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Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak--a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation--has been kidnapped. The terorist known as The Caliph is holding Novak in a fortress and has refused to negotiate for his release.

Yomiko Readman, a book lover with the supernatural ability to manipulate paper, embarks on a dangerous adventure when, in the guise of Agent Paper, she is tapped by England's Special Operations Division to recover a rare book stolen from a library twenty years earlier.

Special agent Paul Chavasse investigates the murder of a gangland boss and uncovers a conspiracy that involves powerful men from around the world.

Agent 007, otherwise known as James Bond, sets out to battle the agents of S.M.E.R.S.H., the Soviet organization of torture, vengeance, interrogation and death.

"A Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassin's bullet. And Desk Three, a convert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside the Republic of Vietnam"--Publisher.

U.S. Marine captain Shane Schofield, call-sign Scarecrow, finds himself pursued by a notorious bounty hunter after a cabal of the world's richest humans identifies him as one of fifteen people with reflexes fast enough to defuse the nuclear weapons they plan to unleash on the world.

The RBI team investigates claims of a human creature living underwater, and discover a city buried under the water and protected by schools of sharks.

The team travels to the forests of western China in order to locate Mya's long-lost brother, who was in a plane crash ten years earlier.

Jason Bourne takes on a new identity after he survives an assassination attempt in Indonesia, which causes him to wonder what his life could become without any attachment to the name Bourne; and meanwhile, an American airline is shot down over Egypt and Soraya Moore leads a global team to investigate the attack.