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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. absolutely must respond....
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Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
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Series
Samuel Carver novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Samuel Carver is a man trained to make bad things happen–a car crash, an explosion in an apartment building, a downed jet plane–and always seemingly by accident. But now Samuel Carver is no longer that man; he may, in fact, not even be Samuel Carver. Lying in a remote sanitarium, he is only a man who exists, broken and damaged, in the world of his haunted past. But when his devoted lover, the Russian spy Alix Petrova, is forced leave Carver...
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English
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Time is running out for the two nations that once made up the former USA. Weakened by their division, both the Islamic republic and the Bible Belt are threatened by the expansionist dreams of the Atzlan Empire to the south, and their own intellectual decay engendered by their fundamentalist beliefs. The only solution is to reunite the two nations and regain its former glory, and thereís only one way to do it. And only one man, Rakkim Epps, who
...5) Vendetta
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Catherine Ling novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism -- and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber -- gives Brandon a mandate: keep his daughter Rachel safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber -- the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months. Brandon -- and Catherine...
6) Fallout
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes...
7) Trust no one
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Brilliance Audio on CD volume 0
Language
English
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Description
As Nick peels back layer after layer of lies and deception, buffeted between the buried horrors of the past and the deadly intrigues of the present, he finds his own life, and the lives of nearly everyone he loves, at risk. And the only thing guiding him through this deadly labyrinth are his stepfather's dying words: trust no one.
9) The unit
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
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Series
Joe Ledger novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe and Echo Team into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for blood. Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows...
12) Blink of an eye
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
13) Critical mass
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
The searing new novel from bestselling author Strieber explores the unthinkable but very real possibility of terrorists launching a nuclear weapon.
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Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
15) Santorini
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1987.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Aegean a large airplane crashes at almost the same time a luxurious yacht is sinking. Commander Talbot of the Ariadne, a sophisticated British ship that is part of NATO, picks up the yacht's survivors, among them a wealthy Greek businessman. The downed plane, it is learned, contains hydrogen bombs and atomic mines, one of which is ticking. If the mine explodes in that spot, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tidal waves, ozone cracking, and possibly...
16) Man of war
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Series
Eric Steele novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Eric Steele is an elite clandestine operative assigned to a US intelligence unit known simply as the "Program." Having served several tours fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele now operates under the radar, using a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his enemies and neutralize them. When a man from his past attacks a military convoy and steals a nuclear weapon, Steele must use his considerable skills...
18) Critical mass
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Language
English
Description
Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Joss has no significant clients other than a group of commercial fisherman suffering from a strange and serious illness, a condition that doctors cannot diagnose, and which Joss believes has an industrial cause. Then into her office comes Dean Belden, a well-heeled client in search of a lawyer to help him set up a...
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