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"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
2) Hero
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
3) Dark horse
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2022
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"After Evan Smoak broke with the Orphan Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission--The Nowhere Man. Having survived an attack on his life, Evan isn't interested in taking on a new mission, but one finds him anyway. Aragon Urrea is a kingpin of a drug-dealing operation in South Texas. However, for all his money and power, he's helpless when one of the most vicious cartels kidnaps his daughter. With no other way to rescue her, he turns to The...
4) Night owl
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Pulled out of retirement when someone sabotages an innovative aerospace project, Brad Tasker, drawn into a dangerous conspiracy-and a string of suspicious deaths, is targeted by assassins and, with no one to trust, must adapt to a new game of espionage or die.
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Bound to fire and steel volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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While fulfilling an ancient prophecy, Sachielle is sent to be the mortal consort of an ancient dragon god, but she and her handmaid, who is a trained assassin, plot to murder the dragon and break the curse.
6) Malarkoi
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Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful occult weapon known as the Tinderbox. His companions are scattered, making for Malarkoi, the city of the Mistress, the Master's enemy. They are hoping to find welcome there, or at least safety. They find neither - and instead become embroiled in a life and death struggle against assassins, demi-gods, and the cunning plans of the Mistress. Only Sirius,...
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Icarus saga volume 3
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Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2024].
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English
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"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Usually, those hunts are long...
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Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
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Daughter of the pirate king volume 3
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The crew of the Vengeance finds itself in a fight to save the world when it accidentally awakens the King of the Undersea who can control the dead.
You can't be afraid of the dark when you're the monster lurking in the shadows. As an assassin working for the pirate queen, Sorinda is surprised when Alosa's next task for her is not to kill a new target, but to captain a handpicked crew on a rescue mission. Unfortunately, her sailing master is Kearan....
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"February 1891: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of Chinese art objects, timed to coincide with the arrival of a new Chinese cultural attaché, Lord Peng. Prudence and Geoffrey are invited to attend the opening ceremonies. But among the throng of dignitaries making their way through the galleries is one decidedly unwelcome and unexpected visitor--an assassin who stabs the attaché to death, then flees through Central...
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! As Sakamoto and his friends hunt for the database at the JCC,...
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Gero may be a master assassin, but he's not exactly killing it in the romance department! Can marriage swindler Kinosaki help him find true love? Poison Master Hikaru Gero is taking on his toughest assignment yet--getting married! Gero couldn't be more clueless when it comes to the art of dating, but thankfully, marriage swindler Mei Kinosaki knows everything there is to know about love. Together, this unlikely pair will do whatever it takes to get...
14) Fate breaker
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Realm breaker volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Armed with Taristan's sword, the only Spindleblade left in existence, Corayne must stop him and Queen Erida from bringing forth their demon god to destroy the world"--
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Max Rupert novels volume 2
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After being subpoenaed by a grand jury under suspicion of corruption, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert attempts to salvage his career and reputation investigating the false identity of recent car accident victim.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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When Melissa Cruz falls hard for a dreamy-eyed photographer named Jake, she can't resist the urge to run away with him. The problem is that she already has a boyfriend, a rising star in his family's crime organization. Betrayed and humiliated, Chris isn't going to just let her go.
17) Assassin's mark
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David Slaton novels volume 9
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Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With the help of CIA operative David Slaton, America has shaken off a series of high-tech attacks. Then, just as the threat seems to have receded, the most brazen strike of all: Marine One is brought down in the heart of the capital. The president survives the crash, but is clinging to life by a thread. Once again, Slaton gets the call. With limitless backing from the CIA, the agency's most lethal assassin is dispatched halfway around the world....
18) The chaos agent
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[2024]
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"Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister? After all, artificial intelligence may be the deadliest...
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Galactic bonds volume 2
Publisher
Jennifer Estep
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A WOMAN ON A MISSION . . . My name is Vesper Quill. I used to be a lowly lab rat, toiling away in obscurity developing brewmakers and other household appliances. But thanks to my seer magic and my own ingenuity, I'm now a Regal lady and the head of a successful corporation. My mission? To destroy the Techwave, the dangerous group that has stolen my designs and plans to weaponize them against the Imperium. But when my mission takes an unexpected turn,...
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Trident deception volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A U.S. destroyer is torpedoed by an Iranian submarine and Captain Murray Wilson of the U.S.S. Michigan is flown to the Pentagon to meet with the Secretary of the Navy (SecNav). There, Wilson learns that the Iranian submarine is just a cover story. One of the United States' own fully automated unmanned underwater vehicles has gone rogue, its programing corrupted in some way. Murray is charged with hunting it down and taking it out before the virus...
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