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James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

A globetrotting archaeologist discovers danger and intrigue while searching for an elusive treasure of the ancient Kingdom of Ugarit.

On a snowy eve, Little Holly's sister and father are killed by her frantic mother. Years later, Holly is married, lonely, and her life is soon about take a turn for the ultra weird, when she visits "Umbrella of Love and Mind".

Two girls escape with their lovers from Istanbul to Adana.

Istanbul's districts, places, historical figures and hidden stories - A special journey accompanied by the author Mario Levi

Jack Hunter is abducted blindfolded to a Turkish US base to be recruited by the NSA, told his mentor was killed because Albert Littmann's Russian mob employer Doridanov want the ancient Osiris-weapon. He accepts to go look for the other part in Gizeh, where archaeologist Lena Halstrom has dug up a lead on a site which was attacked by mysterious, mythologically cloaked men, hence the Egyptian in charge, Said, shut it down till further notice. In fact it's the doing of a Midianite (Sinai desert) sect of Akhenaton-worshipers, who try to steal the obelisk from the museum after Jack deciphers its Ugarritian cuneiform text, which contains clues for a treasure-hunt to the pharaoh's tomb-treasure. Said assumes their flight criminal and mobilizes an army colonel, whose unbridled ambition proves even more dangerous for Jack's party, which includes his Syrian friends from the first.

Jack Hunter realizes the pharaoh's tomb being empty except for a Roman coin means the treasure was looted to Rome but later probably transferred the the new, Byzantine capital, Constantinople. There the NSA reunites him with Nadia and Tariq, mainly as cover, to prevent the mighty combined weapon falling into criminal hands. Russian mob king Petrvosky increases the pressure on Littman. each side count on Nadia's lover, Fuad Antaki, son of the Turkish antiquarian Armen Antaki, who once sold the Star of Osiris, which now traces to a Konya convent.

Young archaeologist Jack Hunter planned only to take a picture of a cuneiform tablet from once unsurpassed Mesopotmian metropolis Ugarit in present Syria, but is caught and has to steal it from a private museum in France. He refuses to join his mentor, professor Frederic 'Freddie' Shaffer, who believes the poem is a coded treasure map, on a relic hunt, until his friend is murdered to steal it. Obvious suspect is Syrian artifact trader Ali, so Jack flies to Damascas. There he must accept working with local, US-educated colleague Nadia and her driver Tariq. Their lives are threatened during the long relic quest, for one by common nemesis Albert Littman, but another secret lurks too.

Istanbul businessman Hüseyin Akdamar, who checked into a luxury hotel for sex with Ukrainian 'maid' Ludmilla Dubrynska, is fatally stabbed by a person in a burkah. Later Faruk Soydan suffers the same fate, while Ludmilla survives an attack. Commissioner Mehmet Özakin, whose wife Sevim bugs him about 'neglect', and his assistant Mustafa, whose mother bugs him with her health, investigate the victims' families, the survivor, ultra-Islamic circles the Akdamars belong to and a feminist anti-adultery-activist Fatma Colak.

Commissioner Mehmet Özakin is almost relieved that a purse-snatcher frees him from shopping all over Istanbul with his wife. It also puts him near the spot of a car explosion which kills the driver, newspaper reporter Ismet Baydar, who was digging into real estate corruption, yet the press prefers the more spectacular, albeit unfounded terror theory. While private and professional motives are investigated and informers are disproved, one is stabbed to death on her way to the precinct: Laila Kaleci, an employee of Dr. Fatih Arman's Antalya private clinic, who met Ismet just before and nearby the bombing. There Mehmet stumbles onto an elaborate cover-up, which somehow involves Baydar's widow and editor, rich German tourist Wagner and penniless shepherds like Sedar Gül.

While on vacation in Turkey, Auggie suspects that he has found the Iraqi target who was responsible for his war injuries.

Security firm owner Hunal and his wife were shot at home. Commissioner Mehmet Özakin must find their son Ersun, initially a suspect, actually the only witness, whom he saves from a masked killer thanks to a brave buddy Mourad, later must take home for lack of trustworthy relatives until his sister arrives. The next suspect, Hunal's former friend and fired employee, leads the investigation to the Istanbul Boxing Club.

