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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
2) Lethal
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After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
3) Home free
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President Martine Connor, the Sisterhood's long-time ally, has announced the formation of a top-secret organization. Officially, the CIC won't exist. Unofficially, they'll report directly to the president and tackle the jobs no one else can handle. For the Sisterhood, it's the end of an era--and the beginning of a whole new adventure.
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Legionnaires volume 2
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"Rotting in an African dungeon is the last place journalist Tess Newell expected to find herself. As she's held hostage by the terrorist group she's investigating, Tess's salvation--and temptation--arrives in the form of another prisoner. A French Foreign Legionnaire with a sinful smile and too many secrets to be anything but dangerous. Yet she knows he is her only hope of surviving ... after a daring escape, Flynn must risk it all and go on the run...
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2021.
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"A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives...
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FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar's off-the-books assignment leads them to the surviving members of Jack Reacher's elite military unit. Five years ago, Reacher sorted and destroyed a team of arms dealers in Lee Child's Bad Luck & Trouble before he moved on. But he made mistakes. Now, his bad luck and trouble legacy plunges Otto and Gaspar into the minefield of a grudge war between Reacher's fearless old friends and chilling new enemies....
7) Wolf
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"When a vagrant--the Walking Man--finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words "HELP US" attached to its collar, he's sure it's a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved--until the Walking Man promises new information regarding the childhood abduction of Caffery's brother in exchange for the detective's help tracking down the dog's...
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"When a mysterious former South African commando, Lucas Van Groot, begins taking wealthy hostages all over the world, it appears at first to be a typical ransom gambit. However, it soon becomes clear that his "Hostage Inc." venture is manipulating worldwide stock markets and threatening global economic collapse. Enter Black Box, the CIA's elite, secret special operations branch--so surreptitious that not even the Director of CIA is fully privy to...
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Riley Wolfe novels volume 3
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"Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it's the most powerful who have him in their grips. ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES. It's not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it's the fact that Riley has to do the man's dirty work to set them free. It's...
10) Gente ansiosa
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"Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situación de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la víspera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequeña ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo. Entonces, sí lo es. Porque, cuando alguien es así de idiota, es inevitable que no sepa cómo huir y termine en un apartamento en venta tomando rehenes sin querer. Pero puedes confiar en la policía....
11) Targeted
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"After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked. Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders and reporters are taken hostage...
12) The baker's wife
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A scandalous lie cost Audrey's husband a pastoral career. Now the two work side-by-side running a bakery. Driving in early one morning, Audrey's car strikes something at a fog-shrouded intersection. She finds a motor scooter and blood, but no body. They belong to Detective Jack Mansfield's wife, and he's certain Audrey is behind her disappearance. When the case dead-ends, Mansfield spirals into madness and takes hostages at the bakery
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Siege volume 3
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
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377 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"This is the true story of Aemilius Felix Boioannes the younger, the intended and unintended consequences of his life, the bad stuff he did on purpose, and the good stuff that happened in spite of him. It is, in other words, the tale of a war to end all wars, and the man responsible"--
14) Black scorpion: the Tyrant reborn : a novel of Fabrizio Boccardi's bestselling character the Tyrant
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Michael Tirrano novels volume 2
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
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444 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"A new enemy has surfaced in Eastern Europe in the form of an all-powerful organization called Black Scorpion. Once a victim of human trafficking himself, the shadowy group's crazed leader, Vladimir Dracu, has become the mastermind behind the scourge's infestation on a global scale. And now he's set his sights on Michael Tiranno for reasons birthed in a painful secret past that have scarred both men. [...] Black Scorpion has also taken the woman Michael...
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First mountain man series volume 21
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Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
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363 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"On the rolling Missouri River a riverboat of fur traders, a U.S. Senator and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Two beautiful women make a play for Preacher. So does a killer. So does a band of river pirates. No sooner does Preacher beat back these threats than the riverboat lands in the middle of a...
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Planeta
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[2016]
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260 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Efraín López, un reconocido psicólogo puertorriqueño que ha sido invitado a dar una conferencia en una universidad de Colombia, es interceptado por dos hombres armados y secuestrado. Después de varias horas en las que ni siquiera conoce su paradero, descubre que ha sido trasladado a la selva y que Martín Sombra, uno de los líderes más sanguinarios de las FARC, dirige el campamento en el que es retenido. Comienza así una aterradora pesadilla...
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