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Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Mitch Rapp, the CIA’s top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order.Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington...

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Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
In Ben Coes' latest, Eye for an Eye, Dewey Andreas faces the toughest odds of his life as one of China's most powerful men has decided to do whatever he must to take down Dewey—and inflicts a horrifying loss.When Dewey Andreas uncovers the identity of a mole embedded at a high level in Israel's Mossad, it triggers a larger, more dangerous plot...

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Agent in Place by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novelsFresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam's regime...

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Code Red by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Mitch Rapp makes a mortal enemy of Russia in this high-octane and “ripped straight from next week’s headlines” (The Real Book Spy) installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor—especially when it’s the world’s most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor bound to answer...

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Separation of Power by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 31 ratings
CIA 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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Crusader One by Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Nothing stops former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator John Dempsey from answering the call of duty—including a mission with the highest stakes he’s ever faced. When one of the most brazen and lethal acts of terrorism rocks American and Israeli intelligence forces at the highest levels, Dempsey’s ultracovert antiterror unit, Ember, mobilizes...

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Hired to Kill by Andrew Peterson, Dick Hill
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In this fast-paced thriller, special operative Nathan McBride battles the most treacherous enemy he’s ever faced—and the one hitting closest to home.After simultaneous deadly terror attacks on San Diego and Washington, DC, hammer the nation, Nathan learns that the mass murders weren’t random events—they targeted his family.And the threat is far from over...

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The Man Who Never Was by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Can the man who never was catch the criminals who never get caught?John Milton is used to operating in the shadows, weaving his way through dangerous places behind a fake identity. Now, to avenge the death of a close friend, he must wear his mask of deception once more.Beau Baxter was brutally murdered by a drugs cartel but that doesn’t stop Milton from blaming himself for his friend’s death...

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Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury by Graham Brown, Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
A 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...

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Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
In the next thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, the anti-terrorism operative heads to Pakistan to confront a mortal threat he may not be prepared for. In fact, this time he might have met his match.Mitch Rapp is used to winning...

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Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Forced 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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Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea by Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Another fabulous read featuring heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordano from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.The next adventure featuring NUMA Director Dirk Pitt...

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No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America’s most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies...

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First Strike by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The violent terrorist group ISIS has launched a major military campaign to take over Syria. But as they commit more and more public atrocities, their sources for ammunition are drying up. However, their charismatic and tyrannical leader, Tristan Nazir, has a major card left to play, which will get a new secret shipment of arms underway...

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True Believer by Jack Carr
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin...

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Gray Salvation by Alan McDermott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
When the body of an MI5 operative is found floating in the Thames, police frogmen find a significant clue nearby: Nikolai Sereyev, an MI5 informer and mid-level player in a Russian criminal organisation. Both men have been brutally murdered.Andrew Harvey is tasked with finding his colleague’s killer, and quickly uncovers a plot to assassinate a visiting dignitary on British soil...

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Noble Intentions: Season Four by L.T. Ryan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
"Kill them all."The command has been issued. A purging of the black ops community. And the clandestine agency SIS has been hit hardest. All current and former members marked for termination. Including Jack Noble and his known associates.But when the men behind the operation make it personal, Jack cares less about unraveling their plan, and more about exacting vengeance...

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Sleepers by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
When a Russian defector is assassinated in a sleepy English seaside town, Group Fifteen agents John Milton and Michael Pope find themselves in a rush to uncover the culprits and bring them to justice.Their investigation leads them to Moscow and a confrontation with Directorate S, the agency responsible for seeding Russian sleeper agents around the world...

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The Fix by Robert White, Nicholas Camm
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In the winter of 1996, on the orders of HM Government, the SAS stole the contents of a safe belonging to the Provisional IRA.Rick Fuller headed that team.Days later Fuller’s wife was brutally murdered at his home.Convinced he was betrayed from within, Fuller begins a relentless search for her murderers and the men who gave the order...

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Danger Close by Cameron Curtis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
They were powerful and ruthless, but they made one mistake. His name is Breed. Ex-Delta Force sniper Breed has spent most of his life at war and now he’s trying to make some time for peace. But when a veteran from his old unit is murdered in El Paso, Breed feels duty-bound to bring the killer to justice. A feeling that only grows stronger when his friend’s widow and son are also murdered...

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The Third Option by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
· 30 ratings
Mitch 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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Full Black by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yet—a terrifying story of espionage and betrayal—brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don’t exist...

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Total Power by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
IN THE NEXT THRILLER IN THE NUMBER ONE 'NEW YORK TIMES' BEST-SELLING MITCH RAPP SERIES, IT'S A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK WHEN ISIS TAKES OUT THE ENTIRE US POWER GRID AND THROWS THE COUNTRY INTO CHAOS.When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS's top technology expert, he reveals that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America's power grid...

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The First Commandment by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
Covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath awakens find a sadistic assassin with a personal vendetta unleashes horrors on those closest to him. Ordered by the president to stay out of the investigation, Harvath mounts his own operation to uncover the conspiracy and exact revenge...

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Takedown by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
America has just unwittingly drawn the world's deadliest enemy to its doorstep. After years without a terrorist attack on American soil, one group has picked the 4th July weekend to pull out all the stops. In a perfectly executed attack, all the bridges and tunnels leading into and out of Manhattan are destroyed just as thousands of commuters begin their holiday exodus...

