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  • Ambush by Barbara Nickless

    Ambush by Barbara Nickless

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The gripping third book in the bestselling Sydney Rose Parnell series.Railway cop and former Marine Sydney Parnell is on the hunt. So is a killer she knows only as the Alpha. They’re in a race to find Malik, an eleven-year-old Iraqi boy with secrets to guard. Sydney wants to help him. The Alpha wants him dead...
  • Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mitch 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...
  • Owen by Riley Edwards

    Owen by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen Cullen was a dream. Not a dream come true because I’d never dared to dream. He was my wildest fantasy, a hallucination, a delusion. The handsome man who’d saved my life—twice. He was a real-life hero, and I was…what was I? Filth, that was what I was. The daughter of a gangster, the niece of the reigning king of Chicago’s underground. I tried my best not to fall in love with Owen...
  • Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Government secrets are being sold and the newly-sworn-in President of the United States already feels out of options. Without knowing the full scope of the scandal, the president decides to turn to the one person he knows he can trust--former FBI Agent, Elizabeth James. Her deep distrust of the system is rooted in her unfair discharge from service...
  • Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes

    Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In 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...
  • Tombland by C.J. Sansom

    Tombland by C.J. Sansom

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    During the political upheaval of Tudor-era England, the lawyer Matthew Shardlake must decide where his loyalties lie in "one of the best ongoing mystery series" for fans of Hilary Mantel (Christian Science Monitor).LONGLISTED FOR THE SIR WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos...
  • Five Decembers by James Kestrel

    Five Decembers by James Kestrel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this novel of World War II, an American police detective trapped while trailing a killer overseas struggles to survive with only the help of a total stranger and his daughter, who risk their lives to protect him. December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever...
  • Hired to Kill by Andrew Peterson, Dick Hill

    Hired to Kill by Andrew Peterson, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this fast-paced thriller, special operative Nathan McBride battles the most treacherous enemy he’s ever faced—and the one hitting closest to home.After simultaneous deadly terror attacks on San Diego and Washington, DC, hammer the nation, Nathan learns that the mass murders weren’t random events—they targeted his family.And the threat is far from over...
  • Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the next thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, the anti-terrorism operative heads to Pakistan to confront a mortal threat he may not be prepared for. In fact, this time he might have met his match.Mitch Rapp is used to winning...
  • Jax by Dale Mayer

    Jax by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks...
  • Beau by Dale Mayer

    Beau by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks...
  • Red Square by David Archer

    Red Square by David Archer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Team 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...
  • Full Black by Brad Thor

    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...
  • Heartstone by C.J. Sansom

    Heartstone by C.J. Sansom

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. He is asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death...
  • Red Metal by Mark Greaney, Hunter Ripley Rawlings

    Red Metal by Mark Greaney, Hunter Ripley Rawlings

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From 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 Wolf's Bite by David Archer

    The Wolf's Bite by David Archer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Noah 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...
  • Full Force and Effect by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy

    Full Force and Effect by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t have.    The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist...
  • Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter

    Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He is the most dangerous man alive. He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that nearly killed him...It's not going to happen...
  • Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters

    Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    While Cadfael has bent Abbey rules, he has never broken his monastic vows--until now. Word has come to Shrewsbury of a treacherous act that has left 30 of Maud's knights imprisoned. All have been ransomed except Cadfael's secret son, Olivier. Conceived in Cadfael's soldiering youth and unaware of his father's identity, Olivier will die if he is not freed...
  • Contract to Kill by Andrew Peterson

    Contract to Kill by Andrew Peterson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Toby Haynes witnesses a double murder—and suspects his boss, Tanner Mason, as the perpetrator of the crime—he does the only thing he can think of: he calls in Nathan McBride.CIA special ops veteran McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, respond to their friend’s plea...
  • Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty

    Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave...
  • Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor

    Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former Delta Force officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a relentlessly fast-paced, gripping thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of America...
  • North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In what circumstance wouldn’t a knight want to rescue a damsel in distress? A former SEAL working for Legendary Securities, North Dockter has found the very circumstance that challenges even his stalwart, chivalrous ways. Nikki Beckwith is a firecracker who butts heads with him at every turn, refusing to follow orders or listen to his experience unless doing so suits her...
  • Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes

    Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him - forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well armed, well trained group of assassins...
  • The Last Refuge by Ben Coes

    The Last Refuge by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With 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...
  • Healing Love: Saints Protection & Investigation by Maryann Jordan, Andrea Michelle

    Healing Love: Saints Protection & Investigation by Maryann Jordan, Andrea Michelle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Saints Protection & Investigation A private investigation business, pulling together men from the CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, Border Patrol, SEALs, and police, devoted to the missions that no one else wanted or could solve. Cam Perez left his juvenile deliquent years behind to become an undercover detective and then accepted a job with Saints Protection & Investigations...
  • Forced to Kill by Andrew Peterson

