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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...Categorized as:
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![Shattered by Melody Anne, John Henley]()
Shattered by Melody Anne, John Henley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTyrell Rice, known as Smoke to his military contacts, is on a mission. Number one is to break down the walls of a drug cartel circle that’s been affecting those he cares about for far too long. His number two mission, not to succumb to the marriage flu that’s been infecting all of the men around him.Smoke is former military, and a former NFL superstar. He’s been around the block many times around...Categorized as:
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![L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker]()
L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAvril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice.Onze ans plus tard, l'affaire rebondit... -
![The Tracker by Chad Zunker]()
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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![The Last Assassin by Barry Eisler]()
The Last Assassin by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBarry Eisler has been compared to Forsyth, Ludlum, le Carré, Ian Fleming, and Graham Greene. But his latest thriller brings Eisler into a league of his own. Even for an average citizen, a love triangle is dangerous business. For assassin John Rain--"one of the most compelling lead characters in the genre" (USA Today)--it's going to be downright deadly...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...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Matterhorn by Christopher Reich
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold in this alpine thriller .Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn’t dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind—back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA...Categorized as:
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![Trojan by Alan McDermott]()
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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![Protecting Justice by Adrienne Giordano, Misty Evans]()
Protecting Justice by Adrienne Giordano, Misty Evans
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the premier political spin-doctor in the U.S., Fallyn Pasche can fix any problem--except her own. Her twin sister, Heather, a United States Senator, has been murdered, her father is barely speaking to her, and someone is after coded files Heather hid in a private safe. In order to decode the files and figure out what happened to her twin, Fallyn turns to the Justice Team...Categorized as:
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![Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz]()
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... -
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Flash by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a limited time, this includes a second story Free – Country Girl. Flash I’m a fighter by day and take my pick of the ladies at night. I thought my life was perfect – I was wrong. When Jennifer walked through those doors, I saw what perfection really is. Long, dark, hair that would look good wrapped in my fist... -
![Lone Wolf by Gregg Hurwitz, Scott Brick]()
Lone Wolf by Gregg Hurwitz, Scott Brick
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings12 hours, 30 minutes Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn... -
![Dance and Dream by Javier Marías]()
Dance and Dream by Javier Marías
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYour Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Volume Two: Dance and Dream again features Jacques Deza...Categorized as:
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![Two Steps Forward by Luana Ehrlich]()
Two Steps Forward by Luana Ehrlich
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCIA operative Titus Ray expects the unexpected. Just not this time. Just not this way. Just not on his honeymoon. An unexpected encounter in Morocco . . . Titus and Nikki begin their new life together in a church ceremony in Norman, Oklahoma and immediately fly to Marrakesh, Morocco for their honeymoon. Then, the unexpected happens, and Titus has an encounter with Jihadi terrorist Baran Asan...Categorized as:
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![Solomon vs. Lord by Paul Levine]()
Solomon vs. Lord by Paul Levine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsVictoria Lord follows all the rules. Steve Solomon makes up his own. They'll either end up in ruin, in jail or in bed. Steve barely graduated from Key West School of Law. Victoria is fresh from Yale, toiling for an ambitious DA, before Steve gets her fired. Katrina Barksdale is a sexy former figure skater charged with killing her very wealthy, very kinky husband in Miami... -
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Miami Requiem by J.B. Turner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gripping race-against-time crime thriller for fans of Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Harlan Coben and Karin Slaughter.She wanted the truth. They wanted her dead.Since her first day on the Miami Herald, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has been agitating for a shot at one particular story. William Craig is on Death Row, convicted of killling Senator Jack O'Neill's only son... -
![Enemy Exposure by Meghan Rogers]()
Enemy Exposure by Meghan Rogers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA spy and action thriller featuring a teenage girl who kicks butt and outsmarts with the best of them. To accomplish her mission, though, she'll need to team up with those she trusts the least in this latest Raven File case.Jocelyn Steely (code name: Raven) may have escaped the clutches of KATO and won the trust of the IDA, but she isn’t out of danger yet...Categorized as:
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![Elite Security by Clara Kendrick]()
Elite Security by Clara Kendrick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDive into this sexy SIX-book series that follows security professionals in their quest for both justice and unexpected romance. Lots of suspense, mystery, and romance. Almost 500,000 words. No cliffhangers! Book 1 The man she considered the love of her life has been abducted under strange circumstances... -
