Frank Müller
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A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has loftier aspirations. But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage unexpectedly, and long before he's ready for a national campaign. The road to the White House will be more treacherous--and deadly--than Will can imagine. A courageous and principled man thrust into the spotlight, he suddenly finds himself the target of clandestine enemies who will use all their money and influence to...
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"After fifteen years as a brilliant master spy, Nick Bryson has disappeared into anonymity as a professor at an exclusive college in western Pennsylvania--until he's suddenly lured back into the game. Recruited by the CIA, Bryson has been commissioned to track the moves of the Directorate. Once, the ultra-secret intelligence agency was his training ground. Now, it's a multinational terrorist conspiracy bent on global domination... But for Bryson to...
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Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox-but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of a clandestine White House department, and with the President's permission, the former FBI agent is about to take revenge. Wherever the money trail leads, Johnson and his colleague, Sean Dillon, plan to hit Fox where it hurts the most, until Fox...
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"The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush--a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he reverts to atavistic traits. Buck...
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When a young police officer is shot and killed in his girlfriend's apartment in Washington Heights, investigators suspect that he had been taking money from the Dominican drug gangs that rule the neighborhood. An ambitious female deputy police commissioner and a daring detective lieutenant go up against the forces of greed to solve the crime of their careers.