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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Shadowy operative Shaw and Reggie Campion, a woman working for a secret vigilante group, must work together in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising enemy, in a struggle that leads them around the world at a breakneck pace.
2) The disciple
Author
Series
Tommy Carmellini novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Iran is weeks away from acquiring nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them to strike first-- only Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton can stop a nuclear nightmare.
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Russia constructs its most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb and launches carefully plotted attacks on unsuspecting U.S. and European targets, Brad McLanahan and his Scion team arm themselves with the world's most advanced technological weaponry to prevent a full-scale cyber war.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler and neither can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board with successfully reaching his sister the primary thought in his mind until he notices several strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his...
Author
Series
Spycatcher novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Unpredictable agent Will Cochrane must catch the world's most wanted international terrorist mastermind, who was responsible for the death of his father in Iraq twenty-five years ago, and avert an attack the likes of which the world has never seen.
Author
Series
Scorpion thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When a killer known as "the Palestinian" murders the head of Egypt's State Internal Security, the CIA unleashes the Scorpion, a former Company operative who is the only one who can save the free world from a terrifying mastermind.
Author
Series
Joe Ledger novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons--designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals...
8) Even
Author
Series
David Trevellyan thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
9) Shock of war
Author
Series
Red dragon rising volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Trapped behind enemy lines after fulfilling a mission to sabotage a Chinese invasion fleet, U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy and erratic fellow officer Win Christian make their way into Vietnam, where Murphy defies orders to save a woman he loves.
10) Without warning
Author
Series
Without warning volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Sniper thrillers (Jack Coughlin) volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A tense, complex, and twisting diplomatic thriller in which one woman must choose between morality and compromise--and in either case, the consequences may be deadly. Katarina "Kate" Wallander is a second-generation Foreign Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgyzstan. She's not there by chance. Kate is a Foreign Service brat who attended high school in the region; her uncle is the U.S. ambassador to the country, and he pulled a few strings to...
13) The right hand
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
There has always been a need in the spy game for covert missions so black no one in the American government, and almost no one in intelligence itself, knows of their existence. The left hand can't know what the right hand is doing. Austin Clay is that right hand, executing missions that would be disavowed by his own government if he's ever compromised. Clay is sent to track down a missing American operative, a man who was captured outside of Moscow,...
14) Golden Buddha
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew are hired by the US government to free Tibet from Chinese control...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
Author
Series
Bernhard Gunther mysteries volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
16) Warning light
Author
Series
Jake Keller novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"No one knows what CIA desk jockey Zac Miller is capable of--including himself--when a routine surveillance job becomes a do-or-die mission in the Middle East"--
17) 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?
18) Black ops
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The Russian bear is stirring--and it's hungry--in the thrilling fifth novel of the Presidential Agent series. Could sabers be rattling for a new Cold War--or worse? Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo is about to find out as the Delta Force operative investigates the disappearances and deaths of covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies.
Author
Series
Red dragon rising volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A Chinese assassin follows CIA officer Mara Duncan and the scientist she has sworn to protect all the way from wartorn Hanoi to New York City, while U.S. Army advisor Major Zeus Murphy hatches a daring mission into the heart of a Chinese fleet in order to prevent them from landing on Vietnam's coast.
Author
Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1956, it was announced that another Dead Sea Scroll had been found, unlike any before it, describing unimaginable treasures buried in the hills east of Jerusalem, and under the Holy City itself. Some scholars came to believe the Copper Scroll could be history's greatest treasure map, one that could lead to the discovery of the Second Temple treasures and the building of the Third Jewish Temple. But the scroll's code has never been broken, and experts...
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