Cette série palpitante suit une agence clandestine qui explore les recoins les plus sombres de la politique et de la technologie mondiales. Composée d'experts politiques et techniques, elle découvre des conspirations et de la corruption aux niveaux les plus élevés et les plus dangereux de la société. Chaque volet offre une action intense et révèle des menaces cachées. C'est un tourbillon de rebondissements pour les amateurs de thrillers d'espionnage.
Jonathan Smith begins to search for the origins of a doomsday virus that is claiming the lives of people throughout the U.S., and soon learns that the virus is being intentionally injected into the victims by a madman.
Von erschreckender Realität Das Pockenvirus scheint besiegt. Nur in zwei Geheimlabors in Russland und in den USA werden noch Restproben zu Forschungszwecken aufbewahrt. Jetzt sollen unter Weltraumbedingungen Experimente mit diesen tödlichen Viren angestellt werden, die nur friedlichen Zwecken dienen sollen. Ein skrupelloser Wissenschaftler hat allerdings andere Pläne...
Nathan Klein, the shadowy chief of Covert-One, has a new assignment for Lieutenant Colonel John Smith. A top scientist has gone missing, and now it appears that he has built a computer capable of destroying the US. Smith must save the day.
On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the US Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination - a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesn't want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered and vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...
Le Mouvement Lazare, organisation mysterieuse et presente a travers le monde entier, se rassemble devant l'Institut Teller pour protester contre la recherche sur les nanotechnologies, acclamee par les uns, mais critiquee par les autres. Soudainement, explosions et morts a l'interieur de l'Institut. Accident ou acte terroriste? Ce n'est peut-etre que la repetition d'une catastrophe sans precedent.
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...
Dans l'Arctique canadien, des scientifiques découvrent l'épave d'un bombardier russe contenant une arme biologique toxique. Avec plus de deux tonnes d'anthrax, elle menace des millions de vies. Le colonel Jon Smith de Covert One est mandaté par le président américain pour sécuriser le site et neutraliser la menace.
Microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is sent with his fellow Covert-One operatives to discover why an American special forces team was savagely attacked and decimated by the normally peaceful residents of a farming village in northern Uganda.
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?
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
Robert Ludlum's bestselling Covert-One series continues with an exciting, ripped-from-the-headlines new novel by bestselling, award-winning thriller author Jamie Freveletti.On 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 . . .
Robert Ludlum's newest novel in the hugely popular Covert-One series, by New York Times bestselling author Kyle Mills
