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CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff
A captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a
remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.
During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is
arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a
handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being
executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own
lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a
dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his
daughter’s wedding cake.
In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable
deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the
dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to
find the impossible…
MASTER OF RAIN by Tom Bradby
Shanghai, 1926. A city glistening with decadence and rife
with corruption - a humid, bustling society at the cultural
crossroads of British civil servants, American gun runners,
Russian princesses, and Chinese gangsters.
For Richard Field, a young Englishman new to the
international police force, Shanghai represents a brave new
world away from the past he is trying to escape. But his
naiveté is quickly dashed when he is called to the scene of a
brutal crime, in which a young Russian woman, Lena Orlov,
has been found sadistically murdered in her bed.
Field's idealistic instincts push him to investigate the case,
but his attempts are met with apathy - then menace - from
his colleagues. He begins to recognize that some cases in
Shanghai are intended to remain unsolved, and, in a matter
of days, he glimpses the murky depths that lurk beneath a
luminous city.
Field's drive to find the murderer leads him to Lena's
neighbour, Natasha Medvedev. A stunning beauty who fled
her charmed life in tsarist Russia, Natasha escaped the
Revolution but landed, like many of her counterparts, in a
treacherous life in Shanghai.
Natasha travels in an elite circle - one that orbits, Field
knows, around the city’s most feared drug lord, Lu Huang.
As his attraction to the beguiling Natasha grows, he is faced
with a piercing question: can he trust someone whose only
goal is self-preservation? And is it wise to fall in love with a
woman who may herself be the next victim?
Trusting only his Chicago-hardened American partner,
Caprisi, Field follows leads that run into the heart of a
lawlessly corrupt city, slowly uncovering a web of deception
that will leave him reeling…
ANGELS & DEMONS by Dan Brown (ROBERT LANGDON SERIES #1)
An ancient secret brotherhood.
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
An unthinkable target.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert
Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss
research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol - seared
into the chest of a murdered physicist - he discovers
evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient
secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most
powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth.
The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase
of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy - the
Catholic Church.
Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the
Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati
announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at
the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under
way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria
Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist
the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts,
dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most
secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-
year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome
toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair - a clandestine
location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation...
THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown (ROBERT LANGDON SERIES #2)
A murder in the silent after-hours halls of the Louvre
museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has
been protected by a clandestine society since the days of
Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient
society who, in the moments before his death, manages to
leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his
granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and
Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle.
The duo become both suspects and detectives searching
not only for Neveu's grandfather's murderer, but also the
stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere
steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition,
the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight
through France, England and history itself…
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by John Buchan
Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from
South Africa and is bored with his London life - until a
murder is committed in his apartment, just days after
the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that
could bring Britain to the brink of war.
An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for
the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native
Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one
step ahead of the game - and warn the government
before it is too late...
THE GENESIS CODE by John Case
ITALY: a dying doctor makes a chilling confession to the
priest in a remote hillside village.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: a mother and her young son are
savagely murdered. Their house is then burned down.
JOE LASSITER, the woman's brother, discovers a chain
of similar killings around the world.
What is the link? Who are the shadowy, merciless
killers? And what is the Genesis Code, the secret so
unthinkable that powerful men will do anything to
make sure it remains in the grave?
SHOGUN by James Clavell (ASIAN SAGA #1)
A bold English adventurer.
An invincible Japanese warlord.
A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two
ways of love.
All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time
and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition,
lust, and the struggle for power...
GARDEN OF BEASTS by Jeffery Deaver
Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936.
But with Prohibition over and the gang wars associated with
it coming to an end, Schumann is finding less and less work.
He is contracted for a hit. But this time, he's caught - and
finds that he's been set up.
He's taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given
a choice: he can spend the rest of his life in jail, or he can
help his country. He is to pose as a member of the 1936
Olympic team, travel to Berlin, and kill a high-ranking Nazi
close to Hitler.
Schumann has been picked because he's a second
generation German-American and can speak the language
fluently. Or at least that's what they lead him to believe...
GHOSTS OF BUNGO SUIDO by P. T. Deutermann
A World War II naval thriller pitting an American
submarine against daunting odds.
In late 1944, America’s naval forces face what seems an
insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class
battleships, which dwarf every other ship at sea. Built in
secrecy, these ships seem invincible, and lay waste to any
challengers.
American military intelligence knows of two such ships, but
there is rumored to be a third, a newly-built aircraft carrier,
ready to launch from Japan’s heavily-defended and mined
Inland Sea. Such a ship would threaten U.S. Pacific forces,
allow Japan to launch air attacks against the U.S. mainland,
and change the course of the war.
No American submarine has penetrated the Inland Sea; five
boats and their crews have perished in the Bungo Suido
strait. Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond — an
aggressive, attacking leader with a reckless streak — is now
captain of a new submarine. Hammond may be the navy’s
only hope to locate and stop the Japanese super-ship
before it launches - if it even exists...
EYE OF THE RED TSAR by Sam Eastland (INSPECTOR PEKKALA SERIES #1)
Introducing Pekkala: He was the Romanovs’ most trusted
investigator. Now he is Stalin’s greatest fear…
One July, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas
Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of
the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed.
Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the
Soviet state.
A decade later, one man lives in purgatory, banished to a
forest on the outskirts of humanity. Pekkala, was once the
most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, the right hand
man of the Tsar himself. Now he is Prisoner 4745P, living a
harsh existence in which even the strongest vanish into the
merciless Soviet winter.
But the state needs Pekkala one last time. The man who
knew the Romanovs best is given a final mission: catch their
killers, locate the royal child rumored to be alive, and give
Stalin the international coup he craves. Find the bodies,
Pekkala is told, and you will find your freedom. Find the
survivor of that bloody night and you will change history.
In a land of uneasy alliances and deadly treachery, Pekkala
is thrust into the past where he once reigned. There he will
meet the man who betrayed him and the woman he loved
and uncover a secret so shocking that it will shake to its
core the land he loves…
THE MALICE OF FORTUNE by Michael Ennis
Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli
and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic
serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the
most controversial works in the western canon - The Prince...
When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata,
to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the
murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot
fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds her own young son
hostage. Once there, Damiata becomes a pawn in the political
intrigues of the pope’s surviving son, the charismatic Duke
Valentino, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a
powerful cabal of mercenary warlords.
Damiata suspects that the killer she seeks is one of the brutal
condottierri, and as the murders multiply, her quest grows more
urgent. She enlists the help of an obscure Florentine diplomat,
Niccolò Machiavelli, and Valentino’s eccentric military engineer,
Leonardo da Vinci, who together must struggle to decipher the
killer’s taunting riddles: Leonardo with his ground-breaking
“science of observation” and Machiavelli with his new “science
of men.”
Traveling across an Italy torn apart by war, they will enter a
labyrinth of ancient superstition and erotic obsession to discover
at its center a new face of evil — and a truth that will shake the
foundations of western civilization…
EYE OF THE NEEDLE by Ken Follett
One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest
deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -
code name: "The Needle" - who holds the key to
ultimate Nazi victory.
Only one person stands in his way: a lonely
Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning
to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
But her loyalty to the Allied cause may be his ultimate
downfall...
CITY OF SHADOWS by Ariana Franklin
A cultured city scarred by war.
An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own.
A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess.
A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever.
A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice.
A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power...
This is 1922 Berlin.
One of the troubled city's growing number of refugees, Esther
Solomonova survives by working as secretary to the charming,
unscrupulous cabaret owner "Prince" Nick, and she's being
drawn against her will into his scheme to pass a young asylum
patient off as Anastasia, the last surviving heir to the murdered
czar of all Russia.
But their found "princess," Anna Anderson, fears that she's being
hunted - and this may turn out to be more than paranoia when
innocent people all around her begin to die...
