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December, 1942. Conor Thorn will stop at nothing to end Hitler's terror. So when a brilliant nuclear physicist is discovered holed up in Italy, the elite OSS agent reunites with his MI6 counterpart and slips behind enemy lines on a recruitment mission. Now pitted against rival forces also on the hunt, Thorn is hell-bent on preventing the key to an atomic weapon from falling into ruthless Nazi hands. With the clock ticking on the escalating war, Thorn struggles to keep clear of an ever-tightening deadly trap. Can he deliver victory to the Allies before the world goes up in flames?

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

Auf der ganzen Welt gehen Jugendliche für den Klimaschutz auf die Straße. Natürlich sind auch Niklas, Linus und Melissa von der Pollution Police mit dabei - und stolpern dabei über eine Gruppe radikaler Umweltschützer. Als ausgerechnet der nimmersatte Waschbär Einstein deren Pläne durchkreuzt, wird er kurzerhand entführt. Nun müssen unsere drei Pfadfinder sich bei den Aktivisten einschleichen, um Einstein zu befreien und ein noch viel größeres Verbrechen aufzudecken.

In this panoramic account, we learn how great epidemics have not only led to enormous suffering and mass death but also changed the course of history. Humanity has struck back at the microbes: antibiotics and new vaccines have saved millions of lives. But the battle is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoidable pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and even potential extraterrestrial microbes. Duel Without End is a fascinating journey through the long history of infection, from the dawn of life to humanity's future exploration of deep space.

Autumn, 1942. Rule breaker OSS Agent Conor Thorn is assigned a mission to help the Allied war effort when a key Swedish cryptographer stationed in England goes missing. Thorn is determined to find him before critical information falls into enemy hands, but when his MI6 colleague vanishes trailing the code-breaker to Stockholm, Thorn is plunged yet again into a sinister Nazi conspiracy. Can Thorn stop prized secrets from triggering more wartime carnage?

Noch immer ist Dorian Hunter verschwunden. Niemand weiß, ob der Dämonen-Killer noch lebt. Alle Informationen, die dem Secret Service zur Verfügung stehen, befinden sich auf jenem Videoband des französischen Journalisten Armand Melville, der Hunter während der letzten Tage als "Chronist" begleitet hat – von Nizza über die griechische Insel Lucyros bis auf Jeff Parkers Jacht in der Ägäis, die vor Kurzem bei einer Explosion zerstört wurde.

Durch das Videoband mit den letzten Aufzeichnungen des Dämonen-Killers hat der Secrect Service erfahren, dass Hunter nach Haiti aufgebrochen ist, wo Asmodi auf dem Feld der Toten ein Pfand versteckt haben soll – ein magisches Artefakt, mit dessen Hilfe es möglich sein könnte, das Oberhaupt der Schwarzen Familie zu vernichten! Nur das Mädchen Valiora weiß, wo genau sich das Pfand befindet... Aber kann Dorian einer Frau, die jahrhundertelang die Geliebte Asmodis war, wirklich vertrauen.

Endlich vervollständigen sich Dorian Hunters Erinnerungen an sein zweites Leben als Juan Garcia de Tabera. Nach dem Verlust seiner geliebten Esmeralda trifft de Tabera erneut auf seinen Erzgegner Lucero – und wird Zeuge der Geburt des Dämonendrillings. Das einzige Mittel, dieses Monstrum zu vernichten, ist der goldene Drudenfuß, den de Taberas Mentor Albertus Villanovanus in seinem Alchemielabor schuf. – 500 Jahre später ist sicher: Der Drilling hat überlebt – und Dorian Hunter setzt alles daran, die einmalige Waffe aufzuspüren.

