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On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Shortly thereafter Covert-One director Fred Klein brings the word to the President that there's a Chinese cargo ship rumored to be carrying tons of chemicals to be used by a rogue nation to create new biological weapons. Klein is ordered to get the President solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying.

An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission to find him.

One evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to program the drones. If these are revealed, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States.

When Jason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake, he discovers that the man is not only freezing - but bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound. He wakes as an amnesiac, with no memory of who he is or why he was shot - and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own past. Meanwhile, Mossad agent Rebekah is so determined to find this man that she's gone off the grid, cut her ties to her agency, and risks a summary execution if caught by her former colleagues.

In a secret room in Washington DC John Tanner is asked to stake his life - and his wife and children - on a gamble whose goals and risks no one will fully reveal to him. In a small suburban town, where only the nicest people live, friends, neighbours, everyone and anyone could be part of a monstrous conspiracy of international evil. The machinery has already been set in motion.

Still a legend in his own lifetime, the Hawk, hero or anti-hero of The Road to Gandolfo, is back, irrepressibly maddening, a $500 million caper up his sleeve. Worshipped by the men he once led into battle, General MacKenzie Hawkins is now in his sixties, and shows no sign of retiring from the intrigue and politicking which is his lifeblood. Now he's planning to take on the Government. From the Oval Office to the Pentagon, the President's men do all they can to stop him before he threatens national security.

Robert Ludlum has been acclaimed as the master of .suspense and international intrigue for over twenty-five years. His many books have thrilled millions of readers, reaching the top of bestsellers lists the world over and setting a standard that has never been surpassed. Now, from the...

Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can't refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence is aware of the deal and they've let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it's too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica Alex is a marked man.

In the bestselling tradition of The Scarlatti Inheritance and The Rheineman Exchange, a compelling thriller in which one man's actions can change the course of history In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power—France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under...

Paul Janson has a difficult past, which includes a shadowy, notorious career in U.S. Consular Operations. Now living a quiet life, nothing could lure him back into the field. Nothing - except Peter Novack, a man who once saved Janson's life, who has been kidnapped by terrorists and is set to be...

When Todd Belknap—a legendary field agent for Consular Operations with a reputation as something of a cowboy— is cut loose from the agency after an operation goes wrong, his best friend and fellow agent is abducted in Lebanon by a militia group with a vicious reputation. When the government...

Covert-One returns in the thrilling new series from the bestselling master of international suspense For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in nearly every country around the world...

Robert Ludlum is the acknowledged master of suspense and international intrigue. For the past twenty-five years he has had an unbroken string of bestselling novels, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and setting a standard that has yet to be surpassed. With The Prometheus Deception...

James Matlock is a Vietnam veteran and college professor - with a disturbing past. The faceless men in Washington know his secrets. And they want him to investigate what seems to be a large-scale drugs and prostitution business. Matlock is given a piece of silver paper with codes on it, and the name of the criminal organisation: Nimrod. He is soon trapped in a maze of unrelenting terror, as the people he cares for most are under threat. Would he have accepted the job if he'd known just what it would mean?

For $2 million, scientist Alex McAuliff is hired by Dunstone, Ltd. to survey the geology of Jamaica's dark, mysterious interior. There is a catch: no one can know Dunstone is involved. When British Intelligence learns of Alex's mission, they let him in on a little secret: the last survey team never made it home. McAuliff's reception to the island is far from warm, and now Alex is a marked man. Someone wants him dead—but who? The only one clue to his survival is a single, mysterious word: Halidon.

Non loin de Marseille, un bateau de pêche recueille un homme grièvement blessé et inconscient. On le sauve mais il a perdu la mémoire ; il ne se rappelle rien de son passé. Toutefois, il a sous la peau de la jambe un morceau de film avec le numéro d'un compte dans une banque suisse. Il part donc pour Zurich et apprend que le titulaire du compte est un certain Jason Bourne et aussi que Jason Bourne est traqué par plusieurs tueurs. Pourquoi ? Qu'y a-t-il dans le passé de Bourne qui explique cet acharnement à le faire disparaître ?

Lorsque Alexander Concklin et Morris Panov, anciens membres de la CIA, reçoivent le même télégramme signé du nom de Jason Bourne, ils sont loin de penser que les fantômes du passé peuvent se réveiller. Jason Bourne n'a jamais existé aux yeux du monde. C'est le nom de code de David Webb, homme traqué devenu amnésique à la suite d'un mystérieux accident. Treize ans après, il reprend bien malgré lui du service.

Un affreux massacre a eu lieu près de Hong Kong. Un même nom revient sur toutes les lèvres : Jason Bourne. Jason Bourne est de retour ! Mais pour qui travaille-t-il ? Une seule certitude : le "roi des tueurs" menace de plonger l'Extrême-Orient dans le chaos. Aux États-Unis, des hommes s'interrogent. Ils savent que le massacre ne peut avoir été perpétré par Bourne. Car Jason Bourne n'a jamais existé. Ce nom - ce mythe -, ils l'ont eux-mêmes créé afin de piéger le tueur international Carlos.

"Welcome to Robert Ludlum's world...fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue." — Cleveland Plain Dealer In Robert Ludlum's The Ambler Warning, an agent breaks out of a top-security institution where the government has kept him drugged for years only to discover that he's not the...

En mand bliver reddet fra druknedøden i Middelhavet. Da han kommer til sig selv, har han mistet hukommelsen, og det eneste, der kan føre ham på sporet af hans egen identitet, er et lille negativfotografi, som er skjult i hans hofte. Der er så meget ved hans identitet, der ikke stemmer, og da det går op for ham, at nogen er ude på at slå ham ihjel, begynder en vild jagt på sandheden om hans identitet.