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”En klassisk Goddard … uimodståelig.” – the Times Jonathan Kellaway har opsagt sin stilling ved et internationalt firma. Nu er han på vej på pension, da firmaets forhenværende – og stadig magtfulde - bestyrelsesformand beder ham påtage sig én sidste opgave: Jonathan skal rejse fra USA tilbage til England og finde en række forsvundne dokumenter, så firmaets historie kan blive skrevet færdig.

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never really simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy.

On a stifling afternoon at police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case that will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots.

What value can be put on a human mind? How Joe Roberts does what he does is a mystery. He has a brain that seems able to outperform a computer. To a games company like Venstrom that promises big profits if his abilities can be properly exploited. So they send Nicole Nevinson to track him down and make him an offer too good to refuse.

Eldritch Swan er død. Det er i hvert fald hvad hans nevø Stephen tror, indtil Eldritch pludselig en dag dukker op efter at have tilbragt 36 år i et irsk fængsel. Han vil ikke fortælle hvorfor han har været fængslet, men insisterer på, at han er uskyldig.

For mange år siden stod kirurgen Edward Hammond og manglede penge til en dyr skilsmisse. Heldigvis fik han mulighed for at tjene en god slat ved - i al diskretion - at udføre en livsvigtig operation på den serbiske gangster Dragan Gazi. Men Dragan Gazi er en skidt fyr, og nu - tretten år efter - skal han stilles til ansvar for modbydelige krigsforbrydelser på Balkan ved Den Internationale Domstol i Haag. Og for at skaffe penge til at slippe ud af klemmen giver Gazi den stakkels Edward et ultimatum: Enten skaffer Edward ham de penge, Gazi har stukket til side under Balkankrigene.

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London.

The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery, which, if he’s not careful, will be aimed squarely at him.

The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending the World War I peace negotiations, and the action shifts east to Tokyo, where a team assembled at Max's behest anxiously awaits his arrival on the docks. Max had arrived in Paris soon after the end of the Great War to investigate the suspicious death of his father, a British diplomat named Sir Henry, and is soon plunged into a treacherous game of cat and mouse with the people behind his father's death.