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Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, delivers another breakneck thriller following the world's deadliest assassin the Gray Man. After five years on the run Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first mission makes him wish he had stayed on the outs when a pair of Chinese agents try to take him down in Hong Kong...Categorized as:
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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... -
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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... -
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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... -
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![Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn]()
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... -
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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... -
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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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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... -
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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... -
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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]()
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... -
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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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![Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz]()
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... -
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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... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![The Defector by Daniel Silva]()
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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![Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn]()
Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsThe latest pulse-pounding thriller by #1 "New York Times" bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn explodes onto the scene with a deadly and charismatic hero fans will cheer for all the way to the last riveting page.Vince Flynn's thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere...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...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... -
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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]()
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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![The Chaos Kind by Barry Eisler]()
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]()
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... -
![Friendly Fire by John Gilstrap, Basil Sands]()
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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![Foreign Agent by Brad Thor]()
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... -
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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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![Gray Vengeance by Alan McDermott, James Langton]()
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]()
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]()
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... -
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The Messenger by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsGabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, has been widely acclaimed as one of the most fascinating characters in the genre and now he is about to face the greatest challenge of his life.Allon is recovering from a grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when a figure from his past arrives in Jerusalem...Categorized as:
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![Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva, Simon Vance]()
Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva, Simon Vance
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a romantic weekend in London. But nothing is ever that simple when you're an off-duty spy and assassin. And when he fails to prevent a suicide bombing attack on Covent Garden, Gabriel is drawn once again into the world of international espionage and intrigue... -
![The Terminal List by Jack Carr]()
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]()
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... -
![Divine Justice by David Baldacci]()
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]()
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]()
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... -
![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... -
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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... -
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![Black List by Brad Thor]()
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]()
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]()
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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![The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons]()
The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard—then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency—disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation’s history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession...Categorized as:
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![Prince Of Fire by Daniel Silva, Guerin Barry]()
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...Categorized as:
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![Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor]()
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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