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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish in this “dazzling [and] powerful” novel (The New York Times).
Henry Perowne—a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children—plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother,...
Henry Perowne—a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children—plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother,...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 11
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Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!
President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known in Tom Clancy's extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller.
A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears—including antiterrorism specialist John Clark—to Moscow,...
President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known in Tom Clancy's extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller.
A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears—including antiterrorism specialist John Clark—to Moscow,...
6) Never
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"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
7) The exile
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession comes The Exile, an all new heart-pounding thriller
The Los Angeles Police Department's famed 5-2 squad boards a commuter train in an attempt to take a cold-blooded killer into custody. John Barron, the newest and youngest member of the elite LAPD unit, learns quickly that the 5-2 has their own deadly system of justice, and that even the slightest protest...
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Allan Folsom returns with a high octane thriller in The Machiavelli Covenant.
In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust anyone, the president flees for his life. Pursued by the Secret Service, the CIA, and Spanish Intelligence...
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Autumn 1960. Nikita Khrushchev is politically adept, visionary, and locked in a fight with the Politburo and a battle with Mao and the Chinese. His country and his political future are in trouble because he has opened doors to the West and espoused the doctrine of peaceful coexistence. Meanwhile, the arms race is crushing the Soviet economy and there is unrest throughout the Communist empire. Changes are imperative. The army must be reduced, money...
11) Believe me
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"It's been two weeks since Juliette and Warner toppled The Reestablishment for good. Everyone at the Sanctuary is working round the clock to stabilize the world in the aftermath. Warner is thinking about more than politics. Since Juliette accepted his proposal, he's been eager for the two of them to officially begin their lives together. But it's been hard to find peace and joy amidst so much chaos. Even Juliette is distracted by all they have to...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 20
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In the spring of 2017, the U.S. economy is rebounding under President Stacy Anne Barbeau, the country's first female president. But her leadership is about to be severely tested: Russian president Gennadiy Gryzlov has sent Special Troops, disguised as pro-Russian activists, into Ukraine and Moldova. Though NATO is outraged, its response is tepid. Refusing to let Russian aggression go unpunished, former U.S. president Kevin Martindale approaches Polish...
13) Trigger point
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The United States and China find themselves squaring off against each other after the United States stages a military intervention in East Africa where China has influence.
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When a Texas oil exploration company discovers a massive oil reserve off the Equatorial Guinea coast, the company plots an overthrow of the region's government, a situation that is countered by U.S. President John Henry Harry and former LAPD homicide detective Nicholas Marten.
15) Vortex
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"Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a frat party with her friend Serena when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena. Now an investigative journalist, Mia discovers photos from that night and begins to uncover a sinister string of events. But some powerful people will do anything to keep her from learning the truth. CIA operative Olivia Hildebrand is on a mission in Iran to exfiltrate a betrayed undercover operative and is nearly...
16) The enemy within
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c1996
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An Iranian general grabs power and launches a campaign of terror in the United States. Its object is to paralyze the country while Iran annexes the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. Colonel Peter Thorn, an expert in counter-terror, leads a Delta Force on a raid to assassinate the general in Iran, and unlike the real-life Desert One operation this one is a success.
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A referendum on Scottish independence is only days away, and the campaign has been expertly orchestrated by First Minister Susan Ward. All signs point to victory for the nationalists. But when senior civil servant John Millar is shot in a Glasgow alley on a furiously rain-soaked night, his death triggers a chain of catastrophic events. An incriminating phone number and video are found in his possession. Into this chaos walks reporter Fulton Mackenzie....
18) Heroes proved
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In the year 2032, America is supposedly safe from terror, Iranian nuclear weaponry is no longer a threat, and the United Nations' treaties and technologies are keeping the peace. Then a suicide bomber targets Houston, Texas and a famous physicist is kidnapped. The ensuing search by a decorated U.S. Marine war hero and veteran of special ops, not only places the physicist's family in grave danger, but exposes an even more ominous threat to the country,...
19) Isolate
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The grand illusion volume 1
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"Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party. When a respected Landor Councilor dies of "heart failure" at a social event, because of his political...
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A billionaire has an idea for reversing global warming, but will it work? And what will the consequences for the planet be? A disparate group of characters from around the globe fight to solve the problem of global warming, but some of their ideas may be worse than climate change itself.
The greenhouse effect has resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, and deadly pandemics. Visionary billionaire...
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