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Desert Eagle by Alan Lee
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook Five in the Sinatra series.Available for pre-order.Arriving late 2022...Categorized as:
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![Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison]()
Final Option by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series...Categorized as:
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![Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes]()
Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 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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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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![Killa City by Mark Dawson]()
Killa City by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA storm is brewing in the heartlands of America and John Milton senses something in the air…John Milton has a nose for trouble. He can smell it a mile away. And when he witnesses a suspicious altercation between a young man and two thugs in a car auction parking lot, he can’t resist getting involved.Milton came to Kansas City hoping to find a way out of danger... -
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Redeemer by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn Milton is in Rio de Janeiro to strike a couple of things off his bucket list. He’s staying with an old army friend who runs a private security company with a contract to protect government officials. When one of the bodyguards doesn’t turn up for work, Milton offers to stand in. The job is routine: take the wife and daughter of an anti-corruption judge to a school recital...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... -
![Blood & Roses by Mark Dawson]()
Blood & Roses by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBeatrix Rose has worked her way through her Kill List. Four are dead and just two remain. But now her enemies know she has them in her sights. The hunter becomes the hunted.In a thrilling conclusion to the breakneck trilogy, Beatrix and her daughter must fight them in North Africa, New York and finally in the swamps of North Carolina...Categorized as:
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Sleepers by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen 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...Categorized as:
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![Blackout by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe]()
Blackout by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn offer he couldn't refuse. A murder he can’t remember…John Milton’s life is about to change. The former government assassin follows a lead to Manila that he hopes will change his life. But he never expected to wake up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a murder victim. And, unfortunately for him, Milton doesn’t remember a thing about the night before...Categorized as:
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![The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney]()
The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsArtificial 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...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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![Kill for Me by Tom Wood]()
Kill for Me by Tom Wood
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLethal assassin Victor lands in the middle of a Guatemalan cartel war in the latest nonstop thriller from the international bestselling author of The Final Hour.Victor is the killer who always delivers...for the right price. And Heloise Espinosa, patron of Guatemala's largest cartel, is ready and willing to pay him just that to eliminate the competition--her sister...Categorized as:
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![The Supremacy License by Alan Lee]()
The Supremacy License by Alan Lee
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Manny, also known as Agent Sinatra. A US Marshal renowned for his bravura in collaring fugitives. The only thing he loves more than America is a well-tailored sports jacket. An international terrorist slips through the East Coast and takes up residence inside an impregnable mountain chateau—within American borders but beyond legal reach... -
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![The Final Hour by Tom Wood]()
The Final Hour by Tom Wood
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe enigmatic assassin Victor returns in an explosive thriller from the international bestselling author of A Time to Die and The Darkest Day. SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE... Victor is the ultimate predator. He surfaces to kill, then disappears into thin air. But he's a disposable commodity for the powerful people he works for--both the good guys and the bad. And no one has his back...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
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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![Blood Moon Rising by Mark Dawson]()
Blood Moon Rising by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTen years ago, Beatrix Rose headed an off-the-books hit squad to carry out the dirty work of the British government. When she discovered that the commander of the squad was corrupt, he sent five of his assassins to rub her out. But they failed. Bad mistake.There were six names on Beatrix’s Kill List. Two have been accounted for, and she has number three in her sights...Categorized as:
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![The Killer Ascendant by Barry Eisler]()
The Killer Ascendant by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPreviously published as Requiem for an AssassinHunted and finally cornered, John Rain faces his deadliest enemy ever: himself.For Rain, "the most charismatic assassin since James Bond" (San Francisco Chronicle), getting out of the life was never going to be easy...Categorized as:
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![The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell]()
The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. It’s her brother Ron. After seven years in the Witness Protection Program, someone has discovered his whereabouts, and has tried to kill him. He’s called to warn Sabre that she is in imminent danger. Sabre and her private investigator, J.P., leave sunny San Diego to search for her brother in the cold, wintry Northwest...Categorized as:
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Cold Kill by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratings"While investigating a crew of people-traffickers…Dan Shepherd discovers a cross-Channel currency-smuggling operation. Posing as a low-level criminal, Shepherd infiltrates the gang, befriending its London soldiers and establishing contact with the Albanian gangster who masterminds the business from his swank Paris flat...Categorized as:
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![Zero Sum by Barry Eisler]()
Zero Sum by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsReturning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death...Categorized as:
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![Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons]()
Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe stakes are higher than ever as the Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues.Lying low on the sun-kissed coast of Portugal is a far cry from twenty-four-hour lockdown in a CIA black-site prison. But even in paradise, Gibson Vaughn is a long way from being home free. With the feds hot on his heels, he and his crew of fellow fugitives know they can’t hide in a sunny beach town forever...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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![Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning]()
Next Exit, Three Miles by C.W. Browning
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlina Maschik was one of the best. She never missed. Yet, two years ago in Cairo, she missed her shot at one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. Now, he’s back. This time, he’s on US soil.Given the opportunity to redeem herself, Alina’s objective is simple: find the terrorist and complete her mission... -
![The Last Patriot by Brad Thor]()
The Last Patriot by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Brad Thor's highest-voltage thriller to date, Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks. June 632 A.D.: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated.September 1789: U.S...Categorized as:
