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Alex Cross novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads"
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But...
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But...
2) Split second
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English
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Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making --and are a long way from over.
3) Without fail
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast—because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They’ve planned well. There’s just one thing they didn’t plan on: Reacher."--
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering...
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English
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Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins. Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the 'Prime Minister's private army' wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson.
11) Secret honor
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Series
Honor bound volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
The Loyal League volume 1
Language
English
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During the Civil War two undercover agents, Elle Burns, a former slave, and Malcolm McCall a detective in Pinkerton's Secret Service uncover a plot that could lead to a Confederate victory and vow to preserve the Union at any cost.
13) Cold dawn
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Series
Black Falls volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body burned almost beyond recognition in Black Falls, Vermont, she suspects that it was not an accident, and joins with smoke jumper Nick Martini to track a dangerous arsonist.
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English
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"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
17) Frankie's letter
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When English secret agent Anthony Brooke's cover is blown in the heart of World War One Imperial Germany, he must find a way out of the country and try to trace down a mysterious letter that promises to reveal a spy in England.
19) Sandpiper shore
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Series
Harmony Harbor volume 6
Publisher
Forever, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When her fiancee leaves her for her stepmother, who is also stealing her wedding business, Jenna Bell receives help from Logan Gallagher, whom she has had a crush on for years, forcing her to reassess what she wants out of life.
20) The book spy
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Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
American librarian Maria Alves, a microfilm specialist trained in espionage, is dispatched to Lisbon to gather vital information from Axis publications, and works in tandem with Tiago Soares, a bookstore owner secretly providing forged passports and visas to Jewish refugees.
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