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21) Golden prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. marshal takes him into unexplored territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he's saved, Lucas Davenport has a new job. He is a U.S. marshal, but not just any marshal--one with unusual scope. He gets to investigate whomever he wants, wherever he wants, across the country, and once in a while, he might be called upon...
Author
Publisher
Dār al-Tanwīr lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
This novel tells the story of Golyadkin who, on a bitter snowy night, encounters a stranger who looks exactly like him. They become friends, but then Golyadkin realises that unlike himself, his double is socially successful - likeable and charming - and thus the relationship starts to deteriorate. Golyadkin is caught up in a psychological battle that can only end in tragedy
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Language
English
Description
"She only knows three things for certain: 1. She has a splitting headache. 2. The hottest guy she has (probably) ever seen is standing over her, telling her to run. And oh yeah... 3. People keep trying to kill her. She doesn't know who. Or why. But when she sees footage of herself fighting off a dozen men there's only one explanation: obviously. . . she's a spy! Except, according to Mr. Hot Guy, she's not. She's a spy's identical twin sister. Too...
24) Act of terror
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Series
Jericho Quinn novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
From coast to coast, the nation is witnessing a new wave of terror--suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear, a flight attendant tries to crash an airliner, a police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium, and at CIA headquarters, a deputy director goes on a murderous rampage. The perpetrators appear to be American but are actually covert agents in a vast network of terror, selected and trained for one purpose only: the complete annihilation...
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Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
"In Flynn/Mills's Total Power, CIA counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp and his team capture ISIS's top technology expert but fail to stop ISIS from blowing out America's entire power grid, and now they must find the ISIS agents who did it or the country will be in the dark for a long time coming."
When an ISIS plot devastates America's power grid, Mitch Rapp and his CIA team race to find the responsible cyberterrorists to prevent the nation from succumbing...
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Series
Deadly Ops volume 2
Language
English
Description
A person of interest to the NSA after overhearing two men plotting a terrorist attack and then losing her memory, Maria Cervantes falls under the protection of Agent Cade O'Reilly, a man from her past, who not only wants the memories locked in her mind, but wants to keep her in his life forever.
28) Long shadows
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Series
Amos Decker novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
"When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she'd made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count -- from violent gang...
Author
Series
Story of a crime trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Based on the real events of the unsolved assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, the story picks up in 1989 with a seemingly unrelated stabbing death of a civil servant, which is swept under the rug.
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of successful people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious and dangerous Faustian figure.
33) The burning edge
Author
Series
Jack Gannon thrillers volume 4
Language
English
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Description
After witnessing an armored car heist that left four people dead, Lisa Palmer becomes the FBI's key to finding the fugitive killers, a hunt led by an embattled FBI agent as a relentless journalist makes his own investigation.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority...
35) Nobody walks
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English
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Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn't know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead--Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking dope. Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his son's death.
36) In harm's way
Author
Series
Heroes of Quantico volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
37) Shattered duty
Author
Series
Deadly Ops volume 3
Language
English
Description
When his wife was murdered two years ago, Special Agent Levi Lazaro turned his back on everything he cared about. Ever since, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. Now he's finally uncovered the identities of those who killed his wife{u2014}and he's ready to destroy them at any cost. He won{u2019}t let anything stand in his way{u2014}not even a beautiful NSA agent on a mission of her own. Special Agent Selene Wolfe prides herself on being the best....
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his pregnant wife is kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man.
Author
Series
FBI/US Attorney novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Refusing the advances of special agent Vaughn Roberts, the best man in her sister's wedding, investment banker Sidney Sinclair soon discovers that the sexy playboy, who won't take "no" for an answer, is after much more than just a one-night stand.
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Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows--until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband and daughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall's countdown has begun"--
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