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"Mightier than the sword" empieza con un atentado del IRA durante el viaje de inauguración del MV Buckingham a través del atlántico. ¿Cuántos pasajeros han perdido la vida? Cuando Harry Clifton visita a su editor en Nueva York, se entera de que lo han nombrado presidente de la rama inglesa de la asociación internacional de escritores PEN. De inmediato promueve una campaña para conseguir la liberación de un colega autor, Anatoly Babakov, prisionero en Siberia. ¿Qué crimen ha cometido Babakov?

Black Kayak offers us a different perspective from your run of the mill detective story; among other items are the facts that a vintage automobile and a very specialized boat could almost be considered minor characters as they both provide important supporting roles in this tale. Unusual most certainly, but quite intriguing nonetheless. This account involves the reader emotionally into the narrative; it is not a chronicle of guessing games. This book introduces us to Jonathan Steele and George Wilson, best friends and business partners. Test readers have commented strongly on how ...

Recuperating from an injury at a colleague's holiday home in Cornwall, Grant is soon pulled into a world of murder, corruption and vice.

The Saint is a traditionalist - he knows what a good pirate story needs. Gold, hidden treasure, smugglers, dastardly villains, and damsels in distress. From Bimini to Nassau via Jamaica and Haiti, the Saint travels the Caribbean - interrupting his holidays to settle disputes, solve murders, overthrow governments, and hunt for treasure. Wherever he lands, you can be sure that the ungodly will get what's coming to them.

El cabaret Waikikí es sinónimo de diversión, exuberancia y noches de baile interminables, por lo que la noticia del asesinato de la famosa vedet Katmandú, ícono de la farándula del Distrito Federal, sacude a clientes, periodistas de la nota roja y amantes de la vida nocturna. ¿Había realmente motivos para matarla? ¿Era ella el blanco original del ataque? ¿Qué misterios ocultaba su enigmático nombre?

Follow the riveting journey of the Hanson family in this high-octane tale of resilience, revenge, and unwavering determination. Hoot, once a laid-back oilman, and his feisty wife, Hanna, alongside their twin girls and a trusty bird dog, find themselves amidst a harrowing nightmare, despite their newfound wealth from Hanson Oil, their small independent oil company. As their riches draw unwanted attention from both federal authorities and a dangerous Mexican cartel, the Hansons are thrust into a tumultuous battle to protect their hard-earned wealth. A grueling court battle ensues, leaving the...

Harry Bosch, detective de la Policía de Los Ángeles, ha sido siempre un solitario. Hijo de una prostituta asesinada, fue criado en orfanatos y quedó luego marcado por la dura experiencia de Vietnam. Ahora, un caso rutinario de muerte por sobredosis le devuelve a su pasado. La víctima, Billy Meadows, había servido en su misma unidad. Ambos eran "ratas de túnel", ambos combatieron en los túneles del Viet Cong y ambos habían experimentado el horror del "eco negro".

Former NFL All-Pro Wyatt Storme and ex-CIA assassin Chick Easton are fishing on the Lake of the Ozarks when gunmen blow by them in a boat, chasing a determined woman seeking justice for her family. Wyatt and Chick save the woman and are swept into a violent battle for control of a new casino and all the riches and power it will bring. The Kansas City mob, the Dixie Mafia, and the local syndicate have them out-numbered and out-gunned, but it's the gangsters who should be worried. There's a deadly storm coming...and his name is Wyatt.

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city's forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future.

A troubled Mary Ann Walker takes a nosedive off a bridge. Seattle's police department macho man John LaMoia takes the call, along with the beauteous cop psychologist Daphne Matthews. They suspect her boyfriend, known to beat Mary Ann. Her seething brother, Ferrell, is convinced the boyfriend did the deed. But the case somehow becomes too slippery to close.

Marissa Rooney stands in her daughter's empty dorm room, a half-used vial of insulin clutched in her trembling hand. Brooke has been missing for days. Her roommate hasn't seen her since that night in the bar. And if Marissa has Brooke's insulin, it means that Brooke does not. But Marissa isn't alone in her terror. A phantom from her past is lurking in the shadows, waiting in the night, and holding her family captive...in the dark.

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

Un miembro de la policía científica experto en informática investiga el asesinato del sobrino de un político que opta a la alcaldía de Barcelona. Pronto se encontrará con una trama que implica a un grupo antisistema y a una compleja conspiración en la red. Todo se complicará con la aparición de Present, una mujer de la que se acabará enamorando, pero que está implicada en el caso.

When Texas Deputy Sheriff John Cronin thwarts the Cartel’s plan to get paid to smuggle Muslims across the border, he becomes the target of the Cartel once again. One try fails, but the cartel isn’t about to give up. With his granddaughter, Jesse, still recovering from her last run-in with the Cartel and now far away with her Marine husband on a military base, Cronin only has to worry about the innocents around him.

San Diego, Autumn 1986. Riku Ramirez is an exemplary student at San Diego High School. After school he teaches beginner karate at a local dojo. The apple fell far from the tree. Riku's father, a criminal and ex-member of a fearsome biker gang, took no part in Riku's upbringing. When Riku receives news that his father is dead, he feels little. All the same, he accepts the meager inheritance his father has left him; an enduro motorcycle and a souvenir jacket Riku's mother made. Wearing the jacket and riding the motorcycle give Riku a sense of belonging until a case of mistaken identity ...

Dan Taylor is trying to keep a low profile when an old friend contacts the Energy Protection Group seeking his help. The man’s daughter is alone in sub-Saharan Africa, and her life is in grave danger. Thrust back into active duty, Dan realizes that getting Anna to safety is only half his problem. The forensic accountant holds the key to preventing Western Sahara descending into chaos, and exposing the puppet masters behind a coup d’état.

>i>Rock Island Rock continues the Crossroads Thriller series from where Blues Highway Blues, voted Best Blues Book of 2012 by Blues411.com, left off. In the shadow of the mysterious bluesman, Mr. Atibon, reluctant hero Daniel Erickson; his hitman friend, Moog Turner; and his girlfriend, Vicki Bean, are crisscrossing America to follow the musical clues that lead to a rock-and-roll superstar’s killer. Along the way they’ll encounter obsessive FBI agents, vengeful Russian mobsters, ruthless cartel assassins, and psychotic bikers.

Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. 

Disappearing wasn’t going to be enough…they needed a plan…some answers…and a safe place where they couldn’t be found…and time to figure out what to do next….and why their pursuers are interested in Harper’s father…and are willing to do anything to draw her out. Now it appears that they have an unknown and unlikely ally…maybe two. But what does it mean when one of their allies becomes the new target… An attack on the Mulholland’s wasn’t expected…and though much could be tied to Mick Johnson this wasn’t his style…or his target.It’s the middle of the twenty-...