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Annapolis. The U.S. Naval Academy. Here begins Widow's journey—a path from a promising naval career to a crossroads of life and death. Rewind to Widow's final days as a twenty-two-year-old midshipman, where a dying woman's request catapults him into a whirlwind of lies and buried truths. Her last request? For Widow to solve the mystery of her sister's cold-case murder. Aided by The Shadow Club—a secretive cabal of the world's sharpest investigators—Widow is lured into a world where justice is a shadow play of vengeance and power.

Widow passes through DC. Hanging out, reading the morning paper. He learns about a homeless vet found burned alive on a park bench. The Vet has no known family. No one’s expected to attend his wake. Widow must go.

A genetically manipulated disease has fallen into the wrong hands. The Taskforce–a highly classified Special Forces unit–faces their most lethal mission yet. The Black Widows, a group of female suicide terrorists known for their unrivalled kill rate, are ready to unleash it. If an infected Black Widow detonates in the US, she'll begin a global pandemic. The Taskforce now races against the clock to prevent the release of the world's deadliest, invisible army. Will they save the world, or will everything we know be destroyed?

Hitchhiking all night without sleep, Jack Widow stops in a diner in a California mountain town with only two industries left: a small arms manufacturer and a forgotten Marine base. Wanting to drink coffee in peace, Widow can’t ignore his cop senses warning him about a man seated at another booth. The man is Arabic, Islamic, and a decorated Marine, which is unusual in a small town. But there’s something else. Something off. Something troubling.

Schüsse auf einer entlegenen Marinebasis. Der Schütze tötete sich selbst. Hauptverdächtiger der Militärpolizei? Ein Außenseiter namens Jack Widow. Die ganze Nacht per Anhalter unterwegs. Kein Schlaf. Widow hält an einem Diner in einer kalifornischen Bergstadt, in der es nur noch zwei Betriebe gibt: eine kleine Waffenfabrik und eine vergessene Marinebasis.

Liverpool, 1940. Journalist Ruth Holt is struggling in the terror of the Blitz when her young son is suddenly snatched away in broad daylight. Soon after, the kidnappers’ demands arrive. They are working with the Nazis, and she has no choice but to co-operate, or the authorities will learn that she is harbouring secrets of her own. Ruth’s job gives her access to critical information, and if she does not share it with Britain’s enemies, her child will face the consequences. Desperate, she falsifies information, lying to everyone: her employers, her family and her lover.

Die Navy SEALs haben ihn ausgebildet. Eine geheime Abteilung des NCIS hat ihn rekrutiert. Seine Feinde fürchten ihn. Als der Elite-Agent Jack Widow vom gewaltsamen Tod seiner als Sheriff in einer Kleinstadt arbeitenden Mutter erfährt, ist das der Auslöser für den explosiven Serienauftakt von Bestsellerautor Scott Blade.

Despite his wealth, Alex Thompson has been living in fear since his wife died in childbirth. A frivolous wrongful death lawsuit, harassing phone calls, and anonymous threats drive him and his five-year-old twins away from their home in Houston and into the crosshairs of a sniper. Molly McDill is a struggling single mom who lives next door to Alex and his twins. When she helps them adjust to their new life in the country, she exposes herself and her son to the same threat that followed Alex.

Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina since her husband, Noah Wilcox’s death, nearly five years earlier. With her son Ben turning five and living at home with her mother, Harper fights a growing restlessness, worried that moving on means leaving the memory of her husband behind. Her best friend, Allison Teague, is dealing with struggles of her own. Her husband, a former SEAL that served with Noah, was injured while deployed and has come home physically healed but fighting PTSD.