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QuadFilium is a secret, private military group, well-funded, with the highest tech spy equipment, aimed at eradicating human traffickers worldwide. Wade Maley, QuadFilium's top operative, finds himself hidden in a conference room in a compound owned by criminal mastermind Alistair Watson. Wade is meant to kill this man and escape... and he does... barely, because his pilot, Teska Lando, the slang-slinging Texan, saves his butt. But that's just the beginning of their adventure.

Having just stunned those in Washington with Operation Hail Storm, Marshall Hail and his crew move on to their next mission, using assets from two ships, the Hail Nucleus and the Hail Proton. Hail's team has been provided the latest intelligence for a new operation that seems impossible, but then, Hail and his techno-savages have a knack for pulling off the impossible.

In an ironic twist of fate, past and present cross swords. USS Constitution, Old Ironsides, must foil a world-wide jihadist plot by the descendants her historic foes, the Barbary Coast pirates in this multiple-award-winning, swashbuckling and cinematically explosive blend of action, history, romance, humor and the supernatural.

Tehran was well known to American businessman Jack Devlin until the day everything changed. When radical Islamic students stormed the US embassy on November 4, 1979, Jack narrowly escaped the revolutionary chaos, leaving behind 80 percent of his business and 100 percent of his heart. To get his beautiful girlfriend, Farideh, out of Iran, Jack accepts a devil’s bargain with the CIA and MI6. He must slip back into Tehran, where the militant students are holding dozens of Americans hostage in their own embassy.

Chicago Examiner reporter Leo Townsend has landed the interview of a lifetime with openly gay, front-running US presidential candidate Griffin Carlisle. But when Leo is forced to abandon the interview to rush to the side of his estranged father, who has suffered a near-fatal heart attack, Leo's personal and professional worlds collide. When Griffin offers to visit the Townsend farm for an interview, secrets are exposed that jeopardize not just Leo's family but an entire nation.

Después de perder a sus padres en el trágico incendio de su casa de campo en Valle de Bravo, los infantes Orson y Pablo, herederos del rico empresario Sebastián Forey, son rescatados por su tío Rodrigo, un exitoso y ambicioso aspirante a las cumbres de la política mexicana, quien los lleva a vivir a su casa en la ciudad de México. Mientras la vida transcurre en aparente tranquilidad para los pequeños en su nuevo hogar, una intriga se gesta en el centro del improvisado núcleo familiar.

For decades, the small town of Carpe Diem, Illinois, has quietly unschooled its children, eschewing tests and classrooms for real-life experiences. Now, long-smoldering political feuds and deep personal secrets threaten to explode. When her mother is hospitalized in Carpe Diem after an auto accident, teenager Tali Shaw, the daughter of a powerful state senator, finds herself at the heart of a vicious conspiracy to bring Carpe Diem down. Can prize-winning Chicago Examiner reporter Leo Townsend overcome his own demons and expose those behind the scheme before it's too late?

Luis Fuentes longs to quit the violence-riddled border. But when the undercover DEA agent is contacted by a would-be-terrorist, he jumps in to probe for details before an extremist plot unfolds. And when the FBI Director tells him to quietly string the man along, the street-smart operative's instincts tell him his superior is playing dirty pool.

The most virulent weapon of mass destruction will be unleashed upon the world, but Delta Force veteran Daniel Strong isn't about to let that happen. Recalled from the depths of drug addiction and depression, Danny is the last chance for the CIA to stop an auction in New York where powerful weapons dealers are to bid for the right to proliferate a deadly neurotoxin.

Why did the United States Government find it necessary to sequester pertinent information about the assassination of President Kennedy all these years (54 years)? Did the U.S. Government leadership fear some catastrophic reaction, by the American people, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination; if the realities of the Kennedy assassination were different from the official findings of the Warren Commission Report?

After losing his life savings to Russian hackers, Mickey Summer wants compensation. Or revenge. Ideally both. With British authorities dragging their feet, Mickey decides he'll do it his way and is soon enmeshed in the tangled web of Russian state, mafia and business. Declan Lehane heads a US task force fighting a Kremlin-sponsored hybrid war. Their investigations overlap in St Petersburg, and in the process they uncover the Russian president's darkest secret. But with his finger on the nuclear button, dare they reveal it?

This is the first book in the George Melville Mystery series and as such sees our eponymous hero, investigative officer George Melville, who works for a law firm, get tangled up in the murky world of pre-Second World War espionage. He meets an eccentric Scottish laird who in fact is his British secret service contact, as he is unsuspectingly thrust into the dangerous life as an ill-prepared secret agent in Hong Kong, Macau, Cairo, and eventually Ireland, where he meets again his old friend Inspector Dodds, along with a policewoman named Yvonne.

La storia inizia nel 2010. Affiliati a cosche mafiose, soubrettes e faccendieri erano stati ammessi nelle istituzioni più alte dello stato. Accumulavano prestigio e denaro, tra sorrisi compiaciuti e pacche sulle spalle. La politica italiana non era mai stata così grossolana e rapace. La situazione era andata ben oltre il tollerabile. La narrazione parte da qui, e ci conduce attraverso le fasi di una metamorfosi sociale, in un dialogo continuo tra finzione e fatti realmente accaduti. Quali sono le leve che fanno scattare una rivoluzione nazionale? Cosa succederebbe se?

Britain - sometime in the future. Law and order has broken down and people are fighting each other for the country's dwindling supply of food. Most of the Government have decamped to the Scilly Isles to avoid the riots.

A monstrous infection is spreading worldwide. Is this a simple infection or a deliberate attempt to ruin the human population, or bioterrorism? What is this global infection, and who is spreading this? To know that, listen to this suspense-filled audiobook.

The world is dreaming. Dreaming of things that would be impossible whilst they were awake. Until now. Something is brewing in the minds of the mundane populous. Those that could not command magick are finding themselves able to do unimaginable things. And there is intent behind this new understanding, intent from a vast and powerful being, that has designs on the world of man. The more minds it reaches, the more powerful it gets. And soon, it will come for us, for our world, and only The Circle stands in its way.

Susan, a bereaved daughter, stumbles upon her grandmother's journals. Stories hidden from the family of adventures, spies, a mysterious discarded toy, lost loves and revenge flash before her eyes sparking a desire to escape her ordinary life. In a dusty attic, Susan holds her sadness in check as she attempts to organize her mother's stored memories. Boxes of journals written by her grandmother reveal a hidden secret life lived out during the modern world's most dangerous conflict.

Hawke's writing excels, especially during the book's many action sequences. The dialogue in the novel is both crisp and tense but also humorous at times. Hawke spins his international counter-terrorism tale at a breakneck pace starting with the 1999 shoot down of a US super-secret stealth military jet in Bosnia and a terrorist plot to use the plane's technology for nefarious purposes.

The fictional story, relocated to the Vietnam War, opens many years after Lieutenant's death, with the publication of a photograph of the POW Camp Commandant responsible, now a US citizen and successful businessman named Donald Quang. Hershey is commissioned by a fellow Vietnam veteran to carry out a 'routine check' into Quang's background, ostensibly for business reasons. Complications multiply quickly as it emerges that the Lieutenant's senior NCO is already on his way to the US.