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1) Blowback
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,...
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Language
English
Description
State of Terror follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and...
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Language
English
Description
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family's generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president of the United States. Before long, Corey finds himself involved with one of the Metarey daughters as well, and he begins to leave behind the...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. The thrilling follow-up to that novel, One Year After, will be published this September. This third novel in the series will pick up a month after One Year After ends, emersing readers once more in this story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an...
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English
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In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives.
Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles...
Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 8
Language
English
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When the military arm of Op-Center is sent to Kashmir to capture an Islamic terrorist who is fomenting rebellion against the Indian government, they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between India and Pakistan.
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Language
English
Description
The President of the United States nominates the controversial Robert A. Leffingwell to be Secretary of State, and as that startling news reverberates throughout Washington a powerful politician commits suicide, a Congressional Committee comes up with a surprise witness, there is a vote of censure by the Senate, and the cynicism and selfishness and altruism and loyalty and ambitions of America's public servants are revealed.
10) Power curve
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
12) Edge of honor
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. president vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? This collaboration between President Bill Clinton and James Patterson is full of what it truly feels like to be the person in the Oval Office: the mind-boggling pressure, the heartbreaking decisions, the exhilarating opportunities,...
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Series
Advise and consent volume 4
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
The United States is thrown into chaos as the President is killed in a plane crash shortly after security his party's nomination in a hotly contested race for re-election. As suspicions are cast up on the circumstances of the plane crash, the incumbent party quickly convenes to nonimate a candidate in a storm of domestic and international chaos.
19) The negotiator
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Quinn, the negotiator, is called in to resolve the plot to keep the U.S. President from signing a U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Three women--White House chief of staff Melanie Kingston, White House correspondent Dale Smith, and president Charlotte Kramer--struggle through a year filled with lies, tragedies, and difficult decisions.
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