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61) The whole truth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The world's largest defense contractor manipulates international conflicts-- even a world war, if necessary-- to keep his business in the black.
62) Sabotage
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A cruise ship loses power in the North Atlantic. A satellite launches in the South Pacific. Professor Malcolm Clare--celebrated aviator, entrepreneur, and aerospace engineer--disappears from Stanford University and wakes up aboard an unknown jet, minutes before the aircraft plunges into the high seas. An extortionist code-named 'Viking' has seized control of a private warfare technology, pitting a U.S. defense corporation against terrorist conspirators...
Author
Series
Pacific Rim novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
381 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a gruesome discovery escalates America's involvement in a naval war in the South China Sea, U.S. President Douglas Surber must choose to take a stand against evil or save the life of his daughter, who is stationed aboard a U.S. submarine tender.
Author
Series
Covert-One series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A murder in Shanghai leads the U.S. Navy on the undercover pursuit of a Chinese cargo ship with more than one secret, and draws Covert-One into an investigation that involves the long-lost father of the president of the United States.
65) The last line
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chris Teller may be the best in the intelligence business, but that doesn't mean he's the most popular. Far from it, in fact. While he may be a threat to the status quo, however, the only thing saving him from expulsion is an even greater threat to his country, one that's already within our borders. With Mexico descending into anarchy, the drug cartels have kicked up the heat, allying with Hezbollah and the Iranian secret service in a plot aimed at...
66) Ocean of storms
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, political tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high. Then a catastrophic explosion on the moon cleaves a vast gash in the lunar surface, and the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earth's electrical infrastructure. To plumb the depths of the newly created lunar fissure and excavate the source of the power surge, the feuding nations are forced to cooperate on a high-risk mission to...
67) Three miles down
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
India Black, full-time madam and occasional secret agent, has been called on to meet Disraeli-- alone. Revolt has spread across Europe and reached the shores of England; anarchists have begun assassinating lords and earls, one by one. Now India must infiltrate the ranks of the underground group responsible for those attacks, the sinister Dark Legion. To stop their dread plot, India will go from the murkiest slums of London to the highest levels of...
Author
Series
Jack Hatfield volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A plane bound for Amman, Jordan goes down in the Caspian Sea. The crash yields no survivors--save the Russian mercenary who hijacked the flight--and a cask containing an agent of unprecedented destructive potential is missing from the wreckage. A carefully plotted terrorist attack has been put into motion, and the resulting chaos might be enough to push America toward another costly war. The one man who might be able to stop the attack is Jack Hatfield,...
70) Code zero
Author
Series
Joe Ledger novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 470 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons--designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals...
71) Hazardous duty
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea-to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Admiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end the war and restore peace. Meanwhile, Captain Cheryl Staurulakis fights to take a radical new "super ship" to sea, though its power and capability may introduce more risk than reward. In Washington, Dan's wife Blair conducts secret negotiations with a rebellious faction in Beijing, hoping to bring an end to the war, but her plans may be foiled by those who...
Author
Series
Connor Stark novel volume 1
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Murder, politics, seapower, Middle East instability, and intrigue in the White House are all part of this action thriller. Set against a background of modern piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the story begins as the new Ambassador to Yemen, C.J. Sumner, is assigned to negotiate access to the oil fields off the island of Socotra and enlist help countering pirates who are capturing ships at will off the Horn of Africa. Meeting with resistance to her diplomatic...
Author
Series
A Yael Azoulay novel volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 352 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yael Azoulay does the United Nations' dirty work by cutting deals that most of us never hear about. Equally at home in the caves of Afghanistan, the slums of Gaza, or corporate boardrooms all across the world, Yael believes the ends justify the means, until she's pushed way beyond her breaking point. When Yael is assigned to eastern Congo to negotiate with Jean-Pierre Hakizimani, a Hutu warlord wanted for genocide, she offers him a generous plea bargain....
75) Solar express
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"You can't militarize space. This one rule has led to decades of peaceful development of space programs worldwide. However, increasing resource scarcity and a changing climate on Earth's surface is causing some interested parties to militarize, namely India, the North American Union, and the Sinese Federation. The discovery of a strange artifact by Dr. Alayna Wong precipitates a crisis. What appears to be a hitherto undiscovered comet is soon revealed...
76) The boost
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ralf is a software prodigy. He works in the US government office that updates the software in the population's boosts--networked supercomputers contained in a chip implanted within the brains of 99 percent of the world's population. Invented by Chinese researchers in 2032, the boost is credited with leading humanity to its most significant cognitive leap since the discovery of fire. Days before a national upgrade, Ralf notices that the update includes...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tense, complex, and twisting diplomatic thriller in which one woman must choose between morality and compromise--and in either case, the consequences may be deadly. Katarina "Kate" Wallander is a second-generation Foreign Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgyzstan. She's not there by chance. Kate is a Foreign Service brat who attended high school in the region; her uncle is the U.S. ambassador to the country, and he pulled a few strings to...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. When the king's own nephew is discovered to be funding ISIS, the U.S. president suspects that the Saudis never intended to live up to their agreement. He decides that...
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