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Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Alex Cross tracks down a serial killer/kidnapper who cannot be outsmarted even after he's captured.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Two Secret Service agents, one of them retired, have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the two discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making --and are a long way from over.
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English
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A burglar in the bedroom of a mansion has his work interrupted by the arrival of the mistress of the house with the president of the U.S. The couple have a fight and she is killed. The burglar flees, taking along a blood-stained letter opener as evidence, but is spotted by presidential bodyguards. The White House chief-of-staff, an ambitious woman, has him tracked and killed, but not before the burglar has told his story to a lawyer. The lawyer realizes...
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English
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His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence — a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history.... But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom — and win the war for the Nazis....
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 4
Language
English
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They call themselves "January 30, " after the date of a British massacre in Belfast. They are the enemies of peace--and they are plotting an assassination that will shatter the uneasy truce that reigns in Ireland. Former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon must hunt down January 30 before they kill again--before they spark a war.
6) Jackdaws
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Language
English
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It is May, 1944 -- a time of international tension where nothing is certain... Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications -- but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate...
7) Cold pursuit
Author
Series
Black Falls volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A prominent ambassador is killed in Washington, and his stepdaughter goes missing in the mountains of New England. Secret Service agent Jo Harper gets help from a man with military training and mountain rescue experience, who also happens to be her old childhood flame.
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Series
Wayward Pines thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels ... off. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into the disappearance...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 17
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the 'Prime Minister's private army' wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson. Somebody is after them: Blake, Harry Miller, his sister, Monica, Harry Salter and Billy. The only people spared are Roper and Dillon. After surviving a car bomb, Ferguson heads a desperate search to uncover the perpetrator. Not wanting any overt...
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 3
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Polish officer Captain Alexander De Milja, who is recruited into the Polish secret service just before the Germans overrun Warsaw. As the war progresses, De Milja is involved in a number of missions against the Germans, constantly risking his own life for the sake of a free Europe.
11) Cold river
Author
Series
Black Falls volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
507 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Shay is finally about to finish law school. Already the successful owner of the Three Sisters Café, Hannah should be feeling confident about herself. But when Sean Cameron returns to town after the death of his father, Hannah can't help be swayed. Meanwhile, the café becomes the epicenter of a crime ring investigation, and Hannah and Sean find themselves caught in a spiderweb of secrets with a killer lurking close by.
12) The devil's bed
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English
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Locked in a tight battle for reelection, President Clay Dixon knows his best chance for victory is the popularity of his wife, Kate. But the disenchanted First Lady is about to desert him. When an orchard accident seriously injures Kate's father, a retired senator and former vice president, she returns to the family farm in Minnesota to be at his side. Assigned to protect her, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen soon falls under Kate's spell. Bo suspects...
13) The Judas Gate
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 18
Language
English
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Description
A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan, but not all of them -- the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is...
14) Cold dawn
Author
Series
Black Falls volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again -- until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Almost. Rose is certain that she knows the victim's identity.and that his death was no accident. Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist's deliberate hand. Another fire killed an arson investigator in California months ago. Now the rugged smoke jumper is determined to follow the killer's...
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
256 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malm". But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division...
16) Alien hunter
Author
Series
Alien hunter volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young wife disappears in the night, never to be seen again. There is no evidence of kidnapping -- in fact, everything indicates that she left on purpose. Her husband, a brilliant police detective, cannot believe this -- but he also can't find her. Flynn Carroll's lost love becomes his obsession. He begins amassing a file of similar cases nationwide. His conclusion is unavoidable: somebody is taking people and making it look like they walked out...
Author
Series
Alien hunter volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They lust for its soaring mountains, its shining seas, its gorgeous forests, and majestic deserts. There is just one part of the planet that they don't want: us. Flynn Carroll knows that the aliens are a race of brilliance and extraordinary cruelty. And he knows that they have found a way to eliminate humanity: capture the mind of the president of the United States....
Author
Series
Alien hunter volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young wife disappears in the night, never to be seen again. There is no evidence of kidnapping -- in fact, everything indicates that she left on purpose. Her husband, a brilliant police detective, cannot believe this -- but he also can't find her. Flynn Carroll's lost love becomes his obsession. He begins amassing a file of similar cases nationwide. His conclusion is unavoidable: somebody is taking people and making it look like they walked out...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing,|c[2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead -- and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they...
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