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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...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
299 p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank Machianno, an affable, middle-aged Italian with a love of people and life, runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. He has his life turned upside down when his past revisits him. A local Mob boss knows that Frank was once "Frankie Machine," the most feared hit man on the West Coast, and is calling in a favor, while someone from the past wants him dead.
63) 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...
64) Sierra six
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 511 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's been more than a decade since the Gray Man's first mission, but the trouble's just getting started in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of Zack Hightower's CIA Special Activities team, Golf Sierra, aka the Goon Squad. Court's skills were fearsome and undeniable. Too bad he wasn't also a team player. It took weeks of training and withering...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel's cash shipment before...
66) A deniable death
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulled from home country duty to carry out a covert mission to assassinate a roadside bomber in the Middle East, a talented surveillance operative engages in a painstaking process to save lives while working under a constant threat of disavowal.
67) The nowhere man
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spoken about only in whispers, it is said that when the Nowhere Man is reached by the truly desperate, he can and will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan 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...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drea Rousseau, a beauty with a taste for the finer things in life, is forced to run after betraying her boyfriend, crime lord Rafael Salinas, who sends the Assassin after her, and when fate intervenes to give her another chance, she teams up with the most dangerous man she has ever met, risking her life and heart to bring Salinas down.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 18
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing back. They were fearless; men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai. Today, men...
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...
71) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage to the respite of the convent of St. Mortain. Here she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts and a violent destiny. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. But how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who has stolen her heart?
Author
Series
David Rivers volume 2
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"David Rivers is an Army Ranger—a combat veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has almost completed his final year at West Point when his world is turned upside down by a sudden discharge from military service. Angry and confused, David soon hits rock bottom. And that's when they appear. Three mysterious men. Men who know David's dark secret—they know that he has murdered someone in cold blood. And they want him to do it again."--Back...
73) The Redeemer
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"David Rivers is an Army Ranger—a combat veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has almost completed his final year at West Point when his world is turned upside down by a sudden discharge from military service. Angry and confused, David soon hits rock bottom. And that's when they appear. Three mysterious men. Men who know David's dark secret—they know that he has murdered someone in cold blood. And they want him to do it again."--Back...
75) Snowman’s Land
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 95 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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...
76) Tower of dawn
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken. His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica--the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire....
77) 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...
78) Assassin's heart
Author
Series
Assassin's heart volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Via, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
79) The first order
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jeff Abbott returns with the next exciting thriller in his New York Times bestselling Sam Capra series. "--
80) 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...
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