In a lightning strike at the Lisbon airport, a world-renowned cryptologist is captured along with vital coded documents about the operations of UNACO, the top-secret security organization. Instantly, UNACO's top agents Mike Graham, Sabrina Carver and C.W. Whitlock are called into a pulse-pounding race to find the kidnappers--and a deadly madman. Original.
Haat, jaloezie en tegengestelde financiële belangen leiden in een rijke zakenfamilie tot moord.
Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.
You think YOU had a killer workday. . . Get ready for the FASTEST thriller of the summer Each morning in his 45th floor executive office, David Elliot savors the quiet moments until the workday begins. Until today, when his boss walks in and aims a gun at him. For the rest of the day, he will be trapped in his midtown office building, and everyone David Elliot meets will try to kill him. He has 24 hours to find out why. . . In "Vertical Run," you can escape into a world on fast forward, a drama that plays out with electrifying intensity. No one who reads this book will ever see the office the same way again. "Vertical Run" is available now -- run for it A Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Brothers and Peters Entertainment Company "From the Paperback edition."
*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022*** Discover the gorgeously funny and heartwarming bestseller about final chances from the No 1. bestselling author of Grown Ups 'Moving, relatable and infinitely tender' INDEPENDENT 'Plenty of heart, lots of laughs, and a fantastic twist in the tail' COSMOPOLITAN ___________ 'Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's . . .' Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they to show for a decade of hedonism? Sure, Tara's got a boyfriend - but only because she's terrified of spending five minutes alone. Katherine, on the other hand, has a neatness fetish that won't let anyone too close to mess up her life. And Fintan? Well, he has everything. Until he learns that without your health, you've got nothing . . . All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you . . . 'A comforting doorstopper of a read that's as addictive as solitaire' Daily Mail ___________ Praise for Marian Keyes 'An outstanding writer and chronicler of our times' Independent on Sunday 'Mercilessly funny' Times 'The voice of a generation' Daily Mirror
Lara Cameron is a famous powerful wealthy New York building developer who struggled from brutal poverty in Glace Bay, a banker who took her body as part of her first deal, to Chicago, banker Keller whose love she takes lightly for granted. As her skyscrapers and boutique hotels tower on earth, she is at the top of a male dominated field. She lies and cheats to close a deal, making cruel enemies. She is forty, beautiful, glamorous, insecure, ruthless, vulnerable, secretly generous, rich - and still wants more. She marries an international concert pianist, the Lochinvar of her childhood dreams, but aomeone puts him in the hospital and threatens to take down her empire.
Someone wants revenge, and the target is the President's plane. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO.
Portret van de Britse popgroep.
Een minister trekt zich onverwacht terug uit het openbare leven en dat heeft gevolgen voor iedereen in zijn omgeving.
Een Braziliaan met de bijnaam "de Jaguar" wordt in 1920 door de Russische geheime dienst gebruikt als dekmantel voor allerlei moordpartijen.
Een pianiste leidt een harmonieus leven, totdat ze met de dood geconfronteerd wordt.
Wanneer een zeiler op de Egeïsche zee een stuurloze boot aantreft, vindt hij aan boord bloedsporen en een gewonde vrouw.
Een jonge vrouw van armoedige afkomst weet in New York een imperium op te bouwen als projectontwikkelaarster.
Als een journalist het levensverhaal van de leidster van een call girl-organisatie wil optekenen worden enkele prominente klanten ongerust.
