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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.
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.
43) Throne of glass
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of...
44) Godsgrave
Author
Series
Nevernight chronicle volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Signed first edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 419 pages : illustration, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second thrilling installment of the award-winning Nevernight Chronicle, from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. In a land where three suns almost never set, a ruthless assassin continues her quest for vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a...
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.
46) 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...
47) Collision
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of two men living very different lives: one, a successful corporate consultant who is mourning the murder of his new bride; the other, a former CIA agent known only as "Pilgrim," whose current assignment for a fringe espionage agency is so treacherous he doesn't trust even his own boss. When they are thrown together in a violent, unexpected event, the two men realize that they've been framed in an elaborate setup.
48) The last orphan
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon - a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption - now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling...
50) Wyrms
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Serving a usurper who has destroyed her family and rules their space-dwelling sphere home, Patience journeys to the heart of her world in order to reclaim her crown, a quest that may spell salvation or destruction for the cosmos.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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...
53) Bullseye
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Wings of fire (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The lost heir to the SeaWing throne is going home at last. She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of destiny are journeying under the water to the great SeaWing Kingdom. Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery, Tsunami is eager to meet her future subjects and reunite with her mother, Queen Coral. But Tsunami's triumphant return doesn't go quite the way she'd imagined. Queen Coral welcomes her with open wings,...
55) Blood on snow
Author
Series
Blood on snow volume 1
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (3 hr., 58 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.
56) Out of the dark
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets--i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him. Someone at the very highest...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
258 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a humorous exploration of the historical events surrounding the assassinations of three United States presidents--McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln--and travels to various sites, monuments, and museums, examining the role of death and violence in popular culture.
58) Mission critical
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 513 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. The mysterious passenger is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land at an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a hostile force that kidnaps the prisoner. Gentry, the lone survivor, is ordered to track down the assassins and rescue the asset. In Virginia,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
683 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America--has been the subject of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Though in his plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln Booth did not act alone--"I am determined...
60) 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.
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