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 the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the angry new boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen.

Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities.

Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?

An international assassin, known as The Operative, returns to his native America with a price on his head. However, he is soon arrested for murder in a Northern California town. He warns the sheriff that if he were to be arraigned and their location revealed on social media, his life would be over — and so would the town’s. Despite the law enforcement’s best efforts to conceal The Operative’s whereabouts, he is soon discovered on the internet. Other assassins cross the Atlantic to kill him and collect the ten million dollar bounty. Jab Boone must work backwards to uncover the hit-...

1945. Struggling for survival in a doomed Corsair fighter plane in the skies over the Pacific Ocean, World War II Marine pilot David Hamilton’s life suddenly and mysteriously takes a strange and ominous turn, leaving him searching for answers as he finds himself lost and alone in a different time, place, and perhaps, identity. With no choice but to enlist the help of two young strangers, David embarks on a desperate journey in a 1941 Ford Coupe that possesses its own secret past and purpose, to find his way back home and keep a promise made to the most important person in his life. As ...

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 ...

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.

Bernard is trying hard to readjust his life in the face of questions about his wife, Fiona, and her defection to the East. Is she the brilliant high-flyer that her Department seems to think she is? Or is she a spent force, a wife and mother unwilling or unable to face her domestic responsibilities? Bernard doesn't know but is determined to find out. Bernard's boss, Dicky Cruyer, is certainly not anxious to reveal what he knows, as he jostles for power with Fiona herself in London Central, and takes to the road with Bernard on a mysterious mission to Poland.

Rohan Evans can't live in a world without his wife, so he turns to magic—even opening himself up to a man with access to the ancient, forbidden art of necromancy. Now the only thing standing between Rohan and being reunited with his true love is a dangerous expedition to ancient temples and underground mysteries—and a crazy old man with strange ambitions. The fate of the world, both ours and the afterlife, rests on what Rohan does next.

Rest, relaxation, and cool beers on the horizon… Former Special Forces Major William Brody is finally due for some R and R. Just trying to clear the brutal shadows of the past from his mind, Brody’s next mission is clear: Spearfishing and Scuba Diving in warm clear tropical waters, with some cold beers on the beach. Just living the dream… As Brody makes friends with the locals settling into the island retreat, his plans for peace and relaxation are suddenly shattered. After weeks of terrorizing the island paradise, a ruthless Arab captain finally commits the unthinkable: he kidnaps a ...

In the modern world, life lessons are not always as black and white as who wins a race between a tortoise and a hare. Modern Day Fables features eleven lessons for us adults, we who face challenges that present a palette of grays in which the morals are often more gritty, trampled on, hard fought, hard won, and not always glorious. In these eleven fables, travel the subterranean world of lessons not oft told because they are challenging to the status quo, and championing of the individual who stands alone amid the world around us. Decide what you think, who wins and who loses, who stands ...

Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. And now that he’s left office, he’s accepted one of history’s largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. He hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal - secrets with the power to alter world politics, secrets with the power to kill.

A group of university students hold a Book Club, essentially as another excuse to eat takeaway food and drink copious amounts of booze on a Friday night, once a month. The latest ‘Book of the Month’ is titled ‘Geoffrey’ and they are highly critical as it failed to exploit the powerful relics highlighted in the book; a missed opportunity in their opinion. One of the students suggests that since they have all become such critical, literary experts, they should each write a short story to show how these relics could have been used in a more exciting and dramatic way. In the drunken ...

Sometimes it takes decades to find your true family… but only a moment to lose them.Separated at birth, these twins find they have more than genetics in common: they’re both the target of killers who are willing to risk everything to take them out. Third book in That Twin Thing series, the excitement keeps on going for Van, Junior, Cindy, and everyone else they meet. Was peace even possible?

Über das BuchDiese alten Mauern verbergen mehr als nur eine lange Geschichte.Das Angebot, in einem geschichtsträchtigen Anwesen für ein gutes Gehalt die Bibliothek zu archivieren, ist für den jungen Absolventen Matthieu verlockend. Sein Auftraggeber, der mysteriöse Monsieur Machard, lädt ihn in das alte Haus ein. Bald beginnt Matthieu mit der Arbeit und wird der Familie Lerot vorgestellt, in deren Besitz sich das Haus befindet.

Jake Hughes cannot run from the fact that he is entering into a head on collision with the Mob! Six weeks earlier Jake Hughes was living a quiet life in America with his wife Emily, They decide to take their annual vacation, walking in England. A chance meeting during the walk wakens a hidden memory in Jake, which drags him into a direct conflict with a powerful Mafia Family, this catapults him into a cat and mouse game life or death! He teams up with, Jonty Ball, a retired detective inspector, between them they thread the pieices of an unsolved murder twenty years earlier, but how can it ...

親友の自殺を目撃したことがあるという転校生の告白を、ある種の自慢のように感じた由紀は、自分なら死体ではなく、人が死ぬ瞬間を見てみたいと思った。