Modern Thrillers

1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist. But, as he soon discovers, this deception hides an even deadlier truth. One of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the murky, chilling atmosphere of a divided city.

In Calcutta’s notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to a better life. Her unfailingly loyal client Tilu Shau has dreams too. A heady romantic and marginal novelist, Tilu is in love with the indifferent Lalee and wants to liberate her from her street life with marriage. But when a fellow sex worker and young mother is brutally murdered, the solicitous madam of the Blue Lotus invites Lalee to take the woman’s place “upstairs” as a high-end escort.

Sombras de Sangre en Madrid Un misterio inquietante de traición, obsesión y oscuros secretos que acechan en los rincones sombríos de Madrid. Cuando Diego Doria, un atormentado detective de Málaga, recibe una llamada desesperada de su exnovia, Macarena, no puede ignorarla. Está siendo perseguida por figuras de su pasado: mujeres que aseguran ser Tlahuelpuchi, vampiras del folclore mexicano. Impulsado por una mezcla de lealtad y sentimientos no resueltos, Diego viaja a Madrid, donde las brillantes calles de la ciudad esconden sombras mucho más profundas de lo que jamás imaginó. Madrid...

A brand new, full-length novel starring the master of the mystic arts, the Green Lama. Written by Adam Lance Garcia, this wall-to-wall pulp adventure pits the Green Lama and his friends against the Nazis of the Third Reich and an ancient evil from beyond the stars. Soon to become a true pulp classic, this is an audiobook that belongs in every true pulp fan's library.

Tras recuperar la custodia de su hija, un joven capitán, a las órdenes de un barco de guerra privado, tendrá que proteger el mayor tesoro del mundo de una banda terrorista. Esta vez no solo el Albatros está en peligro. Serie del Albatros («Es, sin lugar a dudas, la mejor novela de su género que he tenido en mis manos» — Revista Ejércitos) 1. El Albatros y los piratas de Galguduud 2. El corsario del oro negro 3. El galeón de Sint Maarten 4. El submarino del narco 5. La venganza de Alhucemas 6. El secuestro del Albatros 7. El leviatán del sur Sinopsis El tesoro más grande que ...

In this eagerly anticipated, brand-new Nina Reilly thriller, Perri O'Shaughnessy takes listeners back to Nina's first murder investigation, to the case that ignites her passionate commitment to fighting for justice. Working as a paralegal and attending law school at night, Nina has her hands full. She's fighting for custody of her young son Bob and overseeing a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of her mother, Virigina Reilly, whose health is rapidly declining after she suffered complications from an acupuncture procedure.

El destino está escrito, pero sólo los valientes pueden enfrentarlo. En El Séptimo Signo, Alexander Copperwhite te transporta a un thriller fascinante donde mitología, historia y conspiraciones modernas convergen. Cuando el padre Gómez es convocado en medio de la noche para ayudar a la policía con un misterioso caso, se desata una investigación que entrelaza los mitos griegos, el simbolismo oculto y oscuros secretos ancestrales. Desde un grabado en griego antiguo hasta cadáveres que revelan pistas macabras, la búsqueda de respuestas lleva a los protagonistas a recorrer España, ...

What do you do when a shadowy monster that belongs in your nightmares turns out to be real? When my young sister started dreaming about a terrifying being from the world of the dead, I told her not to be scared, it was just a figment of her imagination. That worked fine, until it turned up in our flat one night, as real as it gets… What does the creature want, and how is it connected to the ghostly soul of a little boy trying to communicate with my sister, a-hundred-and-fifty years after he died? The only way to find out is to tackle a monster that's apparently unkillable, face down an ...

GREED MAKES MEN ADMIT TO CRIMES THEY DON’T HAVE THE BRAINS TO COMMIT. The ’nineties loom. The Cold War is ending, and an information revolution is on its way. Freedom remains under attack... in death threats to writers, in the brutal crushing of political protests. Just as Temple concludes his time in the White House, the oil empire he built falls into the hands of a criminal. His allies—the Kingsleys, the Sheppards, and the Barronses—are once again at war. Temple’s chosen heir, the woman he thinks of as his daughter, is on the run. A pretender—Steven Kingsley—now sits on her ...

Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when his wife, Fiona, was brought out of the East. Fighting to uncover the truth, he must also confront the key relationships in his own life: Fiona is still far from stable now that she has returned to work, and their children remain in the clutches of his wealthy and manipulative father-in-law. Meanwhile, Werner Volkmann, Bernard's friend since childhood, is reluctant to get involved in Bernard's crusade.

Two unscrupulous antiquity dealers, Hugh Underdonk and Alfred Bacon, hope to get their hands on the Dare Diary, a long lost journal written by Eleanor Dare, one of the original members of Roanoke Island's Lost Colony. Detective Weston Wolf is drawn into this web of deception and murder by a beautiful woman who claims to be a descendant of Eleanor. As the bodies pile up, Wolf must untangle this web to save his own neck.

An unidentified cadaver is found in a freezer in an unoccupied luxury house. No-one seems to know or care who it is or who placed it there. When DS Alexandra Cupidi is handed the case, she can have no idea it will lead her to a series of murderous cover-ups and buried secrets. Namely the discovery of the skeleton of public-school boy, Trevor Wood, beneath a housing development.

Bernard has known that he is not getting the full picture from London Central ever since discovering that his wife, Fiona, was a double agent. Werner Volkmann has been cast out by London Central as untrustworthy. Yet Werner still seems able to pick up information that Bernard should have been told.

A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics. Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle.

Tal Neilson is slowly losing his mind. He’s convinced his dead father Geri has been murdered, but no one believes him. Geri’s voice in his head is screaming for revenge. Is the voice real or a product of Tal’s addiction? Can Tal ignore his widowed mother’s attraction to Geri’s business partner?

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A continuation of The Elijah Mandate series. Inspired by the book of Galatians, Freedom for the Chained follows Jackson Paul "J.P." Rutledge from The Elijah Mandate who is called to a rural group of believers bewitched by a distorted gospel laced with evil. The former heir apparent to his father's position as the Supreme Leader of America, J.P. once relished cleansing America from Christians who "corrupted the minds of the people." An incurable brain cancer robbed him of that inheritance. In agony, he longed for death to extinguish his misery. Instead, God intervened and J.P. embarked on a ...

デビュー作の絵本『あおぞらリボン』がベストセラーとなった陽子と、新聞記者の晴美は親友同士。共に幼いころ親に捨てられ児童養護施設で育った過去を持つ。

A SINGLE LIE COULD WIN THE WAR WITHOUT SHEDDING A DROP OF BLOOD. The chaotic ’eighties... political assassinations, drug wars, the computer revolution... Jared Sanders, the criminal oilman, is inches away from controlling the White House. His old nemesis, Senator Temple, stands in the way. This time, the senator is not alone. The heirs of the three oldest clans in the oil business join Temple. An aspiring lawyer with her eye on a supreme court seat, a Navy SEAL with a target on his back, and a dashing blueblood from New York City. Together, they could defeat the enemy without firing a ...