In �Het patriottenspel� is Cotton Malone met pensioen. Hij runt een kleine boekhandel in Kopenhagen. Maar wanneer zijn voormalige baas bij de veiligheidsdienst een beroep op hem doet om een Noord-Koreaanse dief op te sporen die gevoelige documenten van de Amerikaanse overheid in zijn bezit heeft, ra

Nachdem die Journalistin Ambra Vinter mit einer Enthüllungsstory einen landesweiten Skandal heraufbeschworen hat, wird sie nach Kiruna zwangsversetzt. Kiruna ist die nördlichste Stadt Schwedens und der letzte Ort, an dem Ambra kurz vor Weihnachten sein möchte. Dort trifft sie auf den Sicherheitsexpe

This historical novel set during the eighteenth century recounts the tumultuous final years of famed English lexicographer and poet Samuel Johnson. In 1764, Britain's greatest man of letters-the writer of the first English dictionary-shut himself in his room and refused to come out. Exhausted from w

### From Publishers Weekly In the spring of 1945, Lieutenant-Colonel Repp, the titular sharpshooter of this compelling thriller, has been charged by his Nazi superiors in the collapsing Third Reich to commit a particularly despicable assassination. Aided by the deadly creativity of German military

Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of mixed descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist wealthy classes. While others like them leave, the Sahli's cling on to their homes and livelihoods as Cairo is rocked by violent anti-British demo

SUMMARY: Hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave is used to working alone, and this time he'll have to go where even the government won't. An innocent man has been shot and two young people are missing. But tracking them down is just the beginning. To keep them and his covert team alive, Jonathan mus

Publishers Weekly Review: "The premise invokes classic black-and-white noir, while lurid supernatural details add a touch of blood red." "Yesterday morning my life was great; I had a new job and a beautiful girlfriend. Then I end up in the middle of a gunfight, my girlfriend dies, and I find out th

Cold War: A Novel

As state security in 1970s Albania tortures a prisoner named Dimiter, known as the American "agent from hell," the staff at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital becomes enmeshed in a series of unexplainable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.

Perched on a dry desert mesa, San Judas is a home of last resort for landless peasants who build makeshift homes and a vibrant community on “worthless” land that no one else wants. Or so it seems. Until suddenly, and tragically, everyone wants it for their own. The Road Through San Judas chronicles

From the author of the _New York Times_ bestselling _Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter_ _,_ comes UNHOLY NIGHT, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism. They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides t

_Même la dernière goutte d essence permet encore d accélérer. Mais pour combien de temps ? L'humanité va-t-elle affronter son plus grand défi ?_ La fin de l'ère du pétrole est imminente. Quand le plus grand champ pétrolifère du monde se tarit, en Arabie séoudite, des bouleversements se mettent

The Man in the Iron Mask continues the tale of our four heroes from The Three Musketeers, Dumas's wildly popular introduction to the mischievous Musketeers – D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos, and Athos. In this dark sequel, we track their lives many years after the prodigious moment when D'Artagnan recei

Fifteen horror stories by the author of "Heart-Shaped Box". In "Better than Home," a disabled boy connects with his father at a baseball field. In "Voluntary Committal," a teen's savant brother helps him escape a friend's bad influence. Strong language and some violence. Bram Stoker Award. 2005.;Bes

SUMMARY: On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend's shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to write. "Once upon a cruddy time on a cr