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IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect...

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by...

Mi guardo intorno e vedo il nulla. Proprio ciò che cercavo. Questa cittadina di confine non ha niente da offrire: nessun negozio decente, nemmeno un posto dove bere un buon caffè. Qui non ci viene nessuno in vacanza: qui ci si arriva solo se si ha un motivo. Io un motivo ce l’ho. E se non ce l’ho, lo trovo. Sempre. Per questo, quando osservo la scena che ho di fronte, non posso non farmi qualche domanda. Una strada deserta dell’Arizona, un fuoristrada schiantato contro l’unico albero nel raggio di miglia e miglia, nessuna traccia del guidatore. Domande che esigono una risposta.

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.

Ryder Huntington was my first and only broken heart. I promised no one would tear me up like his sweet words and broken promises ever again. I didn't expect the first time I landed a high-paying interior design job for an MLB player would be the day we met again. And I certainly didn't expect Ryder would bring with him cops, handcuffs, and words like "breaking and entering." Now he wants to make up for the misunderstanding. Well, that ship has sailed, I think.

A team of Nazi scientists has made an amazing discovery. But experiments have gone terribly wrong. The situation gets out of hand, and before long the expedition members find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul. Purdue, Nina and Sam realize that their only hope for survival is to unlock the secrets of the Order of the Black Sun. The Order of the Black Sun series leads the listener on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend.

15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller! Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, within it's handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to the U.S. to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins.

The Order of the Black Sun series leads the listener on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, the Order of the Black Sun series is a thrilling listen for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue. Join a series and a cast of characters that will keep you entertained long into the night.

Vor sechs Jahren quittierte Jack Reacher, damals Spitzenermittler der US-Militärpolizei, den Dienst. Er tauchte unter - unerreichbar, unauffindbar. Doch jetzt kommt der rastlose Einzelgänger freiwillig aus der Deckung. Durch puren Zufall ist er einem Mann begegnet, den er seit zehn Jahren für tot gehalten hat. Die Narben auf dessen Stirn erinnern Reacher an sein furchtbarstes Erlebnis, und er weiß: Noch immer geht von dem Janusmann eine tödliche Gefahr aus.

An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child.

From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling? Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential listening for anyone trying to write or understand fiction.

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

A collection of killer stories from some of today's hottest crime fiction writers, edited by grandmaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child. Killer Year is a group of thirteen authors whose first novels were published in the year 2007. Now, each member of this widely-praised organization has written a story with his or her own unique twist on the world of crime.

Tera Lynn Childs brings a delightful mix of wit, romance, and fantasy to her books. Fins, her YA mermaid series, is a great pick for fans of humorous love stories. The perfect beach read! In Just for Fins, third in the series, half-human, half-mermaid Lily Sanderson has decided to remain Crown...

A masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving...

Unrequited love is hard enough when you’re a normal teenage girl, but for mermaid Lily Sanderson, there’s no such thing as a simple crush. Lily has a secret, and it’s not her huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Lily’s mermaid identity...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire. “One of the...

Tera Lynn Childs’s sequel to Forgive My Fins offers another tail-flicking romance with plenty of fun, sun, and underwater adventure. On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl—still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Another timely tour de force . . . The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a ‘ripped from the headlines’ feel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”—Ken Follett “This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” This...