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Mob head Sal Tarantino doesn't want big-time casino gambling to become legal in Rhode Island. His solution is to have the next governor comfortably in his pocket, ready to veto the legislation. That means calling in the debts owed to the mob by some of Rhode Island's most prominent politicians, to clear the way for Doug Fiore, managing partner of the state's largest law firm and soon-to-be reluctant gubernatorial candidate.

Josef Bultova nearly died in a Russian prison camp. Once one of the Soviet Union’s most adept international negotiators, his work with the West grew so intimate that the suspicious Politburo exiled him to Siberia. The meager food, heavy work, and bitter cold took its toll, sapping his strength until, just as he was sure he could no longer go on, the Politburo let him go.

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.

Auric Goldfinger: grausam, schlau, frustrierend vorsichtig. Er betrügt beim Canasta und ist ein Gauner im großen Stil, der auch im alltäglichen Leben ständig krumme Dinger dreht. Er ist die Art von Mann, die James Bond hasst. Daher ist es ein Glück für Bond, dass er im Auftrag der Bank von England und des MI5 herausfinden soll, was der reichste Mann des Landes mit seinem unrechtmäßig erworbenen Vermögen vorhat – und in welcher Verbindung er zu SMERSCH steht, dem gefürchteten sowjetischen Korps, das Jagd auf Spione macht.

Jahrelang war Court Gentry auf der Flucht vor der CIA. Inoffiziell wieder rehabilitiert, soll er nun einen jungen chinesischen Cyberhacker finden, der aus der Volksrepublik nach Hongkong desertiert ist. Die Amerikaner wollen den Flüchtling lebend, die Chinesen wollen ihn liquidieren, weil er alle Schwächen ihrer geheimsten Computernetzwerke kennt. Aber was will der Computercrack? Und warum ist er überhaupt geflohen? Hongkong ist nur der Beginn einer gnadenlosen Hetzjagd durch Südostasien.

Eine blutige Spur in die Vergangenheit ... Nachdem sie für den Staat Israel einen Mord begangen hat, steigt eine Frau in Afrika in ein Linienflugzeug. Minuten später explodiert die Maschine in einem Feuerball am Himmel. Tausende Kilometer entfernt verfolgt Ex-Navy-SEAL James Reece die Berichterstattung über die Katastrophe. Eines der Opfer erkennt er auf Anhieb: eine Mossad-Agentin, die er in Diensten der CIA vor Jahren im Irak kennengelernt hat. Eine Frau, der er zu Dank verpflichtet war.

The rescue on Duran Island did not go as planned. Jonathan Quinn knows that someone is responsible. That someone decided throwing people Quinn cares about into the line of fire in a cold-hearted act of self-preservation was a good idea. He also knows that this someone has made a serious mistake. Because when Quinn gets mad, the last place anyone should ever be is in his crosshairs. He will not stop until the guilty pay. Sometimes revenge is best served now.

El prestigioso neurocirujano David Evans se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Para el Dr. Evans se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás cuando descubre que el paciente que debe morir para que su hija pueda vivir no es otro que el presidente de Los Estados Unidos.

He thought his final assignment would be simple: Transport a package from Japan to Amsterdam. But for Orlando's mentor, Abraham, the job was not at all like he expected and ended up haunting him. Seven years later, Quinn and Orlando know something is up when Abraham asks for a favor. At his age, he should be sitting on a beach, enjoying his retirement, not working.

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

Charlie Muffin, an endearing spy, irritates his new boss and co-workers because of his appearance and age, but that doesn't stop them from taking the credit for his accomplishments. But Charlie perseveres and proves to be right over and over again in this story of the capture of a KGB general who is running a spy network in England.

Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns to the one person capable of helping her stop the threat of pandemic in time: the love of her life, back from the dead and mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. Recruiting Cole to save millions of lives may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes...even if it destroys her.

Lieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is just one battlefield of many.

Tatiana Romanova, una hermosa cabo soviética, deserta aparentemente con intención de entregarse a los británicos, alegando que se ha enamorado del agente 007. Pero esto no es más que el inicio de una enrevesada operación que busca terminar con la reputación y la vida de Bond, pues la agencia soviética de contraespionaje SMERSH le ha puesto en su punto de mira, ya que el espía británico ha frustrado sus planes demasiadas veces y los rusos le han condenado a muerte.

Der legendäre Agent Sam Fisher tut sich mit einer neuen NSA-Rekrutin – seiner eigenen Tochter – zusammen, um die Welt zu retten – ein fesselnder Thriller aus dem bekannten Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell-Universum. Der altgediente Fourth-Echelon-Agent Sam Fisher hat einen neuen Auftrag: Er soll die nächste Generation von Splinter-Cell-Agenten für die NSA-Abteilung für verdeckte Operationen rekrutieren und ausbilden, darunter auch seine Tochter Sarah.

Ça se corse pour oss 117 ! Informé que les Russes installent en divers points du globe des bases ultrasecrètes dans des grottes sous-marines, le chef du service action de la CIA envoie son agent OSS 117 sur l'île de Beauté, où vient de disparaître un homme-grenouille surentraîné. Mais tout se corse. Pour avoir oublié, dans le feu de l'action, que son Beretta ne contenait que huit balles au lieu des dix de son J. C. Higgins resté dans l'autre poche, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath a failli perdre la vie... mais aussi Brigitta, pour qui il éprouve une immense tendresse.

James Bond recibe la orden de investigar el oscuro pasado de Dexter Smithe, un comandante de la Marina Británica retirado, que vive en Jamaica entregado a su pasión: la pesca submarina. Algo dramático y cuyas consecuencias aún permanecen vivas ocurrió durante la segunda guerra mundial. 007 tendrá que ingeniárselas para extraerle toda la información y no perder su propia vida.

Elena McMahon walks off the presidential campaign she has been covering for a major newspaper to do a favor for her father. Elena's father does deals. And it is while acting as his agent in one such deal - a deal that shortly goes spectacularly wrong - that she finds herself on an island where tourism has been superseded by arms dealing, covert action, and assassination. The Last Thing He Wanted is a tour de force - persuasive in its detail, dazzling in its ambiguities, enchanting in its style.

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.

Preparing to unleash a series of attacks from the heart of America, dozens of al-Qaeda terrorists sneak into the United States under paper-thin disguises - refugees, shipwreck survivors, a team of soccer players - overcoming tight border security with help from treasonous US officials. One potential obstacle - the Superhawks - gets eliminated when the US government burns the entire team.