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Sam McCready has served with distinction for seven years as chief of the cover operations desk of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, a post that is the culmination of a brilliant career as an inventive and intrepid field agent. But times have changed. A high-level policy decision demands that the SIS strip away its old-style operatives, and the first to be targeted for retirement is the freewheeling McCready.

Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge - these are themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Mauritius to Dublin. Whether his subject is assassination by stealth, gun-smuggling or the cruel confidence trick Forsyth is never less than compulsive.Here are eight stories with the Forsyth touch - a brilliant and original collection by an incomparable craftsman of suspense.

It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine - Russian meltdown will make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of a cup-cake.

Knocking off a bank or an armored truck is merely crude. Knocking off an entire republic has, I feel, a certain style." So says mining magnate Sir James Manson, a shadowy titan of London's financial district, who is scheming a coup d'état in the small West African dictatorship of Zangaro, where a secret source of platinum lies waiting to be exploited.

1963. An anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of French terrorist organisation O.A.S. to murder the French president, General Charles de Gaulle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to reach. Only one man could do the job: an assassin of legendary talent known only as The Jackal. This remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped. But he is a man without a name, without an identity; a lethal spectre.

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever - his own. For more than 40 years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched.

Al Isra heißt das Codewort für einen Terrorplan der Al Quaida von unvorstellbarem Ausmaß. Wann, wo und wie das Attentat erfolgen soll, stellt die Geheimdienste CIA und SIS vor ein großes Rätsel. Es gelingt Mike Martin, einem englischen Geheimagenten, sich in die Organisation einzuschleusen, aber kann er den tödlichen Plan stoppen? Ein atemberaubender Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt...

When British and US intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation, they're ready for action. But what can they do? They know nothing about the attack, so they plant The Afghan, a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former commander of the Taliban.

Years after the events of The Odessa File, Peter Miller’s grandson, Georg, has become a successful podcaster. He thought that the Odessa – a Nazi network whose goal is to destroy the Jewish race – was disbanded a long time ago. But in a hospital in Berlin, he hears a whisper from a sick man that stills his heart: the Odessa has returned, more powerful than ever before.

Do počítačových databází Pentagonu, americké Národní bezpečnostní agentury a CIA se dostal hacker. K velkému překvapení tajných služeb je jím britský mladík s aspergerovým syndromem, Luke Jennings. Ten nemá žádný tajný záměr, jen nesmírně brilantní mozek. Zdá se, že vydání do Spojených států ho nemine – dokud bývalý britský agent Adrian Weston nedostane jiný nápad: Jestliže Luke dokáže tohle udělat nám, co může udělat našim nepřátelům? Po poradě s americkým prezidentem a britskou premiérkou se rozhodne mladíka vypustit na geopolitické minové pole ve službách USA a Velké Británie.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fox by Frederick Forsyth. The 18th novel from best-selling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, the man who defined the genre. The Fox is based on the stories of British hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love and centres around an 18-year-old schoolboy with Asperger’s Syndrome who is able to penetrate intricate firewalls to access the secrets at the highest level of foreign governments and other major organisations.

The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office. If it succeeds, he will be psychologically and emotionally destroyed. Only one man can stop it - Quinn, the world's foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man, unaware that ransom was never the kidnapper's real objective...

Cuando un joven voluntario americano es brutalmente asesinado en Serbia, su millonario abuelo no duda en exigir venganza. Para localizar al asesino contacta con Cal Dexter, veterano de las fuerzas especiales de la guerra de Vietnam y la única persona capaz de llevar a cabo con éxito esta arriesgada misión. Pero lo que empieza como una tragedia personal, se convierte rápidamente en una violenta historia que implica a los más peligrosos agentes del terrorismo internacional....

Esta frase nos introduce en la convulsa Rusia de 1999. Esta gran superpotencia zozobra en un mar de hiperinflación, caos económico y criminalidad. Las elecciones se aproximan y una sola voz carismática resuena en todo el país. Igor Komárov, líder derechista, promete reformar la moneda, acabar con el crimen, eliminar la corrupción y devolver la gloria a Rusia. Pero los dirigentes occidentales se ven conmocionados cuando llega a sus manos un documento secreto del que se desprende que Komárov no es el salvador de la nación sino un nuevo Hitler.

Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond's grandson was an aid volunteer in the former Yugoslavia. After he was murdered, Edmond sought revenge by hiring an ex-Vietnam special forces agent to hunt the killer down: Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal, domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism.

Die Veränderung der politischen Landkarte hat auch Folgen für den britischen Geheimdienst. Sam McCready, genannt "der Täuscher" und Spezialist für verdeckte Aktionen, rollt die riskanten Operationen hinter den weltpolitischen Fronten auf: die lautlosen Kriege der Agenten und Spione, ihre Doppelspiele zwischen Moskau und der Karibik, dem Nahen Osten und Washington.

¿Y si el arma más peligrosa del mundo no fuera un misil inteligente, un submarino sigiloso o un virus informático? ¿Y si, en realidad, se tratara de un chico de diecisiete años con una mente prodigiosa, capaz de sortear los sistemas de seguridad más sofisticados y de manipular cualquier arma y volverla en contra de los más poderosos? ¿Qué no estaría dispuesta a hacer cualquier agencia de inteligencia para tenerlo de su lado? Hay que encontrarlo y capturarlo. O protegerlo y salvarlo.

Der Selbstmord des alten Juden Salomon Taubers wäre fast unbemerkt geblieben, hätte nicht der Zufall dem jungen Hamburger Illustrierten-Reporter Peter Miller ein vergilbtes Tagebuch in die Hände gespielt: Die minutiösen Aufzeichnungen lassen in ihm den fürchterlichen Verdacht aufkommen, dass der einstige Lagerkommandant Eduard Roschmann noch lebt. Die Jagd auf Roschmann wird ein Abenteuer auf Leben und Tod. Miller gerät in das Räderwerk der mächtigen Geheimorganisation ODESSA, einer Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen.

Este audiolibro empieza con los primeros años de Erik Muhlheim, el «fantasma», en su lóbrego refugio del subsuelo parisino, donde, contra toda previsión, desarrolla una sensibilidad única para la música. Joven, incapaz de asumir su soledad, se enamora perdidamente de Christine, una de las cantantes. Movido por un deseo irreprimible, rapta a la muchacha.

Paříž, 1963. Velkolepé oslavy Dne osvobození se jako každý rok účastní francouzský prezident Charles de Gaulle. Kromě několika policistů nikdo ze statisícového davu netuší, že přes speciální hlídky pronikl nenápadný muž. Profesionální nájemný vrah s přezdívkou Šakal, najatý teroristickou organizací OAS, čeká v úkrytu na vhodný okamžik, aby prezidenta zastřelil. Podaří se policistům zabijáka zastavit než bude pozdě? Kdo má skutečný zájem na prezidentově smrti?