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Seven seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage Rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leader's lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him. Coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together.

The third title in the John Puller series to follow Zero Day and The Forgotten. Military CID investigator, John Puller, has returned from his latest case in Florida to learn that his brother, Bobby, on death row at Leavenworth Military Prison for national security crimes, has escaped. Preliminary investigations show that he may have had help in his breakout. Now he's on the run, and in disguise, and he's the military's number one target. John Puller has a dilemma. Which comes first, loyalty to his country or to his brother?

Following their collaboration in Split Second, ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic burglary, but soon they begin to suspect links to larger, more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Wrightsburg....

Will Robie è fuggito dalla sua piccola città natale di Cantrell, Mississippi, dopo il liceo, interrompendo tutti i legami personali senza mai guardarsi indietro. Fino a quando suo padre, Dan Robie, pilastro della comunità e giudice della città, non viene arrestato e accusato di omicidio. Nonostante il prestigio della sua posizione, la maggior parte degli abitanti di Cantrell lo ritiene colpevole.

The mission is to enter one of the most dangerous countries in the world. The target is one of the toughest to reach. The result could be momentous - or it could be Armageddon. There is no margin for error. US government operatives Will Robie and Jessica Reel have to prove they are still the best team there is. But are they invincible when pitted against an agent whose training has been under conditions where most would perish? An old man is dying in an Alabama prison hospital, it seems there is one more evil game he has still to play. And it's a game which comes close to home for Reel and Robie.

It is 30 years since FBI special agent Atlee Pine’s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the room they shared as young children. Notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, was caught and convicted of other murders, and while there’s no proof, Atlee believes he knows what happened to Mercy. Tor still resides in a high-security prison in Colorado.

Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, he has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear, leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths; an air-crash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was booked on suddenly fell from the sky; and a veteran FBI agent who leaves no stone unturned.

Amos Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a terrible hit. Now a police detective, Amos is still haunted by a side effect from the accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Obviously scarred and nearly broken, Decker has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try to catch the monster who killed his family.

Known by his alias, 'Oliver Stone', John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States government to unleash a massive manhunt.

Mason "Mace" Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything - her career, her liberty - and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside, Mace is trying to rebuild her life and track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side, she has to work in the shadows: there's a vindictive US attorney on her tail and she's just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars.

Der sechste Fall für Memory Man Amos Decker. FBI-Agent Amos Decker reist nach North Dakota, um den Mord an einer jungen Frau aufzuklären. Ihr verstümmelter Körper wurde in der Prärie gefunden. Ist sie zwischen die Fronten skrupelloser Ölfirmen, zwielichtiger Regierungsbeamter und religiöser Außenseiter geraten? Oder war sie einem ganz anderen Geheimnis auf der Spur? Als weitere Morde geschehen, braucht Decker sein perfektes Gedächtnis und die Unterstützung eines überraschenden Verbündeten.

Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. And he quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what is at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial.

Military criminal investigator John Puller is drawn closer to home when his aunt is found dead in her house in Paradise, Florida. The local police have ruled the death as an accident, but Puller finds evidence to suggest that she may well have been murdered. On the surface the town lives up to its name, but as Puller digs deeper he realises that this town and its inhabitants are more akin to Hell than Paradise. His belief is confirmed as evidence of strange and inexplicable events come to light.

Etwas ist faul in Baronville, Pennsylvania. Die alte Industriestadt scheint dem Untergang geweiht: Die Zahl der Drogentoten steigt beängstigend schnell und eine Mordserie gibt FBI-Ermittler Amos Decker und seiner Kollegin Alex Jamison Rätsel auf. Eigentlich kann sich Decker, der seit einem Unfall vor vielen Jahren nichts vergisst, auf seine einzigartigen Fähigkeiten verlassen. Doch bei diesem Fall stößt der Memory Man an seine Grenzen.

Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive, but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma. It would seem their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae, agrees to raise the children on her Virginia mountain farm. But before long their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain.

John Puller ist der beste Ermittler der Militärpolizei. Sein neuer Fall trifft ihn persönlich: Seine geliebte Tante deutet in einem Brief dubiose Machenschaften in ihrem Heimatort an. Sofort macht sich Puller auf den Weg zu ihr nach Paradise, Florida - und findet sie leblos auf, ertrunken. Anders als die Polizei vor Ort mag Puller nicht an einen Unfall glauben. Und tatsächlich häufen sich bald die Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen von gigantischen Ausmaßen.

Seit einem Unfall kann Amos Decker, der Memory Man, nichts mehr vergessen. Eine Eigenschaft, die ihn nach dem schrecklichen Mord an seiner Familie fast in den Wahnsinn getrieben hätte. Aber nun hat er ein neues Lebensziel gefunden: Innerhalb einer Spezialeinheit des FBI klärt er ungelöste Schwerverbrechen. In seinem ersten Fall geht es um Melvin Mars, einen ehemaligen Footballstar, der seit zwanzig Jahren in der Todeszelle sitzt. Er soll seine eigenen Eltern ermordet haben.

When Special Agent Will Robie gets the call to make his first visit home since he was a teenager, it's because his father, the local judge, has been arrested for murdering a man who came before him in court. The small, remote Mississippi town hasn't changed, and its residents remember Robie as a wild sports star and girl magnet. He left a lot of hearts broken and a lot of people angry. Will and his father, Dan, are estranged, and his mother left years ago.

John Puller es un combatiente veterano y el miembro más experto del Departamento de Investigación Criminal del ejército estadounidense. Su hermano, militar como él, cumple cadena perpetua por traición y Puller está empeñado en averiguar la verdad.

Alte Sünden werfen lange Schatten. Amos Decker besucht seine Heimatstadt, als er von einem alten Mann kontaktiert wird: Meryl Hawkins war der erste, den Decker jemals hinter Gitter gebracht hatte. Der verurteilte vierfache Mörder wurde aufgrund einer Krankheit vorzeitig entlassen und beteuert seine Unschuld. Sein letzter Wunsch: Decker soll seinen Namen reinwaschen. Doch erst als Hawkins mit einer Kugel im Kopf aufgefunden wird, kommen Decker echte Zweifel. Der Memory Man ist fest entschlossen, den Fall wiederaufzurollen.