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Der griechisch-orthodoxe Priester Simon will sich in den Gärten von Castel Gandolfo heimlich mit dem Kurator einer Ausstellung treffen, die die Geschichte der Kirche verändern soll. Doch vor Ort findet er dessen Leiche. Schnell stellt sich heraus: Es war Mord - und Simon wird verdächtigt. Gleichzeitig wird in die Wohnung seines Bruders Alex eingebrochen. Alex versucht, einen Zusammenhang zwischen den Verbrechen herzustellen.

Avril 1945. Le Troisième Reich est sur le point de s'effondrer. Sur ordre de dignitaires nazis, un convoi SS quitte Berlin en flammes pour évacuer de mystérieuses caisses. Au même moment, un professeur de neurologie franc-maçon est sauvagement assassiné par des SS, suivant un rituel évoquant la mort d'Hiram, l'architecte du temple de Salomon, fondateur légendaire de la maçonnerie. Un coup de masse sur l'épaule, un sur la nuque, le dernier sur le front.

Theodor Klinsmann, un professore tedesco, è arrivato in Italia per far visita alla zia, che ormai da anni vive in Toscana. Ma quella che doveva essere una vacanza, si rivela presto ben altro. Theodor si trova infatti coinvolto in una vicenda che ruota attorno a un famigerato dipinto dai poteri occulti. Pare che il quadro, nel corso dei secoli, sia apparso e scomparso in luoghi sempre diversi, rendendo folli coloro che hanno avuto la sventura di ammirarlo.

Gestatten: Perez - Lebemann, Kleinganove, Hobbyermittler. Alles in dem kleinen französischen Städtchen Banyuls-sur-Mer, nur wenige Kilometer vor der spanischen Grenze, könnte so entspannt sein, wenn nicht dieser verdammte Tramontane, der von den Pyrenäen herabfallende Wind, die Menschen verrückt machte. Perez würde gern in aller Ruhe sein Restaurant und seinen florierenden Schwarzhandel mit spanischen Delikatessen betreiben. Doch dann tritt der neue Polizeichef aus dem Norden seinen Dienst in Banyuls an, und in Strandnähe explodiert eine stattliche Yacht.

For years every intelligence agency in the world has been chasing the elusive terrorist known only as The Moroccan. But when James Hicks and his clandestine group known as the University thwart a bioterror attack against New York City and capture The Moroccan, they find themselves in the crosshairs of their own intelligence community.

Film producer Pero Baltazar thought he was taking a Berlin filming assignment. He needed the work, needed to get back in the saddle after fighting off a life-threatening experience in East Africa - al-Shabaab had attacked his crew, intent on a much larger terrorist attack. Suddenly he finds himself under orders from his part-time employers at the State Department and the CIA when he is handed a mysterious package. It's an assignment he doesn't want. The problem is, it is a job contracted by mysterious patrons.

Occupied Munich, 1946: Irina, a Cossack refugee, confesses to murdering a GI, but American captain Harry Kaspar doesn't buy it. As Harry scours the devastated city for the truth, it leads him to his long-lost German brother, Max, who returned to Hitler's Germany before the war. Max has a questionable past, and he needs Harry for the cause that could redeem him: rescuing Irina's stranded clan of Cossacks who have been disowned by the Allies and are now being hunted by Soviet death squads - the cold-blooded upshot of a callous postwar policy.

La Galli holding ha provato a espandersi. Ha vinto un appalto, i lavori inizieranno presto, ma la stretta delle banche si fa sempre più feroce. Il vecchio proprietario rischia molto a causa di imperscrutabili regole bancarie, di tassi di interesse che gli lievitano sotto gli occhi e di finanzieri senza scrupoli, e con il signor Galli rischiano anche i suoi dipendenti: muratori, ingegneri, manovali, contabili.

Die mörderische Jagd nach einer (un)heiligen Schrift. Archäologen entdecken in Jerusalem Papyri, die nach ersten Schätzungen um das Jahr 30 n. Chr. datieren - eine Sensation! Geben diese Schriftrollen Aufschlüsse über Jesus und seine Zeitgenossen? Was wäre, wenn Jesus nicht am Kreuz starb, sondern noch jahrelang als Prediger durch Indien zog? Das Fundament der katholischen Kirche ist schließlich die Auferstehung Christi nach dem Tod. Nicht weniger als die Grundfesten der Kirche sind gefährdet!

Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. When his manipulative boss begins swindling the unsuspecting parents of his students, Max must retrieve his passport to return home. Max sneaks into her office only to stumble upon a burglary in progress. Max barely escapes but accidentally takes a strange diary bound in leather and embossed with a strange seal. Little does Max know that this diary has been hidden for over half a century, and its secrets could topple some of Japan's most powerful people and rewrite the history of the royal family.

Milla, una giovane funzionaria dell'Unione europea, un giorno, indagando sui movimenti finanziari di una corporation americana scopre un perverso intrigo internazionale. La società è il paravento dietro cui si nascondono le persone più potenti del pianeta: il Gruppo Bilderberg. Con il suo solo intuito e con l'aiuto di pochi coraggiosi alleati cercherà, in una lotta senza esclusione di colpi, di sconfiggere con le armi della legalità questa segretissima e pericolosa congrega di potere.

Rome: maverick military historian Myles Munro is on holiday with girlfriend and journalist Helen Bridle. He's convinced a bomb is about to be detonated at the American embassy. New York: a delivery van hurtling through Wall Street blows up, showering the sky with a chilling message: America is about to be brought down like the Roman Empire.

Ryan Kealey has no doubt that the forces seeking to tip this teetering world into chaos are just getting better. Better equipped, better organized, and, most terrifying of all, more patient. And despite all the ELINT, the all-seeing electronic intelligence gathered at Langley, nothing stops a devastating attack from ripping through the heart of San Antonio, Texas.

Michael Hendricks ist ein Auftragskiller der ganz besonderen Art: Er tötet ausschließlich andere Auftragskiller. Er weiß, wen das organisierte Verbrechen als Nächsten aus dem Weg räumen will. Er weiß, wie und wo man das rauskriegt. Sein Geschäftsmodell: Er sucht das Opfer auf, sagt ihm gnadenlos die Wahrheit - und macht ein Angebot, das man nicht ausschlagen kann: Zahl mir zehnmal so viel wie dem Killer, der auf dich angesetzt ist, und ich blas dem Kerl das Lebenslicht aus. Bisher hat er noch nie danebengeschossen, vierzig Mal tödliche Präzision. Doch dann steht er plötzlich selbst auf der Abschussliste eines Auftragskillers.

After serving his country as a paratrooper in World War II, Jack Rhyce takes on an even more dangerous mission when he becomes a secret agent in the early years of the Cold War. Now he and fellow spy Ruth Bogart have been dispatched to Tokyo to foil an assassination attempt on a leading liberal politician. Murder is only the first part of this nefarious Communist plot; the ultimate objective is to stir up anti-American sentiment in a country that has formed close bonds with its former adversary in the West.

November 1940: In Kingston Harbor, ex-navy pilot Bob Bolles lounges aboard his cutter. After months spent drifting from port to port, his only ironclad rule is no alcohol before noon. But when an American businessman named Malcolm Kingman, his gorgeous socialite wife, and their Swedish butler charter the Thistlewood for a trip to the remote Mercator Island, Bob's carefree life takes a dangerous and dramatic turn.

Eager to escape his complicated past, Calvin Gates boards a train bound for Inner Mongolia, where he plans to join an archaeological dig. Also en route to the Gilbreth Expedition is Sylvia Dillaway, a beautiful young artist with a fierce independent streak. The two Americans become unwitting players in a high-stakes game of international intrigue when Sylvia's Australian guide gives her a silver inlaid cigarette case containing a coded message.

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.

Wilson Hitchings is ready to assume his rightful place at Hitchings Brothers, one of the oldest mercantile banks in China. His first task takes him to Hawaii, where he must persuade his cousin Eva to close Hitchings Plantation, a gambling establishment started by her father, the black sheep of the family. The senior members of the bank believe that the casino is tarnishing the venerable Hitchings name. Little do they know how right they are.

Halfway between the United States and the Soviet Union, Iceland is one of the most strategic points in the Cold War and home to a NATO squadron that could wipe Moscow off the map in an instant. It's about to become the unwitting host for the most daring operation in military history. On the remote coast of this frostbound island, the Soviets are building a laser powerful enough to bring the United States to its knees.