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Bear by Kris Michaels
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn explosive blast from the pastA former mission rears its head and places Bear McGowen in the middle of an impossible situation. His old friend is missing, but he left a trail to follow. As Bear investigates, the twisting turns of the past meld with the present investigation. It necessitates specialized help from his employer, Guardian Security... -
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Myles by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFormer Delta Operator Myles Simms doesn’t know when to quit. The concept so foreign to him he can’t give up on Delilah Watts. A woman he’s never met—a woman who might be the enemy yet he’s compelled to save her. Intel Specialist Delilah Watts never imagined sending an email would be deadly. Kidnapped and left to die, yet she regrets nothing...Categorized as:
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![New Guard by Robert Muchamore]()
New Guard by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsJames Adams returns as old guard, controller for Cherub agent new guard Ryan Sharma. Undercover Cherubs can slip below adult radar for information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. But undercover are not recognized for good results or bad, and punishment is ... off with their heads. The mission is a double kidnapping by oil terrorists to Syria... -
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Video Game Agents: Book 3: Critter Crossing Catastrophe by Pixel Ate
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBetter late than never, Max and Zoe finally get some much needed new secret agent training. Their first task? Enter the game Critter Crossing to bring back something the VGA bug-catching nets. But when they enter the game, something else leaves. Oops! It’s just a tiny wasp, though. Not a big problem, right?WRONG.Tiny wasps grow into giant, angry wasps...Categorized as:
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![Video Game Agents: Book 4: A Link to the Lost by Pixel Ate]()
Video Game Agents: Book 4: A Link to the Lost by Pixel Ate
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings are heated with the Video Game Agents and that's putting it lightly.Not only have Max and Zoe, new recruits to the VGA, gotten themselves kicked off the crew, they discovered their missing mother isn't so missing after all—and she's enemy number one of the agency.What. Is. Going. On?!Their ship/sister (yeah, it's weird) has a lead on where their mom might be...Categorized as:
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![Lone Wolf by Robert Muchamore]()
Lone Wolf by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFay has spent eighteen months locked up in a Secure Training Centre. Drug deals and rip-offs are the only things this teenager knows. Now she's back on the street, looking to settle old scores.CHERUB agents Ryan and Ning need Fay's knowledge to unearth a major drug importer... -
![The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre Summary Study Guide by BookRags]()
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre Summary Study Guide by BookRags
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Odd Couple Study Guide consists of approx. 37 pages of summaries and analysis on The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre.br/br/This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion... -
![Black Ops by Stephen Leather]()
Black Ops by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil. As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he's asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows he'll become a wanted man...Categorized as:
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![The Supremacy License by Alan Lee]()
The Supremacy License by Alan Lee
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Manny, also known as Agent Sinatra. A US Marshal renowned for his bravura in collaring fugitives. The only thing he loves more than America is a well-tailored sports jacket. An international terrorist slips through the East Coast and takes up residence inside an impregnable mountain chateau—within American borders but beyond legal reach...Categorized as:
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![The Sawtooth Job by Vince Milam]()
The Sawtooth Job by Vince Milam
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe stakes couldn’t be higher. A mysterious discovery that would change the global balance of power.Two scientists become the world’s hottest commodity. One is captured, the other on the run.Enter Case Lee, with lethal spy organizations in hot pursuit. They quickly discover they’re messing with the wrong guy.It started with mystery and misdirection and shadowland fog... -
![Look Twice by Eva Hudson]()
Look Twice by Eva Hudson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA double agent. A double cross. This time, Ingrid is in double trouble.When Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg discovers an undeveloped roll of film left behind by her predecessor in the FBI, she isn’t sure what to make of the strange photos he took...Categorized as:
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![Zero Hour by Mark Walden]()
Zero Hour by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOverlord is reborn, and has developed the chilling ability to move from body to body, erasing the host's personality and ultimately killing them, forcing him to hop from victim to victim. He must find Otto, the only host designed to contain him, and for that he needs the location of H.I.V.E...Categorized as:
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![CHERUB: Guardian Angel by Robert Muchamore]()