![Flood Tide & Cyclops (Dirk Pitt, #14, #8) by Clive Cussler]()
Flood Tide & Cyclops (Dirk Pitt, #14, #8) by Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first omnibus ever of novels by the New York Times bestselling author. Cussler has had 15 consecutive New York Times bestsellers, and has sold over 75 million copies of his books. In Dirk Pitt, Cussler has created a franchise character...Categorized as:
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![The List by Velvet Vaughn]()
The List by Velvet Vaughn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The Fan and Committed is the first romantic suspense novel in the COBRA Securities series. The List is an intriguing mixture of pulse-pounding suspense and sizzling passion. It was just supposed to be a game... What started out as a harmless game between friends has turned deadly real. Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents... -
![You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas]()
You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s a dark, smog-choked New Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives... -
![Dark Spies by Matthew Dunn]()
Dark Spies by Matthew Dunn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnti Will Cochrane Thriller #4 by Matthew Dunn has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...Categorized as:
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![The Ajax Protocol by Alex Lukeman]()
The Ajax Protocol by Alex Lukeman
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsASIN B00IOQQZQU moved to the most recent edition hereWhen an assassination attempt takes the President out of commission, the Project is caught up in a conspiracy that threatens to spark a world war.The Project team discovers a cold-hearted plot to turn America into a totalitarian police state...Categorized as:
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![Out of the Shadows by Tiffany Snow]()
Out of the Shadows by Tiffany Snow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIvy Mason is no stranger to trouble—though so far she’s always managed to outrun or outsmart it. Now a nasty man-made virus and an FBI manhunt have her desperate for a cure and on the run for her freedom. Even her romance with British secret agent Devon Clay may have deadly consequences, placing her squarely in the crosshairs of a shadowy international assassin, Vega... -
![The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli]()
The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFilled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin’s regime.Known as the “Wizard of the Kremlin,” the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka “The Czar...Categorized as:
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![The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison]()
The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsScotland Yard’s new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the "minder" of the Crown Jewels for the "Jewel of the Lion" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother’s crown...Categorized as:
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![Vital Lies by Daniel Pyne]()
Vital Lies by Daniel Pyne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of spy thriller Water Memory comes a riveting installment in the Sentro series in which past and present collide.When a Canadian spy comes to ex–black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro for help tracking down notorious Cold War spymaster Günter Witt, she wants to say no. It’s been thirty years since Aubrey’s captivity in East Berlin, and she has no desire to return...Categorized as:
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![The Hunter by Tana French]()
The Hunter by Tana French
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace... -
![Payment Upon Delivery by Hackley Hammett]()
Payment Upon Delivery by Hackley Hammett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecent college graduate Jake Williams takes a job with a mysterious trading company in Mexico City. He overlooks the obvious red flags because he needs the money to save his parents’ home. By the time he realizes he’s in over his head, it’s too late to make a clean break. Along the way, Jake falls for the gorgeous Sandra - a Mexican actress who, just like the trading company, has a dark secret... -
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Intrusion by Reece Hirsch
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a powerful client summons him for a midnight meeting, lawyer Chris Bruen knows something is very wrong. Zapper, the world’s most popular search engine, has been compromised and its most valuable asset—search algorithms—stolen...Categorized as:
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Gang Land by A.J. Carella
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Finn discovers that the son he never knew he had was adopted into an abusive environment, he is compelled to find out for himself what has become of him. What he finds is worse than he ever could have imagined--his son is an active member of the most murderous gang in the city... -
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Hard Time by A.J. Carella
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen it comes to family, Kat will do anything. Even if that means going against everything she believes in, and risking her already fragile relationship with the man she loves. Faced with a problem that is too much for her alone, she enlists the help of her one time partner, Kyle. Together they must uncover a deadly secret before any more innocent lives are lost... -
![The Spy's Daughter by Adam Brookes]()
The Spy's Daughter by Adam Brookes
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe thrilling third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense spy fiction at its very finest. Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longs for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she is different...Categorized as:
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![The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather]()
The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she's his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and it seems like her past is another country.But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is being subjected to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help - whatever the risks...Categorized as:
