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10921) Assassin's silence
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"When it comes to disappearing, David Slaton has few equals. Police in three countries have written off trying to find him. His old employer, Mossad, keeps no forwarding address. Even his wife and son are convinced he is dead. So when an assault team strikes, Slaton is taken by surprise. He kills one man and manages to escape. Half a world away, in the baleful heat of the Amazon, an obscure air cargo company purchases a derelict airliner. Teams...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 9
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Blake Johnson, head of a clandestine White House operation, and his Irish colleague Sean Dillon work together to stop a murderous vendetta aimed at the president of the United States, who is blamed for a series of attacks on a ruthless Arab-British dynasty.
10923) The Trudeau vector: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2005
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Description
Three members of the Trudeau Research Center scientific team are found dead at the onset of an arctic winter and the cause of death is unknown. American epidemiologist, Dr. Jessica Hanley, is called in to locate the microbe that caused the grisly deaths before it spreads. At the same time in Moscow, Admiral Rudenko searches for a submarine that has inexplicably vanished in the Norwegian fjords. Their missions converge explosively in the black of the...
10924) Salt water: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned....
So begins this sweet, ominous novel by Charles Simmons. Set against an idyllic landscape of water, sand, and sky, it recounts in exquisite detail the momentous events of a boy's 16th summer that reveal to him the dark facts of adult passion. On Bone Point, an island off the New England coast, the boy's long, lazy days of boating and swimming are sharpened by a growing awareness of his...
10926) The Long Game: A Fixer Novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
This high-adrenaline thriller by the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games will leave readers breathless, perfect for fans of Elite, Riverdale, and One of Us is Lying.
The Kendricks help make the problems of the Washington elite disappear . . . but some secrets won't stay buried.
For Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington D.C., fixing runs in the family. But Tess has another...
The Kendricks help make the problems of the Washington elite disappear . . . but some secrets won't stay buried.
For Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington D.C., fixing runs in the family. But Tess has another...
10927) The Naturals Collection
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
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Description
Don’t miss a page of the thrilling Naturals series by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes—this collection of four books includes a bonus e-novella!
In The Naturals, seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. That is, until the
10928) Call back
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When Magnolia Steele started digging into her father's disappearance, she had no idea she'd find so much dirt. The secrets she unearthed have changed the official story of what happened to him. Everyone other than her now believes that he embezzled from a client with the help of several accomplices, one of whom got greedy and killed the rest, but Magnolia's convinced there's more to it. She finds plenty of conflicting evidence, including startling...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments—especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s—Luisa’s work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II. Journalist Haris Voekler grew up a proud East Berliner. But...
10930) Warrior class
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Russia plans an oil pipeline across the Balkans that will make them the dominate force in Europe. The only chance to stop them lies with U.S. Air Force general Patrick McLanahan, who's rescue mission in Russia leads him to a choice between serving his country and obeying orders.
"The world is falling apart, and there are plenty of people willing to take advantage. One of them is Pavel Kazakov, a Russian oilman with close ties to organized crime,...
10931) The confession
Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Troubled Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge wrestles with a startling and dangerous case that reaches far into the past when a false confession from a man who is not who he claims to be leads to a brutal murder.
10932) Tell me lies: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
On finding a pair of crotchless panties in her husband's car, Maddie Faraday sets out to get even. But she wants to keep her reputation, too, and in the juggling act that follows, she has a fling with an old flame, is accused of her husband's murder and turns sleuth to clear her name, lover in tow.
10933) A calculated risk
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
"The Washington Post Book World called Katherine Neville's bestselling novel The Eight "a feminist answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark." Now, Neville remakes the rules of adventure fiction again with a gripping tale of financial intrigue and mesmerizing romance that whirls from the high-power money centers of New York and San Francisco to Paris and a breathtaking Greek island." "Verity Banks is the senior woman executive at the Bank of the World, a...
10934) Missing in Blue Mesa
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A fearless Colorado lawman goes after a secretive cult to help rescue a missing infant . . .
To prove her sister's murder, Michelle Munson infiltrates the cult led by "Prophet" Daniel Metwater. Having endured a tough life in foster care, she's fiercely independent and distrustful of police. But when her baby disappears, she knows she's come too close to learning Metwater's secrets, and turns to Ranger Ethan Reynolds for justice. Facing down harrowing...
10935) Soldier's Promise
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
She's undercover to expose a cult leader. He's on a mission to save his family . . .
Officer Jake Lohmiller can't believe the dark-haired, self-contained woman who earlier caught his eye was able to get the drop on him. Or that Carmen Redhorse is an undercover Ranger Brigade sergeant investigating the same Colorado cult his mother and sister are in.
When a sniper opens fire on the encampment, the two join forces to bring down a killer. But even...
10936) Thirteen
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen is near-future science fiction, very much in the vein of Bladerunner. A failed government program to produce a more violent, aggressive form of military fighter has resulted in the U.S. rounding up most of the test subjects and isolating them on Mars, a place where no one with any sense would wish to spend their days. But not all of the government subjects have been caught and shipped out to Mars. Enter Carl Marsalis,...
10937) Triple homicide: thrillers
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
Three electrifying thrillers with Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, and the Women's Murder Club. Includes Detective Cross; The Medical Examiner; and Manhunt. Detective Cross: An Alex Cross Story: An anonymous caller has promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife, Bree Stone, uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late. Manhunt: a Michael Bennett story: Someone attacked...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 1910 Toronto, while other bachelor girls perfect their domestic skills and find husbands, two friends perfect their sleuthing skills and find a murderer.
Inspired by their fascination with all things Sherlock Holmes, best friends and flatmates Merinda and Jem launch a consulting detective business. The deaths of young Irish women lead Merinda and Jem deeper into the mire of the city's underbelly, where the high hopes of those dreaming to make a...
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Description
A proud, uncompromising woman, Harriet's great passion is collecting butterflies and pinning them under glass; motherhood comes no easier to her than her role as mistress of her remote Irish estate. When her daughter dies, her community is quick to judge her, and Harriet will not stoop to defend herself. But her journals reveal a more complex truth.