Diese spannende Serie folgt einer geheimen Organisation, die in die dunkelsten Winkel der globalen Politik und Technologie vordringt. Bestehend aus politischen und technischen Experten decken sie Verschwörungen und Korruption auf höchster und gefährlichster Ebene der Gesellschaft auf. Jeder Teil liefert actiongeladene Spannung und enthüllt verborgene Bedrohungen. Es ist eine Achterbahnfahrt der Wendungen für Fans von Spionagethrillern.
Ein Pharmakonzern verkauft seit Jahren Antibiotika, in dem ein Virus versteckt wurde, um bei Ausbruch der Epidemie ein Antiserum präsentieren zu können - ein lukratives Milliardengeschäft. Alle, die von äHadesä wissen, versuchen, den Ermittler zum Schweigen zu bringen.
Das Pockenvirus scheint besiegt. Nur in zwei Geheimlabors in Russland und den USA werden noch Restproben verwahrt, doch Unbekannte versuchen, die tödlichen Viren zu stehlen. Lt. Colonel Jon Smith muss den Diebstahl um jeden Preis verhindern, denn ein Ausbruch der Seuche würde die ganze Menschheit bedrohen ?
Weltweit über 200 Millionen verkaufte Bücher von Robert LudlumEine Bombenexplosion im berühmten Pasteur Institut in Paris tötet unter anderem den Wissenschaftler Emile Chambord, der gerade an der Entwicklung eines DNA-Computers arbeitete. Im Feuersturm nach der Explosion sind offenbar auch seine Unterlagen vernichtet worden. Doch wenig später verschwinden auf mysteriöse Weise amerikanische Kampfjets von den Radarschirmen. Covert-One-Agent Jon Smith fliegt nach Paris, um die Verbindung zwischen dem Anschlag auf das Institut und dem gefährlichen Mastermind, der den Weltfrieden bedroht, herauszufinden.
When word reaches the President of the United States that a Chinese cargo ship is transporting chemicals to a rogue nation intent on creating new biological weapons, the President knows he must act quickly to obtain the proof he needs. Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship's true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, he is ambushed, the second agent is murdered, and the evidence is destroyed. Smith escapes with only his life and a verbal message - the President's biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. As the mysterious ship draws closer to its end port, Smith is losing time in uncovering the truth about the vessel and its cargo - a truth that probes the secrets of the Chinese ruling party, a faction in Washington working to undermine the elected government, and an international cabal thursting the world to the brink of war ..
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Die U. S. Marine hat einen chinesischen Frachter im Visier, der im Verdacht steht, gefährliche Chemikalien in den Irak zu transportieren. Um einen diplomatischen Supergau zu verhindern, muss der Geheimdienst herausfinden, ob aus dem Verdacht tatsächlich Wirklichkeit wird. Für diese Aufgabe gibt es keinen Besseren als den Chef der Geheimabteilung Covert One: Jon Smith. Was er entdeckt, bestätigt die schlimmsten Albträume.
In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, a once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by an underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed, and the intelligence agents involved have disappeared without trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknown to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and for ever change the nature of the world.
A once-great nation is determined to rebuild its shattered empire, and lightning military strikes against its neighbours are planned. But first they must sow confusion and fear in the ranks of their enemies. They turn to one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. He has control over an undetectable and incurable bio-weapon, the perfect assassin's tool. Created using a strand of each victim's own DNA, it is the ultimate precision-guided silent killer. Lt Col. Jon Smith and his Covert-One operatives take orders from the US President: their mission is to stop this murderous conspiracy - and thwart the leaders who are seeking to restore their country to her former power...
At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government's refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet, they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely escapes with his life. At the same time, a series of government officials around the world are coming down with a mysterious, fast-acting virus with a 100% fatality rate. These deaths are somehow related to the increasing militarism from the new Russian government, headed by the autocratic and ambitious President Victor Dudarev. With few clues and precious little time, Smith and Covert-One must unravel this mysterious plot and find the mysterious figure who stands at the center of it all...
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Droht ein neuer Kalter Krieg? In der kanadischen Arktis finden Wissenschaftler das Wrack eines russischen Bombers. Nur eine Handvoll Menschen weiß, dass dieses Wrack eine heute noch hochgiftige biologische Waffe an Bord hat. Mit mehr als zwei Tonnen Anthrax kann man ganze Länder und Millionen von Menschen verseuchen. Colonel Jon Smith von der Geheimorganisation Covert One wird vom amerikanischen Präsidenten persönlich beauftragt, die Fundstelle abzusichern und die Biowaffe zu entschärfen. Doch sobald sie den Ort erreichen, finden sie dort bereits einen tödlichen Widersacher.Beängstigend und topaktuell – ein Politthriller der Extraklasse.
Ein Spezialkommando der US-Streitkräfte soll im Dschungel Ugandas einen mächtigen Warlord gefangennehmen. Doch die Soldaten werden von unangreifbar scheinenden Einheimischen niedergemetzelt. Colonel Smith von der Task-Force-Einheit Covert One macht sich auf die Suche nach einer neuen Biowaffe.
Jon Smith is attending a conference in The Hague on infectious diseases and wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes the shooter, and finds three pictures in the assassin's pocket: one of an unknown woman, one of Peter Howell, his friend and a former agent with Britain's MI6, and one of him. When Smith tries to leave the hotel, he encounters a second group of terrorists in the process of attacking it. The hotel is not the only target in The Hague. Within minutes of Smith's narrow escape, bombs go off at the train station, airport and at the headquarters of the International Court of Justice, where a Pakistani warlord, Oman Dattar, is being held while he is tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos, Dattar escapes. Dattar has learned of a new strain of deadly bacteria - and is determined to use them to bring down the West once and for all. Can Jon Smith stop him?
The superb new edge-of-your-seat Covert-One novel in the series created by the undisputed master of the thriller genre, Robert Ludlum.
While assessing the military potential of a new intelligence device, Covert-One's Colonel Jon Smith realizes the technology must never fall into the hands of America's enemies
One evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to program the drones. If revealed, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States. Jon Smith and the Covert-One team begin a worldwide search to recover the officials, but as the first kidnapping victims are rescued, they show disturbing signs of brainwashing or mind-altering drugs. Smith's investigation leads him to Fort Detrick, where a researcher, Dr Laura Taylor, had been attempting to create a drug to wipe memory from soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. But Dr Taylor's research was suspended almost a year ago, when she was placed in a mental institution. Now, if Smith doesn't figure out the brainwashing drug, and track down the kidnapped Nick Rendel, the kidnappers will soon have the power to carry out drone strikes anywhere in the world...
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Eigentlich sollte es ein leichter Auftrag sein, den Colonel Smith von der US-Task-Force-Einheit Covert One ausführen sollte, doch die nächtliche Übergabe eines Koffers in einem japanischen Fischerdorf wird zu einem lebensgefährlichen Coup. Der Kofferinhalt entpuppt sich als hochgefährliche Waffe.
Japan and China are thrown close to the brink of war when a Japanese warship is attacked. Meanwhile top Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to recover mysterious material from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactor. Smith vanishes, and CIA agent Randi Russell goes on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by Chief of Staff Masao Takahashi, has been developing next-generation weapons systems in preparation for a conflict with China. The Covert-One team must prevent Takahashi from sparking a war, or the world will be dragged into a battle certain to kill tens of millions of people and leave much of the planet uninhabitable.