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In Antarctica, a massive column made of an unknown composite rises from the ice. It’s a gateway to a world beneath the ice where an ancient city of incredible technology exists. It is also the final arena where three elite combat units seek out the holy grail of global power. With global tensions rising, mankind races to gain the scepter of rule by attaining a weapon of mass destruction so great, it could cause an extinction event.

In a Galveston, Texas lab, a lethal strain has been stolen by a terrorist faction. In New Mexico, the population of a small town is completely wiped out. In Las Vegas, a vicious underground clan called the Community surfaces at night to prey on the weak. In Paris, two old foes of Kimball Hayden reunite as a kill team to hunt him down. Now considered dead by the Vatican, Kimball Hayden is leading a secretive life on the streets of Las Vegas. But when a parish comes under the threat of a vicious mob, he finds himself thrown back into a world of violence.

In Streatham, a couple comes under fire with threats of assassination. At the heart of it all, Chadwick Sommers becomes central to a global trade that defies morality, crafting designer children through illicit DNA restructuring, who are then sold at The Midnight Auction, a clandestine event where the wealthy and corrupt bid for the genetically engineered future built for immoral reasons.

Along the chain of Himalayan mountains sits a precipice that serves as a gateway into Mount Everest. Teaming up with Ben Peyton and his crew of elite soldiers who are joined by a Chinese special-ops unit, they quickly discover that the mountain had been hollowed out to contain an entire valley filled with temples and pyramids. As the teams push forward to find the secrets of an alleged Great Army that resides within this cavern, they soon uncover the dangers and pitfalls that lead to a grisly truth.

On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. Who were the perpetrators? Due to reluctant witnesses and racial prejudice, the FBI closed the case without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., claimed, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of this key moment in our national struggle for equality and the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy, related by an author who played a major role in the investigation.

During a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIV is caught within the crosshairs of a lethal assassin. After scores of people are killed during an event featuring the Pope's address, a conspiracy theory emerges that the killings were conducted by one of the CIA’s own. As the data trickles in, it becomes clear that the assassin is none other than Shari Cohen.

In Egypt, those within the Saint Catherine Monastery are brutally attacked and a secret that has been hidden for more than 3,500 years is stolen. In Zurich, an arms dealer makes an agreement with a band of elite terrorists for one-of-a-kind weapons of mass destruction, for a treasure that was presumed destroyed during the Exodus. When a conversation between two men is covertly videotaped by an operator of the CIA, Vatican Intelligence and the Mossad realize that the partial message received was filled with enigmas.

Before Kimball Hayden became a Vatican Knight, he was the commander of the Pieces of Eight, a kill squad that worked as part of a black-arm force of the CIA. He kills with impunity and acts with the cold fortitude of a machine. But when he begins to question the morality of his actions and the motives of his superiors, he is placed within the crosshairs by high-end principals who want to see him dead.

Der untergetauchte Bangladeschi entdeckt in einem versteckten Gewölbe in Zürich einen Sarg, der die Unheilige Dreifaltigkeit birgt: Satan, den Antichristen und den Falschen Propheten – drei Bomben, die in der Lage sind, die Hölle auf Erden zu bringen und den Vatikan in ein Reich der Flammen zu verwandeln.

In 1943, the Eldridge, part of the Philadelphia Experiment, disappeared, only to reappear elsewhere, with its crew either driven mad or fused to the ship. A month later, the SS Proteus, an American tender ship, also vanishes under similar circumstances in what becomes known as Project Quantum Veil. More than eighty years later, while the Arctic Explorer, an American commerce ship, is studying the effects of global warming in the Arctic, an iceberg calves, revealing something trapped within the ice—a ship.

Einer Splittergruppe des Islamischen Staates gelingt es, die sagenumwobene Heilige Lanze aus der Kaiserlichen Schatzkammer in Wien zu stehlen. Da die Stadt sofort abgeriegelt wird, verschanzen sich die Terroristen in einem hochmodernen Hotelkomplex, bringen einige Geiseln in ihre Gewalt und stellen Forderungen ihre Flucht betreffend. Unter den Geiseln befindet sich auch ein Kardinal des Vatikan, weshalb Kimball Hayden und seine Vatikanritter für eine Rettungsmission entsandt werden.

