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Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMitch Rapp, the CIA’s top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order.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... -
Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Ben Coes' latest, Eye for an Eye, Dewey Andreas faces the toughest odds of his life as one of China's most powerful men has decided to do whatever he must to take down Dewey—and inflicts a horrifying loss.When Dewey Andreas uncovers the identity of a mole embedded at a high level in Israel's Mossad, it triggers a larger, more dangerous plot... -
Lethal Agent by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn unprecedented and terrifying bioterrorism plot threatens to kill millions in the midst of a divisive presidential election in this new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series. A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions...Categorized as:
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Crusader One by Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing stops former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator John Dempsey from answering the call of duty—including a mission with the highest stakes he’s ever faced. When one of the most brazen and lethal acts of terrorism rocks American and Israeli intelligence forces at the highest levels, Dempsey’s ultracovert antiterror unit, Ember, mobilizes... -
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Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury by Graham Brown, Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel... -
Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo Estranged Hearts. One Second Chance. An Unknown Enemy Threatening to Destroy It. He thought leaving would keep her safe.Five years ago, Gabriel Dawson had it all. He was in charge of his own SEAL team, was married to the love of his life, and together, he and Elle were planning the future he’d always wanted... -
Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea by Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAnother fabulous read featuring heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordano from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.The next adventure featuring NUMA Director Dirk Pitt... -
No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America’s most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies...Categorized as:
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First Strike by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe violent terrorist group ISIS has launched a major military campaign to take over Syria. But as they commit more and more public atrocities, their sources for ammunition are drying up. However, their charismatic and tyrannical leader, Tristan Nazir, has a major card left to play, which will get a new secret shipment of arms underway... -
True Believer by Jack Carr
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin...Categorized as:
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Tom Clancy Act of Defiance by Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it's up to President Jack Ryan to find a countermove in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.US intelligence says there's something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project... -
Sleepers by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a Russian defector is assassinated in a sleepy English seaside town, Group Fifteen agents John Milton and Michael Pope find themselves in a rush to uncover the culprits and bring them to justice.Their investigation leads them to Moscow and a confrontation with Directorate S, the agency responsible for seeding Russian sleeper agents around the world... -
The Fix by Robert White, Nicholas Camm
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the winter of 1996, on the orders of HM Government, the SAS stole the contents of a safe belonging to the Provisional IRA.Rick Fuller headed that team.Days later Fuller’s wife was brutally murdered at his home.Convinced he was betrayed from within, Fuller begins a relentless search for her murderers and the men who gave the order... -
The New Guinea Job by Vince Milam
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a mysterious client asks former Delta Force operator Case Lee to investigate a massive New Guinea gold discovery, the job quickly unravels into an incredible world of spies, terrorists, and tribal headhunters. Case—with a sense he’s being played—walks away from the entire mess. Until life-threatening events pull him back in. This time, he’s not taking any prisoners.A murdered wife...Categorized as:
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Red Square by David Archer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTeam Cinderella has been sent into Russia to "fake" an assassination of a Russian Deputy Minister, in order to cover up the fact of his defection to the United States. They accomplish the mission, but then are compromised during their own escape and captured. They are quickly disavowed by the US Secretary of State, and sentenced to a public execution in Red Square only a week hence...Categorized as:
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Full Black by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yet—a terrifying story of espionage and betrayal—brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don’t exist... -
Red Metal by Mark Greaney, Hunter Ripley Rawlings
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector... -
The Colonels by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThey were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come.. -
Hard To Kill by Paul Heatley
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne man can’t start a war. But he can end it.Laying low in Mexico, Tom meets Carmen who is searching for her little sister, Rosa, recently abducted and trafficked by a vicious gang. Tom sees that Carmen is likely to get herself killed and decides he is duty bound to help her... -
The Holy Grail by Christopher Cartwright
