New York, mid-1950s. Vito Genovese, who has been released from prison, learns that his position as boss of the Mafia family is now held by Frank Costello, whom he must obey. Unwilling to accept the loss of power, Genovese begins plotting behind his new boss's back to kill him.
After getting out of jail, skilled fighter Juha Kaivola quickly finds a job as a bouncer at a nightclub. But before he even gets instructions from his boss, his new workplace turns into a bloody mess—it turns out that some of the visitors didn't come here for drinks and easy girls. They clearly have a grudge against the owners of the establishment — two brothers — and brutally murder anyone who has the misfortune of being in the club that night.
Marybeth Medina, deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, learns of the death of her former supervisor Ray King. In an attempt to find the killers, she takes Ray's clue and contacts Christian Wolff, a brilliant autistic mathematician and shadow auditor with killer skills. Enlisting the support of his brother Braxton, Christian gradually puts all the pieces of the puzzle together, but King's killers aren't slumbering either.
October 1990. Joe Deacon, a middle-aged deputy sheriff nicknamed Deaky, is sent on a minor assignment to Los Angeles. Five years earlier, he was a respected detective there, but one investigation ruined his life and his health. Dickie meets a young, ambitious colleague, Jim Baxter, who is working on a series of murders suspiciously similar to those unsolved five years earlier. Dickie decides to stay on the job, determined to see the case through to the end and track down the killer at any cost.
The Asian Hawk is back! This time he has a new job to do, because of which our hero comes to Madrid again. Some mysterious millionaire offers Hawk to take up the search for Nazi treasure, which is hidden deep in the African desert. He hands over the key to the treasure, agrees to finance the expedition and sends with Hawk a traveling companion - an expert on Africa Ada.
During his stay in Madrid, Hawk meets a German girl, Elsa, who is searching for her grandfather, who disappeared during the war in Africa. After a series of adventures, Elsa also joins the expedition.
1950, somewhere in the Middle East. Extravagant tycoon Ja-Ja Korda survives a series of assassination attempts and embarks on a grand transcontinental project called “The Phoenician Scheme.” In an effort to protect his empire, Corda appoints his daughter Lisl as his sole heir, pulling her out of a convent. They must face numerous enemies, political intrigues, and fight for the future of their family, their business, and all of Phoenicia.
A huge entertainment center is being built in the town of Paradise, and a shipment of Croci toys is brought into one of the stores. These ass-shaped toys become the focus of two groups. The terrorists want to steal them so they can sew a strain of bird flu virus into each one. And a hippie gang wants to steal Croci to make money.
Henri Charrière, a safecracker, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to hard labor for a murder he did not commit. Nicknamed the Moth because he has this symbol of thieves tattooed on his chest, Henri makes several escape attempts. As punishment, the authorities put him in a punishment cell for a long time, and then send him to French Guiana on Devil's Island, surrounded on all sides by the ocean. No prisoner has ever escaped from this most dreaded convict prison. But nothing can make Henri lose heart and break his determination to break free.
