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Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of "To Asmara" comes a riveting and richly-textured tale of magic, terrorism, the loss of dreams, and the extraordinary powers of the human spirit. After terrorists hijack his plane, a dance troupe manager is transformed into a hero.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jameela Green only has one wish. To see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. When her dream doesn't come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque. New imam and recent immigrant Ibrahim Sultan is appalled by Jameela's shallowness, but agrees to assist her on one condition: that she perform a good deed. Jameela reluctantly accepts his terms, kicking off a chain of absurd and unfortunate events. When the person the two do-gooders...
24) Brilliance
Author
Series
Brilliance saga volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nick Cooper, a federal agent, has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest target may be the most dangerous man alive, a brilliant drenched in blood and intent on provoking civil war. But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes in--and betray his own kind.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeking the people responsible for a plot to kidnap the president, Secret Service agent Scot Harvath follows clues that point to the world's most ruthless terrorist and enlists the aid of a hijacking survivor who knows what the terrorist looks like.
26) The Frenchman
Author
Series
The Frenchman volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a former French intelligence operative"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingswell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hired to look into a recent spate of plane crashes that have killed powerful people in politics, business and religion, Derrick Storm goes up against an maniacal extremist who has created a laser with the power to shoot down planes from the ground.
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with a famous Argentinean revolutionary's daughter who he hopes will further his ambition to exact revenge against the handlers who ended his father's career years earlier, a maverick spy is caught in a web of deceit with ties to the Cold War.
29) Vendetta
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months. Brandon and Catherine...
31) Exile
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A successful attorney about to be married and preparing for a run for Congress, David Wolfe's life is thrown into turmoil when he is reunited with Hana Arif, a Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret love affair in law school.
32) Breakneck
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
Author
Series
Discipline Files trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads to Beirut with a haul of the most sensitive documents imaginable and recruits an unlikely ally - an alcoholic Swiss priest named Father Tobias. Despite barely surviving his previous...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After emerging from a tour of duty in Iraq with a badly injured leg, CIA soldier Roger Ferris takes on a mission to infiltrate the network of a master terrorist and bases his plan on a British intelligence operation from World War II.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds...
Author
Series
SEAL Team 6 novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Navy SEAL Team Six commando Mann infuses his debut military thriller with the real-life details only a true insider can reveal about a pocket of terrorism that leads straight from the slopes of K2 to the cities of Europe and the Middle East.
Author
Series
Janet Watson chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been two months since Dr. Janet Watson accepted an offer from Georgetown University Hospital. The training for her new high-tech arm is taking longer than expected, however, leaving her in limbo. Meanwhile, her brilliant friend and compatriot, Sara Holmes, has been placed on leave--punishment for going rogue during their previous adventure. Neither is taking their situation very well. Then an extremist faction called the Brotherhood of Redemption...
38) Firewall
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver he begins to unravel a plot much more involved complicated than he initially...
39) The tin man
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A high-tech avenger declares war on drug dealers, fighting them with cutting-edge technology he developed for the military. The hero is Patrick McLanahan of Sacramento who is seeking revenge because the drug dealers hurt his brother.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A group of eco-terrorists threaten to start an earthquake and destroy San Francisco unless the government abandons plans to create a dam. They are ignored until the earth trembles and FBI agent Judy Maddox discovers that the technology for a man-made earthquake is available. At which point a race against time gets underway.
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