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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes the highly anticipated thriller in their Brit in the FBI series, featuring special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine in their new roles as heads of the Covert Eyes team--but will their first case be their last when the enigmatic and dangerous thief known as the Fox reappears? "He who controls the weather, will control the world. He who controls time, will never...
2) The wolves
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Determined to bring a war instigator to justice, John Wells confronts obstacles in the form of political resistance, CIA agendas, and meddling by foreign interests before embarking on a high-risk solo mission.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
484 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Severing his ties with the Office to care for his traumatized wife after a violent showdown with Ivan Kharkov, Gabriel is reluctantly drawn into a case involving a murdered art restorer and discovers unsettling links between the killers and a recently discovered Rembrandt.
4) The old man
Author
Language
English
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Description
To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple drivers' licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent...
Author
Series
Camel club volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Having assassinated the two men who had been inhibiting his freedom, John Carr becomes the target of a manhunt involving the highest levels of the U.S. government, prompting Joe Knox to launch an investigation that tests the resources of the Camel Club.
Author
Series
A John Wells novel volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Unable to prevent the assassination of a CIA station chief by Iranian hostiles who are allegedly plotting a nuclear attack on the United States, John Wells goes undercover to discern the truth on an assignment that takes him from Guatemala and Thailand to Hong Kong and Istanbul.
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Language
English
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Description
"Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice...
10) Child 44
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Robert Harris meets Gorky Park in Child 44, Tom Rob Smith's stunning thriller--sure to be one of the most talked about debut novels of the year"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller CRISIS OF CHARACTER comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service.
The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents.
In his new book, former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne takes readers behind the scenes to understand...
12) The black widow
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Art restorer, assassin, and spy Gabriel Allon finds himself poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service, but not before answering the French government's request to eliminate the person responsible for detonating a massive bomb in Paris.
13) Split second
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over.
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Series
A Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Jack Ryan, Jr's race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend... The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how or why. Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail...
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Language
English
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Description
"Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this electrifying tale from the author of The Night Agent-a propulsive political thriller reminiscent of the best early Baldacci and Grisham novels"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
At the tender age of sixteen, Philip W. Williams III is expelled from boarding school for committing a prank and on the train home naturally wonders where his life will take him now. It never enters his mind that he will become a world-class marksman and a special agent of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in postwar Germany, play a key role in the defection of a Soviet officer and then court danger as a courier for the CIA. Yet all of this,...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
"Jack Ryan Jr. finds that the scars of war can last a lifetime in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Twenty years ago, Dr. Kathy Ryan restored the eyesight of a young Bosnian girl who had been injured during an attack in the Balkan War. Today, her son, Jack Ryan Jr. has decided to surprise his mother by tracking down the young lady. What he finds shocks them both. The helpless child has grown into a remarkable...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Secret Service agent Erik Hill puts aside his growing disillusionment with Washington corruption to uncover a conspiracy that forced the president and his top aides to flee to a doomsday bunker, only to discover that the threat is locked in with them.
19) Helping dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the use of dogs in therapy and as aides for the handicapped, the breeds suitable for such work, and training.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent command across France: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of...