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121) The Devil's Hand
Author
Series
James Reece volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again.
A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He's a young, popular, self-made visionary&;but he&;s also a man with a secret.
Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles...
122) The candidate
Author
Series
Newsmakers volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
334 p.
Language
English
Description
"How far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous billionaire who--along with her best friend and confidant Lily Lau--has engineered her husband's meteoric rise. The White House is within their reach. But the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared--gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence operation. Jack's oldest friend has turned, they insist. They...
124) Deception point
Author
Language
English
Description
On the eve of a presidential race in which NASA's budget is a pivotal issue, the space agency announces the discovery of an ancient meteorite filled with fossils deep in the Arctic ice.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp volume 20
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
20210914
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; 25 centimeters.
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he's encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America's institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington. Meanwhile, when Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the Agencys database for sensitive information on Nicholas Ward, the worlds first trillionaire, she convinces...
Author
Physical Desc
x, 441 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are assassinated, Clarke orders Marcus Ryker and a team of CIA...
127) House blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
425 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Conducting an investigation into the murder conviction of a lobbyist while struggling with wrenching personal issues, political fixer Joe DeMarco unexpectedly frees the lobbyist only to become the target of two of the most callous killers he has ever encountered.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While secretly investigating the bombing of an American military base overseas, political fixer Peter Rena and his partner, Randi Brooks, are caught in between foreign intelligence, national security, and the media when their investigation is blown wide open.
129) The Devil May Dance
Author
Series
Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. But while they long to settle into the comforts of home, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has other plans. He needs them to look into a potential threat not only to the presidency, but to the security of the United States itself.
Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los...
130) Deep fake
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Absolute Power meets The Manchurian Candidate in this explosive political thriller from USA Today bestselling author Ward Larsen, Deep Fake. The Cold War is back--but for some it never ended. Sarah Ridgeway is living the life she's always envisioned. She has a devoted husband, a loving daughter, and a comfortable home. The path to reach it, however, has not always been smooth. For twelve years her husband, Bryce, served in the Army, deployed to some...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Language
English
Description
D.C. fixer Joe DeMarco must clear Molly Mahoney's name and keep his boss, Senator Mahoney, clean. Before long, DeMarco uncovers that there's far more to Molly's case than meets the eye, and the risk to Mahoney is more than just a little political embarrassment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S edition.
Language
English
Description
""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
134) The inner circle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an archivist goes against security protocol to show an ex-crush the president's private room at the National Archives, the two stumble upon a dictionary once owned by George Washington, and are soon entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder.
135) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
136) It can't happen here
Author
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xv, 397 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Peter Rena volume 4
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billionaire entrepreneur and President of the U.S. David Traynor calls upon ruthless DC fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks, who must help him salvage American politics while dealing with cyberattacks and a world on the cusp of enormous change.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (14 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"This boxed set includes two of George Orwells most famous and beloved novels, 1984 and Animal Farm."--
George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But...
139) A delicate truth
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
140) Sierra six
Author
Series
A Gray Man novel volume 11
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 511 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's been more than a decade since the Gray Man's first mission, but the trouble's just getting started ... Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of Zack Hightower's CIA Special Activities team, Golf Sierra, aka the Goon Squad. Court's skills were fearsome and undeniable. Too bad he wasn't also a team player. It took weeks of training and withering scrutiny to mold him into one, but the effort was worth it--on...