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Author
Series
Shaw and kaie james volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shadowy operative Shaw and Reggie Campion, a woman working for a secret vigilante group, must work together in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising enemy, in a struggle that leads them around the world at a breakneck pace.
Author
Series
Shaw and katie james volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While the head of the world's largest defense contractor conspires to gain even more riches by instigating a war, an intelligence agent reluctantly travels to keep the world safe, and a journalist receives a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre.
3) The disciple
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When it is discovered that Iran is weeks away from having operational nuclear weapons and starting a brutal holy war, CIA agents Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton begin a world-saving race against time.
5) Black ops
Author
Series
The presidential agent volume 5
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of murders involving covert intelligence informers, Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo wonders about vague similarities between the killings and a recent case involving a pair of CIA traitors.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To help the U.S.'s effort to foster democracy in Kyrgyzstan, Foreign Service officer Katarina "Kate" Wallander infiltrates an underground movement accused of sabotaging the ruling government and learns disturbing fact about Kyrgyz, the country's dictator.
Author
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
2 v. (xiii, 461 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Emily Bestler books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
With a non-aggression pact in place that keeps Saudi involvement in 9/11 quiet in exchange for oil, Mitch Rapp undergoes a covert mission as a traitor to keep the peace when evidence emerges that the Saudis are funding ISIS.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journalist and former U.S. State Department official, Ronan Farrow, explores the decline of American diplomacy and traditional statecraft, the abdication of global leadership, and how the work of peacemaking has been taken over by the military-industrial complex.
12) Those in peril
Author
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
viii, 198 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From columnist Ian Bremmer, a definitive guide to understanding the global wave of populist nationalism. From political upheaval in Europe and the United States to an explosion of anger in the developing world, social and political turmoil has dominated recent headlines. What explains public rejection of the entire political establishment in country after country? What does this mean for the future of the United States? For the European Union? How...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
Author
Series
McLanahan volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
345p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear -- and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating America's strategic air forces. Now an embattled U.S. president must choose between two horrific scenarios: a cease-fire on the enemy's terms ... or respond with every weapon in the nation's arsenal, possibly...
16) Hazardous duty
Author
Series
A presidential agent novel volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
"The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea-to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody...
17) Covert warriors
Author
Series
Presidential agent volume 7
Language
English
Description
When a hostile Third World country begins to receive military training and nuclear technology from foreign nations, Charley Castillo and his team investigate only to be abandoned by the U.S. government and placed on hit lists throughout the world.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
19) Golden Buddha
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2003
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2017
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others.