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CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad's recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy.

CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico - a CIA front since the 1960s - is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple, and their targets are Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife Anna, who is both a banker and an intelligence officer. As they descend further into a Russian world dripping with luxury and rife with gangland violence, Sia and Max's hope may be Anna, who is playing a game of her own.

1978 - a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over 40 years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents.

Ten years ago, Jake Wheeler told his best friend, Emory Donovan, he loved her. She said thank you. Now Emory is back in Blue Crab Bay just long enough to help her grandmother run the town’s doughnut shop while she recovers from a broken leg. Jake is back too. The former NFL quarterback has traded stadium lights for crab boats and dock sunrises, and when Emory walks back into town, he looks at her like she never left. Between festivals, movie night on The Green, and a town that loves love a little too publicly, the distance Emory swore she’d keep disappears.

The world has only just begun to break. In the wake of shattering quakes, towering tsunamis, and violent volcanic eruptions, Wallace Graves clings to one mission: lead his family and a band of survivors to safety in the East. But the land itself has changed. A vast canyon tears the country in...

America was on the brink of collapse. The fabric of society was torn apart. The economy was in shambles. Ordinary Americans in neighborhoods like yours experienced death by a thousand cuts. Survival would require a thousand stitches. International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to nearly two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

President John F. Kennedy once said, “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.” Today, a new element has been introduced to the preparations—artificial intelligence. The United States, in its quest to rapidly and effectively defend the nation from a nuclear attack, has incorporated AI into its operation plan of response. But what if the artificial intelligence relied upon by the nation’s decision-makers is wrong? What if AI takes the controls of America’s nuclear response? Might it trigger nuclear war without justification?

Nobody was prepared, including the world’s governments. The damage to humanity through loss of life was predictable, yet unfathomable. As nuclear winter spread across the globe, a rapidly cooling climate shocked humanity and many living things to their death. Nuclear Armageddon had become reality and ordinary people were paying the price. In a world without power, the exchange of information was virtually non-existent. A battle for resources was waged, pitting friend against friend and friend against foe. For the Bartlett family, their days on Swan’s Island were untenable.

The Black Swan Event reaches its stunning conclusion with Book Four from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. They’re here. The comet was never a natural disaster. The conspiracy was never about politics. The abilities the Pickett family has carried for generations were never random. Everything—the science, the secrecy, the sacrifice —has been leading to this moment.

The Bartlett family had to make an incomprehensible decision. The age old question, should we stay or should we go? The answer lay many thousands of miles from home on the opposite side of the Earth. The journey was filled with perils, and the last port of call may not be as welcoming as they hoped.

Major volcanoes across the Pacific Rim — from Indonesia to the Americas — erupt in quick succession, each more violent than the last. As the earth trembles and cities fall into chaos, the world is plunged into an unprecedented crisis. It begins at the Cascadia Subduction Zone off America's Pacific Northwest. Triggered by an undersea volcanic eruption, the Ring of Fire has been awakened by sudden shifts in tectonic pressure setting the stage for a global extinction level event.

From the outbreak in Afghanistan to the struggles at sea, Brad and his comrades realize the war for humanity has only just begun. And there's no guarantee any of them will survive the long journey home....

Candid, short, and accessible, Winning the Loser's Game walks you through the process of developing and implementing a powerful investing strategy that generates solid profits year after year. In this eagerly awaited new edition, Charles D. Ellis applies the expertise developed over his long, illustrious career. This updated edition includes: new chapters on bond investing, how investor behavior affects returns, and how technology and big data are challenging traditional investment decision; and more.

Ninety days after the sky fell, the real crisis begins. The comet has passed. The sky has stopped falling. But for the Pickett family and the seven billion survivors left in its wake, the nightmare is only beginning. Across the globe, strange metallic objects have appeared. Seamless, silent, and immovable. They cannot be destroyed. They cannot be captured. And they are watching.

'A must-read' – New Scientist The gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created – and an existential threat to democracy and human rights. 'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journalism' – The Guardian Pegasus is widely regarded as the...

In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us.

'A must-read' – New Scientist The gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created – and an existential threat to democracy and human rights. 'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journalism' – The Guardian Pegasus is widely regarded as the...

Most schools are about being the best. This school? It's about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary. I should know. Because I'm trapped here.

Before us lies a harsh and dismal world in which the entire show is run by the omnipresent System. The people live in gloomy endless corridors, and they appear here not only devoid of memory, but also completely deprived of their limbs. They are all "volitional nullforms," which is to say they...

It wasn't buried in the Nevada desert. It was discovered beneath the Arctic ice. When infectious disease specialist Dr. Elizabeth Robinson is flown to the nation's most secret underground military facility, she expects to investigate a deadly new pathogen. Instead, she finds herself trapped inside a classified bunker after an Arctic research mission unleashes something no one can explain.