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Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him-again-and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...
62) Sting
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is... and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her. As Shaw and his partner take aim, Jordie is certain...
63) The broken eye
Author
Series
Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Without the protection of Gavin Guile, who has been captured and enslaved and has lost his powers, Kip, Teia, and Karris fight to survive a secret war between the nobles, rebels, and an ancient order of stealthy assassins called The Broken Eye.
64) Into the fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire... Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented ? and most feared ? men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in...
65) Snowman’s Land
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this wry German dark comedy, Walter (Jürgen Rissmann) is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger (Reiner Schöne) to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky (Thomas Wodianka), his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After a freak accident, what seemed...
66) Mad God
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Blu-ray / DVD combo pack]
Language
English
Description
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop-motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
67) Traveler
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After learning that she pledged her life to deception, Quin and her oldest companion Shinobu search for answers in the past about the Seeker legacy and uncover a sinister plan, begun generations ago, with the power to end it.
68) Mahimata
Author
Series
Asiana volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman in this thrilling fantasy from the author of Markswoman.
Kyra has returned to the caves of Kali, but her homecoming is bittersweet. She no longer knows what her place is. Her beloved teacher is dead and her best friend Nineth is missing. And gone, too, is Rustan, the Marksman who helped her train...
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
71) The guilty
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Will Robie is the government's most professional, disciplined, and lethal assassin. He infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies' advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores. But now, his skills have left him. Sent overseas on a critical assignment, he fails, unable to pull the trigger. Absent his talents, Robie is a man without a mission, and without a purpose. To recover what...
Author
Series
Terminal list volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a mission generations in the making, former Navy SEAL James Reece, as a secret cabal of global elites prepare to assume control of the U.S., picks up his tomahawk and sniper rifle, showing his enemies that no one is out of range as he blows a global conspiracy wide open.
Author
Series
Eric Steele novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel in the third electrifying military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War"--
74) Proud Mary
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A hit woman sees her life change dramatically when a professional hit goes wrong and she crosses paths with a young boy.
75) Bullseye
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations with...
76) The way I die
Author
Series
Silver bear thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Anti-hero Columbus endures self-imposed exile in the aftermath of losing his family, before elements from his past arrive to kill him in one of several possible, endlessly brutal ways.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 26
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
Author
Series
Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"...as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers, her father loops her in on a job that might just do the trick: recover King Priams Treasure, a collection of heavily guarded, priceless artifacts stolen by the Russians during World War II, and return it to Germany. Impossible? Maybe for some, but a high-risk heist is all in a days work for Bianca St. Ives, especially when theres intel on the lineintel that could finally bring down the shadowy...
79) Bliss
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There's a drug called Bliss wiping away memories in Feral City. But a good-hearted young man with a deathly sick child makes a horrible deal: he will become hitman for the gods providing the drug--and possibly lose everything in the process"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him. All is good in the life of Jack Price. His drug operation is the Amazon of cocaine trafficking, and no one can breach his complex security system. But then: His downstairs neighbor is professionally executed. That the murder is a sign for Jack becomes perfectly...
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