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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.

Wapping, London: March 1799. A sunken lugger in the Pool of London at last reveals its shocking secret. River Surveyor Tom Pascoe of the Marine Police finds the bodies of two men entombed in the crew's cabin. Suspicion falls on a third member of the crew seen fleeing the scene. He had a known motive for murder. Against the background of a nation at war with Napoleon, Tom Pascoe finds his own life under threat as he digs deeper into the case.

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.

July 1805: Napoleon's army masses across the Channel - Britain is within hours of invasion and defeat. Only one thing stands in the way - an obscure government bureau of murky origins and shadowy purpose: The Comptrollerate General for Scrutiny and Survey. And, rescued from a shipwreck, his past erased, Tom Roscarrock is their newest agent.

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.

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.

Un caso di spionaggio industriale per Ralph Core. A Ralph Core, ora direttore del Worldwide Chronicle, la vita al quotidiano londinese comincia ad andare stretta. Ogni giorno che passa fa crescere in lui la voglia di tornare a viaggiare per il mondo a caccia di materiale per i suoi libri e i suoi reportage. Purtroppo l’occasione di partire gli si presenta quando una persona a lui vicina scompare nel nulla. Inizia così un’indagine in crescendo che lo porterà da Guadalupa a Panama, fino a Merida, in Messico.

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.

ある目的のため、女はひとり、立ち上がった。ユーチューブで人気のチャンネル『野依美鈴のブレイクニュース』。児童虐待、8050問題、冤罪事件、パパ活の実情などを独自に取材し配信。

Roma è nel pieno delle feste natalizie e al Parco dei Daini, nel territorio di competenza del commissariato di Villa Borghese, si è installato il colorato tendone di un circo. Invitato alla prima, il commissario Buonvino ha modo di conoscere i componenti della carovana e avverte tra loro strane tensioni sotterranee. La sera lo spettacolo inizia regolarmente e gli spettatori si lasciano catturare dalla inossidabile magia circense.

Molly Gray non è come tutti gli altri. Fatica a intrattenere rapporti sociali e interpreta a modo suo le intenzioni di chi le è vicino. La nonna, che l’aveva cresciuta, rielaborava il mondo per lei, codificandolo in semplici regole secondo le quali Molly poteva vivere, ma da quando la nonna è morta, la venticinquenne Molly ha dovuto affrontare da sola le complessità della vita. Lanciandosi con ancor più passione nel suo lavoro di cameriera d’albergo. Il carattere riservato, il suo amore ossessivo per la pulizia e l’ordine, la rendono una cameriera eccezionale.

Dante Baldini è un investigatore privato. Ex poliziotto, si è lasciato alle spalle la sua vita da sbirro per rintanarsi in una casa sul mare, a Rocca Tirrenica. Si muove tra il mondo dorato delle frequentazioni illustri del posto e il mondo sommerso che popola il “dietro le quinte” della città. A lui si rivolge uno studio legale che vuole vederci chiaro sulla morte di Bianca Cataldi, la moglie di un importante affarista. Qualcuno l’ha uccisa nella pineta dietro al Daphne, uno degli stabilimenti balneari più esclusivi della zona.