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Language
English
Description
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the "War on Terror, " and converge upon the innocents.
Author
Language
English
Description
2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?
6) Rogue threat
Author
Publisher
Variance
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When a fleet of unmanned aerial drones disappears, the U.S. Vice President turns to Matt Garrett, still nursing the wounds he suffered in the Philippines. The situation worsens when a terrorist commandeers Garrett's jet and a former Iraqi General with a startling link to Garrett's brother emerges from hiding. Matt discovers that international terrorists have kidnapped the the world's leading expert on nanotechnology, who has enabled the missing Predators...
7) The ghost
Author
Language
English
Description
Having served as Great Britain's longest-enduring prime minister, Adam Lang accepts a large cash advance to write a tell-all memoir of his life and controversial political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"After an unsuccessful and bloody raid in Istanbul, two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to capture a notorious terrorist known only as Dejjal (Arabic for Anti-Christ). Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of a suspect who may or not be the notorious Dejjal, but when events escalate, the foreign agents must take things in their own hands to avert disaster"--Container.
11) Indivisible
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Upon returning from Iraq, an Army chaplain experiences a faith crisis that threatens to derail his marriage.
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of war in Afghanistan, Cody Cullen is touched by a lovely Christmas card sent to him by Faith Spelman. Faith lives in the small, picturesque town of Nevada City, California. As months pass, the card never leaves Cody's side, giving him the strength to survive and setting him on a mission for find her.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In direct defiance of the President's orders, Navy Master Chief Gil Shannon, one of Americas most lethal SEAL snipers, launches a bold mission comprised of SEAL Team Six and Delta Force fighters to free a captured female helicopter pilot being held by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"What causes terrorism? After his fiancee dies on 9/11, the question plagues Aaron Goodman. It makes him give up his career a a doctor to become an interrogator at Guantanamo Bay. It leads him to meme theory, as he wonders if there could be a cold science behind the conversion of people into suicide bombers. And ultimately, it brings him to Ahmed, a Gitmo prisoner who promises the answers to all of Aaron's questions."--Jacket.
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images ofthe fighting there. But this collection offers voices-powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are...
16) The assassins
Author
Publisher
Broadman and Holman
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When America learns that Islamic jihadists have destroyed oil sites in Saudi Arabia, inflation hits the world's financial markets, which causes Congress to adopt a bill that allows one hundred specialists to seek and destroy the terrorists.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
During a ten-year memorial for the Oklahoma City bombing, a terrorist attack kills the First Lady, prompting the president to call for contitutional reforms that will compromise civil liberties, and the suspicious wife of a renegade senator launches an investigation.
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel spans five decades and three continents; it traces a global lineage of political, cultural, and personal tumult from World War II to the present. During a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian kidnappings, the humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful, seductive photojournalist, Jackie Scott. There he is confronted with a dangerous landscape of poverty, corruption, and voodoo. The...
20) Camp X-ray
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young soldier is stationed as a guard at Guantanamo Bay where she strikes up an unusual and potentially dangerous friendship with a detainee who has been imprisoned for eight years.