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Mitch Rapp ha perso la donna che amava nell'attacco terroristico di Lockerbie. Da allora la CIA ha trasformato la sua sete di giustizia in determinazione, addestrandolo e facendo di lui la più letale delle armi. Deciso a eliminare, uomo dopo uomo, la rete di colpevoli responsabile dell'attentato, Rapp sembra inarrestabile. Il prossimo obiettivo si nasconde a Parigi, ma nel momento stesso in cui il proiettile lascia la pistola di Mitch, una trappola gli si serra attorno.

Vor vier Jahren wurde Court Gentry, der Gray Man, von seinen Kontaktleuten bei der CIA verraten - seitdem schlägt er sich als privater Auftragskiller durch. Doch die jüngste Mission stellt ihn vor eine schwierige Aufgabe: Sein Kunde, ein russischer Waffenhändler, fordert den Kopf des sudanesischen Präsidenten Abbud, der für die Völkermorde in Darfur verantwortlich ist. Seine früheren Chefs setzen Gentry dagegen unter Druck, den Politiker an den Internationalen Gerichtshof auszuliefern.

While President Abigail Clarke attends a summit in Paris, an unknown enemy makes a brazen attempt on her life, inflicting horrific losses on her protection detail. Plunged into a battle beyond anything they could have trained for, Secret Service agents Rebecca Reid and David Stone must find a way to keep the president alive. The attackers have vast resources and would sacrifice everything for a devastating blow against America. The agents must be willing to do no less.

Capitalizing on his heroic career as a World War I flying ace, Casey Lee agrees to pilot a plane across the Pacific as a publicity stunt for an American tobacco company. But his future as a goodwill ambassador between East and West takes a nosedive when the flight is abruptly canceled. Stranded in Tokyo, his bank account rapidly dwindling, Casey is approached by Mr. Moto, a secret agent with a job to offer.

Their mission was to kill bin Laden. They wound up saving the world. Assembled by mysterious superspy Bobby Murphy, trained by the best and ignoring the generals and the politicians, the Superhawks become America's ruthless answer to the post-9/11 reality.

Dragged from the dank, rat-infested prison cell where he has spent the past few months, Buonaparte Sartene is given a choice: join the French Resistance or rot in jail for the next seven years. The adopted son of a Corsican Mafia family, Sartene is a thief with a capacity for violence and a knack for subterfuge - valuable tools in the fight against the Nazis.

An innocent enough advertisement is placed by General Maxwell, retired war hero and beloved squire of Duntisbury Royal, an equally innocent hamlet nestled in the English countryside, but the results are explosive.... Although it seems obvious that the IRA's stars are rising, there's a more global type of conspiracy in the country air. The CIA and the KGB are suddenly sniffing around, along with British Intelligence Chief Dr David Audley - whose intuition for mischief and espionage puts him right in the midst of the action.

When ex-Major Ed Parker of the US Army is pushed over a cliff at Pointe du Hoc following the anniversary of D-Day, a crisis is sparked in British Intelligence. The cream of the Secret Service gather: Dr. Audley, Oliver St John Latimer, Commander Cable, Dr. Paul Mitchell. But none will take on the case. Why is the investigation left to inexperienced Elizabeth Loftus? Is there any truth in the old rumour that Parker was a KGB double agent?

Nick Woods and his elite band of shooters from Shield, Safeguard, and Shelter (S3) deploy to Africa on their next mission to deal with an out-of-control terrorist group that now holds more than 20,000 square miles of land. This terrorist group, called the Boko Haram, has finally gotten the attention of America's leaders. Its tactics of abducting children and ruthlessly expanding its territory pose a threat to Nigeria and the countries surrounding it.

A new thriller from the master of suspense - When stuntman Noah Flynn finds a strange medallion with what appear to be ancient cuneiform markings, little does he suspect there will be disastrous consequences for those around him. When the Arabic would-be assassin of aid agency diplomat Adeola Davis turns out to have been wearing a similar medallion, she and Noah join together to discover what this can all mean, as the death toll continues to rise...

