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When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
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In the wake of a former U.S. President's appointment to the United Nations, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is wrongly implicated for a string of national emergencies and assassinations, a situation that forces him to race against time to uncover the real culprit.
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Jack Ryan, Jr volume 6
Jack Ryan Jr volume 9
Jack Ryan universe volume 21
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 21
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Jack Ryan Jr volume 9
Jack Ryan universe volume 21
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 21
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Even though he's on forced leave from the clandestine intelligence group known as The Campus, Jack Ryan, Jr., still finds himself caught in the crosshairs after an attempt on his life is thwarted when he turns the tables on his would-be dispatcher. Convinced that the attack is linked to his recent covert actions with the convalescing Iranian national Ysabel Kashini, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Using clues found on the...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 18
Tom Clancy
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 14
Jack Ryan Universe volume 26
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Tom Clancy
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 14
Jack Ryan Universe volume 26
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Freedom may have finally arrived in Iran. As protests break out across the country, the media rejoices over the so-called Persian Spring. Only President Jack Ryan remains wary. Meanwhile, a deadly strain of flu is ravaging the United States; spring floods decimate the Southeast. An unethical senator wants to bring down the Ryan presidency and is willing to lean on fabricated stories to do it. When two Russian nuclear missiles are hijacked, Jack Junior...
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 16
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English
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After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. When the king's own nephew is discovered to be funding ISIS, the U.S. president suspects that the Saudis never intended to live up to their agreement. He decides that...
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Maggie O'Dell novels volume 7
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When terrorists attack the largest mall in America, FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell, while sifting through the debris for answers, discovers that her brother is involved and that another attack could happen in less than twenty-four hours.
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2017.
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366 pages ; 25 cm
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When ISIS allies itself with Pakistan's most notorious terrorist group to carry out a plot to drop nuclear bombs on three American cities, the head of the CIA's Pakistan desk and an intrepid journalist race to prevent the bombings.
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Factory (Aya De Leon) volume 1
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2022.
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"Fourteen-year-old Andrea Hernandez-Baldoquin hails from a family of spies working for the Factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color. Andrea has dreamed about getting her first solo mission, but she never imagined that she would have to straighten her hair and go undercover as a white girl to befriend the estranged son of a dangerous white supremacist. In order to gain the boy's trust, Andrea finds herself doing...
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 5
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With CIA director Thomas Stansfield dead, his protégé, Dr. Irene Kennedy, is poised to take over the reins of the agency, while CIA operative Mitch Rapp heads to the Middle East to try to stop the chaos that could ignite World War III.
10) Killer thriller
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[2019]
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English
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Everybody loves Ian Ludlow's action novels-- especially the CIA-- because the spies know something the public doesn't: his fictional plots have a frightening tendency to come true. Ian is in Hong Kong with his resourceful assistant Margo French to research his wildest story yet-- a deadly global conspiracy by Chinese intelligence to topple the United States. What Ian doesn't know is that his horrifying scenario is happening and that the Chinese mistakenly...
11) Argo
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[2013]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Based on the declassified true story.
12) Storming heaven
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[1994]
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399 pages ; 25 cm
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A notorious drug dealer--Henri Cazaux--declares war on the United States and attacks Los Angeles airport from the air, killing thousands. Lieutenant General Robert Blocker is given command of a task force to destroy Cazaux. By the author of Chains of Command.
13) Little brother
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After being interrogated by the Department of Homeland Security after a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, Marcus is released into what is now a police state and uses his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
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[2018]
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In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris. It was an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends' lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.
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[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Remember and honor the events of 9/11 and celebrate how hope appears in the midst of hardship. The Survivor Tree found at Ground Zero was rescued, rehabilitated, and then replanted at the 9/11 Memorial site in 2011. This is its story.
17) Black Friday
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"When an army of fanatical Middle Eastern terrorists take over the American Way Mall on the Friday after Thanksgiving killing hundreds of shoppers and taking others hostage, Iraq War veteran Tobey Lanning assembles a makeshift platoon of Black Friday shoppers to fight back"--
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 16
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English
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"The brutal murder of an undercover agent reveals a plot to incite a full-fledged war between Russia and Ukraine" -- Back cover.
19) Hostage!
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Choose your own adventure volume 168
Pub. Date
[1996]
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118 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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The reader acts as go-between for an infamous drug cartel to the President and must decide if he can remain in that position by making choices as he reads.
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[2017]
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418 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Buried deep in the US defense and special forces architecture is an elite, ultra-black unit, created expressly to prevent weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists and rogue regimes. Their covert, surgical strikes eliminate grave threats so the rest of America can sleep without fear. Until now. After returning from a successful operation in Pakistan, the entire team is assassinated within forty-eight hours. Only their...
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