CHERUB: Guardian Angel by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGuardian Angel is the second book in a brand-new CHERUB series from Robert Muchamore. Ryan has saved Ethan's life more than once. Ethan thinks he must be a guardian angel. But Ryan works for CHERUB, a secret organisation with one key advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them... -
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Black Friday by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe Aramov Clan has splintered into two rival factions and Ryan is joined by more CHERUB agents as his three year mission enters its final phase. Ryan is about to board a plane, knowing that the next twenty-four hours will change everything. His mission is to stop the biggest terrorist attack America's ever seen... -
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![Revelation by Karen McQuestion]()
Revelation by Karen McQuestion
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRuss, Nadia, Jameson, and Mallory are about to embark on their riskiest mission yet as they attempt to infiltrate the ruthless Associates in Revelation, the thrilling final installment of the Edgewood series! The Edgewood teens decide to go undercover, joining the Associates in order to find their weaknesses and overthrow them from within...Categorized as:
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![Cold Kill by Stephen Leather]()
Cold Kill by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratings"While investigating a crew of people-traffickers…Dan Shepherd discovers a cross-Channel currency-smuggling operation. Posing as a low-level criminal, Shepherd infiltrates the gang, befriending its London soldiers and establishing contact with the Albanian gangster who masterminds the business from his swank Paris flat...Categorized as:
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![The Syndicate by Sophie Davis]()
The Syndicate by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a future where time travel has been outlawed, a black market exists for anyone with the money, connections, and nerve to request items from days past...Categorized as:
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![Crossing the Line by Meghan Rogers]()
Crossing the Line by Meghan Rogers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIN THIS TEEN SPY THRILLER, JOCELYN STEELY IS AMERICA'S LAST SHOT TO BEAT THE NORTH KOREANSWhen Jocelyn Steely was kidnapped by a North Korean spy agency, she was only a little girl. Young. Scared. Powerless. And completely moldable.Now, ten years later, she’s a ruthless assassin. Yet her target isn't who you might think... -
![Purgatory Road by Russell Blake]()
Purgatory Road by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the second volume of The Day After Never trilogy, Lucas must make an impossible choice and risk everything in order to save those closest to him. An epic saga of survival and redemption set in a near-future wasteland, by a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author...Categorized as:
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![Alex Rider: Secret Weapon by Anthony Horowitz]()
Alex Rider: Secret Weapon by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn essential collection of seven explosive Alex Rider stories by number one bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz.Ever since MI6 recognized his potential, Alex Rider has constantly been thrust into the line of danger...Categorized as:
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![The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 5: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick]()
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 5: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsContents:- Introduction (October 1986) by Thomas M...Categorized as:
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![Covenant by Russell Blake]()
Covenant by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn the third installment of the bestselling Day After Never series, Lucas and Sierra must prepare themselves for the ultimate showdown with a ruthlessly brutal enemy. In a winner-takes-all climax, the forces of light face off against those of darkness in an epic saga that will leave readers breathless...Categorized as:
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![Attack of the BULLIES by Michael Buckley]()
Attack of the BULLIES by Michael Buckley
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe grand finale to the New York Times bestselling series, Attack of the BULLIES stars Ruby Peet, aka Agent Pufferfish, the team captain with super nanobyte-enhanced allergies. Pufferfish leads the team in their latest case: the kidnapping of the president’s daughter. But the NERDS discover she hasn’t been kidnapped—she’s been recruited. Their former librarian, Ms...Categorized as:
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![Blackout by Joe Craig]()
Blackout by Joe Craig
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJimmy Coates seems like an ordinary boy, but he’s not. He’s genetically engineered to grow into the perfect government assassin. Speed, strength and deadly instinct - it’s all in the blood. He has to fight not to kill, while his government fights to kill him.Jimmy Coates can trust only one person to keep the country from falling into chaos—the man he was first sent to kill...Categorized as:
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![Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle: A Mystery with Spy Cameras, Code Wheels, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself by Bob Pflugfelder]()
Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle: A Mystery with Spy Cameras, Code Wheels, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself by Bob Pflugfelder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this third installment of the series, 11-year-old whiz-kids Nick and Tesla discover that someone in the quiet town of Half Moon Bay has placed their beloved Uncle Newt under electronic surveillance—but who is spying on him, and why? To expose the secret agent, Nick and Tesla build all kinds of outrageous contraptions...Categorized as:
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ASIN: B08MDG7DZK by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMica and Malisa Flores learn that their missing mother, Ivy, isn’t missing at all. Her sudden disappearance three years before has left the sisters devastated. They are given a mysterious journal written by their long-lost mother. Their mother was pushed back 17,000 years into the past, into the Paleolithic era... -
![An Assassin's Accord by Michael Anderle]()
An Assassin's Accord by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, the biggest monsters don’t have claws and look just like humans.Because they are!The world is different. An alien ‘infection’ of flora and fauna is contained by massive walls and substantial firepower over in the middle of Africa. It holds the promise of immortality, and infinite wealth.Now, when a country needs help finding and taking down the worst they have a new company to call...Categorized as:
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![Every Second Counts by Sophie McKenzie]()
Every Second Counts by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCharlie and Nat must expose a public official for who he truly is before he is elected prime minister in the riveting and romantic sequel to the explosive thriller, In a Split Second.Nat and Charlie are on the run and in more danger than ever before. Nowhere is safe and they can’t trust anyone but each other...Categorized as:
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![Burned by Melissa F. Miller]()
Burned by Melissa F. Miller
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStrike the match. Light the fuse. Watch Olivia burn.CIA operative Olivia Santos lives on a razor's edge. As a NOC--an agent with non-official cover--she's well aware of the risks: if her cover's blown, there's no diplomatic immunity, and a life sentence in a foreign prison is the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario is too gruesome to mention...Categorized as:
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![J'irai tuer pour vous by Henri Lœvenbruck]()
J'irai tuer pour vous by Henri Lœvenbruck
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1985, Paris est frappé par des attentats comme le pays en a rarement connu.Dans ce contexte, Marc Masson, un déserteur parti à l’aventure en Amérique du Sud, est soudain rattrapé par la France. Recruté par la DGSE, il est officiellement agent externe mais, officieusement, il va devenir assassin pour le compte de l’État... -
![Контроль by Viktor Suvorov, Виктор Суворов]()
Контроль by Viktor Suvorov, Виктор Суворов
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho is suitable for work in the Russian intelligence services? A former intelligence officer wrote a novel about testing people working for this the most powerful intelligence service under Stalin and Beriia...Categorized as:
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![Resurgence by Kerry Wilkinson]()
Resurgence by Kerry Wilkinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Can I ask you one thing...why does it have to be you?"My throat is dry but I manage to say the words clearly enough: "If I don't do it, who else will?"An entire country has been lied to.Silver Blackthorn was supposed to be one of the privileged few, chosen to serve and help rebuild a shattered nation.Instead, she is a rebel.Tales of her defiance have spread across the land...Categorized as:
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![Cross Fire by Fonda Lee]()
Cross Fire by Fonda Lee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEarth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the alien-run government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from the alien home planet: withdraw...Categorized as:
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![Safe House by Diane Duane, Tom Clancy]()
Safe House by Diane Duane, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo save a prominent scientist and his son from a corrupt government's agents, the Net Force Explorers embark on a terrifying virtual hunt for their enemies--before it's too late... -
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![The Great Race by Bill McCay, Tom Clancy]()
The Great Race by Bill McCay, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Net Force team has entered a worldwide race to design a vital spaceship. But the race is dangerously disrupted by someone trying to steal valuable technology. And it's up to the Net Force to find the culprits before the real danger is done. Based on the adult novel, "Net Force", which coincided with the ABC-TV miniseries... -
![High Wire by Mel Odom, Tom Clancy]()
High Wire by Mel Odom, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the future, computers rule the world. The Net Force was formed to protect us from any and all criminal activity online. But there is a group of teenage whiz kids who sometimes know more about computers than their adult superiors. They are the Net Force Explorers. They go where no one else can go. And they fight crime like no one else in the world..Categorized as:
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![Ghosts by Rhiannon Lassiter]()
Ghosts by Rhiannon Lassiter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the twenty-fourth century, Raven leads an army of Hexes, humans with a mutant gene allowing interface with computers, and a band of rebels to a new future only to find the Net harbors an evil, threatening blackness... -
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Remote Control by Jack Heath