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Red Metal by Mark Greaney, Hunter Ripley Rawlings
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector...

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The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.A car accident in Japan.A drowning in Seoul.A home invasion in Boston.Someone is killing the world’s leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence...

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The Silver Wolf by Rob Sinclair
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
A fast paced and unmissable thriller from the international bestselling James Ryker series Ryker wants blood, and one way or another he’ll get it...Still tormented by the disappearance of his wife, ex-intelligence agent James Ryker sets out on a personal mission of revenge, prepared to go to any lengths in search of the truth...

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Bloody Sunday by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal―he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America...

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The Ninth Step by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
John Milton is a former assassin for the British government. He is a ronin, trying to atone for his past sins by offering his services to those people who have no one else to whom they can turn.Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child...

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The Jungle by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents.John Milton is no stranger to the world's seedy underbelly. But when the former British secret service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he'll have to fight harder than ever to conquer the evil in his path...

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Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In 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...

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Balance of Power by David Archer
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Just back from their honeymoon, Noah and Sarah and the rest of Team Camelot are called up for a new mission, but this one is different from anything they've done before. Noah will be infiltrating a domestic organized crime ring in the South, with Sarah as his wife and Neil as her computer-nerd little brother...

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Hit For Hire by David Archer
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
After recovering from the shock of Neverland's recent attack, Noah and the team are sent back into the field to identify and eliminate a power player who uses his position as a legitimate arms dealer to manipulate terror groups and nations alike. Unfortunately, this means infiltrating the man's organization, and the only opening he's got is for an assassin of his own...

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Foreign Influence by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
Recruited as a field operative in a totally secret and uncompromising new spy agency, former Navy SEAL Scot Harvath is summoned when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. The evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath's past and a plan for further attacks on an unimaginable scale...

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Fallen Hero by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
A young treasure diving couple is sadistically murdered in the back country of the Florida Keys—and Jesse McDermitt's friend is the prime suspect. The reclusive federal agent and former combat Marine launches his own investigation in the face of overwhelming evidence. McDermitt is certain of his friend’s innocence...

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Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters...

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Contract to Kill by Andrew Peterson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
When Toby Haynes witnesses a double murder—and suspects his boss, Tanner Mason, as the perpetrator of the crime—he does the only thing he can think of: he calls in Nathan McBride.CIA special ops veteran McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, respond to their friend’s plea...

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The Polaris Protocol by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are used to putting their lives at risk, but in The Polaris Protocol it’s Jennifer’s brother and countless more innocents who face unfathomable violence and bloodshed.Pike and Jennifer are in Turkmenistan with the Taskforce—a top-secret antiterrorist unit that operates outside US law—when Jennifer gets a call from her brother, Jack...

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Days of Rage by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
In former delta force operator and New York Times bestseller Brad Taylor’s latest Pike Logan thriller, the Taskforce must stop their most devastating threat yet—a weapon of mass destruction. The Taskforce is used to being the hunter, but this time they’re the hunted...

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Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Former Delta Force officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a relentlessly fast-paced, gripping thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of America...

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The Black Hornet by Rob Sinclair
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The Black Hornet: an action packed and utterly gripping thriller from the best-selling James Ryker series What do you do when the love of your life vanishes without a trace? If you’re ex-intelligence agent James Ryker you search for the answers whatever the cost, however much blood and sacrifice it takes..

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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...

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A Team of One by Brad Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
New York City faces a fate worse than death, the President suspects a traitor in the White House, and an intelligence analyst discovers a diabolical plot.Former Navy SEAL “Axe” Southmark is enticed out of retirement to help the analyst and the President. But does he have what it takes to save the world?As a Navy SEAL, Axe was trained to never give up...

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Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
Wanting 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...

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crime espionage military political-intrigue terrorism thriller action-adventure adult
The Last Refuge by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
With time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet.Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial...

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Pawns of the Pacific by Andrew Watts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
A nation on the brink of war. A conspiracy that threatens the globe. And one military family, caught in the middle, fighting for freedom. Pawns of the Pacific is the electrifying third book in The War Planners espionage thriller series...

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Forced to Kill by Andrew Peterson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is the sole survivor of Montez de Oca, the brutal Nicaraguan interrogator who tortured countless souls to death before vanishing fourteen years ago. Though McBride’s body—as well as his soul—still bear the scars from the interrogator’s blade, he dares to hope the worst is behind him...

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Tom Clancy: Commander-In-Chief by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
The newest electrifying thriller in the #1 "New York Times "bestselling series has President Jack Ryan and his allies facing a treacherous foe threatening to unleash chaos around the globe. . . When the desperate Russian president launches an all-out covert violent offensive into order to push the world into chaos and regain the power his once-mighty country has lost, it s up to U.S...

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Situation Room by Jack Mars, K.C. Kelly
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
SITUATION ROOM is book #3 in the bestselling Luke Stone thriller series, which begins with ANY MEANS NECESSARY (book #1), a free download with over 60 five star reviews! A cyberattack on an obscure U.S. dam leaves thousands dead and the government wondering who attacked it, and why...

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