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The Utopia Experiment by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Utopia Experiment, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith looks into a new brain-computer device that may not be the gift its inventor claims.

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De Cock en het roodzijden nachthemd by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock and Vledder try to find the person who has murdered several women, each dressed in a red silk nightgown.

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De Cock en 't wassend kwaad by A.C. Baantjer

Several hardened criminals are murdered, and a line of verse by the poet Vondel seems to be linked to the killings.

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Inferno by Dan Brown

Dan Brown’s Inferno thrusts Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon into a race against time in Florence, waking with amnesia to stop a bioengineered plague linked to Dante’s Inferno.

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De Cock en de sluimerende dood by A.C. Baantjer

An old woman vanishes on the road between Purmerend and Amsterdam, an architect is shot at three times, and an old man has also disappeared. De Cock walks into a hornets nest.

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De Cock en de dode meesters by A.C. Baantjer

Three lawyers are found dead in the Brouwersgracht canal within a short time of each other. De Cock takes the case.

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De Cock en kogels voor een bruid by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock suspects a link between the murder of a young woman and the disappearance of a former colleague who had been threatened.

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

De Cock looks into the murder of a failed theology student who had taken up the cause of young people with few chances.

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The Janus Reprisal by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal, co-authored with Jamie Freveletti, Covert-One's Jon Smith survives a terrorist attack in The Hague and chases a Pakistani warlord across Europe.

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De Cock en het duel in de nacht by A.C. Baantjer

After a death notice for a notorious burglar arrives, De Cock and Vledder face a run of mysterious murders.

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De Cock en de ontluisterende dood by A.C. Baantjer

Two teachers are found dead on an Amsterdam car park within a short time, and an identical killing in Friesland brings De Cock into the case.

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De Cock en een duivels komplot by A.C. Baantjer

Three scientists who made a remarkable invention are murdered, and De Cock must work out who wanted them dead.

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A Wanted Man by Lee Child

In A Wanted Man, Reacher hitches a ride with kidnappers, then joins the FBI to pursue them after a roadside murder in Nebraska.

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De Cock en danse macabre by A.C. Baantjer

Three single men who collect antiques die of heart attacks within a short time, each found in a house that has been stripped bare.

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Lone Riders by Daniel Pennac

Back in jail and sick of failure, the Dalton brothers turn on Joe and bet that whoever first earns a million dollars will lead the gang, then break out and go their separate ways.

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

A worker accuses his former employer of dumping poison in the Amstel, and the case grows into something far darker for De Cock.

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De Cock en moord à la carte by A.C. Baantjer

A restaurant menu carries a full written confession to a murder, and De Cock recalls an old killing he never solved.

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The Janson Command by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command, co-authored with Paul Garrison, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid rescue a doctor in West Africa and uncover an oil cartel pulling the strings.

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De Cock en de bloedwraak by A.C. Baantjer

A young man threatens a tourist with an infected needle, and the arrest pulls De Cock into a murder tied to the fear of AIDS.

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De Cock en moord eerste klasse by A.C. Baantjer

A run of nearly identical murders of young women in the first-class compartments of trains leaves De Cock without a motive or a suspect.

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Quiet by Susan Cain

Susan Cain challenges the prevailing notion that extroversion is the sole determinant of success.

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De Cock en een dodelijke dreiging by A.C. Baantjer

In the weeks before Christmas, De Cock meets his hardest murder cases. A find on the Keizersgracht grows into something far larger than he expected.

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

A respected member of an antiquarian society is found murdered under the Muiderpoort with a rare bronze knife in his back. De Cock and Vledder enter the closed world of the society to find the killer.

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De Cock en het lijk op retour by A.C. Baantjer

On the day an eighteen-year-old fan comes to meet him, De Cock and Vledder must search for a missing body rather than a missing killer.

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De Cock en het masker van de dood by A.C. Baantjer

A woman vanishes from a hospital, and three more turn out to be missing. De Cock follows the trail of these disappearances.

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