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A bold experiment has mutated a small fraction of humanity. Nations race to harness the gifted, putting them to increasingly dark ends. At the dawn of global war, flashy American superheroes square off against sinister Germans and dissolute Russians. Increasingly depraved scientists conduct despicable research in the name of victory. British agents Fogg and Oblivion, recalled to the Retirement Bureau, have kept a treacherous secret for over 40 years. But all heroes must choose when to join the fray, and to whom their allegiance is owed - even for just one perfect summer's day.

Watergate could have turned out quite differently. In this novel, it does. The story is told by a fictitious White House official who becomes entangled in a web of bribery, blackmail, arson, and espionage. He conspicuously fails to follow his own good advice: Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

As a captive in their mountain palace in Switzerland, Matt List begins to understand the power of Midas and his Ewige (Eternal Ones) to manipulate gold markets and human history. Thus began the destiny of the Army aviation pioneer to undermine the Ewige and their hold over mankind. Now, he uses the power of the financial tycoons in America to create the beginnings of a world freed from the dominion of gold and the Ewige. But will his battle with the Ewige cost him the love of Helene, the beautiful daughter of Midas? Will the ultimatum lead to the end of the carnage of the Great War?

Imagine if World War 2 had been a cover-up this whole time. Imagine if every country had no idea that a larger mysterious power was ruling over everything and everyone. The United States got power-hungry after World War 1, so it began to devise a plan to keep gaining more control, not cluing the president in. The government descended into oppression for centuries, putting more control over the people, arrests for no reason, and checkpoints, like a living prison. People have to hide who they truly are. Safety is never guaranteed.

A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had in years—a mysterious migrant named Marlise, who bears a striking resemblance to a onetime classmate.

1944, Nazi Germany - The war is in its final hours. Three high-ranking Nazi officers, using secret orders from the desk of Herman Goering, execute a plan to purloin a fortune in confiscated diamonds. Decades later, in a sleepy village near west palm beach, florida, moe green, a retired octogenarian, seeks to determine the value of a German postage stamp he acquired during the war, given to him by a grateful young Holocaust survivor. But when the stamp's existence surfaces on the Internet, blood flows.

Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn’t the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god. When SIS agent Rachel White gets a lead on one of the Soviet moles, blowing the whistle puts her hard-earned career at risk.

January 1964. Political intrigue and infighting roils Washington in the wake of the assassination attempt in Dallas, and a wounded President John F. Kennedy returns to the White House to face a growing crisis in Vietnam that threatens America's Cold War strategy. The president doesn't trust the information he is getting from Saigon, where the military is engaged in a shadow operation. So he turns to the one man he does trust: Lt. Colonel Patrick O'Shea.

A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together today's best military, espionage, and techno-thriller writers with all-original tales of World War II. Join these best-selling authors in a five-volume collection filled with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. In gripping stories of war as it really was, here you will meet the men and women who fought and won World War II and truly made the world safe for democracy.

A young Yale academic is summoned to Ireland to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe-deposit box, in which she finds only one thing: a nonfiction manuscript by James Bond author Ian Fleming. The manuscript, detailing Fleming's own involvement in British espionage during World War II, contains evidence that the Duke of Windsor was in a treasonous plot with Hitler, information so confidential that people are willing to kill to continue its secrecy.

It's 1945. The Red Army tears through Europe towards Berlin, exacting vengeance, while the British and the Americans close in from the west. Victory over Hitler seems certain. But inside the Kremlin, Stalin worries about a new enemy. When the war is over, how will the Soviet Union protect itself against the American behemoth? Meanwhile Hitler knows he needs a miracle to avoid an humiliating defeat. For both, the atom bomb is the answer....

What happens when Vladimir Putin is faced with a decision so harrowing it changes him forever? 118 submariners spiraling into the abyss, a country in chaos, and a president who seems not to care. Through the eyes of a first person Vladimir Putin, and his personal aide Gosha, discover what motivates the man behind Russia. Is he the cold, ruthless Vladimir Putin we know, or is he...human?

Alternative history about Rose Greenhow and her activities as a spy before and during the American Civil War. She was the Confederate spy who gave the South the information it needed to win at the first Battle of Bull's run, but had she been a spy all along, working for the French and British in their efforts to undermine American Manifest Destiny and split the nation into two or more new countries? The story begins in 1850 in Mexico City and San Francisco.

Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the 20th century. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and, ultimately, his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: How could he have lost it all? Here, for the first time, is the tale told in his own words: the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up.

During the blizzard of 1978, a woman is discovered face down at the edge of her Delaware estate, a dog half-dead by her side. Nearby, a CIA officer lies buried under two feet of snow. Their secret meeting—sabotaged. When Emma Quinn gets a call in her Manhattan apartment—your grandmother, found dead—she has no reason to suspect foul play. But she is drawn into an intrigue that harks back to the beginnings of the Cold War—and forced to confront the truth about her family and history as we know it.

London. December 1981. The IRA is on the attack, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his days listening. When he first joined the Institute, he expected to encounter glamorous, high-risk espionage. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient Communists and ineffectual revolutionaries - until the day he is assigned a new case: the ultra-secret PHOENIX, a suspected internal leak.

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.

Europa lleva setenta años unida bajo la esvástica después de que Alemania triunfase en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Germania, la antigua Berlín, es la capital del Gran Reich, que se extiende a lo largo de casi todo el continente. Mientras tanto, Albert Laun, un hombre inocente que se encuentra en el lugar equivocado en el momento equivocado, será perseguido por la Gestapo sin saber que tiene en su poder la llave que puede cambiar el destino del mundo.

Navy SEAL unit Mobile 4 does not exist. The U.S. military does not acknowledge them. The White House has never heard of them. And no one who has ever seen them in action has lived to tell about them. Lt. Robert Getts and his men have had more than their share of dangerous assignments. But when a mission is sabotaged from within, the best of friends will soon become hunter and prey.

La sua bellezza, assieme ad altre doti, l'aveva catapultata nel mondo delle escort di lusso ad Hong Kong. La sua vita era cambiata dopo che il suo amante milionario l'aveva mandata negli USA per permetterle di studiare. Pochi anni dopo era uscita da Harvard con un MBA e una certificazione da commercialista. Con qualche aiuto da parte del suo amico, era ascesa a presidente di una delle maggiori banche di Miami.