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Author
Series
The Orphan X novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
2) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
3) If she wakes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Abby Kaplan investigates a suspicious accident that left a visiting professor dead and senior Tara Beckley a prisoner of locked-in-syndrome, she becomes a target of a mysterious hit man.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 26
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
5) Bullseye
Author
Series
A Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 9
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations...
6) Ambush
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a flair for disguise. Bennett taps his best investigators...
7) Hellbent
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known. Secret government...
Author
Series
Orphan X novel volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Evan Smoak, the Nowhere Man, is pitted against one of his own for the future of the country when a murderous President Bennett activates the Orphan program's first recruit.
9) The wanted
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Someone from the past has the British crown in his sights again, and has proven once before that these threats are not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty British-American M16 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke needs to get back in action -- if the madman doesn't wreak total havoc first.
11) The nowhere man
Author
Series
Nowhere Man volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery in which a former CIA officer in his early sixties is asked to travel undercover to Moscow to locate a Russian assassin only to find things are not as he was led to believe"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...
15) Green
Author
Series
Green volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world of political power and magic, and of Gods and mortals, a courtesan and trained assassin who calls herself "Green" finds intrigue and adventure, and many enemies, in the Undying Duke's city of Copper Downs.
16) Prodigy
Author
Series
Legend volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
17) The inside ring
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin's agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Lebanese-American CIA agent befriends the grandson of a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist by becoming his English tutor in order to stop the planned assassination of the U.S. secretary of state.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Stathos, the second daughter of a minor nobleman, makes a plan to seduce, marry, and kill the king, then rule the world, and only love can stop her.