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41) Triggers
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When an experimental memory-modification device goes awry and affects the president of the United States, the race is on to determine if someone has obtained the president's memories, including secret military plans.
42) Heirs of Cain
Author
Publisher
Medallion Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
43) The catch
Author
Series
US Marshals novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an attempt on a judge's life at the courthouse, Deputy US Marshals Madison James and Jonas Quinn are tasked with finding a missing woman and an endangered child in connection to the murder of the judge's wife. The marshals discover that the woman they are searching for is in witness protection, and the Amber Alert put out for the missing child has put two lives in danger. Now Madison and Jonas are in a race to find the woman and the child before...
44) Disclosures
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, worry about the safety of one of the big-time crooks on their ground, Ralph Ember, sometimes known as Panicking Ralph. Yes, Ralph is a villain, but he's a local villain, and Harpur and Iles feel a kind of bizarre affection for him. And in any case, Ralph helps Iles keep the city reasonably peaceful. But now some awkward repercussions from Ralph's lawless...
46) Diamond & dawn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mirage, triumphant in her coup of the Amber Empire, returns to the palais prepared to take her place as Empress. With support of her friends and a blossoming romance with Sunder, Mirage is on the cusp of taking hold of everything she has wanted. When the Empress Severine's body is recovered from the battle, she is not dead, but in a coma-- and she still represents a threat to Mirage's power. Worse, a distant cousin, Gavin d'Ars, Duc de Douane, appears...
Author
Series
Millennium volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
48) Shoot 'em up
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
An assassination attempt on the mayor brings the ATF and DEA to Chicago, and they're counting on meter-maid turned undercover cop Maisie McGrane's underworld connections to help them infiltrate and cripple a cartel running guns and drugs into the city. The DEA has hand-selected charismatic hard-case Lee Sharpe as her partner and protector. And he's taking his assignment seriously... in every way. But with her meddling Chicago PD family threatening...
49) Red
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
50) Born of fury
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The war is on... Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella: an organization that has declared war on the League. They rule the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrify it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one. He will do whatever it takes to survive and protect his Sentella brethren. Sumi Antaxas is one of the...
Author
Series
Sean Drummond novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
With just three days to prevent the assassination of the President, Army lawyer Sean Drummond races the clock in the high-stakes countdown of his career.
It looked like a mass execution: six people, systematically shot and killed in a private Washington mansion. One of the targets happened to be the White House Chief of Staff. But that wasn't the reason Sean Drummond was called in on the case. Newly enlisted...
It looked like a mass execution: six people, systematically shot and killed in a private Washington mansion. One of the targets happened to be the White House Chief of Staff. But that wasn't the reason Sean Drummond was called in on the case. Newly enlisted...
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Allan Folsom returns with a high octane thriller in The Machiavelli Covenant.
In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust anyone, the president flees for his life. Pursued by the Secret Service, the CIA, and Spanish
54) Philippa
Author
Series
Friarsgate inheritance volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the third Friarsgate Inheritance novel, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small takes us back to the sensuality, drama, and intrigue of King Henry's sixteenth-century court to tell the story of the daughter of one of her most beloved characters.
The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith is devastated when she discovers that the man she sought to marry has rebuffed her. But...
The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith is devastated when she discovers that the man she sought to marry has rebuffed her. But...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York, William Tryon, and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: Washington...
56) The inside ring
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
This tale of political suspense was one of the Seattle Times’s Top Ten Thrillers of the Year: “I couldn’t put it down” (Vince Flynn).
Author of House Witness, 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel
There has been an assassination attempt on the president. He is only wounded—but his best friend and a Secret Service Agent have been killed.
...
Author of House Witness, 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel
There has been an assassination attempt on the president. He is only wounded—but his best friend and a Secret Service Agent have been killed.
...
57) The tall target
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Former police officer John Kennedy doesn't have a ticket, but he's determined to stay aboard the overnight train rolling from New York to Washington, D.C. He's convinced that someone or someones among the passengers intends to kill newly elected President Abraham Lincoln when the train stops in Baltimore. The true life Baltimore Plot provides the inspiration for this Hollywood thriller"--Container.
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 12
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
573 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Solidar is in chaos. Charyn, its young and untested ruler, has survived an assassination attempt and struggles to gain control of a realm in the grip of social upheaval, war, and rioting. Solidar cannot be allowed to slide into social and political turmoil that will leave the High Holders with their ancient power and privilege and the common people with nothing. But the stakes are even higher than he realizes.
60) Gunpowder
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Activist Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled, persecuted provincial Catholics conspire to work together to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early seventeenth century.
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