Political

The threat of nuclear war is no longer scary. This is much worse. It's invisible. It works quickly. And it's coming. The scourge has already infected and killed half the population in China and it is heading towards the UK. There is no time to escape. The British government sees no way out other than to distribute 'Dignity Pills' to its citizens – one last night with family or loved ones before going to sleep forever … together.

Spies are like rats. In DC, you're never more than ten feet from one. Jason Trapp is about to find that out the hard way. All he wanted was a week off, but the world had other plans. Trapp stumbles onto something he wasn't meant to see, and when half a dozen top US officials are murdered by drug cartel sicarios, the reason becomes sickeningly clear.

Ein Auftrag. Ein Fehler. Ein Mann auf der Flucht. Jon Reznick ist ein »Geist« – ein Spezialist für verdeckte Operationen, der seine Befehle von zwielichtigen Vorgesetzten und sein Gehalt von der US-Regierung erhält. Sein neuester Auftrag: ein Anschlag auf höchster Ebene. Reznick weiß nur, dass es wie ein Selbstmord aussehen muss. Doch etwas läuft schief. Das Ziel ist nicht der Mann, den er erwartet hat. Reznick selbst wird zum Gejagten. Er ist mit dem Mann, den er töten sollte, auf der Flucht.

Dallas, 22. November 1963: John F. Kennedy ist ermordet und die Hintergründe des Attentats auf den Präsidenten werden vertuscht. Ein junger Polizist kommt in Dallas an, mit einem Überstellungsmandat und 6000 Dollar. Eine höllische Reise durch die wildesten Jahre der amerikanischen Geschichte beginnt – eine atemlose Irrfahrt durch explodierende amerikanische Träume.

Tra queste armate Brancaleone, nei giorni frenetici della campagna elettorale si scatena una lotta feroce e insieme sottile, senza esclusione di colpi, un gioco pericoloso in cui il bene pubblico si sfalda nel tornaconto privato. In questo libro troverete scene grottesche, amori e tradimenti, una galleria di insospettabili cittadini con le loro vite e i loro garbugli. Un inventore visionario, una profetessa dell'odio razziale, un prete, una miriade di politicanti dotati di molti interessi ma poche idee...

Del otro lado de las nubes, la pequeña ciudad de Davos, rodeada de montañas nevadas, amanecía blanca y billonaria aquel miércoles de enero. Ahí empezaban a llegar el 1% de los primates habladores más ricos y poderosos de la tribu humana. Los así llamados líderes globales. En un mundo donde las diferencias entre ricos y pobres son cada vez más abismales y los cambios tecnológicos y ecológicos tienen efectos expansivos, encontrar soluciones a la crisis humanitaria se convierte en algo urgente.

The impressive new novel from the award-winning author — a heartrending, enthralling mix of cold-case mystery and political suspense. In 1968, during the anti-war demonstrations in Chicago, four people are killed in the explosion of a militant’s hideout: two policemen and two radicals. Two others manage to escape. Fifty years ago, Cate and Joe Davis’s family was torn apart by the Vietnam War, the protests, and the disappearance of their older sister, Bobbie. It left their mother and father dead. It left what remained of their family fractured almost beyond repair.

A devoted wife and mother faces the unimaginable as her life crumbles. Crystal Rigler seems to have a perfect marriage. Derek, her handsome and charismatic husband, and their adult daughter, Cordelia, are her whole world. In addition to her already busy life, Crystal supports the volunteer organization she and Derek started: STOP (Stop Transplants of Organs from Prisoners). STOP aims to end a new government policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. They learn that these organs are not distributed by the national transplant list, established to allocate organs fairly.

Plongez dans un monde d’ombres où chaque décision peut être fatale. En plein cœur des luttes de pouvoir modernes, Dans l’ombre des géants retrace le parcours hors du commun de Liam Monclair, expert en sécurité et stratégie. Ce récit à la croisée du témoignage et du thriller nous ouvre les portes d’un univers atypique et méconnu, entre espionnage corporatif, manipulations géopolitiques et tensions culturelles, des gratte-ciel de Shanghai aux rues de Jakarta, en passant par les étendues désertiques du Moyen-Orient.

