così spietata.

Beppe e Mirella Isnaghi, una collaudata coppia di sessantenni, partono alla ricerca del figlio Adriano di cui si sono perse le tracce in Paraguay. Accompagnati da Invención, una abilissima guardia del corpo che li protegge, finiscono per introdursi nell'anima di un paese sterminato, dalla natura implacabile e dalla storia crudele.

Derrière la façade très académique de l'institut St Mary, les équipes d'historiens, de techniciens, de chercheurs ont découvert le secret du voyage dans le temps. Ici, on n'étudie pas seulement le passé, on le visite... "J'aurais confié ma vie à cet homme. Jusqu'à il y a quelques jours, en tout cas." Madeleine Maxwell est habituée à ce que ça tourne mal. Elle travaille à St Mary, après tout, le désastre est son quotidien. Pourtant, lors d'un saut vers la Crète de l'âge du bronze avec sa famille, la vie semble presque normale. Enfin, normale selon St Mary !

1699 in den Carolina-Kolonien Amerikas... Die Einwohner von Fount Royal sind überzeugt, dass eine Hexe für die unerklärlichen Tragödien in ihrem Dorf verantwortlich ist. Sie verlangen, dass die schöne Witwe Rachel Howarth vor Gericht gestellt und wegen Hexerei hingerichtet wird. Der Prozess wird vom reisenden Richter Isaac Woodward mithilfe seines scharfsinnigen jungen Gerichtsdieners Matthew Corbett geführt. Matthew glaubt an Rachels Unschuld und muss sich bald dem wahren Bösen stellen, das in Fount Royal umgeht.

When Grady Bowman and his new girlfriend, Julia Elkins, travel from San Francisco to the Far East to get Grady back into the gem business, a jeweler in Bangkok tells them the extraordinary true story of two female Japanese pearl divers who discovered in the Andaman Sea an oyster bed filled with priceless, naturally blue pearls. The divers were murdered for what they found, and now the son of one of the divers wants revenge. As Grady and Julia hunt for the source of the priceless pearls, they are led to the estate and oyster farms of the world's wealthiest pearl dealer.

医者を目指しつつ、女としての幸せも諦めたくないおいちは、飾り職人・新吉との結婚を決意する。しかし祝言の当日、『浦之屋』という商家で毒物混入事件が……。