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Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless third century B.C.E. Chinese lamp.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keeping his deathbed promise to his father to free the small town of Mir Ali in Pakistan's Tribal Areas from oppressors, Hayat is forced to make terrible choices during a single morning when his brother, Sikander, and his troubled wife, Mina, are taken hostage by members of the Taliban.
Author
Series
Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Delta Force operator Kolt Raynor seeks redemption by attempting the rescue of teammates he caused to be captured three years earlier, a mission that leads to his discovery of an al Qaeda plot to take over a secret U.S. military prison.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Experiencing a privileged upbringing in Delhi, Rehan, the son of a lawyer mother and industrialist stepfather, struggles with the absence of his Pakistani Muslim father against a backdrop of the city's economic boom and bust and a formidable Pakistan earthquake.
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
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
Maya Mirza's unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man; but as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams, who isn't the man to whom she is arranged to be wed.
Author
Series
Sniper thrillers (Jack Coughlin) volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When her military doctor brother dies in a suspicious bridge collapse moments after sending her a cellphone photo, a Coast Guard sniper struggles to solve the mystery by investigating the photo and enlisting the aid of a special operations team.
13) Bamboo and blood
Author
Series
Inspector O novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when...
16) Hidden threat
Author
Series
Threat novels volume 3
Publisher
Variance Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"When Special Forces Colonel Zachary Garrett leads a team of commandos into an enemy base-camp inside forbidden Pakistan territory, the ensuing combat destroys his helicopter and all its occupants. After military officers notify his estranged daughter, 17-year-old Amanda Garrett, of her father's death, she is apathetic until they mention a $500,000 life insurance payout. But there's a catch: before she can collect her cash, Amanda must visit revered...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry--until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him - forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well armed, well trained group of assassins. Meanwhile, a radical cleric has been elected president of Pakistan and, upon...
Author
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her father's Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders. It was Simon who taught Bess to ride and shoot, escorted her to the bazaars and the Maharani's...
20) The promise
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Mallory Hammond is determined not to let her boyfriend, parents, or anyone else get in the way of her goal to save a life. She had that chance when she was a teenager, and the opportunity slipped away, leaving a void she's desperate to fill. Then a new friend she met online offers her the chance she has dreamed of. But she'll have to leave behind everyone she loves to take it"--
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