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Paul Madriani novels volume 12
Language
English
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While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 20
Language
English
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Description
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 6
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
6) Empire games
Author
Series
Empire Games volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a dissident group carries nuclear devices between worlds and explodes them in Washington, D.C., killing the president, U.S. intelligence agent Mike Fleming discovers that their act was part of a larger conspiracy devised by a faction of the U.S. government.
Author
Series
Eric Steele novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eric Steele is in an elite clandestine unit known simply as "the Program". Steele is on assignment in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon is stolen. Soon it becomes clear that the perpetrators are from Steele's past and the geopolitical events take a personal turn.
Author
Series
Vanessa Pierson novels volume 1
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot's upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran -- in only a few days. But just as Pierson's informant is about to give her the location, they're ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.
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English
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"An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She quickly discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by hawkish military chief of staff...
12) True wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Werewolf agent Caleb Lynch takes the lead on STAT's newest case: to track down the thieves who stole nuclear weapons from the Air Force. His best connection is a brother-sister duo with a shady record, but there's no guarantee Caleb can trust them--especially because of Brielle Fontaine's supernatural abilities. Still, Brielle could be a useful ally for STAT, and Caleb sees something in her that could change his whole world."--Page 4 of cover.
13) A darkling plain
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
India and Pakistan are stalemated in a war that India launched to "remove the threat of terrorism, once and for all." But India's early successes have stalled, and with the coming spring, the tide may turn against them. A small but powerful group of Indian senior military officers and civilian security officials, without the knowledge of the rest of the Indian government, have decided to strike at China, Pakistan's backer and India's recent enemy...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents -- none of whom know she is playing two roles. To the prying eyes of the KGB, she is merely a secretary; to her CIA minders, she is the only one who can stop the flow of nuclear weapons from the crumbling Soviet Union into the Middle East. For Mel has a secret; she is a 'super recognizer,' someone who never forgets...
Author
Series
Cold storage novels volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's been seven years since Gloomy Knob landed in the Ted Stevens High-Security Federal Penitentiary and five years since the end of the war, the one North Korea started when they sent a missile to Cold Storage, Alaska. Serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister, Gloomy spends his time trying to forget about the past. Then one day, an old family friend grabs Gloomy from his off-site work station and smuggles him away in a hollow tree trunk....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her...
18) Bloody Sunday
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series. North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But...
19) Total empire
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"General Garrett Sinclair undertakes a rogue mission in the Sahara Desert to thwart an international nuclear threat in this explosive thriller. When Sergeant Major Sylvester "Sly" Morgan is killed while on a mission, his daughter Zoey tells General Garrett Sinclair that her father's death wasn't random. Her father had recorded a high-level meeting between Chinese, American, and French diplomats as they spoke about a plan for a new global government....
Series
Tsugumi Project volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After stumbling upon the journal of a former prisoner, Leon and Doudou glean some clues about the location of the mysterious Toratsugumi. Now, they set their sights on a place called Sado--a place that seem to call up distant memories and complicated emotions in Tsugumi. As Tsugumi wrestles with her past, she comes under attack by a swarm of flying monkeys. A hulking, female "clothed thing"--the same one that Leon previous fought and nearly blinded-drives...
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