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21) Fatal thunder
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"India and Pakistan are stalemated in a war that India launched to 'remove the threat of terrorism, once and for all.' But India's early successes have stalled, and with the coming spring, the tide may turn against them. A small but powerful group of Indian senior military officers and civilian security officials, without the knowledge of the rest of the Indian government, have decided to strike at China, Pakistan's backer and India's recent enemy...
22) Gideon's corpse
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
23) Direct fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A powerful banker, gunned down in cold blood. A military family, senselessly slaughtered as they sleep. A four-star general, hacked and framed by virtual assassins. When Jake Mahegan receives a distress call from General Savage in North Carolina, he rushes to the commander's home-- and walks right into an ambush. Joining forces with Savage's combat JAG officer, Alexandra Russell, Mahegan follows the trail to a killer who goes by the name "Jackknife,"...
24) Blink of an eye
Author
Series
Sean Falcone novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A nuclear bomb destroys a major city killing thousands of Americans and exposing many more to radiation poisoning. Sean Falcone, national security advisor, is tasked with identifying and tracking down the attackers. Although powerful forces within the capital point the finger at Iran, Falcone discovers an astonishing secret hidden deep within the upper echelons of Washington's elite--but who will believe him?
Author
Language
English
Description
"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent.The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engagesordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utø, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child...
28) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
29) Ark angel
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
Author
Series
Don Riley novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A terrorist breach of the computer systems of the three most powerful navies is about to set them on a collision course for World War III. Rafiq Roshed is one of the most wanted men in the world. A terrorist with a virulent grudge against the West, he's disappeared into North Korea where he quietly launches cyber sneak attacks in service of Kim Jong-un. But now he's about to unleash his virtual masterpiece--a computer virus that, once inserted into...
31) Homeland
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Terminal list volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A string of horrific terrorist attacks throughout the Western world prompts James Reece's recruitment by the CIA to help turn the perpetrator, a former Iraqi commando, against his masters while unraveling a geopolitical conspiracy.
33) Synapse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the critically-acclaimed author whom Publishers Weekly has called a "master storyteller" comes a taut new thriller where things are not always as they appear to be... Thirty years from now, when Kestrel Hathaway, a pastor in Cincinnati, witnesses a terror attack, she's drawn into a world of conspiracies and lies that she and Jordan, her cognizant robot, have to untangle before it's too late. With the help of counterterrorism agent Nick Vernon,...
35) True fiction
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestselling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn't an accident. Years before, the CIA enlisted Ian to dream up terrorism scenarios to prepare the government for nightmares they couldn't imagine. Now one of those schemes has come true, and Ian is the only person alive who knows how it was done ... and who is behind the plot. That makes him too dangerous to live. Ian goes...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated in Germany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11 attacks she has reported stories among the most dangerous...
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gregory Norwood is Minnesota's most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his son's overdose was splashed across the front page of all the papers. When a photojournalist sets out to get a candid shot of the highly successful businessman on the one year anniversary of his son's death, he's shocked to find Norwood dead with a smoking gun in his hand. The city is devastated, and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called in to...
38) The Spanish game
Author
Series
Alec Milius series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attempting to rebuild his life in Madrid, former spy Alec Milius struggles to live below the radar as an investment banker, until the disappearance of a prominent politician places him in the middle of an international conspiracy.
39) Tier one
Author
Series
Tier One volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John Dempsey's life--as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper--is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His newmission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice. --Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When his father, a chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a brazen attack on the White House lawn, Bobby Astor, a rising hedge fund manager, untangles a web of lies to reveal a sophisticated plot against the U.S. financial system.
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