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81) Dark horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission--The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn't interested in taking on a new mission....
82) Born of ice
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Devyn Kell spent his life in service to the League until he learned of the double dealing and backstabbing that was costing innocent people their lives. Refusing to play those politics, he became a Runner - someone who makes sure planets get the weapons, medicine and supplies they need to survive. May the gods have mercy on any who get in his way, because he definitely won't. Alix Garran is a woman on the run from a past she can't escape. Signing...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 21
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, CIA Director Irene Kennedy is forced to construct a truce between the two men. The terms are simple: Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until Cook's power-hungry security adviser convinces him that...
84) A safe house
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 61
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what--or who--he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback--and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pike Logan and the Taskforce were once the apex predators, an unrivaled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the United States, but they may have met their match. While Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill prepare to join their team on a counter-terrorist mission in the triple frontier—the lawless tri-border region where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet—they are targeted in Charleston, South Carolina. A vicious explosion kills a friend,...
Author
Series
Desert justice volume 4
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
True large print edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages (large print) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Placed in WITSEC while his brother testifies against a terrifying criminal, Tony Ortega must guard his young niece and nephew from the hit man hunting for them. Death Valley local Willow Duke's hideout might just be the difference between the little family's life or death. When bullets start flying, can they thwart a killer long enough to survive and become a family for real?"--Back cover.
87) Zero sum
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 9
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death. But the best route to the minister is through his gorgeous Italian wife, Maria, a route that puts Rain on a collision...
88) The kill artist
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
428 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Art restorer and former spy Gabriel Allon is called upon by the head of Israeli intelligence to stop a Palestinian plot to kill Yasir Arafat, ending peace talks in the Middle East--a plot run by the man responsible for the deaths of Gabriel's wife and child.
89) Ballistic
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After he was betrayed by his compatriots and then forced to take on a near-suicidal covert mission by the CIA, master assassin Court Gentry thought he could find refuge off the grid, living in self-imposed isolation in the Amazonian rain forest. But even there, his bloody past finds him when a vengeful Russian crime lord forces him to go on the run once again. Without a country or a home to call his own, Court's options are narrow enough, but when...
Author
Series
Serpent Gates volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 385 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two years after defying the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and escaping into the great unknown, Csorwe and Shuthmili have made a new life for themselves, hunting for secrets among the ruins of an ancient snake empire. Along for the ride is Tal Charossa, determined to leave the humiliation and heartbreak of his hometown far behind him, even if it means enduring the company of his old rival and her insufferable girlfriend. All three of them would be...
Author
Series
Queen's secret volume 1
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
374 pages : map ;
Language
English
Description
"The Queen's Assassin is forced to take on a mysterious apprentice on his most dangerous mission yet, pulling them both into a vicious web of secrets and lies"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenage Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooning young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
93) Satori
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is the fall of 1951, and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hoda korosu, or "naked kill," is fluent in seven languages, and has honed extraordinary "proximity sense": an extra-awareness of the presence of danger. He has the skills to be the world's most fearsome assassin and now the CIA needs him.
The Americans offer...
94) Cold frame
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An American government official dies suddenly in a Washington restaurant, but the coroner cannot determine a cause of death. When a second bureaucrat dies, Metro detective Av Smith discovers that both were members of a committee known only as DMX. DMX operates in total secrecy, and its mission is to target foreign terrorists for elimination. Detective Smith is determined to pursue both murder cases, even if it means butting heads with Carl Mandeville,...
Author
Series
Tommy Carmellini novels volume 9
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Russia Account pits CIA officer Tommy Carmellini against a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia, to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself--putting Admiral Jake Grafton, the head of the CIA, in the crosshairs of an assassin."--
The daughter of an official at a minor bank in Estonia is kidnapped....
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything - not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side - and history has appeared on her...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A journal believed to be that of John Wilkes Booth is found during a renovation project. It claims Booth never intended to kill President Lincoln and relates how he evaded capture to live many years in the West under an alias.
98) Kingdom of ash
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people--but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve is unraveling with each passing day... With Aelin captured, friends and allies are scattered to different fates. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while...
99) End game
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Will Robie returns home from a mission overseas to discover that his boss--codenamed Blue Man--has vanished. His last known location was in remote Colorado, and there have been no other sightings or communications since. But there is violence brewing in this small town, and Robie and his sometime-partner Jessica Reel will be lucky if they make it out alive, with or without Blue Man.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed--in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted...
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