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Joe can't believe his luck when his dad rents a castle for their Easter holidays—but is devastated when his mum receives a better invitation and the trip is cancelled. Determined to have his holiday, Joe develops a plan to go with his friends instead. The castle is everything the friends had hoped for, but it's not long before they hear strange noises underground and notice yellow eyes lurking in the forest. And when Sherlock falls through some rotten boards and into an old well, they discover an ancient box, containing a 200-year-old notebook and an incomplete treasure map.

Delve into the clandestine world of Group 15, the covert organization also featured in the acclaimed John Milton series. Charlie Cooper, an elite Group Fifteen agent, faces a complex mission: eliminate Igor Sidorov, a security-obsessed Russian oligarch implicated in international subterfuge. The only avenue to reach the paranoid Sidorov? Through Crispin Fairweather, the owner of a small yet influential reputation management firm.

Charlie Cooper, a member of the covert Group Fifteen, travels to Israel to find his estranged half-brother, Freddy, who has mysteriously disappeared. Freddy's ties to NetGuardian, a cybersecurity firm implicated in dubious activities, propel Cooper into a dangerous web of corporate espionage, state-of-the-art surveillance technology, and the ruthless world of intelligence.

When Milton is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service. The Russians blackmail Milton into finding his predecessor. But she's a ghost, like him, and just as dangerous. Milton finds himself in deep trouble, playing the Russians against the British in a desperate race against time with the life of his oldest friend on the line.

The sixth instalment of Mark Dawson's action packed Charlie Cooper series.

Max is distraught when he receives a letter from the school telling him he has to go on a weekend of cycling and camping for the Duke of Wellington awards scheme. But things vastly improve when his friends agree to come with him. It isn't long before they find adventure–or adventure finds them... They make a friend called Byron and set up camp in a forest near to his home. But that night they wake to see strange lights and a fierce wind blowing through the trees.

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British Secret Service and a man in his position needs extra attention like he needs a hole in the head.

On the run from his own demons, John Milton treks through the Michigan wilderness into the town of Truth. He’s not looking for trouble, but trouble's looking for him. He finds himself up against a small-town cop who has no idea with whom he is dealing, and no idea how dangerous he is. But Milton is double crossed and badly injured. Unarmed and alone, he flees into the remote Porcupine Mountains with a posse on his tail. His enemies thought they could hunt him down. That was a mistake and, where Milton is concerned, one mistake is all you get.

John Milton is trying to make amends for a career spent killing for the British Secret Service. He has a burning need to right wrongs—and rewrite his own bloody past. He finds himself in Louisiana—the Big Sleazy, the bayou, and the post-Katrina wreckage of the Gulf Coast—with a debt of honor to repay. Isadora Bartholomew, who saved his partner's life, needs his help. Joel Babineaux, a ruthless property magnate, is out to sink the charity she established to help rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward.

An Underground carriage in London is destroyed by a suicide bomber. The injured and the dead litter the platform. But as a crowd forms at street level, Michael Pope knows that this is only the beginning. Pope, head of top-secret Group Fifteen, is tasked with finding the perpetrators of this atrocity and bringing them to justice, any way he can. He knows that the answers to many of his questions will lie at the end of the money trail, but he also knows that whoever funded and organised the attack will kill again for their freedom.

Isabella Rose, the Angel, is used to surprises, but being abducted is an unwelcome novelty. She's relying on Michael Pope, the head of the top-secret Group Fifteen, to get her back. When ISIS get involved, the situation becomes even bleaker. Isabella's abductors are in turn abducted, and she finds herself trapped in Raqqa, the capital of the self-styled caliphate.

In the opulent city of Dubai, a high-stakes game of espionage is about to explode. When Iranian diplomat Arash Heydari jeopardises his position as a valuable CIA asset with a drunken outburst, British operative Charlie Cooper is thrust into a mission that is as dangerous as it is complex. Tasked with monitoring the increasingly volatile Heydari, Cooper must navigate a treacherous world of secrets, lies and betrayals. As Heydari closes in on critical intelligence, the mission becomes a desperate race against time.

Isabella Rose is on the run, hunted by the very people she had been hired to work for. Trained killer Isabella and former handler Michael Pope are forced into hiding in India and, when a mysterious informer passes them clues on the whereabouts of Pope’s family, the prey see an opportunity to become the predators.

Quand une fille qu’il conduit à une fête disparaît, Milton s’inquiète. Surtout lorsque deux cadavres sont découverts et que la police commence à le considérer comme son principal suspect. Milton est un fugitif des services secrets britanniques et un homme dans sa position a autant besoin d’une attention particulière que d’une balle dans la tête.

Mark Dawson talks about his career as a self-published author. Providing an insight into not only his books and the marketing behind them but the process of getting them onto the Audible site. Mark also discusses the challenges of writing a crime series, how he keeps it original and how he keeps consistency throughout his work.

Isabella Rose ist auf der Flucht vor den Leuten, für die sie arbeiten sollte. Die ausgebildete Killerin Isabella und ihr früherer Agentenführer Michael Pope müssen sich in Indien verstecken. Als sie von einem mysteriösen Informanten Hinweise auf den Verbleib von Popes entführter Familie erhalten, sieht die Beute ihre Chance, zum Jäger zu werden.

John Milton est un fantôme. Il était Numéro Un, l’assassin le plus dangereux du Groupe 15, l’organisation d’opérations secrètes qui résout les problèmes lorsque la diplomatie a échoué. Aujourd’hui, Milton est le fugitif le plus recherché par Sa Majesté–un solitaire anonyme doté de compétences mortelles. C’est pourquoi, lorsqu’il est arrêté à la suite d’une rixe dans un bar du Texas, il ne s’attend pas à ce que la personne qui paye sa caution soit un agent prestigieux des services secrets russes.

John Milton supprimait des cibles pour le MI6 jusqu’au jour où il disparaît sans laisser de traces. Après s’être volatilisé pendant six mois, il réapparaît à Ciudad Juarez au Mexique et se trouve aussitôt mêlé à une violente bataille avec le cartel de la drogue qui contrôle la frontière. Milton sauve la vie d’une jeune journaliste idéaliste dont on avait signé l’arrêt de mort. Mais pour la protéger, il doit la faire passer en douce au Texas.

Things in Southwold get off to a bad start! Max has to do extra lessons while Charlie has been roped into helping with the decorating. Meanwhile Lucy loses an important race to a new girl in her school, Miranda Fitchwitherington, who seems to enjoy being as mean as possible to Lucy and the rest of the gang. And there is more bad news–when the gang meet Captain Tom, walking his own dog, Pugly, he tells them about an outbreak of pet thefts in the area.

Isabella Rose, der Engel, ist Überraschungen gewöhnt, aber entführt zu werden, ist ein unerfreuliches Novum. Sie verlässt sich darauf, dass Michael Pope, Leiter der streng geheimen Gruppe fünfzehn, sie befreit. Als dann zusätzlich ISIS ins Spiel kommt, wird die Lage noch düsterer. Isabellas Entführer werden nun ihrerseits entführt, und sie sitzt plötzlich in Raqqa fest, der Hauptstadt des selbsternannten Kalifats.