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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
Trying to recover a dead general's briefcase, which contains sensitive information regarding the army's post-cold war plans, takes Reacher and his partner, an African American female, deep into the treacherous heart of military bureaucracy--and into a tragic by-product of the "don't ask-don't tell" policy regarding gays in the armed forces.
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Series
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English
Description
Kidd, an artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal, teams up with his sometime partner/sometime lover LuEllen to find out what really happened to Jack Morrison, a colleague who was supposedly killed by a jittery security guard while raiding a company's files.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn’t. Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now. Because...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see...where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later...where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
19th-century Europe -- from Turin to Prague to Paris -- abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers,...
Author
Series
Magdalene line volume 2
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
516 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maureen Paschal is looking forward to a time of rest and working on her book, after her discovery of a secret gospel written by Mary Magdalene. The arrival of a strange package, however, draws her into a hunt for the Book of Love, a gospel written by Jesus himself.
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky is fed up with the Putin government and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon, and the rest of the group known informally...
9) Savage run
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box's Savage Run. Joe is called to the scene when an exploding cow kills a famous ecoterrorist, Stewie Woods, and his bride of three days, who were peacefully spiking trees. A visit to the cow's pugnacious owner leaves Joe defensive, angry, and curious: Why doesn't the rancher ask any questions about the bizarre accident that happened on his land? Then...
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Camel Club novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The Camel Club is made up of four middle-aged men: Stone, Milton, Reuben, and Caleb, whose lives have led them to be suspicious of the government and politicians in general. Their late-night excursions mainly consist of White House stakeouts, until the night they discover two men carrying another man while on Roosevelt Island and killing him while making it look like a suicide. The men believe a conspiracy is afoot, and this time, they're right on...
11) Whitewash
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sabrina Galloway is the top scientist at EcoEnergy, leading the company's research team to a successful breakthrough in the quest for an alternative fuel. The promise of a cleaner tomorrow and the economic impact on world markets could be staggering. Then she makes an alarming discovery: someone has tampered with the production process, resulting in toxic waste leaking into the Florida waterways and the Gulf of Mexico. Fighting mounting terror fueled...
12) Flawless
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 481 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former medical detective for the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Nate McCormick had seen enough suffering to last a lifetime. Now heś left the CDC, determined to begin a new life with his girlfriend in San Francisco--until the vicious murder of a biotech researcher--an old friend--hurtles him back into the medical world hed́ left behind. While the police hunt for a killer, Nate starts sifting through evidence, determined to find what his friend...
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English
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When Todd Belknap - a field agent for Consular Operations with a reputation as something of a cowboy - is cut loose from the agency after an operation goes wrong, his best friend and fellow agent is abducted in Lebanon by a vicious militia group. When the government refuses to help, Belknap decides to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, hedge fund analyst Andrea Newton gets an unexpected call - she has been left six million dollars by a cousin...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he "jumped or fell" from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. As his wife and children grieve, the details of his death remain buried for twenty-two years. With the release of the Rockefeller Commission report on illegal CIA activities in 1975, LSD is linked to Wilson's death, and suddenly the Wilson case becomes news again. Wilson's family and the...
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