Modern Thrillers

When a mole exposes most of the bureau’s undercovers, two FBI agents are forced into a fake marriage. Laura O’Conner is a fresh-faced rookie; Robert Mills is a hardened disabled veteran sidelined due to a previous injury. They both hate each other’s tactics, yet they can’t keep their eyes off each other. Not only do they have to work together to bring down a notorious crime family, they must also remain professional and not let their feelings get in the way. However, their love can only be withheld for so long before they both submit to their feelings.This instalove enemy to lovers ...

In the tranquil coastal village of Emsworth, retired spy John Rehurt enjoys a quiet morning at the local pub, unaware that a storm is brewing on the horizon. As the community awakens to the aroma of spring, an unexpected blackout plunges the village into eerie silence, signalling the onset of chaos outside its idyllic confines. With critical infrastructures failing and communication systems down, Rehurt’s instincts kick in. The seemingly peaceful day turns chaotic as residents grapple with the unsettling quiet and loss of normalcy. As he observes the unfolding panic, his sharp mind and ...

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.

In Crimson Falls freedom isn’t guaranteed, people aren’t what they seem, and the pizza is killer. When a seemingly ordinary pizza delivery girl with a secret past finds herself trapped under the thumb of a ruthless mob boss, every heartbeat becomes a battle for survival. Troyan Pryce—once driven by ambition in the world of medicine—now navigates a labyrinth of betrayal, violence, and corrupt law enforcement, where even her family’s safety hangs in the balance. With the underworld closing in and dark forces rising from every shadow, Troyan must defy impossible odds to dismantle an ...

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.

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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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

GREAT LEADERS CANNOT AFFORD TO BE GOOD MEN. 1986: Old scores settled, U.S. President Temple must consolidate control over a volatile nation and a changing world. A nuclear explosion in far-off Russia, political shifts in Western Europe, the AIDS virus... amid the disarray, three former allies refuse to cede command over the oil sector. The Kingsleys, the Sheppards, and the Barronses have united under the woman Temple once thought of as his daughter. Neither she nor the decorated Navy SEAL who used to be her childhood sweetheart will concede. Then there’s the American aristocrat she’s ...

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.

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...

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.