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Als Atlee Pine sechs Jahre alt ist, dringt ein Mann in ihr Kinderzimmer ein und entführt ihre eineiige Zwillingsschwester Mercy. Mercy taucht nie wieder auf, Atlee bleibt traumatisiert zurück. Knapp dreißig Jahre später ist sie zur einzelgängerischen FBI-Agentin geworden, die sich ein möglichst einsames Büro nahe des Grand Canyon gewählt hat. Eines Tages wird am Boden der Schlucht ein grausam aufgeschlitztes Maultier gefunden. Ein scheinbar harmloser Provinzfall. Doch dann stößt Atlee auf Spuren einer mörderischen Verschwörung, die bis in die obersten politischen Kreise reicht.

Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, planning the heist of the century - two short cons to fund a long con, then a life of unashamed luxury, incognito in a foreign land. Jonathan DeHaven, the shy head of the Rare Books Division at the Library of Congress, is planning nothing more than an uneventful day amongst his cherished collection. But when Jonathan is found dead by Caleb Shaw, a member of the Camel Club, two conspiracies are destined to meet....

Mason "Mace" Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything - her career, her liberty - and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside, Mace is trying to rebuild her life and track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side, she has to work in the shadows: there's a vindictive US attorney on her tail and she's just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars.

As a young conscripted soldier, Rufus Harms was jailed for the brutal killing of a schoolgirl. Yet after 25 hard years of incarceration, a stray letter from the US Army reveals new facts about the night of the murder - and the evil secret shared by some of Washington's most powerful men. Fearful for his life, Harms seizes his one chance to escape. But within hours the only people who knew about the appeal have been hunted down and eliminated. As the unknown assassins close in on Harms, ex-cop turned criminal attorney John Fiske is drawn into the web.

Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war - and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way. As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other, the lives of three very different people will never be the same again. As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control?

È una prigione diversa dalle altre. Qui comanda la disciplina militare. I suoi sistemi di sicurezza non hanno uguali. Nessuno dei prigionieri può nemmeno sognare la fuga. Sanno benissimo che fuggire è impossibile... fino ad ora. Il fratello maggiore dell'agente speciale John Puller, Robert, è stato condannato per alto tradimento e attentato alla sicurezza nazionale. La sua inspiegabile evasione lo rende il criminale più ricercato del Paese. Alcuni esponenti del governo sono convinti che l'agente rappresenti la loro migliore occasione per catturare Robert vivo.

Der Auftragskiller Will Robie nimmt gerade seine nächste Zielperson ins Visier, da gerät er mitten in einen Banküberfall und wird als Geisel genommen - zusammen mit dem ehemaligen Geheimagenten Oliver Stone. Aber ist es tatsächlich nur ein normaler Raubüberfall? Oder sind die Bankräuber in Wahrheit hinter etwas anderem her - etwas, das viel wertvoller ist als alles Geld im Tresor?

Amos Decker, David Baldacci's unique special agent, who suffered a head injury that resulted in giving him the gift of a remarkable memory together with a condition called synaesthesia, takes on another case in

The Fix. Walter Dabney is a family man. A loving husband and the father of four grown daughters, he's built a life many would be proud of. But then the unthinkable happens. Standing outside the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Dabney shoots schoolteacher Anne Berkshire in cold blood....

Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, a legend on the Mighty Johns football team at Draven University, disappeared after scoring a record-breaking touchdown in front of 25,000 spectators. Ruggles, instead of celebrating, continued running, ball in hand, into a passageway that led under the field. He was never seen again. His disappearance had mystified the community for decades until another player, brilliant physics major Merlin North, turns detective and becomes fixated on discovering what happened to Herschel Ruggles.

Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive, but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma. It would seem their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae, agrees to raise the children on her Virginia mountain farm. But before long their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain.

Washington, D.C.: Der Sprecher des Repräsentantenhauses ist einem Anschlag zum Opfer gefallen. Drei Tage später wird der Leiter der Abteilung für seltene Bücher in der Kongressbibliothek tot aufgefunden - in einem geschlossenen Tresorraum, zu dem niemand sonst Zutritt hatte. Sein Kollege Caleb Shaw wird zum Nachlassverwalter ernannt. Er stellt fest, dass ein wertvolles Buch aus der Bibliothek verschwunden ist, und findet es im Haus des Toten wieder. Aber ist dieses Buch echt oder eine Fälschung?

Memory man FBI agent Amos Decker returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive gated community in Florida. Things are changing for Decker. He’s in crisis following the suicide of a close friend and receipt of a letter concerning a personal issue which could change his life forever. Together with the prospect of working with a new partner, Frederica White, Amos knows that this case will take all of his special skills to solve.

Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. And he quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what is at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial.

Er ist einer der exklusivsten Clubs der Welt. Er existiert am Rande von Washington, D.C., hat keine Macht und besteht aus nur vier Mitgliedern. Ihr Ziel ist es, die Wahrheit zu finden. Ein Mann führt dieses zusammengewürfelte Quartett an. Er ist ein Mann ohne Vergangenheit und nennt sich "Oliver Stone". Tag und Nacht studieren Stone und seine Freunde wilde Verschwörungstheorien, das aktuelle Tagesgeschehen und die großen und kleinen Skandale in Washington.

Babbage Town ist streng geheim. Dort arbeiten Genies an einer Maschine, die jeden Code knacken soll. Doch nun ist einer der Wissenschaftler ermordet worden. Nur Viggie, die Tochter des Toten, kennt die Hintergründe. Aber Viggie ist autistisch, und jedes Mal, wenn sie nach ihrem Vater gefragt wird, spielt sie auf dem Klavier ein bestimmtes Stück...

FBI agent Atlee Pine is at the end of her long journey to discover what happened to her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted when the girls were just six years old - an incident that destroyed her family and left Atlee physically and mentally scarred. She knew her sister and parents were out there somewhere. And she had to find them. Dead or alive. Atlee and her assistant, Carol Blum, discover the truth. But the truth hurts. And hurt makes you tough. So how tough do you have to be to forgive?

Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he’s approached by an unfamiliar man. But he instantly recognizes the man’s name: Meryl Hawkins. He’s the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective. Though a dozen years in prison have left Hawkins unrecognizably aged and terminally ill, one thing hasn’t changed: he maintains he never committed the murders. Could it be possible that Decker made a mistake all those years ago?

Known by his alias, 'Oliver Stone', John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States government to unleash a massive manhunt.

Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious events in Baronville, Pennsylvania, are raising the highly tuned antennae of Agent Amos Decker and his FBI partner, Alex Jamison. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation turns into a murder investigation when two bodies are found in a nearby deserted house. With the body count rising, Decker and Jamison dig deep to uncover a sinister truth in Baronville, which could be the canary in the coalmine for the rest of the country.

Memories can be a real killer. Melvin Mars awaits his fate on death row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged 20 years old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents - just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL.