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When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a Columbian politician murdered decades ago, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with contemporary conspiracies, historical secrets, and famous assassinations, haunting those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings and the mysteries surrounding them....
22) The nowhere man
Author
Series
Nowhere Man volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery in which a former CIA officer in his early sixties is asked to travel undercover to Moscow to locate a Russian assassin only to find things are not as he was led to believe"--
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English
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"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...
25) Prodigy
Author
Series
Legend volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
26) 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.
Author
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.
28) 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
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Lebanese-American CIA agent befriends the grandson of a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist by becoming his English tutor in order to stop the planned assassination of the U.S. secretary of state.
31) Markswoman
Author
Series
Asiana volume I
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 368 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her mentor mysteriously dies, Kyra, a Markswoman, finds herself on the run from the dangerous Mistress of Mental Arts and heads into the unforgiving desert where she befriends Rustan, a disillusioned Marksman of the Order of Khur.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Theodore Roosevelt had been president for less than a year when on a tour in New England his horse-drawn carriage was broadsided by an electric trolley. TR was thrown clear but his Secret Service bodyguard was killed instantly. The trolley's motorman pleaded guilty to manslaughter and the matter was quietly put to rest. But was it an accident or an assassination attempt...and would there be another "accident" soon?"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Stathos, the second daughter of a minor nobleman, makes a plan to seduce, marry, and kill the king, then rule the world, and only love can stop her.
34) First kill
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
First Kill traces the origin story of CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey, whose first assignment as a new Air Force OSI graduate is sabotaged by an unknown adversary in Washington.
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,...
36) Act of treason
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novel volume 9
Language
English
Description
When a presidential candidate wins the election through sympathy votes two weeks after a terrorist attack kills his wife, CIA operative Mitch Rapp investigates dangerous allegations about the attack's hidden agenda, a case that threatens the government's stability.
Author
Series
Dark materials volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel. Book three in the Dark Materials Trilogy.
38) Hanging Mary
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
631 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Surratt is not as committed to the Confederate cause as her son, but when president Abraham Lincoln is assassinated, the plot's origins are traced back to her boarding house and the men who congregate there.
39) Red leech
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes didn't expect to find the world's most famous assassin living in Surrey when he's meant to be dead. He finds himself on an adventure that leads him to America, to the center of a deadly web, where life and death are cheap and truth has a price no sane person would pay.
40) A dangerous man
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Series
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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...