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1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I—a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control.

An Affair of Spies is an action-packed tale of heroism and love in the face of unspeakable evil. Author Ronald H. Balson has applied his unmatched talent for evocative and painstakingly authentic storytelling to the high-stakes world of espionage and created his most thrilling novel yet.

Legendary thriller writer David Morrell transports listeners to the fogbound streets of London, where a killer plots to assassinate Queen Victoria. The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible daughter, Emily, and their Scotland Yard companions, finds himself confronted by an adversary who threatens the heart of the nation.

A group of Israeli engineers are trapped in central Iran when the world about them explodes in chaos. Imagine their plight when they discover the Shah has been deposed and Ayatollah Khomeini has returned from exile. How can they escape with their lives? What should they do? Can our hero Guy Hart rescue the attractive Emma Levine and his colleagues from capture by the Revolutionary Guards? The result is an intense action-packed thriller full of danger, death, and fear with some romance, as well as surprising twists and turns.

Profesorul Kalitin este un chimist sovietic fără scrupule, obsedat de crearea unei otrăvi mortale, care să fie imposibil de depistat și fără antidot. Când înțelege câți oameni mor din cauza lui, este copleșit de vinovăție, iar la destrămarea URSS fuge în Vest. Deși primește o nouă identitate, e deconspirat și implicat în ancheta asupra uciderii a doi agenți occidentali. Iar pe urmele sale pornesc doi ucigași din forțele speciale, care vor să-i administreze chiar otrava creată de el.

Adelynn Spencer, a spirited member of the Edwardian London upper class, struggles under the conditions of her engagement to Detective Inspector Baze Ford. But during the gala announcing their betrothal, events take a fatal turn when Adelynn experiences a vivid dream of a man dying with a knife buried in his chest. To her alarm, Baze and his men later discover the man exactly as she witnessed. As Baze wrestles with the decision to harden his heart or take action to protect the woman who means everything to him, Adelynn ventures further into the clutches of magic and murder.

Ireland, 1891. Happy at first to have given her husband the son he longed for, Rosalind Thornton begins to worry about his increasingly erratic spending and volatile moods. When his body turns up in the woods, her guilt remains in question for 130 years. 2019. Fiona Foley needs to put her husband's betrayal behind her. The disillusioned history teacher travels to the sweeping Wexford coast to assist an eccentric descendant of the Thornton family. Can Fiona figure out what really happened on the fateful night Rosalind disappeared forever?

Em 1866, numa exclusiva escola inglesa, um jovem aluno se afoga em circunstâncias misteriosas. As repercussões de sua morte se estenderão por muitas décadas, em uma saga de traição, ganância, vingança e paixão.

Ingen ved, hvor det kommer fra. Ingen ved, hvornår det blev fremstillet. Er det et af verdens største falsknerier eller et forbløffende mirakel? Århundreder er passeret, og svaret er endnu ikke fundet… Men nu rummer det største mysterium i religionens historie nøglen til en moderne, udspekuleret seriemorder, der dræber sine ofre på grusom, bizar vis. Og kun to amerikanske betjente, der følger et spor, der strækker sig fra Californien til Vatikanet, kan afsløre ligklædets hemmelighed. Den mest spændingsfyldte og intelligente roman af sin art, siden Da Vinci Mysteriet.

Distrito Federal, 1955. La madrugada se asienta sobre las calles de la capital cuando una patrulla de la Policía Secreta llega hasta el portón de los estudios San Ángel. Lleva las sirenas apagadas, no quieren que nadie, mucho menos la prensa, conozca el motivo que los ha llevado hasta ahí: alguien ha muerto en uno de los foros. La víctima yace debajo de un coche como si fuera parte de la escenografía de taller mecánico que rodea su cadáver.

