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21) Fear and desire
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thrilling and absorbing new novel Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates....it is Bourne himself. Kidnapped and transported to an underground...
24) Shadow target
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Someone is assassinating CIA field officers and Jake Keller's name is next on the list in the latest thrilling novel from the author Publishers Weekly calls "a fresh voice in the crowded spy-thriller field." Jake doesn't know who is trying to kill him and he doesn't know why, but it's a threat he can't ignore. When his small plane crashes in the Alps, Jake is the only survivor. A rescue helicopter soon arrives, but the men inside are not there to...
25) 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.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual Congressional Baseball Game, a man opened fire on the Republican team, wounding five, including Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise nearly fatally. In heart-pounding fashion, Scalise's minute-by-minute account tells not just his own harrowing story of barely surviving this horrific attack, but the stories of heroes who emerged in the seconds after the shooting began; in the minutes,...
27) Angel has fallen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When there is an assassination attempt on U.S. President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the President. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 228
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
A documentary-style drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.
Author
Series
Story of a crime trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden, is determined once again to reopen the dusty files on the unsolved murder of Prime Minister Palme. With his retirement quickly approaching, Johansson forms a new group, comprised of a few trustworthy detectives who doggedly wade through mountains of paperwork and pursue new leads in a case that has all but gone cold despite the open wound...
33) Templar magician
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.
34) Mine
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Within days of the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a seven-member commission to investigate the assassination report, the Warren Commission determined that there was "no credible evidence" conflicting with its conclusion of a lone gunman. Artist Ernie Colon, bestselling illustrator of "The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation," teams up with author Dan Mishkin to provide a unique means of testing the commission's findings,...
36) Gunpowder
Publisher
VSN
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Activist Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled, persecuted provincial Catholics conspire to work together to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early seventeenth century
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This first volume in the Library of America Don DeLillo edition presents three indispensable novels from the 1980s, published here with new prefaces from the author. The Names (1982) was DeLillo's breakthrough novel, a book that, as he reflects here, spanned a "broader expanse" than his earlier novels. James Axton, a "risk analyst" tasked with assessing dangers for his corporate clients from terrorism and other forms of political upheaval, uncovers...
38) Redemptor
Author
Series
Raybearer volume 2
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar's throne. To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council of her own, coming into her full power as a Raybearer. She must then descend into the Underworld, a sacrifice to end all future atrocities. Tarisai is determined to survive. Or at least, that's what she tells her increasingly distant circle of friends. Months into her shaky reign as empress, child spirits...
39) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
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