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Series
Cormoran Strike novel volume 7
Language
English
Description
"In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there...
Author
Language
English
Description
If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again--by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide--and when to shoot. But some places don't play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane's experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet are such a place--a place...
3) 97 minutes
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A hijacked 767 has 97 minutes of fuel left before it crashes, potentially killing thousands. Government agents monitoring the threat must determine whether they can trust an undercover agent to avert the crash and save the innocents on board.
Author
Publisher
Keewaydin Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The earth is threatened with a catastrophic political event which could result in international warfare and destroy all life on the planet. In heaven, a divine council decides that extraordinary measures are essential. They call for an intervention that involves two souls returning to earth. The chosen two sign a contract that they will work to avert the disaster. Brad Channing, a Navy SEAL, and Sarah O'Brien, a teacher, become heaven's representatives...
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 2166
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rocco Sharp fears he's placed Mercy McCoy in peril. The undercover agent has convinced the cult leader's daughter to get him into the Shining Light's compound. With five days to thwart a violent plot, Rocco's feelings for Mercy put his assignment at risk. As the connection between them deepens, Rocco knows he'll have to be the one to tell Mercy who he really is. Otherwise, they'll never have a chance beyond this critical mission."--
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Matt Browning, an undercover detective in Arizona, thought he knew what hate looked like; that is, until he got a front row seat to White supremacy. For more than twenty-five years, Browning has been infiltrating, documenting, and disrupting White supremacy movements from the inside, gaining an intimate vantage point to the KKK, skinheads, border militias, Proud Boys, and other White Power groups, as they organized and grew their ranks, including...
9) Parker
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Parker is a thief who has an unusual code. He doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. He is asked to join four other guys, one of whom is related to a known mobster. They pull off the job flawlessly and Parker wants to part ways with them. When he refuses to join them for another job, they try to kill him. They dispose of his body, but someone finds him...still alive. After recovering, he sets out to get back at the ones who tried to...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
K-9 officer Asher Gilmore and trainer Peyton Burns have two tasks: rescue three stolen bloodhound puppies and expose a drug ring. To outwit the criminal masterminds, they must go undercover as married smugglers with the help of an underwater-detection dog. But infiltrating the crime ring proves more dangerous than expected, putting the operation, the puppies and their own lives at risk.
11) Exadelic
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence. Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government's alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it. Our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this-ever get the sense that an ad is "following" you around the internet?-but we don't understand the extent to which the technology embedded in our phones, computers, cars, and homes is part of...
13) The wild side
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her peaceful, calm existence, with her two beloved retired service...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mask of Zorro: When a power-crazed despot schemes to buy California from Mexico, it takes two Zorros--the legendary Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) and his chosen successor, Alejandro Murrieta (Antonio Banderas), a dashing bandit-turned-hero--to defeat the tyrant's unscrupulous plans. But can their combined skills, bravado and derring-do be enough to achieve de la Vega's ultimate goal: revenge against the man who killed his wife, kidnapped...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Hired to seduce gorgeous millionaire Reece Champion in order to gain entrance to a murderous organization, agent Erin Grayson gets more than she bargained for when she discovers that Reece is a vampire--and secret agent--who has his own agenda.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Going deep undercover in the infamous Pagan Motorcycle Gang, a longtime ATF agent lived among the club's most violent and criminally insane members for two years, covertly building a case that would eventually take down the top members in the gang in a massive federal prosecution.
Publisher
MTV
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an actual US Military program, follows the life of Joe while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. The Lioness Program, overseen by Kaitlyn Meade and Donald Westfield, enlists an aggressive Marine Raider named Cruz to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism in the CIA's efforts to thwart the next 9/11.
18) The takedown
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An undercover CIA agent is sent home to investigate her sister's criminal fiance but the last thing she expects is to fall in love with his bodyguard along the way in this sexy romantic comedy. It's been a long time since Sydney Swift has gone home. An unrelentingly successful CIA field officer, she has spent the last five years pretending to be someone - anyone - other than herself. But this year, the festive season is coming with some added surprises....
19) Deep sky
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a missile hits the White House, killing the president and leaving behind a cryptic message, covert operative Travis Chase, along with his partner Paige and technology expert Bethany, has 24 hours to solve a decades-old mystery before more innocent lives are sacrificed.
20) The close
Author
Series
(Jane E.).Maeve Kerrigan volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street - well-kept houses with pristine lawns, neighbours chatting over garden fences, children playing together. But there are dark secrets behind the neat front doors, hidden dangers that include a ruthless criminal who will stop at nothing. It's up to DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent to uncover the truth. Posing as a couple, they move into the Close, blurring the lines between...