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Hunting down a terrorist plot isn’t exactly Becky Salazar’s idea of a happy holiday. But duty calls, and if there’s one thing she is committed to, it’s using her exceptional language and analytical skills to stop insurgents and save lives. This time the unknown threat isn’t in the Middle East or a major city but centered on the tiny town of Rosman, North Carolina—and that peculiarity may be the scariest piece of the whole puzzle.

In the aftermath of a devastating terrorist attack on a U.S. Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, Major Jake Baylor faces his most personal mission yet. When a VBIED explosion and mortar attack kills dozens, including his best friend Clint McNamara, Baylor and his elite Task Force Raven spring into action. What appears to be a brutal cartel assault is actually something far more sinister—a coordinated diversion allowing ISIS operative Abu Waleed Hassan, known as "The Reaper," and his team of jihadists to slip across the border undetected.

Tokyo. Un incendie criminel ravage le coeur de l'un des plus grands quartiers d'affaires au monde. L'enquête est confiée à Hayato Ishida, flic prodige mais solitaire qui tente de se reconstruire en marge de la Crim. Il est rejoint par Noémie Legrand, Franco-Japonaise décidée à briser les chaînes d'un quotidien frustrant. Sur leur chemin, un couple d'étudiants dans le besoin, à la merci d'une communauté où solidarité rime avec danger. Et, tapi dans l'ombre, celui qui se fait appeler Izanagi, bien décidé à mettre son plan destructeur à exécution. 

Das sensationelle Thrillerdebüt von Filmlegende Michael Caine. Auf einer Müllkippe in Ostlondon wird eine Metallkiste mit radioaktivem Material gefunden. Doch die sofort herbeigerufene Polizei kommt zu spät: Bevor die Beamten eintreffen, wird die Kiste bei einem brutalen Überfall geraubt. Neben den Geheimdiensten ermitteln auch DCI Harry Taylor und sein Team. Sie sind bekannt für ihr unorthodoxes Vorgehen – aber auch für ihre Erfolge.

Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team Six operator and a hi-tech business executive with an Oregon-based defense contractor, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned his commission in 2002 and, over the next several years, worked for three defense contractors, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while concealing his PTSD. In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a wealthy terrorist mastermind who needed classified biometrics encryption communications systems from EyeD4 Systems to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching nuclear suitcase bombs.

Ein Wirkstoff. Ein Preis. Eine Frage: Smart oder Lame? John Raymond ist bereit, für Genuine alles zu geben. Die Substanz steigert seinen IQ und garantiert ihm den Weg nach oben. Doch der Erfolg währt nicht ewig. Und plötzlich hängt sogar sein Leben am seidenen Faden.Genuine Madness ist ein Atlanta-Thriller mit einer Mischung aus Dystopie, Wissenschaft und jeder Menge Action.

Trudno wejść na najbardziej niebezpieczny szczyt świata. Jeszcze trudniej z niego zrezygnować! Michał i Wiktor wspinają się na K2. Kiedy są już blisko szczytu, docierają do nich niepokojące wieści. Coś złego wydarzyło się w luksusowym hotelu Himalaya, w którym przebywają ich dziewczyny. W zaskakującym zwrocie akcji nie tylko wspinaczom grozi teraz śmiertelne niebezpieczeństwo. Usytuowany w niedostępnych rejonach Pakistanu hotel stał się celem ataku terrorystycznego. Iga i Paula, wraz z innymi gośćmi Himalayi, są uwięzione i trzymane pod bronią. Jak w tej sytuacji postąpią ich partnerzy? Czy powinni przerwać atak szczytowy?

Seine fünf Wochen in den Händen von Terroristen haben ihn das mit unbarmherziger Gründlichkeit gelehrt. Mit der Hilfe seiner Kameraden von Linear Tactical hat er sein Leben so gut es geht wieder in den Griff bekommen. Aber über seine Liebe zu Grace Brandt, ihre Rolle bei seiner Gefangennahme und die Tatsache, dass sie gestorben ist, ist er nie hinweggekommen.

When SEC Investigator Barrett Johnson uncovers a sinister scheme to profit from America’s downfall, he knows he has to act fast. Someone is making secret financial trades from the Middle East that could only benefit in the event of a catastrophic terrorist attack on America. But when the CIA refuses to listen, Johnson realizes only one other person in the world can help him: The Hangman, an elusive assassin now more known for the noose left wrapped around his victim’s neck than his brilliant banking skills.

