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Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMitch 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... -
![A Band of Steel by Rosie Goodwin]()
A Band of Steel by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA family threatened by war but destroyed by love... When Adina and her family are forced to flee Cologne to escape the vicious menace of German invasion in 1938, leaving their luxurious lifestyle is painful. Harder still is finding herself a refugee in a foreign country... -
![Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn]()
Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn 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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Right to Kill by Andrew Peterson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a team of commandos—highly skilled and armed to the teeth—tries to kidnap retired CIA station chief Linda Genneken from her home, trained Marine Nathan McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, arrive just in time to join the fight. But their well-honed CIA instincts tell them this is only the beginning.McBride and Fontana set out to learn who ordered the midnight raid, and why... -
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![Gray Salvation by Alan McDermott]()
Gray Salvation by Alan McDermott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen 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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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... -
![Ghosts of War by Brad Taylor]()
Ghosts of War by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis danger is far greater than a single attack.The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – is on edge. Tensions are boiling over between the East and the West. One strike forces nations to start taking sides and seeking revenge.Only the Taskforce knows the escalation was a false flag attack. What they don't know is who was responsible... -
![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... -
![Contract to Kill by Andrew Peterson]()
Contract to Kill by Andrew Peterson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen 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... -
![Days of Rage by Brad Taylor]()
Days of Rage by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 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... -
![Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor]()
Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFormer 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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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... -
![The Last Refuge by Ben Coes]()
The Last Refuge by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith 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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![Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras]()
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in FranceA young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching...Categorized as:
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![Red War by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn]()
Red War by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him... -
![Use of Force by Brad Thor]()
Use of Force by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAs a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore.Identified as a high value terrorism suspect (who had disappeared three years prior), his name sends panic through the Central Intelligence Agency... -
![Tom Clancy: Commander-In-Chief by Mark Greaney]()
Tom Clancy: Commander-In-Chief by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe 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... -
![The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor]()
The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe ninth thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series by Brad Taylor, a retired Delta Force commander who has lived for more than twenty years in the world about which he writes. For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe... -
![Field of Fire by Marc Cameron, Tom Weiner]()
Field of Fire by Marc Cameron, Tom Weiner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"One of the hottest new authors in the thriller genre." - Brad Thor, Attack on America.The first target is Dallas, Texas. A deadly nerve gas called New Archangel is unleashed upon the City of Angels, claiming innocent lives, spreading nationwide panic, and fueling global fears of another attack... -
![The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor]()
The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInvented by nature but genetically manipulated by man, a mutation of the H5N1 virus—aka the “bird flu”—has fallen into the wrong hands. Angered by sanctions placed against its nuclear program, a rogue state is determined to release it. Their chosen method: one of the Black Widows—female suicide terrorists of Chechen descent who have the highest kill rate of any terrorist organization... -
![Monroe Doctrine: Volume I by James Rosone, Miranda Watson]()
Monroe Doctrine: Volume I by James Rosone, Miranda Watson
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt was called Jade Dragon……and it threatened to destroy the West.Was an attack on the U.S. imminent?In a lab deep in the heart of China, a brilliant engineer had a breakthrough. It was the most powerful AI ever created. Ma Young believed the Jade Dragon could solve the world’s most dire challenges. There was just one problem…The president of China had other ideas... -
![Dirty War by Stephen Leather]()
Dirty War by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE NEW MUST-READ SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLERThe target - the Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose.The only man who can stop them? Dan "Spider" Shepherd.But Shepherd's reputation is also on the line - he helped get one of the jihadists into the UK during the final days of the War in Afghanistan.Now he has to track down the man whose life he once saved... -
