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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
2) Hero
Author
Language
English
Description
"Justine Poole provides security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars, but that all changes when a job puts her in the limelight. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients--killing two of the five armed robbers in the process--she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts her in the crosshairs of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries. Unable to stand the embarrassment...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"February 1891: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of Chinese art objects, timed to coincide with the arrival of a new Chinese cultural attaché, Lord Peng. Prudence and Geoffrey are invited to attend the opening ceremonies. But among the throng of dignitaries making their way through the galleries is one decidedly unwelcome and unexpected visitor--an assassin who stabs the attaché to death, then flees through Central...
Author
Series
Daughter of the pirate king volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"As an assassin working for the pirate queen, Sorinda is surprised when Alosa's next task for her is not to kill a new target, but to captain a handpicked crew on a rescue mission. Unfortunately, her sailing master is Kearan. He may be the best helmsman the pirate queen has, but Sorinda finds him a real pain in the arse. Sadly, there are few places on a ship to hide from an attentive man. As the crew of the Vengeance faces dangerous waters and deadly...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
French super-spy Joss Beaumont is a top agent sent on a mission to assassinate a foreign dictator. But when the political winds change, and Beaumont is double-crossed by his own government, revenge becomes the name of the game. Prison can't hold him, and no one can stand in his way as Beaumont lays down the gauntlet; he will carry out his assignment, and someone must die.
6) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (978 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
The world's most secret and most uncompromising anti-terrorist organization, Section one, relies on the elite operative named Nikita. But Section is more determined than ever to end her romance with Michael.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (975 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
No questions. No exceptions. No mercy. To receive an order from Section One is to obey it. So when elite operative Nikita is told she must marry a playboy who has connections to the terrorist group Red Cell, she reluctantly takes the plunge.
11) Keller's fedora
Author
Series
John Keller volume 5.4
Publisher
A Lawrence Block Production
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career. The client's wife is having an affair, and Keller's been hired to get rid of her lover. But who is this mysterious lover? The husband doesn't know--he only knows that she has one, and he wants the man dead. It's an...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 768 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mission: impossible: Ethan Hunt is framed for the murder of his IMF team during a botched mission in Prague and accused of selling government secrets to an arms dealer known only as "Max". On the run, Ethan seeks to uncover the real traitor and clear his name.
Mission: impossible II: Ethan goes back in action and works with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall. The duo go undercover to stop rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose (who is also Nyah's former...
14) Dangerous women
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by a botched attack on two law clerks, leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. They'll need an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady, Ethel Fiona Crestwater (legend)...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the early fifties, decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.
Author
Series
Flesh and fire novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Held captive by the false King of the Gods, Sera, with the Ascension upon her, is out of time, while Nyktos, who will do anything to protect the woman he loves, risks the utter destruction of the realms as he desperately tries not to Ascend as the Primal of Life.
17) The equalizer 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
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