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SWORD OF KINGS. SLAYER OF ARMIES. BLADE OF DESTINY.Legend holds that whoever wields this mighty, ancient weapon is invincible, able to vanquish all enemies and rule entire lands. But more than a thousand years after the mythical kingdom of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, tales of Excalibur and its exploits have long been considered only that: legend. That is, until an astonishing archaeological find in France convinces former secret agent Sean Wyatt and his sidekick, Tommy Schultz, that even this unlikeliest of myths is rooted in a truth that now threatens the modern world. ...

On December 7, 1941, the United States was thrust into the largest global conflict of all time. From adversity rose a generation of heroes both at home and abroad whose courage, valor and sacrifice would restore a world gone mad! Yet not all of WWII’s heroes were flesh and blood… they were also made of steel and forged in the fire of combat.

Philip Kerr crafts a thrilling chapter from his critically acclaimed Bernie Gunther series. In Field Gray, Bernie finds himself imprisoned in 1954—and told he can either work for French intelligence or he can hang. Accepting his new job, Bernie begins interviewing POWs returning from Germany. And things get interesting when he meets a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer.

September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can’t refuse such a request.

Ex-Berlin cop and private detective Bernie Gunther has seen his share of bad guys. But when the worst guys of all are the ones running the show, it's much harder to stay out of their reach. Hired by a wealthy industrialist to investigate the murder of his daughter and her husband in an apparent botched robbery, Bernie soon finds himself drawn into the complex - not to mention lethal - internal politics and corruption of the Nazi party.

Fernando, joven editor hijo de un republicano represaliado, decide huir de una España abatida por la Guerra Civil junto a sus amigos Catalina y Eulogio. Los tres son esclavos de los secretos que los acompañan y que los empujan sin remedio a vivir lejos de los suyos. Una historia absorbente que nos habla sobre la culpa, la venganza, el peso de la conciencia y los fantasmas que nos persiguen y condicionan nuestras decisiones.

Würzburg 1574: Bäckerlehrling Simon leidet unter seinem brutalen Stiefvater und dessen Sohn Wulf. Als die Streitigkeiten eskalieren, muss er die Stadt verlassen und erlernt in Venedig die Kunst der Zuckerbäckerei. Nach Jahren in der Ferne kehrt Simon nach Würzburg zurück. Dort übernimmt er die Backstube des Juliusspitals und gewinnt die Zuneigung des mächtigen, unnahbaren Fürstbischofs Julius Echter. Doch Simons Stiefbruder Wulf, getrieben von Neid und Missgunst, lässt nichts unversucht, um ihm zu schaden.

The year is 1317, and young squire Benedict Russell has joined the English-held garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed after the spectacular Scottish victory at Bannockburn three years earlier. Serious and self-doubting, he can't wait for his time there to come to an end. Living on the disputed territory between Scotland and England is a precarious existence, and as the Scots draw ever closer and the English king does nothing to stop them, Benedict finds himself in a race against time to solve the brutal murder of a young girl and find the traitor who lurks within Berwick's walls.

In the years following the end of the Shah’s dynasty, a major petrochemical refinery is being constructed in northern Iran by the Islamic Regime. While this is good for Iran, it’s not so good for the West. Enter the Organization for Reorganizing Business (ORB), led by Murray Stockman. ORB sends their senior field operative, Matthew Black, into Iran to “fix” the refinery problem. But this won’t be an easy task.

Der mittelalterliche Kern der Stadt an der Trave, die einmal als "Königin der Hanse" bezeichnet wurde, übt immer noch einen besonderen Reiz auf Touristen aus. Es leben dort über zweihunderttausend Menschen, viele von ihnen seit Generationen. Manche verbergen düstere Geheimnisse. Einer davon ist Gunnar Lüderupp, dem durch die ganz spezielle Erziehung einer streng religiösen Stiefmutter ein unheilvoller Lebensweg bereitet wurde.

È il 1957 e la giovane Elisabetta II, di ritorno dal suo primo viaggio a Parigi nei panni di sovrana del Regno Unito, viene informata di un duplice omicidio: un uomo e una donna sono stati uccisi in un pied-à-terre frequentato da alcuni membri del Club Artemis, un esclusivo gruppo dell'alta società inglese di cui fa parte lo stesso principe Filippo. L'ultima cosa di cui ha bisogno la giovane Elisabetta, che sta lavorando alacremente perché il suo paese abbia un ruolo rilevante nell'Europa del dopoguerra, è uno scandalo che la coinvolga.

Tra i due rami della stirpe dei Falck non corre buon sangue. Un rapporto al veleno che è destinato a inasprirsi con la morte dell’anziana matriarca. Quando Vera, un tempo famosa scrittrice, muore in mare, porta infatti con sé due grandi misteri: quello del suo testamento, che risulta introvabile, e quello di un vecchio manoscritto mai dato alle stampe a cui aveva lavorato in silenzio tanti anni prima. Si dice che in quelle pagine raccontasse del naufragio in cui, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, aveva perso la vita il marito, ma nessuno ha mai potuto leggerle.

Ancient secrets. Hidden danger. A lost masterpiece. Darwin Lacroix seeks a tranquil year in Paris guest lecturing at the esteemed École du Louvre, but fate has other plans. Beneath the museum's grandeur lie secrets of a murky past. A clandestine group formed in the Age of Enlightenment secretly controls the collections. During the wars, its unscrupulous curators conspired to squirrel away booty, cutting out the rightful owners. Billions in art: bought and sold for private gain. When French authorities pressure Darwin to expose the group’s dark agenda, he pushes back. But he soon ...

Family, Violence, Revenge New York City, 1930 The crime families that run New York are at war. Power struggles and ancient vendettas threaten to destroy the lives of anyone involved in the Big Apple’s underworld. And the Consentino family is caught right in the middle. Sonny and his twin brothers, Vico and Enzo, are still searching for the man who killed their father. And they’ll stop at nothing to get answers. But the war threatens not only their lives, but the relationships with those they love the most. Will they continue the hunt for vengeance if it means losing everything? From ...

Family, Violence, and Revenge New York City, 1928 From Sicily to Manhattan, violence seems to follow the Consentino clan. They’ve led a powerful and influential Mafia Borgata for generations, but when trouble with another family begins to develop, Alonzo Consentino must make an impossible decision.In an attempt to save his children from a life of crime and violence, Alonzo sets sail with his family for The Promised Land: America. But peace and safety don’t follow them for long. Will Alonzo be able to forget his past and create a new life, or will old habits die hard? Will his boys be ...

September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the King and his son, the Dauphin. With 12,000 knights. And then there is William Gold. A cook's boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.

A group of cave divers exploring the deepest recess of a previously unexplored section of the Chevé Cave Mexico—one of the deepest caves on Earth—sent a message up from the bottom of the flooded cave, via a sealed bottle that floated to the surface.

Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies...and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns...but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife - and demanding the town of Barlow itself as ransom.

On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Into the vacuum—before a new democracy had time to put down roots—surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or “roof”—protection for the privately owned businesses sprouting across the country.

Maggie Lodge, assistant to the reclusive advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires down-but-not-quite-out private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. Maggie and Sam are a mismatched pair. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. She is not what he had in mind for a client, but he can’t afford to be choosy. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that Sam is badly in need of guidance and good advice. She does not hesitate to give him both.