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The revised story of Checkmate is the first in The White House National Security series and features young scientist Dr. Cameron Talbot who invents a breakthrough technology to defend against cruise missiles. She needs support from skeptical company officers, funding from a reluctant Congress, and help from Lt. Col. Hunt Daniels, detailed to The White House NSC. With disaster brewing overseas, threats to New Delhi, the Taj Mahal, and to Cameron herself, she and Hunt find themselves enmeshed in terrorist plots and political wrangling at the highest levels.

Jack “Jackknife” McCabe is through with Special Ops. But in an America where politicians, pundits, and the president care more about polls than securing the borders of the Nation, “Jackknife” finds himself sucked back into the terror wars. To stop a nuclear holocaust in the heart of the country, he leads his family and fellow citizens in the battle against fanatic evil hiding behind Islam.

Holding Power is a gripping story that pits America's enemies, both foreign and domestic, against Madison Tarlton barely three months into her presidential term. Not only does she inherit a chaotic, dysfunctional government in the wake of the president-elect’s assassination, but vile terrorists are determined to destroy her family. She must find out who in her administration is trying to undermine American freedom - and stop them before the republic is shattered.

Ex-army officer Bradley Shoreham is a war game expert. As a soldier, he created a host of mock conflict exercises simulating various disasters - and now, as a civilian, he does it for a living. His scenarios may be fictional, but they're authentic: and that's exactly what the governments and corporations who employ him pay big money for. But as the participants are about to find out, his games can have real, deadly consequences.... 

Southern Afghanistan, 2005. NATO forces are battling the Taliban across Kandahar Province. In a terrifying twist, the rebels unearth a tactical nuclear bomb lost in the final days of the Soviet occupation. The years buried in the sand have damaged it, so the Taliban seeks the help of al Qaeda to secure replacement parts through its contacts in Saudi Arabia, the Opium Cartel, and the Russian Mafia. Doing so, however, inadvertently alerts the Americans, the Russians, and the Israelis.   

In Men of Conviction, Lionel Ross tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad; Wayne, the burglar and Dovid, the religious Jew and 'one offence fraudster'. Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.

A crew of terrorists storm into a five-star resort in Bozeman, Montana. They want something more than money. And to get it, they are ready to murder innocent hotel guests. But they haven’t yet realized ex-Special Forces commando Cole Maddox happens to be inside.

Der Terrorist Surkho kennt nur einen Gedanken: Rache! Er sucht Vergeltung für den Tod seines Bruders. Aber er will nicht nur die Verantwortlichen töten, nein, er hat vor, eine ganze Stadt bezahlen zu lassen. Wird die Kriminalpolizistin Johanna und ihre Verbündeten es schaffen, den Mann aufzuhalten? Es bleibt ihr nicht viel Zeit, denn der Attentäter hat sich die Wallensteintage – das größte Volksfest in der Hansestadt Stralsund ausgesucht, um seinen erbarmungslosen Plan umzusetzen.

Miles Flint observiert und belauscht Verdächtige für den britischen Geheimdienst. Als ihm kurz hintereinander zwei folgenschwere Fehler unterlaufen, räumen ihm seine Vorgesetzten noch eine letzte Chance ein. Miles soll die Verhaftung von IRA-Terroristen überwachen, was sich für ihn bald als Todesfalle entpuppt. Ab jetzt kämpft er nicht nur um sein Leben, sondern auch darum, die Verschwörung gegen ihn aufzudecken.

Il a tout prévu, tout calculé. Ça ne peut pas rater. Zwak, afghan, dix-sept ans et l'air d'en avoir treize, un QI de 160, et la rage au coeur depuis que son père a été une " victime collatérale " des Occidentaux. Devant son ordinateur, il a programmé un jeu d'un genre nouveau. Un jeu pour de vrai, avec la France en ligne de mire. Et là-bas, en Syrie, quelqu'un a entendu son appel.

