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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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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
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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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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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
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...Categorized as:
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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... -
Trap the Devil by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA group of some of the most powerful people in the government, the military, and the private sector, has a brutal plan to quietly take over the reins of the U.S. government. They've begun to remove the people who stand in their way -- and replace them with their own sympathizers and puppets...Categorized as:
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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... -
Jackson: Book 2 of a 3 book arc by Giulia Lagomarsino
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the 14th book in the Reed Security Series and the 2nd book of a 3 book arc. The arc books need to be read in order and it is suggested that the rest of the series is read in order as well. Jackson Lewis saved Raegan Cartwright from a terrible situation and has been keeping her and her parents safe...Categorized as:
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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...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...Categorized as:
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Point Of Impact by Stephen Hunter, Beau Bridges
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHe was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged... -
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Black Ice by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[A]nother instant classic.” —The Real Book Spy “The undisputed master of blending geopolitics with spycraft…a thriller aficionado’s dream.” —The Providence Journal The new Cold War is about to go hot. #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most intense thriller yet...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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Fear the Reaper by Fiona Quinn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEverything was going according to plan…until it fell apart in the most spectacular way… Ex-SEAL Ryan “Reaper” Hamilton is well on his way to having it all. His marriage to Kate is finally on solid ground, and his goal of being a K9 trainer with Iniquus’s Cerberus team is within reach... -
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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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
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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Delta Redemption by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJase had his life mapped out in front of him. He was the leader of SEAL Team Phantom and planned to continue moving up in the ranks, until he met his mentor’s daughter. Falling for Brooke Frazee wasn’t on his agenda, but from the moment he saw the Admiral’s daughter, all bets were off. Brooke’s life wasn’t always easy, but she dreamed of someday finding her happily ever after...Categorized as:
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Run by Janet Elizabeth Henderson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElle Roberts wants two things in life:One—to find out everything there is to know about the mysterious spy who keeps kissing her, andTwo—to stay off her mob family’s radar.That isn’t too much to ask, is it? It’s not like she wants to win the lottery, or live in a Star Wars movie, or be Chris Hemsworth’s personal bather...Categorized as:
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Gray Vengeance by Alan McDermott, James Langton
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn African militia has a new leader—and Tom Gray has a deadly new problem.Da Sunan Annabi has a ruthless new leader whose aim is to train British nationals to bring England to its knees...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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The Terminal List by Jack Carr
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller.On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them...Categorized as:
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The Survivor by Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling novel that picks up where the “tight, right, and dynamite” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) The Last Man left off, The Survivor is a no-holds-barred race to save America…and Mitch Rapp’s finest battle...Categorized as:
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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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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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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... -
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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A Time to Die by Tom Wood
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt takes a bad man to hunt evilIf the assassin known only as Victor once had a moral compass, it is long since buried, along with his many victims. Yet some men are so evil even Victor accepts they must die for reasons other than just money.One such is Milan Rados, a former commander in the Serbian army who has escaped trial at The Hague to become a formidable criminal power...Categorized as:
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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... -
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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... -
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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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... -
Bloodlands by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe cold of Siberia meets the chill of betrayal.In a world where loyalty is fleeting and alliances are temporary, John Milton is on a mission that will bring him face-to-face with enemies old and new. When his friend, Alex Hicks, finds himself pursued by mysterious adversaries, the two men are thrust back into the web of international espionage... -
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...Categorized as:
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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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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... -
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...Categorized as:
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Blood Vengeance by David Leadbeater
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the pivotal novel of the Matt Drake series, everything changes. Matt Drake's team is torn apart around him. The President of the United States is abducted. America and the world sit before their TV screens, shuddering in disbelief as Washington DC itself comes under attack. The Blood King is back!The night has never been so dark, the dawn so far out of reach... -
No Man's Land by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsSpecial Agent John Puller, combat veteran and the army's most tenacious investigator, is back in this action-packed thriller from worldwide #1 bestselling author David Baldacci. NO MAN'S LANDTwo men. Thirty years.John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years...Categorized as:
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Persuader by Lee Child
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsJack Reacher.The ultimate loner.An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he s moved from place to place without family without possessions without commitments.And without fear. Which is good, because trouble big, violent, complicated trouble finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once not ever...Categorized as:
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The Wild One by Nick Petrie
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWar veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the national bestselling author of The Drifter...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Burning Bright by Nicholas Petrie, Nick Petrie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, “an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne” (Lincoln Journal-Star), Ash has a woman’s life in his hands—and her mystery is stranger than he could ever imagine. War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods of northern California, but the trip isn’t quite the balm he’d hoped for...Categorized as:
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