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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!
"[A] quirky, big-hearted novel...Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure." —People...
A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!
"[A] quirky, big-hearted novel...Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure." —People...
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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When a dozen men take hostage some of the most powerful people in the world at the funeral of a beloved former first lady, Detective Michael Bennett must find a way to rescue the hostages while at the same time attending his dying wife's hospital bedside.
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Alex Cross novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings again -- a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity,...
4) Hostage
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An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center — a women’s reproductive health services clinic — its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck tackles a case in which nothing is as it seems. Falcon is a homeless man who comes up with $10,000 bail in cash. Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the car Falcon is living in, and while on the run, Falcon takes Jack's best friend and others hostage. Jack works with the hostage negotiator, unaware that Falcon has a much bigger agenda.
7) Hunted
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Caroline Wallace is one of New Orleans PD's top hostage negotiators, and she's never failed to get every hostage out alive. But this time, it's different. This time, the hostages include her boss -- the chief of police -- and the mayor. And this time, she's trying to negotiate with Reed Ware, a former co-worker who left the force disgraced, under investigation by Internal Affairs, and worst of all, considered to be volatile and extremely dangerous....
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Firm volume 2
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English
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"What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm.It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of...
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