In a dystopian future, a self-contained valley in Argentina serves as the "far arena" for those convicted of a crime. Inside the Valley: carnivorous dinosaurs generated from preserved DNA. The goal: cross the Valley to get to the Gates of Freedom. The chance of survival: no one has ever completed the journey. Convicted of crimes with little or no merit, Ben Peyton and others must battle their way across fields filled with the world’s deadliest apex predators in order to reach salvation.

Political dignitaries, including the president of the Federation, gather for a ceremony onboard Mausoleum 2069. But when a cloud of interstellar dust passes through the galaxy and eclipses Earth, the tenants within the walls of Mausoleum 2069 are reborn and the undead begin to rise. As the struggle between life and death onboard the mausoleum develops, Eriq Wyman, a one-time member of a special-ops team called the Force Elite, is given the task to lead the president to the safety of Earth. But is Earth like Mausoleum 2069 - a landscape of the living dead?

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In the near future when the art of computer graphic imaging has been perfected, there are no longer flesh-and-blood actors, only CGI characters who look as real as their human counterpart. Having been instilled with artificial intelligence, they begin to evolve naturally with human-like facets. When they learn, however, that they’re no longer a box-office draw they once were, they’re termed as obsolete and scheduled for disposal.

In Niger, a coup that is staged and funded by ISIL puts a vicious leader in command. People are summarily slaughtered, the government is in shambles, and a terrorist regime rules with impunity. But deep inside the sublevel of a defunct hospital is the key to annihilation. It is a secret known only to the members of the ISIL regime and the Iran Ministry of Intelligence. The world is impotent to respond, and there seems to be no counteroffensive to stop the rogue efforts that could bring the world to its knees.

Ashley Quinton is on the verge of madness after the release of a killer she helped put behind bars 19 years ago. Upon the exact moment of his discharge, she immediately receives calls from a local payphone from someone who tells her things only the killer would know. And then she begins to see items connected to her past - items that were given to her by this man when she was a child, only for them to disappear in a haze of smoke and mirrors before others can confirm her claims.

During military exercises, rogue missiles fire off from a US naval battleship and head directly towards North Korea. Then Air Force Two disappears over the Rocky Mountains. These are mere flexes of muscle from one man who wields the Black Key, a tool capable of controlling nuclear arsenals and weaponry systems. President Jack Meacham's past comes back to haunt him with a single message: "Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the good of the whole?" The president turns to Jon Jericho, a.k.a. The Hunter, to locate and neutralize the man behind the Black Key.

Wann immer die Grundfesten der Welt oder das Leben gottesfürchtiger Menschen in Gefahr ist, wird diese geheime, unter dem Zeichen des Tatzenkreuzes vereinte Spezialeinheit ausgesandt, die Ordnung wiederherzustellen. Bewaffnet mit dem modernsten Waffenarsenal und verborgen vor der Öffentlichkeit stellen sich die Ritter des Vatikan unermüdlich den zerstörerischen Kräften dieser Welt entgegen. Während eines Besuches in den Vereinigten Staaten wird Papst Pius XIII von einer Terrorgruppe entführt, die sich selbst "Soldiers of Islam" nennt.

Sie sind Elitesoldaten der ganz besonderen Art, denn sie stehen allein im Dienste Gottes: DIE RITTER DES VATIKAN. Auf ihrem Flug in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika bringen Angehörige einer Terrorzelle die SHEPHERD ONE, das Flugzeug Papst Pius XIII, in ihre Gewalt. Sie fordern die Exekution der fünf ranghöchsten Mitglieder des MOSSAD, oder der Papst wird sterben – und mit ihm unzählige Menschen, denn an Bord befindet sich noch ein nuklearer Sprengsatz. Sie nennen sich die "Muslimische Revolutionäre Front", und ihnen ist das Unmögliche gelungen – die Maschine des Papstes zu entführen.