![Rigged by James Rosone]()
Rigged by James Rosone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Rigged is a riveting, relevant, relentless rollercoaster-ride of a thriller—and kicks off an action-packed series that’s already four books long and counting." —The Real Book SpyWho has real power?The people in the shadows……behind the presidents of the world.Cloaked in secrecy and loyal to their leaders, the masters of manipulation play at an entirely different level... -
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![The Deceivers by Alex Berenson]()
The Deceivers by Alex Berenson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Russians don't just want to influence American elections--they want it all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a plot of astonishing audacity as New York Times-bestselling author Alex Berenson goes beyond today's headlines to tomorrow's all-too-real threats.It was supposed to be a terrorist sting. The guns were supposed to be disabled... -
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Act of Terror by Marc Cameron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWarning: The next attack on American soil will come from within.From coast to coast, our nation is witnessing a new wave of terror. Suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear. A flight attendant tries to crash an airliner. A police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium. And at CIA headquarters, a Deputy Director goes on a murderous rampage... -
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The Hunters by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDelta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third crackling adventure in Griffin's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The first two novels in W. E. B. Griffin's exciting new Presidential Agent series, By Order of the President and The Hostage, immediately raced up the bestseller lists–The Hostage debuting at #1. The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off... -
![The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor]()
The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the eighth action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series, ISIS, the most maniacal terrorist organization the modern world has ever seen, is poised to make their most audacious strike yet. The United States has anticipated and averted countless attacks from terrorist groups—thanks in large part to the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce... -
![State of Emergency by Marc Cameron]()
State of Emergency by Marc Cameron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCountdown To ArmageddonTwo agents, Russian and American, are brutally murdered. College students, working as drug mules, die gruesome deaths from radiation poisoning. Powerful dirty bombs explode minutes apart in San Francisco and St. Petersburg, Russia--slaughtering citizens and spreading blind panic throughout the world. But this is only a warning. The next attack will be nuclear... -
![SEAL's Defiance by Elle James]()
SEAL's Defiance by Elle James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Navy SEAL and a beautiful aide doctor navigate hostile territory in their attempt to rescue a kidnapped doctor and discover what is killing entire villages in the Horn of Africa. When his SEAL team's mission fails in the Horn of Africa, Declan “Irish” O'Shea is separated from his team. Rescued by a woman and hidden until he recuperates, Irish's main goal is to make it back alive to his team... -
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Iron Gate by Richard Herman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe bestselling author of Dark Wing and The Warbirds thrusts his legendary hero, Colonel Matt Pontowski, USAF, into a dangerously unstable South Africa. At stake is a scientific and political prize that could shift the free world's balance of power... -
![Left for Dead by Sean Parnell]()
Left for Dead by Sean Parnell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpecial Operative Eric Steele battles a renegade group of bioterrorists armed with a devastating virus in the fourth pulse-pounding military thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon. On a remote mountaintop in western China, Doctor Ai Liang is about to risk everything and defy the Chinese Communist Party... -
![Night of the Cobra by Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis]()
Night of the Cobra by Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this enthralling new novel in the bestselling Kyle Swanson sniper series, an American warrior is called to redeem a debt of honor in Somalia amid haunting personal nightmares... -
![Terminal Velocity by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy]()
Terminal Velocity by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA string of savage murders in the United States seems unrelated until the FBI makes a shocking discovery: a decade ago, all of the murder victims were involved in a raid to eliminate the Umayyad Revolutionary Council, a vicious terror group that—were it not for John Clark and the Campus—would have perpetrated the most devastating attack against critical American infrastructure in history... -
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![First Response by Stephen Leather]()
First Response by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd and Jack Nightingale series comes First Response, the utterly addictive new thriller by Stephen Leather. London is under siege. Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in nine different locations around the city, and are ready to die for their cause... -
![Into the Gray Zone by Brad Taylor]()
Into the Gray Zone by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPike Logan uncovers a geopolitical scheme that has spiraled out of control in India in this latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor. While on a routine security assessment in India, Taskforce operator Pike Logan foils an attempted attack on a meeting between the CIA and India’s intelligence service... -
