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21) The saboteurs
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Series
Language
English
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"Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda--one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The...
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Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the world's most skilled assassin murders an influential Russian politician, former MI6 operative Eve Polastri is tasked with finding and capturing her and her accomplices.
24) The black widow
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Art restorer, assassin, and spy Gabriel Allon finds himself poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service, but not before answering the French government's request to eliminate the person responsible for detonating a massive bomb in Paris.
Author
Series
Guardian volume 2
Language
English
Description
Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does - the way her father trained her to - hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed, and she's got her finger flush against the trigger. But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recently elected President Richard Monroe--populist, controversial, and divisive--is at the center of an increasingly polarized Washington, DC. Never has the partisan drama been so tense or the paranoia so rampant. In the midst of contentious political turf wars, the White House chief of staff is found dead in his house. A tenacious intern discovers a single, ominous clue that suggests he died from something other than natural causes, and that a wide-ranging...
Publisher
McCabe Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 p.
Language
English
Description
Using primarily information provided in the Navy's official investigation of the death of America's first Secretary of Defense, which had been kept secret for 55 years, The Assassination of James Forrestal thoroughly demolishes the widely believed view that Forrestal's fall from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 22, 1949, was an act of suicide. The official report, in fact, did not conclude that Forrestal committed suicide....
28) A dangerous man
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Language
English
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"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 to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
30) The inside ring
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
32) Green
Author
Series
Green volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world of political power and magic, and of Gods and mortals, a courtesan and trained assassin who calls herself "Green" finds intrigue and adventure, and many enemies, in the Undying Duke's city of Copper Downs.
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Series
Alex Cross volume 26
Language
English
Description
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
34) The 9th man
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly-trained operatives are there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides - one...
35) Midnight sun
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When an ex-fixer for a drug king in Oslo acts foolishly, he becomes his former employer's next target and escapes to a quiet Norway community where he finds an opportunity for redemption.
36) Extreme prey
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box. The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that hes come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife--and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating...
38) Killing Lincoln
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
8 CDs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On March 30, 1981, President Reagan narrowly escaped death after he was cut down by a sniper's bullet. However, few really knew how close the president came to dying. Here, award-winning journalist Del Quentin Wilber chronicles the assassination attempt, retracing the footsteps of those who were responsible for saving President Reagan's life as well as those who were involved in the shooter's apprehension.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...