Polar Thriller

Mitch Matthews is writer struggling to make ends meet when his wife's brother offers them a first-class seat on a flight from Hong Kong to New York. When his wife needs to stay behind, it becomes an opportunity for some quality daddy-daughter time with his five-year-old Lilly. At check-in, they run into a strange Norwegian arguing with a huge Russian. A mysterious redhead is guarding a package in the business lounge. But everything is fine...right up until the event. Within hours of Allied Airlines 695 disappearing, a massive international search is launched.

CyberStorm, the first novel in the World War C series, tells of a bizarre string of disasters cutting New York off from the world. Darknet is a standalone novel and an adrenaline-fueled mystery with a noir/tech edge that takes listeners to a new edge of the cyber world. Polar Vortex is a stand-alone novel about a modern airline that mysterious disappears just as global tensions rise between America and Russia.

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When American covert operative Chase Fulton and his team suppress a mass shooting attempt in the tiny coastal town he calls home, the realization of how deadly his life has become sends him on a journey to separate himself from that violence and save his relationship with the woman he loves. The laidback holiday promises to rekindle the relationship and heal old wounds, until a brutal attack leaves a beloved friend fighting for her life. Chase has no choice but to put his experience, training, and lethal skill set back into action to find and eliminate the threat.

In 2040, as poachers close in on the last polar bear on earth, an Inuit scientist named Nuli must use her abilities to save the bear’s life, even at the risk of her own. Nuli feels caught between two cultures, but when she develops a shamanic gift to communicate with the bear she calls Anuk, her mystical revelation is mind-blowing; Anuk has a plan of her own.

Detective Arkady Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—returns in this tense thriller set amid the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith’s celebrated Arkady Renko series, the legendary Moscow...

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The Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times). It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen...

Something Big Lurks Beneath the Surface Mara Kincaid tracks ghosts through the water. As a sonar specialist, her job is to find what hides in the pitch-black silence of the southern ocean. When the research vessel Valkyrie reaches the edge of a frozen trench, she hears a signal that shouldn't exist. It isn't a whale. It isn't a submarine. Something massive is rising through the ice. Trapped in a polar storm and cut off from the world, the crew realizes they are no longer the observers. They are the prey. Beneath the crushing pressure of the shelf, a leviathan from modern folklore has ...

Découvrez Arsène Lupin, malfaiteur un peu cabotin, mais malfaiteur quand même, dans ses premières aventures. Tour à tour charmeur, implacable dans la résolution des énigmes, joueur farceur ou bravache, il excelle dans la capacité à faire tourner en bourrique les policiers de la Sureté, à se venger ou à simplement déposséder son prochain (de préférence riche à millions) de ses richesses. Neuf aventures vous attendent.

SOME DISCOVERIES SHOULD NOT SURVIVE THE THAW. Dr. Colin Henderson is a disgraced polar archaeologist running out of time. Terminally ill and desperate to restore his ruined reputation, he embarks on a solo, one-way expedition to an uncharted caldera on the jagged edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. His objective: to prove the existence of an ancient ruin that cost his former team their lives twelve years ago. What he finds buried in the ice is not a city, but a flawless, non-Euclidean geometry carved into ancient basalt. And the geometry is moving. Armed with a lifetime of empirical logic and an ...

In the second installment in the Arkady Renko series from internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, Renko goes up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web and discovering more than he bargained for. Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town...

Chill of Truth: A Murder Mystery Danger and Betrayal in the Arctic Polar Bear Capital When world-famous supermodel Elena Hart boards a private jet to the remote polar bear capital of Churchill, Manitoba, she expects an icy photo shoot—not a deadly mystery at 35,000 feet. But when she’s found dead mid-flight, her entourage of friends, rivals, and hidden enemies become prime suspects. Enter Detective Ethan Steele—trapped in an isolated Arctic lodge with a killer among them. With a vicious snowstorm closing in and time running out, Steele must unravel layers of deception, betrayal, and ...

From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a mystery that reaches international proportions in this entertaining fourth title in the Arkady Renko series. Former Inspector for the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko, is summoned to Cuba to identify a liquefying...

Disgraced cartographer Dr. Elias Ward purchases a damaged 16th-century portolan chart showing Antarctica as a ring rather than a continent. When anonymous buyers offer escalating sums and threats to acquire the map, he contacts investigative journalist Mara Kline, who has built her career exposing institutional disinformation. Together, they uncover a 200-year pattern of suppression: expedition journals that end abruptly, satellite imagery systematically manipulated, and the Antarctic Treaty designed not to prevent territorial disputes but to maintain a geographic lie. Their investigation ...

A gripping science thriller in the Arctic! Mysterious nanoparticles in a Greenland ice core confront biologist Nora Grimm with a fascinating puzzle. At first, she believes the 400,000-year-old ice is contaminated. But then the bizarre crystals suddenly show signs of life. Nora realizes that she has discovered far more than just prehistoric climate records. Also, Exobiologist Robert Greaves is on his way to Greenland to investigate a connection to a similar finding by the Mars rover Curiosity. Is this really an extraterrestrial life form that has been lying slumbering in obscurity since ...

★★★AUTEUR FINALISTE DU PRIX LITTÉRAIRE AMAZON STORYTELLER 2025★★★ Que disent les lecteurs ? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nous avons affaire à l’auteur hispanophone qui maîtrise le mieux le suspense aujourd’hui… selon mon humble avis… il vous accroche et ne vous lâche plus. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ses histoires parviennent toujours à me surprendre, quoi que je fasse pour l’éviter. La nouvelle affaire de l’inspecteur Duarte se déroulera en Norvège, où il sera confronté à l’énigme la plus déroutante de toute sa carrière. En 1970, un cadavre apparut dans une forêt proche de ...

Detective Arkaday Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. Martin Cruz Smith has written nine previous novels...

A Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko series. In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and...

Un meurtre au cœur de la Costa Blanca. Un journaliste accusé à tort. Un passé qui refuse de mourir. Gabriel Caballero, célèbre écrivain et ancien journaliste, retourne à Alicante pour une visite sans histoires. Mais tout bascule lorsqu’une femme est retrouvée morte… et que les indices pointent directement vers lui. La victime ? La rectrice de l’université. Le suspect principal ? Son meilleur ami. La vérité ? Plus sombre que ce qu’il aurait jamais imaginé. Pour prouver son innocence, Gabriel devra replonger dans un monde de secrets enfouis, de trahisons et de silences ...