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Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to testify against a violent arms dealer, police detective Alex Morrow finds her efforts challenged by a privileged Scottish lawyer's money laundering scheme and a vengeful woman prisoner.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"After a grueling assignment with the black ops force known as the Alliance, Weston Brown is craving downtime. Instead, he's pulled into his deadliest operation, in the one place he never wanted to see again. No-nonsense and so ... hot, Lexi [Palmer] lied to get him to her mountain clinic in Pakistan. But the threat is terrifyingly real"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Cuno Massey westerns volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Deputy U.S. Marshal Spurr Morgan forms an unlikely alliance with a federal fugitive to run down a gang of gunrunners who are planning to sell weapons to a Mexican general waging war against Yaqui Indians.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Pr
Pub. Date
c1996
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Offered a large sum of money to perform an assassination, Thomas Lang chooses instead to warn the intended victim, only to find himself on the hit list and up against such adversaries as rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer. Delete Field Delete Text Paste Field Uncontrol Heading Help.
10) Cuba libre
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A novel on the Spanish-American War featuring adventurer Ben Tyler, an Arizona horse dealer. Just as he arrives in Cuba with a shipment of guns and horses, war breaks out. To get his money, he is sucked into fighting between Spain, the U.S. and Cuban revolutionaries seeking independence from both.
11) In shadows
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Shelley's worst nightmares come true when the FBI arrive at her doorstep to bring her the news. Her husband has been killed, but she doesn't know the truth. Jack survived the shooting and will do anything to keep his beloved wife safe, even if it means hiding in shadows.
12) Backtrail
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Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ridge Parkman thinks he can just retire and move to Missouri to breed horses, but then an assignment comes along with his name all over it. Parkman nearly dies on the western slopes of the Rockies after a bloody shootout with a fellow marshal gone rogue. While recuperating in a remote mining town, a kind, rough-edged woman convinces him that he'd make a fine husband, and that it's time to give up his badge. Then he gets word that Duff Joseph, a ruthless...
13) A beam of light
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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