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‘Baldacci is the master’ – Jeffrey Archer The start of a pulse-pounding original series from international number one bestselling author David Baldacci. * * * * * Walter Nash is a mild-mannered, happy and successful businessman with a loving family. He has never lifted a weight or fired a...

A centuries-old score. A city built on secrets. A melody that kills. When a celebrated music impresario is found dead in Venice—his body slumped in the hot house of a remote palazzo, a cryptic musical interval in his hand—rumours swirl around a rediscovered manuscript: the original score for...

David Harwood sta assistendo impotente allo sgretolarsi inesorabile della propria vita. Dopo la morte della moglie e la chiusura del giornale per cui lavorava, rimasto solo con il figlio di nove anni è costretto a trasferirsi a casa dei genitori a Promise Falls, la cittadina in cui è cresciuto. Quella che sembra essere un'esistenza destinata a un anonimo fallimento intraprende però una direzione inaspettata quanto tragica.

What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the last decimal. And then, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother - its troubling financial problems included. The worst of these issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters and dangerous men are keen to get their money back. But what Henri really can't compute is love. He meets Laura, an artist with a joie de vivre and erratic lifestyle that bewilders him.

This audio edition is performed by a full cast. ‘BALDACCI IS STILL PEERLESS’ – THE SUNDAY TIMES REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD . . . After turning informant for the FBI against a global criminal empire, Walter Nash has lost everything he cherished to its ruthless leader, Victoria...

Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery to flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns. However, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later in a brutal fall from a high cliff.

A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s new thriller. Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his...

Set in the cold-blooded world of high-tech espionage, Total Control was David Baldacci's enthralling second novel. It became a New York Times bestseller, cementing Baldacci as a worldwide bestselling author of non-stop action fiction. With an exclusive new introduction from the author. 'Baldacci...

DON CAVELLI UND DER TOTE KARDINAL: Obwohl er kein Mann der Kirche ist, hat Geschichtsprofessor Don Cavelli im Vatikan lebenslanges Wohnrecht und genießt zahlreiche Privilegien. Vertraute hat er wenige, umso schockierender ist die Nachricht vom Tod seines Freundes Eduardo Fontana: Was trieb den Kardinal dazu, in der israelischen Wüste den Tod zu suchen? Cavelli beginnt nachzuforschen – und kommt einer Verschwörung auf die Spur, die die ganze Welt erschüttern könnte...

An outsider in London investigates a series of brutal murders targeting English aristocrats in a timely and provocative historical novel brimming with intrigue, wit, and rage. London, 1905: Law student and military veteran Balvinder dev Singh has found an extralegal way to fund his studies. As...

Året er 1949. Aloysius Archer er en ærlig mand, han er krigsveteran fra Anden Verdenskrig, og så er han netop blevet prøveløsladt efter at have været fængslet for en forbrydelse, han ikke havde begået. Udstyret med en lang liste med regler for prøveløsladte begynder han sit nye liv i Poca City. Han får et job som gældsinddriver for byens største forretningsmand. Men jobbet viser sig ikke at være så ligetil, som det ser ud.

Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own translation business. He's armed with curiosity and an appetite for local food and wine. Rick's maternal uncle is a Roman cop with one eye to his nephew's welfare and another to how Rick might be useful, perhaps widen his career choices. So Commissario Piero Fontana pulls Rick into an investigation: the murder of Count Umberto Zimbardi.

Revenge is a dish best served cold When an old college friend leading a religious tour in Assisi asks interpreter Rick Montoya to fill in for their guide who's gone missing, Rick is happy to oblige. He's looking forward to seeing his old friend, and the food and wine of Umbria sound like the...

Everyone told him he needed a holiday. His life had fallen apart around him. His marriage had failed, and he had been dishonourably discharged from the military. He needed to recharge his batteries and make a new start and a break on the Costa Blanca was the opportunity to re-set his life. Two weeks of relaxing, enjoying the sun, and having a few drinks was just what the doctor ordered. It started so well. How was he to know that this was the prelude to the vacation from hell? He soon becomes enmeshed in murder and intrigue, and meets a beautiful young woman.

Der Wüstensand fühlt sich an wie glühende Kohlen, die Sonne brennt erbarmungslos herab. Der alte Kardinal hat keine Chance, dieser Hölle zu entkommen ... Geschichtsprofessor Don Cavelli ist vielen im Vatikan ein Dorn im Auge: Obwohl er kein Mann der Kirche ist, hat er dort genau wie seine Vorfahren lebenslanges Wohnrecht und genießt zahlreiche Privilegien. Cavelli hat nur wenige Vertraute, daher erschüttert die Nachricht vom Tod seines Freundes Eduardo Fontana ihn umso mehr: Was trieb den Kardinal in das Inferno der israelischen Wüste?

Stevie 'Minto' Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at the Sovereign Grace Mission?

Insurance investigator Charlie Novak doesn't investigate murders. He commits them. But he didn't commit this one. The victim? Like all his previous victims, she was married to his partner. And insured by him. It's all part of their ongoing black widower scheme. Charlie stages fatal accidents nobody looks at twice. But this one has homicide cops crawling all over it. Charlie monitors the case for the insurance company, hoping to steer it away from the husband with the million dollar motive.

Ambrose Chitterwick is in the lounge of the Piccadilly Palace Hotel, away from his overbearing aunt, to enjoy some afternoon refreshments when he witnesses a murder. It looks like suicide but he saw something being put into the lady’s coffee cup. He is Scotland Yard’s chief witness but he also conducts an investigation of his own. Despite his diffidence and self-deprecation, his sleuthing is not to be sniffed at. There are plenty of twists and turns in this journey to enjoy, especially with master narrator David Timson in the driving seat.

David Blazen spent 50 years comfortable in his work routine but now is retired and desperately searching for purpose in his life. He ultimately finds it in the most unlikely of ways: by becoming a self-proclaimed detective. Travel through a labyrinth of adventure in this award-winning novel, where suspense lurks around every corner and laugh-out-loud moments break through the tension. Follow along as David’s search for truth and justice gets him caught in a web of contentious cases, all within his first week on the job.

Weltweit sorgt ein geheimnisvolles Medikament für Furore, das die Leistungsfähigkeit des Menschen angeblich um ein Vielfaches steigert. Die Geburt der Übermenschen steht kurz bevor. Schon bald wird die Welt wie wir sie kannten eine andere sein. In dieser Zeit des Umschwungs begibt sich der Student Alexander auf eine Reise in seine Vergangenheit. Vor zwölf Jahren verschwand sein Vater, ein bekannter Chemiker, plötzlich aus seinem Leben. Zeitgleich wurde Alexander Zeuge einer unfassbaren Bluttat an seiner Schule.