Suppose a cure for cancer was finally discovered, a cure that could save the lives of millions—and render much of today's medical and pharmaceutical industry obsolete? How far would the world's movers and shakers go to control this miraculous panacea—or destroy it?Controversial oncologist Dr. Anson Lunt dies in a suspicious plane crash, just as one of his researchers develops what appears to be a "magic bullet" against all forms of cancer. Before his mangled body is even cold, power...

CIA sleuth Roger Wagner has retired and moved to Florida with his smart, pretty wife. But his leisure is disrupted when the body of a fellow secret agent washes ashore near his beachfront house. The incident launches him on a frantic, hazardous race against time to neutralize a doomsday bomb hidden by a group of terrorists, who are holding his wife—and the entire state of Florida—as hostages.

On the eve of a crucial American election, the president of the United States is scheduled to give a speech at the Olympiahalle in Munich, a place where the limitless places of concealment are an assassin’s dream. Roger Wagner, CIA supersleuth with a gift for wry jokes, is given ten days to uncover an assassination plot against the president. Wagner’s frantic search leads him through the German underworld, neo-Nazi dens, glossy jet-set salons, and the highest levels of government. Entangle...

Four Americans—a twenty-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless US senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress—are inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from poverty-stricken slums through the opulence of 1917–1918 Washington, London, and Paris and, climactically, into the Western Front's vicious aerial combat, which establishes the matrix for all air warfare to come....

Hootenville, Pennsylvania, looks like any conventional company town, but beneath its placid surface throbs a network of violence, blackmail, and murder. It takes a sharp ex–Army spy to coolly fit the puzzle together, exposing the game of terror, intrigue, and cunning known as industrial espionage.Paul Dexter was once an Army counterintelligence spy in Munich, but he gave it up to offer his wife and family a more stable home life. Now he's punching in at a middle-American plastics c...

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1950, Christina Lindberg began nude modelling for men's magazines around 1968, first in Swedish publications such as FIB Aktuellt, and then in more international magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse. This lead to appearances in a succession of sexploitation and exploitation movies, the best of which date from 1970 to 1974. Her film career trailed off after an experience during the production of a hardcore porn film by Gerard Damiano; Lindberg quit during filmi...

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1950, Christina Lindberg began nude modelling for men's magazines around 1968, first in Swedish publications such as FIB Aktuellt, and then in more international magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse. This lead to appearances in a succession of sexploitation and exploitation movies, the best of which date from 1970 to 1974. Her film career trailed off after an experience during the production of a hardcore porn film by Gerard Damiano; Lindberg quit during film...

The shocking true story of one of America’s most gruesome and unforgettable serial killers.In the quiet town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, police uncovered a house of horrors—furniture made from human skin, skulls turned into bowls, and a hidden life of unimaginable depravity. At the center was Ed Gein, a reclusive farmer whose crimes would horrify a nation and shape the darkest corners of true crime history.This gripping account delves into Ge...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An American exchange student. A brutal murder in a medieval Italian town. A global spotlight where judicial process collided with sensational media. The Amanda Knox Case unravels the extraordinary story of Amanda Knox and the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher—an investigation and trial that became an international media spectacle.Reporting from Perugia to Seattle, this audiobook examines how ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.For over three decades, a faceless predator haunted Wichita, Kansas—signing his letters with three chilling words: Bind, Torture, Kill. Dennis Rader, the man behind the BTK killer, lived a double life—devoted family man, church leader, city compliance officer—while secretly committing some of the most calculated and sadistic murders in American history.This true crime account delves deep into the life a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Enter the unforgiving world of Carl Panzram—a man whose crimes were as brutal as they were chilling. Carl Panzram—Born to Kill explores the haunting true story of America’s most vicious serial killer, whose life of violence and audacity defied rehabilitation and shocked a nation.Born into poverty and abuse in late 19th-century Minnesota, Panzram’s early years were defined by hardship and hardship alone....

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.They lived a life of luxury, privilege, and success—until it all came to a bloody end. The Menendez Brothers' Murders: True Crime’s Darkest Family Secret takes you inside one of the most shocking and controversial murder cases in American history.On a quiet night in 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez gunned down their wealthy parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion. The gruesome slayi...