THE SECOND OBJECTIVE by Mark Frost
A riveting World War II thriller, based on a shocking real-life
German operation run by "the most dangerous man in Europe."
Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to
hope they'll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto
Skorzeny, "Hitler's Commando," famed for his daring rescue of
the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation
Greif: He is to assemble a new brigade of 2,000 men, all of whom
speak English, and send them behind Allied lines disguised as GIs,
where they will wreak havoc in advance of a savage new
offensive.
And from those 2,000 men, Skorzeny is to select a smaller group,
made up of the twenty most highly skilled commandos fluent in
American culture, to attempt an even more sinister mission - the
second objective - which, if completed, not only would change
the course of the war, but would change the course of history…
Filled with real characters and details only recently released by
the United States military, The Second Objective is historical
fiction at its most pulse-pounding, its most unpredictable, and its
most compulsively readable.
EVENT by David Lynn Golemon (EVENT GROUP FILES #1)
The largest cover-up in American history is about to be
revealed…
The Event Group is the most secret organization in the United
States, comprised of the nation’s most brilliant individuals in the
branches of science, philosophy, and the military.
Led by Major Jack Collins, they are dedicated to uncovering the
hidden truths behind the myths and legends propagated
throughout world history - from underground agencies and
conspiracy theories to extraterrestrial life and UFOs. And now
that a new, unspeakable threat has been revealed, humanity’s
greatest hope for survival lies with Collins and his crew.
This time, the Group faces an enemy of remarkable strength and
power. In order to ensure that history’s errors never be
repeated, the Group must team up with an unlikely ally to stop a
deadly presence known only as the Destroyer of Worlds.
Now, amid the desert wastelands of the American Southwest,
the epic battle between two entities is about to begin…
ISTANBUL PASSAGE by Joseph Kanon
Istanbul, 1945. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia,
Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and
spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been
drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs
and courier runs for the Allied war effort.
Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an
apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war
life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that
goes fatally wrong, plunging him into a tangle of intrigue
and moral confusion.
Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded
mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Leon's
attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt and
a maze of shifting loyalties that threatens his own.
How do you do the right thing when there are only bad
choices to make?
11/22/63 by Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas,
President Kennedy died, and the world changed.
If you had the chance to change history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English
teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money
teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay
from one of the students - a gruesome, harrowing first
person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry
Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his
sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a
smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner,
divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He
enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely possible - mission to
try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new
world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops,
of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a
beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who
becomes the love of Jake’s life - a life that transgresses all
the normal rules of time…
BLACK OUT by John Lawton (INSPECTOR TROY SERIES #1)
London, 1944. While the Luftwaffe makes its final assault on the
already battered British capital, Londoners rush through the
streets, seeking underground shelter in the midst of the city’s
black out.
When the panic subsides, other things begin to surface along
with London’s war-worn citizens. A severed arm is discovered by
a group of children playing at an East End bomb site, and when
Scotland Yard’s Detective Sergeant Frederick Troy arrives at the
scene, it becomes apparent that the dismembered body is not
the work of a V-1 rocket.
After Troy manages to link the severed arm to the disappearance
of a refugee scientist form Nazi Germany, America’s newest
intelligence agency, the OSS, decides to get involved.
The son of a titled Russian émigré, Troy is forced to leave the
London he knows and enter a corrupt world of bloody
consequences, stateless refugees, and mysterious women as he
unearths a chain of secrets leading straight to the Allied high
command…
THE COMPANY by Robert Littell
Racing across a canvas that spans the legendary Berlin Base in
the 1950s - the front line of the simmering Cold War - to the
Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, the Afghan war, the
Gorbachev putsch, and other major theatres of operation for the
CIA, The Company tells a thrilling story of agents imprisoned in
double lives, fighting an enemy that was amoral, elusive and
formidable.
The Company tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only 'the
good fight' against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad one
as well, with the ends justifying such means as CIA-organized
assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and toppling of
legitimate governments.
Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, though, one
question is constant…
Who is the mole within the CIA?