Ron Soy, a young Cambodian American, lives with his uncles and grandfather in South Philadelphia. Among the tragic events and terror attacks committed by radicals of Cambodian descent have started taking its toll on the public, Ron must navigate a world where good and evil are sometimes blurred in gray.

Hidden Jihad opens at mid-century, in 2050, two years after the election of Jefferson Rhodes. At a lavish extravaganza at the Western White House, President Rhodes asks his old college friend Mark Forster to join his administration as head of a Commission on Religious Unity, his disingenuous attempt to appear inclusive toward religion. A significant encounter takes place between Heather Marshall and journalist Todd Stewart, who, unlikely opposites, hit it off and fall in love as the story progresses. Mike Bardolf is at President Rhodes' s side, working toward Palladium' s secret agenda.

The most elite team you’ve never heard of. By day, Jonathan Roy is the president of a prestigious tech university. But when duty calls, he’s the commanding officer of an elite National Guard Special Forces team—highly trained part-time warriors with full-time firepower. When sophisticated drone and cyberattacks cripple key infrastructure across the U.S., the digital fingerprints point to Jon’s gifted teenage son.

Chicago has fallen and Flynn Zarytsky, an unwilling accomplice in the city’s takeover by REDS, has gone into hiding. As she and her fellow Allies, rebels to the new terrorist regime, scrounge for supplies and survival among the darkened buildings, measures grow desperate. When a meeting gone awry sends Flynn across the path of a familiar face, she’s flung once more into a troubled partnership that could determine the city’s fate.

When Cassandra Sashakovich, a bright but arrogant economist and consultant, is in Riyadh completing a financial forecasting assignment, her cover is blown by a mole from her intelligence agency. A covert agent whose call sign is "Swiftshadow," she barely survives an encounter with a hit man and escapes to Washington, where she is fired by her agency for becoming a liability.

Californie, 2013. Tony Pietrus, auteur d'un livre-choc sur le dérèglement climatique, reçoit des menaces de mort. C'est ce tableau spectaculaire que dresse Stephen Markley en croisant les destins de ses différents personnages sur plusieurs décennies. Tous verront leur vie bouleversée par l'effondrement en cours. Roman-monde, page turner au suspense haletant, Le Déluge met le lecteur au défi : qu'êtes-vous prêts à sacrifier pour sauver l'humanité ?

The Danish government is determined to secure victory in the upcoming general election. Berg is soon ensnared in a nightmare of lies, deception and denial that reaches far beyond the Danish borders. Each step puts his own life, his family's safety and the very honour that defines him at risk. In this high-stakes thriller, Berg discovers the true cost of honour and the lengths to which he will have to go to save his nation and its soldiers from the jaws of terror.

ICABOD is destroyed, and key members of the R-Group are declared renegades, with Quip thrown in jail. In the new digital world, there is no tolerance for privately owned supercomputers. Globally, computers are hunted and destroyed for the greater good by the new cyber police CESPOOL. The information this group receives is manipulated by subversive hidden machine learning devices, the MAG running on the dark net.

When a quaint village in the United Kingdom is struck by a suicide bomber, the once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet, that first attack was just the beginning of something far greater and much much worse. Something that no one could ever have predicted. The days to follow will determine if the UK has a future left in the modern world or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes. The one person who stands between the people of the UK and complete destruction is a damaged ex-solider, Captain Sarah Stone.

Tutto ha inizio con una lista di nomi: quelli di una serie di terroristi che minacciano la sicurezza nazionale. Il pericolo è reale, ma per evitare il panico generale la lista deve rimanere segreta e i criminali devono essere eliminati uno a uno, a cominciare dal più temibile, "il Predicatore", un fondamentalista islamico senza scrupoli. Solo un uomo può compiere quella che sembra una missione impossibile: l'ex marine Kit Carson. Kit, però, non sa che faccia abbia il suo nemico, dove si nasconda e quale sia il suo vero nome.