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The jackals volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Texas's Big Bend country, every man has a price. For crime lord Harry Holland and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, that price is $20,000--a ransom demand for the kidnapped daughter of a retired Army colonel. So far, neither the Army nor the Rangers have been able to penetrate Holland's guarded fortress. In desperation, the colonel turns to the Jackals. As a longtime friend, retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan is determined to bring the man's...
2) Wolf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Wolf kicks off when a vagrant — the Walking Man — finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words “HELP US” attached to its collar. He’s sure it’s a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved — until the Walking Man promises in exchange new information regarding the childhood disappearance of Caffery’s brother. Caffery has...
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Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
The tomb of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terracotta warriors, has remained sealed for more than 2,000 years. Though it’s regarded as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, the Chinese government won’t allow anyone to open it. Why? That question is at the heart of a dilemma faced by former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone, whose life is shattered when he receives an anonymous note carrying...
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Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 12
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The most secretive organization in America operates without any accountability to the American people. Hiding in the shadows, pretending to be part of the United States government, its power is beyond measure. Control of this organization has just been lost and the future of the nation thrust into peril. When the five candidates being considered to head this mysterious agency suddenly go missing, covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is summoned...
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Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 29
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum breaks the rules, flirts with disaster, and shows who's boss in the latest smash hit from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.
Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides...
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English
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Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan... In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that -- it vanished. Until now. When a modern-day kidnapping captures the attention of husband-and-wife...
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Series
Paul Janson novels volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul Janson -- a former Consular Ops legend known as "The Machine" for his deadly speed and accuracy -- has a new mission. Sickened by the "sanctioned serial killings" ordered by the state department, Janson has left covert operations and is now a private security consultant. In partnership with deadly sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he only takes assignments that he believes will lead to the greater good. When American Synergy Corporation oil executive...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Four friends, recent college graduates, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise -- quick, efficient, low risk -- works like a charm. Until they kidnap the wrong man. Now two groups they've very much wanted to avoid are after them -- the law, in the form of veteran state investigator Kirk Stevens and hotshot young FBI agent Carla Windermere,...
Author
Series
(Clive Staples),Space trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
158 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Out of the Silent Planet introduces Dr. Ransom and chronicles his abduction by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice via space ship to the planet Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Dr. Ransom escapes upon landing, though, and goes on the run, a stranger in a land that, like Jonathan Swift's Lilliput, is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity....
10) The sign of fear
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Series
Dr Watson volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster (UK)
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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The skies above London hum with danger. And in the Channel, enemies lie in wait.... Autumn, 1917. London is not the city that Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes once bestrode like giants. Terror has come from the sky, and Londoners are scurrying underground in fear. Then a twin tragedy strikes Watson. An old friend, Staff Nurse Jennings, is on a boat-ambulance torpedoed in the Channel with no survivors. And his concert-going companion, Sir Gilbert...
Author
Series
(Clive Staples),Space trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet -- Perelandra -- when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a...
13) Code 6: a novel
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English
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"Aspiring playwright Kate Gamble is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western world. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his...
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