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61) Die hard 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
On a snowy Christmas Eve in Washington D.C., a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport, and now holds thousands of holiday travellers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer, have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency - except John McClane, an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly déjà vu.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 7
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
In this 13th Reacher novel, the former army MP confronts a possible suicide bomber on a nearly deserted Manhattan subway car -- a confrontation that will lead him back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and forward to the war on terrorism. It turns out that Susan Mark's life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, and Afghanistan ... from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate to a beautiful young...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 6
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Jason Bourne must confront a nightmare version of himself--an amoral, heartless killer--in this new novel in Robert Ludlum's bestselling series"--Provided by publisher.
65) Out of the night
Author
Series
Epic story of RJ and York volume 1
Publisher
SDG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"All former spy and current national security agent York Newgate wants is to propose to the woman he loves, RJ Marshall. Then they can move to Shelly, Washington, and start the calm, safe life he's been dreaming of for over a year. Too bad trouble doesn't agree... Or maybe RJ simply attracts trouble because she's just going out for coffee when she spots a wanted, known terrorist standing in the middle of a street in Paris. At least she thinks it's...
Author
Series
Eastern European crime series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 13
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to Hidden Order pits private intelligence operative Scot Harvath and his associates against a formidable new adversary who changes the course of Harvath's life.
69) Profile
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An undercover British journalist risks her life by infiltrating militant extremist groups online.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine years ago, terrorists hijacked a plane in Vienna. Somehow, a rescue attempt staged from the inside went terribly wrong and everyone on board was killed. Members of the CIA stationed in Vienna during that time were witness to this terrible tragedy, gathering intel from their sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground with a series of texts coming from one of their agents inside the plane. So when it all went wrong, the...
71) Brilliance
Author
Series
Brilliance saga volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people's darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They're called "brilliants," and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is among them; a federal agent, Cooper has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest...
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After rescuing the President from kidnappers, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath shifts his attentions to rooting out and capturing or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one man -- the world's most feared, most ruthless terrorist, Hashim Nidal, who has assembled an international league of Islamic terrorist networks in an ingenious plot...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS--and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred...
75) The bomb maker
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For Nina O'Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group, she is surprised when she runs into an old flame. But Bob Renwick is not there by chance. He is on the hunt for two terrorists who have left a trail of murder in their wake, and soon Nina is caught up in a grim game of life or death.
Author
Series
Jammer Davis thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2010
Language
English
79) A better world
Author
Series
Brilliance saga volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The brilliants changed everything. Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a persons most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us. Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities. Supermarket shelves stand empty. 911 calls go unanswered....
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