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Veteran journalist Jay Morgan senses that the simmering conflict in Kosovo is about to take on a new dimension when he hears rumors that a mysterious bearded foreigner, bearing weapons and money and preaching Holy War, has appeared in the rebels’ mountain camps. What is this mysterious man’s mission? What new horror has he brought to the city? Together Jay and his translator, the beautiful Alija - who is searching for a missing brother and is herself a victim of the war - race to find this prophet of jihad.

The mob offers the young mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a $500,000 bribe to rezone land adjacent to the George Washington Bridge. Risking his life, the mayor pretends to go along with the plan but wears a wire. His efforts lead to the convictions of seven people.

1850 and America is violently divided on the issue of slavery. When President Zachary Taylor dies, suddenly and under questionable circumstances, it is left to his Vice President, Millard Fillmore, a weaker man, to find ways to keep the North and the South apart. In New York, child of Irish immigrants, Matthew O’Hanlon is fired from his job as a newsman on the Herald but, surprisingly, finds work as Foreign Correspondent for the Associated Press in Panama City.

A fast-paced combination of environmental catastrophe, geopolitical stakes, freelance spies and Bond-like action. The Arctic ice caps are breaking up. Europe and the East Coast of the United States brace for a tidal wave. Meanwhile, former French intelligence officer John Spencer Larivire, his karate-trained, steamy Eurasian partner, Victoire, and their computer-genius sidekick, Luc, pick up an ordinary freelance assignment that quickly leads them into the glacial silence of the great north, where a merciless war is being waged.

He was a law-abiding citizen-until they called him a terrorist - In the near future, America simmers in suspicion and fear. The president expands the global front of the war on terror, then declares martial law and sits, unelected, for a third term. In Chicago, Jason Walker, amateur photographer and architecture enthusiast, inadvertently arouses the suspicions of Homeland Security. Detained, interrogated, and tortured, he's finally able to convince his captors of his innocence. But his freedom comes at a price.

WELCOME TO THE GREY ZONE.... And its nefarious and shadowy landscape that knows no international borders, whose each and every individual has special expertise, but no permanent ties or allegiances to any nationalities, countries, or governments. If you want a landmark statue shattered in New York City, a bridge blown in London, a tower toppled in Paris - but don't want any evidence left around to tie you to the crimes - you'll find people in the GREY ZONE who'll sign on to accomplish any and all of that - for a price!

As the first in line for the Saudi throne, Prince Tefwik Hassan cannot afford public embarrassment. So when he loses his fortune in a failed scheme to corner the world’s reserves of silver, Hassan is left scrambling. To recoup his millions, he devises an intricate plan that spans the globe and involves players from the upper echelons of both American and Soviet power: Hassan begins buying gold.

Murder, politics, seapower, Middle East instability, and intrigue in the White House are all part of this action thriller. Set against a background of modern piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the story begins as the new Ambassador to Yemen, C.J. Sumner, is assigned to negotiate access to the oil fields off the island of Socotra and enlist help countering pirates who are capturing ships at will off the Horn of Africa. Meeting with resistance to her diplomatic overtures, Sumner recruits Connor Stark, a former naval officer turned mercenary who knows the region, as her defense attache.

The clock is ticking down to an attack on America’s most vulnerable natural resource: Water. Our nation’s water resources are high on terrorist target lists, but low on America’s consciousness. Water sources are largely unprotected, providing open access to any enemy with chemicals and biotoxins.

An assassin takes aim at a Presidential candidate during a primary stump speech. The instant he pulls the trigger, the outcome of the election is irrevocably changed. But Democrat Teddy Lodge, an upcoming media sweetheart, isn't killed. His wife is. As a result, Lodge emerges as the man to beat and the greatest threat to the incumbent President, Morgan Taylor.

On the darkest night of 1945, a 20-year-old B-24 navigator assists in the liberation of a German concentration camp. His haunting trauma is prologue to destiny. Flash forward to present-day Manhattan. Warren Hunter, reigning master of the financial universe, is poised to close the world’s first trillion dollar deal. Coincidences are not what they seem as the past collides with the present in a way that will change lives forever.

