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Series
John Corey novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion," has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, will stop at nothing to find and kill Khahil.
Author
Series
Black Knights Inc volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Dagan Zoelner has made three huge mistakes...The first two left blood on his hands. The third left him wondering...what if? What if he had told the woman of his dreams how he felt before his world fell apart? Spitfire CIA agent Chelsea Duvall has always had a thing for bossy, brooding Dagan. It's just as well that he's never given her a second look, since she carries a combustible secret about his past that threatens to torch their lives...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she s conquered being Black and a woman.
85) The Geneva trap
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 7
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a Russian intelligence officer insists on speaking to no one but her about cyber sabotage that has brought down a U.S. communications satellite, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle learns of a plot to hack into the West's military and reignite the Cold War.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Searching for terrorists planning attacks on America's most strategic natural resources, Jason Bourne enlists the help of General Boris Karpov, the head of Russia's most feared spy agency, who has actually been tasked with Bourne's assassination.
87) The end game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about a possible bombing plot, the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey explodes. Nicholas and Mike race to the scene and barely escape being killed by a secondary device. Returning to the civilian's home to continue their interrogation, they discover the tipster, and the FBI team left to guard him; dead. While Nicholas calls in the assassinations, COE strikes again, this time launching a cyber-attack...
Author
Series
Necromancer chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Necromancer Isyllt Iskaldur finances revolutionaries who would overthrow the corrupt Imperial government, but finds herself torn between her new friends and her sense of duty as her home is beset by increasingly violent uprisings.
90) First strike
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Series
Language
English
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"The violent terrorist group ISIS has launched a major military campaign to take over Syria. But as they commit more and more public atrocities, their sources for ammunition are drying up. However, their charismatic and tyrannical leader, Tristan Nazir, has a major card left to play, which will get a new secret shipment of arms underway. Dewey Andreas is sent into the field to meet Mallory, the Milan CIA station chief who has explosive proof about...
91) The assassins
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After noticing a man dressed in his clothes being killed in a hit-and-run accident, former military spy Judd Ryder must determine if he or the imposter was the intended victim. By the author of The Book of Spies.
92) The silent man
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
94) Shock of war
Author
Series
Red dragon rising volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Trapped behind enemy lines after fulfilling a mission to sabotage a Chinese invasion fleet, U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy and erratic fellow officer Win Christian make their way into Vietnam, where Murphy defies orders to save a woman he loves.
Author
Series
Micah Dalton series volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a close friend is murdered, Micah Dalton is on the hunt for vengeance.
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father, Charlie. But Amanda's posting in Rome is a sleepy one. She's listless and looking for action when, on a hot summer day, it walks right through the door of her office. A lowly Russian operative is desperate, begging to speak to her. He tells her that a US Senator is about to be assassinated on an overseas trip to Cairo. Amanda believes he's telling the truth, but...
98) Throne of jade
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
Captain Will Laurence and his noble dragon Temeraire battle against Bonaparte's invading forces. When China discovers that their rare gift, meant for Napoleon, is now in the hands of the British forces, they demand the return of the dragon.
99) The loyal heart
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Robert came to Galveston to fulfill his promise to a dying man and look after his widow. He didn't expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places.Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his comrade Phillip Markham. If anything happened to Phillip, Robert would look after his beloved wife, Miranda. She was his life, his world, his everything.After the war, Robert is left to pick up the pieces...
100) True honor
Author
Series
Uncommon heroes volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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