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Author
Series
Highland Guard novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Prized for his snakelike stealth and deadly strikes, Lachlan "Viper" MacRuairi is a warrior to enlist but not to trust. His only loyalty is to his purse, his indifference sealed by bitter betrayal. All that changes when Lachlan is tasked to protect and deliver Bella MacDuff to the king's coronation--and the proud, lushly sensual countess unwittingly challenges him to his greatest battle yet: to love again. Passionate and devoted, Bella has defied...
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
State secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin but now he wonders is it her secrets that fascinate him, or Holly herself?
The five days of Christmas: Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this Christmas, but he may just have a change of heart when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow.
65) The expendables
Language
English
Description
The Expendables are a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Man at Arms is a Western set in Jerusalem and the Sinai desert in the first century AD, a few years after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The villains are the Romans. They're in pursuit of a courier bearing an incendiary letter from Paul the Apostle. For agents of Rome, this letter represents an existential threat that will propagate a new faith and a new form of resistance among those who suffer under the heel of the Roman Empire. The Romans...
67) Juggernaut
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Iraq, 2005. Seven mercenaries hear an enticing rumor: somewhere, in the swirling desert sands, lies an abandoned Republican Guard convoy containing millions of pounds of Saddam's gold. The mercenaries form an unlikely crew of battle-scarred privateers, killers and thieves, veterans of a dozen war zones, each of them eager to make one last score before their luck runs out. After liberating the sole surviving guard member from U.S. capture, the team...
68) Predators
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Royce is a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors mysteriously brought together on a jungle planet. But when these cold-blooded human 'predators' find themselves in all-out war against a new breed of alien Predators, it's the ultimate showdown between hunter and prey.
70) Sign Wave
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
72) Hit!
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A federal agent, Nick Allen, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He organizes a small independent task force of mercenaries to travel to France in order to kill the nine leaders of a Marseilles drug syndicate.
73) The dogs of war
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Walken is a brutal mercenary who must fight the ultimate battle, against his own conscience, in this powerful action thriller.
74) Darkness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu's infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning--but what she doesn't see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there's a sole...
75) The fighting man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
76) The hunter
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, poses as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly...
77) Gridlocked
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when their police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 419 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
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