Political Military Thrillers

With United States troops and aircraft on Taiwanese soil, and missiles flying across the Taiwan Strait, the world prepares itself for the war that has been building since the turn of the century. Will China back down, or double down? Will the fragile Western Coalition hold? Will regional conflict tip over into a global war? And what's next for the newly raised 68th Aggressor Squadron and the personnel of Aggressor Inc.?

A suicide bomber boards a crowded bus in central London. Ex-SAS captain Gabriel Wolfe is having a coffee just yards away. In the ensuing carnage, Gabriel is plunged into a bloody memory of his last, botched mission. Plagued by visions of the dead comrade he left behind, Gabriel now freelances for The Department, a secret British Government hit squad. He wants to take out whoever ordered the attack. Gabriel's desire for vengeance leads him to Eden, the Brazilian rainforest compound of a religious cult called The Children of Heaven.

Jonathan Slate, former Marine infantry officer and the Governor of Texas, has just won his bid for the presidency. When an assassin's bullet takes his life during his victory speech, he is conscripted from the afterlife by the Lord of Light, Lucidus. Slate is thrust into the game-like world of Somnium where he has been reincarnated into the body of a parasite and given one mission: evolve or die.

Masters of astonishing military technology that enables them to deploy almost instantaneously to any part of the Earth, the Dreamland team must now stop a dangerous revolution in the making in Eastern Europe - where a mysterious group of insurgents has blown up an essential pipeline, thereby disrupting Europe’s gas supply. With NATO and the EU paralyzed by the crisis, it falls to Dreamland’s best and brightest to keep the world from the brink of another Cold War. But the secret hand of an old enemy is pulling the strings from the shadows.

A school under siege. A shooter in the classroom. An all too common American nightmare unleashed again. But this time, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan happens to be on the schoolgrounds checking in on the daughter of a colleague. Instead he's staring down a suicidal gunman rigged to blow. During the standoff another attack begins outside the school. The gunman goes down, Mahegan is knocked unconscious, and a twelve-year-old autistic girl is kidnapped.

Catherine Carlisle is trapped in a loveless marriage, and the threat of World War Two is looming. She sees no way out...that is until a trusted friend asks her to switch her husband’s papers in a desperate bid to confuse the Germans. Soon Catherine finds herself caught up in a deadly mixture of espionage and murder. Someone is selling secrets to the other side, and the evidence seems to point right at her.

With reports of an imminent terrorist attack in Chicago during a speech by the Vice President, Zeta Division is on high alert. Working with the FBI and the Secret Service, headquarters sends Alex Morgan to lead a tactical team. But when they barely escape the explosion of a large bomb, the danger only amps up, along with the death toll. Now a primary suspect, Alex gets a simple message from Zeta: RUN.

Spannender internationaler Polit-Thriller zum Nahost-Konflikt - fiktiv und doch erschreckend nah an der Realität. Washington, 2018. Als der US-Präsident nach alarmierenden Nachrichten über den Ausbau des iranischen Atomprogramms von den Israelis zu einem Militärschlag gegen Teheran herausgefordert wird, zieht er die Notbremse: Um die nukleare Bedrohung zu verringern, will er einen Abrüstungsvertrag mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen unterschreiben. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt ahnt er jedoch nicht, dass er selbst der ultimativen Krise gegenübersteht: Der palästinensische Top-Terrorist "Der Falke" hat es geschafft, einen Atomsprengkopf in das US-Holocaust-Museum zu schmuggeln.

In less than a week, America will select her new president. Three candidates are tied in a dead heat. But one of them is about to step into a lethal trap.

Reed Montgomery's retirement is doomed to be short-lived. After the CIA receives intelligence from deep inside North Korea of a startling new weapon, President Trousdale green-lights an illegal mission to extract the informant.

On the heels of an attempted assassination that has left her fighting for her own life, President Maggie Trousdale is once again faced with the impossible task of securing a volatile free world. When an anonymous informant provides evidence that the assassination attempt was an act of international aggression, Trousdale has no choice but to chase the enemy into the heart of economically devastated Venezuela.

