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1) Skullsworn
Author
Series
Chronicle of the unhewn throne volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
2) HHhH
Author
Language
English
Description
HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible-until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service-killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus...
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 2023, and much of the world enjoys great wealth generated by the triumph of information technology. However, the staphylococcus plague of 2006 wiped out 40 million people, and the 2020 assassination of American President Emily Forrester traumatized the nation. Through it all, the internet remains the main source of information, bombarding people with news, rumors and allegations twenty-four hours a day -- while creating enormous possibilities...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that...
5) Libra
Author
Language
English
Description
A fictional speculation of the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author
Series
Templars volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
With Jerusalem still under the control of the Crusaders and King Stephen waging war in England, Robert de Payens and Edward Sendal investigate the assassination of Raymond, Count of Tripoli, wondering whether someone in the secretive Templar Order is involved.
8) The Union
Author
Series
Union volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Saige Wilde, a mixed-race enslaved girl saves her from an assassination attempt, 18-year-old Avi Jore, born to a powerful father and destined to rule, find their paths becoming intertwined in ways they never imagined as their efforts spark a revolution--and underscore the staggering power of friendship.
9) Prodigy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
10) Long range
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
"When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit,...
11) Rizzio
Author
Language
English
Description
On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before.
12) Dead man switch
Author
Series
John Hayes novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The suspicious deaths of two members of an elite undercover military team are investigated by Special Ops legend Captain John Hayes, who is horrified to discover that his protégé, a brilliant assassin, is the prime suspect.
13) The third bullet
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Swagger becomes interested in exploring JFK's assassination, asking questions few have asked before.
Author
Series
Divine cities volume 3
Language
English
Description
"So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to doand that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara's killers deserve."--Amazon.com.
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
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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.
18) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Language
English
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
Series
Colección Maxi volume 027/1
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Edition
1. ed. en Colección Maxi.
Language
Español
Description
In 2004, Iván, a Havana journalist and veterinarian's assistant, recalls a man with two beautiful Russian dogs he befriended in 1977 who told him unknown details about the death of Trotsky and about Ramón Mercader, the assassin.
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.
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