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Spymaster
by Brad Thor
Harvath, a former Navy SEAL, is called back into action to stop a terrorist attack on American soil. Fast-paced and action-packed.
Scot Harvath must do whatever it takes to prevent the United States from being dragged into a deadly war in this heart-pounding thriller that is “timely, raw, and filled with enough action for two ... (Barnes & Noble)
Use of Force
by Brad Thor
Counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath races against time to stop a terrorist attack on American soil.
From #1, New York Times, and, #1 Wall Street Journal b,estselling author Brad Thor comes “his latest pulse-pounding adventure” (,The Real Book Spy,) that follows covert operative Scot Harvath as he ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Dangerous Man
by Robert Crais
Private investigator Elvis Cole is hired to clear the name of a man wrongly accused of murder, but soon finds himself in danger.
A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre–and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went ... (Goodreads)
One Good Deed
by David Baldacci
A WWII veteran, Aloysius Archer, is released from prison and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation in a small town.
In this fast-paced historical thriller, the #1, New York Times, bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder — or risk returning to prison. , It's ... (Barnes & Noble)
Red War
by Kyle Mills
CIA agent Mitch Rapp races against time to prevent a catastrophic attack on American soil.
The #1, New York Times, bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. When Russian president Maxim Krupin ... (Goodreads)
True Believer
by Jack Carr
Former Navy SEAL James Reece seeks revenge against those who killed his family, uncovering a conspiracy that threatens national security.
INSTANT BESTSELLER “This is seriously good. I mean—seriously.” —Lee Child, #1, New York Times, bestselling author of, Past Tense, “A powerful, thoughtful, realistic, at times terrifying thriller that ... (Barnes & Noble)
Moscow Rules
by Daniel Silva
An international thriller involving an Israeli secret agent on a mission to uncover a conspiracy in Moscow.
Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He’s playing by Moscow rules now. It is not the grim, gray Moscow of ... (Goodreads)
Past Tense
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher finds himself stranded in a small town, uncovering dark secrets and facing dangerous enemies.
While traveling to Portsmouth, New Hampshire , Jack Reacher takes a detour to the town of Laconia , to visit his father Stan Reacher's childhood home. He meets Elizabeth Castle, the town clerk, and ... (Wikipedia)
The Terminal List
by Jack Carr
A Navy SEAL seeks revenge on those who betrayed him and his team. Fast-paced action and intense suspense.
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political ... (Goodreads)
The Guardians
by John Grisham
A small-town lawyer uncovers a dark secret about a murdered war hero and fights against corrupt forces to bring justice to the victim's family.
In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real ... (Goodreads)
Die Trying
by Lee Child
An intense thriller involving a daring mission to rescue a kidnapped woman.
While in Chicago, former military policeman Jack Reacher is helping a young woman with an injured leg with her dry cleaning when they're captured at gunpoint by three men and thrown into a car, then ... (Wikipedia)
Unsolved
by James Patterson
A gripping collection of true crime stories, exploring some of the most notorious unsolved cases in history.
The perfect murder always looks like an accident. FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an ... (Goodreads)
Sweet Little Lies
by Caz Frear
A detective investigates a murder case that hits close to home, uncovering secrets and lies along the way.
In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family's past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance. Your father is a liar. But ... (Goodreads)
Haunted
by James Patterson
A detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be connected to a haunted house. As he delves deeper, he uncovers dark secrets and a sinister plot.
Detective Michael Bennett and his family are ready to escape New York for a vacation in Maine-but a shocking scene deep in the woods reveals a dark world of drugs and murder. Haunted by guilt and ... (Goodreads)
Deadly Heat
by Richard Castle
Detective Nikki Heat investigates a string of murders connected to a high-profile New York senator. Fast-paced and thrilling.
Picking up where Frozen Heat left off, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago. For the hunt, ... (Goodreads)
The Crow
by Alison Croggon
A young girl discovers her magical powers and sets out on a dangerous journey to save her world from darkness.
While his sister, Maerad, was in the north in search of the Treesong, as told in, The Riddle, , Hem and his mentor Saliman arrive in Turbansk, the centre of the light in the Suderain, which is ... (Wikipedia)
The Marriage Pact
by Michelle Richmond
Newlyweds are invited to join a mysterious and exclusive club that promises to keep marriages strong, but soon realize the consequences of breaking the rules.
Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their ... (Goodreads)
The Riddle
by Alison Croggon
A young girl discovers she is the last in a line of powerful mages, and must use her magic to save her world from darkness.
A young woman embraces her power – and her destiny -- as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues! Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. ... (Goodreads)
The Fifth Assassin
by Brad Meltzer
A serial killer is recreating the crimes of the four US presidential assassins, and a young archivist must solve the puzzle before it's too late.
From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful. But now, Beecher White ... (Goodreads)
77 Shadow Street
by Dean R. Koontz
The residents of a luxurious apartment building are plagued by terrifying nightmares and supernatural occurrences.
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton’s history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my ... (Goodreads)
Badlands
by C.J. Box
A gripping thriller about a game warden's investigation into a murder in the remote wilderness of Wyoming.
In C.J. Box's, Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and ... (Barnes & Noble)
Dangerous Women
by George R.R. Martin
A collection of stories featuring women who are strong, cunning, and sometimes deadly. From warriors to sorceresses, these women are not to be underestimated.
The Dangerous Women anthology contains following stories: - Introduction by Gardner Dozois - “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie - A Red Country story - “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott - ... (Goodreads)
Full Force and Effect
by Mark Greaney
The President of Russia is assassinated, leading to a dangerous power struggle. The Campus must stop a war and prevent a global catastrophe.
Supreme Leader of North Korea Choi Ji-hoon wants to develop his country’s nuclear weapons program , but is being hindered by sanctions from the United States and its allies. He tasks his foreign ... (Wikipedia)
A Dangerous Collaboration
by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica Speedwell and Stoker investigate a murder on a remote island, uncovering secrets and danger.
Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is whisked off to a remote island off the tip of Cornwall when her natural historian colleague Stoker's brother calls in a favor. On the pretext of wanting a ... (Goodreads)
Prisoner B-3087
by Alan Gratz
A young boy's harrowing journey through ten concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Wrecker
by Clive Cussler
A thrilling adventure of detective Isaac Bell as he tries to stop a saboteur from wrecking ships along the coast of America.
It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the ... (Goodreads)
The Door to December
by Richard Paige
A mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped and subjected to a sinister experiment that altered her mind.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a truly suspenseful novel of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand. What happened to nine-year-old Melanie ... (Goodreads)
Hellbent
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Orphaned assassin Evan Smoak is forced to confront his past and protect his future in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
when there’s nowhere else to turn. . . His name is Evan Smoak. Taken from a group home at age twelve, he was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After breaking with ... (Barnes & Noble)
Bad Blood
by John Sandford
A thrilling crime novel, pitting a detective against a deadly mastermind.
Another brilliant Virgil Flowers thriller from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author. One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- ... (Goodreads)
The Escape Artist
by Brad Meltzer
A military mortician uncovers a conspiracy involving a missing body and a secret government program. Fast-paced thriller with twists and turns.
Nola Brown, the U.S. Army's artist-in-residence—a painter and trained soldier—sees something nobody was supposed to see and earns a dangerous enemy in this novel as powerful as "a launched torpedo ... (Barnes & Noble)
