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The Midnight Line by Lee Child

In The Midnight Line, Reacher finds a West Point ring in a pawn shop and tracks its owner, a female veteran caught in Wyoming’s opioid trade.

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Asterix and the Chariot Race by Jean-Yves Ferri

It is the thirty-seventh book in the Asterix series. Caesar organises a chariot race across Italy. Asterix and Obelix enter to represent Gaul.

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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari looks ahead from the rise of Homo sapiens to a possible future where biotech and data give people the power once given to the gods.

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Night School by Lee Child

Night School revisits 1996, with Reacher in Hamburg teaming with CIA and NSA agents to stop a jihadist selling a nuclear weapon.

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The Promised Land by Jul

Lucky Luke escorts the Stern family, Jewish immigrants newly arrived from Poland, across the country to the home a friend has waiting for them in the West.

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The Patriot Attack by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Patriot Attack, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith investigates a brewing war between Japan and China driven by a powerful new metal.

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Make Me by Lee Child

Make Me drops Reacher in the isolated town of Mother’s Rest, investigating a journalist’s disappearance into a dark web conspiracy. With her partner, he uncovers a sinister underground service.

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Asterix and the Missing Scroll by Jean-Yves Ferri

It is the thirty-sixth book in the Asterix series. Caesar writes his memoirs but leaves out the Gaul village. A scribe leaks the missing chapter.

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De Cock en de dood in gebed by A.C. Baantjer

A junk tells De Cock that his addicted girlfriend has promised fifty thousand euros to whoever kills her wealthy father. Soon that father is found dead in the canal.

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De Cock en moord in de hondsdagen by A.C. Baantjer

In a heatwave, De Cock finds the body of an animal activist with six small dead dogs beside him. The motive is a puzzle.

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De Cock en de wortel van het kwaad by A.C. Baantjer

A young woman reports her brother missing, and De Cock finds him dead at the clubhouse of a charity. The dead man held five hundred thousand euros and a dark secret.

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De Cock en een recept voor moord by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock and Vledder find fashion house director Verbruggen dead with a note pinned to his lapel. A jealous mistress and a rumoured merger both seem to matter.

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The Geneva Strategy by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Geneva Strategy, co-authored with Jamie Freveletti, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts kidnappers who seized officials at a Geneva summit and threaten a cyberattack.

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De Cock en moord in triplo by A.C. Baantjer

Arendje van Nijmegen reports her husband missing, and he is soon found dead. When her lover dies too, De Cock stops believing in coincidence.

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De Cock en de dartele weduwe by A.C. Baantjer

Soon after a young widow reports being stalked by a former lover, her new partner is found murdered. Money, blackmail and jealousy all seem to play a part.

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De Cock en de dood van een kunstenaar by A.C. Baantjer

A painter who is De Cock's friend fears for his life and asks him to lead the case if anything happens. Soon after, the man is shot dead while walking his dog.

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De Cock en de broeders van de haat by A.C. Baantjer

On his last day before a forced holiday, De Cock hears of the murder of Alexander de Rijke, a charismatic leader with many followers, and people soon arrive asking for his help.

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De Cock en een veld papavers by A.C. Baantjer

Jasper van de Gouwenaer is found dead in his flat with a dagger in his back, and a newspaper claims De Cock helped arrest him the day before.

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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of humankind from the rise of Homo sapiens in Africa to the present day, asking how a small ape came to rule the world.

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De Cock en de gebrandmerkte doden by A.C. Baantjer

A young man tells De Cock that his former girlfriend found her new lover dead, strangled and branded on the forehead. It is the start of a series of identical killings.

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De Cock en geen excuus voor moord by A.C. Baantjer

A young woman asks De Cock for help, but she is too late: her husband has hanged himself. It is the start of a grim case with no official support.

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The Janson Option by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Option, co-authored with Douglas Corleone, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid head to Somalia to rescue an aid worker held by pirates.

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Personal by Lee Child

In Personal, Reacher hunts a sniper who targeted the French president, linked to a past enemy from his Army days.

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De Cock en moord in reclame by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock gives a newly widowed woman a well-meant piece of advice, and seems to set off a case in which three murders follow in quick succession.

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The Dalton Uncles by Laurent Gerra

The jailed Daltons learn they have a small nephew to raise, and Lucky Luke is saddled with minding both the brothers and the unruly boy.

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