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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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled deep into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent leaks of the emails they stole may have changed the course of American democracy. But to see the DNC hacks as Trump-centric is to miss the bigger, more important story: Within that same year, the Russians not only had broken into networks at the White House, the State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but had placed implants...
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.
4) 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
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
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.
8) Even
Author
Series
David Trevellyan thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur 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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book is designed to provide readers with the background and building blocks they need in order to answer for themselves the critical questions about what is taking place around the world and why. It explains what makes each region of the world tick, the many challenges globalization presents, and the most influential countries, events, and ideas. Its aim is to help readers become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound,...
12) 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"--
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...
14) 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.
15) Without warning
Author
Series
Without warning volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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
Bernhard Gunther mysteries volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
18) 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,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping...
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