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The Affair
by Lee Child
An ex-military cop investigates a murder that leads him to uncover a deeper conspiracy.
In March 1997, Maj. Jack Reacher is briefed by his superior Leon Garber on a troubling development in Carter's Crossing, Mississippi : a woman has been found murdered, her throat slit, with signs of ... (Wikipedia)
A Wanted Man
by Lee Child
Thrilling journey of an ex-military fugitive on the run, pursued by dangerous enemies.
The novel opens with Jack Reacher, whose nose is broken from his last adventure (Worth Dying For), trying to get a ride out of Nebraska, hitch-hiking in the middle of the night, without any car ... (Wikipedia)
One Shot
by Lee Child
A former military investigator must solve a murder case in a short period of time.
In a small Indiana city, a lone gunman in a parking garage calmly fires into a rush-hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently random victims with six shots. The shooter ... (Wikipedia)
The Hit
by David Baldacci
A retired secret service agent is recruited to track down a missing witness.
Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming ... (Goodreads)
The English Girl
by Daniel Silva
A young English woman goes missing in Corsica, and Gabriel Allon is called to investigate. The case leads him to a web of international intrigue.
Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain’s governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed. But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of ... (Goodreads)
The Panther
by Nelson DeMille
A US government operative attempts to locate a terrorist leader in the Middle East.
Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen-one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they ... (Goodreads)
Act of Treason
by Vince Flynn
CIA operative Mitch Rapp must track down a traitor in the White House before they can do irreparable damage to national security.
The fallout from a horrific Washington explosion has just begun, along with CIA superagent Mitch Rapp’s hunt for a killer with a personal agenda in this “fun, finger-blistering page-turner” (,Star ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Gods of Guilt
by Michael Connelly
A lawyer's pursuit of justice in a criminal case, uncovering secrets and revealing the truth.
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they ... (Goodreads)
The Survivor
by Vince Flynn
CIA agent Mitch Rapp seeks revenge on terrorists who killed his girlfriend. Fast-paced action and political intrigue ensue.
Top secret data has been stolen from the CIA, and the only man who knows its hiding place is dead. CIA operative Mitch Rapp must race to find the classified information in this blistering novel that ... (Goodreads)
The Rembrandt Affair
by Daniel Silva
An art restorer embarks on a thrilling mission to uncover a conspiracy involving a stolen Rembrandt painting.
Gabriel Allon and his team seek a lost Rembrandt whose previous owners have included both Holocaust victims and terrorists. In addition to regularly recurring characters, Julian Isherwood in his role ... (Wikipedia)
The Black Echo
by Michael Connelly
A former LAPD detective is drawn into a web of mystery and crime as he investigates the death of a Vietnam vet.
The novel centers on Harry Bosch , a Vietnam veteran who served as a " tunnel rat " (nicknamed Hari Kari Bosch), with the 1st Infantry Division — a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the ... (Wikipedia)
The Fallen Angel
by Daniel Silva
A gripping espionage thriller as an art restorer is thrown into a world of international conspiracy.
Unlike recent titles in the series, this book is set primarily in Italy as Allon helps the Pope 's private secretary, Monsignor Luigi Donati with a case that is troubling The Vatican . The conclusion ... (Wikipedia)
Trunk Music
by Michael Connelly
Detective investigates a murder in Hollywood, uncovering secrets and lies.
A body found in the trunk of a Rolls Royce seems to have connections with the mob and leads Bosch and his investigation to Las Vegas . It's Harry Bosch's first case after being transferred to the ... (Wikipedia)
Six Years
by Harlan Coben
A man's search for the truth of his lost love, uncovering secrets of a mysterious past.
Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six ... (Goodreads)
The Target
by David Baldacci
A government assassin is framed for murder and must clear his name while being pursued by a ruthless team of killers.
The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain ... (Goodreads)
The Stranger
by Harlan Coben
A man's life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife's shocking secret. He must navigate a dangerous web of lies and deceit to uncover the truth.
The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a ... (Goodreads)
Hidden Order
by Brad Thor
Scot Harvath, a former Navy SEAL, must stop a terrorist group from unleashing a deadly virus on the United States.
The most secretive organization in America operates without accountability to the American people. Hiding in the shadows, pretending to be part of the United States Government, its power is beyond ... (Goodreads)
The Forgotten
by David Baldacci
A former CIA agent's mission to uncover the truth behind his family's mysterious past.
In Paradise, nothing is what it seems... Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the ... (Goodreads)
Fool Me Once
by Harlan Coben
A woman's search for justice and the truth behind her husband's death.
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been ... (Goodreads)
The Coffin Dancer
by Jeffery Deaver
A daring criminal eludes capture from an FBI agent in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase.
Detective Lincoln Rhyme , the foremost criminal inspector in the Capitol as a Peacekeeper, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually big-brained the ... (Wikipedia)
Black List
by Brad Thor
An international political thriller involving a covert government agency, a deadly conspiracy, and a race against time.
Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, ... (Goodreads)
Free Fall
by Robert Crais
Detective's quest to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death, unearthing dark secrets.
Private detective Elvis Cole takes Jennifer Sheridan's case, which involves her decorated Los Angeles-cop boyfriend in some mysterious trouble, and Cole and his partner Pike are soon plunged in ... (Goodreads)
Taken
by Robert Crais
A private investigator and an ex-Marine team up to solve a kidnapping case.
When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn’t afraid, even though she’s gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it’s a fake, that her daughter is off with ... (Goodreads)
The Racketeer
by John Grisham
An imprisoned lawyer discovers a sinister plot, using his knowledge of the law to uncover the truth.
Malcolm Bannister is an African American attorney in a small-town Virginia law firm. A real estate transaction which he undertook in good faith turns out to have involved the purchase of a secluded ... (Wikipedia)
White Fire
by Douglas Preston
A thrilling mystery-adventure, uncovering a lost secret hidden in the ruins of the Mayan city.
Corrie Swanson sets out to solve a long-forgotten mystery. In 1876, in a remote mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed in devastating grizzly bear ... (Wikipedia)
Command Authority
by Tom Clancy
A suspenseful thriller involving an international conspiracy and a race to prevent a global disaster.
Former KGB officer Valeri Volodin becomes president of Russia . Openly critical of the United States, he secretly tasks Russian domestic intelligence (FSB) with staging false flag attacks in an ... (Wikipedia)
Consent to Kill
by Vince Flynn
An assassin is tasked with killing a powerful enemy of the United States, leading to a deadly international manhunt.
In Flynn's previous novel,, Memorial Day, , CIA counter-terror operative and assassin Mitch Rapp uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to use a nuclear weapon obtained from abandoned Russian nuclear storage ... (Wikipedia)
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
A lawyer in Mississippi must unravel a mysterious will and its secrets.
The title refers to a row of sycamore trees in the countryside near the fictional town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi . The trees play an important role in the book's plot, though ... (Wikipedia)
Voodoo River
by Robert Crais
Private investigator Elvis Cole is hired to find a missing mother and uncovers a dark world of voodoo and corruption in Louisiana.
L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's ... (Goodreads)
The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
A thrilling adventure of a submarine captain's race against the clock in a thrilling game of cat and mouse.
During the Cold War ,(the story must be set in 1982, according to the days assigned to the dates in the novel, e.g. Dec. 17 was a Friday only in 1982,1976 and 1971 ) Marko Ramius, a Soviet Navy ... (Wikipedia)