![The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson]()
The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA killer is on the loose . . .In 2009, the CIA officers in Afghanistan's Kabul Station received information from a reliable source regarding the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. But when they followed the informant to bin Laden's apparent location, they discovered it was a deadly trap. The man blew himself up, taking the chief of station and several senior officers with him... -
![National Security by Marc Cameron]()
National Security by Marc Cameron
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Terrorism Goes Viral, One Man Goes Ballistic.They can strike anytime, anywhere. A public landmark. A suburban shopping mall. And now, the human body itself. Three Middle Eastern terrorists have been injected with a biological weapon, human time bombs unleashed on American soil. They are prepared to die. To spread their disease. To annihilate millions... -
![Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars]()
Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen nuclear waste is stolen by jihadists in the middle of the night from an unguarded New York City hospital, the police, in a frantic race against time, call in the FBI. Luke Stone, head of an elite, secretive, department within the FBI, is the only man they can turn to... -
![Damascus Station by David McCloskey]()
Damascus Station by David McCloskey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad’s recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy... -
![Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office by Khalid Muhammad]()
Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office by Khalid Muhammad
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelebrated as a ragtag force that defeated and broke the Soviet Union, no one predicted the Mujahideen would bring with them a plague that would spread like wildfire through Pakistan in the years to follow. When the battle-worn fighters returned with no enemy or war to fight, they turned their sights on the country that had been their creator and benefactor... -
![Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax]()
Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at a critical low and the elderly are living increasingly long lives. This population crisis has precipitated a mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia—as well as the development of refined artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short... -
![Whiskey & Roses by Bradley Wright]()
Whiskey & Roses by Bradley Wright
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIF SOMEONE MURDERED YOUR FAMILY, HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR REVENGE?The world knows Xander King as a handsome, charismatic, and successful young business man who bravely moved past the tragedy of witnessing the brutal murder of his parents... -
![No Mercy by John Gilstrap]()
No Mercy by John Gilstrap
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“No Mercy will leave you breathless.” --Harlan CobenWhen those inside the corridors of power need help outside the law, they know who to call. Jonathan Grave, covert rescue specialist, always gets results. No names. No feds. No trace evidence.When an Indiana college student is abducted, Jonathan and his team of ace operatives unravel a deadly scheme the government wants ignored... -
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![Locked On by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney]()
Locked On by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsJack Ryan Jr.—along with the covert warriors of the Campus—continues to uphold his legendary father’s legacy of courage and honor in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy.Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even as Jack Ryan Sr... -
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Iron Wolf by Dale Brown
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Dale Brown goes beyond the headlines in this high-tech, high-tension military thriller in which a resurgent Russia enflames sectarian unrest and violence in Ukraine and Poland, setting off a stealth robotic war and escalating an international crisis.In the spring of 2017, the U.S... -
![Phantom: A New Alex Hawke Novel by Ted Bell]()
Phantom: A New Alex Hawke Novel by Ted Bell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe first and most bizarre event nearly becomes a monumental catastrophe when something goes awry at an American theme park, wreaking havoc on visitors looking for nothing more than a sun-splashed holiday... -
![The Assassin by Andrew Britton]()
The Assassin by Andrew Britton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times BestsellerA weapon of catastrophic destruction. A nation on the brink of unspeakable disaster. And the ultimate enemy lies closer to home than anyone realizes.Only maverick CIA agent Ryan Kealey sees the threat for what it really is--but Washington refused to listen. With the lives of millions at stake, Kealey has only one option: to take matters into his own hands... -
![Come and Take Them by Tom Kratman]()
Come and Take Them by Tom Kratman
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNumber five in the Carerra military science fiction series that started with A Desert Called Peace. Miltary leader Carrera faces down a threat from progressive totalitarians and wins the freedom of his country on a frontier planet.The Carrera saga continues with entry number five, and the sequel to Amazon Legion. Carrera. Relentless. Machiavellian. Without compunction. Victorious... -
![SAS: Red Notice by Andy McNab]()
SAS: Red Notice by Andy McNab
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDeep beneath the English Channel, a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurostar to Paris, taken 400 hostages at gunpoint - and declared war on a government that has more than its own fair share of secrets to keep.One man stands in their way. An off-duty SAS soldier is hiding somewhere inside the train...
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