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Nicolas Creel, cinico e potente magnate dell'industria bellica, ha un obiettivo ambizioso: ridisegnare gli equilibri politici ed economici mondiali piegandoli alla sua visione e ai suoi interessi. Per raggiungerlo, chiede la collaborazione di Dick Pender, esperto di perception management, che dovrà pilotare l'opinione pubblica diffondendo notizie false che attribuiscono alla Russia una serie di crimini atroci, attraverso un abile e spregiudicato uso dei media e della rete, generando reazioni a catena in tutto il pianeta. Shaw è un uomo che non ha mai avuto nulla da perdere, con un passato da dimenticare e un presente al servizio di un'agenzia internazionale di intelligence impegnata a mantenere la pace e la sicurezza. Costantemente in giro per il mondo per missioni pericolosissime e spesso ai limiti della legalità, per la prima volta nella sua vita si scopre a sperare in un futuro diverso da condividere con Anna, la donna di cui è innamorato. Katie James è una giornalista che, all'apice della professione, si è ritrovata a fare i conti con la propria coscienza e le proprie debolezze, uscendone pesantemente sconfitta. Ora ha l'occasione di ricostruirsi una carriera e una vita, e non vuole lasciarsela sfuggire a nessun costo.

Tercera entrega de la serie "Camel Club", por el autor de los best sellers Camel Club y Los coleccionistas. Oliver Stone y los demás miembros del Camel Club -un grupo de ex agentes de la CIA dispuestos a no dejar impunes los crimenes perpetrados por los servicios de inteligencia- se enfrentan a una peligrosa aventura con dos frentes abiertos. Su amiga Annabelle Conroy ha estafado millones de dolares a Jerry Bagger, asesino de su madre y dueño de un exitoso casino en Atlantic City. La amenaza que representa ahora Bagger palidece al lado del recien llegado: Harry Finn. En apariencia es un hombre amable, pero ya ha asesinado a tres hombres. Finn pone el punto de mira en Stone, y los motivos que lo llevan a hacerlo seran lo mas sorprendente de toda la novela. Los lectores deberan reconsiderar su vision del bien y del mal cuando la historia llegue a un final explosivo que cambiara para siempre a los supervivientes de la aventura.

Sean King y Michelle Maxwell regresan con su caso más espeluznante, en el que topan con la implacable seguridad nacional. Quinta entrega de la serie de "King y Maxwell". Edgar Roy, un supuesto asesino en serie encarcelado en una prision federal de maxima seguridad, aguarda el juicio. Se enfrenta a una condena casi segura. Ted Bergin, el abogado de Roy y viejo amigo y mentor de Sean, recurre a este y Michelle Maxwell para que le ayuden en el caso. Pero la investigacion se desbarata antes de comenzar. De camino a su primera reunion con Bergin, Sean y Michele descubren el cadaver del abogado. Ahora son ellos quienes han de encargarse de hacer las preguntas que al parecer nadie quiere que sean respondidas: ¿es Roy un asesino?, ¿quien mato a Bergin? Debido a su obstinacion, acaban por enfrentarse a los niveles mas elevados del gobierno y los mas oscuros recovecos del poder. Durante un enfrentamiento aterrador que supondra una prueba durisima para Sean y Michele, puede que estos se vean separado para siempre. Tras el gran exito de Una fraccion de segundo, El juego de las horas, Una muerte sospechosa y Secretos familiares. Sean King y Michelle Maxwell regresan en su caso espeluznante.

Evan Waller ist ein Monster. Dank seiner Bereitschaft, alles und jeden zu verkaufen, hat er ein gewaltiges Vermogen angehauft. Nun baut er ein neues Geschaft auf - ein Geschaft, das zu Millionen von Toten fuhren wird. Aber Shaw, dermysteriose Agent aus Die Kampagne, ist ihm auf den Fersen. Er hat Waller bis in die Provence verfolgt und muss verhindern, dass der letzte Deal unter Dach und Fach gebracht wird. Dann kommt ihm jedoch eine unbekannte Agentin in die Quere.Auf ihrer Jagd nach Waller entbrennt ein todliches Duell zwischen ihnen.

From David Baldacci--the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation.And Zero Day is where it all begins....John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.

In South America a wealthy ninety-six year old man reads a book late into the night. Within an hour, he is dead, leaving a trail of secrets behind him. Six months later, in Provence, Shaw from The Whole Truth witnesses the murder of a mysterious man, his body left lifeless at the bottom of a pool. Shaw barely escapes the incident himself; and with a new partner of sorts in tow, begins to realise that there has to be another organization at work that rivals his own in secrecy. At the same time, half a world away, journalist Katie James is working on a new story. But shortly after meeting with a potential inside source she's unconscious and on a plane to an unknown destination. As Baldacci pulls the reader around the world at a blinding pace, the new Shaw and Katie James chronicle will leave readers' hearts pounding; and wondering if anyone is actually safe anymore...

Set in Washington D.C., this fascinating thriller of unparalleled suspense dares to explore an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy: a vicious murder involving the US President and a cover-up orchestrared by his zealously loyal Chief of Staff and the Secret Service. But, unknown to the President and his lackeys, one unlikely witness saw everything. Trapped behind a two-way mirror in a country house in Maryland, Luther Whitney, a professional burglar, witnesses an event that destroys his faith in justice. By the time he escapes, pursued by two Secret Service agents, a young woman has been sexually assaulted, then shot dead. And a breathtaking cover-up has been set in motion.

It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie's death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.

Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, he has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear - leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an air-crash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on suddenly fell from the sky, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all. Soon the startling truth behind Jason Archer's disappearance explodes into a sinister plot with the murder of the country's single most powerful individual. And Archer's wife, Sidney, is plunged straight into the violence that is leaving behind a trail of dead bodies and shocking, exposed secrets.

This is the new heart-racing thriller from the number one International bestselling author. John Puller is a former war hero and now the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. He is a loner with few possessions by preference, but he has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable determination for finding the truth. His father was the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, but now resides in a nursing home far from his battlefield glory. Puller's older brother, also a military vet, is serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate into the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's home. It is something that will turn an already complicated case on its head. As Puller digs through deception after red herring, he realizes that absolutely nothing, and nobody, he's so far seen in this small town, are what they seem. He is truly one man against an overwhelming force.