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Faites la connaissance de Michaël Muller, âgé de huit ans, dont la vie sera à jamais perturbée par la mort de ses parents dans des circonstances pour le moins inhabituelles. Cet événement tragique amènera le petit Michaël dans un autre monde encombré de peurs et d’angoisses. Michaël reprendra goût à la vie au contact d’un autre enfant de son âge, Robert, qui deviendra son frère d’adoption. Pendant 20 ans, il vivra une vie normale en se consacrant à l’écriture. Une seule chose perturbe le jeune homme… ses migraines que seule sa mère adoptive peut faire cesser.

Quand Ariel se voit confier une mission dans laquelle elle doit infiltrer le plateau de tournage de la populaire émission Maïka : une vie secrète et compliquée, elle croit rêver. Côtoyer les acteurs de la série télévisée préférée de sa génération tout en tentant de démasquer un espion qui veut s’emparer d’une arme dévastatrice, ce n’est vraiment pas banal! Entre les caprices de vedettes, les secrets d’État les mieux gardés, les jalousies d’une apprentie-espionne et les terribles dangers qui guettent l’humanité, Ariel sera confrontée à une panoplie de défis aussi inquiétants qu’excitants.

FBI Agent Jack Kenyon is an expert at cyber warfare, in which hackers and secret government agencies leverage weak spots in the Internet to cause carnage to their enemies. Assigned to uncover an industrial spy ring trying to steal Cyberworm, a US secret code, Jack is sure the murder of a double agent is linked to his investigation. But the sudden passing of his aunt Lydia in London complicates his plans.

"If Brian Freemantle isn't the best writer of spy novels around, he's certainly, along with John le Carre, in the top two." -The Philadelphia Inquirer Charlie Muffin isn't your typical British spy. He's neither high cultured nor well mannered. He doesn't care about being smooth, pretty, or popular; he only cares about getting the job done ...

A sprawling fictional account of the adventures of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the World War I military commander who created the first modern guerilla army. November 1914. In German-occupied East Africa during the Great War, British forces have arrived. In defiance of his orders, Prussian commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck enlists soldiers, civilians, and African rebels to fight against the British-the world's first modern guerrilla uprising. Lettow-Vorbeck's actions draw the attention of the brilliant but brutal chief of British intelligence, who vows to defeat him.

Two former CIA agents reunite for a dangerous mission in which nothing is as it seems in this seductive thriller from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. Rick Peters was one of the CIA's best operatives until the day the dragons-the company's elite covert team-were disbanded. Forced into unwanted retirement, Peters struck out on his own, becoming an assassin. Now, a two-million-dollar payday is on the table if he can take out San Sierran dictator Manuel Salva. Peters intends to make it look like a CIA operation ... and he has the perfect patsy in mind.

An American chess grandmaster gets involved with a Russian defector in the exciting debut novel from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. Highly focused and arrogant, John Butler has little time for anything other than achieving his ultimate goal: to become a world champion chess player. He already knows he's the best player in the world, but he needs the title to prove it. Now, with the most important competition of his life about to take place in Venice, John's carefully regimented existence is suddenly thrown into chaos when the CIA asks him to take part in a different sort of match.

Ava has spent two nights luxuriating in a hotel in Yunnan Province with the actress Pang Fai, with whom she has begun a secret relationship. She receives an urgent phone call from Chang Wang, the right hand to the billionaire Tommy Ordonez and one of Uncle's oldest friends. Years ago, Ava and Uncle helped Tommy recover $50 million in a land swindle. Chang asks Ava to fly to Manila to meet with his friend, Senator Miguel Ramirez. Ramirez asks Ava to investigate a college in Tawi-Tawi, an island province in the Philippines, which he suspects is training terrorists.

In David Ignatius' s gripping new novel, spies don' t bother to steal information . . . they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber isn' t sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center.

TARGET CONSUMER: Crime fiction readers; espionage readers; thriller readers; Anglophiles The death of Tom Bettany's estranged 26-year-old son brings him back to London. His return sparks the interest of everyone from mobsters to MI5 officers--he may have thought he left his old life as a spy behind, but nobody just walks away. Mick Herron's previous spy novel, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger, garnering attention both in the US and UK. These thrillers are complex and contemporary, with an unexpected dose of wry humor.