The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred and mutilated body is discovered during Carnival, the people of the small town of Ayacucho understand that death has once more returned to their land. Only now the terror emanates not from the government death squads, nor from the guerrillas in the mountains, but from a single source: a serial murderer. And now everyone is afraid. Everyone is a suspect.

November 2032, Joe Benton has just been elected the 48th president of the United States. Only days after winning, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated. With the world frighteningly close to catastrophe, Benton must save the United States from environmental devastation. He resumes secret bilateral negotiations with the Chinese - the world's worst polluter.

Dopo decenni di spietata Guerra fredda, gli Stati Uniti si trovano in una posizione sempre più vulnerabile. Thomas Stansfield, veterano e capo della CIA, sa che l'identità del prossimo nemico è più sfuggente che mai. Per combatterlo con le sue stesse armi chiama la sua protetta, Irene Kennedy, e il suo vecchio collega, Stan Hurley, per formare un nuovo gruppo di agenti sotto copertura. Ma quale uomo è disposto a uccidere per il proprio Paese senza indossare una divisa?

Joe Dillard, ex avvocato diventato procuratore distrettuale, indaga su un caso molto delicato che sconvolge la comunità di Johnson City, Tennessee. Le acque del lago Boone hanno restituito i corpi di tre giovani donne, assassinate. Sembrerebbe un ordinario, per quanto efferato, caso di pluriomicidio, se non fosse che il principale sospettato dell'uccisione delle ragazze è uno degli uomini più ricchi e potenti dello Stato, il che complica le cose...

Quello che tutti in Italia si attendono, fin dal crollo delle Torri Gemelle, accade. II Palazzo di Giustizia esplode e crolla. Sotto le macerie, centinaia di morti e una bomba ancora innescata: è lo Schedario, la raccolta dei documenti riservati delle inchieste più delicate e ancora ignote al pubblico, un archivio di dossier in grado di fare saltare ogni istituzione.

Gli ex poliziotti Guido Lopez e Stefan Wunzam sono chiamati a lavorare per la neonata Agenzia Investigativa Europea di cui è capo David Montorsi. Incappano subito in una sterminata rete criminale che include élite altolocate e manovalanza immigrata di origine cinese. Questa indagine si interseca con le vicende dell'agente CIA Jim Cameron di stanza a Pechino, che vive di traffici di droga. Qualcosa di strano succede con una fornitura destinata a Montecarlo e Cameron si trova all'improvviso braccato dai suoi ex colleghi della CIA e dai cinesi.

1962-2001: corre lungo quarant'anni di storia italiana il racconto di questo romanzo. È la storia di due poliziotti, David Montorsi e Guido Lopez, uno giovane e incorrotto, l'altro logorato dal mestiere. Ma è anche la storia di due uomini di Stato: Enrico Mattei che col suo jet solca le speranze del popolo italiano, e Henry Kissinger, signore della pace e della guerra, burattinaio che muove i fili del mondo.

Fumo di asfalto colloso nella spossante Milano estiva delle periferie. Tra le case popolari di Calvairate, il quartiere dormitorio di Quarto Oggiaro e il carcere di Opera emergono, come strani zombie dal sottosuolo, un suicidio sospetto, un giro di pedofili e un ex terrorista nero evaso. E tra servizi segreti impegnati in grossolani depistaggi, inconfessabili ed esplosive verità e inquietanti parole d'ordine come "indulto", a vent'anni dal delitto Moro l'ispettore Guido Lopez non potrà fare a meno di avvertire l'aria pesante e sporca di un complotto.

La journaliste Anne-Marie Bérubé se rend à une conférence de presse dans un hôtel de Gatineau, où on doit présenter un nouveau programme de lutte à l’évasion fiscale. Un attentat meurtrier survient et prend tout le monde par surprise. La nouvelle fait le tour de la planète en un temps record. Qui a orchestré l’attaque ? Qu’est-il arrivé à Anne-Marie ? A-t-elle été blessée ? Est-elle morte ?