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To make amends for past mistakes, the assassin known only as Victor is now in servitude to the world's most dangerous criminal enterprise, the Russian Mafia. Although a hired gun without loyalties, Victor never picks a fight he cannot win so he intends to pay off his debt, however long it takes. Yet when his new employer is shot dead in London, Victor has both the means and the motive to make him the most likely suspect. With a turf war breaking out in the power vacuum, and enemies on all sides, either Victor discovers who the real murderer is or suffer the full wrath of the Mafia's vengeance.

When Victor is arrested for a murder that, for once, he didn't commit, escape must surely be inevitable for a hitman of his ferocity. Yet someone wants Victor put away, and he finds himself behind bars, incarcerated by police who have no idea of the monster they are dealing with and have, apparently, tamed.

Meet Victor. He's an assassin - a man with no past and no surname. He lives alone. He operates alone. He's given a job; he takes out the target; he gets paid. He's The Killer. Victor arrives in Paris to perform a standard kill and collect for an anonymous client. He completes it with trademark efficiency - only to find himself in the middle of an ambush and fighting for his life.

The assassin known as Victor is hiding out in a small motel in Canada after a job across the border. A few days laying low and he'll be gone and leave no trace behind. He doesn't count on getting to know a mother and her boy who reminds him of his own troubled childhood. When both vanish, only Victor seems to notice. Once he starts looking for them, he finds himself at odds with the criminals who own the town.

Victor is the killer who always delivers...for the right price. And Heloise Salvatierra, patron of Guatemala's largest cartel, is ready and willing to pay him just that to eliminate the competition: her sister. Heloise has been battling Maria for control of the cartel in an endless and bloody war. Now, Victor decides who survives. An easy job if it weren't for the sudden target on his back.

It is 1935, and the deaths of Isabella Ruxton and Mary Rogerson would result in one of the most complex investigations the world had ever seen. The gruesome murders captured worldwide attention, with newspapers keeping the public enthralled with all the gory details. But behind the headlines was a different, more important story: the groundbreaking work of Scottish forensic scientists who developed new techniques to solve the case and shape the future of scientific criminal investigation.

Victor the assassin is living a solitary, peaceful life in Iceland when he's drawn into a job for an unidentified Swiss broker. Having passed the test, he's introduced to a group of mercenaries and killers who are tasked to perform the ultimate assassination.In this group, Victor meets someone from his past, someone who recruited him to the life he now knows-someone he thought was dead. And when he wants out, it's too late-his former mentor has other plans for him...

Victor, a former assassin-for-hire, has joined forces with a CIA special unit. His first assignment: Three strangers. Three hits. Fast and clean. Victor's a natural for this.It should have been simple. But with each hit Victor is plunged deeper into an unimaginable conspiracy where no one, least of all the people he knows, can be trusted.With the stakes growing higher by the minute, Victor realizes he's been forced into playing a game he never expected. Because he's the next target. And there's no way out.

While carrying out a hit on a terrorist financier, Victor finds himself the target of an assassin who proves to be just as deadly as he is. Never one to let such a thing go, Victor sets about hunting down his attacker and those who sent her. She is Raven - a freelance assassin with a dark past and hidden agenda. If Victor wants to stay alive, he must find out who Raven really is and what she is truly after. Does she really want him dead, or does someone else want them to kill each other?

Now that professional assassin Victor is indentured to British Intelligence, he is tasked with eliminating the worst of the worst. One such man is Milan Rados, a former Serbian paramilitary commander wanted for war crimes and now head of an organized criminal network in Belgrade. He has escaped justice once already, so it's Victor's job to take the justice to him.

When Victor is called to meet with an old friend who ultimately betrayed him, what he thought was an ambush is in fact a plea for help. As a Russian gangster, Norimov is accustomed to death threats, but now an unknown enemy wants more than his life. They intend to kill everyone he cares about, including his missing daughter Gisele. This time, Victor's job is not to kill but to protect. Unfortunately, locating Gisele is his first mistake - because someone is watching his every move.