THE EIGHT by Katherine Neville (MONTGLANE SERVICE SERIES #1)
New York City, 1972 — A dabbler in mathematics and
chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big
Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new
assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-
teller. The woman warns Cat of danger.
Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat with a mysterious
offer: He has an anonymous client who is trying to collect
the pieces of an ancient chess service, purported to be in
Algeria. If Cat can bring the pieces back, there will be a
generous reward.
The South of France, 1790 — Mireille de Remy and her
cousin Valentine are young novices at the fortress-like
Montglane Abbey. With France aflame in revolution, the
two girls burn to rebel against constricted convent life —
and their means of escape is at hand. Buried deep within
the abbey are pieces of the Montglane Chess Service, once
owned by Charlemagne. Whoever reassembles the pieces
can play a game of unlimited power.
But to keep the Game a secret from those who would abuse
it, the two young women must scatter the pieces
throughout the world…
THE ASSASSINS GALLERY by David L. Robbins (MIKHAL LAMMECK SERIES #1)
New Year’s Eve, 1945. The assassin steps out of the Atlantic
Ocean in the middle of a raging nor’easter. Cool and
efficient, she’s a weapon of war superbly trained in the
ancient arts of subterfuge and murder. And even though
she’s outnumbered, she’s got one major advantage: No one
knows she’s coming.
Professor Mikhal Lammeck’s specialty is the history and
weaponry of assassins. But even Lammeck is caught off
guard when the Secret Service urgently requests his help: A
gruesome double murder and suicide in Massachusetts has
set off alarm bells. It’s only a hunch, but all too soon
Lammeck suspects the unthinkable.
In the waning days of the war, someone wants one last shot
to alter history. An assassin is headed to Washington, D.C.,
to kill the most important soldier of them all: the U.S.
commander in chief.
As Lammeck and a killer at the top of her profession circle
the streets of the capital in the hunt for FDR, one of them
will attempt to kill the world’s most powerful man; the
other, to save him. And between them, for an instant,
history will hang in the balance…
THE TERROR by Dan Simmons
Based on the true story of the Franklin expedition, a
devastating novel that will chill you to your core…
The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and
Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of
Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically
advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs
were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the
fabled North-West Passage.
But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for
nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet
the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of
white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling
supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the
unyielding grip of the frozen ocean.
No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something
out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the
ships, snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring.
A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this
terror has become the expedition's nemesis.
When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain
Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead
the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee
south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman
who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival - or the
harbinger of their deaths.
And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the
Terror on the ice become ever more bold, Crozier and his
men begin to fear there is no escape…
CHILD 44 by Rob Tom Smith (CHILD 44 TRILOGY #1)
A terrifying story of a paranoid world where no one can be
trusted.
"There is no crime."
In Stalin's Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still
millions live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the
State, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an
innocent person to his execution.
Officer Leo Demidov, an idealistic war hero, believes he's
building a perfect society. But after witnessing the
interrogation of an innocent man, his loyalty begins to
waver, and when ordered to investigate his own wife, Raisa,
Leo is forced to choose where his heart truly lies.
Then the impossible happens. A murderer is on the loose,
killing at will, and every belief Leo has ever held is
shattered.
Denounced by his enemies and exiled from home, with only
Raisa by his side, he must risk everything to find a criminal
that the State won't admit even exists. On the run, Leo soon
discovers the danger isn't from the killer he is trying to
catch, but from the country he is trying to protect…
CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon hacks into the secret histories of nations
and the private obsessions of men, decrypting the forces
that shaped this century…
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical
genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to
detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a
handful of people know it exists, and some of those people
have names like Churchill and Roosevelt.
The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702 -
commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep
the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has
cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a
cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his
German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho
Shaftoe and his forces.
Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-
hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data
haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data
can be stored and exchanged free of repression and
scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the
endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails
granddaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi
submarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a
data haven afloat.
But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy
with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable
Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to
unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital
liberty - or to universal totalitarianism reborn…