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One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General de Gaulle.

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever - his own. For more than 40 years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched.

In Northern Virginia, a secret agency named TOSA (Technical Operations Support Activity) has one mission: To track, find, and kill those so dangerous to the United States that they are on a short, very close-held document known as the Kill List. Now a new name has been added: A terrorist of frightening effectiveness called the Preacher, who radicalizes young Muslims living abroad to carry out assassinations. Unfortunately for him, one of his targets is a retired Marine general, whose son is TOSA’s top tracker of men. The Preacher has made it personal - and now the hunt is on...

When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they instantly galvanize, but to do what? They know nothing about it: the what, where, or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Or is it?

What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked.

The Kill List: a top-secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world's security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high-profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this man's identity, locate him and take him out.

Esta frase nos introduce en la convulsa Rusia de 1999. Esta gran superpotencia zozobra en un mar de hiperinflación, caos económico y criminalidad. Las elecciones se aproximan y una sola voz carismática resuena en todo el país. Igor Komárov, líder derechista, promete reformar la moneda, acabar con el crimen, eliminar la corrupción y devolver la gloria a Rusia. Pero los dirigentes occidentales se ven conmocionados cuando llega a sus manos un documento secreto del que se desprende que Komárov no es el salvador de la nación sino un nuevo Hitler.

Großmeister der Spannungsliteratur, ungekrönter König des Politthrillers und internationaler Bestsellerautor - Frederick Forsyth ist ein Mann der Superlative. Dass er auch die kleine literarische Form überzeugend beherrscht, beweist eindrucksvoll sein neues Buch. Ob Forsyth von einem Staranwalt erzählt, der ganz eigene Vorstellungen von Gerechtigkeit hat und vor eigenwilligen Maßnahmen nicht zurückschreckt, oder von höchst unfeinen Gepflogenheiten in der feinen Kunstwelt...

¿Y si el arma más peligrosa del mundo no fuera un misil inteligente, un submarino sigiloso o un virus informático? ¿Y si, en realidad, se tratara de un chico de diecisiete años con una mente prodigiosa, capaz de sortear los sistemas de seguridad más sofisticados y de manipular cualquier arma y volverla en contra de los más poderosos? ¿Qué no estaría dispuesta a hacer cualquier agencia de inteligencia para tenerlo de su lado? Hay que encontrarlo y capturarlo. O protegerlo y salvarlo.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fox by Frederick Forsyth. The 18th novel from best-selling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, the man who defined the genre. The Fox is based on the stories of British hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love and centres around an 18-year-old schoolboy with Asperger’s Syndrome who is able to penetrate intricate firewalls to access the secrets at the highest level of foreign governments and other major organisations.

The cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil across Western society, causing incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it is spreading and it is a blight which must be stopped. One man, Paul Devereaux, intellectual, dedicated, utterly ruthless and ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task. At his disposal is anything he wants – men, resources, money. And he will not stop until he has completed his mission.

When British and US intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation, they're ready for action. But what can they do? They know nothing about the attack, so they plant The Afghan, a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former commander of the Taliban.

Aprovechando la enigmática personalidad del atormentado ser que habita en los sótanos de la Ópera de París, reelabora el mito del monstruo solitario, aislado del mundo a causa de su repulsiva fealdad. La novela empieza con los primeros años de Erik Muhlheim, el «fantasma», en su lóbrego refugio del subsuelo parisino, donde, contra toda previsión, desarrolla una sensibilidad única para la música. Joven, incapaz de asumir su soledad, se enamora perdidamente de Christine, una de las cantantes. Movido por un deseo irreprimible, rapta a la muchacha.

Über Nacht gerät die Welt an den Rand der Katastrophe. In der Sowjetunion droht eine Hungersnot, und im Politbüro entbrennt ein gnadenloser Machtkampf. Ukrainische Autonomisten kapern in der Nordsee den größten Öltanker der Welt und erpressen Ost und West. Nur einer kennt den Ausweg und wählt des Teufels Alternative.

Bei einem Einbruch im vornehmen Londoner West End wird nicht nur ein wertvolles Diamantendiadem gestohlen, sondern auch geheimes NATO-Material, das weit kostbarer ist. Eine undichte Stelle im Verteidigungsministerium? Was bedeutet das Codewort "Aurora"? Und wer ist "Chelsea"? Als Topagent John Preston sich ans Werk macht, scheint sich in einem dramatischen Höhepunkt das Geheimnis zu enthüllen. In Moskau hecken derweil ein ehemaliger britischer Meisterspion und der mächtigste Mann im Kreml hinter dem Rücken des KGB einen teuflischen Plan aus.

Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and shuffles around his dark, empty house, trying to forget about a life he has lost forever... until, of course, Dexter reads something in the papers that sends him the necessary signal. Until one of the handful who know of Dexter’s other life tries to contact him.

Der Selbstmord des alten Juden Salomon Taubers wäre fast unbemerkt geblieben, hätte nicht der Zufall dem jungen Hamburger Illustrierten-Reporter Peter Miller ein vergilbtes Tagebuch in die Hände gespielt: Die minutiösen Aufzeichnungen lassen in ihm den fürchterlichen Verdacht aufkommen, dass der einstige Lagerkommandant Eduard Roschmann noch lebt. Die Jagd auf Roschmann wird ein Abenteuer auf Leben und Tod. Miller gerät in das Räderwerk der mächtigen Geheimorganisation ODESSA, einer Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen.

Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond's grandson was an aid volunteer in the former Yugoslavia. After he was murdered, Edmond sought revenge by hiring an ex-Vietnam special forces agent to hunt the killer down: Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal, domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism.

Die Veränderung der politischen Landkarte hat auch Folgen für den britischen Geheimdienst. Sam McCready, genannt "der Täuscher" und Spezialist für verdeckte Aktionen, rollt die riskanten Operationen hinter den weltpolitischen Fronten auf: die lautlosen Kriege der Agenten und Spione, ihre Doppelspiele zwischen Moskau und der Karibik, dem Nahen Osten und Washington.

The Phantom of the Opera goes to New York. Forsyth picks up the story following the phantom's escape to the New World, where he begins his new and secret life in a place where he carves out a kingdom of fortune and power. He builds the most glittering opera house in the world, a place to lure Christine.