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Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it.

To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt…Portugal…Denmark…France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?

The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated in a computer, down to the last variable.

Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying....

As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job body-guarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune shouldn't make him break a sweat. But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target...?

An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world’s most famous authors—from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger—to a sinister collector in Chicago. Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells the intertwining tales of two writers navigating a plot neither one of them could have ever imagined. There may be no other escape than to write their way out of it.

American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.

When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is...and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her.

Arriving in Mole Creek in the aftermath of Pete's death, Xander discovers that his grandfather's laptop is missing. He begins to suspect that something is wrong, refusing to accept the facts as presented. With the local police not interested in investigating an apparently open-and-shut suicide, Xander sets about uncovering the truth of what happened to his grandfather.

Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town, the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace.

Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the BIG story of Dawson's career one in which he has a vested interest.

Dave Elliot is about to have a very bad day at the office. This morning, just as Dave has finished knotting his tie, his boss comes into the office with a gun in his hand, prepared to murder him. From this moment onward, everyone Dave Elliot runs into today will be trying to kill him. And he has no idea why...

Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. From the book's inception, listeners will be seized by the dangers and nightmare suspense of life lived on the rim of a political volcano.

Da tidligere FBI agent Molly Crawford ringer på døren hos politikommissær Per Roland, er det ikke for at besøge en gammel ven, men fordi hun jager en amerikansk seriemorder. Manden har en bizar forkærlighed for meget unge piger med sortlakerede negle, og FBI har netop sporet ham til København i selskab med et nyt offer. Molly og Roland sætter alt ind på at finde parret, inden han dræber pigen, men tiden er ved at løbe ud, og de mangler spor at arbejde med.

Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint air force-navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability to drive half a country into madness using low frequency wave generation. Now the technology has fallen into the wrong hands - and testing has begun....

Drei Frauen treffen in einem abgelegenen Ferienhaus ein, tief in der Moorlandschaft von Northumbria an der schottischen Grenze. Es ist der erste Abend ihres langen Wochenendes, am nächsten Morgen erwarten sie ihre Ehemänner. Doch auf dem Küchentisch von Dark Fell Barn finden sie einen Brief, in dem jemand behauptet, einen ihrer Männer umgebracht zu haben. Die Frauen glauben zuerst an einen perfiden Scherz. Doch sie haben keinen Handyempfang und kein Internet.

Ole, dole, doff... Det har etsat sig fast för alltid i Atlee Pines minne kidnapparens fasansfulla ramsa när han valde mellan sexåriga Atlee och hennes tvillingsyster Mercy. Mercy blev bortförd, Atlee skonades. Hon återsåg aldrig sin syster igen. Tre decennier efter den fruktansvärda natten arbetar Atlee Pine för FBI:s Arizona-avdelning där hon ensam ansvarar för Grand Canyon. När en turist försvinner spårlöst djupt inne i Grand Canyon kallas Pine in för att leda utredningen. Det visar sig snart att turisten inte rest till Grand Canyon för att beundra det dramatiska landskapet.

Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At 59, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening e-mails he has started to receive?

Syng om studentens lykkelige dag, lad os frydes i ungdommens vår! Sådan lyder de første linjer af den sang, der skæbnesvangert indleder hver af romanens seks dele. Studentereksamen er netop ved at blive afviklet i den svenske provinsby Skoga, kriminalkommissær Christer Wijks hjemby. Men ikke alle er tilfredse med resultatet. Til translokationsfesten findes rektor Harald Hellmann pludselig myrdet - og både elever, lærere og censorer er under mistanke. For Hellmann var ingen populær rektor.

Puck Bure har glædet sig til en hårdt tiltrængt sommerferie, da hun med sin fire måneder gamle baby og en barnepige flytter ind i tante Otties idylliske sommerhus. Men her - i augustnætternes rungende mørke - kommer hun til at opleve et uhyggeligt og makabert drama, hvis hovedperson er den svimlende rige, excentriske enke Adèle Renman. Og omkring enken er en mondæn kreds af smilende fjender.