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAgent Six of Hearts, 16-year-old superhuman, is on a mission. His brother Kyntak has been kidnapped. A strange and sinister new figure is rising in power. Six is suspected of being a double agent. The Deck has been put into lockdown by the Queen of Spades. A mysterious girl has appeared who acts as Six's guardian angel...Categorized as:
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![Gameprey by Mel Odom, Tom Clancy]()
Gameprey by Mel Odom, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape--and attack the Net Force Explorers in virtual... -
![Charge To Battle: A World War 3 Techno-Thriller Action Event by Nick Ryan]()
Charge To Battle: A World War 3 Techno-Thriller Action Event by Nick Ryan
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratings"Nick Ryan knows his craft, and his topic. His World War 3 stories are tightly-written, fast-moving, with great characters."- LARRY BONDCo-author of Tom Clancy's 'Red Storm Rising' and New York Times bestselling author of 'Red Phoenix'...Categorized as:
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![Behind Enemy Lines by Jennifer A. Nielsen]()
Behind Enemy Lines by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFix the past. Save the future.Dak, Sera, and Riq involve themselves in one of the most bizarre spy missions in history . . . and the outcome of World War II hangs in the balance...Categorized as:
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![Basketful of Crap by Steven Campbell]()
Basketful of Crap by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHank was a dying breed on the space station Belvaille. The criminal gangs that had once made their homes there were forced out by the corporations that had taken over since the facility became an Independent Protectorate...Categorized as:
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![Nine Lives by Tom Barber]()
Nine Lives by Tom Barber
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s New Year’s Eve. A major terrorist cell is planning a series of attacks across London over the next forty-eight hours. The government has surveillance on the group, a man undercover, and prepare to move in, to take out the terrorists before they can strike. But they lose contact with their inside man...Categorized as:
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![The Enigma Cube by Douglas E. Richards]()
The Enigma Cube by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA riveting near-future thriller. From the NY Times bestselling author whose books have sold over a million copies.An alien object with breathtaking capabilities. And a life-and-death struggle for the future of humanity. Dr. Kelly Connolly is part of a top-secret team studying the most important find in human history, the Enigma Cube, an alien artifact of incomprehensible power...Categorized as:
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![Captured by Douglas E. Richards]()
Captured by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIncluded in The California Department of Education’s Recommended Literature for Science and Math and in Missouri State University’s Best New Books to Engage Students in Math and Science This fast-paced, science fiction adventure is a stand-alone sequel to The Prometheus Project: Trapped...Categorized as:
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![Rules of Betrayal by Christopher Reich]()
Rules of Betrayal by Christopher Reich
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe most riveting novel yet in Christopher Reich’s New York Times bestselling series—featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma, a dangerous woman with a mysterious past who has gone rogue in the high-stakes, serpentine world of international spies. In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan–Afghanistan border...Categorized as:
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Present Danger by Stella Rimington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen MI5 officer Liz Carlyle arrives in Belfast, danger immediately follows - she quickly learns that the peace process in the province is precarious.Liz suspects The Fraternity to be a front for renegade IRA men. Also it looks as though a plot is being hatched against the security forces. Liz and her colleague Dave Armstrong believe that a former French Intelligence officer is involved...Categorized as:
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![In a Split Second by Sophie McKenzie]()
In a Split Second by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo lives. One explosive moment. And a secret that could end it all... A riveting, romantic thriller from the author of Girl, Missing.Charlie's life is torn apart by a terrorist bomb in a London market. Months later, she meets Nat, whose family was devastated by the same explosion...Categorized as:
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![Hex by Rhiannon Lassiter]()
Hex by Rhiannon Lassiter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Supercomputer Brain In A 15-Year-Old's Body...Meet Raven, The Most Dangerous Teenager In The World....London. The 24th century. The CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex, human mutants with supercomputer minds. They are young. They look like you or me. They must never be allowed to grow up....But the CPS hasn't discovered Raven... -
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Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity's first encounter with alien races, sudden war clouds burst. With Earth's fleet shattered by a sneak attack and its survivors fighting for their lives, Caine must rely upon both his first contact and weaponry skills to contend with the non-humanoid enemy...
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