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Forensic Instincts volume 8
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When the woman helping her research the heirloom tapestries is murdered, jewelry designer Fiona McKey turns to her brother, Forensic Instincts? technology wiz, for help and finds herself caught in the middle of two rival assassins who will do anything to get their hands on this Irish treasure.
82) Murder game
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Kadan Montague--a genetically enhanced warrior--is called back from an important assignment in Europe to investigate a series of brutal murders. The suspect is a fellow GhostWalker and, if he isn't found, the entire GhostWalker program will be swept under the carpet, putting the lives of Kadan and all other GhostWalkers in jeopardy.
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Butcher's boy volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Surviving an attempt on his life, retired mob hit man Michael Shaeffer reflects on his apprenticeship under an elite killer while pursuing his would-be assassins from Australia to the United States to identify who is trying to eliminate him.
84) Pretty fierce
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After being jumped by a hit man, Kaia's secret life as the child of professional assassins is revealed to her clueless boyfriend Oliver as the two go on the run looking for Kaia's missing parents.
85) Ebony gate
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Phoenix hoard volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A former Chinese assassin has her quiet San Francisco retirement disrupted by a visit from a god of death, who calls in a family debt and sends her on a quest to recover the Ebony Gate.
86) Bound together
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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For five years, Viktor Prakenskii has put his life on hold in order to take down the world's most feared motorcycle club from the inside. Seeing the club's exploitation of the innocent has brought his traumatic past roaring back. And there's only one cure: to see the wife he left behind... Blythe Daniels thought she'd never see Viktor again after he murdered her stepfather and left without a word. She rebuilt her life, becoming a personal trainer...
87) Out of the dark
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Evan Smoak thrillers volume 4
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English
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Since the age of twelve, Evan Smoak was Orphan X: raised and trained as part of off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets -- i.e., assassins. Now his past is catching up to him -- someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program. Striking back, his target is the man who started the program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President...
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel Allon series presents the second thriller featuring former CIA Agent Michael Osbourne, following The Mark of the Assassin.
When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered with three savage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into the depths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated to become the new American ambassador to London, retired...
When the Good Friday peace accords are shattered with three savage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into the depths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated to become the new American ambassador to London, retired...
89) Oath of loyalty
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, CIA Director Irene Kennedy is forced to construct a truce between the two men. The terms are simple: Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until Cook's power-hungry security adviser convinces him that...
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John Rain novels volume 6
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English
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Suppose you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life? For John Rain, it should be easy: three fast hits and disappear. But what if you figured your friend is probably going to die anyway? What if you started to think the whole thing was a setup? And what if you were afraid three was just the beginning? John Rain's going to give it a shot.
91) Born of silence
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Vowing to destroy his father's killer while outmaneuvering alter ego Kere, Darling Cruel, a dictator member of an elite ruling family, is shattered when Resistance leader Zarya, his most trusted ally, turns a specially designed weapon against Darling's family in her effort to rekindle his humanity.
92) Assassin's code
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David Slaton novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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After receiving a cryptic message on a thumb drive, former assassin David Slaton discovers that the new leader of France's elite counterterrorism force is a terrorist he is certain he killed fifteen years prior.
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Jason Bourne/Treadstone novels volume 3
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English
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A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn't mutual. Levi Shaw, Treadstone's director, calls...
94) A broken blade
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The halfling saga volume 1
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English
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"Keera is a killer. As the king's Blade and his most gifted assassin, she is called upon to hunt down a mysterious figure called the Shadow who is moving against the Crown. She tracks the Shadow into the magical lands of the Fae, but the Faeland is not what it seems, and neither is the Shadow. Keera is shocked by what she discovers and can't help but wonder who her enemy truly is."--
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German-American Paul Schumann is a brilliant mobster hitman who gets caught and is offered a deal: hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst, the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament or face the electric chair. From a boarding house near the Tiergarten, a huge park in central Berlin also known as the Garden of Beasts, Schumann stalks Ernst while a Berlin police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for him.
96) End game
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Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 20
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When a series of gruesome murders occur in Langley, retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey investigates a code carved into the copper panels of the CIA headquarters' legendary statue before uncovering a dire secret behind the killings.
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"Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment--assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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A classic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver featuring the intricate forensic detail, masterful plot twists, and harrowing breakneck pace that made A Maiden's Grave, The Bone Collector, and The Coffin Dancer national bestsellers.
It's New Year's Eve, December 31, 1999, and Washington, DC, is under siege. Early in the day, a grisly machine gun attack in the Dupont Circle Metro station leaves...
It's New Year's Eve, December 31, 1999, and Washington, DC, is under siege. Early in the day, a grisly machine gun attack in the Dupont Circle Metro station leaves...
99) Markswoman
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After her mentor mysteriously dies, Kyra, an elite warrior Markswoman, finds herself on the run from the dangerous Mistress of Mental Arts and heads into the unforgiving desert where she befriends Rustan, a disillusioned Marksman of the Order of Khur.
100) A deniable death
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2013.
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Pulled from home country duty to carry out a covert mission to assassinate a roadside bomber in the Middle East, a talented surveillance operative engages in a painstaking process to save lives while working under a constant threat of disavowal.
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