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Two centuries ago on a battlefield, Tyler Hawthorne bargained for his life. In exchange, he became a Messenger, one who hears the final thoughts of the dying and conveys them to their loved ones. Since then his life has been nomadic and solitary. Now the dying are hinting that his long service may be over, and Tyler begins to hope for a normal, mortal life with Amanda, the woman he loves. But Tyler is being pursued by an old enemy who will stop at...
3) Tsar
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Swashbuckling counter spy Alex Hawke is the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the madness created by the new Russia and its new Tsar, who is pulling strings and pulling them hard.
4) Blood game
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When a Georgia senator's daughter is found murdered, and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan is drawn into the web of Kevin Jelak--a serial murderer who is on Eve's short list of killers who might know something about her missing daughter Bonnie.
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Over the course of eleven novels, readers were enthralled by Thomas Black's adventures and his growing relationship with partner Kathy Birchfield. Now, after almost a decade on hiatus, Thomas and Kathy have been working on opposite sides of a charged political campaign. But when an airplane plunges into Cape Disappointment taking the life of a senator and leading to Kathy's disappearance, Thomas finds himself investigating alone.
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Thorndike Press
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[2009]
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Los Angeles detective Lena Gamble is a cop held in disgrace by department higher-ups for the explosive way her last case played out, though she's still hailed as a hero by her colleagues for catching the killer. For her punishment, she hasn't handled a real murder investigation in eight months. When the chief finally tosses her a case, she's thrilled until she gets a look at the scene: The victim is unidentified, and there are no witnesses, and no...
7) Marine One
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Against all advice, the president rushes across the South Lawn in a pounding thunderstorm to fly to Camp David for a late-night meeting only three people in the administration know about. Fighting its way through the storm, Marine One crashes into a ravine in Maryland, killing all aboard. Investigations and accusations abound as Mike Nolan, a Marine Corps reserve helicopter pilot and trial attorney, is hired to defend the European manufacturer of...
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2009.
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In the 1930s Eliot Ness, the famous treasury agent who helped convict Al Capone, accepts a high-ranking public safety position in Cleveland. The discovery of a dismembered torso soon plunges the city into a state of terror. As the body count rises, Ness pours more energy and manpower into his investigation, desperately trying to live up to his larger-than-life reputation.
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Minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict, attorney David Sloane accepts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. A woman wants Sloane to sue the U.S. government and military in the mysterious death of her husband, a national guardsman killed in Iraq. While a decades-old military doctrine might make her case impossible to win, Sloane, a former soldier, is compelled to seek justice for the widow...
11) Collusion
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When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover, Marie McKenna, and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. Lennon has no intention of following orders that may endanger the only family he has. Meanwhile, an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs--Publisher's...
12) Storm prey
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Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport, unwittingly witnesses the robbery of the hospital pharmacy where she works. With the death of a pharmacy worker on their hands, the three thieves set out to find out who Weather is, and eliminate the only possible witness ...
13) Zero history
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Former rock singer Hollis Henry and ex-addict Milgrim, an accomplished linguist, are at the front line of a sinister proprietor's attempts to get a slice of the military budget. When a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers, they gradually realize their employer has some very dangerous competitors--including Garreth, a ruthless ex-military officer with lots of friends. Set largely in London...
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A terrorist hit is coming. CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense systems have spiked, but traditional intel is going nowhere. It falls to the Taskforce'a top secret team that exists outside the bounds of U.S. law and is charged with finding and destroying asymmetric threats'to stop the unknown conspirators A shadowy trail leads the Taskforce to Egypt'where an attack leaves one Taskforce member dead and another barely alive. Veteran warrior Pike Logan...
15) Blind goddess
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2012.
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Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.
16) The conviction
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Thorndike Press
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2012.
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Lawyer David Sloane is desperate to get through to his teenage son, Jake, who has spiraled out of control since his mother's brutal murder. So when old friend Tom Molia suggests a guys-only camping trip, Sloane gratefully accepts. The excursion turns into a nightmare when the boys are arrested for vandalizing a general store while their fathers sleep. Before Sloane and Molia realize they're gone, the boys are tried, convicted, and sentenced to a grueling...
17) The double game
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A thrillingly inventive novel about spies and their secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, and duplicity and loyalty - a maze of intrigue built from the espionage classics of the Cold War. A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he'd once considered spying for the enemy. More than two decades later, Cage, by then a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives...
18) The expats
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Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage ... and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to start anew. While Kate reinvents herself as an expat, her husband works incessantly at a job she has never understood. Then another American couple arrives, and Kate becomes suspicious...
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When Amelie Levene, who in six weeks is due to take over as the first female Chief of MI6, disappears without a trace while in the south of France, it is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced in more than a decade. Britain's top intelligence agents turn to one of their own: disgraced former MI6 officer Thomas Kell. The trail leads Kell to France and Tunisia, where he uncovers a shocking secret and a conspiracy that could have unimaginable repercussions...
20) Heartbroken
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"Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. Across town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map. Owned...