Counsel Fungo, female bounty hunter, has art thief/forger/bail jumper Sebastian Leone in custody. She now owns his future. Leone pleads his way out of going to jail by dropping names of bigger fish, and Counsel hears one that interests her: Mercer Crawford, CEO of a large pro-gun activist group. Counsel disagrees with Crawford’s gun politics and looks to exploit his affinity for stolen art and embarrass him and his organization. The stakes increase when she learns of his other sideline: brokering illegal arms sales, the kind that can topple governments.

Ninety-six hours. That's all the time they have. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have taken U.S. soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers hostage. While a politically savvy U.S. Senator, JOHN CARTER, navigates a treacherous landscape of local politics and a brewing government conspiracy, a Delta Force team led by the experienced SFC EDWARD HERNANDEZ races against the clock on the ground. Facing brutal firefights and the constant threat of death, Hernandez and his team fight their way towards the hostages, while Senator Carter's investigation reveals a shocking truth that puts everyone in greater danger.

Five years after a disastrous mission in Prague left her partner dead and her nemesis, Julian Thorne, presumed destroyed, haunted ex-MI6 operative Ava Sharma lives in self-imposed exile. But the past refuses to stay buried. Thorne resurfaces, leading the shadowy organization Scylla and wielding Cynapse – a terrifyingly sophisticated weapon capable of crippling global infrastructure. Forced back into the world of espionage she fled, Ava discovers the threat is far greater than imagined. Thorne plans to unleash Cynapse during the upcoming G7 Summit in London, aiming to trigger worldwide chaos.

May 2024: When an Iranian helicopter carrying the president crashes near the Azerbaijan border, the official story blames pilot error. But someone’s lying—and ex-CIA operative Michael Wolfe is about to find out why. Pulled back into the shadows by the suspicious death of a former colleague, Wolfe uncovers a hidden list locked in a bank vault. A list of names that includes his... and his wife’s.

Malcolm Cain was once a boy with a Bible and a fire in his soul. He preached barefoot revivals, fed the homeless, and wept every time he said the name of Jesus. Now he’s the face of a billion-dollar movement. His sermons trend globally. His name fills arenas. But there’s one name he no longer mentions… and One voice he can no longer hear. As Malcolm rises to become a spiritual icon, the cost of the spotlight begins to haunt him.

Based on a true story. As the Korean War threatens to ignite a global nuclear inferno, the fate of the free world rests on a razor's edge, while on the home front, two towering American titans – the resolute President Truman and the legendary General MacArthur – engage in a perilous battle of wills that could either avert Armageddon or tear the nation apart.

Il raggio d'ombra si ispira liberamente a un fatto accaduto nel 1927: un evaso politico trova rifugio presso alcuni compagni clandestini, ma si rivela una spia e li fa arrestare. Tra le vittime anche un medico milanese, diviso tra moglie e amante, che per amicizia aveva dato ospitalità all'evaso e ne vedrà la propria carriera annientata.

Two mismatched lawyers uncover a long-forgotten military conspiracy, Career U.S. Navy JAGC officer Lt. Duncan Carmichael and an ACLU volunteer lawyer, Sydney Warren, form an unlikely team defending a young uncooperative sailor accused of a vicious murder on a U.S. Navy base but are thwarted at every turn by the military command.

They were hired to find waste, fraud, and abuse. What they uncovered could rewrite the future of American power. In Washington, D.C., where politics and corruption go hand in hand, a covert team of young, off-the-books investigators—known only as the DOGE Squad—works quietly under the radar. Armed with cutting-edge tech, elite-level skills, and a knack for breaking rules, they were assembled by a reclusive billionaire and given one mission: shine a light into the darkest corners of government.

Venice during Carnevale seems like a dream vacation to American police detective Alex Polonia. There, she hopes to lose herself in the maze of romantic canals and forget her scumbag ex-husband, convicted of running a meth lab and selling drugs to kids on Cleveland's south side. The legacy of the Bosnian War and its brutal ethnic cleansing has brought journalist Marika Juric to Venice with one driving goal: Gather enough evidence to stop one of the war’s most vile men from becoming Croatia’s next president. And she knows there are those who will do anything to stop her.

While the world is being torn apart by the political extremes, the one thing that both ends of the spectrum agree upon is that the Jews are the base cause of the economic and political struggles. And so, the President of the United States decides to use this animosity that exists to remove Jews from the mainstream as Roosevelt did with the Japanese during World War II.