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Black 13 by Adam Hamdy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBlack 13 is the brilliant first novel in the Scott Pearce series from Adam Hamdy. In this addictive and fast-paced thriller, ex-MI6 officer Pearce is about to show us that in a world where there is no loyalty to the nation state, it’s time to burn the espionage rule book.An exiled agent. A growing threat. A clandestine war.The world is changing beyond recognition...Categorized as:
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![Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg]()
Tahoe Deathfall by Todd Borg
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen 14-year-old Jennifer Salazar approaches Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna, she explains that her identical twin sister Melissa died 8 years before on their 6th birthday. Now, at the ripe old age of 14, Jennifer has come to believe that her sister's death was not the accident that everyone says. When McKenna investigates, he uncovers a long-buried secret that is still driving a murderer to kill... -
![Don't Blink by L.G. Davis]()
Don't Blink by L.G. Davis
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings*This book was previously published under the titles The Girl in the Rain and The Girl in the Storm.* Two years ago, Paige Wilson watched helplessly as her brother Ryan was shot, right on her doorstep. He survived the attack, but never fully recovered from the trauma. Stuck in a wheelchair, Ryan refuses to accept the life of a paraplegic... -
![The Bone Field by Simon Kernick]()
The Bone Field by Simon Kernick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the best-selling author of Stay Alive, The Final Minute and The Witness.When the bones of a 21-year old woman who went missing without trace in Thailand in 1990, are discovered in the grounds of an old Catholic school in Buckinghamshire, an enduring mystery takes on a whole new twist... -
![The Ghost War by Alex Berenson]()
The Ghost War by Alex Berenson
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAs former deep cover Afghanistan agent John Wells does what he does best, a CIA mole prepares to light the final fuse that will propel an unsuspecting world toward open war and annihilation. A power play in China causes chaos around the globe...Categorized as:
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![The Accident by Natalie Barelli]()
The Accident by Natalie Barelli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf only she'd said no... Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway... Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it would ruin Katherine’s life... -
![Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson]()
Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn a cold day in January President Kerry Kilcannon takes the oath of office-- and within days makes his first, most important move: appointing a new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Kilcannon's choice is a female judge with a brilliant record. And a secret... -
![The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder]()
The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Joseph Finder has written some of the finest spy novels of our time, and he just keeps getting better... -
![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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![Valentina by S.E. Lynes]()
Valentina by S.E. Lynes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Glasgow journalist Shona McGilvery moves with her partner Mikey and their baby to an idyllic cottage in rural Scotland, they believe that all that lies ahead of them is happiness.But with Mikey working offshore, the frightening isolation of the Aberdeenshire countryside begins to drive her insane...That is, until she is rescued by a new friendship with the enchanting Valentina... -
![Fault Line by Robert Goddard]()
Fault Line by Robert Goddard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross. Not all scars are visible. Jonathan Kellaway needs no reminding of that on the verge of his retirement from china clay conglomerate Intercontinental Kaolins. The company has left its mark in pits and spoil heaps around the world... -
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Always by Nicola Griffith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAud Torvingen is back -- contemporary fiction's toughest, most emotionally complicated noir hero returns to teach a new round of lessons in hard-hitting justice, and to confront new adversaries: her own vulnerability and desire. The steely shell of Nicola Griffith's seemingly indomitable protagonist Aud Torvingen appears to be cracking...Categorized as:
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Wildfire by Anne Stuart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer power-hungry husband takes pleasure in her pain, but she’s done playing the victim. Three years ago, ex-operative Sophie Jordan made the mistake of falling in love—and marrying—her target. Now she’s paying for it tenfold. Her husband might be one of the sexiest men alive, but he’s also a psychopath. She’s been a virtual prisoner, and the time has come for retribution—and escape... -
![La Promesse des ténèbres by Maxime Chattam]()
La Promesse des ténèbres by Maxime Chattam
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Mégapole de tous les possibles. De tous les excès. Où la verticalité des buildings s'oppose à celle des souterrains, toujours plus profonds, peuplés de SDF. Où des hommes se déguisent en vampires pour se repaître de la vie de leur partenaire. Où l'industrie pornographique underground se développe à une inquiétante vitesse. Où l'on vend la mort filmée en direct... -
![Cem Anos de Perdão by João Tordo]()
Cem Anos de Perdão by João Tordo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDepois de Águas Passadas, a dupla Pilar Benamor e Cícero Gusmão regressa para um novo mistério de matizes bizarros.Na pequena e remota ilha de St Dismas, ao largo da Inglaterra, um crime violentíssimo entre irmãos choca a comunidade, trazendo à superfície o mal-estar entre os ilhéus e os Filhos de Dismas, uma seita religiosa que perdura há séculos...Categorized as:
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