    Forced to Kill by Andrew Peterson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is the sole survivor of Montez de Oca, the brutal Nicaraguan interrogator who tortured countless souls to death before vanishing fourteen years ago. Though McBride’s body—as well as his soul—still bear the scars from the interrogator’s blade, he dares to hope the worst is behind him...
  • Rogue State by Steven Konkoly

    Rogue State by Steven Konkoly

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twenty years in the future, America perches on the edge of collapse, devastated by drought and dwindling resources. California, now a totalitarian surveillance state controlling the lion’s share of the nation’s economy, is on the brink of secession...
  • Dead Men by Stephen Leather

    Dead Men by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Belfast 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...
  • Heat Lightning by John Sandford

    Heat Lightning by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago.Working the murders, Flowers becomes convinced that someone is keeping a list—with many more names on it...
  • Rough Justice by Stephen Leather

    Rough Justice by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Dan "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...
  • The Enemy by Lee Child, Dick Hill

    The Enemy by Lee Child, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    12 Compact Discs / 14 hoursJack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case..
  • Skystorm by Steven Konkoly

    Skystorm by Steven Konkoly

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A 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...
  • The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor

    The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The 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...
  • The Saboteurs by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

    The Saboteurs by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Isaac Bell returns for another thrilling mission in a new book from the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive CusslerDetective 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 attempted assassination of a United States Senator shortly after meeting the man...
  • The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor

    The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Invented 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...
  • The Lion by Nelson DeMille

    The Lion by Nelson DeMille

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    In this follow-up to The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion...
  • Option to Kill by Andrew Peterson

    Option to Kill by Andrew Peterson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Nathan McBride has taken down terrorists and torturers. But nothing has prepared the former covert agent for the danger he faces after receiving a strange text from a kidnapped girl. He conducts a daring rescue of twelve-year-old Lauren, who claims to be in the federal witness security program...
  • Wild Blue Yonder by M.W. Arnold

    Wild Blue Yonder by M.W. Arnold

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Doris Winter is accused of stealing a valuable item from a famous Hollywood movie star, now a captain in the US Army Air Corps, after a dance at the air base in England where he's stationed. Gathering her close friends together, she's determined to clear her name...
  • Watch Over by Amy Reece

    Watch Over by Amy Reece

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Melanie Blythe has a house, a career, and a cat. She doesn’t need a man. But she isn’t the only one who’s noticed the gorgeous cop down the street. When her faithless cat prances home from the cop’s house with a note tucked in his collar, it might be the beginning of something beautiful…or it might be Melanie’s death warrant...
  • Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille, Brian Murray

    Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille, Brian Murray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity--and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson...
  • Power Down by Ben Coes

    Power Down by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Introducing a major new thriller writer--in the vein of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor--and an electrifying character, Dewey Andreas. A major North American hydroelectric dam is blown up and the largest off-shore oil field in this hemisphere is destroyed in a brutal, coordinated terrorist attack...
  • Children of War by Martin Walker

    Children of War by Martin Walker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before.But Bruno’s sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn’t see this investigation as a priority – there are bigger issues at stake.Bruno has other ideas...
  • The Affair by Lee Child

    The Affair by Lee Child

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Librarian’s note: This is an updated cover image for Kindle. See previously published cover here. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREverything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up...
  • Exposed by Kaylea Cross

    Exposed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the one you were meant to be with…Marisol Lorenzo landed her dream job as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and is working on the case that could make her career; now she’s determined to put away the most dangerous drug lord in the country. But his incarceration has opened up a lethal turf war among his lieutenants...
  • Dead of Night by Simon Scarrow

    Dead of Night by Simon Scarrow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As Germany strangles under the tight grip of the Nazi Party, the frozen winter of 1940 brings even more reasons to fear the dark in the crackling new WWII crime novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow – perfect for fans of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Trilogy, Robert Ludlum, Andrew Gross, and William Christie… One freezing night in 1940 Berlin, an SS doctor and his wife return from...
  • Private Sector by Brian Haig, Michael Emerson

    Private Sector by Brian Haig, Michael Emerson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    - The first Sean Drummond novel, "Secret Sanction (Warner, 6/01), has more than 460,000 combined copies in print and was a "Washington Post and "USA TODAY best-seller. "Mortal Allies was published in 4/02 and has more than 213,000 combined copies in print.- This is the fourth title in Brian Haig's series featuring JAG attorney Sean Drummond...
  • The Forgotten by David Baldacci

    The Forgotten by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In Paradise, nothing is what it seems...Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case-but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida...
  • Soft Target by Stephen Leather, Martyn Read

    Soft Target by Stephen Leather, Martyn Read

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop... and that's a corrupt cop with a gun. When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan "Spider" Shepherd is given his most dangerous mission so far. Shepherd is ordered to infiltrate the tight-knit team, to gain their confidence and, ultimately, to betray them...
  • Second Watch by J.A. Jance

    Second Watch by J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont. Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he's ever faced...
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