One Army geologist is kidnapped - on U.S. soil. Two nuclear plants are attacked - in a matter of days. No American is safe - from the next, and final, wave of terror. Enter Jake Mahegan, a Delta Force veteran on the most important mission of his life. If he fails, our nation falls.

When hacker Trevelle Williams discovers documents that threaten national security and put his life in jeopardy, there’s only one person he can turn to - Jon Reznick. Williams has learned that Rosalind Dyer, a key congressional witness, is about to be killed in order to stop her testimony. She has stumbled into the middle of a cover-up that goes deep into the United States government. Dyer knows her days are numbered, but that won’t stop her from doing what she has to do.

When an old Delta Force buddy comes to Jon Reznick for help, paranoid and fearing for his life, Reznick feels duty-bound to protect him. As a black-ops specialist, loyalty to his brothers in arms comes before everything—even the law. But Jerry White proves difficult to protect. A runaway from a top-security psychiatric facility in upstate New York, he's considered a danger to himself and others, and Reznick is powerless to stop shadowy senior hospital managers taking Jerry back by force.

The charismatic Boko Haram leader Ratty Festus, also known as the Leopard, has been terrorizing drought-ridden Northeastern Nigeria: raiding villages, blowing up government buildings, and kidnapping schoolgirls. When Thomas Crocker and his Black Cell team, who are in the country on a special training mission, hear about a possible arms-for-schoolgirls exchange between Boko Haram and a Russian arms dealer on the Cameroon border, they convince a Nigerian Special Forces unit to join them in trying to stop it. The operation quickly goes south, with a deadly helicopter crash and an ambush.

Un agente biológico es robado de un laboratorio de seguridad biológica. Armado, podría matar a millones de personas, y sobreviene una búsqueda nacional desesperada para atrapar a los terroristas, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Luke Stone, jefe de un departamento de élite del FBI, con su propia familia aún en peligro, prometió retirarse, pero cuando la nueva Presidenta, que acaba de prestar juramento, lo llama, no puede darle la espalda.

Ciudad Juarez, MX: A flash of light. An opened cantina doorway. One tiny hand clings desperately to the frame, and the smallest hope of avoiding a now-certain fate. Only 16 weeks into his military career, US Army PFC Zeb Dalton lies slumped across a sticky bar top in the notorious Cantina Rosa. He's here on a dare. That's all about to change as Dalton witnesses an act so inhumane it stirs long-suppressed parts of his soul. Inexperience and setting aside his own failings will prove daunting tasks as he attempts the rescue of innocents.

When black-ops asset Nathan Stone took out the heads of the Commission, a secret deep-state organization, he thought he’d destroyed them for good. Now he’s gone off the grid, trying to get as far away from his past as possible. But the Commission isn’t done with him yet. Lying low in a Miami bar, Stone knows something’s up when an alluring actress strikes up a conversation with him. His suspicions are correct. The Commission is hot on his trail, and Stone is soon forced to run deep into the heart of the Everglades with the terrified woman as his hostage.

From the outside, America looks safe and secure. But those on the inside know the truth. Friends can be enemies… and enemies friends. Uncovering threats is only half the battle. Knowing who to trust is the rest. On a mission far from home, “Axe” and the team face an enemy they never dreamed of. While at the Central Analysis Group headquarters, physical scars heal more easily than damage to the soul.

Een echte klassieker van Ken Follett, gebaseerd op historische feiten. Teheran, december 1978. Het regime van de sjah wankelt, de anti-Amerikaanse stemming groeit. EDS, een Amerikaanse computermaatschappij, heeft het merendeel van haar personeel naar veiliger oorden gestuurd. Slechts enkele topfunctionarissen zijn achtergebleven. Dan wordt van twee EDS-directeuren het paspoort afgenomen. Op grond van vage beschuldigingen worden ze, zonder enige vorm van proces, gevangengezet.