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFresh from his success with the search and rescue of the USS Omega Deep, Sam Reilly was looking forward to some much-needed rest. Not everyone had the same idea though. When a panicked man with purple eyes grabs him at gunpoint and takes him hostage, Sam knows that this is more than a mere ransom opportunity; this man is scared of something..Categorized as:
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Time To Hunt by David Archer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNOTE: This book is part two of a two part mission. The first half of this mission can be found in part one, Balance of Power.Working in deep cover, Noah and the team are fully aware of the danger that surrounds them as they prepare for the most comprehensive mass elimination in E&E's history, but things may not be exactly as they seem... -
The Wolf's Bite by David Archer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNoah and the Camelot team are handed their most unusual mission yet: Sarah must infiltrate the infamous Bangkok Hilton women's prison in order to make contact with and plan the rescue of a young American woman. Noah, Neil and new team member Marco are tasked with planning their escape, but something goes terribly wrong... -
Hard Fall by J.B. Turner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA friend in danger. A shadowy psych ward. A conspiracy beyond Reznick’s worst nightmares.When an old Delta Force buddy comes to Jon Reznick for help, paranoid and fearing for his life, Reznick feels duty-bound to protect him. As a black-ops specialist, loyalty to his brothers in arms comes before everything—even the law.But Jerry White proves difficult to protect...Categorized as:
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The Lies of Spies by Tim Tigner
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTHE AMERICAN PRESIDENT SENT HIM...The Russian president caught him...The free world is counting on him...But he doesn't remember.Imagine Robert Ludlum’s THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets Lee Child’s PERSONAL...Categorized as:
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Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his biggest job to date...and confronts an assassin with skills that match his own...Categorized as:
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Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters...Categorized as:
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The Polaris Protocol by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTaskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are used to putting their lives at risk, but in The Polaris Protocol it’s Jennifer’s brother and countless more innocents who face unfathomable violence and bloodshed.Pike and Jennifer are in Turkmenistan with the Taskforce—a top-secret antiterrorist unit that operates outside US law—when Jennifer gets a call from her brother, Jack...Categorized as:
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The Black Hornet by Rob Sinclair
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Black Hornet: an action packed and utterly gripping thriller from the best-selling James Ryker series What do you do when the love of your life vanishes without a trace? If you’re ex-intelligence agent James Ryker you search for the answers whatever the cost, however much blood and sacrifice it takes.. -
The Last Refuge by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet.Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial... -
Pawns of the Pacific by Andrew Watts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA nation on the brink of war. A conspiracy that threatens the globe. And one military family, caught in the middle, fighting for freedom. Pawns of the Pacific is the electrifying third book in The War Planners espionage thriller series... -
The Ironclad Covenant by Christopher Cartwright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn May 18th, 1863 – the day the siege of the Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg began – a secret war chest was removed by an ironclad and taken away along the Mississippi River. It contained a Covenant capable of altering the entire course of the Civil War. Its destination was Washington, D.C. A place it never reached...Categorized as:
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All Necessary Force by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA terrorist hit is coming. CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense systems have spiked, but traditional intel is going nowhere. It falls to the Taskforce--a top secret team that exists outside the bounds of U.S. law and is charged with finding and destroying asymmetric threats--to stop the unknown conspirators..Categorized as:
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Situation Room by Jack Mars, K.C. Kelly
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSITUATION ROOM is book #3 in the bestselling Luke Stone thriller series, which begins with ANY MEANS NECESSARY (book #1), a free download with over 60 five star reviews! A cyberattack on an obscure U.S. dam leaves thousands dead and the government wondering who attacked it, and why...Categorized as:
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Fair Game by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlways topical, the eighth Dan Shepherd thriller offers up-to-the-minute action adventure withand now that he's on the container ship, his family are alone and vulnerable... -
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Dead Men by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBelfast 1994. Five masked men brutally murder an RUC Special Branch officer. Days later, the IRA announces it is laying down its arms. 2007. The men who killed the RUC officer have been released from prison under the Good Friday agreement and one by one someone is killing them, in exactly the same way that the RUC officer died... -
Rough Justice by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDan "Spider" Shepherd is sent undercover to investigate a group of policemen in the Territorial Support Group. Fed up with all the paperwork and the fact that the system is geared to support the criminals rather than the victims, they have started to act as vigilantes, planting forensic evidence to frame known criminals, and moving on to more drastic methods... -
