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In the chaos of defeat, while Germany's roads teemed with desperate refugees and jumbled armies, Hitler's inner circle tried to disappear. Heinrich Himmler donned an eye patch and posed as a farmer. Captured by British troops, he bit into a cyanide capsule concealed in a tooth cavity. Rudolph Hoess, former commandant of Auschwitz, was discovered working as a farmhand near Bremen. But many of the most notorious Nazis escaped, including Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann.

The plan is simple. The moment the Homeland Security adviser reaches the middle of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a team of suicide bombers will rush his car, killing him and destroying the bridge. But as the plot's mastermind watches from afar, he sees only two small explosions. The bridge has survived; the plan has failed. He will have to find another way to bring terror to the United States - and he's about to get a fearsome opportunity.

Vicky Clay awakens with chills. She's still glowing from her victory in last night's steeplechase - the genteel form of horseracing for which the Virginia gentry lives and dies - but that's not why her skin tingles. She has been poisoned, and within seconds she's as useless to the world as a thoroughbred with a broken leg. The stakes are high in the world of Virginia horseracing, where fortunes are won and lost by a hair.

When the Russian Revolution came to Saint Petersburg, Princess Irina went into hiding. A stunningly beautiful ballerina, she knew she had to escape the Bolsheviks - or else die. With her jewels sewn into her cloak, Irina made a mad dash for the border. But the Cheka caught up with her, stole her jewelry, and left her naked, bloody, and dead along the riverbank. Her murder was never avenged. Such is Tatiana "Tatty" Chase's heritage.

Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead - the victim of a savage stabbing - and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan's safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it's about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa.

After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies - and the enemies of Israel - will pay. As Rehv prepares to unleash his secret weapon on an unsuspecting Islamic world, a terrorist watch group, led by a former CIA agent named Krebs, follows his every move. But Krebs may be too late to prevent the coming destruction.

Zwei Leichen, eingemauert in ein Kriegerdenkmal, sind nur der Anfang eines Albtraums. Reporter Paul Wagner und Historiker Georg Sina geraten einem Geheimnis auf die Spur, das am Fundament der katholischen Kirche rüttelt. Gesucht wird ein brisantes Archiv, das im Zweiten Weltkrieg verloren ging. Der vatikanische Geheimdienst und eine geheimnisvolle Bruderschaft wollen dieses Wissen wiedererlangen - um jeden Preis.

Court Gentry ist ein guter Mensch. Und er ist ein perfekter Killer... Er bewegt sich lautlos von Auftrag zu Auftrag und vollbringt Unmögliches. Er trifft immer sein Ziel - und dann, wie ein Schatten, ist er verschwunden: The Gray Man. Im Auftrag der Regierung der USA hat Court die blutigen Jobs in Syrien und dem Irak erledigt. Doch zu seinem Entsetzen erfährt er, dass das Team, das ihn retten sollte, ihn nun beseitigen will.

Can an idealist from the city stop his estranged friend in the country from exposing a grim and damning secret from their past? On the surface, Greg Simmons seems an utterly improbable informant. He's an idealistic, Cascadia independence proponent from the city of Portland. When the FBI calls on Greg to go undercover to investigate a dangerous militia movement out in rural Oregon, he knows exactly why: his long-estranged friend from the country, Donny Wilkie, could have deep ties to the militia.

Der wacklige Frieden zwischen Pakistan und Indien gerät durch ein diplomatisches Missverständnis ins Wanken. Religiöse Fanatiker aus dem Regierungsumfeld verlieren die Nerven und drohen, eine Atombombe zu zünden. Der frühere US-Elitesoldat Dewey Andreas muss im Auftrag des Präsidenten die Welt retten. Seine Aufgabe: Den pakistanischen Präsidenten aus dem Amt zu heben, um eine weltweite Nuklearkatastrophe zu verhindern.

When an old man is found dead on the road - seemingly run over by a Hungarian au pair - police investigator Anna Fekete is certain that there is more to the incident than meets the eye. As she begins to unravel an increasingly complex case, she’s led on a deadly trail where illegal immigration, drugs and ultimately murder threaten not only her beliefs but her life.

El 22 de mayo de 1938, en plena guerra civil española, dos mil quinientos presos del Fuerte de San Cristóbal de Pamplona, en su mayoría encerrados por motivos políticos, consiguieron volver a ser libres. Leopoldo Pico, uno de los compañeros, había ideado un plan de fuga para escapar de los malos tratos, el hambre, y la miseria de su vida entre aquellos muros.

New York City, after decades of martial law, suffers a perpetual gray cloud cover and rainfall, a remnant effect the nuclear strikes upon the world's weather. Troops and armored personnel carriers patrol the streets. A curfew remains in effect. All of this is just business as usual for Chief Inspector Isaac January of the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division of the New York Garrison. That is until he is called to a grisly murder scene that appears to be an exact copy of a scene that January saw 10 years before.

Düster, spannend, atemlos. Ein grausamer Mord, ein Kreuz mit geheimnisvollen Symbolen steht nicht weit vom Tatort entfernt. Es ist Georg Sina, der die Leiche entdeckt. In den nächsten zwei Tagen werden Mitglieder der österreichischen Regierung systematisch ermordet.

The greatest discovery of the 20th century. Kept secret. Until now. Berlin, 2015 - a well-connected SS commander is found dead, having protected the last secret of the Nazi empire for 70 years. A discovery by Nazi scientists so potent it could change the balance of world power - forever. Led by misfit military historian Myles Munro, an international team begin to piece together the complex puzzle left by SS Captain Werner Stolz.

2015. Spitzbergen - der nördlichste Siedlungspunkt der Menschheit. Eine Welt aus Eis und Schnee, überschattet von vier Monaten Polarnacht. Dort plant Archäologin Hannah Peters, geheimnisvolle Strukturen unter dem arktischen Eis zu untersuchen: Das Abschmelzen der Gletscher hat mutmaßlich Fundamente eines mythischen Nordreiches zutage gefördert. Doch Hannah ist nicht die Erste, die diese Ruinen erkundet.

AEIOU - diese mysteriöse Buchstabenfolge ist das Vermächtnis eines legendären Kaisers. Es ist ein uralter Code: Wer ihn entschlüsselt, hält das Schicksal der Menschheit in seinen Händen. Immer tiefer geraten zwei Forscher in einen tödlichen Wettlauf um das Geheimnis. Ohne Atempause führt die dramatische Hetzjagd durch das mystische Wien.

When struggling painter Nicholas Gray first sees Margaretha Zelle, it is in a poor photograph. But something draws him to her. All men are drawn to Margaretha - her mysterious eyes, her effortless sensuality. In another life she will become known as Mata Hari. As a dancer she becomes famous. As a seductress she becomes legendary. Soon Mata Hari is crisscrossing Europe, collecting generals, aristocrats, and businessmen as her lovers.

John Polly enters Shanghai in 1948 on a muggy, velvet evening, just in time for the Communist takeover of China. It marks only his fourth month in America's newly formed Central Intelligence Agency. Over the next two decades, Polly will become The White Mandarin, a double agent buried so deep within the inner circle of the People's Republic as to shape the futures of both that nation and his own.

Jeremy Corbin and Jacqueline Walls lead a calm life in a New Jersey suburb, then one day everything changes. Eytan Morgenstern returns to save them, and this improbable team must take on the Consortium, leading them on an epic journey from London to Tel Aviv, from the Polish forests to Manhattan high-rises, from the shameful past to the threatening future.