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1) The 9th man
Author
Series
Luke Daniels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly-trained operatives are there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides - one...
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin’s agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
A Lebanese-American CIA agent befriends the grandson of a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist by becoming his English tutor in order to stop the planned assassination of the U.S. secretary of state.
Author
Language
English
Description
The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Dell mass market edition.
Language
English
Description
In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine days in the life of a country on the edge, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war"--
11) Secreto Vaticano
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
marzo, 2023.
Edition
Primera edición en Debolsillo.
Language
Español
Description
"¿El papa Francisco está en peligro? Por primera vez en 600 años un sumo pontífice renuncia a su cargo en vida. Benedicto XVI asegura que su decisión fue tomada debido a su avanzada edad. La realidad es que recibió amenazas de muerte. Posteriormente, Pío del Rosario es reclutado para la misión de inteligencia más arriesgada y trascendente que se haya llevado a cabo dentro del Vaticano: descubrir quién forzó la renuncia de Benedicto XVI,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report....
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