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Mitch Rapp novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Washington D.C. is turned upside down when the director of the CIA is found dead and a controversial successor is named, and the Middle East is sent to the brink of war when Israel learns Saddam Hussein is about to enter the nuclear arms race.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 8
Language
English
Description
Newly elected President Jack Ryan is disturbed by the attempted assassination of Russia's intelligence agency chairman, and as antiterrorism specialist John Clark and others go to Moscow to investigate, danger to the entire world takes shape in China.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's up to Cabrillo and his crew of expert intelligence and Naval men to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese. His gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, he'll have to locate -- and steal -- the all-important artifact. And there are certain people who would do anything in their power to see him fail...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin and the special assignments team of the National Underwater & Marine Agency are called upon to intervene when a billionaire tycoon who plans to proclaim himself czar of Russia attempts to divert attention from his activities by setting off pockets of methane hydrate, known as "fire ice," along the coast of the United States.
Author
Series
Shaw and Katie James volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In South America a wealthy ninety-six year old man reads a book late into the night. Within an hour, he is dead, the secrets of his past starkly revealed. Six months later, in Provence, Shaw -- the shadowy operative from The Whole Truth -- witnesses the murder of a mysterious man, his body left lifeless at the bottom of a pool. Shaw barely escapes the incident himself; and with a new partner in tow, begins to realize that there has to be another organization...
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 20
Language
English
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"A missing Chinese scientist, unexplained noises emanating from under the Arctic ice, and a possible mole in American intelligence are just some of the problems that plague President Jack Ryan"--
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Series
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English
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Germany, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing Nazis, and all the intrigue and deceit readers have come to expect from this immensely talented thriller writer. In The One from the Other, Hitler's legacy lives on. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become too dangerous, and he now works as a private detective in Munich. Business is slow and his funds are dwindling when a woman hires him to investigate her husband's...
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English
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Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters--a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating "noncorpum" entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York--hurtle toward a shared...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Summer, 2017. About four hundred people leave behind cell phones, credit cards, jobs, houses, families-- all on the same day. Kevin Moore is one of them. Former military, disaffected, restless, Kevin leaves disappears-- into a movement that calls itself the Massive Brigade. Are they a protest organization, a political movement, or a terrorist group? The FBI doesn't know-- but isn't taking any chances. Special Agent Rachel Proulx is very familiar with...
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
A terrorist with a most personal grudge, an FBI analyst challenged to be three steps ahead of the intelligence, a Coast Guard captain assigned to keep watch on that very American of symbols from the water, an astronaut who takes her job very seriously--the paths of all of these characters converge on one clear morning in Florida. NASA is preparing to launch the space shuttle, this time with a high-paying visitor on board as a guest, and the FBI and...
11) Fire strike
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 17
Language
English
Description
"When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The...
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English
Description
A passionate young foreign service officer, a dedicated journalist, and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state must team up to defeat an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs.
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 7
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat -- but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant? Charley Castillo and his men go in to investigate, but they have no idea what they have just gotten themselves into. By the...
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
420 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The secretary of state has been kidnapped by Islamic extremists and his only hope for survival is a reconstituted Presidential Agent team in this revival of W. E. B. Griffin's ... series"--
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea — to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody knows that the President hates Castillo’s guts, has just had him forcibly retired from the military, and now Castillo’s...
16) Transition
Author
Publisher
Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A tense, complex, and twisting diplomatic thriller in which one woman must choose between morality and compromise--and in either case, the consequences may be deadly. Katarina "Kate" Wallander is a second-generation Foreign Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgyzstan. She's not there by chance. Kate is a Foreign Service brat who attended high school in the region; her uncle is the U.S. ambassador to the country, and he pulled a few strings to...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 16
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. When the king’s own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the president suspects that the Saudis never intended to live up to their agreement. He decides that the royalty...
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
453 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first disturbing reports reached Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo in the form of backchannel messages concerning covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies suddenly gone missing and then, suddenly, inexplicably, found dying. Or dead. One in Budapest, Hungary. One in Kiev, Ukraine. One in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, mere klicks from the Iran border. And then one in Virginia, along the Potomac River, practically...
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