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![The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul]()
The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler...Categorized as:
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![Once a Thief by Christopher Reich]()
Once a Thief by Christopher Reich
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFacing enemies at every turn, private spy Simon Riske dashes across Europe to find the truth behind a mysterious investor in this high-stakes international espionage series: "comparison to the Bond novels is apt in many ways." (Booklist)Simon Riske sits in sun-dappled Napa Valley, toasting the record hundred-million-dollar sale of a rare 1963 Ferrari which he restored himself... -
![The Time to Kill by Mason Cross]()
The Time to Kill by Mason Cross
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's been five years since Carter Blake parted ways with top-secret government operation Winterlong. They brokered a deal at the time: he'd keep quiet about what they were doing, and in return he'd be left alone.But news that one of Blake's old allies, a man who agreed the same deal, is dead means only one thing - something has changed and Winterlong is coming for him...Categorized as:
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![Eddie's Boy: A Novel by Thomas Perry]()
Eddie's Boy: A Novel by Thomas Perry
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMichael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life...Categorized as:
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![The Silenced by Brett Battles]()
The Silenced by Brett Battles
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsProfessional “cleaner” Jonathan Quinn has a new client and an odd job: find and remove the remains of a body hidden twenty years ago inside the walls of a London building, before the building is demolished. But Quinn and his team are being watched...Categorized as:
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![Sleeping Bear by Connor Sullivan]()
Sleeping Bear by Connor Sullivan
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsArmy veteran seeking solitude in the Alaskan wilderness after her husband’s death—only to find herself a pawn in a deadly game with Russia.After her young husband’s untimely death, Army veteran Cassie Gale decides to take a few days of solitude in the Alaska wilderness before she starts her new job... -
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Obsession by Stuart Woods
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTeddy Fay finds his skills put to the test in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Picture’s business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire... -
![The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEverywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure...Categorized as:
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![The Driver by Mark Dawson]()
The Driver by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn alternate cover edition of ASIN B00HD93V1G can be found here: < a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...hereJohn Milton had started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn't want to be found...Categorized as:
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![Graveyard of Memories by Barry Eisler]()
Graveyard of Memories by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972.Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government...Categorized as:
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![The Detachment by Barry Eisler]()
The Detachment by Barry Eisler
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsJohn Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy...Categorized as:
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![The Bannerman Solution by John R. Maxim]()
The Bannerman Solution by John R. Maxim
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPaul Bannerman was once his nation's deadliest weapon--a top covert operative heading up the most lethal group of contract agents and network specialists in all of Europe. Now Bannerman is a liability--an unpredictable loose cannon that could irreparably damage America's shaky intelligence structure, if he chose to...Categorized as:
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![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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Dark Vector by Ward Larsen
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first book in a blockbuster new series from USA Today bestseller, Ward Larsen! In the wilds of Siberia, a top-secret Russian fighter goes missing on a test flight. The Russian Air Force begins a search, oblivious to their they are looking in the wrong spot. The pilot, Colonel Maxim Primakov, has crash landed during an attempted defection...Categorized as:
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![I Spy, I Saw Her Die by Ian C.P. Irvine]()
I Spy, I Saw Her Die by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a race against time, it's Ray Luck against the world! When Ray Luck - a top cyber security expert - accidentally stumbles upon a devastating secret while surfing the web, he knows immediately he is in way above his head and soon he is being hunted by both Mossad and the British Security Services...Categorized as:
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![The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul]()
The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*The Titanic's greatest secret is finally revealed . . .When Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic in search of a rare and valuable element he never learned the disturbing true story of its origins. But upon receiving secret testimony from private detective Isaac Bell he's taken back to the year 1911 and a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine...Categorized as:
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![Saint Death by Mark Dawson]()
Saint Death by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJohn Milton has been off the grid for six months. He surfaces in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and immediately finds himself drawn into a vicious battle with the narco-gangs that control the borderlands.He saves the life of an idealistic young journalist who has been targeted for execution. The only way to keep her safe is to smuggle her into Texas...Categorized as:
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![The Other Woman by Daniel Silva]()
The Other Woman by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsShe was his best-kept secret …In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret...Categorized as:
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![The Contract: Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane]()
The Contract: Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter Jessica's husband learns that a relentless hit man named Tanner was offered the contract to kill his wife, he goes in search of Tanner, which leads to a showdown between the two deadly men... -
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Gut Decision by Jeff Carson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter six tours in the Army special forces, David Wolf is finally back home in Rocky Points, Colorado, where he's in his third week of training for the Rocky Points PD...Categorized as:
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Bannerman's Promise by John R. Maxim
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Paul Bannerman and his "people" were the government's most efficient killers, until they retired to a peaceful, affluent community in Connecticut. But there were promises made that still need to be kept. And old lethal habits sometimes die very hard--especially in matters of honor...or survival."Assassins don't come any deadlier than Carla Benedict, Paul Bannerman's most ruthless operative...Categorized as:
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![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...Categorized as:
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![The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker]()
The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaith, history, science and love collide in this fast-paced action adventure.High school teacher Shaun Strickland is shocked when he receives a last-minute invitation from Cambridge University to deliver a paper on the relationship between space and time, something he has been studying for years. This could be the break he s been longing for... -
![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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