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With a terminally ill wife, Glasgow mechanic Court Callany is desperate for money. When an acquaintance from work asks him to help him rob a wealthy antiques collector’s home, he reluctantly agrees. However, the robbery goes wrong, and when Court tries to sell his stolen artifacts at a local pawnshop, he unwittingly enters into the underworld of international relic hunting.

When a secret lab in Antarctica suddenly goes down in an incredible explosion, Olivia starts suspecting a cover-up. She soon discovers that something is taken from the lab, something that will tip the scale of world domination, should it get into the wrong hands. It isn’t long before Olivia discovers to whom those fabled “wrong hands” belong - the Knights Templar. The Templars lose the Holy Grail after taking it from its hiding place in the Antarctic secret lab, but they are determined not to lose it again. They send a ruthless assassin to get it back.

After inheriting a farm on New Zealand’s South Island, Lewis Harding tries his best to keep it running. The financially strapped farmer is forced to forage his new land for implements, eliciting the help of his son Gary. But when they go too close to the entrance of an old deserted gold mine, catastrophe strikes in more ways then one. When Gary’s older brother, Dr. Cecil Harding, shows up at the farm, Nekenhalle, he discovers that his brother and father had gone missing.

Belgian physicist Dr. Jacobs learns that an infamous version of the Einstein Equation, thought to have been destroyed, had been discovered by billionaire genius David Purdue. Knowing how deadly the equation’s application would be, he tries to contact Purdue to warn him, but Purdue is frantically busy trying to solve the equation. Little does Purdue know that the Order of the Black Sun is using him to solve the equation for them, to set the ball rolling on a terrible experiment that could cause mass scale destruction.

While on assignment in England, investigative journalist Sam Cleave helps to avoid a woman being stoned to death in a Muslim residential area, leading to the killing of the men who stoned her. Rescuing the woman, he had no idea what kind of world he had just invaded. Thinking nothing of it, Sam returns to Scotland. Only when the bodies of the men are taken to the local morgue, do the medical examiners realize that the corpses are part of a sect that all share the same sigil tattooed on them.

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. The best-selling epic adventure - two complete full-length novels in one box set.

The sea off the coast of Spain holds a secret, buried under centuries of superstition. It has a reputation for being some hellish territory, where crews disappear and ships inexplicably drown in its sublime waters. This is where billionaire explorer David Purdue takes his new yacht out for its maiden voyage. He discovers something under the water that sets into motion an ancient Inca prophecy that would apparently open the hidden city of El Dorado.

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.

John Henry "Doc" Holiday and his team of a few good men are in the hunt of their lives. This time, the call of duty takes them from Savannah, Georgia, to the Bering Strait, to end the reign of terror of a dark army of Guardians, who cruelly engineer murders to look like suicides and procure trophies for the Forbidden Library of a diabolical mastermind known as the Keeper.

When John Henry “Doc” Holiday joined the SEALs, he swore, “If knocked down, I’ll get back up, every time.” So he wasn’t ready to go quietly and just fade away when a bullet abruptly ended his military career. And you can bet that when he gets knocked down while searching for the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, all hell breaks loose as he gets back up! Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar is a thrilling listen for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers-a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana - he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder.

Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can.

Sulla battigia di Sanibel Island, placida località balneare al largo della costa sudovest della Florida, la mareggiata ha sospinto un insolito tipo di spazzatura: decine di scarpe, restituite dalle onde alla terra, appesantite da un macabro dettaglio che lascia intravedere un gioco incomprensibile, violento, perverso. Né l'FBI, né la Guardia costiera, né le autorità locali sembrano in grado di stabilire a chi appartengano o da dove provengano. Una domanda, in particolare, esige una risposta urgente: le vittime di quel gioco malato sono ancora vive?

Quella della "Spedizione Donner" è una storia vera che ancora oggi risveglia paure ataviche e curiosità morbose. Rimanda al 1846, quando una carovana di pionieri diretti in California rimase bloccata per mesi dalla neve nella Sierra Nevada. Alcuni di loro morirono di stenti dopo poco tempo. Altri, stipati nello spazio soffocante dei carri, portati alla follia dai morsi del freddo e della fame, si abbandonarono al cannibalismo. Quasi nessuno si salvò.

Der Wind fegt Sandschwaden und einen rollenden Busch durch die Straßen der Geisterstadt High Lonesome - und über eine mumifizierte Leiche, die seit mindestens 50 Jahren unentdeckt dort lag. Weil der Tote der örtlichen Polizei Rätsel aufgibt, nehmen sich FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson und ihre Freundin, die Archäologin Nora Kelly, des Falls an. Bei der Untersuchung des Leichnams finden die beiden Frauen nicht nur heraus, dass der Mann eines entsetzlichen Todes starb - er trug auch ein unschätzbar wertvolles Goldkreuz aus dem 16. Jahrhundert bei sich.

Ein grausiger Anblick erwartet eines Morgens die Gäste auf einer exklusiven Ferieninsel vor der Golfküste Floridas: Am Strand des tropischen Urlaubsparadieses werden über hundert identische blaue Sneaker angeschwemmt - und in jedem Schuh steckt ein menschlicher Fuß! Special Agent Pendergast ist sich sicher, dass die Gliedmaßen nicht von den Insassen eines kubanischen Gefängnisses stammen, wie die Küstenwache vermutet. Auf eigene Faust lässt er von der Ozeanografin Pamela Gladstone ein Strömungsprofil erstellen, das in eine ebenso unvermutete wie tödliche Richtung weist.

Ein grausiger Anblick erwartet eines Morgens die Gäste auf einer exklusiven Ferieninsel vor der Golfküste Floridas: Am Strand des tropischen Urlaubsparadieses werden über hundert identische blaue Sneaker angeschwemmt - und in jedem Schuh steckt ein menschlicher Fuß! Special Agent Pendergast ist sich sicher, dass die Gliedmaßen nicht von den Insassen eines kubanischen Gefängnisses stammen, wie die Küstenwache vermutet. Auf eigene Faust lässt er von der Ozeanografin Pamela Gladstone ein Strömungsprofil erstellen, das in eine ebenso unvermutete wie tödliche Richtung weist.

Der Auftakt einer neuen Serie um die junge Archäologin Dr. Nora Kelly und FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson vom Besteller-Duo Preston & Child. Ein hochspannender Mix aus Indiana-Jones-Archäologie, einer wahren geschichtlichen Begebenheit und einem atemberaubenden Spannungsplot.

After a shoot-out leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded, Corrie Swanson finds herself under investigation. Her supervisor assures her she's not to blame and the black mark on her record will be cleared in short order. But Corrie finds she cannot shake off an overwhelming feeling of guilt. As a distraction, she takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse discovered in a hidden enclave at High Lonesome, a long-abandoned New Mexico ghost town. Quickly out of her depth, she realizes she needs the help of her old enemy, archaeologist Nora Kelly.

A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie Swanson is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face. Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th-century Spanish gold cross.