Dick Hill
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
Reacher is taking the bus north from Milwaukee, and at a comfort stop in Wisconsin he takes a stroll. Among the cheap junk in a pawn shop window he notices a West Point class ring for sale. It's tiny. A woman cadet's ring. Why would she pawn it? Reacher knows what Serena Sanderson must have gone through to get it. In following the trail of the ring, he'll have to fight through a biker gang and a South Dakota gangster, in search of Major Sanderson.
The...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom--an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska ... and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Why is this town called Mother{u2019}s Rest?" That{u2019}s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It{u2019}s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular...
6) Echo burning
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
While hitchhiking through Texas, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is picked up by a woman in need of protection from her abusive husband, who is about to be released from prison.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional,...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
"Never go back--but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. Never Go Back is #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's new novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek). Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
In this 13th Reacher novel, the former army MP confronts a possible suicide bomber on a nearly deserted Manhattan subway car -- a confrontation that will lead him back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and forward to the war on terrorism. It turns out that Susan Mark's life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, and Afghanistan ... from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate to a beautiful young...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces, and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
11) Blood work
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Eight weeks after a heart transplant saves his life, former FBI agent Terry McCaleb discovers that his new heart came from a murder victim, leading Terry to become involved in tracking down the killer.
Author
Language
English
Description
"We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, 'What the hell is wrong with Florida?' Somehow, the state's acquired an image as a subtropical festival of stupid, and as a loyal Floridian, Dave begs to differ. Sure, there was the 2000 election. And people seem to take their pants off for no good reason. And it has flying...
14) Covert warriors
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat - but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant?
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A deep river pit in Natchez, Mississippi, reputed to be the hiding spot for Jean Lafitte's hidden treasure and a dumping ground for numerous murder victims, becomes the site of a dangerous showdown for Penn Cage. Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
16) Chill of fear
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Twenty-five years has passed but FBI Agent, Quentin Hayes, continues to be troubled about his friend who went missing at the Tennessee resort he would visit with his family. Current missing person cases lead him back to that Tennessee resort conducting investigations that once again has him looking for his missing friend.
17) Morrigan's cross
Author
Series
Circle trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
A centuries-old vampire named Lilith has converted Cian, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith's brother, into a blood-sucking monster. As Hoyt unsuccessfully tries to battle Lilith, he is visited by the goddess of battle, Morrigan. Morrigan implores him to gather a number of troops around him in order to defeat Lilith. His effort takes him through time in a spell-binding adventure of bloodlust and vengeance.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the prelude to this finale, Dr. Gregory found himself assailed by danger from every direction as he struggled with circumstances beyond his control it. In the explosive conclusion to this saga, Alan is forced to acknowledge that the perils bringing him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they from the nemesis he has long feared. Instead he is confronted by unexpected threats from unanticipated adversaries and by intimate betrayal...