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1) Extreme prey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport is on a campaign tour with his friend, the governor, who is running for president. When he realizes someone is trying to assassinate the governor, Lucas must do everything he can to protect him.
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Series
Culper Ring volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
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Series
Mitch Rapp volume 9
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the final weeks of a fierce presidential campaign, a motorcade carrying candidate Josh Alexander is shattered by a car bomb. Soon after the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. When CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon receive damaging intelligence on Washington’s most powerful players, they call on Mitch Rapp—the one man reckless enough to unravel a global...
5) Deep sky
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When a missile hits the White House, killing the president and leaving behind a cryptic message, covert operative Travis Chase, along with his partner Paige and technology expert Bethany, has 24 hours to solve a decades-old mystery before more innocent lives are sacrificed.
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Series
Bourne volume 12
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates....it is Bourne himself.
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Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency volume 2
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English
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Description
"Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. She happily works behind the scenes, staying away from danger. But when Herman Henderson arrives on the doorstep, desperate for someone to investigate numerous attempts on his life, Daphne finds herself in the thick of a case she's determined to solve, and her heart put in jeopardy"--
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Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 8
Language
English
Description
Legendary former Marine Bob Lee Swager is interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy. His investigation includes questions that few have asked before, and as he progresses, a CIA veteran emerges who has secrets and the means and will to keep them. As each man hunts the other, the book builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Swagger has always known: it's...
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Cotton Malone volume 13
Language
English
Description
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis. It all turns on an incident from...
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English
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"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon - a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption - now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling...
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Series
Danger never sleeps volume 1
Language
English
Description
Honorably discharged from the Army after an explosion nearly killed her, former military psychiatrist Brooke Adams has set up shop to help others - but her days of helping military personnel are over. She's got her own battles to fight from her time overseas, and she's not equipped to take on more. Former Army Special Ops Sergeant First Class Asher James could handle anything that war sent his way - terrorists, bombs, bullets. The only thing that...
13) The golden gate
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont,...
15) Royal flush
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Series
Royal Spyness mystery volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Sent home to Castle Rannoch in the wake of an employment scandal, Lady Georgiana becomes a companion to a divorcée intent on seducing the Prince of Wales, an assignment that serves as a front during her secret mission to help Scotland Yard prevent an assassination attempt.
16) Second sight
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., during the last days of the Civil War, a teenage boy who performs in a mind reading act befriends a clairvoyant girl whose frightening visions foreshadow an assassination plot.
17) The lost codex
Author
Series
OPSIG Team Black volume 3
Publisher
Open Road
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In 930 CE, a revered group of scholars pen the first sanctioned Bible, planting the seed from which other major religions will grow. But in 1953, half the manuscript goes missing while being transported from Syria. Around the same time, in the foothills of the Dead Sea, an ancient scroll is discovered--and promptly stolen. Six decades later, both parchments stand at the heart of a geopolitical battle between foreign governments and radical extremists,...
18) Shoot 'em up
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Series
Maisie McGrane mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Meter maid turned undercover cop Maisie McGrane managed to survive her first sting operation with just a few minor stab wounds—and some lingering emotional scars. An assassination attempt on the mayor brings the ATF and DEA to Chicago, and they’re counting on Maisie’s underworld connections to help them infiltrate and cripple a cartel running guns and drugs into the city.
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Series
Sir Charles Sheridan volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When an anarchist accidentally blows himself up with a bomb intended for the royal family, Kate and Charles Sheridan join the investigation to uncover who is threatening the British crown, a plot that may involve American author Jack London.
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Series
Marcus Ryker volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are assassinated, Clarke orders Marcus Ryker and a team of CIA...
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