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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When a justice of the Supreme Court is killed by the police officer assigned to protect him, the country is shocked. Hayley Chill's superiors suspect the assassination is part of a major conspiracy. In Maui, where one member of the Supreme Court owns a vacation home, a busload of children is taken hostage with the justice's death as ransom. Together with a deputy US marshal, Hayley embarks on the monumental task of rescuing the children while also...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 13
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Russian General Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can decipher Karpov's cryptogram. He discovers that Karpov was willing to betray his Sovereign to warn Bourne of a crippling disaster about to be visited on the world. Bourne has only four days to discover the nature...
85) The masked truth
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for. Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn't dare reveal. The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with "issues." But that's exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage. The building has no windows. The exits are sealed shut. Their...
86) All that follows
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded facade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream of theirs--a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he hopes will save them may destroy them instead. Half a world...
88) State of siege
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of renegade UN peacekeepers, outfitted with stolen weapons, siezes the UN building and holds ambassadors for ransom.
Author
Publisher
Dey St
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Hostage's Daughter is an intimate look at the effect of the Lebanese Hostage Crisis on Anderson's family, the United States, and the Middle East today. Sulome tells moving stories from her experiences as a reporter in the region and challenges our understanding of global politics, the forces that spawn terrorism and especially Lebanon, the beautiful, devastated, and vitally important country she came to love. Powerful and eye-opening The Hostage's...
91) Dark deeds
Author
Series
Keiko novels volume 3
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 323 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the riotous civil war in Dark Sky, the crew of the Keiko decides to go on vacation at an illegal gambling port for a little fun. What they don't realize is that the casinos are run by an ex-client who didn't get his shipment due to the war. The mob boss decides to take Tamara Rouke, the Keiko's second-in-command, and hold her hostage until the crew raises enough money to pay him back for the lost shipment. If they don't pay up in time, Rouke...
Publisher
Entertainment Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a category five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest and can see no way out. So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters, and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking....
95) Hostage Three
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Amy, her father, and her stepmother becomes hostages when Somalian pirates seize their yacht, but although she builds a bond with one of her captors it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.
97) Taken on trust
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
In Death series volume 54
Language
English
Description
"The woman's body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong--like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: "Bad Mommy," written in crayon as if by a child. Eve Dallas turns to the department's top profiler, who confirms...
99) The negotiator
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Maverick hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) is framed for embezzlement and murder. Newly married and unjustly faced with prison, Roman turns hostage-taker to smoke out the guilty ones. Squaring off against him is respected, methodical negotiator Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). Under siege and racing the clock, the two lock in a deadly battle of wits"--Container.
100) Fifty, fifty
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. But Harry's outburst at her brother's trial earns her a reassignment -- to the Outback. With no choice but to leave Sam's case alone, she relocates to Last Chance Valley, population 75, where a diary found on the roadside outlines...
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