An unknown doomsday virus has claimed the lives of four people - including the fiancée of Covert-One's Lt Col. Jon Smith. Devastated and enraged, Smith uncovers evidence that this was no accident; someone out there has the virus, and the pandemic that threatens millions of lives was planned... Not knowing who to trust or where to turn, Smith assembles a private team to fight the deadly virus. As the death toll mounts, the quest leads them to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth. And Smith and his team must hunt down a genius determined to destroy them.
Mission Spéciale Séries
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.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
Le Pacte de Cassandre
- 350pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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...
A fiery explosion shatters a laboratory building in Paris. Among the dead is Emile Chambord, one of the leaders in the global race to create a molecular - or DNA - computer. Unfortunately, Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret, and his notes were apparently destroyed in the fire. Then suddenly US fighter jets disappear from radar screens for a full five minutes and there's no explanation; utilities cease to function; and all telecommunications abruptly stop, with devastating consequences. This is not the work of a clever hacker - only the enormous power and speed of a DNA computer could have caused such havoc. Covert-One agent Jon Smith flies to Paris to investigate. Following a trail that leads him across two continents, he uncovers a web of deception that threatens to reshape the world for ever . . .
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 ..
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.
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...
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.
Covert One: The Ares Decision
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group—Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.Covert-One’s top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it’s different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West.Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play—forces that can be traced to Washington itself.
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?
Robert Ludlum's The Utopia Experiment
- 560pages
- 20 heures de lecture
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 (TM) The Geneva Strategy
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
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 . . .
The Patriot Attack
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Robert Ludlum's newest novel in the hugely popular Covert-One series, by New York Times bestselling author Kyle Mills
