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The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal - or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible - plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood.

Phileas Fogg und seine Gefährten befinden sich auf der Reise nach Genf, um Baron Frankenstein aufzusuchen, der Fogg als Kind behandelt und ihm die Erinnerungen an seinen Bruder Aaron geraubt hat. Bereits auf der Zugfahrt ereignen sich mysteriöse Zwischenfälle, denen es zu verdanken ist, dass Fogg und seine Begleiter die Bekanntschaft mit einem jungen Engländer namens Fayne machen. Doch kaum sind sie in der Schweiz angekommen, ist der Mann spurlos verschwunden, als hätte es ihn nie gegeben. Phileas Fogg geht der Sache nach und kommt dabei Victor Frankenstein in die Quere.

Ein Anschlag auf das Kölner Polizeipräsidium versetzt das BKA in höchste Alarmbereitschaft. Während Ansgar David vom BKA versucht, die Hintermänner des Anschlages zu finden, überzeugt der amerikanische Geheimdienst den ehemaligen Topagenten Peter Walsh davon, einen letzten Auftrag anzunehmen, um einen gefährlichen Islamisten in Deutschland zu verhaften. Es scheint Berührungspunkte zwischen den beiden Fällen zu geben, doch zunächst ahnen Walsh und Ansgar nichts davon. Je enger sie jeder einzeln das Netz um die Verdächtigen ziehen, desto größer wird die Gefahr, in die sie sich begeben.

Als der BKA Beamte Ansgar David zu sich kommt, findet er sich gefesselt und nackt in einem dunklen kalten Raum wieder. Er ist schwer verletzt und kann sich nicht erinnern, was geschehen ist oder wer ihn entführt hat. Nur langsam kommen die Erinnerungen an die schreckliche Wahrheit zurück. Und als er begreift, wer für die Entführung verantwortlich ist, ist das Urteil über sein Leben schon gefällt. Das BKA und Peter Walsh, ein ehemaliger Top Agent des US-Militärgeheimdienstes, versuchen ihn zu retten. Sie vermuten Terroristen hinter der Entführung.

Lange Zeit glaubte Ralf Becker, seine Vergangenheit – als Killer im Staatsdienst – hinter sich gelassen zu haben. Doch sein altes Leben holt ihn auf brutalste Weise ein: Beckers Tochter wurde entführt. Auf der Jagd nach den Verantwortlichen wird schnell klar, dass die weit mehr als nur ein millionenschweres Lösegeld erwarten. Für seinen letzten Job muss Becker sämtliche Register ziehen, denn ansonsten lächelt nur der Tod.

Als bei der Explosion einer Autobombe eine junge Frau und ihre Tochter ums Leben kommen, setzt die Kölner Kriminalpolizei um den Ermittler Lasse Brandt alles daran, die Täter schnell zu fassen, auch aus Sorge, dass weitere Taten geplant sein könnten. Noch ahnt Brandt nicht, dass der Anschlag dem ehemaligen US-Topagenten Peter Walsh galt. Auch Walsh sucht die Täter, weil bei dem Attentat sein bester Freund schwer verletzt wurde. Aber im Gegensatz zu Brandt, sinnt er auf Rache und ist dafür bereit, über Leichen zu gehen.

After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.

Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family’s shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she’s the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal - a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan’s. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect. And her colleagues aren’t the only ones following every move she makes. So is the killer.

Eight months after the showdown with the domestic terrorist group that nearly cost him his life, Danny Coogan, a Montana Fish and Game Officer, faces a new threat to his community—and his career. It starts with a dead steer. Which happens to be near the body of a dead rancher. Both of which are on the Dead Horse Indian Reservation. Soon, Danny, the Tribal Police, the local Sheriff’s Department, and a US Marshal are pressed into action. Danny’s connections to the Rez draw him into the murder case and plant him firmly in the crosshairs of the killers. Another victim is discovered, ...

Serge A. Storms is back! The one-man crime spree hits no speed bumps as he swings through Tampa, Disney World, and parts south before settling down in Miami Beach to team up with a former sidekick and launch his long-overdue offbeat travel service. It's a labor of love as Serge forces customers to confront the underbelly of the Sunshine State's past and present. Some clients get it; others run for their lives. No matter.

For Jonathan Grave and Gail Bonneville, the Crystal Sands Resort is the perfect getaway - until gunshots shatter the night. Wealthy guests are yanked out of their sleep, herded like animals, forced to submit to their captors' demands. But Jonathan and Gail are no ordinary vacationers. The assassins who invade their bungalow receive a deadly surprise.

New Orleans has been quarantined, an unknown virus sweeping the city, killing 100 percent of those infected. The Center for Disease Control, desperate to find a cure, is approached by BioDyne Pharma who reveal a former employee has turned a cutting-edge medical treatment capable of targeting specific genetic sequences into a weapon, and released it.

Ryan Drake and his team are in hiding, having become sworn enemies of states and agencies around the world. But when a CIA operative and former adversary is killed in a car bomb attack, Drake is shocked to hear someone claiming responsibility using his name. Forced out of hiding by this mysterious new threat, Drake embarks alone on a dangerous and deadly search for answers; a journey that will take him from the slums of Rio to the deserts of Tunisia and the mountains of Afghanistan.

Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case - but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida.

AD, 98. The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over 20 years' time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall. But for now, defences are weak as tribes rebel against Rome. It falls to Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, to keep the peace. But it will take more than just a soldier's courage to survive life in Roman Britain.

From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America’s first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the story of the men of the Marine Corps, their loves and loyalties, an elite fraternity united by courage and honor, as they steel themselves for battle, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice....

Juan Cabrillo's first adventure with the Oregon - a state-of-the-art spy ship disguised as a nondescript lumber hauler - takes him and his crew into dangerous waters as they try to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. When "The Final Problem" was first published, the struggle between Holmes and his arch nemesis, seemingly to the death, left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but it also led to his immortality as a literary figure.

Stalking the streets of Prague, James Ryker is on the hunt for justice when he hears a news report of a murder in rural England. He knows the victim. Ten years ago, in Qatar, Ryker led a team of assassins to kill him. He thought they had. So how has a man Ryker thought dead for over a decade suddenly resurfaced? Travelling across the globe, Ryker sets off on a quest to discover the truth from that fateful night in Qatar. When he realises that his old team members are now under threat from a ruthless female assassin, he knows his problems have only just started.

When a violent nor'wester hits Grand Cayman, a cargo ship is caught in the maelstrom, and several containers are lost to the ocean floor… unless AJ Bailey and Reg Moore can recover the precious contents belonging to Reg's wife, Pearl. Eighty years in the past, at the height of World War II, an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot ferrying planes to RAF airfields in the southern coast of England, becomes the victim of a bold lie in a story missing from the history books.