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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...Categorized as:
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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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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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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]()
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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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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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...Categorized as:
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![Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury by Graham Brown, Clive Cussler]()
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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![Even Odds by Fiona Quinn]()
Even Odds by Fiona Quinn
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDouble crossedDouble agentsDoubling down……She’s putting her heart and her life on the line.Raine Meyers is only alive today because of the heroic efforts of the Delta Force Echo Team. It’s time to pay that debt.As an undercover defense intelligence officer, Raine tracks a Russian threat to the Delta Force wives left vulnerable while their husbands are downrange protecting the U.S... -
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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... -
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Danger Signs by Fiona Quinn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHer choice is arranged marriage . . . or death . . .Kira al-Attiyah's hope for a bright future in the U.S. died along with her father. Now, royal family tradition demands she marry. Refusing? Not an option. Especially since honor killing isn’t just urban legend. She knew what she had to do. She just never expected her intended to be a terrorist . . -
![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 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]()
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... -
![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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![Fear the Reaper by Fiona Quinn]()
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... -
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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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![The Broken Chase by Cap Daniels]()
The Broken Chase by Cap Daniels
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen American covert operative Chase Fulton finds himself aboard a luxury mega-yacht off the Florida Keys with a dead Russian billionaire on deck and the beautiful SVR officer he loves standing over the body with a bloody knife in her hands, he believes his life could never become more complicated. But he is wrong... -
![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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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... -
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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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![The Messenger by Daniel Silva]()
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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![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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![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...Categorized as:
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![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...Categorized as:
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![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...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]()
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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![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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![The Fix by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy]()
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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![Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor]()
Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil in this blistering, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces Officer Brad Taylor.Pike Logan and the Taskforce were once the apex predators, an unrivaled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the United States, but they may have met their match...Categorized as:
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![Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip by Scott McEwen, Thomas Koloniar]()
Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip by Scott McEwen, Thomas Koloniar
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe co-author of the #1bestsellerAmerican Sniper, the critically acclaimed memoir of SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, brings his talents to a riveting novel packed with the action, danger, and camaraderie that are part of daily life for these elite warriors-and introduces a new SEAL hero. ONE TEAM. ONE SHOT. ONE WAY...Categorized as:
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![The Elias Network by Simon Gervais]()
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... -
![Conviction (Written By Blood #1) by Dwayne Gill]()
Conviction (Written By Blood #1) by Dwayne Gill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNot All Monsters Are Created Equal. Cane was supposed to be out of sight. His most important asset has always been his anonymity, spanning back to his days as an assassin for the U.S. government. But when he finds a cassette player taped to the bumper of his vehicle, he realizes someone not only knows what car he drives, but the routes he takes, as well as what’s most important to him...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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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]()
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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![One Last Kill by Barry Eisler]()
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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![Act of War by Brad Thor]()
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]()
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... -
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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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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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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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