Tras su misión narrada en Operación El Dorado Canyon, el agente del CNI Julián Roig tiene que viajar de urgencia a Marruecos para acabar siendo destinado en la embajada de España en Praga en 1989. Durante esos cinco años vivirá todo tipo de misiones entre la vida y la muerte y para las que su pericia, su agilidad mental y su inteligencia serán definitorias. Los servicios de inteligencia occidentales, la Iglesia Católica, el sindicato polaco Solidaridad, el dramaturgo checo Vaclav Hável y el eslovaco Alexander Dubcek son solo algunos de los coprotagonistas.

Un marqués decadente que vive en un palacete de Madrid se empeña en representar vívidamente la tragedia del príncipe Carlos, hijo de Felipe II. Con el fin de conservar a su cliente, el abogado Lic Salinas le acompaña vestido con ropas del siglo XVI. Sin embargo, lo que en principio sólo parece una excentricidad, acaba con una extraña muerte que obliga a llevar a cabo una peligrosa investigación. Una novela de intriga en la que la historia y el presente quedan unidos por la tragedia.

Agosto de 1939. Mientras los líderes de la Unión Soviética y la Alemania nazi se reúnen en Moscú para repartirse los territorios de Polonia, la joven Ania juega en el campo, ajena a toda barbarie. Sin embargo, todo cambia tras la ocupación de su pueblito Komarno por tropas bolcheviques: ella y su familia serán trasladados al Gulag siberiano, donde trabajarán sin descanso bajo un frío inclemente, arriesgando cada día su integridad física y viviendo bajo el despiadado peso de la desesperanza.

Henrik escapes the airbase and travels on foot to Amsterdam for mysterious reasons of his own. Apparently, he has returned from America not to deliver top secret plans of the atomic bomb, but to smuggle his former fiancée, Esther Jacobs, out of German-occupied Holland in a hidden submarine. Before he can convince her to come with him, Esther and her family are evacuated to a Jewish concentration camp in the Harz Mountains. Now Henrik must choose between his tainted loyalty to an evil regime or his forbidden love for a Jewish woman.

Lo que comenzó como un día normal en la vida de Valentín Guzmán, espía de la Dirección Federal de Seguridad, acabaría tornándose en una complicada red de intrigas internacionales que cambiaría el rumbo de la historia y a él le arruinaría la existencia para siempre. Esa mañana de septiembre de 1963, Valentín tenía asignada la vigilancia de un individuo apocado, de mirada triste y camisa mal fajada, al que los mandos superiores de la inteligencia nacional seguían por sus posibles nexos con los soviéticos y los cubanos.

Del París del 68 al triunfo del neoliberalismo en México, El fin de la locura es una divertida y apasionada novela de ideas, que recorre los acontecimientos históricos más emblemáticos del siglo XX.

Head of an elite anti-terrorist unit, Major Noah Blakeley is hunting for the clandestine organization he believes to be at the center of a spate of seemingly random acts of terror. When his ex-wife is killed while on an archaeological expedition to Mongolia, closely followed by an attempt on his life, Noah finds himself hurled into a world where the lines between historical research and present-day terrorism are blurred. To discover the answers, Noah must trace his wife's final footsteps and beyond.

Saga número 1 absoluto en USA, España y México. Decenas de miles de descargas lo avalan. La saga número 1 desde octubre de 2019 hasta ahora en novela histórica, novela suspense, juvenil, etc. ¡La sensación literaria de este año! Continuación de la saga histórica de Las doce puertas, la más vendida del año 2019 y 2020.

In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful façades a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui's stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret, and Hui's own brother Qen, orchestrate the downfall of Hui's father, condemning Hui and seizing power in the city.

New York, 1928: Mehrere kriminelle Banden kämpfen um die Vorherrschaft über den Alkoholschmuggel in Manhattan, dem Herzen New York Citys. Überfälle und Mord sind an der Tagesordnung. Doch während sich die italienischen und irischen Gangs bekriegen, arbeitet im Hintergrund ein Mann daran, die Kontrolle allein zu übernehmen: Arnold Rothstein, der Zar der Unterwelt. Unberührt von diesen Konflikten kuratiert Frederick Crichton im Brooklyn-Museum seine erste große Ausstellung über einige der ruhmreichsten ägyptischen Pharaonen.