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61) Retribution
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey volume 18
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 2011, a team of twenty-four members of US SEAL Team Six swooped down on the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Their mission, code-named Neptune Spear, was to find and kill the terrorist leader. The mission was a success. Since that day, elements of the government of Pakistan have harbored a deep hatred for the SEALs who violated their sovereign territory. Now they've hired a team of German assassins to kill all twenty-four...
Author
Series
Damascus Station volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer. CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, supercharging Haddad's recruitment and creating unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail...
63) Endgames
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 12
Publisher
Tor Fantasy
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Solidar is in chaos. Charyn, the young and untested ruler of Solidar, has survived assassination, and he struggles to gain control of a realm in the grip of social upheaval, war, and rioting. Solidar cannot be allowed to slide into social and political turmoil that will leave the High Holders with their ancient power and privilege, and the common people with nothing. But the stakes are even higher than he realizes.
Author
Series
League novel volume 4
Publisher
Hatchett Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After she uncovers a plot to kill the queen and overthrow the royal government, Desideria must seek the help of Caillen, a smuggler with divided loyalties.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Theodore Roosevelt had been president for less than a year when on a tour in New England his horse-drawn carriage was broadsided by an electric trolley. TR was thrown clear but his Secret Service bodyguard was killed instantly. The trolley's motorman pleaded guilty to manslaughter and the matter was quietly put to rest. But was it an accident or an assassination attempt...and would there be another "accident" soon?"--
66) A sunlit weapon
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 17
Language
English
Description
"A series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt"--
October 1942. Ferry pilot Jo Hardy is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged, and turns him over to the...
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Language
English
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Description
"Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least thatis what the executioners have always claimed. Germany, February 17, 1920: A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is pulled shivering and senseless from a canal. Refusing...
68) Ruby fever
Author
Series
Hidden legacy volume 6
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An escaped spider, the unexpected arrival of an Imperial Russian Prince, the senseless assassination of a powerful figure, a shocking attack on the supposedly invincible Warden of Texas, Catalina's boss... And it's only Monday. Within hours, the fate of Houston-not to mention the House of Baylor-now rests on Catalina, who will have to harness her powers as never before. But even with her fellow Prime and fiancé Alessandro Sagredo by her side, she...
69) Scratch one
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he's the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It's the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him. A ruthless terrorist organization called the Associates is carrying out assassinations from Egypt to Denmark. To stop...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Larsson's story begins in 1975, six young people stormed the West German Embassy in Stockholm, taking ht eentire staff hostage.They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader-Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany. But 12 hours into the siege, the embassy was blown up, two hstages were dead, and many others were injured, including the captors. The story picks up in 1989 when the investigation of a stabbing death of a civil...
72) The outside man
Author
Series
Matt Drake volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The fight for freedom has sent Matt Drake to some of the world's most dangerous spots. This time the war is coming to his front door. Broad daylight on an Austin, Texas, street and DIA agent Matt Drake is fighting for his life against a highly trained team of assassins. Who are they? Why do they want him dead? How will he protect those closest to him? The answers will take him into some of the most dangerous spots in the Middle East and will put...
73) Gambit
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The next Kirk McGarvey novel, Gambit, is an international thriller with non-stop action, perfect for fans of Jason Bourne. "If you like thrillers full of international intrigue, Hagberg is a major find." -Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author An American billionaire and a Russian oligarch want Kirk McGarvey dead. First they send a South African assassin, and when Mac kills him, they commission a Canadian sniper for the kill. When Mac put...
74) What Rose forgot
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking...
75) Into the fire
Author
Series
Orphan X volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Former assassin Evan Smoak is using his deadly skills to assist Max Merriweather, a guy down on his luck, whose cousin's murder has brought him to the attention of an Armenian street gang involved in a money-laundering scheme. It seems like an easy enough task for the Nowhere Man, but as soon as he eliminates one threat, a more powerful one appears, and getting to the top of the pyramid requires courage, wit, creativity, and a lot of specialty weapons....
76) Booth: a novel
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The novel opens in 1916, the last year of narrator John Surratt's life. Surratt, who has spent the years since Lincoln's death as an obscure shipping clerk, is approached by D.W. Griffith to read from his Civil War diary in Griffith's movie Birth of a Nation. As Surratt reads over his diary for the first time in fifty years, the reader returns to the tumultuous days of 1864, and a chance encounter between Surratt and John Wilkes Booth. Booth, a larger-than-life...
Author
Series
Hayley Chill volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Recently elected President Richard Monroe--populist, controversial, and divisive--is at the center of an increasingly polarized Washington, DC. Never has the partisan drama been so tense or the paranoia so rampant. In the midst of contentious political turf wars, the White House chief of staff is found dead in his house. A tenacious intern discovers a single, ominous clue that suggests he died from something other than natural causes, and that a wide-ranging...
78) The dark archive
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 7
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A professional spy for a mysterious Library that harvests fiction from different realities, Irene faces a series of assassination attempts that threaten to destroy her and everything for which she has worked. Irene is teaching her new assistant the fundamentals of a Librarian's job, and she is finding that training a young Fae is more difficult than she expected. But when they are the targets of kidnapping and assassination attempts, she decides...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
McKenzie has been shot and lies in a coma while the police and his friends desperately try to find out what he was doing and who tried to kill him. Rushmore McKenzie, former St. Paul police detective and unexpected millionaire, does the occasional, unofficial private detective work-mostly favors for friends. He's faced kidnappers, domestic terrorists, art thieves, among others, and had a hand in solving some of the most perplexing mysteries of the...
80) Term limits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Description
In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach-not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike...
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