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1) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
2) The hit
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Mossad agent/art restorer Gabriel Allon chases his mortal enemy, the Leopard, who has been hired to permanently close the pope's mouth about Vatican complicity in the Holocaust.
4) The target
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Peter Brown, an intern at a Manhattan hospital, finds his past catching up with him when a patient realizes Peter is actually Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwa, a hit man for the mob and has been in the Witness Protection Program for years, leaving Peter scrambling to find a way to protect his patients and himself from the bloodbath that will ensue if Peter's patient reveals his true identity.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israels secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006, c1994
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Professional assassin Michael Weston tries to outrun the police after someone reveals his real identity, and finds himself in a game of cat-and-mouse with a private detective who has been hunting him for years.
9) Ambush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Only Detective Michael Bennett stands in the way of two lethal cartels fighting for New York City's multi-million-dollar opioid trade. And they know where he and his family live.
An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down -- and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett.
New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
392 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
11) Hellbent
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known. Secret government...
12) Gone
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
Author
Series
Jack Lennon investigations volume 1
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fegan, an IRA killer who served twelve years in Ireland's Maze Prison, discovers love at an inopportune moment in his life, and while the ghosts of his innocent victims demand appeasement--forcing Fegan to find and kill the men who called for their murders--Fegan works to keep his leading lady and her young daughter safe from harm.
14) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Blood on Snow Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in a shepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother, and her son, Knut. But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential...
15) Rain fall
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 1
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Half Japanese, half American assassin John Rain becomes a target himself when he is traced to the killing of a Japanese bureaucrat aboard a crowded subway--a situation complicated further by Rain's love affair with the man's daughter.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
18) Blood of elves
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Into a tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witches of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a strange destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world: for good, or for evil.
Author
Series
John Medina series volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Now, after nineteen years of service, Lily has been drawn into a dangerous game that hasn't been sanctioned, seeking vengeance for her own reasons. A CIA agent himself, Lucas Swain recognizes the signs of trauma in the line of fire. His orders: either bring her in or bring her down.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
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