A year after high-risk missions to stop terrorists, arms dealers, and criminals, CIA officer Olivia Markham no longer operates in the field. Instead, she runs a clinic for immigrants in a backwater Balkans capital. Olivia has also found a modicum of peace—and someone to love. Her career trajectory? A safe desk job at Langley. Until the day terrorists attack the clinic, upending Olivia’s world and sending her back into active fieldwork.

Lucas, a veteran journalist, sees a big story brewing within a strike at a local mining company when explosions rip through the plant, but he gets bumped by Jamie, a junior reporter. To keep his finger in the pie, he agrees to mentor the new journalist while following a second story about a sex-worker found half beaten to death. As the attacks escalate, the two must work together to determine if this is a global threat or the first volley in an international trade war.

Lily Tso is stuck in the routine of a Hotel Guest Services Officer but her world turns upside down when she discovers that her parents, whom she believed dead, are very much alive. The shock pales in comparison to the revelation that she must now undertake a perilous mission to save America from a catastrophic biological attack. Thrown into a whirlwind of danger and deceit, Lily teams up with an FBI Special Agent and a daring young tycoon. Together they must navigate a labyrinth of threats and adversaries determined to stop them at any cost.

Una novela que refleja la lucha por la supervivencia de sus protagonistas en medio de la muerte, el sufrimiento y la destrucción que provoca la devastadora guerra de Siria. La niña a las puertas del infierno muestra las distintas caras del conflicto civil sirio: musulmanes europeos que viajan...

Killing Hikamt Mehsud is the story of a Pakistani Special Services Officer from Special Operations Unit known as The "Ghost" who is transferred to Wana, Waziristan for helping Local Commander coupe up with increasing IED Attacks by Baitullah Mehsud. The author of the book, Naveed Ali Sheikh, narrates the story while adding many past events and their historical significance.

Seven years after the 9/11 attacks, the hunt for Osama bin Laden is as relentless as ever. Yet there are more objectives than the hunt for infamous mass murderer. The four-man Ranger fireteam led by Captain Robert Cash, with newly married Lieutenant Jack Grant his second-in-command, discover the enemy comes in many guises. On a search and destroy mission in the northern city of Mazari Sharif, a woman falsely alleges the Rangers have invaded the home of an innocent Afghan businessman, murdered him, and raped his wife.

In the near-future, eco-terrorism against major fossil and nuclear energy facilities is widespread. At the same time, Badger Energy, the latest company formed by energy entrepreneur and climate change activist, Richard Strossel, is developing a new technology that uses high-temperature superconductors to store enough renewable wind and solar energy to power a city reliably. However, these systems can be made to explode with energy release equivalent to a tactical nuclear weapon.

The crew of a fly-by-wire business jet find themselves on a flight across the Atlantic Ocean unable to control the aircraft's direction, altitude, or speed. The aircraft's flight control system and engines are all controlled by computers that react to pilot inputs unless something goes wrong. Something has gone horribly wrong. The captain was once an Air Force fighter pilot and should be more than capable of handling any aircraft problem. Her mechanic, an electrical engineer and former Air Force maintenance officer, is in the jump seat but is also stumped.

A Place Unmade is a book about someone who commits a crime, causes a disaster and the people who try to stop him. Valentina Sorelli is a part-time graduate student and full-time marketing director of a community park in New Orleans. Jack Stillman is a corporate executive who hijacks his company's research for personal gain, and he doesn't care about the consequences. Their separate paths intersect when Valentina meets Jack's son Sam, who becomes the link between the worlds of scientific discovery and corporate espionage.

Dodelijk parfum is een bloedstollende thriller over David Morton en zijn wereldwijde strijd tegen de klok, van China tot Athene, van Londen naar Tel Aviv. In de nasleep van de Golfoorlog in [geanonimiseerd telefoonnummer] houdt een megalomane terrorist de wereld in zijn greep. Hij dreigt elke grote stad te vergiftigen met een dodelijk virus. Met de dodelijke stof 'anthrax' is hij in staat om miljoenen mensen te vermoorden binnen slechts een paar minuten. Hij demonstreert de kracht van het middel door het in het drinkwater van een klein Zuid-Afrikaans dorp te stoppen.

It's 1971. A time before metal detectors and body scans. A single man boards an Air Canada DC-8 flight with a sawed-off shotgun, 54 sticks of dynamite, a parachute and a desperate plan for $1.5 million in ransom. But it's the two twisted wires in an ordinary Woolco shopping bag that will hold an entire plane hostage. Trapped at 37,000 feet, flight attendant Mary Dohey becomes an unwilling participant in a deadly game, forced to hold live detonator wires for hours. One wrong move, one trembling hand, and the aircraft could explode.