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Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFor years, Mitch Rapp's bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. He has killed with impunity, tortured to avert disaster, and shown he will do whatever it takes to prevent terrorists from fulfilling their bloody wishes. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more... -
Mission Critical by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man.Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard...Categorized as:
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Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsGregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program...Categorized as:
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Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTwo years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney’s office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again—this time, accused of murder.Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case...Categorized as:
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The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLaw professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dead...Categorized as:
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Vortex by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with powerful pieces of the past that could have dire consequences in the present.Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a frat party with her best friend Serena when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena...Categorized as:
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Checkmate by Steven James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn "Checkmate," critically acclaimed novelist Steven James offers the final, chilling chapter in his bestselling series, The Bowers Files. When a clandestine FBI facility is attacked, Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into the vicious, ruthless story that a killer from his past is bent on telling the world...Categorized as:
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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... -
Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsOn a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered...Categorized as:
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Term Limits by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAlternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780671023188 here TAKING AMERICA BACK ... ONE POLITICIAN AT A TIME In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people...Categorized as:
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Memorial Day by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFighting terrorism on foreign ground, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom.CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II...Categorized as:
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Executive Power by Vince Flynn, Armand Schultz
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsCIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown... -
Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsForced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed.As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X... -
The Defector by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSix months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London...Categorized as:
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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... -
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...Categorized as:
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The Tracker by Chad Zunker
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTrust no one.Sam Callahan learned this lesson from a childhood spent in abusive foster care, on the streets, and locked in juvie. With the past behind him and his future staked on law school, he is moonlighting as a political tracker, paid to hide in crowds and shadow candidates, recording their missteps for use by their opponents...Categorized as:
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American Assassin by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsMitch Rapp is a gifted college athlete who just wants retribution for the Pan Am Lockerbie attack. He trains six months intensely with other clandestine operatives, under CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield and protégé Irene Kennedy, to stop terrorists before they reach America...Categorized as:
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The Chaos Kind by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe assassins of Barry Eisler’s #1 bestseller The Killer Collective are back—and this time, it’s chaos.Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children.But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state...Categorized as:
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To Die For by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author, David Baldacci, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the FBI in a case that gets more complicated with the more questions Devine asks—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train. Travis Devine has become a pro at adapting to any situation to accomplish the mission set in front of him...Categorized as:
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Friendly Fire by John Gilstrap, Basil Sands
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Will leave you breathless." (Harlan Coben)"When you pick up a Gilstrap novel, one thing is always true - you are going to be entertained at a high rate of speed." (Suspense Magazine)It begins with a shocking act of vengeance. Barista Ethan Falk chases a customer into the parking lot and kills him. He tells police that years ago, the older man abducted and tortured him...Categorized as:
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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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Brigands M.C. by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsA new member of CHERUB gets the chance to avenge the death of his family in the eleventh book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented—and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist...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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Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNow the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He’s playing by Moscow rules now.It is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys...Categorized as:
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Divine Justice by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWhat's the central theme in "Divine Justice?"Oliver Stone is the most wanted man in America.No, not the maverick filmmaker Oliver Stone but the covert agent whose real name is John Carr. Men in the highest circles of power want him dead, and quickly, because he knows too many of their deepest secrets...Categorized as:
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The End Game by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times–bestselling author Catherine Coulter, the explosive new addition to the remarkable thriller series featuring Nicholas Drummond and Mike Caine. FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE—Celebrants of the Earth—a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries across the country...Categorized as:
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Oath of Office by Jack Mars
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOATH OF OFFICE is book #2 in the bestselling Luke Stone series, which begins with ANY MEANS NECESSARY (book #1. A biological agent is stolen from a biocontainment lab. Weaponized, it could kill millions, and a desperate national hunt ensues to catch the terrorists before it is too late...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...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Redemption by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsDetective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in the latest Memory Man thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by an unfamiliar man. But he instantly recognizes the man's name: Meryl Hawkins...Categorized as:
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Black List by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn explosive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor: Scot Harvath must survive a stunning masterwork of action, intrigue, and ingenious plot twists.Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of advisers...Categorized as:
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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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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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Prince Of Fire by Daniel Silva, Guerin Barry
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFew recent thriller writers have elicited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has received, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon.Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history... -
Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNavy SEAL turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath follows bloody clues to silver-eyed elusive ruthless terrorist Hashim Nidal, who intends to topple Israel and America, and can be identified by only one person - Meg Cassidy. Across four continents, from Macau, Jerusalem, Chicago, Libya, Capri, and Rome, the deadly puzzle tests their limits and growing bond...Categorized as:
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The Fix by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAmos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling...Categorized as:
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End Game by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWill Robie and Jessica Reel are two of the most lethal people alive. They're the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required to take out those who plot violence and mass destruction against the United States. And through every mission, one man has always had their backs: their handler, code-named Blue Man.But now, Blue Man is missing...Categorized as:
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Trojan by Alan McDermott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen MI5 learns that a horrifying new weapon is in enemy hands, agent Andrew Harvey is called in to track it down before it reaches British soil.The clock is ticking. Andrew and his girlfriend, Sarah, also a secret service operative, have only one lead: a beautiful refugee, desperate not to lose her son...Categorized as:
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The Elias Network by Simon Gervais
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMr. & Mrs. Smith meets political thriller in this heart-pounding series debut about two undercover flames whose new mission risks exposing their true identities to the world…and, worse, each other.Caspian Anderson is a translator for the United Nations—or so he’s led everyone to believe...Categorized as:
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Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of The Windsor Series comes the second Tildas Island mystery:When treason isn’t enoughIsiah Clarke may be a former Navy SEAL, but now that he’s retired, he’s more than happy to be passing his time tending to the bar he owns on Tildas Island. That is, until a former teammate sends him a message asking for help in finding and protecting an elusive CIA asset...Categorized as:
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Oddział 666 by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe #1 bestselling author of The Collectors and Simple Genius returns with STONE COLD...an unforgetable novel of revenge, conspiracy, and murder that brings a band of unlikely heroes face-to-face with their greatest threat. Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path...Categorized as:
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One Last Kill by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsPreviously published as Killing Rain and One Last KillAfter nearly dying while taking out a target in Hong Kong, Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila. He also has a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol'-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Act of War by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe new scot harvath thriller and the follow-up to hidden order, from new york times bestselling author brad thor. After a cia agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There's just one problem - no one knows if she can be trusted...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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The Last Protector by Simon Gervais
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of the Pierce Hunt series comes a thrilling novel featuring a Secret Service agent who takes on a ruthless foe to protect the country he serves and the woman he loves. Former air force combat rescue officer Special Agent Clayton White now works for the Secret Service performing routine escort missions for politicians... -
Night Owl by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA shocking act of sabotage draws a retired spy into a deadly conspiracy in an explosive thriller by an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.After three decades in counterintelligence, Brad Trasker is retired, disillusioned, and dealing with a tragic loss. Spy games are behind him until he attends the launch of a next-generation aircraft...Categorized as:
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Shock Wave by John Sandford
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe fifth Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John SandfordA billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small Minnesota river town for its next outlet. Two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster...Categorized as:
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Med rett til å drepe by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMunich: The writer Benjamin Stern entered his flat to see a man standing there, leafing through his research, and said, "Who the hell are you?" In response, the man shot him. As Stern lay dying, the gunman murmured a few words in Latin, then he gathered the writer's papers and left...
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