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2) Bad attitude
Author
Series
B.A.D volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
BAD agent Sydney Westbrook must find the perfect assassin for a risky counter-terrorism mission. J.D. Steele, a military sniper whose attitude problem landed him in prison, seems a good candidate. But as they're dragged into a secret world of freelance killers, Sydney begins to discover the man of honor and passion beneath Steele's arrogant façade. It's a man even Steele didn't know he could be -- and a man whose mission will risk the life of the...
3) The brave
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After his estranged son, Danny, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tom Bedford must come to terms with his own past--including the act of violence that ended his parents' marriage--if he is going to help exonerate Danny.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
With CIA director Thomas Stansfield dead, his protégé, Dr. Irene Kennedy, is poised to take over the reins of the agency, while CIA operative Mitch Rapp heads to the Middle East to try to stop the chaos that could ignite World War III.
Author
Series
Marc Royce volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two CIA operatives go missing in Iraq, kidnapped by Taliban forces bent on generating chaos in the region, Marc Royce must unravel the truth in a covert operation requiring utmost secrecy--from both the Americans and the insurgents.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp volume 6
Language
English
Description
Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight against terrorism. But after years of working covertly behind the scenes, Rapp now lives in the glare of the public spotlight, lauded by the nation and an easy target for virtually every terrorist from Jakarta to London....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat - the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife....
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
9) Youngblood
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, Lieutenant Jack Porter becomes obsessed with the story of a lost American soldier who had a romance with a local sheikh's daughter and tries to discover what happened to him.
10) Cave of wonders
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Europe is in the grip of the Dark Ages, but there is a light in the dark: Baghdad. The great city has become a center of learning, populated by scholars, merchants, and explorers from all across the known world. But danger lurks in the desert ... and Dak, Sera, and Riq must act fast to save the world's greatest library from utter destruction."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Brendan McHugh, a Navy SEAL, meets a mysterious Iranian diplomat on a raid in Iraq. His former girlfriend and FBI linguist discovers a link to Iran among a group of captured jihadis. And pulling it all together is a CIA analyst who can’t forget about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction even if it costs him his career. Patriot Games meets The Fourth Protocol in this riveting story of modern-day nuclear terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. Early one morning in the summer of 2014, the past pays a call to collect. The FBI arrives to question her about a man from Iraq--a Chaldean Christian from Mosul--where ISIS has just seized control. Sammy Fakhouri, they say, is his name and they have taken him into custody, picked up on his way to her house. Why is Sammy looking for Susan all these years later? And why is Mrs. Ford lying?
13) The sanctuary
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
More than 250 years after a pretender marquis escapes the palazzo of his vengeful prince, an American Army unit discovers a secret lab in Baghdad where victims have been subjected to torturous experiments, a finding that places two women on the trail of an ancient mystery.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's the rule--always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead. Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine's...
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