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1) The innocent
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Will Robie novels volume 1
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Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
2) Stone cold
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Camel Club novels volume 3
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"Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts"--Provided by the publisher.
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Mississippi Senator Will Lee is in the spotlight. In strictest confidence, the Vice President has told Lee that he will not run for President. He urges Lee to announce his candidacy. But when the President is felled by a stroke, the Vice President takes over and Lee is in a perilous political position.
5) Silken prey
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At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...
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President Will Lee is having a rough week. There are some loose nukes in Pakistan--and a rogue CIA agent--that might just trigger World War III if Lee's diplomatic efforts fall short. It's up to Holly Barker, Lance Cabot, and a few other Stuart Woods series regulars to save the world--and the upcoming election.
7) Truth or die
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"After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride. He's found happiness with his girlfriend Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop. But when Claire's newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor's newly peaceful life is shattered as he tries to find out why. Chasing Claire's leads, Trevor unearths evidence of a shocking secret that-if it actually exists-every...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
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English
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Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
10) Divine justice
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Camel Club novels volume 4
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English
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In this fourth installment of Camel Club adventures, with two bullets Oliver Stone silences his foes. Those assassinations set off a manhunt of enormous proportions by some of the highest officials in government. The Camel Club must fend for itself, all the while protecting their elusive leader, Stone, as he avoids capture by the sometimes uninformed Joe Knox, the man in charge of the hunt.
11) King and Maxwell
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"It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father ... after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really be...
12) The inner circle
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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English
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A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 13
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The four dead guards didn't concern Mitch Rapp as much as the absence of the man they'd been paid to protect. Joe Rickman wasn't just another foot soldier. For the last eight years Rickman had ran the CIA's clandestine operations in Afghanistan. It was a murky job that involved working with virtually every disreputable figure in the Islamic Republic. More than a quarter billion dollars in cash had passed through Rickman's hands during his tenure as...
14) Shining city
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The president of the United States hires fixer Peter Rena to vet his nominee for the Supreme Court, but while Rena investigates every aspect of Judge Roland Madison's background, he discovers that the judge could be the next target in a series of killings.
Peter Rena and Randi Brooks earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. Their new-- and biggest-- job: the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme...
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In the present, a new strongman has emerged in the ever-chaotic Russian republic--the enigmatic President Valeri Volodin. He has set a plot in motion--a plot to return Russia to its former glory. But the foundations of his personal empire are built on a bloody secret from his past. And none who know of it have lived to tell. When a family friend of Ryan's is poisoned by a radioactive agent, the trail leads to Russia. And Jack Ryan, Jr.--aided by his...
16) The collectors
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When Camel Club member Caleb Shaw nearly falls victim to one of a series of mysterious deaths targeting the elite of Washington, D.C., the members of the Camel Club attempt to unravel a secret conspiracy that threatens all of America.
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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 22
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2023.
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In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village,...
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When a hawkish Congress ordered an attack on Indonesia and a pacifist president countermanded it, Admiral Billings obeyed Congress. Now Billings is facing a Navy court martial for disobedience while Congress prepares to impeach the president. A sequel to Balance of Power.
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 3
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English
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To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job. A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., he's responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents... and, sometimes, its most closely held secrets. But there are a powerful few who know his other role. Beecher is a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year-old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency. Now the...