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301) Skullsworn
Author
Series
Chronicle of the unhewn throne volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pyrre Lakatur doesn't like the word skullsworn. It fails to capture the faith and grace, the peace and beauty of her devotion to the God of Death. She is not, to her mind, an assassin, not a murderer--she is a priestess. At least, she will be a priestess if she manages to pass her final trial. The problem isn't the killing. Pyrre has been killing and training to kill, studying with some of the most deadly men and women in the world, since she was...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling...
304) The gray man
Author
Series
Gray Man thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. But Court...
305) Florida man: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses--a moribund motel and shabby amusement park--endangered but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins uncovering artifacts that change his understanding of the island's...
306) A dance of ghosts
Author
Series
Shadowdance novels volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"IN A CITY KNOWN FOR DARKNESS, THE UNDERWORLD TREMBLES AT THE RISE OF THE SUN... In book #5 of the Shadowdance series... He is known as Muzien the Darkhand, and a night of fire and blood heralds his arrival to the beleaguered city of Veldaren. With him comes the might of the Sun Guild, its thieves and smugglers eager to spread their criminal empire to the east. Left blind and vulnerable after being attacked by the Widow, Alyssa Gemcroft struggles...
307) Kellanved's reach
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The incessant war between the bickering city states of Quon Tali rages. So engrossed are the warring lords and princes in their own petty feuds that few notice that an upstart mage from Dal Hon has gained control of the southern seas. Kellanved could not care less about any of this petty politicking or strategy or war. Something other and altogether more mysterious has caught his attention and he - together with a reluctant and his decidedly skeptical...
308) We ride the storm
Author
Series
Reborn Empire volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of a burgeoning war, a warrior, an assassin, and a princess chase their own ambitions no matter the cost in Devin Madson's visceral, emotionally charged debut. War built the Kisian Empire. War will tear it down. Seventeen years after rebels stormed the streets, factions divide Kisia. Only the firm hand of the god-emperor holds the empire together. But when a shocking betrayal destroys a tense alliance with neighboring Chiltae, all that...
Author
Series
Mave Michael volume 1
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
The Ch�ateau du Ciel was once the destination for the rich and famous to play, drink and ski-complete with a private railway to shuttle those desiring extra privacy-now, however, the guests are few and far between. The New Year's Eve party was supposed to hoist the rundown hotel back to its former status, until a massive blizzard hits, trapping the guests who've come to celebrate the grand hotel's last hurrah. The circumstances might even be romantic,...
310) Won't back down
Author
Series
Jack Keller novels volume 6
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Keller's violent past is very much with him these days, despite his efforts to leave it behind. He's back in rural North Carolina, looking for steady work, and trying to establish a relationship with Francis, the son he never knew. But the boy's heard too much about Keller, particularly from Ben Jones, his half-brother and the son of Marie, the woman Keller loves. Ben's alienated, angry, and headed for trouble, and Keller's living with the guilt...
Author
Publisher
Brain Lag
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"These aren't the vampires you know. When the Nash'terel were hunted nearly to extinction, they fled to a distant world: Earth. Using their powers of shapeshifting, they blended in with the human population, and with their thirst for life essence, the hunted became the hunters. While the older generation remain in the shadows, associating only with other Nash'terel, their Earthborn offspring are more adventurous. Young Bilyash is tired of hiding and...
312) Swarm and steel
Author
Publisher
Talos Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"To escape the hell she created, a woman must team up with a novice warrior and return to her homeland in this gritty epic fantasy where delusions are literally made real. Zerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to remember her past. Chased by an assassin out into the endless wastes of the desert, she is caught, disfigured, and left for dead. Her scabbard is empty, but the need for answers-and the pull of her sword-will draw her back to the...
Author
Series
Finn novels volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Finn's search for his memory of one fateful night leads him to Iceland-only to be followed by an unhinged assassin intent on stopping him-in the riveting follow-up to Steel Fear, from the New York Times bestselling writing team Webb & Mann, combat decorated Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and award-winning author John David Mann. Disgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run. A wanted man since he jumped ship from the USS Abraham Lincoln, he's sought for questioning...
314) First kill
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 24
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A prequel to the best-selling series traces the origin story of CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey, whose first assignment as a new Air Force OSI graduate is sabotaged by an unknown adversary in Washington.
"It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaíso, a monster who has tortured and killed more...
315) The Russian
Author
Series
Rob Tacoma novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"After the break-up of the Soviet Union, some of the most hardened and capable criminals came to the United States. Over the past two decades, they have created a vicious and fearless underworld, breathtaking in its violence, disturbing in its efficiency, and destructive to society at large. With conventional law enforcement methods unable to stem the tide, the President issues top secret Executive Order 12-4b3 creating a small, deadly team to take...
316) The price of valor
Author
Series
Shadow Campaigns volume 3
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the King's death, war has come to Vordan. The Deputies-General has precarious control of the city, but it is led by a zealot who sees traitors in every shadow. Executions have become a grim public spectacle. The new queen, Raesinia Orboan, finds herself nearly powerless as the government tightens its grip and assassins threaten her life. But she did not help free the country from one sort of tyranny to see it fall into another. Placing...
Author
Series
Endings volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A shattered life. A killer for hire. Can she stop? Does she want to? Her assignments were always to kill someone. That's what a hitman - or hitwoman - is paid to do, and that is what she does. Then comes a surprise assignment - keep someone alive. She is hired to protect Virginia Martin, the stunning and brilliant chief technology officer of a hot startup with an environmentally important innovation that will change the world. This new gig catches...
Author
Series
John Lago novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"John Lago is an intern at one of the biggest law firms in Manhattan. He clocks eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all of the shit work no one else wants to do . . . and he doesn't make a dime. But John isn't trying to claw his way to the top of the corporate food chain. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm's high profile, heavily guarded partners. His internship is the perfect cover--enabling him to gather intel...
319) Grey sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on the path to becoming the empire's fiercest warrior"--
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on...
320) Shadows in death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Eve examines a fresh body in Washington Square Park, her husband, Roarke, spots a man among the onlookers he’s known since his younger days on the streets of Dublin. A man who claims to be his half brother. A man who kills for a living—and who burns with hatred for him. Eve is quick to suspect that the victim’s spouse—resentful over his wife’s affair and poised to inherit her fortune—would have happily paid an assassin to do his...
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