Verano de 1944. Monique de Bissy, una joven de la resistencia belga, ha logrado escapar de los alemanes y ha sido rescatada por la red de evasión Comète. Con un estado de salud precario, es acogida por Martín Inchauspe, un aristócrata sospechoso de traficar con obras de arte expoliado por los nazis. Entre ellos pronto se forjará una conmovedora relación, fruto de una atracción irrefutable, que se verá azotada por la complejidad y la ambigüedad...

Shadowy operative Shaw and Reggie Campion, a woman working for a secret vigilante group, must work together in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising enemy, in a struggle that leads them around the world at a breakneck pace.

"Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent at Woodland HQ, and his slightly-more-intelligent sidekick, Owlfred, are on the case again! There's big news in the Big Forest! The circus is in town, Granny Moose is coming to visit, and a mysterious robber ison the loose. When Agent Moose learns that someone is putting the squeeze on innocent animals, he and Owlfred rush to investigate, with Granny along for the ride! Can they solve this mystery before...

"Henry enters into a spying contest with one of his best friends, Max Maplethorpe"--

When a woman with whom he has shared a harmless flirtation shows up at his hotel door with a gun, travel writer and food expert Will Rhodes discovers the real reason his job occasionally requires him to assume different names and deliver mysterious parcels.

Lachlan Kite is a member of BOX 88, an elite transatlantic black ops outfit so covert that not even MI6 and the CIA are certain of its existence - but even the best spy can't anticipate every potential threat in a world where dangerous actors lurk around every corner. At the funeral of his childhood best friend, Lachlan falls into a trap that drops him into the hands of a potentially deadly interrogation, with his pregnant wife, also abducted, being...

Evanston, Virginia, twelve-year-olds Jonathan Murray and Shelley Brown are completely average and forgettable until they are recruited to help the League of Unexceptional Children save the Vice President of the United States, who has been kidnapped along with an important code.

"The Chinese dragon is flexing its muscles. As its military begins to prey on neighbors in the South China Sea, attacking fishing vessels and scheming to seize natural resources, the US goes on high alert. But a far more ominous danger lurks closer to home: a Chinese sleeper cell has planted a nuclear weapon in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, the biggest naval base on the planet. The target: a secret rendezvous of the Atlantic Fleet aircraft...

An anthology of three novellas includes "al-Jihad," in which a sniper and pilot team up in a quest for vengeance; "The 17th Day," in which a World War I aviator thwarts statistical predictions of his death; and the title story, in which a boat crew riskstheir lives confronting the Japanese Navy.