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1) The great book of bombers: the world's most important bombers from World War I to the present day
Author
Publisher
MBI Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 45
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
There were seven suspects. Kenneth Meer wasn't one of them. Yet a week after the explosion, he was in the psychiatric ward suffering from something the doctors called the Lady Macbeth syndrome: invisible blood on the hands. Meanwhile, a man who had killed for no reason was wandering around with a bomb in a briefcase.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
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Publisher
AuthorContact
Pub. Date
2020]
Language
English
Description
"Moscow, Russia. A massive bombing kills hundreds. Washington DC, USA - The President is terrified the attack is the opening salvo of a new Cold War. Langley, USA with Washington and the Kremlin on the brink of war, Levi Roth has to find out who's behind the attack. There's only one man for the job, but the last anyone saw of him, he was in Moscow, severely wounded, waiting for the help of a Russian former-GRU agent. Roth must find him before it's...
Author
Series
Jammer Davis thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Cormac McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze Prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Cormac's whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from...
Author
Series
David Gold novels volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When an unknown terrorist group demands the release of a University of Chicago graduate student whose plan to set off a bomb at the Art Institute was thwarted at the last minute, Detectives Gold and Battle must stop them from shutting down a major U.S. city.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Vera Taggart walked away from a promising career as an artist to join the FBI, and she impresses her new colleagues with her eerie ability to divine conclusions from the grisliest crime scenes. Taggart's first assignment is a decades-old cold case centered on a cult of suicide bombers known as the Sons of Elijah who believe they've been reborn hundreds of times, going back centuries. It seems like a low-risk assignment until a bomb tears...
12) Khalīl: riwāyah
Author
Publisher
Hāshīt Anṭwān
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Arabic
Description
Friday, November 13, 2015. The air is still mild for a winter evening. While the Blues electrify the Stade de France, the terraces of Parisian brasseries clink to reunions and happy encounters. An explosive belt around his waist, Khalil is waiting to act. He is part of the commando that is about to bloody the capital. Who is Khalil? How did it come about?
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly became clear to them that Ted was likely responsible for mailing the seventeen bombs that killed three people and injured many more. Wanting to prevent further violence,...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-Army Ranger sniper Rafe Hendrix leads the Secret Service detail of President Wyetta Johnson. Rafe and Wyetta became close when they served together in Afghanistan and he saved her life during a recon misadventure that cost her a leg. The President's wife visits a D.C. private-school classroom, and Hendrix is on sniper duty when a suicide bomber heads toward the First Lady. Hendrix disobeys a direct order, and an unthinkable disaster unfolds. Though...
16) Lone wolf
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and Hawk, her loyal search-and-rescue Labrador, must zero in on one of the deadliest killers in the country, a serial bomber who draws Meg and Hawk into a battle of wits and survival skills.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school--one of the most modern in the Midwest--Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole...
19) The target
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Series
Publisher
AuthorContact
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Latvian Border Region A policewoman finds something terrifying. Deep in the forests along the border, is proof of a massive Russian invasion plan. US Embassy, Berlin Someone is trying desperately to get a message to the CIA. But Kremlin assassins have been activated across three countries to stop them. New York, USA A Kremlin sleeper agent is activated with very precise instructions. The Kremlin has set its plans in motion. Its goal is nothing short...
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