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From #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child comes a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears. Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones, this second "happily...

For Jonathan Grave and Gail Bonneville, the Crystal Sands Resort is the perfect getaway - until gunshots shatter the night. Wealthy guests are yanked out of their sleep, herded like animals, forced to submit to their captors' demands. But Jonathan and Gail are no ordinary vacationers. The assassins who invade their bungalow receive a deadly surprise.

“An exceptional, fast-paced thriller featuring a tech-empowered assassin whose pattern and objective you’ve never seen before, chased by a heroine with tenacious grit.”—David Brin, author of The Postman and Existence Quinn Mitchell is a nine-to-five spy—an intelligence analyst for...

It is 1943 and the world is at war. Archaeologist Lily Sampson has been sent by the Office of Strategic Services to survey Trans-Jordan, along with Gideon Weil, the famous director of the American School of Archeological Research in Jerusalem. In the beautiful, silent, Trans-Jordanian desert, they become stranded in the Wadi Rum and their Bedouin guide is murdered. When Gideon is accused of the crime, Lily must clear him of the accusation.

July 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has dispatched Kit Marlowe to the English College, the school for exiled priests in Rheims, where he suspects the Catholic traitor Matthew Baxter is hiding, the only one of the Babington plotters to have escaped the spymaster's net. Infiltrating the college undercover, Marlowe learns that the community has been rocked by a series of unexplained and violent deaths.

Popular playwright Philocles and his actors are hired to take his latest play to Corinth, to promote goodwill between the two cities. But on arrival, their guide and fixer Eumelos drops dead - a victim of poison.

Her name is spoken in whispers. She kills in silence, with the sting of a needle. Her name? Scorpion. But she was betrayed and left for dead. Now she wants revenge. And no one is going to stand in her way. Apart from one man. Dan Roy, a betrayed assassin himself. The only man who once caught a glimpse of her face. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and Dan is about to find out why.

Alessandria d’Egitto, 112 dopo Cristo. Il ritrovamento del corpo senza testa del governatore romano Servio Simile spinge l’imperatore Traiano a inviare con urgenza dall’Urbe il suo fidato amico e compagno d’armi Gaio Ticio Massimo. Mentre l’Egitto centrale brucia nella rivolta, nell’oscurità dei vicoli di Alessandria esseri soprannaturali compiono la loro sanguinaria vendetta. Per liberare il fido Sosia dai contrabbandieri che lo hanno rapito, Massimo e il centurione Decio si imbarcheranno, in compagnia di una donna bellissima e misteriosa, in un viaggio sul Nilo che li porterà verso la guerra.

Le corps étrangement momifié d'un homme est retrouvé dans une ville fantôme du Nouveau-Mexique. À son côté : une croix en or du XVIIe siècle datant de l'ère coloniale espagnole. L'archéologue Nora Kelly et Corrie Swanson, jeune agente du FBI, doivent déterrer l'homme pour l'identifier, déterminer les causes de sa mort et rechercher un éventuel trésor enfoui...

Nicolette Scott is an archaeologist with an unusual specialty, the recent past, and an even odder passion: Uncovering lost airplanes. But ancient civilizations are where the funding is, and the New Mexico badlands are where her father is, so Nick bides her time on a dig of prehistoric Anasazi dwellings. When a prospector brings word of his unexpected find - an airplane buried in the shifting sands of the desert - Nick is eager to investigate.

Nell'autunno spagnolo del 1936, a pochi mesi dall'inizio della guerra civile, la linea di confine che separa gli amici dai nemici è insidiosa e sottile. Ma Lorenzo Falcó, trentasette anni, animo scaltro e scuro e una passione dichiarata per le donne, i bei vestiti e le scarpe di vernice, non ha ideali alti né posizioni da prendere: ex trafficante di armi, avventuriero senza scrupoli, di lavoro fa la spia e si limita a eseguire gli ordini.

"Игры скорпионов" - шестой роман Марты Таро увлекательного цикла "Галантный детектив". В судьбоносном раскладе карт Таро открывается новая карта, предлагая пытливому читателю еще одну загадку. 1813 год.

One afternoon while standing outside her newly renovated Malibu house, Diana Poole sees a woman across the highway waving at her, but Diana doesn't recognize her. Still waving, the woman walks into the oncoming cars and is killed instantly. Why would anyone do such a thing? The next night, still horrified by the accident, Diana is held at gunpoint by a man demanding the dead woman's scorpion. What kind of scorpion? A live one? A brooch? A pendant? Diana searches the accident scene and finds a diamond-encrusted object in the shape of a scorpion.

"En tiempos de la Guerra Fría existieron solamente como un grupo de operarios clandestinos vinculados a La Cuadrilla una agencia-fantasma del Gobierno norteamericano dedicada a eliminar los grandes saboteadores de la oposición. Con el colapso de la Unión Soviética, Washington decide desbandarla, hasta que se logra demostrar a los "nuevos dioses" del Potomac que mantener operante a una unidad como esta, en tiempos de paz, es un mal necesario cuando se trata de salvaguardar la seguridad nacional..."

When Attorney Russell Cosgrove is murdered on his patio, most are willing to chalk it up to an unhappy client with a grudge, or a jealous girlfriend. Not Sam Decker, however. He and Cosgrove had been old friends, going back to Decker’s days as an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration. When State cops come in and try to take over the investigation, Decker wants to know why. He has no idea that finding the answers could get him killed!