Half-German Ergan Gül (36) is fatally stabbed and dumped in the Bosporus. He worked in the illegal call center section of a major Istanbul broker's firm, which used dummy companies and fake accounts to sell real estate to foreigners and Turkish former ex-pats seeking a cheap pensioner home. Ergan thus paid for his language studies. Commissioner Özakin must work out if he was killed be a cheated client, as appears, executed for dealing behind the firm's back or the victim of a more personal plot, possibly involving his teacher-lover.

Inspector Mehmet Özakin and his assistant Mustafa Tombul travel to Bangkok on an unusual mission. Your order is to hand over the mafia boss Worawit Luang, who has been arrested in Turkey, to the Thai authorities. No sooner have they delivered Luang than the foreign assignment goes completely out of control. Özakin and Mustafa are kidnapped in a bloody attack and taken to the gangsters' hideout in the middle of the jungle. There, Worawit's sister Fawaini makes them an extortionate offer: Özakin should free her brother from the maximum security prison, otherwise his partner will have to die. While Mustafa stays behind as a hostage, Özakin sets off on the dangerous rescue operation. He can't expect any help either from the local police chief Glomgool, who has an unfinished business with Luang, or from official Turkish officials. Left to his own devices, Özakin has 72 hours left. The only person he confides in is his casual acquaintance, Mina Lorentz, whom the inspector met on the plane. He soon realizes that his former mentor and friend Kayali also plays a key role in the case. During his rescue operation, Özakin gets caught between the fronts of a gang war and becomes the hunted himself. In order to save Mustafa from certain death, he puts his own life at risk.

Thanks to the courageous intervention of his colleague Mustafa Tombul, Inspector Mehmet Özakin survives the bomb blast in a tourist café. Two key figures in the current case died there before their eyes: a professional killer and the famous writer Cem Pasha. Ibrahim, who was filmed at the scene of the crime, comes under suspicion. To Özakin's astonishment, the secret service immediately spread the news of an attack by extremists as a fact. Inconsistencies soon appear in the official version. It was no coincidence that the two victims were sitting in the café during the attack - especially since one kidnapped the other's wife. After the liberation of Emine Pascha, Özakin continues to search for the true connections, because the flow of money does not lead to terrorist cells, as state security claims, but to dubious transactions by an import-export company called Taurus. The extremely rich businessman Ünal Öker and his opaque connections are targeted. The fact that Özakin stands protectively in front of Ibrahim's sister Dilara when state security put her through the wringer makes the investigator vulnerable.

Commissioner Mehmet Özakin must interrupt his holiday, even misses a major football match, to respond stat when then bras demand Istanbul PD's 'best man' on the disappearance of German au pair Julia Bischoff, as the press an German embassy are on the case even before her corpse is fund in an alley. She worked for retired start player Erhan Senay, now co-managing the team coached by his father in law Atalay Akar. Mehmet and Mustafa' whose Internet dream date thus falls trough, investigate discrete Julia's secret night life, and her Norwegian student jobs agency colleague Carl Hansen, who gets beaten up. Both youth and the Senay family had suspicious dealings involving several star players, and the club in financial trouble resorted to dirty tricks. Even Julia's mother Iris hides something.

Mehmet Özakin is at home alone, wife Sevim is away. He is only too happy to escape the chaos as a straw widower and rushes to his colleague Mustafa in the hospital. The young student Dilek awaits him there, accusing her ex-boyfriend Birol Baslan of raping her. In the alleged perpetrator's apartment, Özakin and his colleague find clear traces of a night of partying. Birol Baslan lies dead in his bed, covered with stab wounds and with dark strangle marks on his neck. Did Dilek kill him? Or was it Birol's new friend Djamila, who works as a dancer in the glamorous "Club Royal"? After all, he had invited Dilek, not her, to his luxurious apartment. The lavish lifestyle of the murdered puzzles the police: "Club Royal" operator Erkan Baschtir claims that his friend Birol kept himself afloat with odd jobs and otherwise lived at his own expense. It was rather by chance that Mehmet Özakin discovered that Birol was increasing his budget with the occasional drug deal and was just about to get into the lucrative business. Baschtir should provide the necessary start-up capital. Meanwhile, Özakin's investigations focus on Dilek. She knows more than she admits, and the Commissioner is sure that she also knows where the money that was meant for the cocaine, which has since disappeared, is. When the DNA of Dilek's friend Salih is found on the dead man's neck, things seem clear. But the new suspect is exonerated by Djamila, of all people, who Bashtir claims to have seen in front of Birol's house on the night of the crime. The discovery of the murder weapon in the kitchen of Baschtir's "Club Royal" strengthens the suspicion that Baschtir murdered his alleged friend. For his shrewd lawyer, however, it is an easy game to take the police off guard and keep the influential night club boss from the cell. As soon as he is free again, events roll over. Suddenly Dilek is in great danger.

