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In corrupt Russia, an erratic Vladimir Putin is determined to forge his country into a formidable superpower once again. He intends to redraw the map of Europe and will go to impossible extremes to realize his fantasies - including shooting down a civilian airliner packed with tourists bound for China. Kremlin scientists have developed a radical new weapon that could forever alter modern warfare.

For decades scientists have speculated about the untapped potential of the human brain. Now, neuroscientist Chuck Brenton has made an astonishing breakthrough. He has discovered the key - the crucial combination of practice and conditioning - to access the incredible power dormant in 90 percent of our brains. Applying his methods to test subjects, he has stimulated abilities that elevate brain function to seemingly godlike levels.

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Sarah Hampton is haunted by the night of a bloody massacre that destroyed her teenage romance with handsome Tyler Grant. Ten years later, the horror has returned: another of her friends has been murdered. Becoming entwined in the case despite terrible memories, Sarah hires Tyler, now a private investigator, to get some answers.

Novelista magistral, Daniel Silva ha fascinado a los lectores con una veintena de meticulosas y emocionantes novelas de espías en las que hace acto de presencia el “tan querido Gabriel Allon” (Booklist) en ingeniosas tramas que lo han llevado alrededor del mundo y de regreso, de Estados Unidos a Europa, Rusia o el Medio Oriente.

Silva regresa con otro éxito: una novela poderosa que muestra sus destacadas destrezas y su brillante imaginación y está destinada a ser una lectura obligatoria para la multitud de sus seguidores y la creciente legión de convertidos.

Las vacaciones en Venecia de Gabriel Allon se ven interrumpidas por la repentina muerte del papa Pablo VII. Su leal secretario, el arzobispo Luigi Donati, convoca a Gabriel a Roma para confiarle sus sospechas de que el Santo Padre no ha sufrido un infarto, sino que ha sido asesinado. ¿Sus razones? La desaparición del guardia de las estancias pontificias, y una carta del papa… dirigida a Gabriel.

A bold novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature - Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Moby-Dick. At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab returns to the mainland to confront the true author of the novel Moby-Dick, his former shipmate, Ishmael. For Ahab was not pulled into the ocean’s depths by a harpoon line, and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his untimely death have caused him grievous harm - after hearing about Ahab’s demise, his wife and child left Nantucket for New York, and now Ahab is on a desperate quest to find them.

An airplane lands at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. Onboard, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: Everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. A lethal new kind of virus may have surfaced, threatening our survival, and now Martin - one of the most sought after virologists on the planet until his career took a precipitous slide - is at the center of the investigation.

When a solid-gold reliquary missing from a church in Belgium suddenly resurfaces in America, a young newspaperman begins to investigate the story. At first it seems like just another case of a treasure stolen during World War II that has resurfaced. But it soon becomes apparent that much more is at stake.

Venice: Ethan Gage has escaped after surviving the naval battle of Trafalgar. His plan: To circumvent the French Empire and rescue his wife, Astiza, and son, Harry, from imprisonment by a ruthless mystic who seeks revenge for disfigurement, and from an evil dwarf alchemist who experiments with the occult on Prague's Golden Lane. Using death as his ruse, Gage seeks an unlikely ally in the Jewish Napoleonic soldier Gideon Mandel, who saves Ethan's life at Austerlitz, and Gideon's father, Aaron.

The year is 1803. Swashbuckling, ribald, and irreverent hero Ethan Gage has outsmarted wily enemies and survived dangerous challenges across the globe, from the wilds of the American frontier to the pyramids of Egypt. Now the rakish hero finds himself in the Caribbean with his wife, Astiza, on a desperate hunt to secure the lost treasure of Montezuma - a legendary hoard rumored to have been hidden from Cortés's plundering Spanish conquistadors. Hot on his heels are British agents who want the gold to finance a black slave revolt....

Wrongfully imprisoned in a Mexican jail, Jess Galvan, an outlaw-with-a-conscience, accepts a devil's bargain: transport a sinister package across the border in twenty-four hours for the jail's mythical - and terrifying - bogeyman El Cucuy. If Jess can make it across alive and give the iron box to cult leader Aaron Seth, he will be free and able to regain custody of his estranged daughter.

Un aire de misterio envuelve a una de las nuevas alumnas de un exclusivo colegio privado en Suiza. Se trata de una hermosa chica de lustrosa melena azabache que llega todas las mañanas escoltada por una caravana digna de un jefe de estado. Se dice que es hija de un poderoso empresario, pero es en realidad hija del príncipe heredero de Arabia Saudí. Cuando la joven es despiadadamente secuestrada, el príncipe acude al único capaz de rescatarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde: Gabriel Allon.

En un pequeño y aislado pueblo de la serranía de Cádiz, vive una misteriosa mujer de nacionalidad francesa que ha empezado a escribir unas memorias más que peligrosas. Es la historia de un hombre al que una vez amó en Beirut, años atrás, y de un hijo que le arrebataron en nombre de la traición. Esta mujer es la guardiana del secreto mejor guardado por el Kremlin: hace décadas la KGB infiltró a un agente doble en el mismo corazón de occidente, un topo que hoy se encuentra a las puertas del poder absoluto.

From highly acclaimed author Alice Henderson comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying fourth book in the Alex Carter series, in which the wildlife biologist encounters anti-immigrant vigilantes, rugged terrain, and threatening intruders in search of a sleek, powerful, and furtive animal—the jaguar.