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The Last Man by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA pulse-pounding thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn, as Mitch Rapp heads to Afghanistan to track down a missing CIA agent.The four dead guards didn’t concern Mitch Rapp as much as the absence of the man they’d been paid to protect. Joe Rickman wasn’t just another foot soldier. For the last eight years Rickman had ran the CIA’s clandestine operations in Afghanistan...Categorized as:
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Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash...Categorized as:
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![Separation of Power by Vince Flynn]()
Separation of Power by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsCIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in Vince Flynn's high-velocity New York Times bestseller. Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term. To make matters worse, Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- something Israel has vowed to stop...Categorized as:
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![Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn]()
Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 28 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense, "Protect and Defend" delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the minefield of international intrigue...Categorized as:
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![Kill Shot by Vince Flynn]()
Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—now a major motion pictureVince Flynn’s intensely suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller puts the young, hungry, and lethal superagent of American Assassin in the crosshairs even as he kills with impunity...Categorized as:
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![Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury by Graham Brown, Clive Cussler]()
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... -
![Act of Treason by Vince Flynn]()
Act of Treason by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsCIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation's capital in New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn's eighth explosive thriller. It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown...Categorized as:
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![The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan]()
The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRecalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine...Categorized as:
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![True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy]()
True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe #1 New York Times–bestselling series is back with the most shocking revelation of all. After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within. . . .It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, U.S... -
![Smiley's People. by John le Carré]()
Smiley's People. by John le Carré
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsJohn le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People...Categorized as:
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![Daughter of War by Brad Taylor]()
Daughter of War by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFormer Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems... -
![The Third Option by Vince Flynn]()
The Third Option by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMitch Rapp, CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission. His target, a German Industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to the worlds most notorious sponsors of terrorism...Categorized as:
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Foreign Agent by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Code of Conduct and Hidden Order...Categorized as:
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![Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter]()
Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHe 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...Categorized as:
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![Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter]()
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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![Obsession by Florencia Bonelli, Rosemary Peele]()
Obsession by Florencia Bonelli, Rosemary Peele
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Eliah Al-Saud and Matilde Martinez meet on a flight to Paris, they have little in common. Eliah is the rich and powerful son of a Saudi prince, and the owner of a French security company—actually a front for mercenary and espionage services—while Matilde is a pediatric surgeon from Argentina, whose only dream is to work in Africa helping children in need...Categorized as:
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Operator Down by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings- A New York Times Bestseller - Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller where Pike Logan's search for a Mossad agent and ally puts him on a collision course with a ruthless military coup in Africa--and tests his loyalties to the Taskforce.It was to be a simple mission... -
![Show No Mercy / Take No Prisoners by Cindy Gerard]()
Show No Mercy / Take No Prisoners by Cindy Gerard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Show No Mercy, when American journalist Jenna McMillan innocently steps into an assassination plot Black Ops, Inc. agent Gabriel Jones is trying to foil in Buenos Aires, Gabe keeps her from getting killed. There's unfinished professional business between Gabe and Jenna--and an undeniable sexual attraction. It all leads to a suspenseful showdown with Gabe trying to save Jenna's life.. -
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A WILDer Wonderland - Sexy Stories Of The Season by Angel Payne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe weather outside may be frightful, but the WILD Boys keep things delightful with four stories that will keep you hotter-than-hot under the covers. These mini episodes give emotional updates for the couples with whom you've fallen in love during the series’ first three books, as well as a not-to-be-missed preview of what's in store for Tait Bommer and Kellan Rush in Book 5... -
![Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes]()
Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWanting 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... -
![Scarecrow Returns by Matthew Reilly]()
Scarecrow Returns by Matthew Reilly
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDeep in the Arctic, a long-forgotten Soviet military base enshrouds a weapon of unimaginably destructive force—a Cold War doomsday device with the power to obliterate the planet...Categorized as:
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![Code of Conduct by Brad Thor]()
Code of Conduct by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, BRAD THOR! "Thor tops himself again and again." --BookReporter.com "Feels like the TV show "24" on the page." --The Associated Press #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Brad Thor presents his greatest thriller ever--an action-packed literary tour de force Hidden deep within one of the world's most powerful organizations is a secret committee with a devastating agenda...Categorized as:
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![Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip by Scott McEwen, Thomas Koloniar]()
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... -
![Collected Stories by William Faulkner]()
Collected Stories by William Faulkner
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“A Bear Hunt,” “A Rose for Emily,” “Two Soldiers,” “Victory,” “The Brooch,” “Beyond”—these are among the forty-two stories that make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction... -
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![Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, Damion Searls]()
Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, Damion Searls
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh... -
![The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia.Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs.With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow...Categorized as:
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![Covering Coco by Heather Long]()
Covering Coco by Heather Long
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife between the cross hairs Retired Navy SEAL John Jacob “Jacko” Johnson earned a reputation for being cool under pressure, having more kills from behind the scope of a sniper rifle than anyone else active on the teams, and being a total smartass...Categorized as:
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![Without Remorse by Tom Clancy]()
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsJohn Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again...Categorized as:
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![Tom Clancy: Line of Demarcation by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy]()
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... -
![Hourglass by Danilo Kiš]()
Hourglass by Danilo Kiš
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanilo Kiš was one of the most artful and eloquent writers of postwar Europe. Of all his books, Hourglass, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is considered to be his masterpiece... -
![Eight Years by Donna Schwartze]()
Eight Years by Donna Schwartze
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor seventeen years, Millie’s life was perfect. Then her dad died, and she discovered the secret he never wanted her to know.Enter Mason—the man tasked with helping her uncover the truth. She has to hide her ultimate goal from him, but from the first second they meet, he seems to have the disturbing ability to see right through her.If he finds out what she’s up to, he could ruin everything...Categorized as:
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![Spymaster by Brad Thor]()
Spymaster by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 i>Wall Street Journal, and #1 i>Publishers Weekly bestselling series!Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war...Categorized as:
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![Power Down by Ben Coes]()
Power Down by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIntroducing 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... -
![Threat Vector by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney]()
Threat Vector by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFor Jack Ryan, Jr., and his comrades at the covert organization known as The Campus, the fight against America’s enemies is never over. But the danger has just hit home in a way they never expected… The Campus has been discovered. And whoever knows they exist knows they can be destroyed... -
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![Loose Ends by Tara Janzen]()
Loose Ends by Tara Janzen
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWHITE-HOT, DOWN-AND-DIRTY PASSION IGNITES WHEN A SEXY SOLDIER ENCOUNTERS AN IRRESISTIBLE THIEF WHO’S CHANGED HER WAYS.  Six years ago, the Special Defense Force mourned the loss of J. T. Chronopolous. Now the striking soldier is back with scant memory, a new nameâ��Conroy Farrelâ��and one single mission: to bring down SDF. But SDF has its own plan: get him back at any cost...Categorized as:
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![Patriot Games by Tom Clancy]()
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsTom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war — the international battle of terrorism. It is fall...Categorized as:
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![Soft Target by Stephen Leather, Martyn Read]()
Soft Target by Stephen Leather, Martyn Read
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere'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... -
![Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy]()
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsColombian drug lords, bored with Uncle Sam's hectoring, assassinate the head of the FBI. The message is clear: Bug off!At what point do these druggies threaten national security? When can a nation act against its enemies? These are questions Jack Ryan must answer because someone has quietly stepped over the line...Categorized as:
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![Support and Defend by Mark Greaney]()
Support and Defend by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsOne of Tom Clancy's most storied characters, Dominic Caruso, is the only one who can stop America's secrets from falling into enemy hands in this blockbuster new novel written by Clancy's longtime coauthor.Over the course of three decades, Tom Clancy created a world alive with prescient action and remarkable individuals...Categorized as:
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![Tempting Trouble by Gennita Low]()
Tempting Trouble by Gennita Low
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaving a top spy for a father has its benefits--Grace O'Connor can out-think and outsmart most people--and its downside--her secret must remain one. But that has never stopped her from getting into trouble. That is, after all, the nickname her father gave her... -
![The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto]()
The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize–winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy."[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique’s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead... -
![Out of the Night by Geri Foster]()
Out of the Night by Geri Foster
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFalcon Securities is a clandestine agency owned by Frank Hamilton, which works exclusively for the President of the United States and the Department of Defense.Falcon Securities Agent Tony Archuletta has lost his memory and a CIA operative is being held captive by a lethal group of terrorists out to destroy America... -
![The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy]()
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsHere is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so gripping in its action and so convincing in its accuracy that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a top secret Russian missile sub. Lauded by the Washington Post as "breathlessly exciting...Categorized as:
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![Brothers In Arms by David Leadbeater]()
Brothers In Arms by David Leadbeater
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 5 in the Matt Drake series. These books should be read in the correct order.**1. The Bones of Odin2. The Blood King Conspiracy3. The Gates of Hell4. The Tomb of the Gods5. Brothers in Arms6. The Swords of Babylon - OUT NOW!~A new agency, a new era, and Matt Drake goes head to head with the government of North Korea... -
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![The Nemesis Program by Scott Mariani]()
The Nemesis Program by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE EXPLOSIVE, THRILLING NEW BEN HOPE ADVENTURE FROM THE TOP 10 BESTSELLING AUTHORA BRUTAL MURDERWhile secretly researching the bizarre discoveries of Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla many years earlier, physicist Claudine Pommier becomes the victim of a remorseless and cruel murderer who breaks into her Parisian apartment... -
![Glidepath by Andrew Watts]()
Glidepath by Andrew Watts
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat is hiding in the CIA's top secret personnel file on Max Fend? The one that even his FBI investigator isn't allowed to see?The FBI wants him arrested.The CIA wants him to disappear.And the owner of a Russian mercenary group wants him dead.A mysterious cyber attack on Fend Aerospace triggers an investigation into Max Fend, the son of aerospace tycoon Charles Fend... -
![Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov]()
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his bees collect their pollen in peace.But Sergey lives in Ukraine, where a lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda has been dragging on for years... -
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Tracker by James Rollins
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a stirring story of a soldier and his military war dog who are drawn into a dark mystery tracing back to World War II and a lost treasure tied to the bones of the dead.Off the streets in the medieval heart of Budapest, Captain Tucker Wayne and his war dog, Kane, rescue a mysterious woman fleeing three armed men...Categorized as:
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![The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf]()
The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago... -
![The Old Man by Thomas Perry]()
The Old Man by Thomas Perry
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNow an original series from FX starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and Amy Brenneman: a retired intelligence officer living off the grid is caught in "[a] harrowing hunt-and-hide adventure" (The New York Times).To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone...
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