Nuclear war may kill millions.

Nuclear Winter will kill billions.

International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

Every war begins with a first shot. The shot heard ’round the world at Lexington and Concord in 1775 birthed a nation. Less than a century later, cannons firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina thrust that same nation into a civil war. The assassination of an obscure archduke sparked a chain of events leading to World War I. The dastardly bombing of Pearl Harbor led America into the Second World War.

Akart’s new novel, Nuclear Winter: First Strike, depicts a world on the edge of nuclear Armageddon. Will history repeat itself as warring nations take their battles to the highest level of destruction? Can America avoid being drawn into these conflicts beyond her borders?

Nuclear Armageddon hangs over us like a mighty sword and ordinary Americans will be caught in the crosshairs.

This is more than the story of nuclear conflict. It’s about the devastating effects wrought by Nuclear Winter. Our possible future is seen through the eyes of the Albright family whose roots stretch back to the early settlement of the Florida Keys.

Hank Albright, a widower and proprietor of the Driftwood Key Inn, is the epitome of the laid-back islander inhabiting the Keys. His brother, Mike, is a homicide detective for the Monroe County Sheriff’s department. Along with his wife Jessica, a paramedic and member of the Sheriff’s department water emergency team, they become involved in the investigation of a sadistic serial killer.

Hank’s son, Peter Albright, is a Washington, DC reporter covering the State Department. He’s unknowingly thrust into the middle of the conflict in the Middle East. Upon his return home, he begins to unravel a conspiracy leading to an unexpected dynamic between the President, the Secretary of State, and North Korea.

As the drumbeats of war beat louder, Hank’s oldest child, Lacey McDowell, begins to sense the warning signs. Along with her husband, Owen, and teenage son, Tucker, she begins to prepare for a hasty exit from their San Francisco Bay Area home.

Will America become embroiled in the nuclear conflict? Will the President cross the Rubicon, that point of no return after which lives and cities may be destroyed? For the Albrights, like their fellow Americans, their lives are about to change forever.

It was not our fight, but it became our problem.

High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors

Con men and killers, aliens and zombies, priests and soldiers – just some of the characters that kill and thrill in this compelling collection of gun-toting, double-crossing, back-stabbing, pulse-pounding stories. Jeffrey Deaver investigates the suspicious death of a crime-writer in 'The Plot'; Karin Slaughter's grieving widow takes revenge on her dying ex-husband in 'Cold, Cold Heart'; Stephen Coonts discovers a flying saucer in the depths of the ocean in 'Savage Planet' and John Lescroat's secret field agent finds himself caught up in a complex game of cat-and-mouse in 'The Gate Conundrum'. Handpicked by world number one Lee Child, celebrity authors and stars of the future are brought together, writing brand-new stories, especially commissioned for this must-have collection. Whether you're reading today's bestseller or tomorrow's phenomenon, grisly horror or paranoia thriller, historical suspense or supernatural crime, one thing's for certain. You'll be thrilled to the core.

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. From small-town crime stories to sweeping global conspiracies, this is a cross section of today’s hottest thriller-writing talent. This original collection is now split into four e-book volumes, packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem!

First Thrills: Volume 2 contains stories six original stories by:

Stephen Coonts

Heather Graham

Wendy Corsi Staub

Kelli Stanley

Grant McKenzieKen Bruen

EVERY CORPSE IS A CLUE

N47° 46.605 E013° 21.718 A dismembered hand

N47° 48.022 E013° 10.910 Two severed ears

N47° 26.195 E013° 12.523 A mutilated corpse

A woman is found murdered. Tattooed on her feet is a strange combination of numbers and letters.

Map co-ordinates. The start of a sinister treasure hunt by a twisted killer.

Detective Beatrice Kaspary must risk all she has to uncover the killer in a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse.

THANKS FOR THE HUNT

The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy! There's a shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are on the trail – looking for clues – but they're not alone! Someone else has got the same idea. Time is running out for the Famous Five, who will follow the clues and get to the treasure first?

Англия. Лондон. 1666 год.

Промежуток между Великой чумой и Великим пожаром. Архидьякон Собора святого Павла и бывший чумной врач после череды странных и трагических событий оказывается втянут в противостояние с сектой «Отверженных».

Богатые диалоги, красочные описания, продуманные персонажи и нетривиальный сюжет романа «Flamma» погрузят читателя в мрачную атмосферу Лондона 1666 года, полную тайн, мистики, загадочных убийств и конечно же любви.

A Vietnam vet is haunted by his past. A violent past that cannot be forgotten or forgiven, or can it? Today Ed Saunders is on the road selling computer software but as he enters the quiet town of Ludlow, Ohio, he witnesses another tragedy, the abduction of a young girl. He tries to help but the only problem is, what he saw was all in the past. Did the flashback he witnessed really happen or is the ageing vet finally losing his mind? With the help of more visions into the past and the support of the town librarian, Ed puts his life on the line to investigate a series of gruesome murders going back to the early 60s when cars were be-finned colourful land yachts and gas was cheap and plentiful. With another kid-napping and planned murder under way, Edd takes on a bizarre cult of neo-Nazi extremists to try and save a special boy from a horrific ritual slaying, but time is running out.

