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Throne of glass volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Series
Language
English
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"A fast-paced, page-turning novel of betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in high places from the New York Times bestselling author of the John Rain and Livia Lone series. After narrowly escaping an attempted hit on her, Livia Lone assembles a collective of killers to identify and neutralize the threat"--
3) Gone
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit.Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
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Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
337 p.
Language
English
Description
The conclusion of Hit and Run found Keller living in a big old house in post-Katrina New Orleans' Lower Garden District, with a new name (Nicholas Edwards), a new wife (Julia), a new career (rehabbing houses), and a baby on the way. It certainly looked as though he was done killing people for money. But old habits die hard, and when the economic downturn knocked out the construction business, a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game....
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The best hitman in the world, Seventeen is ordered to find and kill his predecessor, but when the hit goes wrong and the truth of his mission emerges, Seventeen must join forces with his target to defeat their joint enemy--and prevent the deaths of innocent civilians.
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
WANTEDHe hadn't needed some dossier to remember FBI agent J. J. Barnes. Killer looks. Killer body. Killer instincts. She could take care of herself. Officially, U. S. Marshal Cody Landry led a detail to ensure J. J. lived to deliver testimony against the Russian mob that had tried to assassinate her once already. Unofficially, he was to lure the assassins into the open - using J. J. as bait. Cody hated the idea. Because more primal than his urge to...
11) Reborn
Author
Series
The red ledger volume 1
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel in the third electrifying military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War"--
13) The hit
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English
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Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.
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Series
A Doc Savage thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
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Series
Charlie Parker thriller volume 19
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland. They are wrong. For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into thin air. There is just one...
16) Fool's quest
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Series
Fitz and the fool trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
754 p.
Language
English
Description
"Ranking alongside George R. R. Martin as a groundbreaking master of fantasy, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb delivers the second book in her long-awaited Fitz and the Fool trilogy.The harrowing adventures of FitzChivalry Farseer and his enigmatic friend the Fool continue in Robin Hobb's triumphant follow-up to Fool's Assassin.
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Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond's illustrious career and the formation of his identity"--From the publisher's web site.
18) House of spies
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Series
Language
English
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Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London's glittering West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread. The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that...
19) First kill
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
First Kill traces the origin story of CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey, whose first assignment as a new Air Force OSI graduate is sabotaged by an unknown adversary in Washington.
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Series
A flesh and fire volume 3
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
524 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Held captive by the false King of the Gods, Sera, with the Ascension upon her, is out of time, while Nyktos, who will do anything to protect the woman he loves, risks the utter destruction of the realms as he desperately tries not to Ascend as the Primal of Life.