Résultats pour "The Bet" dans Espions et politique

The brilliants changed everything.

Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.

A special agent... A journalist... Only they can stop a genocide. Out of the chaotic political turbulence in Europe emerges a frightening new transnational extremist movement called Destiny, modelled on the Nazi Final Solution for the systematic removal of Europe’s Jews. In response, Israel’s government instructs the countries formidable spy agency, Mossad, to sabotage Destiny. The agency implements Operation Aleph Bet to neutralise Destiny’s leadership.

The defining mission of Mai Fisher's career as a spy for the United Nations Intelligence Directorate occurred in the mid-1980s when she went undercover in the IRA, a mission she almost didn't survive. A bomb she made to destroy an illicit shipment of plastic explosive went off too soon. Nine IRA members died, most as they slept, a burden she carried the rest of her active career.

Twenty years after the Holocaust and the Nazi reign of terror, Thor, a neo-fascist organization born out of the Nazi defeat in Europe, is ready to take over the United States. Rabbi Ben Zvi Kantorwicz, an escapee from Auschwitz, and his organization the Aleph Bet, is determined to stop them from achieving their objective - new world order of blond-haired, blue-eyed super people with a hand-raised American president as its Fuhrer, continuing the policies and philosophy of the Third Reich.

Brought to you by Penguin. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Nowhere Man is a figure shrouded in secrecy-a near legendary figure who helps the truly desperate, those with nowhere else to turn who are lucky enough to be able to reach out to him. When darkness closes in, the Nowhere Man is your last, best hope. Before he was...