Victor is the ultimate predator. He surfaces to kill, then disappears into thin air. But he's a disposable commodity for the powerful people he works for - both the good guys and the bad. And no one has his back. Especially now that doing black bag jobs for the CIA has put a target on his head. Antonio Alvarez, a high-ranking US intelligence official, is determined to clean house and find the legendary killer who slipped away from him during an operation in Paris.

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Join New York Times bestselling author Tom Woods for your daily serving of liberty education! Guests include Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, David Stockman, and hundreds more, with topics like war, the Federal Reserve, net neutrality, the FDA, Austrian economics, and many other subjects of interest to libertarians. Join us!

Ein tödlicher Auftrag in Bukarest – zwei Zielpersonen, gestohlene Geheimdaten, ein klarer Plan. Doch als Victor erkennt, wer sein zweites Ziel ist, gerät alles aus den Fugen: eine ehemalige Verbündete. Um seine Schuld zu begleichen, übernimmt Victor eine Mission, die selbst für ihn fast unmöglich ist: Während einer internationalen Sicherheitskonferenz soll er einen Auftragsmörder wie sich selbst enttarnen – und eliminieren. Während Victor im Schatten jagt, wissen seine alten Feinde längst, wo er ist. Ein Killer auf der Flucht. Ein Gegner, der alles weiß.

Auge um Auge – Kugel um Kugel! In nur vierundzwanzig Stunden verwandelt sich Victors Urlaub in eine Todesfalle. London: MI5, die russische Mafia und der brutale Gangsterboss King John – sie alle jagen nur ein Ziel: Victor! Denn der gefährlichste Mafiaboss Londons wurde in seiner eigenen Suite ermordet und nicht viele sind zu so etwas fähig. Doch Victor, der beste Auftragskiller der Welt, denkt nicht daran zu fliehen. Denn es gibt eine Schuld zu begleichen. Mit Blut. Viel Blut!

Scott Thomas and Tom Wood help pastors and other Christian leaders to lovingly lead God’s flock to Jesus Christ and into God’s mission through a process of coaching and shepherding that is rooted in the patterns of the Good Shepherd himself. Many ministry leaders serving in churches find...

Ein Mann kommt in eine Stadt. Unscheinbar. Schweigsam. Nach einem Job taucht der Auftragsmörder Victor in einem kleinen Motel in Kanada jenseits der Grenze unter. Ein paar Tage, dann wird er wie ein Geist verschwinden – doch eine Begegnung ändert alles. Victor lernt eine Mutter und ihren Sohn kennen, die ihn an seine schmerzvolle Kindheit erinnern … und als die beiden plötzlich wie vom Erdboden verschluckt sind, scheint nur ihn das zu interessieren.

Der Profikiller, den selbst seine Klienten nur als "Victor" kennen, ist auf der Flucht. Nach einem Auftrag, der ihn nach Bulgarien geführt hat, muss er das Land schnellstens verlassen. Blutend und geschwächt versucht er, seinen Verfolgern bis zur Morgendämmerung zu entkommen. Doch als er einer jungen Frau begegnet, deren Freundlichkeit ihn berührt, kommt sein Plan ins Stocken. In einem kleinen Ort kurz vor der Grenze geraten die beiden in tödliche Gefahr - am Ende gibt es für Victor nur einen Weg, der Unbekannten für ihre Hilfe zu danken.

Victor, ein brillanter Auftragskiller im Dienst der CIA, steht vor seinem bisher gefährlichsten Einsatz: Bei einem kürzlich ermordeten Berufskollegen Victors fand man Hinweise auf dessen bevorstehendes Treffen mit einem mysteriösen Schweizer. Victor soll nun in die Rolle des Getöteten schlüpfen und herausfinden, um was für einen Job es dabei gehen sollte. Nach Rom beordert, trifft Victor dort auf eine ganze Gruppe von Killern, die offensichtlich auf einen spektakulären Einsatz vorbereitet wird.