"For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her peaceful, calm existence, with her two beloved retired service...

"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...

In The Bourne identity, follow former assassin, Jason Bourne, on his action-packed adventures around the globe, and uncover the truth behind his mysterious past. In The Bourne supremacy, when Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive. In The Bourne ultimatum, Bourne is inadvertently brought out of hiding by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Information from the reporter...