Dorian Hunter hat seine acht dämonischen Brüder zur Strecke gebracht. Bleibt noch Asmodi, das Oberhaupt der Schwarzen Familie! Die Spur führt Hunter zusammen mit seinem Begleiter, dem Journalisten Armand Melville, auf ein Eiland im Mittelmeer vor Sizilien, das angeblich Asmodis Rückzugsgebiet darstellt. Doch auf der Insel wimmelt es vor magischen Fallen – und als Armand Melville vier Tage später allein zurückkehrt, fehlt von Hunter jede Spur.

London, 1942. OSS Agent Conor Thorn is desperate for a second chance. After a botched mission in Tangier, Thorn knows failure is not an option. When confidential directives for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, go missing, the agent must recover the plans before the Nazis thwart the crucial mission. Thorn teams up with MI6 agent Emily Bright to seek out the traitor in their midst. Untangling the web of suspects leads them to Nazi sympathizers, double-crossing Soviet spies, and Vatican clergymen with motives of their own.

The war between Almacia and the Empire of Kolakolvia is in its hundredth year. Casualties grow on both sides as the conflict leaves no corner of the world untouched. Illarion Glaskov’s quiet life on the fringes of the empire is thrown into chaos when an impossible tragedy strikes his village. When he is conscripted into the Tsarist military, he is sent to serve in The Wall - an elite regiment that pilots suits of armor made from the husks of dead golems.

Kealin rushes to Aeveam's aid. Though he has had a victory with Eschal and defeated one of the demonic realms, there is much more at work than mere spiders and dwarves. He is confident in his control of his vampiric side but a new enemy hunts him.

Beyond traditional threats from states such as China and Russia and non-state actors employing violent extremism, can America's politics and political system withstand the assaults of the Fifth Horseman and the new MAD, massive attacks of disruption? The COVID-19 pandemic, the January 6 insurrection and takeover of the US Capitol, SolarWinds cyberattacks, the Texas storms that cut power, and the blocking of the Suez Canal are harbingers of the new MAD. And the nation is unaware and unprepared to deal with them.

Being a last-year high-schooler who is four feet, eight inches (142 cm) in height is one thing, but having the muscles of a bodybuilder and the face of a middle-aged biker at the same time is another. And don't you dare to bring up shaving in front of him. Did I mention that the boy's favorite hobby is smithing?

Life had thrown Adam Garrett curveballs before. God seemed to have deserted him when high school sweetheart Jill died of leukemia at the tender age of 19. He hadn't dated anyone since, and arguments with God were frequent.

Scyth, known in the Inferno as the tiefling Hakkar, decanus in the worst legion of them all, must gain an audience with Prince Belial to get his hands on the Coals of Hellflame.

After returning to Cali Bottom and the wider world of Disgardium, Alex realizes that the Demonic Games were a vacation compared to the problems he now faces. He has to help the beta players stuck in the Nether and decide what to do with his friends who "betrayed" him; identify a real traitor and prepare for the citizenship tests; and reach the Inferno to obtain Coals of Hellflame and destroy the Nucleus, whose legates, now free, have gained new powers thanks to the pantheon of dark gods who have joined the Destroying Plague.

War has come to the mainlands. Venick is at its head, using a fake betrothal and his new Commander's title to lead the resistance into battle. And while Venick is glad to have Ellina back on his side of the fight, he can't help but worry about all the ways she's changed...and the way things have changed between them.

Alex Sheppard flies to the Demonic Games, hoping that he and his friends Malik and Tissa can do the impossible and achieve victory. Almost 400 players are invited to the Games, the best of the best from all walks of Dis. Champions of the arena and the battlefields, gryphon races and pet battles; the very best craftspeople and grand masters of their professions.... All of them await the arrival of Scyth the Class-A Threat, who must now prove his worth without his divine abilities to help him.

As Thomas' life ends, the gods of another world swoop in and grab his soul. What they needed was a champion with the courage and strength to fight against the rising chaos in their world of Eternis. What they got was a college math student who spent more time gaming than he does studying. When they throw him into a new world, in a new body, at least they give him a familiar gaming interface. Or, it would have been familiar, if he hadn’t lost his memories from the trauma of his death.