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Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When the stock markets crash and the American economy falls into a crippling recession, the president must make massive cuts in the federal budget, including the public safety budget. In response, entire communities of armed citizens band together for survival and mutual protection. Against this dismal backdrop, an entire FBI SWAT team is ambushed and radioactive materials are stolen by a group calling themselves the Knights of the True Republic....
62) Lightless
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A female engineer, Althea, fights for her life when her small spacecraft is invaded by two mysterious terrorists on a dark mission, one of whom is a revolutionary harboring deep secrets.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 5
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
64) Profile
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An undercover British journalist risks her life by infiltrating militant extremist groups online.
Author
Series
Publisher
AuthorContact
Pub. Date
2020]
Language
English
Description
"Moscow, Russia. A massive bombing kills hundreds. Washington DC, USA - The President is terrified the attack is the opening salvo of a new Cold War. Langley, USA with Washington and the Kremlin on the brink of war, Levi Roth has to find out who's behind the attack. There's only one man for the job, but the last anyone saw of him, he was in Moscow, severely wounded, waiting for the help of a Russian former-GRU agent. Roth must find him before it's...
67) 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
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
Jason Bourne series volume 12
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling and absorbing new novel Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates....it is Bourne himself. Kidnapped and transported to an underground...
70) Flight 93
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The heartbreaking true story of the heroic passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Trapped onboard a hijacked flight, these ordinary citizens disregarded their own personal safety to bond together and overthrow their terrorist captors.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly--when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he...
Author
Series
Jammer Davis thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2010
Language
English
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...
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) Crux
Author
Series
Nexus novels (Ramez Naam) volume 2
Publisher
Osprey Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place. In the United States, the terrorists--or freedom fighters--of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President and his allies. In Washington DC, a government scientist, secretly addicted to Nexus, uncovers more than he wants to know about the forces behind the assassinations, and finds himself...
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
Series
Bowers files volume 8
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Patrick Bowers gets drawn into a ruthless story that a killer is determined to tell the world when an FBI facility is attacked. A fast-paced thriller full of plot twists and turns, Checkmate brings this series to an unforgettable conclusion.
78) The island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"CIA operative Dewey Andreas is America's last line of defense when terrorists take over Manhattan, targeting the U.N. and the President himself in The Island, the latest in this New York Times bestselling series by Ben Coes. America is about to face the deadliest terrorist attack on it's soil since 9/11. Iran has been planning a revenge attack for years, with three goals in mind. Bring America to its knees. Assassinate the popular U.S. President...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protege uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
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