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    The 99% Solution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min
    What if you could see alternate timelines? What if you could pick and choose between them?Lucy Montgomery is the 99 percent - buried in student loan debt and pissed off at a rigged system. Francis Gordon Woodley, IV, is the top of the 1 percent - heir to a corporate empire that can buy or topple entire nations.Manipulated by anarchists, Lucy sets out to destroy corporate power so that classless democracy can bloom into worldwide utopia. With his oligarch friends, Francis sets out to destroy government, unleash free-market forces, and spawn worldwide utopia.With Lucy and Francis on a collision course, the Time Weavers race to save humanity. Every time weave leads to a 100-year dark age, except one. But for that one timeline to emerge into reality, Simon must encourage Lucy, the woman that should have been his daughter, to assassinate his mentor's son, Francis.Simon Wentworth - confused physicist who believes he can choose the course of history from the intersections of past and future realities.Fiona Black - optimistic proprietor of The Intoxicating Page, a bar-bookstore where literature is matched to cocktails.Vladimir "Volodya" Kazimer - pessimistic Russian hacker whose software calculates the probabilities for different futures.Winter - cute little doggy.Together, they are The Time Weavers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ransom Stephens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197163/bk_acx0_197163_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Absinthe: A Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min
    Winner of a Hercule Poirot Award, a fast-paced international crime thriller about Russian infiltration in the financial world.Walter Eekhaut, a veteran of the Belgian police force who has a problem with authority, is dispatched to Amsterdam to aid the Dutch security service in investigating the activities of a well-connected Russian oligarch, with ties to Putin. Some of the Russian's business is legitimate, but some may well not be. In Amsterdam, Eekhaut is seconded to Chief Superintendent Alexandra Dewaal and her team, and begins to learn about the city's shady underside. He is at once pulled into another case, the murder of a young leftist dissident, alleged to have stolen a sensitive list from the Amsterdam offices of a right-ring political party—a list with the names of secret donors. The hunt for the killer leads to a knot of black money interests and illegal dealings that pit the Russian mob and Dutch politicians and business leaders against the police and anyone else who tries to get in their way. Absinthe is the gripping first installment in the bestselling Amsterdam trilogy featuring Eekhaut and Dewaal and, for North American readers, a new voice in European noir. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010837/bk_brll_010837_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Target Zero (eBook, ePUB)
    The Protector is back. Mickey Bale must hunt down military-grade warheads in this gripping British thriller from Anthony Riches. Former close protection officer Mickey Bale has a dangerous skillset. One that many men, good and bad, want to make use of. That's why a powerful oligarch wants to hire Mickey to protect him. And with his wife gone and his track record with the Met in tatters, Mickey doesn't have a choice. But when a terrorist attack kills a police firearms team, MI5 suspect that Mickey's new client and the Russian GRU are involved. The bomb was a military-grade Sunburn missile warhead. And there are more warheads out there. Blackmailed by MI5 into spying on the client he was hired to protect, Mickey is pushed to his limits by his new double-agent status. If he doesn't locate the other warheads, thousands of civilians will die - and time is running out... Reviews for Anthony Riches: 'An utterly compelling read' Manda Scott 'The Bill meets Jack Reacher' The Times 'A full-throttle adventure that twists and turns' Andy McNab
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    Die Zeitinsel
    Durch neun Epochenkreise - von der morgigen Gegenwart bis zurück in die Welt der Mythen - lasst Felix Philipp Ingold seine Icherzahler und -erzahlerinnen eine kleine Mittelmeerinsel erkunden, die vermeintlich keine Geschichte hat, die eine solche aber grade dadurch gewinnt, dass immer wieder jemand anderes sie berichtet. Unter wechselnden Namen wird die Insel zum Schauplatz - zu einer Art Welttheater - für wechselnde tragikomische Episoden in wechselnder Besetzung. Fiktive und reale Mitspieler kommen gleichermaßen zu Wort als Zeitzeugen, die ihre Zeit weniger bezeugen, als dass sie sie erzeugen, sie also beim Reden oder Schreiben überhaupt erst hervorbringen. Ein Oligarch, ein Filmemacher, ein Literat, eine Sekretarin, eine Malerin, ein Bildungsreisender, ein Wandermonch, eine Wunschfrau bringen "Leben" auf die Insel und - bezahlen es mit dem Tod.Unmerkliche Verrückungen und Verschiebungen, die der Autor an scheinbar realistischen Settings vornimmt, lassen uns umso aufmerksamer werden für die Konstruiertheit jeglichen Berichts und machen solcher Art die Durchlassigkeit der Grenzen zwischen Fakt und Fiktion nachempfindbar. Felix Philipp Ingolds "Neun Episoden" verheißen Entdeckerfreuden in dem durchaus noch nicht restlos erforschten Archipel zeitgemaßer Erzahlmoglichkeiten.
