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Mitch Rapp novels volume 9
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CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation's capital in New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn's eighth explosive thriller. It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing...
2) Bullet
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Anita Blake: vampire hunter volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter volume 19
Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 19
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Necromancer Anita Blake must try to stop the assassins that are coming to kill her, master vampire Jean-Claude, and werewolf Richard Zeeman, fearing they have all grown too powerful.
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 3
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This "roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller" (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA's top operative as he must stop a massacre in Washington, DC, and save the president before terrorists reach the White House.
The stately calm of a Washington morning is shattered when a group of terrorists descends, killing dozens and taking nearly one hundred hostages as they...
The stately calm of a Washington morning is shattered when a group of terrorists descends, killing dozens and taking nearly one hundred hostages as they...
4) Philippa
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Friarsgate inheritance volume 3
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In the third Friarsgate Inheritance novel, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small takes us back to the sensuality, drama, and intrigue of King Henry's sixteenth-century court to tell the story of the daughter of one of her most beloved characters.
The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith is devastated when she discovers that the man she sought to marry has rebuffed her. But...
The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith is devastated when she discovers that the man she sought to marry has rebuffed her. But...
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Longarm volume 305
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2005
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Longarm dodges death as a bigwig’s bodyguard!
Custis Long likes blowhard politicians even less than unwanted publicity. But he gets hit with both barrels when he saves presidential up-and-comer Gordon Maxwell from a deranged assassin in Denver. And things only get worse when Maxwell and his beautiful wife persuade Long into acting as a bodyguard on Maxwell’s western tour. Problem is, the man Long is replacing...
Custis Long likes blowhard politicians even less than unwanted publicity. But he gets hit with both barrels when he saves presidential up-and-comer Gordon Maxwell from a deranged assassin in Denver. And things only get worse when Maxwell and his beautiful wife persuade Long into acting as a bodyguard on Maxwell’s western tour. Problem is, the man Long is replacing...
6) Royal flush
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To avoid scandal, Lady Georgiana is shipped home to Castle Rannoch where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch's divorceé houseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. She's also been coerced into helping Scotland Yard with a top-secret mission--namely keeping an eye on the shooting party at Balmoral and preventing someone from shooting the Prince. And Georgie must manage all this without strangling her...
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Allan Folsom returns with a high octane thriller in The Machiavelli Covenant.
In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust anyone, the president flees for his life. Pursued by the Secret Service, the CIA, and Spanish Intelligence...
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Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 1
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The Inside Ring is the first novel in Mike Lawson's critically acclaimed series of political thriller starring Joe DeMarco, fixer for the Speaker of the House. It opens with an assassination attempt on the president. He is only wounded, but his best friend and a Secret Service Agent are killed. It turns out that the attack wasn't without warning. General Andrew Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, received a note that the president was in danger,...
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When a bomb intended for the royal family goes off at the coronation, Kate and Charles join the investigation to uncover who's threatening the British crown. Coronation Day, 1902. Charles and Kate Sheridan are pleased to be witness to the crowning of their king. Expatriate author Jack London is also watching the festivities-but with a more skeptical eye. He has come to London to write an exposé of the East End slums-and the coronation has not tempered...
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Brotherband chronicles volume 5
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Princess Cassandra of Araluen has already survived one assassination attempt, but when a second attempt proves that the deadly Scorpion Cult is involved, Hal, his Heron Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan are dispatched to ensure her safety by launching a preemptive strike against Scorpion Mountain and its cult of assassins.
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
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"In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt." --
13) The catch
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US Marshals novels volume 3
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"An Amber Alert meant to rescue a child puts two lives in danger, forcing Madison and Jonas into a race to find a woman who wants to stay hidden, a baby who needs to be found, and a murderer they've been tracking for years"--
14) Warlord
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Someone from the past has the British crown in his sights again, and has proven once before that these threats are not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty British-American M16 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke needs to get back in action -- if the madman doesn't wreak total havoc first
15) Close call
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A young woman stumbles onto a political assassination plot, but hesitates to contact police and becomes a target herself.
Sydney Ellison has lived through her share of media shaming, so when she picks up the wrong phone and stumbles on to a plot to assassinate a senator, she resists contacting the police. When the assassin tracks her down and kills her fiancé, Sydney reluctantly enlists the aid of her estranged sister. Now she must put all she has...
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"Salim Dhar is the world's most wanted terrorist. After he narrowly failed to kill the U.S. President, the CIA is under pressure to hunt him down. Echelon, the West's intelligence analysis network, is in meltdown, monitoring all channels for the faintest trace of Dhar. But no one can find him. Only Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, knows where he is"--Jacket flap.
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"Theodore Roosevelt had been president for less than a year when on a tour in New England his horse-drawn carriage was broadsided by an electric trolley. TR was thrown clear but his Secret Service bodyguard was killed instantly. The trolley's motorman pleaded guilty to manslaughter and the matter was quietly put to rest. But was it an accident or an assassination attempt...and would there be another "accident" soon?"--
18) High treason
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When Saudi Prince Omar bin Talal visits Houston to seek cancer treatment for his mother, an attempt on his life puts all agencies on high alert. FBI Special Agent Kord Davidson is the lead on the prince's protective detail because of their long-standing friendship, but he's surprised--and none too happy--when the CIA brings one of their operatives, Monica Alden, in on the task force after the assassination attempt.
19) Bloodleaf
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Bloodleaf volume 1
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Aurelia, the first princess born in Renalt in 200 years, is destined to marry the mysterious prince of Achelva, Valentin, but her treacherous lady-in-waiting, Lisette, plots to take her crown.
Princess Aurelia is the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits, banned from using her blood-magic, and facing a forced marriage, Aurelia flees her country after an assassination attempt. She disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers...
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Lords of the Armory volume 4
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"Notorious rake Alexander Sinclair, Earl of St James, takes pride in displaying his sins. When he's tasked by the Home Office with finding the men who attempted to assassinate the prime minister, his hunt leads him to Olivia Everett, a most proper schoolmistress who wants nothing to do with a profligate nobleman like him. Unknown to her, Olivia's brother Henry has been working with the revolutionary group planning to overthrow the government. Shocked...
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