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41) Honor's knight
Author
Series
Paradox volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it -- trouble keeps finding her. She sees things no one else can, the black stain on her hands is growing, and she is entangled with the cook she's supposed to hate. But when...
42) Heaven's queen
Author
Series
Paradox volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible. The sensible plan would be to hide and wait for things to blow over, but Devi's never...
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Riyria Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avyrn is targeted for assassination, Riyria's Royce and Hadrian are hired to foil the plot. Three years have passed since Hadrian, the war-weary mercenary, and Royce, the cynical ex-assassin, joined forces to become rogues-for-hire. All has gone well until they're asked to help prevent a murder. Now they must venture into an ancient corner of the world to save a mysterious woman who knows more about...
Author
Series
Hammer's slammers volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Collects four novels on the fictional exploits of the tank mercenaries commanded by Colonel Hammer known as "Hammer's Slammers.".
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Riyria Enterprises
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Gabriel Winter's daughter mysteriously disappears and is presumed dead, the wealthy whiskey baron seeks revenge. Having lived in Colnora during the infamous Year of Fear, he hires the one man he knows can deliver a bloody retribution - the notorious Duster. Riyria's job appears easy: discover what happened to the missing duchess and, if she lives, bring her home...if not, punish those responsible. But nothing is simple in the crowded, narrow,...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
State secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin but now he wonders is it her secrets that fascinate him ... or Holly herself?
The five days of Christmas: Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this Christmas, but he may just have a change of heart when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 9
Language
English
Description
"In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax-- but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America's interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died...
48) Amok
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1991. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas. His friends have missed him, and his mother and sisters need him. But after four years as a Marine and another two as a CIA contractor fighting the Soviet Union alongside the Afghan mujahideen, small-town life in Abilene is a suffocating dead end. Another secret war, this one in Southeast Asia, offers a big payday and the solution to his family's troubles. But secret wars are never what...
Author
Series
Wizard king trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After nearly eight centuries, the last wizard king seeks a return to Tralodren. But doing so requires the manipulation of some mercenaries oblivious to his goals. The gladiator sold his soul for revenge. The knight's a bigot. The dwarf only cares about regaining his honor. Even the wizardess seems too bookish for anyone's good. But they've all been hired by a blind seer and his assistant to retrieve some forgotten knowledge kept hidden away in some...
50) The red knight
Author
Series
Traitor son cycle volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild. Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men--or worse, a company of mercenaries--against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder. It takes...
Author
Series
Bastard Legion volume 1
Publisher
Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and "rehabilitated" in a shared virtual reality environment. But Miska Corbin, a thief and hacker with a background in black ops, has stolen one of these ships, the Hangman's Daughter, and made it her own. Controlled by explosive collars and trained in virtual reality by the electronic ghost of a dead marine sergeant, the thieves, gangsters,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Gates of Fire comes an historical epic about the early years of the Roman Empire. A Man at Arms is a Western set in Jerusalem and the Sinai desert in the first century AD, a few years after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The villains are the Romans. They're in pursuit of a courier bearing an incendiary letter from Paul the Apostle. For agents of Rome, this letter represents an existential threat that will propagate...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a bighearted mercenary"--
Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living off the grid for over half his life. He's never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship. A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and an LSD microdosing...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Just before daybreak, a body washes up on a pristine beach. The dead man's skull has been bashed open and his upper body is covered in neo-Nazi tattoos. Searching for suspects, the cops pick up Homer, a homeless schizophrenic who has been showing off a wristwatch he says God gave him. The watch is engraved with a symbol that exactly matches one of the dead man's tattoos. Even though Homer could never have inflicted such damage on a man twice his weight...
Author
Series
Wings of war volume 1
Publisher
Bryce O'Connor
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Among the scattered fringe cities bordering the Cienbal desert, the true name of the Monster of Karth is spoken only in whispers... Raz i'Syul Arro. A sellsword of the utmost caliber, Raz is a killer of paramount skill and highest regard. Towering tall even amongst the atherian, he is the only of his kind to live free in the "civilized" confines of mankind's varied cultures. He has no need of loyalties, his sole affections pledged to the gold crowns...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rogue Team International joins Joe Ledger in a new hunt that spans the globe and journeys deep into the terrifying landscape of the human heart. JOE LEDGER's world has been torn apart. The people closest to him have been savagely murdered and Ledger is on the hunt for the killers. His already fragile psyche has cracked apart, allowing a dangerous darkness to overwhelm him. His hunt takes him deep into the world of the deadly black market weapons...
58) The gatekeeper
Author
Series
Dez Limerick novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years. A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned, coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor - but they didn't count on one thing, the right man being in the wrong place at the right time. Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 17
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon...
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is a fairy tale of blood and bullets. They are stories about a group of men and women who cannot die. Mostly. The oldest of them is 6.732 years old. She thinks. The youngest is 27. Combined, they have over 10,000 years of stories to tell. Here are some. The bestselling, critically acclaimed THE OLD GUARD, now a hit Netflix movie starring Charlize Theron, returns with NEW stories by writers GREG RUCKA, LEANDRO FERNℓNDEZ, and an all-star lineup...
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