1990. Neither South nor North Korea is a member of the UN, so the two states are actively seeking diplomatic allies in African countries that have a voice in the Organization. While the staff of both embassies in Mogadishu are busy with intrigue and backstabbing, for 10 years the ongoing civil war in Somalia has been engulfing the capital.
The story of the heroic fight for the lives of two Port Oratory police officers, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, who were trapped under the rubble of the fallen World Trade Center tower on September 11, 2001, after they themselves were sent to the scene of the terrorist attack to help the victims...
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.
After living in the US for several years, a man returns to his hometown on the Australian coast, where he plans to buy a house that once belonged to his family. Together with his teenage son, he goes surfing, but encounters resistance from a gang of surfers who believe that this beach is for locals only. The man refuses to give up and engages in a violent confrontation with them.
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.
On New Year's Eve, the luxury cruise ship Poseidon is in distress in the Atlantic Ocean, capsized by a giant tidal wave. While hundreds of surviving passengers, following the captain's instructions, stay in the main dance hall and wait for help from shore, professional gambler Dylan Jones searches for his way to salvation. Accompanying Dylan against his wishes are nine-year-old Conor and his mother Maggie, Robert Ramsey trying to find his daughter named Jennifer, and her fiancé Christian. They are joined by a shy stowaway, an elderly gay man intent on suicide, and a young waiter. They all make incredible efforts to escape the sinking ship to the surface ...
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.
Sheva returns to her hometown of Louisiana, Kentucky to help her father fight the thugs trying to put him out of business. She seeks out the people and businesses supporting the gangsters and uncovers the secret motives behind their actions. The only question left open is how to counter them. And that's where she comes to the rescue...