Skystorm by Steven Konkoly
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Wall Street Journal bestselling series.Unmasking a treasonous American conspiracy is a dangerous move in a heart-pounding thriller about greed, power, revenge, and murder.After covert investigators Ryan Decker and Harlow Mackenzie demolished APEX, a billion-dollar criminal enterprise, a tenuous truce between the two factions suggested the battle was over...Categorized as:
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The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe ninth thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series by Brad Taylor, a retired Delta Force commander who has lived for more than twenty years in the world about which he writes. For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe... -
Presidential Shift by C.G. Cooper
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe vice president is dead...The first lady narrowly escaped...What's an embattled president to do?Cal Stokes, former Marine and owner of Stokes Security International (SSI), has had a busy year. Trying to calm his inner demons and forget the tragic loss of his men, Cal dives headlong into his work, taking the battle to the enemy...Categorized as:
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Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip by Scott McEwen, Thomas Koloniar
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe co-author of the #1bestsellerAmerican Sniper, the critically acclaimed memoir of SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, brings his talents to a riveting novel packed with the action, danger, and camaraderie that are part of daily life for these elite warriors-and introduces a new SEAL hero. ONE TEAM. ONE SHOT. ONE WAY... -
End Game by John Gilstrap
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"If you like Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, you'll love John Gilstrap."--Gayle Lynds"My favorite tough guy hero is back." --Jeffery Deaver"One of the finest thriller writers on the planet." --Tess GerritsenAssassins have eliminated a Chechen scientist who's been working as a double agent for the U.S. government. The feds know who to call: Jonathan Grave and his elite rescue team...Categorized as:
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Enemy of Mine by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRetired Delta Force officer Brad Taylor returns with the third explosive installment in the Pike Logan thrillers. In retired Delta Force officer Brad Taylor’s third Pike Logan thriller, a tentative peace between Israel and Palestine has been brokered by the United States...Categorized as:
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The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInvented by nature but genetically manipulated by man, a mutation of the H5N1 virus—aka the “bird flu”—has fallen into the wrong hands. Angered by sanctions placed against its nuclear program, a rogue state is determined to release it. Their chosen method: one of the Black Widows—female suicide terrorists of Chechen descent who have the highest kill rate of any terrorist organization... -
Tom Clancy: Line of Demarcation by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew...Categorized as:
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Alliance of Shadows by Larry Correia, Mike Kupari
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEurope has spiraled into chaos. A conspiracy years in the making combined with general unrest lead to upheaval and revolution. In the midst of the murderous disorder, mercenary Michael Valentine is in Europe with a small team of his Exodus personnel trying to track down the evil and highly dangerous Katarina Montalban...Categorized as:
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Game Changer by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe breathtaking new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of WIRED.Kevin Quinn is a Secret Service agent who believes the president needs to die, and is determined to make this happen. But when Quinn becomes the most wanted man in America, he finds himself at the epicenter of an insidious and far-reaching plot...Categorized as:
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Sea of Shadows by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOut-gunned, out-maneuvered, and out-thought, the only way to survive is change the rules.A minor accident at a German nuclear power plant, a Biological Warfare attack on the British Embassy in Washington, DC, and a secret arms deal combine to drive a trusted NATO Ally into an illegal alliance with a rogue Middle Eastern state. With the world hovering on the brink of war, a handful of U.S... -
Victory and Honor by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe spectacular new book in New York Times-bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin's Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage. Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended...Categorized as:
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Empire and Honor by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOctober 1945: The Germans and Japanese have surrendered. For Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, it should be time to pack up—but they have far more important things to do.Chief among them is the protection of their assets, especially the human ones. In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret deal with the head of German intelligence’s Soviet section...Categorized as:
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The Silenced by Brett Battles
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsProfessional “cleaner” Jonathan Quinn has a new client and an odd job: find and remove the remains of a body hidden twenty years ago inside the walls of a London building, before the building is demolished. But Quinn and his team are being watched...Categorized as:
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