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81) Evernight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him--until he finds his next target: the mysterious Holly Evernight. Holly cannot fathom who would put a contract on her life, yet the moment she touches Will, the connection between them is elemental, undeniable--and she's the only one...
82) Shield of winter
Author
Series
Psy-Changeling series volume 13
Language
English
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Description
“The alpha author of paranormal romance” (Booklist) draws us back into her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world, a world torn between violence and peace, passion and ice...
Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he’s done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touch—if only they...
Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he’s done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touch—if only they...
83) Blaze of memory
Author
Series
Psy-Changeling series volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she's dangerous. Charged with protecting his people's most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It's a task he's never hesitated to complete--until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might prove to be the enemy's most insidious weapon yet. Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor and programmed to carry out cold-blooded...
84) Nightkill
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
85) Dead man
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
87) Kingdom of ash
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"The final battle is here. Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people -- but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve is unraveling with each passing day ... With Aelin captured, friends and allies are scattered to different fates. Some bonds...
88) The chaos agent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Coming out of hiding when someone starts killing leading experts on robotics and intelligence, Gray Man, the world's deadliest assassin, must elude his enemies to uncover a sinister global plot.
Author
Series
Killing Eve novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.
90) Mission critical
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The Gray Man deals in death with mathematical precision, but this time he may finally find himself on the wrong side of the equation ... Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. The mysterious passenger is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land at an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a...
91) Hit man
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy.He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment.Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country...and kills somebody. It's a living. But is it a life? Keller's not sure. He goes to a shrink, but it doesn't work out the way he planned. He gets a dog, he gets a girlfriend. He gets along.
92) A deniable death
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Forensic Instincts volume 8
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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.
94) Wild rain
Author
Series
Leopard people volume 2
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan explores the dark past of a woman on the run—and her dark desire for the only man she dares to trust—in this wild novel in the Leopard series.
With a new identity, a staged death, and a chance to flee the treachery that stalks her, Rachel has escaped from a faceless assassin. Now, thousands of miles from home, under the lush canopy of the rainforest,...
With a new identity, a staged death, and a chance to flee the treachery that stalks her, Rachel has escaped from a faceless assassin. Now, thousands of miles from home, under the lush canopy of the rainforest,...
95) The broken eye
Author
Series
Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Without the protection of Gavin Guile, who has been captured and enslaved and has lost his powers, Kip, Teia, and Karris fight to survive a secret war between the nobles, rebels, and an ancient order of stealthy assassins called The Broken Eye.
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 2
Language
English
Description
Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome--the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition--to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk.
97) Prodigal son
Author
Series
Evan Smoak thrillers volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name-The Nowhere Man-and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer-in exchange for an unofficial...
98) Mahimata
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman.
99) Sierra six
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of Zack Hightower's CIA Special Activities team, Golf Sierra, aka the Goon Squad. Court's skills were fearsome and undeniable. Too bad he wasn't also a team player. It took weeks of training and withering scrutiny to mold him into one, but the effort was worth it--on their first mission they took out a terrorist leader. The prize was invaluable; the cost was agonizing. Now,...
Author
Series
Anvil of the world volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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