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    The Navy SEAL Brotherhood: A Navy SEAL Romance (The BWWM Romance Brotherhoods, Book 4) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min, (USK 18)
    He could make any woman crazy, and he relished pushing me to the edge of glory and then teasing me until my release sat firmly in his control. Aminata Usmanov My adopted father has lied to me my entire life. I promised myself I'd never fall for a man like him.... Strong.... Stern.... A fierce leader... With Mace, I can't help myself. The fact that he's off-limits turns me on even more. One wrong move and I'm in his arms, breaking every rule that I've set. I can't have this chiseled soldier.... But he's the one I dream about all night long. Mace Harwood Jr. Protecting a spoiled daughter of a Russian oligarch isn't what I had in mind when I signed up for private contract work. She's the opposite of the tough-as-nails SEALs I've been surrounded by. From the moment I see her curvy body and that bright white smile, I have to have her. But I can't. She's off-limits in every sense of the word. But if I can't have her... no one can. An American SEAL falls in love with a black woman adopted into a Russian family under strange circumstances. Their interracial love shakes the city of Moscow and has consequences around the entire world. Standalone within a series. No cliffhanger and guaranteed HEA. This is book four in a 10-book-series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Logan Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154494/bk_acx0_154494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Agent Running in the Field , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min
    Brought to you by Penguin.Narrated by John le Carre.The Sunday Times best seller.Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.Times Books of the YearNew Statesman Book of the YearGuardian Books of the YearSunday Times Books of the YearTLS Books of the YearDaily Mail Books of the YearMail on Sunday's Best Books of the YearApple Best books of 2019 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John le Carré. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/001924/bk_pauk_001924_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Die Katze und der General
    »Nino Haratischwili hat einen ungeheuer fesselnden Roman von geradezu Tolstoi'scher Wucht geschrieben.« Heide Soltau, NDR KulturBerlin, 2016: Alexander Orlow, ein russischer Oligarch und von allen »Der General« genannt, hat ein neues Leben in Berlin begonnen. Doch die Erinnerungen an seinen Einsatz im Ersten Tschetschenienkrieg lassen ihn nicht los. Die dunkelste ist jene an die Nacht, nach der von der jungen Tschetschenin Nura nichts blieb als eine große ungesühnte Schuld. Der Zeitpunkt der Abrechnung ist gekommen, als Orlow in Berlin auf eine exzentrische georgischstämmige Schauspielerin trifft, die der jungen Nura wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist.Wie in einem Zauberwürfel drehen sich die Schicksale der Figuren ineinander, um eine verborgene Achse aus Liebe und Schuld. Sie alle sind Teil eines tödlichen Spiels, in dem sie mit der Wucht einer klassischen Tragödie aufeinanderprallen.Nino Haratischwili spürt in ihrem Roman den Abgründen nach, die sich zwischen den Trümmern des zerfallenden Sowjetreichs aufgetan haben: »Die Katze und der General« ist ein brandaktueller Roman, der uns den russischen Imperealismus und die nackte Brutalität der Kriegsgräuel näherbringt. Spannend wie ein Thriller, berührend wie ein Drama erzählt Nino Haratischwilis vierter Roman über den Krieg in Ländern und Köpfen, über die Sehnsucht nach Frieden und Erlösung.