Can history help the present or will it just repeat itself? His painful past has finally caught up with him but not quite how he expected.

Imagínese una vieja casa de campo en algún lugar de Inglaterra, en los años 50. Imagínese una niña de casi 11 años, solitaria y de extraños talentos, que vive allí con una familia poco común: un padre viudo de carácter taciturno y unas hermanas a las que nuestra protagonista no soporta. Se llama Flavia de Luce y es la dueña y señora de un laboratorio químico de la época victoriana abandonado décadas atrás.

La joven Flavia, como si fuera un detective, hurgará en al misterioso pasado de su padre y planeará la venganza contra sus hermanas Ofelia y Daphne mientras el material para su propio experimento científico es el cuerpo de un hombre que se encuentra enterrado en el jardín de su casa.

Con su protagonista excéntrica y brillantes, Flavia de los extraños talentos es una novela absolutamente original, imaginativa, de lectura compulsiva, que engancha por su inteligencia y por su humor, a veces muy negro, que se burla de la macabra seriedad de la trama.

When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents – which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Then years later, a shock: at a bachelor party for a fellow doctor, Delaware finds himself uncomfortably watching two strippers going through a degrading display – and one of them is Lauren Teague. And now her mother is pleading for help once again. Lauren has disappeared – and she thinks Delaware can find her. He's not so sure – but when her disappearance turns into a murder investigation, he knows he owes it to the dead girl to find out what demons drove her to such a horrifying end

The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for ‘The Flesher’ — one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers.

The case was closed. Until the killer walked free...

When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City’s history.

Twenty years ago ‘The Flesher’ was butchering people all over the UK — turning victims into oven-ready joints — until Grampian’s finest put him away. But eleven years later he was out on appeal. Now he’s missing and people are dying again.

When members of the original investigation start to disappear, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae realizes the case might not be as clear cut as everyone thinks...

Twenty years of secrets and lies are being dragged into the light. And the only thing that’s certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again.

I uppföljaren till Män som hatar kvinnor är det Lisbeth Salander som står i centrum. Hon blir anklagad för trippelmord och dras in i en härva som leder tillbaka till hennes mörka förflutna.

Lisbeth Salander återkommer till Sverige efter en längre tids vistelse utomlands. Tack vare finansmannen Wennerströms pengar har hon det bättre ställt än någonsin, men hon återvänder till ett Stockholm där hon inte längre har familj eller vänner. Lisbeth är helt ensam i världen. En rad dramatiska händelser inträffar som får Lisbeths mörka förflutna att göra sig påmint, och när hon dras in i en mördarjakt där hon själv är villebråd bestämmer hon sig för att göra upp med det förgångna en gång för alla. Hon ska straffa dem som förtjänar att straffas.

Samtidigt har Mikael Blomkvist på Millennium fått korn på hett nyhetsstoff. Journalisten Dag Svensson och hans sambo Mia Bergman kan visa avslöjande fakta om en omfattande sexhandel mellan Östeuropa och Sverige. Många av de personer som utpekas i traffickinghärvan har högt uppsatta positioner i samhället.

När Dag och Mia blir brutalt mördade och misstankarna riktas mot Salander bestämmer sig Mikael Blomkvist för att driva sin egen utredning. Han upptäcker snart ett samband mellan morden och traffickingtemat. Den fruktade Zala, vars namn ständigt förekommer i utredningen, visar sig dessutom ha kopplingar till en viss Lisbeth Salander...

Det är dags för Blomkvist och Salander att mötas igen.

Flight from the USSR, the first novel from one of Georgia’s most famous author, Dato Turashvili, was originally published in Georgia in 1988. Since then, it has been adapted as a stage play entitled “Jeans Generation” and translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Greek and Croatian; receiving brilliant reviews everywhere.

The novel is based upon an electrifying and tragic event in 1983. Gega Kobakhidze, a young actor, and seven friends hijack an airplane heading from Tbilisi to Leningrad. They desperately want to flee from the USSR and go to Turkey. They fail, are imprisoned and a number are killed. All of Georgia and the world were caught up in these events.

Turashvili is a master of drama, with a precise and compelling sense of dialogue, his characterizations are complex but powerful, his story-line is totally engrossing, and we do not want to believe the inevitable and disastrous conclusion. He weaves a gripping literary work between historical fact and fiction, leaving the reader transfixed.

When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.

In Vachss's acclaimed first novel, we are introduced to Burke, the avenging angel of abused children. Burke's client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster – so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted vigilante to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is a setup for a mugging and every tenement has something rotten in the basement. Fearfully knowing, buzzing with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point bullet, Flood is Burke at his deadliest – and Vachss at the peak of his form.

The Flotsam & Jetsam TV show gained a cult following throughout Scotland by highlighting that money could be made from the debris that washed up onto remote beaches. When it came to West Uist, it brought the exciting prospect of celebrity status for the locals. Then, one fateful night, everything changed...The death of a noted scientist, the discovery of a half-drowned puppy and the suggestion of police negligence now lead Inspector Torquil McKinnon to investigate sinister events on the seemingly idyllic island. Who knows what other secrets will be washed ashore?