Darcy, a restless young artist, travels to the Soviet Union to visit his elusive half-sister, Fin. Upon his arrival in the depths of a bleak Moscow winter, Darcy is immediately embroiled in Fin's mysterious life there and also drawn to Moscow's forbidden underground, finding himself swept up in political and sexual intrigues of a nature he could never have imagined.

Chi si ricorda, oggi, che cos'era la Russia di Gorbaciov? Quando la glasnost, la trasparenza, dava improvvisamente voce al dissenso, quando si aprivano gli archivi e affiorava la memoria sepolta delle tragedie del passato, quando esisteva ancora l'Unione Sovietica e nell'immenso paese convivevano, senza sforzo apparente, russi e ucraini, azeri e armeni, e sotto la facciata del comunismo ortodosso ribolliva di tutto, dall'affarismo mafioso all'integralismo islamico.

When a bomb rips the façade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips. Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive with high level access to the CIA, makes it his mission to track him down. He begins a jet-setting search for answers as the clock ticks down to a climactic event that threatens NATO and the very security of member nations.

Lorsque Alexander Concklin et Morris Panov, anciens membres de la CIA, reçoivent le même télégramme signé du nom de Jason Bourne, ils sont loin de penser que les fantômes du passé peuvent se réveiller. Jason Bourne n'a jamais existé aux yeux du monde. C'est le nom de code de David Webb, homme traqué devenu amnésique à la suite d'un mystérieux accident. Treize ans après, il reprend bien malgré lui du service.

Un affreux massacre a eu lieu près de Hong Kong. Un même nom revient sur toutes les lèvres : Jason Bourne. Jason Bourne est de retour ! Mais pour qui travaille-t-il ? Une seule certitude : le "roi des tueurs" menace de plonger l'Extrême-Orient dans le chaos. Aux États-Unis, des hommes s'interrogent. Ils savent que le massacre ne peut avoir été perpétré par Bourne. Car Jason Bourne n'a jamais existé. Ce nom - ce mythe -, ils l'ont eux-mêmes créé afin de piéger le tueur international Carlos.

El asesinato de la mujer del ministro se mantiene en secreto. El momento del país es delicado. Si la noticia salta a los medios, tal vez no llegue a firmarse nunca el documento que cambiaría para siempre la relación entre el ejército y las empresas de seguridad privada. Defensiva, la compañía líder en el sector, es la principal sospechosa del crimen. El tiempo se agota.

Los Angeles single mother Jessie Shapiro restores paintings for a living, but ever since her divorce from unfaithful musician Pat, she can barely make ends meet. One weekend Pat fails to bring their 10-year-old daughter, Kate, home. When Jessie goes to his Venice Beach house, she hears a disturbing cut-off message on his answering machine and discovers strange foreign words written in big block letters on his kitchen blackboard. Then her life is threatened.

The KGB decides to use agent Otto Reimann to seduce Elke Meyer, the personal assistant to a top West German Cabinet member, to give over classified information, but Moscow does not count on the unpredictability of love.

Insectoid Dronons have slain the queen Semarritte, throwing into chaos the ten thousand worlds over which she reigned. Desperate to save mankind, Lord Veriasse, Semarritte's near-immortal consort, has created a new queen: Everynne, cloned from her dead mother. Born to rule, Everynne instead is on the run, often only one planet ahead of advancing forces of the invaders, who recognize that Everynne is a powerful rallying point for threatened humanity.

Vergessen Sie Bond! Hier kommt Argylle, Aubrey Argylle! – Das Buch aus dem neuen Blockbusterfilm von Matthew Vaughn! Der russische Multimillionär Vasily Federov träumt davon, Russland wieder zu alter Größe zurückzuführen. Als der alte und unbeliebte Präsident zurücktritt, wähnt er seine Zeit gekommen, das Ruder zu übernehmen. Doch um das russische Volk auf seine Seite zu ziehen, bedarf es eines symbolischen Akts. Was wäre, wenn es Federov gelänge, den Russen einen einmaligen Kunstschatz zurückzugeben? Das Bernsteinzimmer.