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    The Improbability of Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1053min
    Annie McDee, alone after the disintegration of her long-term relationship and trapped in a dead-end job, is searching for a present for her unsuitable lover in a neglected secondhand shop. Within the jumble of junk and tack, a grimy painting catches her eye. Leaving the store with the picture after spending her meagre savings, she prepares an elaborate dinner for two - only to be stood up, the gift gathering dust on her mantelpiece. But every painting has a story - and if it could speak, what would it tell us? For Annie has stumbled across The Improbability of Love, a lost masterpiece by Antoine Watteau, one of the most influential French painters of the 18th century. Soon Annie is drawn unwillingly into the art world and finds herself pursued by a host of interested parties that would do anything to possess her picture. For an exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious Sheika, a desperate auctioneer, an unscrupulous dealer and several others, the painting symbolises their greatest hopes and fears. In her search for the painting's true identity, Annie will uncover the darkest secrets of European history - and in doing so she will learn more about herself, opening up to the possibility of falling in love again. Irreverent, witty and sharply sweet, The Improbability of Love explores the confusion and turmoil of life and the complexities of love, loss and hurt - revealing the lows to which human nature can stoop and the heights to which the soul can soar. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barnaby Edwards, Jilly Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026102/bk_adbl_026102_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dark Shadows (eBook, ePUB)
    Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the world as it contends with its own complex past and present. Journalist Joanna Lillis paints a vibrant picture of this emerging nation through vivid reportage based on 13 years of on-the-ground coverage, and travels across the length and breadth of this enigmatic country that lies along the ancient Silk Road and at the geopolitical and cultural crossroads where East meets West.Featuring tales of murder and abduction, intrigue and betrayal, extortion and corruption, this book explores how a president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, transformed himself into a potentate and the economically-struggling state he inherited at the fall of the USSR into a swaggering 21st-century monocracy. A colourful cast of characters brings the politics to life: from strutting oligarch to sleeping villagers, from principled politicians to striking oilmen, from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners.Traversing dust-blown deserts and majestic mountains, taking in glitzy cities and dystopian landscapes, Dark Shadows conjures up Kazakhstan as a living, breathing place, full of extraordinary people living extraordinary lives.
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    London Killing: Detective Nick Belsey 1
    Es sieht nicht gut aus für Detective Nick Belsey: Er hat einen Haufen Schulden - verursacht durch zwei hartnäckige Exfrauen und einen ausschweifenden Lebenswandel -, kein Dach mehr über dem Kopf und ein Disziplinarverfahren am Hals. Fieberhaft überlegt er, wie er sich aus dem Staub machen könnte. Da landet ein Fall auf seinem Schreibtisch: Ein russischer Oligarch aus dem reichsten Stadtteil Londons, Hampstead Heath, ist spurlos verschwunden. Belsey fängt an, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln, denn in ihm reift ein Plan - die Identität des Vermissten könnte ihm dabei helfen, sich heimlich abzusetzen und ein neues Leben anzufangen. Als er bemerkt, dass jemand vor ihm bereits dieselbe Idee gehabt hat, hält ein zielsicherer Auftragskiller bereits die ganze Stadt in Atem. Belsey steckt mittendrin in einem Strudel aus Korruption und Finanzbetrug und versucht abzutauchen, bevor er untergeht… Ein raffinierter, schneller und wendungsreicher Thriller mit einem erfrischend anderen Detective, der selbst ständig hart an der Grenze zur Illegalität ermittelt, in der Hoffnung, damit seine eigene Haut zu retten, und mit einem atemberaubenden Finale.
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