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The life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal unfolds against a background of international arms deals. As the story leads to its final dramatic confrontation on a bleak winter's hill-top, the question every reader asked at the end of The Day of the Jackal will inevitably be asked again: Can this be fiction?

When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they instantly galvanize, but to do what? They know nothing about it: the what, where, or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Or is it?

It is Christmas Eve, 1957. Flying home, on leave from Germany, he is alone in the cockpit of the Vampire. Sixty-six minutes of flying time, with the descent and landing - destination Lakenheath. No problem, all routine procedures.Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in. Radio contact ceases and the compass goes haywire. Suddenly, out of the mist, appears a WorldWar II bomber. It is flying just below the Vampire, as if trying to make contact.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fox by Frederick Forsyth. The 18th novel from best-selling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, the man who defined the genre. The Fox is based on the stories of British hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love and centres around an 18-year-old schoolboy with Asperger’s Syndrome who is able to penetrate intricate firewalls to access the secrets at the highest level of foreign governments and other major organisations.

The Kill List: a top-secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world's security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high-profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this man's identity, locate him and take him out.

When the entire Soviet Union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvation. The USA is quick to offer assistance. They devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the Russians in exchange for sensitive political information. But the Politburo has other ideas: the invasion of Western Europe to commandeer the food for them... As the paths of communication breakdown the president of the United States and leaders from around the world face an appalling choice: Should they allow the loss of thousands to save the lives of many more?

It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine - Russian meltdown will make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of a cup-cake.

When British and US intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation, they're ready for action. But what can they do? They know nothing about the attack, so they plant The Afghan, a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former commander of the Taliban.

We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau.

Esta frase nos introduce en la convulsa Rusia de 1999. Esta gran superpotencia zozobra en un mar de hiperinflación, caos económico y criminalidad. Las elecciones se aproximan y una sola voz carismática resuena en todo el país. Igor Komárov, líder derechista, promete reformar la moneda, acabar con el crimen, eliminar la corrupción y devolver la gloria a Rusia. Pero los dirigentes occidentales se ven conmocionados cuando llega a sus manos un documento secreto del que se desprende que Komárov no es el salvador de la nación sino un nuevo Hitler.

Aprovechando la enigmática personalidad del atormentado ser que habita en los sótanos de la Ópera de París, reelabora el mito del monstruo solitario, aislado del mundo a causa de su repulsiva fealdad. La novela empieza con los primeros años de Erik Muhlheim, el «fantasma», en su lóbrego refugio del subsuelo parisino, donde, contra toda previsión, desarrolla una sensibilidad única para la música. Joven, incapaz de asumir su soledad, se enamora perdidamente de Christine, una de las cantantes. Movido por un deseo irreprimible, rapta a la muchacha.

Cuando un joven voluntario americano es brutalmente asesinado en Serbia, su millonario abuelo no duda en exigir venganza. Para localizar al asesino contacta con Cal Dexter, veterano de las fuerzas especiales de la guerra de Vietnam y la única persona capaz de llevar a cabo con éxito esta arriesgada misión. Pero lo que empieza como una tragedia personal, se convierte rápidamente en una violenta historia que implica a los más peligrosos agentes del terrorismo internacional....

Frankreichs Staatspräsident Charles de Gaulle soll vor einem eiskalten Attentäter geschützt werden. Doch der Plan des Superkillers aus London, genannt der "Schakal" und angeheuert von der französischen Untergrundorganisation OAS, scheint perfekt zu sein. Die Jagd, die quer durch Europa führt, steigert sich zum atemberaubenden Duell zwischen dem französischen Polizeiapparat und dem eiskalten Profimörder.

Der Selbstmord des alten Juden Salomon Taubers wäre fast unbemerkt geblieben, hätte nicht der Zufall dem jungen Hamburger Illustrierten-Reporter Peter Miller ein vergilbtes Tagebuch in die Hände gespielt: Die minutiösen Aufzeichnungen lassen in ihm den fürchterlichen Verdacht aufkommen, dass der einstige Lagerkommandant Eduard Roschmann noch lebt. Die Jagd auf Roschmann wird ein Abenteuer auf Leben und Tod. Miller gerät in das Räderwerk der mächtigen Geheimorganisation ODESSA, einer Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen.

The cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil across Western society, causing incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it is spreading and it is a blight which must be stopped. One man, Paul Devereaux, intellectual, dedicated, utterly ruthless and ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task. At his disposal is anything he wants – men, resources, money. And he will not stop until he has completed his mission.

Die meisten Waffen tun, was man ihnen befiehlt. Die meisten Waffen hat man unter Kontrolle. Was ist, wenn ein 18-jähriger Junge mit einem glühenden Verstand die anspruchsvollsten Sicherheitssysteme der Welt einfach umgeht, der Waffen manipulieren kann, so dass sie sich gegen die Supermächte selbst richten? Er darf nicht in die falschen Hänge gelangen, denn sein Leben steht auf dem Spiel. Nur einer kann ihn beschützen: Sir Adrian Weston, Spezialist für geheime Operationen.

Bei einem Einbruch im vornehmen Londoner West End wird nicht nur ein wertvolles Diamantendiadem gestohlen, sondern auch geheimes NATO-Material, das weit kostbarer ist. Eine undichte Stelle im Verteidigungsministerium? Was bedeutet das Codewort "Aurora"? Und wer ist "Chelsea"? Als Topagent John Preston sich ans Werk macht, scheint sich in einem dramatischen Höhepunkt das Geheimnis zu enthüllen. In Moskau hecken derweil ein ehemaliger britischer Meisterspion und der mächtigste Mann im Kreml hinter dem Rücken des KGB einen teuflischen Plan aus.

Der Sohn des amerikanischen Präsidenten wird entführt. Der Unterhändler Quinn - er gilt als der Beste seines Fachs - wird gebeten, Kontakt mit den Entführern aufzunehmen. Schnell merkt er, dass er es mit keinem gewöhnlichen Fall von Entführung zu tun hat. Das ganze Spiel scheint Teil eines weltweiten Komplotts von Rüstungslobbyisten, die die Friedensverhandlungen der Großmächte für immer beenden wollen.

Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond's grandson was an aid volunteer in the former Yugoslavia. After he was murdered, Edmond sought revenge by hiring an ex-Vietnam special forces agent to hunt the killer down: Cal Dexter, ex-Vietnam Special Forces, the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal, domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism.

Years after the events of The Odessa File, Peter Miller’s grandson, Georg, has become a successful podcaster. He thought that the Odessa – a Nazi network whose goal is to destroy the Jewish race – was disbanded a long time ago. But in a hospital in Berlin, he hears a whisper from a sick man that stills his heart: the Odessa has returned, more powerful than ever before.