An unsightly sight and a big surprise await inspector Mehmet Özakin during an evening operation. The charred body of murdered video blogger Can Türkman is found in a burned-out car. She is supposed to examine his charming neighbor, of all people, whom he wanted to get to know better at a promising dinner shortly before: the new pathologist Derya Güzel. So that no one notices anything of their familiarity, the two formalize their professional cooperation. During the autopsy, the excellent coroner determined that Türkman was already dead on impact. There are several approaches to Özakin's investigations, because investigative posts about democracy, homosexuality or women's rights not only brought joy to the blogger. His recent research into an abandoned mine made him unpopular even in his home village of Tepek. There, Özakin begins to research and finds out that something was wrong in Türkman's marriage as well. Rumors of an affair by his wife Selma are doing the rounds. But the secrets of the villagers seem to be well guarded and Özakin has to use all his skills to get behind the wall of silence and solve the case.

A street kid discovers the body of a convicted murderer who was only recently released from prison. Riza Bastürk had to atone for the death of his foster father and mentor, the famous star chef Süleyman Çamlik, for ten years. His death raises many questions. His parents, who have a small hairdressing business and were never able to provide him with an education, mourn their "lost" son. At the same time, his biological father comes under suspicion, as he was the last person to see Riza alive. But what motive for murder should he have? Was it an accident? a fall? With the help of the new pathologist Derya, who is also Inspector Mehmet Özakin's new neighbor, Özakin comes across clues that the key to the current one lies in the old case. All traces lead to Çamlik's widow, a dazzling society lady, and their son Deniz, for whom the dead man was like a brother for a long time. Until it became clear that Riza had a lot more talent than Deniz. Did he murder his rival because he knew too much about his existential difficulties and his business behind the glittering facade of the starred restaurant? When inspector Özakin finds evidence of illegal structures, a race against time begins.

A double murder leads inspector Mehmet Özakin to the gates of Istanbul: the taxi driver Mesut Demirci and the German businessman Andreas Borchert were shot dead in the coastal town of Aydogan. What initially looks like a deadly robbery turns out to be the precision work of a killer. But which of the two victims was the victim? Both the driver, who rebelled against mafia structures in the taxi industry, and his passenger had enemies. In the case of Borchert, even very powerful ones: shipowner Cetin Akbay, whose wife he stole years ago, and his daughter Filiz, who now runs the business. Özakin is puzzled by the fact that Borchert was on his way to his worst enemy. His investigation causes unrest in the isolated residential area where actors like Zeki and Soraya spend their weekends. All sides are putting pressure on the local police chief Nazim to close the explosive case as soon as possible - especially since a perpetrator seems to be found soon. Özakin, however, does not jump to conclusions. He only gets closer to the solution when another corpse appears.

Mahmoud Erbil, manager of Dursun Kara's huge construction firm, specialized in cheap but safe apartments, dies at night, drunk, by Molotov cocktail in his car. Mahmoud's near-adult son, student Burhan, wasn't on speaking terms with him, even had an affair with his young stepmother Hamida, and belonged to a artists collective squatting a site about to be wrecked by Durkan's firm. Owner Dursun Kara, senior managers Galip Saygun and Tufan Ünsal are suspects, like a fired employee, now waitress but having accessed the HQ in the fatal night to steal data, presuming unsafe material fraud, and mother of Kenan, who admires Burhan's graffiti artist alter-ego Neo, whose tags are on the crime site. The investigation proves dangerous for many people concerned.