Jonas Jonasson's picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, written with the same light-hearted satirical voice as his bestselling debut novel, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill: the

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"Seven geniuses with IQs over 200 are plucked from their lives on Christmas Eve to try to solve the world's problems in one night. They engage in a cat and mouse battle of intellectual superiority with a mad genius who wants to detonate a nuclear bomb in D.C. The password to the bomb is ... 3 words." -- Container.

The Russians have learned that Einstein left a trunk full of formulas for making a nuclear bomb that is sixty times more powerful than anything that exists today. His great-granddaughter Yohaba, a brilliant physicist in her own right, and an ex-spy, Rulon Hurt, who was recently fired, are the only ones who can stop them from stealing it.

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with...

Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers...